The weirdness that is the 2014 New York Jets continues.
Quarterback Mike Vick, benched for Geno Smith, has an interesting theory regarding the question of whether Vick was indeed benched.
“I don’t look at it as me getting benched, first and foremost, to correct you,” Vick told a reporter on Wednesday regarding Vick’s reaction to being benched, via Dom Cosentino of NJ.com. “But if you want to look at it that way, you can.”
Everyone except Vick looks at it that way, because that’s what happened. But Vick thinks that it’s more complicated than the coaching staff deciding he didn’t deserve to play.
“You’re going to think what you going to think, I’m going to think what I’m going to think. And I think what I think is most important” Vick said. “I just look at it as an opportunity for this organization to figure out the things that they need to figure out and see what they need to see. Does that answer your question?”
That theory bolsters the notion that the coaching staff wants Vick, but that someone higher than coach Rex Ryan wants to see what Geno Smith can do. It’s possible that the goal is to evaluate Smith. It’s also possible that the goal is to finish low enough in the standings -- and high enough on the draft order -- to get Smith’s replacement.
