We all know the New York Jets pinned all their hopes on Aaron Rodgers this season.
Despite the legendary quarterback’s incredibly fast recovery from a torn Achilles suffered in Week 1, Gang Green is categorically f*cked at the position, in part because Rodgers had the team bring in his buddy Tim Boyle as the third-stringer.
Except now that Zach Wilson has been benched yet again, Boyle is at the helm of Nathaniel Hackett’s offense. And he has star wide receiver Garrett Wilson in a straight-up torture chamber at this point.
Funnily enough, the same Jets beat reporter who Jamal Adams tried to classlessly dunk on this week was the one to document just how incompetent Boyle is at, you know, looking in the general direction of his best pass-catcher, much less delivering Garrett Wilson the ball often enough.
Tim Boyle missed Garrett Wilson. He was way open in the secondary. Looked like he was locked in on Allen Lazard. No one should be locked in on Lazard this year, for the record.
The safety is in area, but Wilson is breaing past him. Ball needs to be let go here. #Jets pic.twitter.com/50X4BKR0KK
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
What, you mean Tim Boyle locked too much onto Allen Lazard!? How could that have ever happened? Oh, that’s right. Rodgers forced the Jets to sign Lazard away from the Green Bay Packers, too. Just like Boyle. A stunner, that.
Oh but it gets worse. Much worse!
I'm worried that Garrett Wilson might run up to the booth and start throwing things at Nathaniel Hackett if these balls don't start going to him. #Jets pic.twitter.com/gltzzhocCH
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
Garrett Wilson open again. Throw it to Garrett Wilson. Come on. It's not that hard. Just get him the ball. #Jets pic.twitter.com/ur4Rl1wOTQ
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
Here's Garrett Wilson on the last third down incompletion to Tyler Conklin. I honestly can't ever remember seeing anything like this. #Jets pic.twitter.com/hQ7858TXYL
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
What are SNYtv reporter Connor Hughes’ takes in between all this madness? Well, they include plugging in the likes of Trevor Siemian under center rather than Boyle, since he can’t be much worse…
Garrett Wilson is getting open on almost every play. On the OC to call plays specifically to get it to him & QB to make him the priority. Wilson is the caliber player you just put the ball in his zip code and he'll make things happen. Do that. He's the guy you force it to. #Jets
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
I'm a reporter in the press box with NextGen. I don't know how a team of offensive coaches upstairs aren't seeing the same things with Garrett Wilson.
Knowing that, how are you not bringing this up to Tim Boyle on the sideline? "17 is open. Look to him first." #Jets
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
There are guys wide open. Tim Boyle just isn't throwing it to them. At least with Zach Wilson you had the run. to worry about. This is horrible.
Can't imagine Trevor Siemian is much worse. #Jets
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) December 3, 2023
OH wait! Boyle did, in fact, get benched in favor of Siemian. LOL.
Trevor Siemian has replaced Tim Boyle and is now in at QB for the Jets. pic.twitter.com/LyVeTbYJCd
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) December 3, 2023
I know it can be a little dangerous for outsiders to light up quarterbacks and play-callers. Most of us don’t truly know what the read is on each play in real time, never mind however the hell Hackett and the Jets are coaching Boyle to read each play out.
…But umm, at the same time, you’d think you’d want to do everything humanly possible to get the ball to Wilson over the likes of Lazard, UDFA Xavier Gipson, and whomever else at tight end or out of the backfield. Boyle just simply can’t get it done.
ESPN’s Seth Walder confirmed what Hughes was seeing, so this isn’t, like, unfounded speculation or scapegoating somebody just to scapegoat them.
To Rich's point, here's a little thread of plays Garrett Wilson has been open and untargeted downfield today https://t.co/v8UPmOHvya pic.twitter.com/DDuWzMG6i1
— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) December 3, 2023
Tim Boyle has no business being in the NFL whatsoever. Starting actual games? Come on. What are we doing here, Jets? I know the Jets are gonna Jet, but I don’t know if the Jets have ever Jetted this hard.
At least the Browns brought in Joe Flacco… Guess who the former Super Bowl MVP was last playing for before his latest stop in Cleveland? YEP. The New York Jets. Let’s see what happens with Siemian, I suppose.
The funny thing is, I’m writing this and Garrett Wilson has seven targets and three catches for 50 yards through a little over three quarters. The fact that Boyle was tossing him the rock makes that slightly impressive.
That Wilson could have so much better numbers if Boyle had just looked his way more often is at least encouraging in the sense that when Rodgers does return, this dude is seemingly about to explode into a top-five-caliber wide receiver in the league.
