I voted for Sanchez. Our record might have been better around this time back in 09 but that was not because of Sanchez. If we had average QB play for those 09-10 seasons, I'm convinced we'd have at least 1 SB. If I had to rank all 4 from least hopeful to most, I would go Sanchez, Geno, Zach, Darnold.
Sanchez was a sad story. People forget that he had 21 TD passes and 11 Int's going into week 14 in 2011. He was headed for the franchise record for TD's by a QB with 21 throws and 5 runs. What went wrong at the end? Well he got brutalized a couple of weeks before that in Denver when the hole at RT gave way against Von Miller. Seriously bruised ribs off of that and they kept getting hit again. Santonio Holmes turned into alligator arms on one pick in the Philly game and literally handed the ball to a defensive player on another when he bobbled a catch. Then there was his fumble in that game as the Jets got mauled. Then in the game that started the Giants SB run Holmes vanished and Sanchez got sacked 5 times and hit a half dozen more. Basically the Jets withdrew their support to Sanchez at exactly the wrong time and he collapsed in the process.
Totally agree but of the 4 mentioned in the OP, he was by far the one that I had the least optimistic outlook on after Year 1.
I was good on him the first two years. Very disappointed in the first two-thirds of his rookie year but he came through in the playoffs. The loss in the 2009 AFC Championship game was not on him. It was on Rex's scheme breaking down in the second half when Peyton Manning had the epiphany that if the Jets blitzed DB's he just had to throw the ball at anybody not covered by Darrelle Revis and he was good. The loss in the 2010 AFC Championship was because the Jets weren't facing Peyton Manning's spread passing attack. They were facing ground and pound instead and they had no answer to that, having prioritized CB's in the draft and free agency because they thought they were going to have to cover 4 guys on every down. The days of Kris Jenkins in the middle for the Jets were long gone also and their defense was unable to contain the Steelers on the day.
I think this thread should've been titled: "Which recent rookie QB with the initials ZW and who played for a major Mormon college in Utah disappointed most in his first year?" Hmmmm. Let me think...can I get back to you on that? Silly thread and I'm kicking myself for having spent any time reading it.
It's not like there aren't plenty of other "shit on Wilson" threads, right? Nothing like reading the same shit over and over.
You can't make a forum titled Let's Shit on Zach because it would draw all the traffic on the board outside of Jay's Weather thread. The elephant in the room is Zach Wilson's performance this season. There's nothing else that really mattered to the 2021 Jets as much as that and he has let us down big time.
As long as no one mentions the defense... the entire defense. The one that's ranked at or near the bottom in every statistical measure. You know... that one...
Yeah to be honest as disappointed as I am in Zach, and as worried as I was pre-draft and pre-season how bad it would be for this team if he didn't pan out, I have to say the performance of the defense this year has been what has really drained my soul of all hope and enthusiasm. I get they have had really bad losses to injury but still.... holy crap. Especially after spending pretty much every premium pick for the last who knows how many years on defense AND hiring the hottest young defensive expert coach out there. Its like... if they are that helpless under those circumstances what the hell does anything even matter anymore anyway.
There's no elephant in the room on this forum because I don't see any sacred or off limits subject that are the glaring weakness. Everyone is talking about Zach, the Dline, Assuck Davis and all the other ugly spots. If there is really an elephant, it is probably ownership because it's not a football element on a football team, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Cone on guys. Our defense is ranked 32 and so is our QB. I'd call that a consistent and balanced team.
I had kinda expected bad defense going in, with our cornerback situation being what it is. The sadness is centered around the fact that what I thought would be solid has turned out to infact be record breakingly terrible.
Yeah bullseye GG. My thoughts exactly. We pretty much all expected our secondary to be somewhere between weak and an outright disaster. And then to their credit those kids have pretty much all come through and been pretty much stalwarts vs. what I expected. And then to have that happen and the whole defense as a package be not just bad, but historically bad.... I mean.... how can that even be true?
