The Jets have a clear need at quarterback this offseason, and there are not many good options available.

So should the team look to make a major move and trade up to the top of the first round for one of the top prospects, it's probably not a great idea.

And I'll explain why today on Locked On Jets.

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your team every day. Welcome, this is the Locked Jets podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2025, and I'm your host, John B, from gangreneation.com. Thank you so much for making the show your first listener, first watch every day. And a big shout out to you every day, or this is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week Monday through Friday. Today we have our weekly mailbag show. Each Wednesday we try and do a mailbag with listener questions. And let's begin with our first question. It's about the Jets quarterback situation. John, I'm not seeing a lot of obvious options available for the Jets in free agency or the trade market. should the team maybe look to trade to the top of the first round for either Shador,

Sanders, or Cam Ward?

That might be the only solution I see to addressing the quarterback position.

Well, I understand the perspective because, as you mentioned,

there are really not many great options at the quarterback position.

But first of all, I think it's unlikely the Jets are going to look to trade up because that requires teams to the teams at the top of

the draft to be willing to trade down. And that's not always the case. I'm not sure what the

teams at the top of the draft want to do, but there are a lot of quarterback needy teams at the top

of the draft. So that's number one. I think we always talk quarterback needy teams at the top of the draft.

So that's number one.

And I think we always talk about the Jets.

At this time of year, we always talk about the Jets. Well, they should trade up or they should trade down. But of course, it takes two to tango, and other teams aren't always willing to make moves. I think if you look at the recent history of teams trading up for quarterbacks, first of all,

there are lots of stories of failure.

And when you trade up for a quarterback, you're typically paying a premium.

You know, you're paying a ridiculous amount.

You know, you think about what the Panthers traded to get move up for Bryce Young.

I mean, you can go back, you know, back to 2016, what the Rams traded for Jared Goff, for what the Eagles traded for Carson Wentz.

You want to go back to 2012.

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