One pivotal reason the Jets' QB reset finally feels different this time

New York Jets fans have wondered for years why exactly every rookie quarterback to don green and white fails. It's like a cycle. Every three or four years, optimism swells as a new, hotshot signal caller is drafted, just for the hope to peter out just as quickly as it arrived.

Has it been because the franchise has selected the wrong players? That might have been the case with Zach Wilson. Is it because the coaching staff is inept? That might have been the case with Adam Gase. Is it because the team has been devoid of any sort of talent to support a youngster? That's certainly possible.

In reality, there's not just one thing, but now, with the franchise eyeing a young QB at some point in the draft, there's reason to believe things will be different. That starts with new offensive coordinator Frank Reich.

Frank Reich could be the key to the Jets breaking the cycle of young QB flameouts

If you look through recent memory, the Jets haven't surrounded their young quarterbacks with successful, experienced coaching voices.

Zach Wilson had Mike LaFleur, a first-time offensive coordinator, alongside Rob Calabrese, an underqualified quarterbacks coach. Tragically, the one veteran voice they planned to have in his ear, Greg Knapp, passed away before the season was underway.

Sam Darnold? His rookie year featured Jeremy Bates, a man who was eight years removed from his lone season as an offensive coordinator with the Seattle Seahawks, which culminated in an offense that ranked 30th in total yards back in 2010.

Even during the Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith years, the Jets ran out of offensive coordinators who might have had experience, but were calling games the way they used to be played rather than being on the cutting edge of offensive evolution. Remember "Ground and Pound?"

Reich isn't the only thing that's different.

Darren Mougey has assembled a pretty solid infrastructure, including two budding young tackles to bookend a promising offensive line, retaining a legitimate No. 1 receiver in Garrett Wilson, and accumulating some intriguing, if unproven, young talents on the offensive side of things. Combined with a wealth of draft picks and free agency, the support should be there.

But Reich is so different than what we've seen before, with a wealth of experience and a renowned reputation as a teacher, something that Bryce Young just echoed.

That doesn't mean the next youngster is guaranteed to succeed. Mougey will still need to make the right choice. Some luck will have to finally go the Jets' way, too. But in hiring Reich, the franchise has removed a critical barrier that derailed them in the past. Finally, there's an offensive coordinator who knows what he's doing in the building.