New York Jets: 3 Ways Josh McCown won’t be a Ryan Fitzpatrick repeat

1. Just don’t re-sign him at all

This last one is a no-brainer, but the Jets can just let him walk no matter what the 2017 season brings. It’s plain and simple, they can make the decision after their season is officially over to just let him walk into the sunset, and maybe even do what the Browns did and offer him a job on the coaching staff.

McCown is a smart guy. He will have the option to take the coaching job or keep playing if he wants to. If the Jets do what the Browns did, the writing will be on the wall that they don’t want him back.

He’s going to be 39 years old and coming off the best season of his career. There’s no reason to hold on, because really, the likelihood of repeating such a performance at that age is slim-to-none. Last year, Fitzpatrick was 33, and the Jets may have considered he was just a late bloomer and had a couple more years of that left. There’s no reason to think that about McCown, nearing 40 years old.

Before making assumptions that the Jets will make the same mistakes they did before. Let them weigh their options. They might just do the right thing and not waste and ink or paper on this one.