Monday night’s loss to the Chargers was Zach Wilson’s 30th game in the NFL.

It was the 16th time in those 30 games he failed to throw a touchdown pass.

Think about that for a minute. The quarterback’s main job is to get his team into the end zone, to throw touchdowns. In more than half of the games he has played, Wilson has failed to throw one touchdown.

In the NFL this season, there have been 35 games in which a quarterback threw for three touchdown passes. Some of those are by the names you would expect like Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and and Joe Burrow. But it’s also been done by Sam Howell (twice), Jordan Love (twice), Will Levis and Bryce Young. Rookie C.J. Stroud threw for five touchdown passes Sunday against the Buccaneers.

Wilson, the player the Jets drafted No. 2 overall in 2021, has never had a game with three touchdown passes. Not this year, not last year and not in his rookie season. He’s thrown two touchdown passes in a game six times, with only one of those coming this season.

This is the quarterback hell that Jets fans are forced to live with right now.

Josh Dobbs gets traded to the Vikings in the middle of a week and leads his team to victory without knowing his teammates’ names. Aidan O’Connell gets thrown in for the Raiders and beats the Giants. Stroud, another No. 2 pick, looks like a star barely two months into his NFL career.

But the Jets saw their quarterback answer go down four snaps into the season and they saw the Ghost of Quarterbacks Past jog onto the field wearing No. 2.

Jets fans have twisted themselves into pretzels trying to defend Wilson and make a case he’s improved. His performance against the Chiefs made some people believe a corner had been turned. He stunk up the stadium for 59 minutes against the Giants a week ago but then forced overtime with two great throws in the final 24 seconds on the way to a victory.

But Monday night’s loss to the Chargers was a reminder that Wilson is what he is. You could live with him as a backup if you needed him to play two or three games in the middle of a season. But he is not a player you want out there for 17 games like the Jets are staring at right now.

So, is it time to bench him?

Robert Saleh said no on Tuesday.

“If it was just him, that would be worth discussing,” the Jets’ coach said. “This is a collective issue that we all need to get on the same page with.”

Saleh did not give a full-throated defense of Wilson on Tuesday. Instead, he just said it would be “lazy” to blame everything on Wilson.

It is true that the offense’s failure is not all on Wilson. The offensive line has been hit hard by injuries and its lack of depth is showing up with Billy Turner looking like a matador at right tackle. Receivers are dropping passes. The running game is nonexistent. Nathaniel Hackett is clearly good at being friends with Aaron Rodgers, but everything else remains a question mark.

So, yes the problems of this offense run deep. But it all starts with the quarterback because it always starts with the quarterback. There is a reason they are the highest-paid players in the sport. There is a reason every young kid wants to play the position. It is the most important position in sports. The quarterback should be able to hide some of a team’s deficiencies.

I’m not sure the answer is going to Tim Boyle or Trevor Siemian, neither of whom are going to excite the fan base. But I know the answer is not Wilson, so it is time to start considering whether a change would jump-start an offense that is converting 22.1 percent of its third downs, the worst mark since data began being taken on the statistic in 1972.

This offense is not just bad, it is historically bad. The Jets have scored eight offensive touchdowns in eight games. In their last four games, the Jets have scored three touchdowns and all of them came on one-play drives with Breece Hall breaking long touchdowns against the Broncos and Giants and scoring from the 8-yard line against an Eagles defense that may have let him score.

All of this is even more painful to watch for Jets fans when you consider they have a defense that is capable of winning games in January.

If Wilson struggles in the first half on national TV on Sunday night in Sin City, Saleh has to consider turning to Boyle at halftime.

It would be a sin not to.