New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn said the quarterback who starts the game Sunday against the Cleveland Browns will know his role in plenty of time this week.
Nobody else needs to know now, however.
In his weekly news conference on Monday, the first-year coach declined to tell reporters who will be taking the snaps in Week 10, despite repeated attempts to pry the answer from Glenn.
“That’ll be between me and the player,” he said. “I don’t understand why you guys keep doing it (asking). It’s really getting hilarious, too, because you guys keep asking the same question and I keep giving you the same answer.”
One reporter asked Glenn if it would boost the quarterback’s confidence to be declared the starter.
“It helps the quarterback’s confidence when the player and the coach talk and they know who the guy is,” Glenn said. “Not that I’m telling it to you guys. That has nothing to do with the player’s confidence.”
He said he had his “own reasons” for not revealing the identity of his QB1.
His choices are Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor, unless he wants to pull a shocker to stir up the Jets (1-7) and promote undrafted rookie Brady Cook from the practice squad.
The Jets are coming off a bye.
Fields, signed to a two-year, $40 million offseason deal to start for the Jets, has disappointed.
The 26-year-old, with his third team in five seasons, has completed 64.1% of his passes for 1,089 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions. He has been sacked 22 times.
Fields has added 288 yards rushing with three scores.
Taylor, 36, started in Week 7 in a 13-6 loss to the Carolina Panthers when Fields was benched. On the season, he is 43-of-69 passing (62.3%) for 379 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions.
He is in his 15th season and with his seventh team.
The Jets have scored 168 points and allowed 221 — a minus-53 point differential.
The Browns (2-6) have posted a league-worst 126 points on the season.
