And he wrote this Zach Wilson hype train is speeding toward the draft, and the biggest beneficiary is the Jets.

Wilson Soaring popularity has increased the value of the number two overall pick, and the Jets have done their part by maintaining a poker face.

General manager Joe Douglas could have a winning lottery ticket on his hand, and I will preface our conversation here by saying that Dan Orlovsky and Mike Tannenbaum have been going back and forth about this in our email chain.

And so I look forward to hearing the actual conversation.

So, Dan, as you look at it, the Jets, This is the This is the decision they have to make, and the compensation they could get for that number to pick is a big factor in how they make this decision.

So, Dan, what should they do?

Green.

I think that they should trade that pick and keep Sam Donald right now.

Here's the question that Jets have to ask themselves, and Joe Douglas has to ask himself what is more likelier that huge draft Zach Wilson, with the number two pick and he becomes Patrick Mahomes.

Or you keep Sam Donald.

You trade that pick to somebody like Carolina, they move up.

They give you their first rounder this year.

They give you a first rounder next year, and all of a sudden you got five first round picks in the next two years and you hit on most of those picks.

And all of a sudden you become good, like it's look at the last 15 years of taking quarterbacks in the top five.

Overall, I think like four of the quarterbacks have become good players.

Cam Newton, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan and Andrew Luck.

Everyone else has become a disappointment or their a t b d.

And I know everyone continues to say, and I know Mike T is like, Well, you gotta take Zach Wilson.

Dude, you stink as an organization, you're not good.

Just because you get a good quarterback doesn't mean you're going to become a good organization.

Good quarterbacks can't become really good quarterbacks if the rest of the roster is bad and I'm looking at it like if you are confident as a general manager and Joe Douglas believes that he's a good general manager.

Give me the picks.

Give me the pics.

I want to build a good football team and then go get my quarterback because I'll never know.

Exact Wilson's good.

We're not gonna be good enough to figure that out.

What do you think?

Magazine?

Totally, totally different.

Zach Wilson is gonna be a great quarterback, and I want to bring into this conversation.

I've had the great fortune of working for really good defensive head coaches Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick's Eric Mangini, Rex Ryan and 100% of the time they acquire offensive players.

They struggled defending.

Sean McDermott has already answered the question for us stand.

He drafted Josh Allen, a big mobile quarterback who he has presumably struggled defending in his career.

So if I'm Sean McDermott and I have to face the Jets, do I hope the Jets have Sam Donald or Zach Wilson?

Clearly, by what he's done, he would struggle defending Zach Wilson.

Zach Wilson's upside is much greater.

I agree with your point that Sam Donald hasn't had a lot to work with, but with multiple first round picks this year and next year, get the quarterback that gives you a chance to be great somebody that could compete with Josh Allen.

I don't think Sam Donald Ceiling will ever get there.

Go ahead, Dan.

And here's my dispute with Josh Allen.

The Bills were a playoff team.

That's why it made sense to go get Josh Allen because the team was built to support the development of the quarterback.

That that quarterback that we all thought or memory really good was given the opportunity to become really good because the team was built that way.

I'll go back to this name me the last organization in the NFL with the top five pick at quarterback, that that organization flipped from being a bad team and a bad organization to becoming a good team in a good organization.

Name me the last one.

Cam Newton was the only one that we thought was trending that way.

Baker, Mayfield.

Maybe it's becoming that.

It's just impossible to do.

Go ahead, Mike.

Dan.

We did.

We did that in 2000 and we drafted Mark Sanchez with the fifth pick and he led us to four road playoff wins and to a F C championship game.

So we did it and the other thing I would say is Josh Allen helped Buffalo get to the playoffs.

They were not a playoff team without him.

And we're not even talking about the economics here.

Which is Zach Wilson would be roughly about 36 million over four years with Sam Donald.

Are we ready to guarantee fully 20 to 25 million next year on his fifth year option?

So when we bring in the economics and we bring in the impact of what Josh Allen's done, I think Zach Wilson ceiling is much higher than Sam Garnes.

The reason this is so important that you guys like, Go ahead, Dan Green.

I was just gonna say this is regardless of what team you do for is that this is the entire top of the draft.

Like like we all know what's happening.

Number one in this draft is Trevor Lawrence is going number one in Jacksonville.

This is where it happens.

The Jets will make the decision.

Either it takes Zach Wilson or trade the pick.

Dan, go ahead.

Final thought, Yeah, I mean, in 2000 and eight mighty, you guys were like, eight and eight.

You always You guys weren't a terrible football team.

So, like Mark inherited, March stepped into a situation that wasn't brutal.

Um, the reason why this is a brutally difficult decision for Joe Douglas.

Because if you take Zach Wilson and he becomes okay and you trade Sam Donald and he becomes Ryan Tannehill, you're fired.

And if you keep Sam Donald and don't take Zach Wilson and he becomes Patrick Mahomes, you're fired.

So that's why, like, I don't envy this decision, but I'm just sitting here saying like, We've got to stop thinking that you just get the quarterback and it fixes everything.

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