Bob Glauber
Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — It is a clumsy, uncomfortable dynamic inside the Jets’ locker room, where unsigned quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s locker still sits empty, as if the Jets are sending a not so subtle message that this is still his team, even if he isn’t here.
Across the room stands Geno Smith, the presumptive starter if negotiations with Fitzpatrick ultimately collapse under the weight of unrealistic financial demands. It is Smith’s fourth season at that locker, and he has been through a convulsive set of experiences that includes two mostly unspectacular years as a starter and another as a stunned observer after the punch-out by linebacker IK Enemkpali.