New York Jets: Tyrod Taylor shouldn’t be considered in 2018 free agency

If the current Buffalo Bills starting quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, becomes a free agent in 2018, the New York Jets shouldn’t sign him.

The Buffalo Bills have an opt-out on quarterback Tyrod Taylor after the 2017 season, and fans of the New York Jets would immediately jump on the Taylor bandwagon. Don’t do that! He’s not the right guy for this team. He’s not a bad quarterback; he’s just not good enough.

Taylor has completed 62.6 percent of his passes in his NFL career, and that’s great. In addition to that, he only has 16 interceptions on 1,047 pass attempts. On the surface those numbers would look great to Jets fans who have lived through the quarterback carousel and quarterbacks who turn the ball over.

In a recent report, ESPN’s Rich Cimini wrote that former Jets head coach Rex Ryan wanted the team to trade for Taylor, but they didn’t.

"“I wanted Tyrod Taylor when I was with the Jets,” the former coach said in a recent phone interview.The way Ryan tells it, he approached the front office about trading for Taylor, but it apparently gained little or no traction."

It was a good thing they didn’t listen, because there are two stats that stand out when assessing Taylor: yard per attempt and starts with under 200 yards passing. In today’s NFL, you need to push the ball down the field to be successful.

Taylor averages 7.3 yards per attempt in his career, and current Jets quarterback Josh McCown is averaging 7.2 yards per attempt his season, which fans aren’t happy about.

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The second thing is starts under 200 yards passing. Taylor has 36 starts in his career, and so far, in 18 of his starts, he has less than 200 yards passing. He is 13-5 in those starts, but that’s with LeSean McCoy in the backfield. The Jets offensive line and running game aren’t good enough to sustain a quarterback that doesn’t push the ball down the field, and there’s no way to develop that in one season.