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The New York Jets 2017 starting quarterback needs to be named now. Head coach Todd Bowles has been handling Josh McCown with kid gloves. The gloves need to come off if this Jets team will have any chance of succeeding and Bowles wishes to keep his job. With the New York Jets heading into their third preseason game. Predicted favorite starting quarterback Josh McCown has not been receiving first-team reps like he should be to get in sync with the New York Jets first-teams offense. In Thursday's final practice of training camp, two games before the Snoopy Bowl versus the Giants. McCown received only one rep and that came with Gang Greens scout team offense. In which he threw a 15-yard touchdown pass. All in all, Head Coach Todd Bowles's …show more content…

Week three of an NFL preseason is when the entire first team should be practicing with their number one QB before the season begins. It's when you want your offense clicking and cohesive to begin the regular season. One 15 yard touchdown pass in the final practice of training camp by the team's presumptive starter, McCown, simply is not enough. Not stating or knowing who your preseason's game number three starting quarterback will be is simply mind boggling. The ex Cleveland Browns quarterback said Bowles had informed himself and the other two signal callers on just how this weeks practice reps would wind up going. The player who received the most reps with the number one team this week was the Jets second year pro Christian Hackenberg. With that, is it safe to assume that Bowles's actual plan is to start the former Nittany Lion in the most important game of this year's preseason? The other assumption that comes to mind with Bowles's philosophy, is he wants to keep McCown injury free to start this year's 2017 season. Only the third year head coach would know those answers. With that conservative plan of thinking and coaching style, expect this to be a very long season for the New York Jets and quite possibly a very short one for head coach Todd Bowles. The only rhythm this offense has shown was the very first play of the preseason in which Josh McCown was playing with the first team, scoring this

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