Pete Schrager Rocks!!!

okay, pete.

 

adouchebagsayswhat?

 

he heard a caller say that??

since when should callers be taken seriously?

90% of those people know nothing about the sport they love.

 

To be fair, anyone who says they'd take Sanchez over Brady right now is pretty insane. Brady's a future hall-of-famer and probably the best QB in the NFL, while Sanchez has started 2 games. However, the way he generalizes one caller on WFAN to "the world of Jets fans" is even more ludicrous and insulting.

 

and what of the other callers?
oh that's right, he'd rather not talk of good calls or anything but hold on to the 1 caller who heaven forbid has a difference of opinion and just berate him for it.

Would I have said it? NO but that doesn't mean that another person can't have an opinion.
He could have just moved along but instead chose to make a grand spectacle of it...oh but that's right,
This is the media and this is what they do...

Fuk that prik, that's my opinion

 

I'd take Sanchez over Brady right now. A knee is a knee and a knee on a 30+ QB is a KNEE.

Brady might be better over the next season or two, although based on what we've seen so far I doubt it.

In 1992 would you have taken Brett Favre or Jim Kelly? Marino was 31 that year and mostly past it. Steve Young had a couple more really good seasons in him. John Elway had a couple more also. Basically you get out to 31 or 32 and the odds are pretty stacked in the favor of the good young guy if he's really good. Because he's coming into his prime years just as the 31-32 is exiting his.

 

its the cycle of life in the NFL.

 

Sanchez over Brady, at this point, is a laughable statement and his reaction to it is justified. Some Jets fans are just incredibly extreme in their thinking and embarass the rest of us coherent in the fan base. His prediction on the game is absurd though, I see us winning a close game.

 

I hate when we just overwhelmingly blast a writer because he writes something bad about our team but this guy is pretty absurd. If you are going to trash Jets fans think of another way to do it rather than pulling one call from 660 and acting like that is the prototypical fan. As far as his prediction, he is an "expert" and can say whatever he wants and we can disagree with him. These experts can't pick games any better than the average informed sports fan anyway.

 

There are very few 30+ QB's that are worth more than the 22 to 24 year old guys that look like they'll take the next step up. Actually look at the young QB's over the last 15 years who people thought were going to be good and who were performing in a way that backed that up. Very few of the young guys weren't worth more than the aging superstars that looked like a no-brainer. Throw in a major injury and it's really no contest.

Tom Brady is likely to play for another 5 seasons or so. He's somewhat unlikely, bordering on very unlikely, to get back to his peak performance during that time. He'll likely always be good - but the great Tom Brady years are in the past.

Peyton Manning will likely play for 3 more years. He's 33 now and that's an age where players really begin to get more fragile. His 3 years could well be amazing years. If he had a post-surgical knee I'd take Sanchez over him in a heartbeat just because of the potential difference. He doesn't so I'd still much prefer to have him for the next 3 years. He'll be 36 and close to retirement when Sanchez is 26 and just entering his prime.

I'd have taken Brett Favre over Dan Marino, Jim Kelly and John Elway after 1992. I'd probably have taken him over Steve Young, although Young was so amazing at all facets of the game that it would have been a really hard call. The chance that Favre would get hurt was real, but there was a better chance that the 30-somethings would go down and never be the same.

Tom Brady stood up to a lot of hits until he hit 30. Then right after he crossed that line he became human and the odds caught up to him. Going back to demigod is unlikely. Sanchez getting to that level in a few years is not though.

 

I love what I see in Sanchez. But it's been 2 games. Brady has 3 Super Bowls.... Are we actually debating this? I believe Sanchez will take us to the next level, I believe he WILL be the franchise. But at this point, on September 23, 2009?

 

One thing the media loves doing is generalizing Jets fans. The is the second example on this board from Wednesday alone. Douche is probably still redfaced over his 0-5 prediction.

 

The NFL is about what you will do next Sunday, not about what you did years ago before you were hurt.

Yeah, I think it's very much up for debate. Would you rather have had Peyton Manning in 1998 or Troy Aikman?

 

Exactly. In 1999, Kurt Warner looked like the best QB I had seen in a long, long time. I would have picked him over anyone. Then he had that injury and he was never the same again. So far, Tom Brady doesn't look anywhere near the same player we saw before his knee was turned into spaghetti.

 

The Patriots are going to need to construct a fortress for Brady to throw from before he has any real chance to recover his previous form. They took risks with his protection before and relied on his extraordinary ability to read the play and deliver quickly to smooth things over. Now that he has had the knee they need to give him really solid protection or he's going to have trouble with pressure.

Don't get me wrong here, I think Brady is an excellent QB but I also think that time and wear and tear have a strong tendency to level all things and he's getting leveled some now. Young stars are much more resilient than older guys past 30. You really have the period from 22 or 23 to 30 to make most of the contribution you are going to make. After that you're relying on experience to compensate for the physical attributes you are losing at a rapid pace. In the case of standing up to pressure experience doesn't mean as much as the ability to move around effectively and deliver the ball quickly and accurately.

Joe Namath was just as good after the knee injuries at throwing the ball as he was before them. He was just much worse at getting to the point that he could throw.

 

obviously none of you have read schrager. he's great. tongue-in-cheek. my god, this whole board is so fucking defensive.