Someone is salty!
A journalist from Zach Wilson’s home state, Utah, wrote an open letter on Tuesday urging the Jets to have a change of heart and not select the former BYU star defender in the 2021 NFL project this month .
“Please, Jets, take a break from Zach Wilson,” read the long-standing column headline Deseret News writer Doug Robinson.
The song came in response to Jets trader Sam Darnold, “their last defender fails[ure]As Robinson said at the Panthers last week, however guaranteeing that they will select Wilson with the second general election on April 29.
“The New York Post published a headline: ‘Jets now belong to Zach Wilson,'” Robinson wrote. “Thanks for nothing.
“Look, the Jets are for quarterbacks what Larry King was for marriage,” Robinson wrote. “Look at their recording.”
He continued to give up a few quarterbacks, such as Darnold and Mark Sanchez, who made their way through the revolving door of tokens from Joe Namath’s signal callers.
But not even Broadway Joe could escape Robinson’s anger: “Namath is the most overrated football player in history,” he wrote.
“Where will Wilson be in a few years?” Robinson wrote, suggesting that Wilson look for a deal, as Eli Manning did when he was selected by the Chargers in 2004. “It depends a lot on being selected by a team in which the defenders thrive. History shows I’m not the Jets. ”
But there are signs that they may not be the same old planes. Joe Douglas, the team’s general manager in his sophomore year, helped form a Super Bowl team in Philadelphia in 2018 and could be on his way to building a competitor in New York.
The coaching staff that ranked 2-14 last season also disappeared with well-known defensive guru Rob Saleh and his former San Francisco offensive opponent Mike LaFleur, who led the Jets in 2021.
They all fell in love with Wilson, who threw 33 touchdowns as a junior last fall on Pro Day last month.
And it looks like I’m ready to pick Wilson, no matter what a Utah newspaper says.