{"id":61425,"date":"2022-12-14T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=61425"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:44:17","slug":"flacco-fumbles-backup-job-zach-wilson-elevated-to-number-two-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/12\/14\/flacco-fumbles-backup-job-zach-wilson-elevated-to-number-two-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Flacco Fumbles Backup job; Zach Wilson Elevated to Number two Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All it took was four drop backs from under center from veteran QB Joe Flacco to convince the Jets he was no longer equipped to take NFL snaps.\u00a0 A killer lost fumble from the immobile Flacco played a huge role in the Jets loss this past Sunday and so Flacco is sent out to pasture with embattled QB Zach Wilson getting a bump up the depth chart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Saleh says Zach Wilson will be the No. 2 quarterback this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3JeB5IqD9a\">pic.twitter.com\/3JeB5IqD9a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1603051835861843969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Head coach Robert Saleh praised Wilson for the work he&#8217;s done since being put in street clothes several weeks ago, but there&#8217;s little chance Wilson went from being a complete train wreck from a mental and mechanical standpoint to being game ready in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to move Wilson up the depth chart immediately after Flacco&#8217;s meltdown makes it tough to take Saleh seriously when he says Wilson is ready, but what else would you expect the coach to say?\u00a0 Should there be a need for Wilson to get under center on Sunday against the Lions, we&#8217;ll find out for sure if the Jets managed to fix Wilson, or if they&#8217;re looking to avoid further embarrassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All it took was four drop backs from under center from veteran QB Joe Flacco to convince the Jets he was no longer equipped to take NFL snaps.\u00a0 A killer lost fumble from the immobile Flacco played a huge role in the Jets loss this past Sunday and so Flacco is sent out to pasture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":61177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Zach-Wilson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-fYJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61426,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61425\/revisions\/61426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}