Quotes break down like this: Young QBs need protection from the run game and aren't supposed to throw the ball a lot. Sanchez would be the same or better in a situation with less protection from the run game and throwing the ball more. Stafford would be doing worse with more protection from the run game and throwing the ball less. Looks like an honest analysis to me. I seriously question your eye for talent after making a statement like that.
Well this is obvious to everybody but Brian Schottenheimer. One point on Stafford vs Sanchez is that it's not unusual to see young QB's thrown to the wolves by being asked to pass more than they should when the team they are playing for has a bad defense and falls behind early repeatedly. The reason for this is that their team has to put up a pretense of being competitive even if they are not. The flip side of this situation is that since the team is bad the QB doesn't draw too much fire for the many mistakes they will commit in this situation. Sanchez would be throwing the ball about the same amount in Detroit that Stafford is. He'd be doing this in a fairly basic pro set and with lesser expectations on his performance in terms of leading the team to victories. He'd be doing it out of the glare of the NY media, which can be blinding at times. He'd be much better off in Detroit at this point from a developmental standpoint. Just getting away from Brian Schottenheimer and two tabloid dailies blowing up every failure into the coming of the anti-Christ would be an improvement. If Stafford had started the season with a head coach out to lunch on the offensive side of the ball and an offensive coordinator whose primary concern was polishing his own credentials he'd be much worse off than he is right now. If he'd effectively gone 3 games without a go-to receiver, like Sanchez did, and without a runningback to dump the ball off too, and without TE's being kept in to block and then releasing as outlets he'd be much worse off. If the Jets had run the Sanchez situation the way it was supposed to be run then there's no question he'd have been better off in NY. They kind of dropped the ball there and only picked it back up when Sanchez was in danger of forcing himself to the sidelines. That's just terrible organizational development work on the part of the Jets. The Jets offensive talent is very over-rated at the moment. Too many players are living on what they did in the past on that side of the ball, including at least 2/5's of the offensive line. Of the remaining players really only Cotchery and Mangold are absolutely top flight. There's a reason the Jets have not been able to score points consistently over the last 4 seasons, except for the 11 game span where Brett Favre was able to carry them last year: they really don't have good personnel on that side of the ball. They're not bad, but there are probably half a dozen teams in the AFC alone who just blow them away in terms of offensive personnel and they're kind of stuck in the pack after that with only a few teams clearly worse than them.
You keep comming back with the same tired argument. If he played well, his Ints would not have given the Jags a short feild. THe final drive was more on the O-line and runnign backs than him. His passes were often off the mark. Quit trying to make things up or only looking at the last drive to say he played well. Watch the entire game were he gives away ther ball, misses open throws, and leaves the defense hung out to dry. He had a huge hand in creating the 21-10 deficit with his poor play and did not make up for it in one drive in which he handed off 9 times and passed 6.
Stafford is done for the year. Finished with 13 TD's 20 INT's and 2 wins. Sanchez is currently at 12 TD's 20 INT's and at least 3 more games played with 6 wins. Year two will say a lot about both of these QB's, including an exciting head to head matchup.
