Rex can sit Shonn Greene because the bench is just as effective. When Rex says "Mark played well in practice", he obviously means that he's seeing these other guys try to play QB and it's just pathetic. Powell and McKnight are viable options while Tebow and McElroy are not. If you think a QB should be benched just to make a statement, that's fine but if you read the Arizona Cardinals board, you will see widespread disappointment about the Skelton benching, even though Skelton is playing at an even worse level than Mark. Also interesting Cardinals statistic- Cardinal's QBs have been sacked a total of 43 times. Quarterbacks behind awful O-lines like Cutler or Vick have 26 or 27- Sanchez has 26.
Not saying that this is the best O line ever but it isnt as bad as people make it out to be. Mark has no pocket awareness and should just throw the ball away most of the time instead of running into Moores ass and fumbling. How does a 4th year starter forget the play? At this point a statement does need to be made to this team and its fans that Mark sucks. Mark parades around like Joe Hollywood but hasnt won shit.
Right on, don't forget his seemingly perfect passes to the opposing defenses. You know, if he passed to our receivers as well as he does to the other teams defenses, I think all the scrubs that everyone talks about on the jets would be stars!
Your right. Maybe the jets should design more plays where Sanchez intentionally throws the ball towards the safeties and corners. Maybe then we would hit some of our receivers!
At this point, I would use the running back by committee approach. Jets definitely need a big upgrade at running back next year.
I don't know. Do you really think McElroy is getting any meaningful reps in practice as a number 3. I doubt it. Rex's stubbornness is out of his stupid loyalty an probably some resentment over McElroy actually telling the truth about the locker room last year. The thing is we know Mark is not the answer. The difference is that in RB we know all three are not the answer, just rotate them all because any of the three are mediocre at best.
Good points & something I didn't consider earlier. Wouldn't surprise me @ all if McElroy is given zero reps in practice every week. Rex is probably locked onto "Sanchez or Bust" on game day & during practice that no other QB on the roster has a chance to show anything.
Good job of turning this thread into another one of your Sanchez hate-fest 2012 parties. You guys are probably right though - Hysteria abound and Rex is holding Greg back from being a star.
Our Running backs are the worst I have ever seen as a jet fan. Our running game as a whole is disgusting. And the year when our all time best RB C.Martin gets inducted into the HOF makes these guy's look worse.
On the original question: definitely Powell over Greene at this point. The Jets cannot afford to keep Greene next year anyway. Might as well find out what Powell looks like with a solid 15 carries a game and give Greene whatever is left over after that. On the McElroy thing: the guy has a popgun for an arm. You don't think Rex would have made the switch in a country-minute by now if he thought McElroy had an NFL capable arm? He won't switch to Tebow because he cannot afford to lose control of the situation and Tebow is a huge random element (ask John Elway about this). He won't switch to McElroy because he knows McElroy is not an NFL QB.
Nope, there is no easy answer that McElroy is not good. The answer must be that McElroy spoke out to the media like every other player on the Jets so Rex hates him. Sometimes the answer is so obvious we miss it, McElroy doesn't look good in practice, TC, and whatever reps he received I also like Powell. His runs in the GL were nice last week and he seems to be a better blocker on 3rd down according to reports. Greene will succeed and look nice somewhere, but we probably won't have the ability to keep him if we want to fill more necessary holes on this team like LB which will be gutted, potentially S, and OL is the major one in my eyes
