Bingo. Better to stink it up against Miami when you are 9-3 or Buffalo when you rush for 300 yards than when you go into New England in a playoff game on the road.
Sanchez put up 14 points on the Giants....2 nice drives.....idiotic plan throwing 59 times and getting sacked 5 times and he still stood in there. Ryan showed me NOTHING today. There are about 15-17 QB's better than Sanchez in the regular season. There are only about 6-8 better IMO in the playoffs. Sorry, that's the way I feel.
His opponents besides maybe Brees don't play a majority of their games in domes. This is not counting good weather places like Carolina or TB either. Sanchez had a whopping total of 0 games played in a dome this year. No weather problems or wind factors to deal with for "Matty Ice".
But to be fair, at the same time, you can argue that Sanchez never had an offense with the likes of Michael Turner, Roddy White, Julio Jones, and Tony Gonzalez either.
Pretty funny that everybody loves to rag on whatever QB loses their playoff game while completely overlooking the fact that they are at least playing in a playoff game. Next it will be "well Markie had nothing to do with us not making the playoffs"....
It's so funny to me that people tell us QBs like Matt Ryan are better than Sanchez b/c they put up better fantasy #s. Ryan was an embarrassment yesterday
I'd take Mike Mularkey over Schottenheimer (or Sparano, Haley, Koetter, or anyone else who's been connected to the Jets OC job) in a heartbeat.
Mike Mularkey has the Kordell Stweart years, using a gimmick QB to reach the title game in 2001 where they needed to win one home playoff game to reach the title game. He has a supposed QB on the edge of being a top QB that can't play when it matters most, brian got his QB to play well when it mattered most(until this year of course). Maybe some people were impressed by how awful Atl's offense was yesterday but I wasn't. Can we do better at OC? Sure, I like Brian but there are plenty of better OCs- I wouldn't want Mike Mularkey over him.
Well let's see..Ryan was 24-41 for 199 with no picks and no TDs..Sanchez was 30-59 for 258 with 1 TD and 2 picks..it could easily be argued Sanchez had the worse game of the two against the Giants....but then that would dispel the entire purpose of this thread.
Mularkey also completely turned around Atlanta's offense (which was the worst in the league when he was hired) and instituted the exact kind of running game with Michael Turner that we should be trying to establish in New York.
You think a top 5 drafted QB, getting over the Michael Vick mess, signing Michael Turner, having Roddy White in his prime had anything to do w/ that? Did you like their run game yesterday?
Late in the year I heard people saying how a playoff win would validate Ryan's standing as a top young QB. Funny how we've won four with Sanchez, all on the road in one less season, and that somehow counts for nothing.
Or it could easily be argued that at least Sanchez scored some points for his offense(and has scored points for it when he was in the playoffs)....but then that would dispel the entire purpose of your post. Bottom Line : They BOTH sucked. However, Ryan sucks a bit more 'cause he always sucks on the BIGGEST STAGE(next to the SB game, of course) : The Playoffs. Sanchez has the edge there.
Sanchez threw and ran for TDs vs the Giants, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't on the field when we gave up a 99-yard TD which turned the whole game against us.
No he wasn't on the field which is why I said he sucked less than Ryan OVERALL(not just based on the Giants game debacle).
Of course having talent helps. On the other hand he developed Ryan, Roddy White became infinitely better under his offense, and Michael Turner broke out under his coaching as well (although that probably has more to do with just finally getting an opportunity to be a #1 back.) Put it this way: the Jets have a top 5 QB, Holmes/Edwards in their primes, and have had a series of good RBs but their offense has never been anywhere close to as good as the Falcons. Yeah they had a shitty playoff game, but one stinker doesn't mean that Mularkey has no idea what he's doing.
our QB was more of a developmental QB, we had Edwards for 12 games in 2009 and 16 in '10, had Holmes for 12 games in '10 and in postseason our Os have been MUCH better than Atlanta's. Isn't it funny how people act like this is the 5th straight year. Everyone is going gaga over Eli but he was carried down the stretch by Victor Cruz and he led the giants to one more win in a weaker division and led them to zero playoff apps the last 2 years.
