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Following up on a previous item. ... As ESPN.com's Danny Knobler framed it this week, "The New York Jets can't get a do-over. They can't go and replay this season with Michael Vick starting at quarterback right from the start, no matter whether Vick thinks he could have done better than Geno Smith (of course he does), and no matter how much better the Jets have looked with Vick than with Smith (better, although still hardly great).

"What the Jets could do -- or what whoever will be running the Jets in 2015 can do -- is to make Vick the quarterback next season."

It's a notion Vick is on board with.

"I mean, I like it here, but it's not my decision," Vick said Tuesday. "I like it here in New York, it's been great, but I can't predetermine and make a decision on what's going to happen."

Neither can anyone with the Jets, and not just because Vick will turn 35 years old before next season begins. How can anyone know who will quarterback the Jets until we know who will coach and who will general manage the Jets in 2015?

One thing is clear: Vick has made a good impression in the 2 1/2 games since he replaced Smith as the Jets' starter. His teammates like what they see, and so do the Jets coaches.

"He has a good look, a fighter look," quarterbacks coach David Lee said. "He throws his heart out there when he plays."

Lee also praised Smith, despite the young quarterback's struggles. He offered a reminder that Smith is still "one play away from being in the game," given that Smith is the Jets backup and would play if Vick were hurt.

"He still has good skills," Lee said. "He's got a really good throwing motion. It's a good release. He can run. He's athletic.

"He's got a great future."

Vick, in his 12th year in the NFL, has a greater past than future. But perhaps he can still be an answer for the Jets, at least for one more year.

"He's 34, but he has a really young body," Lee said.

Whatever the case, Vick is confident he can get the Jets a few wins now, and no doubt that he can get them a few wins next year, as well.

Unless Smith returns to the lineup. But that's by no means a given.

Asked directly if the second-year signal caller would touch the field again this year, head coach Rex Ryan was noncommittal, Seth Walder of the New York Daily News reported (via theRedzone.org).

"I think Geno is going to get plenty of opportunities, whether it's this year or whenever," Ryan said Wednesday.

Vick might read something into the fact the coach went with "whenever" as opposed to a more definitive "next year." You probably shouldn't.