You don't see the contradiction in your own statement?
Your mantra is that "no bubble wrap belongs in this game for a depth player" Yet, for some mysterious reason smith was put in "bubble rap" for the 4th game. In contraction to league precedent smith was rested like a starter for game 4, even though according to most of the scribes who tweed every play during practice, and wrote numerous articles about it, and rational fans who actually watched the games, was out played by Petty over the last month.
IMO there are only 2 explanations.
1) Ham is right, and Bowles never had an intention of of playing the best QB, but rather has a phobia of young QB's, and was going with the vet no matter what.
2) Dan is right and the drama was orchestrated to try and get a "bag of rocks" for smith. Either way the plan was a bad one. The Jets now have a promising young QB with a shoulder injury who is either going to lose all his developmental reps for the year by going on IR, or the Jets can't pull off his trade coupe for smith, because the QB with the higher potential is now injured.
Yes, it was not handled well. Best players should play. Petty was the better player this summer, and has by far the higher upside, and future with the Jets. smith has no future here at all
