A bust is gauged against expectations. Sancho was a reach. After the Farve era, people were ready for a franchise player to carry the team. All in all...Sanchez couldn't lift the team. Whatevs... Can we tail about Richard Todd?...now his name sounds like moron....right Hackenberg?
There's probably a mathematical answer to this question derived at by determining how many NFL starts the average top ten draftee has gotten in the past ten years. Maybe all top ten picks, maybe only QB's. I have a feeling Sanchez will fall short of either number. Bust.
The fact that this thread has produced anybody saying he WASN’T a bust is a little troubling to me. 5 overall QB and he lasted 4 years on the team. Huuuge bust. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sanchez was a reach, but he was going to be a reach for any team that year. The 2009 draft was extremely thin on QBs, but there were quite a few teams, including the Jets, that needed one, so they were going to draft any one of them way higher than their talent warranted. Even Matt Stafford, though he's kept his starting spot for 11 years and has shown flashes of greatness, has not exactly turned the Lions around; hardly a 1st overall pick talent. Any other year, he would probably have been a late 1st rounder. I don't think Sanchez would have been drafted before the 2nd round had there been more QBs in the 2008 draft. It's hard to call Sanchez a complete bust, because #1, there wasn't much hype around him; nobody was calling him the next great QB, and there were a lot of questions surrounding him and his readiness for the NFL. At the time of the draft, it seemed like the consensus was that Sanchez either should have stayed in school another year, or should sit on the bench for a few years and learn behind a veteran. Also, he did help lead the team to two straight winning seasons his first two years, as well as two AFC Championships. He played very well at times during the season, and had excellent playoff games, even the ones they lost. Also, while he bears a very large amount of the blame for his failures on the field, it didn't help that Tannenbaum was doing all these short term, low risk, potentially high reward free agent signings, and he kept destroying and rebuilding the team every damn year, making it impossible for team cohesion. On top of that, he was coached by a coaching staff that was so run heavy and conservative on offense, they pretty much didn't even consider the QB a vital position. So, I'd call Sanchez's career a "disappointment" or "lackluster" rather than a total bust.
Being number five is not a reach, it is a fact, conjecture after the fact changes nothing - you can't second guess a pick in order to make excuses for someone. A top five, or even top ten guy who does not succeed is a bust.
https://overthecap.com/player/mark-sanchez/1009/ If he's a bust, apparently the nfl enjoys paying it's busts very well. Give me a couple million to be the worst at anything for a year. No one would refuse that.
It depends how liberal you define bust. I take bust as a high pick who never made any tangible impact in the pros (Lam Jones, Vernon Gholston, Dwayne Robertson). Sanchez did, however briefly. I do think Sanchez was a dissapointment on the whole though. There's a difference between dissapointing and flat-out bust.
Schottenheimer completely ruined this kid, he was so awful as an OC. With a competent OC Sanchez would probably still be starting for the Jets but instead he's washed up
Didn't the Jets trade up to get Sanchez? That's a reach...especially because there were questions about his NFL readiness. And that's not "conjecture after the fact "...he was a question mark at #5...even back then.
Look, I want the guy to succeed as much as anyone. He always struck me as a decent person, maybe in over his head a bit. But he's had plenty of chances with other OCs since leaving the Jets and he's gotten progressively worse. I don't think we can lay the blame entirely at the feet of Schotty. I don't think Sanchez is a bust. He was a bad pick. Ryan Leaf was a bust. Tim Couch was a bust.
