PFT Tannenbaum: Sanchez didn’t improve enough in 2011 Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on February 25, 2012, 12:00 PM EST The Jets won’t rule out going after Peyton Manning, in part because Mark Sanchez has a lot of improving left to do. I spoke with Jets G.M. Mike Tannenbaum at the Combine for NBC SportsTalk Thursday and asked whether Sanchez improved enough in 2011. “Not enough,” Tannenbaum said. “Not consistently. The great thing abut Mark is he’d be the first one to tell you that. . . . His rate of improvement has to keep going and get better, but we’re excited about his work ethic and his commitment.” We also talked about whether the Jets will be a softer, quieter organization in 2012 without any guarantees. (Somehow we doubt it.)
Some more interesting Jets tidbits I found from the Combine: "The operative word for the New York Jets veterans presently partaking in off season training is “speed”. We here Jets linebackers and offensive linemen have been instructed to drop weight in the off season as Rex Ryan wants a leaner, swifter squad for next season." "Why was the Jets offensive line so bad last year and why did so many players underachieve? I was told part of the problem is the playbook was so thick and the blocking schemes so complicated many of the offensive lineman were over thinking all season." http://www.draftinsider.net/blog/?p=6165
What does that have to do with Speed training ? Thats just another Hate on Schotty gotta laugh! Lol. I hope we have a Consuming defense and a OL of 09 ( Wishful thinking )
They were two separate notes from the combine. They are unrelated in the article, two different bullet points.
The team speed needs to improve greatly so I really do like this move. Our LBs need to be much faster (cough...cough....Bart...cough...cough)
It's completely disingenuous for Tannenbaum to say this about Sanchez when he was the man responsible for putting an undermanned OL and a corps of slow, separation-shy receivers on the field with Mark. Very unfair and unnecessary.
if you look at the loaded question that was posed "did mark sanchez progress enough in 2011?" he really didnt have any answer he could give other than "no" and he does go on to back him. its pretty much what you would expect from PFT (the most sensationalist (and worst) mainstream site there is IMO) a much better/fairer question would have been "what did you think of Mark's progression last season?" but PFT thrives off drama
One can guess Tannebaum did not just accidentally make that statement. He is sending a message. The question is what was his purpose? Was it to motivate Sanchez? Put Sanchez on notice that the coddling is over and he better grow up? Was it a message to the rest of team that Sanchez will no longer be treated differently? Was it a negotiation ploy for a request for taking a paycut? Or is he preparing Jet fans for a change in QBs either this offseason or sometime during the season if Sanchez continues to play as poorly as he has?
maybe they have realized that telling the kid how great he is and how he will be great isnt working out quite how they wanted so now they are going to be honest with him?
The Jets higher ups seem to talk out of both sides of their mouth regarding Sanchez. They say he will be star, point to how he won in the playoffs, etc, then they say something like this publicly. If the Jets pursue Manning (which I think they will) and it gets out, what does that do to Sanchez confidence? For that matter, some people on the team seem unsure of him already. That will surely hurt him further in the eyes of some. The Jets need to proceed with caution on this.
Even so, I'd have expected Mike to say something like "You know, we all have to work harder to improve and it starts with me and with Rex."
If the Jets pursue Manning in a public way that gets out Sanchez is done with the team. Not sure how it will devolve from there but if you think Sanchez had trouble with that locker room last season just imagine what it will be like if everybody in the room knows the Jets tried to replace him and failed? He winds up somewhere else in a hurry in that scenario because Tanny will be trying so hard to push the mess he created under the rug that he won't be thinking rationally at that point.
I don't think anything happens. Sanchez won't be angry, he'll understand that Manning's one of the best in the game, just like how Cromartie was fine even though they talked to Nmandi first. You can't blame them for looking at options, and any player that is affected by petty nonsense like that shouldn't be on our team in the first place.
What a complete douchebag, full of shit. Hey, genius. YOU stunted the growth of Sanchez by playing musical chair with WRs every fucking year and forcing that mutant shit on Jets offense for the past half decade. Now that's the fault of Sanchez? Are you high?
