we have the worst starting qb in football, a 2nd round rookie who has never played in an nfl offense, and a career 2nd-3rd stringer. how anyone is not worried about that is beyond me. there are maybe 1 or 2 teams with a worse outlook at qb
And Kurt, what I think we have here, is Pre Jets Vinny, turning into Jets Vinny.... He made a really bad decision to chuck it, without seeing the target, But all 3 qBs finished with over a 90 rating. We have an OC.
We have Skelton, Gabbert,Henne,Romo,Jackson, quinn,fitzpatrick....as Starters at the position? That a short list of last years starters, worse than Sanchez.
totally agree seen nothing last night ,Sanchez standard ,Geno ankle ,Mc was ok ,the O line was shyte ,hope im wrong but think we will be looking at next season after about 8 weeks of this season :sad:
If the situation isn't as bad as last year it will be because of Marty, not anything #6 does. And I certainly love the optimism here lately, one guy wasn't worried at all about our RB corps when the 2 big acquisitions haven't sniffed the field, and one of the 2 hasn't been seen period. And after last night's performance I can't for the life of me figure out how somebody isn't be worried about our QB situation either...
I am not worried. I have no worry whatsoever that the Jets will screw this up and Mark will start the whole or most of the year further solidifying how much he sucks while Geno gets little real experience.
Comparing testaverte to sanchez is a horrible comparison. they couldnt be further apart as far as who they are/were as players. Testaverte was a guy who go into trouble because his ego was huge and he thought he could fit the ball into any window because of his arm strength. thus, he had tons of interceptions deep down the field. sanchez turnovers come from a complete lack of understanding of coverages, and a refusal to take a negative play, a sack, or throw the ball away. id be a hell of a lot more ok with sanchez turnovers if they came taking deep shots down the field instead of throwing the ball to defenders when the play is clearly busted
henne, romo, jackson and fitzpartrick are all MUCH better then sanchez. skelton and quinn are about the same as sanchez, and not really starters so much as injury replacements. im not ready to say gabbert is worse either, he is about the same, just in a worse position. sanchez played the QB as bad as it can be played last year, and wasnt just the worst starting QB in football, he was the worst starting PLAYER in football last year. especially when you look at it situationally, and how many game losing plays he had. no player hurt their team more then sanchez did last season. it was one of the 3 worst seasons as far as negative impact ive seen in my lifetime
You can never put too much stock into a preseason game (especially the first preseason game) and I'm 100% in favor of starting a rookie in Geno Smith but when in regards to Sanchez, he may be pretty developed heading into his 5th season. He's won, he's lost bad, he's made lots of mistakes and he's earned/gained experience over the years. Sanchez may have thrown a pick 6 on a screen play (and almost another one on another screen pass) but his down field passing was crisp, accurate and on the money. Am I worried about our QB situation? Yes. Sanchez has struggled bad over the previous two years and Geno's only a rookie. Only time will tell. In regards to our run game, if we can have Ivory and Goodson ready I'm confident in our run game with either of Powell/McKnight as our 3rd RB. We have some weapons on offense (for our QB) too. Hill, Edwards, Kerley, Winslow Jr., Cumberland and Holmes (upon return). With an actual offensive coordinator I'm excited for this offense regardless of which QB gets the nod.
Hell, Mark didn't even try to tackle the player who intercepted him. No big deal for the hairband. I am worried about our QB situation.
The only name that should even remotely be attached there is Testaverde, who basically had two or three good years out of a 20 year career. Your talking about a QB who was basically mark Sanchez with a cannon arm for most of his career, mediocre who basically had a 1 to 1 interception to TD ratio. Tarkenton played in the non pass friendly era of the NFL and for a long time held several positive passing records and threw 80 more td's than picks, despite playing in a very unfriendly passing league at the time. Brett also threw far more TD's than interceptions, 170 or so more, threw a lot more often and deep a lot more often than Sanchez could ever dream of. He also put up yardage and is a record holder in a number of categories. Sanchez's name does not belong anywhere near those two players names. Not even close.
You always go too far. Skelton, sure. As Cardinals fans we could make an argument while Fitz is there, that team offensively is weak and Skelton had to come in a rush because Kolb cannot stay healthy leaving him little time to practice with the 1s. Gabbert, maybe. If we were Jaguars fans we could probably argue never being put in a position to succeed and being younger than Sanchez. We could argue that he does a much better job protecting the ball than Sanchez even as a rookie. Henne, agreed. No argument here, why would I argue in favor of a Phin? :grin: Romo, this is where you push too far and look ridiculous. I would take Romo over Sanchez easily, because he provides the TDs and scores with the bonehead plays unlike Sanchez. The kids been in the league and has had one losing season and season where his team went 13-3 if you credit wins to QBs. The man has never had a negative or even TD to INT ratio in a season and has never thrown under 60% in a season. And if "clutch", is your thing, guess who had 5 4QC last year and had the 6th highest passer rating in the NFL in 4th quarters last year. This is where you push too far, Romo over Sanchez easily. Jackson, eh sure. He didn't play last year. Quinn, yep, but as Sanchez, could be argued he was never given a fair shot, different OCs, no offensive talent, no team behind him. But it's a much better example than Romo lol. Fitzpatrick, a Bill, not going to argue for one of them
The running game always takes a while to get going. Even in the years we had a top flight rushing attack (i.e., 08, 09 & 10), it took 4 to 6 games into the regular season before it was consistently effective. It may take a bit longer this year given the fact we have new running backs and scheme.
This is the hope, but Alex Smith has also never thrown over 20 TDs in a season. So it would be a step up from last year if could protect the ball, it would still be an overall disappointment if we couldn't rely on Sanchez to be the strength of the team. Right now though, we are all running on hope. We all hope we get a great QB out of this, we don't know if we can
