Mark Sanchez has 2306 yards, 15 TDs and 7 ints. He is completing over 55% of his passes and has a QB rating of around 83. Here are Marks ints on nfl.com Int vs. Texans Int vs. Browns int vs. Lions 2nd int vs. Packers 1st int vs. Packers 2nd int vs. Broncos 1st int vs. Broncos Here is the interesting part of his ints. Four out of seven ints were either tipped, snatched away, or possibly designed play. We all know the ints vs. Packers were somewhat bogus calls with the defenders snatching away the ball from the receivers. The int vs. the Texans wasn't exactly tipped, but the defender got to Mark Sanchez just as he was about to deliver the ball, that forced an lob for the defender to intercept. The fourth interception is the one against the Browns where Sanchez slings it down the field on 3rd and 14 in hopes of getting a deep completion or defensive PI. Some argue that it was possibly a designed play where the defender had a chance to intercept at the 1 yard line rather than trying to attempt a punt and landing it with in the 5 yard line on the following play. People say Mark has been extremely lucky. We can say just about the opposite in his defense. Also, those stats don't reflect the easy dropped passes. Against the Packers and the Vikings, Jets had as many as 15 dropped passes. Although every team has those dropped passes, that is an unusually high number for two games. Stats also don't show that Sanchez has already lead this team to FOUR game winning drives in the last FIVE games including two OT. We all knew Sanchez had a very high ceiling. I don't think he is even close to that ceiling with just around 40 games experience in the college and NFL combined. Most QBs come with an impressive 30+ game resume from college. Sanchez had 15 games I believe. On a side note, people are claiming that Green Bay was the one that produced the blue print to stop our offense. I would argue Denver was the one who tried its level best to contain the Jets run game, thus forcing Sanchez to beat them in the air.
bottom line is he's not hitting enough of his passes. The Completion percentage has to be over 60%, PERIOD. And I'm a sanchez fan. Otherwise it just looks sloppy.
You can have an 75% completion percentage if you check it down everytime. And let's not forget about the dropped passes.
I'm not concerned about the INT number as much as I'm concerned about the DUMB INT number. Of his 20 picks last year I'd say 15 fell into that category (bad reads, forced throw, etc.) Of his 7 picks this year I count 2 (the first Denver pick and the Lions pick, which was actually a blessing in disguise) in that category. Manning's got 7 as well, and I count four mentals, three physicals. Picks happen, but mental picks are the killers, and he's made strides in that department far beyond what I thought a 2nd year QB could pull off.
I'm with 624 here. For now 55% is Fine. He's throwing more balls away then trying to squeeze them in. He's also missing on shots deep down feild. He has had some awful games for accuracy, but over all he's been much better this year. To expect any QB to be playing at probowl levels in season two is asking too much. Chad Henne is completing almost 64% of his passes, would you rather have him leading our team? Perhaps Shaun Hills 61% works for you? Perhaps you long for Favre's 60%? One stat does not tell the entire story.
If your completion % is 25 and it's 100% with 49 seconds to go and the game on the line I'll take it.
Comp % is very overrated, sure we'd like it to be a little higher and it will be in time but he throws the ball alot downfield which will lowere a comp % and he has had a ton of drops. More important to me is when it's winning time he steps up. There are 20 guys w/ better comp %s than mark this year, there are MAYBE 5-6 QBs that have played better than him this year.
Agree'd it does need to go up but the drops he's had to deal with kill him as well.. Keller had a terrible drop this past sunday.. i was shaking my head like wtf?..
Getting hit square in the facemask doesn't qualify as a drop. It was brutal though.. I'm happy to see Sanchez hit his passes so well late in the game when everything's on the line, but if he ever starts hitting Edwards and Santonio on the bombs earlier in the game, it will change everything. Up till now, way too many haven't even been close when they were wide open..
Sanchez is taking HUGE strides. Once his completion % improves, which it will with experience, he's going to be one of the best QBs in the game (he almost already is). And as a Jets fan, that's amazing
What really intrigues me about Mark's INT numbers thus far, is that 28 pro games he's played.....4 straight up implossions, vastly skew his overall numbers. In the four games his rookie season in which he completely melted down (all loses).....he thew 2 TD's and 15 INT's......if you acknowledge those brutal performances, but recognize them as the growing pains of a rookie QB that had only 16 college starts under his belt, his 20 INT's don't register as being as terrible overall (I'd take one 10 INT game over five 2 INT games for intance.).....in other words his large INT total wasn't the result of consistently bad throws, so much as a concentration of grotesque play in 4 specific contests. The other 24 games of his professional career?....he's 18-6, with 29 TD's, and only 14 INT's.... Most importantly......he's now gone 15 straight starts without throwing more than two INT's.
I don't think the Lions pick was necessarily dumb, it was just a bad throw. Holmes was open, he just underthew it. The two Denver picks were bad plays, the first pick was inexplicable the second he stared down Keller and the DB jumped it for an easy pick.
