Zach Wilson Ended the Jets 2022 Season

 The Jets season ended tonight against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Jets season ended because a team that is championship level decided to stay with Zach Wilson at quarterback. The roll of the dice that the Jets took on Zach Wilson with the second overall pick a draft ago came back with a final statement on Thursday Night and that statement is: “Zach Wilson is a BUST as a New York Jet.” The decision to stick with Wilson is a decision that might get a good General Manager, Joe Douglas, and a good Head Coach, Robert Saleh, fired earlier than they ultimately should.

In a must win game at home Zach Wilson had a final line of 9/18 for 92 yards and an interception. As well as only scoring drive that Wilson contributed was the opening drive for the Jets that lost yardage and resulted in the only three points of the game for Gang Green.

The decision to draft Zach Wilson is a decision that could be a move that stops this talented Jets team from living up to their full potential. The decision to stay with Wilson is the ultimate “what if” that Jets fans will be asking themselves for a decade to come. What makes this loss even more maddening is the quotes that came out of Robert Saleh’s post game press conference. Here’s just a small taste:

“It’s not about the playoffs right now.”

“We haven’t seen the last of Zach Wilson.”

“It’s getting off this mat and trying to freaking find a way to put together a football game.”

The time to get off the mat has passed. The official has called the fight and the Jets are knocked out face down on the mat. There is no getting up this season. The next two games mean nothing because the two teams in front of you, the Jaguars and Patriots, own the tiebreaker against you. Again, the season, like Zach Wilson’s career as a New York Jet, is OVER. After such a promising start to the season and visions of ending the longest playoff drought in professional sports is just that—a vision.

Yet again the Jets fall short. Yet again as fans, you sit there wondering how did this happen again?

The simple answer is Zach Wilson. The more complex answer is the entire offense wasn’t good enough. And, at times neither was the special team’s unit. For such an incredible defensive squad that the Jets have had this season, the rest of the team around them, for a large majority of the season wasn’t good enough. And not being good enough will show itself over the course of an NFL season. At the end of the day as former Jets Coach Bill Parcells once said, “you are what your record says you are.” The Jets record after the Thursday Night loss to Jacksonville stands at 7-8. Gang Green is under .500 for the first time since Week 3. The Jets home record this season will finish at 3-5 including back-to-back home losses against winnable opponents.

Tonight’s game against the Jaguars was the first meaningful game in December for the Jets in over half a decade and the team for the most part is on the upswing. But they still cannot get the quarterback right.

And if you cannot get the quarterback right in this league you will be where the Jets find themselves right now owners of the longest playoff drought in sports and until they get it right, they will continue down the path they have been on since 2011, a never-ending path to hell.

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