The New York Jets have spent the vast majority of their existence as a franchise searching for a franchise quarterback. The organization has painstakingly cycled through prospects, stopgaps, and wishful-thinking experiments, with each era ending with the same familiar outcome.
Every decade brought a new supposed savior, and every decade ended with fans wondering how a team could try so hard and come up so empty. And as the Jets enter an uncertain 2026 offseason, they once again find themselves at a similar crossroads.
But fear not, because the ever-loquacious Craig Carton has uncovered the solution to the Jets’ eternal quarterback problem.