Having watched the butt fumble many times I'm still trying to figure out if maybe Sanchez didn't get the first ever double-concussion on one play. His head snaps back hard when it meets the chiseled granite of, um, well, and then it hits the ground and bounces also. I'll bet he was going "tweet-tweet-tweet" even more than usual.
TAilBack running play up the middle: Sanchez didn't run the wrong play, that was Greene. Sanchez tries to make something of the broken play and runs the only place he could, up the middle. Sanchez didn't give up in the play and get man handled, that was Moore. Sanchez sees the blocking has broken down and attempts to do what he was taught, slide. Sanchez wasn't thrown like a useless rag doll, that was Moore. Sanchez shouldn't have fumbled, but NOTHING else in that play was his fault. To say otherwise is complete bullshit!!!
Hence why I said "broken play". Good QBs know you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit. Moore is actually holding his ground, take a closer look at the LOS (Ball is on 31, and Sanchez runs into his ass on the 31.5. Moore is going against one of the best DTs in the league). IF Sanchez has the green light to scramble, he has more room behind the RT. He panicked and ran right into Moore's ass like his eyes were closed. Busted play wasn't his fault. Him running into his lineman is totally his fault. Sanchez's biggest adversary is his own mind, which is why he was a turnover machine.
That's one helluva spin job. If he was trying to hand off to Greene and Greene didn't take the ball, why wasn't there a fumble on the play? Moore did not get 'manhandled', he stood his ground. Sanchez wasn't sliding, the invisible man tripped him. Since when do you slide into the line when there's no unblocked players in front of you anyway?
If you look at the play the left side of the line is firing out and trying to seal the corner while Greene trots that way looking for all the world like he was expecting a pitch out or short pass. The fullback goes straight into the line, trying to draw the LB's in and pull the safety up. The right side of the line just kind of engages their man in place, like you'd expect them to do if the play was on the other side of the field. No point in driving your guy down field if he's just going to bounce over to the left side and help make the play. Then Sanchez goes careening into the right side, where all those players are wrestling around. He took the football into the most congested area of the field and predictably ran into somebody. We used to call that tackling yourself.
Why are we analyzing one play like its make or break for him being good or being terrible. And to the thread if you can get the chance at getting a franchise QB for that package, I am sorry but you do it every time.
no im not one of those 2 douches. i actually thought they were douches at the time if i remember correctly. i was at home watching on tv and posting on tgg... and i had no mobile interwebnet at that point in my life.
AND....he suddenly became 4 foot 4 inches tall, because his face hit Moore's butt. He had begun his slide about a yard and a half away from 1200 pounds of wrestling horseflesh. While he was going towards it. Idiot. I originally could not comprehend how a guy who is fully intent on sliding could fumble. My answer? It was Mark Sanchez. But I see your point now about the head shot.
sanchez apologists are one of the primary reasons why most of the NFL world looks at the Jets as a circus.
Here you go, Read this: http://thejetset.biz/2013/03/31/the-truth-about-the-butt-fumble/ Also, while I'm at it: Notice Moore off his feet? He got ragdolled
