Stop worrying about QB controversy, and enjoy the Mike White show

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The Jets might be headed towards an unavoidable quarterback controversy, and there’s always a chance it could get messy. It’s also possible that by late afternoon on Sunday, the Mike White bubble will have burst.

There’s no real way to know just yet. This unexpected situation could go in many different directions – some good, some bad. That’s why the best advice for everyone is to do what Robert Saleh is doing, and what he’s trying to tell everyone around the Jets to do, too:

Just sit back and enjoy the Mike White ride.

“I think it’s awesome,” Saleh said on Wednesday, when he anointed White as his starting quarterback for at least one more game, on Sunday at home against the Buffalo Bills. “It doesn’t always happen where a young man has his opportunity and he has success. But nothing is cooler (than) to see somebody have an opportunity, work through it, go through the struggles and to take advantage of those opportunities — not only show that he belongs, but to show that he can start in this league.”

It is pretty awesome, when you stop and think about it. The 26-year-old White was once a much-overlooked, fifth-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys – a spot late enough in the draft from which starting quarterbacks rarely emerge. One year later, he lost the backup quarterback job to Cooper Rush and the Cowboys cut him out of training camp. He landed on the Jets practice squad and he bounced between that and the active roster over the next two years, without ever taking a regular season snap.

This past summer, he wasn’t even guaranteed a roster spot. He had to battle it out with James Morgan, the Jets’ fourth-round pick from 2020, and veteran Josh Johnson. When he won the backup job outright and the Jets didn’t go out and sign a more experienced veteran, the prevailing reaction outside the organization was: Why?

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And now we know. Now everyone knows. White,…