Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon discuss New York’s move to sign the veteran quarterback and what it means for the Jets offense in 2025. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Another quarterback move was Justin Fields, signing with the Jets for 2 years, $40 million.30 million dollars guaranteed.

Seemed like the Steelers kind of screwed themselves here, uh, like they kind of with the whole Russell Wilson Foosie stuff, and then maybe, uh, I think even Adam Schefter kind of reported when Twitter was down and everybody was reporting what he was saying on TV.

It was that Fields wanted guarantees essentially that he is QB one, like uncontested QB one, no competition, hey, you’re signing me, this is it.

And I don’t know what happened there, but he goes to the Jets, must get those assurances.

Kind of a little I, I, I, I’m thumbs middle here.

Jets need a starter, uh, and, and I think for fields it’s kind of a get ready to run some more.

Get ready to run a little bit and I’m, you know, I got some cool running backs.

There’s some offensive line pieces we need Olu Foana to get back.

They have Garrett Wilson still.

They need more pass catchers on top of that.

This does kind of reek of defensive-minded.

Head coach Core, you know, like, oh, we got a running quarterback.

We’re gonna establish this so got to defend.

We need one.

Yeah, exactly.

We’ve got 3, we’ve got 3, running backs here that I think are, uh, you know, varying degrees of interesting.

Obviously Bruce Hall’s Bruce Hall, but Baylon Allen and Isaiah Davis gave him some pop last year.

All the players that Fields has worked with in the NFL so far, I think Wilson’s probably the best separator that Fields has played with.

Uh, he’s probably.

A notch above DJ Moore in that regard.

Although Moore’s, uh, there’s just there’s just different players, um, I think I think it’s like it’s so hard to he’s kind of like his own little category.

I know, yeah.

So Fields, uh, and Wilson, I’m interested to see how that connection develops because otherwise, I do think they’re gonna establish.

push it on that side of the ball.

Yeah, it just seems like that they’re going to be run first.

They know that this, they’re not going to win it all this this year.

This is a revamped team all the way.

This is a team that’s trying to eat their vegetables, I think, and maybe not get pot committed with a quarterback and saying like, oh, now we got to take a guy in the draft or we got to, you know, be the darnle team again, even though that would never happen or try to do Kirk Cousins desperation or something of that sort.

So.

I, I’m interested.

Fields, I think Fields is still an exciting player.

He’s very imperfect, uh, but you know, you can have some exciting plays out of it, especially if you just have a system around him.

Let him throw go balls, let them throw vertically, let him throw outside and let them run around a little bit and hopefully he just doesn’t take too many sacks.

That’s kind of the Justin Fields experience.