Jets ‘comfortable’ with Joe Flacco, unlikely to target Jimmy Garoppolo
The New York Jets received a pretty big scare in their preseason opener against the Philadelphia Eagles when young quarterback Zach Wilson went down to injury in the second quarter.
Wilson injured his knee scrambling and seemed to be in a lot of pain, leading to speculation that it might have been a serious injury.
New York received good news one day later as tests showed Wilson avoided an ACL injury. Rather, he’s expected to miss multiple weeks and will undergo surgery on a torn meniscus. Pending the outcome of said surgery, Zach Wilson could be back Week 1. However, that seems highly unlikely.
Once Wilson went down Friday evening, attention obviously turned to New York potentially being interested in San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. There’s a connection here with New York’s coaching staff having a built-in relationship with Garoppolo dating back to Robert Saleh and Co. being a part of Kyle Shanahan’s staff in Northern California.
This is now looking less likely with veteran Joe Flacco set to take over until Wilson is able to return from injury.
“The hope is that Zach Wilson gets a trim rather than a full repair of the meniscus. There’s a lot of optimism that it’s just going to be just a trim, along with the bone bruise, which is not surgical. They think he’s going to be OK earlier in the season. But when it seemed on Saturday night that he wasn’t going to be, I wondered about Jimmy G (Garoppolo), but it seems like it’s going to be Flacco. Like, they really like where Joe Flacco is, in this offense especially.”
NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported on Monday, via the Pat McAfee show
