Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes wrapped up the divisional round of the playoffs over the weekend by putting on a show nobody will forget anytime soon. Both quarterbacks were surgical with their throws all game long, lighting up the scoreboard with touchdown pass after touchdown pass until Mahomes and the Chiefs finally won in overtime.
All the Jets could do was sit at home and watch as two quarterbacks they could have drafted further established themselves as elite. Gang Green’s former general manager, Mike Maccagnan, had his chance to pick Mahomes and Allen in consecutive years. Instead, he went in different directions — ones that didn’t lead to much winning.
The quarterback-needy Jets selected S Jamal Adams with the sixth pick over Mahomes, who went off the board four picks later, in 2017. Maccagnan also passed on Deshaun Watson, who was picked 12th by the Texans, that year, but Mahomes is the more glaring miss given his talent and the legal issues that have followed Watson recently.
