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Trivia for March 20, 2023

Question

Who was the last New York Jets quarterback to pass for 4,000 yards in a season?

Answer

Joe Namath. In his third season, 1967, he passed for 4,007 yards. That was the year before the Jets won their Super Bowl. New York went to a more run-oriented approach in their championship season, with Namath again playing in all 14 games but finishing with 101 fewer pass attempts, 860 fewer yards and 11 fewer touchdown passes (but also 11 fewer interceptions, and with the team won 3 more games).

5 Reader Comments:

Dan McManus

Wilmington, NC
2023-03-20T15:14:02Z
I'm old but Namath did this two years before I was born. Is their a more insightful stat that shows just how dysfunctional the Jets QB status has been literally for my entire life?

And in 14 games - not 16 or 17

Dan McManus

Wilmington, NC
2023-03-20T15:16:14Z
*there*

Drew Paterson

Ferndale, WA
2023-03-20T16:29:14Z
I hear you Dan. I was born before the Namath years with the Jets, but growing up in New Jersey, he was my boyhood hero as I first started paying attention to NFL Football the year the Jets won the Superbowl.

The Jets have had some decent QB's over the years like Richard Todd, Ken O'Brien, Chad Pennington, even Vinny Testaverde (at the end of his career), etc. but no hall of Famers outside of Namath. I don't blame their current run of poor fortune on the quarterbacking, so much, as the ownership, management, and coaching. The Johnson Family took over the Team in 2000, about the time Tom Brady's career started, so we know how that has worked out. Then, after Rex Ryan, the Todd Bowles and Adam Gase coaching tenures were disasterous. Now, we had futility in selecting 1st round QB's with first Sam Darnold and now Zach Wilson. I'm not optimistic that the Aaron Rodgers experiment will turn out any more successful than the Brett Favre season. Like I said, bad management decisions have hurt this Team more than bad QB's.

Cliff Neville

Somerset, TX
2023-03-20T20:16:18Z
amen to that. i always thought the Jets were only a distant sad joke, until the Paecells years, when i started following them some and even sympathizing with them. in that time, woody johnson has amply demonstrated he's not the owner one would prefer for one's team (nor for one's ambassador to London).

Drew Paterson

Ferndale, WA
2023-03-20T22:27:53Z
Forgot to include Boomer Esiason on the Jet's list of "decent" QB's. I don't count Favre as a true Jet since he was just a one-and-done, seemingly to jump-ship to the Vikings and escape the Jenn Sterger sexting scandal.
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