Jackie Lee

Injury or not, they're benching Sam to give Brady/Sean Ryan a chance to see what they can do with different bodies at QB. If it looks the same, then they'll fire the qb coach assistant or something.

Exactly, he can look at the numbers and realize he'd be better off paying Rhule his $50 million left and getting a better coach, who will potentially actually fill the stadium. A half empty stadium for a whole season is probably a bigger loss than just paying off Rhule and moving on. Not that I agree with getting Watson, but Tepper would probably let Watson pick his own head coach if that's what it would take for him to sign here.

Sam didn't ask for Rhule to trade 3 draft picks for him and announce him as the starter with no competition. And it's the players being more mature in press conferences...Rhule up there stuttering fast, blaming execution for plays dead on arrival, over all total joke.

Like anyone in Cleveland is raving about Mayfield right now lol. OBJ clawed his way out

It was a fun game to watch live minus the end zone interceptions. At least he has a little bit of touch on the balls that looks way easier to catch than what Darnold has been fast balling to guys

Maybe that's why he couldn't get the ball over the D-linemen, probably couldn't hold his arm above his head and they still played him. Rhule is an idiot

Why trot this guy out there? If this dude plays snaps after we're eliminated from the playoffs and we never even get a look at James Morgan I will have once again been amazed by the ineptitude of this staff. At least see what you got in a guy the Jets drafted in the 4th round ONE year ago. Mike White looks better then Zach Wilson so I don't think the Jets dropped Morgan because he absolutely sucked, just a numbers/optics thing

Ouch

Give PJ 4 games, and if it's not working give Morgan a shot. Admit that you screwed up with Darnold and see if you have someone serviceable on the roster instead of making another desperate trade in the offseason.

And Fields cap hit is about $4.5m a year for another 3 years, Darnold is $18m next year plus whatever value you can put on the 2nd and 4th round picks we traded away for him

And taking the long snapper instead of Trey Smith. It was our 9th pick you're allowed to gamble with a high risk high reward player there. Get the snapper in FA

Yup we'll find a QB around the same time a bunch of our defensive playmakers rookie contracts expire

Who's gonna take on his $15 million next year even if he did want out in the offseason? . We really screwed ourselves when we had a clean slate. Now we got $50 million tied up in Darnold/CMC/Robby next year

Nope, since 2018 it's fully guaranteed the minute you pick it up. What a horrible sequence of events. Trade Teddy on Wednesday, pass on Fields on Thursday, and pick up Sams 5th year option on Friday with PJ and Grier as his "competition". Yikes

Crazy how one bad trade and failing to make one easy draft decision can completely wreck a rebuild for years. Everything was in place and they just made it harder on themselves for no reason.

Even if they didn't think Fields was going to be on the board at 8 so they traded for Darnold, you still gotta take Fields there. It could be 3-5 years before you get another opportunity to have a promising QB fall into your draft lap like that. And we have like 10 cornerbacks now

When Goodell was announcing our pick he was like "The Panthers select J-" and I was like USTIN FIELDS! But nope he said Aycee Horn. No offense to Horn or Darnold, it's neither of their faults we're in this situation

How mad do you think Tepper is right now?

Imagine keeping Teddy, drafting Fields, and having all our draft picks next year. Instead we're 2 years behind anything promising happening

How many kids are walking around in Darnold jerseys haha. Gilmore is cool but every other trade was a fuging waste

And the fans excited, jersey sales, no picks traded away, cheap deal, etc.....

It's so much more exciting watching Fields play tonight than any Darnold game. Even if Fields isn't doing great yet you can sense the teams excitement of having a future franchise QB

I'm guessing no IR...Don't know if Rhule has the guts to bench him based solely on bad play after that horrific trade and 5th year option

Which is maybe why Rhule should have sucked it up and kept Teddy and drafted Fields. I guess we'll get a good look at Fields tonight on MNF

Yeah he looked like he could barely get his arm over his head/shoulder area. Could explain all the batted down passes at the line as well. Either way he shouldn't have started and if they sit him down now for an injury a bunch of people rightfully are going to assume it's a cover for his poor play.