I went over the game again today (very tough watching it all), and here is what I found: 9 passes that were dropped by Jets receivers/TE About 6-7 similarly TOUGH catches caught by the Steelers 4 PI calls against the Steelers. Out of the 9 dropped catches, 6 drives were killed. Out of the 9 dropped catches, Kerley, Hill, and Cumberland had one each. Holmes had 6 catchable drops. Two resulted in PI. Those 9 dropped catches were about 130 yards down the field from LoS. Hill had a drop that would have been almost 50 yards down the field and possibly a TD. The other 8 averaged about 10 yards a catch, some going deeper while some were short passes. Sanchez finished with 10/27 for 138 yards. If our players make those catchable passes, he would have been 19 out of 29 for over 250 yards, 2 TD (QB rating 115.6). There were two other PI calls that would have changed his figures to 21/31 for almost 300 yards, 2 TDs (QB Rating 120.4). Even if our receivers make six out of those 9 catches including the one to Hills, Sanchez would have been 16/27 for 220 yards, 2 TDs (QB Rating 110.10). Its not all gloom and doom.
I can't help but wonder how successful Sanchez would be if he had one of the following: Roddy/Julio/Turner or Austin/Bryant/Murray, Megatron, Andre Johnson/Arian Foster, Ray Rice. The guy makes plays, albeit infrequently, with an average squad. I think the lack of talent around him hurts him more than anyone else cares to admit.
Now I'm juts curious but the play where Cumberland didn't turn around on 3rd down did you atrribute that to Sanchez or Cumberland running a bad route?
Add in the fact that Sanchez would have obviously had more yards/TDs since 6 of them were drive killers, and the blame is hard to put on him.
Every QB has dropped passes, you can't go back and play this what if game. Holmes was brutal yesterday though.
sanchez was more accurate then the stats suggest.anyone who watched knows this. that said this game is won by playmakers and yesterday we had none.
It's not necessarily playing the "what if" game, it's more to show that Sanchez was not the issue yesterday. Many are quick to blame him for the loss, but the stats show the reality. He made the throws. The receivers didn't catch them
Well said but you can't consider the Hill play a drop. That's a jump ball hoping your guy makes a play. Good call and worth the deep shot but over time and with more experience Hill will win his share of those battles but not on this day. Wallace won his vs. Cro because Cro never got a hand on Wallace. Hill actually had to battle his defender.
can you expand on this,i can't seem to see where mark was a big part. the only thing that stands out was missing holmes in the e.z. what else did you see
Cro lost the battle because he didn't realize what was going before Wallace was coming down with the ball. In fact, it looked as if he was going to run straight through the back of the end zone into the locker room. Crazy...
He was sailing balls, playing with happy feet, wasn't really throwing receivers open. I should rewatch because I was heavily self medicated but I don't think he played well. The receivers need to play better, particularly Holmes, but so does Sanchez. I'd be very interested in hearing what the all 22 looked like this week.
Giving Holmes that big contract was a HUGE mistake by Tanny. It put all of our eggs in one basket with a guy whose a bad teammate and a small average wideout.
Sanchez was part of the problem, but definitely not all of it. He had a lot of overthrows late in the game. You can tell accuracy became an issue. There were also way too many drops, so double whammy. A lot of the drops were the result of good coverage by the Steelers, though, they weren't exactly easy catches. Cumberland and Sanchez had a miscommunication somewhere on that play. Holmes was pretty well covered most of the game, he just didn't make the difficult plays.
I'm not about to make excuses for Sanchez but he was less to do with the problems than the receivers were. The whole offense knew the blitz was coming - even a moron like myself knew this - and he didn't bother to turn around for a quick catch. You know before Mangold snapped the ball that That was gonna be a pitch n catch play. Cumberbun was looking to drive down to the 10 yard line before turning around. All on him.
