Paddling Up The Wrong "Rivers"

There has been much talk lately of Philip Rivers moving teams coinciding with the emergence of Drew Brees. The Jets and Dolphins have been a couple of the teams thrown around in the rumor mill and I couldn't be more upset.

Lets get one thing clear: Philip Rivers is not the Jets future.

There is a HUGE QB draft coming up this summer and the last thing the Jets need to do is panic and try to make a rush for the playoffs. Concede the season New York. Get us a top 5 pick and the possibilities are endless.

Here are a few options:

Matt Leinart (SR-USC): not my top pick, but clearly a gamer. Frankly, I'm tired of these pocket passers on New York Jet teams that are statues in the pocket and are helpless against the pass rush if the pocket collapses.

Vince Young (SR-Texas): P-I-M-P and quite frankly, my choice for Heisman. He doesn't have quite as amazing a support team on offense as Leinart does Reggie Bush. He can surely scramble and would be a new revolution in NY, A BLACK QB!

Omar Jacobs (JR-Bowling Green)- unorthodox delivery of the ball but hes got all the tools

Reggie McNeal (SR-Mizzou)- only returning starter from 2004 to avg. 250 in the air and 50 on the ground per game; huge dual threat, would fall in line with the "new age" QBs like Mike Vick, McNabb, etc

All I want is a QB who represents a threat inside and outside the pocket. If the Jets organization is serious about winning a championship, they will stop pretending that Chad Suckington will be rejuvenated and healthy next season and begin the process of moving on. Eat the cap penalties. Either cut him or trade him to Miami or Arizona or some other QB-desperate team.

But all of this is futile I'm sure. We will somehow end up either trading our first round pick for a washed-up veteran like Steve McNair (potential Doug Jolley of '06) and he'll go down in preseason and we will have shot ourselves in the foot again.

Or we'll draft someone real exciting, a huge playmaker like an O-line player.

On another note, so long Dale Sveum! Best of luck Ned Yost, your team just acquired possibly the most incompetent 3rd base coaches in the league. Brewers fans, prepare to see plenty of arms waving runners to their doom at home plate this season, just ask Manny.