The play of the former No. 1 pick left Robert Saleh with no other choice after the organization did everything it could for the quarterback over two seasons.
There are teams, coaches and general managers who should feel some semblance of shame and remorse when they effectively harpoon a young quarterback’s career by benching them or trading them on their rookie contract or giving up on them altogether. These are cases of outright neglect, schematic inflexibility and emotional hard-headedness, the ones we know all too well in the NFL.
But as the Jets prepare for Sunday’s game against the Bears without Zach Wilson in the lineup—a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed an ESPN report that Wilson was benched on Wednesday—their coach should have nothing to apologize for.