SackElroy is responsible for a lot of those sacks. When you're not confident in your arm strength to fit the ball into tight windows against the speed of an NFL defense you get what we saw out of SackElroy that day. A scared QB who holds the ball too long waiting for someone to come wide open - which doesn't happen a lot in the NFL. He just doesn't seem to have the physical skills. If he did you'd think Rex and Morningwood would be giving him a fair shot. They're in it to win afterall.
If McElroy had the skills to play QB in the NFL he would have been starting last year along about the bye week.
Geno is starting to win people over. The last poll from before training camp had Sanchez favored about 60-40 to win the job. Now Geno's up 70-20! Huge turn around. Geno hasn't even been all that great. He's hanging with 4 year vet straight out of college. That would seem to indicate more upside to Geno. I do believe it will boil down to turnovers. I can't wait to see a live game. I've got the itch!!! Must have football!!!
Its a poll, thats all. Out of those that voted, most I believe have voted with their heart, not their head. When Sanchez starts, this board will go into melt down. Everything thats happening with this QB battle can only benefit the team.
Sanchez is gonna start on friday, with Smith getting his own first team reps as well. no surprise really, and it doesn't mean that much in the grand scheme. how they both play most certainly will.
Today, Sanchez is the better player. Its not even close. Mayock, reported that after attending camp, he thinks Tayvon Austin is the most explosive player hes ever seen. 1/3 of Genos college offense...check it to Tayvon. And Sanchez still had a higher rating and more ypa, though...marginally. Smith IS talented. But Polished...not yet.
bullshit. its absolutely close, annoyingly so really. how could you believe its not? if it was that far and away then this would be over.
I'm not so sure of that. The fact that so many people picked Sanchez at first, shows they ARE voting with their heads, not hearts. He was the obvious logical choice because of his post season experience and experience with WCO. The polls have changed because Geno is actually hanging with Mark and showing some promise.
As bad as Mcelroy played in that game, his QB rating for that game was higher then Sanchez's year long QB rating.
:lol: now THAT is dog-shit (and irrelevant) I thought Mark was left for dead after the Green and White Scrimmage (despite the TD pass) - Mark has shown some resiliency - I'm glad he has. I keep switching back and forth between Mark and Geno. Friday should be a good indicator.
The problem is that the sample is too small to draw a conclusion. You could reasonably make a point that 11 sacks were not representative because OL was showing their dislike. As well you could say that higher rating was just one game and thus can't be extrapolated reliably.
The conclusion that you can draw is that if a QB who got sacked 11 times in his only start still had a higher QB rating then the season long QB rating of your starter, is your starter sucks.
You don't need that one game to draw this conclusion. Just look at the season and "Sanchez sucks" becomes obvious. But this was the last season. Now the question is who gets starting job now and McElroy is not the one.
Out of curiosity, what possible logical justification could you have for making such a definitive statement? What (even remotely) substantial piece of evidence or reasoning could you have at your disposal that would support this seemingly baseless assertion? Before you answer, try to pretend that your aren't a delusional Sanchez homer for a good five minutes. You never know, if you try hard enough, you just might actually make sense.
I've seen him play enough to determine he doesn't have a single physical trait that makes him a starting NFL QB. I've seen a couple people on this site suggesting we could possibly get trade value for him which is beyond ridiculous IMO. He can't even compete with Sanchez who isn't worth a bag of used balls in trade value. People become enamored with the 3rd string guy when he beats up on special teamers and future insurance salesmen because they don't like options 1 or 2 vs NFL caliber players.
I don't know if it's McElroy's lack of physical traits that matters...I can point to a whole lot of QB's out there, some Hall of Famers, that didn't have what McElroy has. Joe Montana, Jeff Garcia, Doug Flutie to name a few. The kid won in college at a PREMIER program without Tim Tebow like physical traits. That has got to count for something. But, you guys are right about one thing. Morningwood and Sexy Rexy are definitely in it to win it. But, I can tell you from personal experience; I've personally seen coaches become so enamored with a player(s) that others are most definitely forgotten. Happens every year and in every camp. I guess we'll see... McElroy will be around. No way Simms beats him for the 3rd gig.
