While many fans and reporters clamor for the 3-8 Jets to start youngster Bryce Petty at quarterback, Jets coach Todd Bowles is ignoring the white noise.
He’s staying with veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick.
“[Ryan’s] our starter, no different than anybody else on both sides of the ball right now,” Bowles said on Monday. “As a coach, you weigh trying to win ball games first.”
Fitzpatrick clearly gives the Jets a much better chance to win than Petty, a second-year signal-caller out of Baylor’s gimmicky offense, a system that doesn’t require quarterbacks to make complex reads. The Bears' scheme doesn’t translate to the NFL, so Petty came to the Jets as a major project.