Head coach Aaron Glenn could not have been much curter when explaining why he finally opted to bench quarterback Justin Fields for Tyrod Taylor ahead of the New York Jets' Week 12 meeting with the Baltimore Ravens.
"Because I wanted to," the first-year boss said on Wednesday.
Reports emerged on Monday that Glenn was going to make the switch, and it was only a matter of time before it happened. The Fields experiment fell woefully short of the initial hypotheses of Glenn and first-year general manager Darren Mougey. Tabbed as a potential franchise quarterback with dual-threat capabilities, Fields' legs lived up to the billing, but his arm did not.
He averaged just a shade under 140 passing yards per game, making the Jets' aerial attack the worst unit in all of football. After going 15-of-

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