Contrary to popular belief, the Jets are not going to come to regret the events of Monday, March 6.
The signing of Derek Carr by the Saints is not some sort of detonation point for a potentially wild NFL offseason involving copious quarterback movement. This is not some kind of WallStreetBets moment in which the Jets will be left penniless, wishing they’d gotten in on Radio Shack sooner. The sheer breadth of available quarterbacks—both draft-eligible and veteran—make what happened Monday more of an introductory course on how certain franchises behave and what they really need, rather than a first whiff of dystopian Hunger Games desperation.
Carr, for example, was on a fact-finding mission during his free-agency tour and seemed hell bent on stepping off the carousel before it started spinning violently, leaving him as more of a backup plan than a primary option. After years of being only casually appreciated at best by the Raiders, this was the right move for him, both in terms of optics and scheme fit. The Saints are a franchise that has experienced life on the outside looking in, and spent a large portion of last year trying to recuperate from its inability to find a better solution at the position.
