The New York Jets didn't sign Justin Fields with the illusion that he would confidently be the team's long-term quarterback answer when they inked him to a two-year, $40 million contract this past offseason.
The Jets were in search of a high-upside bridge starter who could realistically give the team competent quarterback play with an outside chance of potentially developing into more than a stopgap if all went right.
Again, that wasn't the expectation, but the Jets were at least hoping for a starting-caliber baseline level of quarterback play. Unfortunately, that's not exactly what happened.
Fields would go on to play the worst football of his career and wouldn't even finish the year as the team's starter.