You are a being pretty polar about the whole thing. You actually think a QB could change this garbage offense. As if Sanchez tells Greene to not break tackles or accelerate faster than my grandmother could. As if Sanchez is dropping passes - tossing fumbles to the defense after falling to the ground - As if Sanchez is sacking himself and getting no support otherwise. It isn't sanchez that is calling the 2 yd Tebowmania plays. Sanchez has sucked and almost all of his inability has been caused by bad decisions, not physical skills - but there is a relationship between his "suck" and the jets' "suck". The guy looks like he is beat. I am not comparing Sanchez to Brady, but Brady wouldn't physically last behind this line.
You wouldn't have said this years ago. Cutler has been moved on from place to place and hated more than Sanchez. NFL fans are very fickle.
The reason why I'm hard on Sanchez is because of where we drafted him and the expectations we had for him. So far he's been average at best. If Sanchez was some 6th round/7th round QB that we're throwing out there to see if he can play then my views would be different. But a guy drafted top 5 should be elevating the play of his teammates and making them better. Instead it's the other way around, we need to bring in players to make him better. In his 4th year he should be tearing up the league by now. When I watch Cam Newton, Andy Dalton, RGIII etc I get jealous and wish Mark could play like those guys. I'm honestly up to my neck with all the excuses he gets. Even when we had that good group of receivers with Holmes, Cothcery, Edwards etc. Fans were STILL bitching about him not having enough players around him. The offensive line was criticized as "awful" last year. But looking at the numbers our offensive line was better than most teams in the league. What the fuck do yall want, 5 pro bowlers on the line? Then we heard that schotty was holding him back and that Mark was going to be better once he got a "real" OC well through 4 games Mark has actually played worse under Sparano than he has under schotty. I'm still holding out hope that Sanchez may turn into the QB we think he can become. But i'm tired of being patient I want to see results NOW.
I was a Sanchez supporter through all of the ups and downs of the last 3 seasons. I'm done. Aside from all of the factors that have obviously contributed to the shitshow we've seen over the past 3 games, Sanchez has looked like a joke. He still throws behind his receivers, he still holds the ball WAY too long, he still doesn't protect the ball when he scrambles and he still gets totally rattled under pressure. I'm sick of it. Hopefully he proves me completely wrong and takes us to the Super Bowl this season, but my expectations are now zilch.
i'm not sure what that has to do with anything. but cutler played a pretty good game tonight. i view cutler as the kind of qb that sanchez will develop into eventually if everything goes right but with much less of an arm.
Yep. Don't think that's a good thing, though. Cutler got no heart. So, he'll never self-actualize. He'll never be able to adapt. And, he'll never finish strong.
hard when one of the nicest guys in the NFL says this about you "Mark Sanchez is struggling like always," Tomlinson said
You've written some really stupid things before but this takes the cake by far. Illogical is an understatement.
Romo had a terrible game tonight (although only 2 of the 5 ints were on him alone) but he is the third highest rated passer ever in NFL history (96.6 career rating including tonight) . He only had 10 ints last year to 31 Tds , for his career he throws twice as many TDs as Ints and also wins roughly twice as many games as he losses. The cowboys simply suck, Romo is not the issue. If not for Romo the cowboys would be 4-12 every year. Although I agree about Tebow.
Yet in clutch situations he fails, which he has done repeatedly. I don't understand why so many Cowboy fans want to hang on to him. He has a couple good games then craps the bed.
It's an excuse-making thing. It becomes pervasive. It's deadly with middle of the road QBs that don't develop. Fans start rationalizing every failure, hoping he turns into a star, and at some point, it just loses touch with reality. The same thing happened with Sanchez. With Sanchez, he was a mediocre starter on an elite team at 22, so people said "he's still so young... he's already gotten us to the AFC championship game, just wait until he develops!" The problem is that it wasn't him that got us there. He happened to luck into an elite defense and an elite running game as a rookie, and they carried him as far as they would've carried any NFL quality QB. Then the defense reverted to slightly above average rather than elite, and the running game crumbled to league average, and in Year 3, Sanchez still couldn't do anything significant on his own. There was no development. Come Year 4, the running game stinks and Sanchez is relied upon to carry the O, and the results are absolutely disastrous. But instead of realizing that Sanchez is a Kyle Orton-esque "go as far as you can carry me" type QB that lucked out early in his career, fans still want to pretend that there's a legitimate excuse for why he can't play the position well and why he's not any better today than he was 2 years ago.
