Joe Flacco had a good year. I don't why people think he didn't. He is having a great playoffs so far too. Sanchez and Flacco was close for partway through year 3, then Sanchez removed himself from the conversation while Flacco plugged along steadily improving in different areas of the game, physically and mentally. He never made that "jump" forward but he didn't make the "jump" backwards which Sanchez has done
Also the good part of the Garcia/Young this is that we know Young is critical of him and Sanchez wants to do on the field drills. Who knows if either QB can coach Sanchez, but either one can help him with his footwork or mentally, it will do leaps and bounds to Sanchez's confidence and ability heading into TC.
He did not have a great year, they had a few blowouts where he padded stats, got the benefit of 35 D/Sts scores and put up some nice #s the last few games but overall he did not have the year expected of him and he was disappointing. AGAIN, he had incredible talent around him which makes life a lot easier for a QB. when mark had talent close to Bal he led them deeper than Falcco was leading Bal.
I am NOT saying Flacco is a bad QB, he is a good QB playing really good this postseason. I think mark and Flacco are on a similar level when they have similar weapons. neither is carrying a team like a Brady but both can be very good w/ the right talent around them.
Flacco does not run into the asses of Linemen. Flacco has a chance to win a SB, Mark will never sniff a SB ever again. What would Sanchez do if he played in a SB? make the same stupid mistakes he makes in a regular game but this time in front of millions of people. no COACH alive will be able to help him with his stupid mistakes.
Braddy, Manning (take your pick Eli or Payton), Breese even. It's rare you find a guy that can do that. Then again, the PATS can turn shit into gold, as much as I hate them they know how to win with any player. got to respect that.
Flacco hasn't had to run an offense w/ kerley as his #1, Schilens his #2, Clyde Gates 3. They know that since they got Brady, he can win w/ you and I as his starting WRs. QBs like that don't come around often.
True, but Flacco won't throw the ball twenty feet in front of Kerley or ten feet behind him either. The dropped passes are on the receivers, but most of the time its on sanchez. even with LT was here, those screen passes were not great.
That's the thing that separates them. The basics that aren't on the talent around them. Flacco has better touch, safer with the ball, smarter with the ball (amazingly enough), has become more consistent than Sanchez (byproduct of Sanchez becoming so inconsistent), better accuracy, and better job of leading his receivers, and is currently mentally stronger than Sanchez.
Exactly... its football fundamentals, Sanchez just don’t have them. And if he don’t have them by now, he never will. I don’t care who’s coaching him.
Yes, he is a good QB. That's because he's a QB who is progressing and improving. You expect your QB to improve and mature. His accuracy has improved. His timing has improved. His pocket presence/awareness has improved. His chemistry with his WRs has improved. So, we're not still comparing this guy with the Turnover Machine, are we?
That's where we differ. I think he can fix them (30-40% chance) and I think he had them at some point. I think his confidence led to his poor footwork and everything else that happened this season. That's what I'm worried about the most, his confidence. It's key to him playing well because once you see the gears spinning his head, the worst usually happens. The thing I think where I differ with Junc and Hobbes is the fact that I don't think becoming a serviceable QB is enough for him to stay on the Jets next year. If he comes and plays decent and puts up 15 TDs, 14 INTs, 3 fumbles and is basically a non factor in games, yeah he improved from last year, but no this is not what we are looking for from him going forward. I think his cap might be a game manager QB at best which yeah we can get by with, but that's not the ideal scenario
how sad is it that 15TDs and 14ints would be considered "ok" Serviceable QB sounds funny. I think I would take Jessie Palmer over Sanchez.
He missed a million throws in that Den game 2 weeks ago, he had Smith open all game and kept missing him outside of 1-2 throws. People remember the highlight reel stuff but not everything else. They both have had/have issues, right now Flacco is playing really well and his team is in the SB so people forget his issues just like people forgot Mark's while on his title game run 2 years ago. The difference btw mark's title game losses and the title game win the other day for Flacco was his D stepped up and ours did not.
