![]() If Fitzpatrick’s 2015 wasn’t the best quarterback season in franchise history, Ken O’Brien’s 1985 might have been. Perhaps some things were just never meant to happen. Sadly, Fitzmagic finished his season with a 181-yard, three-interception performance against the Bills. This is most likely the best quarterback season in Jets history, such as it was. Matt Robinson, Richard Todd, Pat Ryan, Ken O’Brien, Browning Nagle, Boomer Esiason, Frank Reich, Neil O’Donnell, Vinny Testaverde, Ray Lucas, Vinny Testaverde again, Chad Pennington, Brooks Bollinger, Brett Favre (for one season), Mark Sanchez, Geno Smith, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Josh McCown, and Sam Darnold.įitzpatrick came the closest with 3,905 yards in 2015 - a season in which he also threw for 31 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. It helps to mention the guys who were responsible for this statistical no man’s land from 1978 through the present, because it explains a lot. The Jets’ quarterback curse is one in which one quarterback set the standard for passing yards, and after that, nobody else could come even close. ![]() Now, the Bears haven’t had a franchise-defining quarterback since Sid Luckman’s last good season in 1946, so that’s an entirely different quarterback curse. ![]() Now that the 16-game season appears to be a thing of the past in favor of a 17-game campaign in 2021 and beyond, it behooves us to mention that the Jets are one of two teams to never have a quarterback throw for 4,000 yards in the 16-game era. But since then, no other Jets quarterback (including Namath) managed to do it, even when the NFL increased the number of regular-season games from 14 to 16 in 1978. ![]() Namath was the first quarterback in pro football history to throw for over 4,000 yards in a season, which he did with the American Football League’s Jets in 1967. Of course, if you’re a Jets fan, it’s less “interesting” and more “disgusting,” but we digress. ![]() It’s interesting that for a team whose best-known player is a former quarterback (Joe Namath, of course), the New York Jets have been living in QB purgatory for a very long time. ![]()
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