There was a time not terribly long ago when the $6 million man was part of the American lexicon, a phrase associated with the bionic astronaut played by actor Lee Majors in a hit television series in the 1970s. Alas, time and inflation have rendered that monetary figure a much more modest sum in today’s world. And in the case of the Jets, it’s chump change.
Their own $6 million man, Josh McCown, is a well-traveled 37-year-old journeyman quarterback who will likely go into the 2017 season as their starter. That’s not quite the move to the future that Jets fans had been hoping for as their woebegone franchise continues to look for the second coming of Joe Namath — nearly half a century after Joe Willie won the team’s only Super Bowl.