Chris Johnson: Jets would be ‘totally different’ if Michael Vick started all season
The New York Jets won their first game in over two months last weekend, and the “blame Geno Smith” army is already out in full force. Not surprisingly, Chris Johnson is a part of it.
On Tuesday, Johnson told Seth Walder of the New York Daily News that he believes the Jets would have a better record than 2-8 if Michael Vick had started all season long.
“Yeah, I think so. I think if he was starting from day one it would be totally different,” Johnson said. “He came in and his role was to help Geno (Smith) develop and try to help him the best he can, but at the end of the day it turned out how it turned out and (we’ve) just got to live with it.”
Johnson added that Vick doesn’t appear to have slowed much even though he is 34.
“He’s going out there, he’s still doing the same thing,” he said. “Can still run the ball, can still make the throws.”
For what it’s worth, Vick also said earlier this week that he believes the Jets would have been better off if he was given the starting quarterback job sooner.
Revisionist history is the best, isn’t it? While Vick has looked sharper than Smith over the past two games and has made a number of plays with his legs, he doesn’t make the Jets a good — or even above average — team. He has still struggled with accuracy and made plenty of poor decisions.
And here’s the one thing people seem to be forgetting — Vick is an accident waiting to happen. He has no idea how to protect his body and has already been slow to get up after several big hits. There’s a reason Vick has been injured so much throughout his career. If he started from Week 1, there’s a good chance he would have been hurt by now anyway.
