Making the case against Teddy Bridgewater on the Jets

As the New York Jets have a lot of decisions to make when it comes to their quarterback situation, it’s best they stay away from Teddy Bridgewater this offseason.

Unfortunately for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, he suffered a severe knee injury back in the beginning of the 2016 regular season. He missed all of that season and has been mostly a backup for this current season. Due to completely tearing his ACL and other major damage to his knee, it’s uncertain if he’ll ever be an effective quarterback again. Due to this, the Vikings didn’t pick up the fifth-year option on his original rookie contract which means he’ll more than likely find a new home somewhere next season. Could the New York Jets be the next stop in his young career?

In the grand scheme of things, it’s best the Jets stay away from Bridgewater. Besides his unfortunate injury, he’s still going to need more time to get back into the rhythm of playing football. The Jets shouldn’t waste time into hoping that Bridgewater could turn things around so quickly from his gruesome injury and focus on other potential free agent quarterbacks to fill the void.

Ideally, potential free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins would make a lot more sense for what the Jets need under center. Someone that has consistently done well as a starting quarterback and wants to have a change of scenery to continue his career.

Bridgewater would be too much of a liability and since the Jets will more than likely consider stocking up on quarterbacks this offseason (acquire one in free agency and draft another to develop), it’s best they take the more reliable of routes.

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If the Jets land Cousins in free agency and draft a potential future franchise quarterback, that would be a much better situation to go into 2018 with than some variation of what they currently had in 2017 with the addition of Bridgewater.

While some teams will have interest in Bridgewater, the Jets can’t afford to take another major risk on a player that hasn’t played much in the past two years. The Jets should look past Bridgewater and focus on pursuing Cousins this offseason and use their No. 6 overall pick on a future franchise quarterback.

Since the Jets have yet to figure out how to have the ideal situation at quarterback, more options are always better than less, so hopefully, they have a whole new depth chart heading into next season that brings more smiles than frowns.

If the Jets had two entirely new quarterbacks on the roster to infuse talent to the most important position on the team, it would bring hope that one of these years everything will fall into place. Unfortunately, throwing Bridgewater in the mix wouldn’t make much sense at all for the Jets with other scenarios that would improve their quarterback situation tremendously.