There is one fundamental flaw with this thread...or at least with the majority of the postings. As far as I can tell the "Sanchez looks great" came from Adam Schefter. Now, I find Adam's work quite reliable and straight forward...but this is an opinion from an analyst. No where did I hear Rex say something...or Marty...not even from a QB coach. So, if everyone wants to go off the deep end on what an analyst says then so be it. I wouldn't waste the cycles. Until I hear the coaches say something so bombastic or they tell me that someone has won the competition...why waste the energy?
The Jets want Sanchez to win the job, now that Garrard retired there is no competition. I guess with the weapons we have, its best that the rookie stays on the bench and learns and let Mexi get killed physically and take all the media and fan abuse. He sucks and deserves it and for the $ we are wasting on him, he should earn it. Let Gino play in December when we are 3-10 and get ready for next year.
See above. Competition may be the mantra, but....thats all it is. Even in the footage Ive seen, Smith looks great.....but at the end of the day, the draft day posts even by the Genomaniacs were correct. When they had the Garrard safety blanket, it was .....garrard should start because Geno needs to transition to an NFL offense..... Sanchez, is simply the better player right now. That may not be true at some point...who knows, but Sanchez clearly has more than a leg up. Cimini also put it out there, that talking with Lee confirms (for him) his suspicion that Sanchez is going to be the Starter.
How do you figure they want Sanchez to win the job? If Geno looks good in training camp and preseason then he should start. We need to see what we have in Geno this year so we can decide to either draft a QB in '14 or to build around Geno by drafting players that compliment him.
i don't understand this thinking.if geno doesn't start and we are in position to grab a top qb in next years draft than obviously we will need to take the qb. if geno starts and we are in position to take a top qb in the draft than we need to take the qb. bottom line, if the 2014 qb class is as good as advertised and we are sitting near ir at the top of the draft we take a qb. if we are in the middle or better than we probably have our qb already
That is a yahoo! contributing "writer", it's glorified bleacher report stuff. The guy wasn't there, he is going based solely on geno taking 1st team snaps when the team has already announced they are rotating as of now. I read the bottom about the author, I knew it sounded bleacher report-ish:
That IMO doesn't make sense. If we have our QB on the roster why take another QB when those picks can be used to add weapons for the QB to throw to. So it's in our best interest to see what we have in Geno THIS year. No matter what happens Sanchez is a goner anyway why waste time trotting him out there. Start Geno day 1 (if he looks halfway decent in TC/pre season) and let him play. If he's the QB of the future then he would have already gained a year of valuable experience, plus we can begin to tailor our offense around Geno and find guys through the draft and free agency that fits around said QB.
See--THIS is kind of interesting stuff. Don't know who the report comes from, but just the mention that Geno's raw throwing ability is better than Sanchez is reason enough to be intriguing. _
We can tell in a persons rookie year or not? Especially coming out of a non pro offense. What is wrong with Jets fans? We will not know what we have in Geno 2-5 years and that is with good coaching.
If he was drafted in the 1st round then that logic applies, but when you draft a guy in the 2nd round there isn't much commitment made, it's a lot easier to dump him and draft another QB next season. If he shows some promise in his 1st year then we know we can continue to develop him and add pieces around him.l
Yes it is. And the article was not saying Geno is the starter. it was just reporting on live radio reports from OTAs that Geno is taking first team reps and that this is actually a competition. It was not a sensational piece at all. he also gave some perspective by comparing Geno to Russell Wilson: " While I (and others) often view Russell Wilson as the comparison point for Smith (due to the similarities in this year's Jets' offseason to last year's Seattle Seahawks' offseason), it is worth noting that Smith may be one-upping Sanchez even more quickly than Wilson did to Matt Flynn a year ago. While Russell spent a non-trivial portion of his first summer as No. 3 on the depth chart, and while Russell needed multiple preseason games before he took over the starting job, Smith is already making a case for himself in the first week of minicamp. That is not to say that Smith is necessarily better than Russell. However, it is evidence that Smith may be more ahead of Sanchez than Russell was ahead of Flynn. "
What? He was high second round pick you don't give up on him after one season unless he totally sucks. From all indications that is not the case the only way you draft a Qb in the first round next year if an Andrew Luck type player falls into your lap. The coaches will see plenty of Geno to be able to asses him without him stepping a foot on the field this season. If we end up drafting another QB next year in the first round we need to question Idzik and will be a mark against him as a GM.
My point being, Junc my man, is that until I see a credible story that says Rex Ryan or Marty M. has said who is starting I'll just chalk it up to the various reporters and their meandering wanderings trying to "perk" up a useless story. :breakdance:
We will see a million useless stories from now until they name the starter. It's so silly to evaluate based on reporter tweets from minicamp. I think it's Geno's job to lose, if he is ready they will start him(unless Sanchez looks so good they don't have a choice but to start him) and we won't really begin to see if he is ready until preseason.
I don't care who is ahead of whom at this point--I just like reading that Geno has some serious arm talent. _
Yup....you got that right my man. I worry, to be honest, about Geno's ability to absorb the offense in time but we shall see. You want to know what will REALLY piss me off, though? What IF Sanchez comes out on fire? What if the competition is what he needed all along to get his ass going? IF we could have had a decent QB if only he had some prodding... At the pro level I know it shouldn't take that but everyone is different. I'd REALLY be pissed then!!
