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Bryce Petty Stats<\/p><\/div>\n
The scariest thought of all might be, is he actually better than Christian Hackenberg? Petty is ahead of Hackenberg on the depth chart, so that tells you what the coaches think. So what does that mean for Hack who has never played in an NFL game? We might soon find out because he is taking some first-team reps this week in practice.<\/p>\n
Todd Bowles confirmed to the media that Bryce Petty will start against the Patriots on Sunday. When asked if Christian Hackenberg would play, his answer was, “We’ll see”. Bowles wouldn’t really comment on splitting the game between the two QBs, or what would make him do that. Other than to say they would decide, “Probably sometime during the game. We\u2019ll see how the game is going.”<\/p>\n
A few interesting quotes from Todd Bowles on Hackenberg:<\/p>\n
On if there\u2019s a risk-reward he has to consider with playing Hackenberg\u2026<\/strong> On Hackenberg not playing yet at this point of his career\u2026<\/strong> On what deciding to play Hackenberg during the game depends upon\u2026<\/strong> On what\u2019s a fair number of games to assess a young quarterback\u2026<\/strong> On how much he learned from Hackenberg\u2019s reps in the preseason\u2026<\/strong> On if Mike Maccagnan has talked to him at all about playing Hackenberg\u2026<\/strong> It does seem likely that Hackenberg will see his first NFL action on Sunday. What we do know is there is nothing that can happen on Sunday that will change the Jets # 1 offseason mission. That is finding a new starting QB for 2018.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s not a risk-reward. It\u2019s the last game of the season. Bryce had a chance to play two games, we\u2019re trying to see what we have in him. Christian\u2019s time will come. (To) put him out there the last game and expect him to be superman, we\u2019d be fooling ourselves.<\/p>\n
\nWe see him every day in practice and we saw him in the preseason. We\u2019re comfortable.<\/p>\n
\nThat would mean I\u2019ll decide during the game if I want to play him or not.<\/p>\n
\nFor a guy to start that young and start in an offense, you have to see a good five or six games to see if he starts making progress one way or the other, but you want to see things every week to grow and learn from and see those type of things. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n
\nYou can pull a lot out of preseason. He had a new offense, too. He learned, he played a lot in the preseason. Mentally, he got better at a lot of things and we\u2019ll go from there. The regular season\u2019s not preseason. You don\u2019t get a chance to play those guys like you want to and you don\u2019t just pull them in and out, put them in and out and expect them to play when the defenses are more complex than they are in the preseason.<\/p>\n
\nWhat me and Mike talk about is private.<\/p>\n