Tannenbaum | sanchez supporters

Let me say this right off the bat. I'm PRO-SANCHEZ. Face it - he's a successful QB despite the inept personnel management and OC he's had to deal with.

I see all the reactionary crap about Sanchez and it makes me sick. I'm not going to argue with you about:

1: The interceptions the last several weeks that were result of WRs not "receiving the ball".
2: The constant drops by TEs, WRs, and RBs.
3: Mangold's fumble at the goal line yesterday.
4: D'Brickashaw and Hunter getting eaten alive by JPP, Tuck, Babin and the rest of the Giants and Eagles.

So let me make this unequivocally clear:

The way this team has been constructed falls squarely on ONE GUY. And I love that guy bc he has balls of iron. He takes risks, and they often pan out. He has a different style in terms of drafting - like the Wild West - that leaves us a bit short on depth, but has landed us guys like Revis, Harris, Greene, Sanchez, McKnight, etc. and he is a cap-geek Wiz.

That said, the ONE MAN RESPONSIBLE for the way the team is constructed - and that includes in this case the fact that Schottenheimer was retained when Mangini was cast-off - THAT ONE MAN IS MIKE TANNENBAUM.

YOU PEOPLE are ridiculous for blaming and turning on Mark Sanchez. INSANE. This guy has had different WRs every year, a different starting RB every year. And an OL that was ALLOWED to disintegrate.

The situation for Sanchez this year is not like the situation the first two years.

We don't have a dominant defense.
We don't have a dominant running game.
We don't have a dominant OL - in either run or pass blocking.
We don't have a dominant outside threat at WR.
We don't have a TE that can catch and block, or two that can do either.

Sanchez has done what he has done despite having significantly degraded talent ALL AROUND HIM.

So, let me remind you. It was the decision making of MIKE TANNENBAUM that tooled our personnel.

This goes back to the problem at LG and Alan Faneca, if you all remember. This goes back to the ghost of Bill Bellichik and the hiring of his crony Mangini. And when he was toast, the hiring of Rex Ryan was the antithetical reaction to BB/Mangini.

This is the ghost of Brett Favre and Chad Pennington. This was Sanchez drafted #5 overall in an EPIC trade-up orchestrated by MIKE TANNENBAUM.

You have a problem with Sanchez? What, he's not growing up fast enough for you? Set enough records for you? Not won enough playoff games? You don't like his body language?

MIKE TANNENBAUM.

You love the trade up for Revis. But you hate Mark Sanchez. These are the wages of the game of poker, people. Tannenbaum is fawned over for the trade-up for Revis and Harris. But somehow, it is all Mark Sanchez's fault that the ENTIRE TEAM's PERSONNEL IS WORSE THAN the last two years?

MIKE TANNENBAUM.

People will see what they want to see. A QB that can't be protected can't complete a pass - but somehow it's Sanchez's fault when he gets sacked. A WR that doesn't catch the ball when it hits their hands, or bounces off their facemask - this is somehow now statistically an "interception" and an "incomplete pass". An All-pro Center that snaps the ball into his thigh is now somehow a QB miffed snap.

A QB that is getting destroyed by opponent pass rushes, and that OFTEN is coming off the field battered and limping or bent over. This isn't a QB that is tough, and an OL that JUST SUCKS, with WRs that can't get separation....

It's a franchise QB that let's himself get sacked, destroyed, immolated.

MIKE TANNENBAUM.

I'm on Sanchez's side. I'm on Mike Tannenbaum's side. There's risk in every game. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.

The challenge for us is one of measuring reaction. Being analytical, remembering the historical circumstances and the decisions that were made (and by whom, for what reasons?), and being analytical.

You put 2011 Mark Sanchez on the 2009 or 2010 Jets, and we have one or two division titles, one or two Superbowl appearances, one or two Vince Lombardis.

The difference is the cast around him He's not Tom Brady in the middle of his career. He's an early-to-emerging-career QB in a cannibalistic market.

MIKE TANNENBAUM.

 

i don't think the defense has been figured out. We have a soft spot in the middle - one of the worst groups of safeties in the league. and we lost one of our best run players in Bryan Thomas.

The defense has been pretty good but not nearly as good as the last two years.

i don't believe it is coaching. our coaches are super passionate about the game and their careers. i don't know if the same can be said for all the players.