ace i wasnt saying based on that game. i was basing it on everything i had seen including that game. i was still worried until a couple weeks ago. i am still a little scared about him throwing picks but i am confident that he can overcome them now. the thing that has really made me change my mind is all of the times in teh last month that he was dead to rights either chuck it up or take the sack and the guy has made plays from that position time and time again when all the cards are against him he has found a way. i have been really impressed with him.
Its amazing what a little scouting and confidence in your prospect can do. I just sat back and waited for what he's become to happen. Zero doubts the entire time.
Bruschi may be the only analyst on ESPN that will say what he really thinks and not tilt it towards Boston.
We're not booing, we're yelling BrUUUUUUUUUschi. No actually we ARE booing. Bruschi is a Pats homer, even when he admits he's wrong. He picks the Pats to win big on Monday, let's see if he admits he was wrong then too.
To win big? No team has won big on the Jets all year. The Pats losses have been by substantial margins, but I'm not using that as a basis to say the Jets are better, I just comparing losses and trends.
Sanchez scrambles a lot. The problem is he doesn't throw the ball away enough when he clearly has no target to throw to
I could've sworn I read about this on TGG a couple years back, but there was a former Pats employee who revealed a bunch about the personalities of the locker room. The 3 things that stood out to me were that Rodney harrison was cool as hell, Corey Dillon was a fucking miserable POS, and Bruschi was a royal douchebag. Just popped into my codeine-riddled brain as I read the title of this thread.
He predicted the Pats to win, not big. How shocking Tedy Bruschi picked a 9-2 team at home on Tedy Bruschi night to beat a 9-2 team. Not a big deal. Not picking the Jets doesn't make you a homer, he's been pretty pro-jets since he got that job.
yeah he gets it, which is a rarity on that network. Herman Edwards continues to embarrass former coaches turned analysts everywhere.
Bruschi has actually been a big fan of Rex and the Jets and I think his earlier comments were out of frustration for us playing miserable in Week 1. If you listened to his analysis at all during the playoffs last year he was a huge fan of the Jets and picked us to beat the Colts. He knows what he is talking about and even though I hated him on the field he is quite a respectable analyst who has been able to lend cred to ex jocks on the set.
I cringe every time he talks. It's just too embarrassing to handle. I don't get how some of these guys get jobs as "NFL Experts" There are probably 20-25 people on this board that could spew out better stuff than half those guys. Of course it's probably more likely that they do know more just say things to generate traffic. (ex: Skip Bayless_
Admitting to being wrong? It isn't difficult to do unless one's ego is bigger than truth. Bruschi did nothing more than project an NFL player incorrectly. Once the facts proved otherwise, he admitted he'd been wrong. Only fools hold onto incorrect opinions after they have been proven wrong. How many people though Kurt Warner was all washed up after he left the Giants? I was wrong about Sanchez too, and I started a thread about it last year, being very happy to have been wrong about Sanchez. I was quite pissed when it got merged, because I had been very vocal about my lack of faith in this guy. Anyone who can't admit to ever making a mistake or being wrong is a fool. We have a lot of fools who post here.
You should not make a judgment about a QB, until the end of their second going on third year. It is by far the most difficult position to play. A player like Bradford or Ryan, that does well out of the gate, is a rarity. I always liked Sanchez, so far he has significantly exceeded all my expectations, save for one area, completion percentage. It is still at least 5% too low. However, I am willing to forgive that because he does make a significant amount of lower percentage throws downfield. Also, there are so many examples of beautiful throws he makes that he places exactly where they should be, for example, the last 2 Houston throws. Sanchez is pretty much an elite athlete. Will that translate and he becomes an elite QB? I don't know. For sure, he has the work ethic and leadership skills to be elite. For example, what impressed me most about Sanchez during that Bungle game, was the puss on his face at the end of it. Even though the Jets won, Sanchez took it personally that he played like shit. He basically called himself out in public and challenged himself to never let that happen again. Last time Sanchez did that was against the Ravens. We all know how great he was the following game against the Pats................ Lets hope history repeats itself. BTW Bruschi has been a pretty good analyst. I have to give the guy credit, most would never admit they were wrong. WR for instance another incredibly difficult position to play in early in a career typically take 3 years to show how good they can be.
