There are a few different ways to look at the New York Jets' win in Week 10 against the Cleveland Browns. While I understand that many fans around the world want the Jets to secure the best possible draft pick in the hopes of a successful future, it's also important that Aaron Glenn continues to build a foundation around what the Jets are looking to achieve.
Look, as we've seen many times before, the Jets haven’t exactly hit the draft picks out of the park when they have a high pick.
Landing a star quarterback is often surrounded with luck, and with no guaranteed star prospect in this upcoming draft, it isn't like the Jets are playing their way out of a particular player.
As long as the Jets finish with a top-five pick, especially with the other assets they have, they should be more than fine in terms of finding a franchise quarterback.
“We’re trying to build something,” Glenn said, per The Athletic. “There has to be a foundation that has to be set. … If it’s truly stable, then you can sustain winning. And that’s what we’re trying to accomplish.”
I think Ian O'Connor of The Athletic put it best regarding what the Jets are doing with the quarterback situation.
While he also understands that the fans might want a certain draft pick, it's more important for the team to start building something, just like Glenn said.
The Jets drafted Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson with two top-three picks. The idea was for at least one of them to eventually be the franchise quarterback, but as we've seen, that hasn't been the case.
Darnold eventually joined the Minnesota Vikings and found success, and now also plays for a very good Seattle Seahawks team, thanks to his contributions on the offensive side of the football.
“The Jets need to find their own Jaxson Dart in the draft. Along those lines, some of their fans might be worried sick that this newfound winning might hurt their chances of doing just that. They’ve apparently forgotten that taking a quarterback early — Sam Darnold, No. 3 overall, 2018 … Zach Wilson, No. 2 overall, 2021 — doesn’t guarantee a damn thing,” he wrote.