Filed under: Jets, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL AnalysisFLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- He will see the Packers' green and gold on Sunday. It will serve as another NFL deja vu moment for Mark Brunell, since the Packers drafted him in 1993. Of course, when you have played for five teams (Packers, Jaguars, Redskins, Saints and Jets) over 17 NFL seasons, toiled in 176 NFL games and thrown nearly 5,000 passes for nearly 32,000 yards, what goes around comes around in vivid circles.
Brunell is the Jets' backup quarterback now, which should mean he is the next man up to starter Mark Sanchez when Green Bay visits the Jets on Sunday. Both Jets coach Rex Ryan and Brunell saw what happened to the Cowboys on Monday night, when starter Tony Romo went down and backup Jon Kitna went in. No team relishes injury to its starting quarterback, but if that reality smacked the Jets, Ryan said that's simply "the nature of the game.'' Ryan said he'd talk about such a scenario with his coaches and decide whether Brunell or No. 3 quarterback Kellen Clemens would be the quarterback "who gives us the best chance to win that week.''
Brunell has a simpler view: "I'm the backup quarterback. I'd go in.''
And just what would that mean for the Jets?
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