People act like the Jets defense was putting up 110 and 120 passer ratings on Beli and Tomlin's defense on the road in the playoffs that last year. Mark has some low moments in his career but go back and watch those playoff runs, especially his 2nd year. He was the best player on the Jets. The defense got them there, but except his first game against Peyton, Mark was the reason they won those games.
The commentary his first two seasons was always "you know, the kid doesn't get rattled. He has great nerves. He'll have a bad game and come right back the next. He makes mistakes but he'll win you some football games if the chains come off too." Then year 3, they trade away the receiving core, let Green take all the running snaps...into the ground. And the defense lets ppl go. Now you HAVE to rely on Mark with a mediocre offense and a fading D. He want good enough to be the focus of a defense. He still needed a run game, especially with the lame receivers he had. Year 4 saw more of the same and then the O line got even worse with moving lineman to new positions and shyt. Now he's getting blown up for almost 2 seasons straight with no one to run the ball and no one to pass it to.
Commentary changed to "He has no confidence. He's soft. Theres just too much pressure for him etc" and I'm like, so his first 2 seasons he "performs great under pressure" now he can't cut it and take the pressure? fukk outta here. The team sucked, they never took the chains off him and opened the play book because the offensive schemes were shyt. The offense was shyt, and then the defense was shyt too. He was never a great qb, but under those circumstances he was good until it was him or bust. That's when he went to straight doo doo.
New team, new coach, a place that actually has the wherewithal to nurture a young qb of nothing else. Mark can make plays. He's an average qb that can give you great moments here and there. He did it with the Jets, he can damn sure do it with another team. It's just one game, he could suck the next two weeks but he probably won't and will further prove that the Jets are a shyt organization and have no clue what to do with a young quarter.
And in a couple weeks when he creates another new and innovative way to turn the ball over yall gon be like
i dont know about all that now
