There's no way the Jets get Manning and have Sanchez stay. They'd have to wiggle them both in under the cap and my guess is that Sanchez would rather strike a deal elsewhere. Even fitting them in under the cap temporarily to buy the Jets some time to find a Sanchez trade wouldn't work. If they gave Manning an incentive heavy contract full of "unlikely to be earned bonuses" they could do that but Manning isn't going to take that kind of deal. He's going to be looking for incentives he can easily reach if he can stay on the field.
QB is overrated imo. Eli puts up 19 against the Patriots and wins. Sanchez puts up 21 in Foxborough and loses. I dont believe Sanchez was the main problem last year. Poor headcoaching, no help at RT, sad run game, lazy recievers all combined in a mess. We need to get back to the ground and pound. There is nothing wrong with it, it can win you a championship I believe. Its not all about having that great QB.
Jake Delhomme went toe to toe w/ the best QB of this generation and nearly pulled out a SB win. I think mark's ceiling is higher than Delhomme but if not there's nothing wrong w/ a Delhomme at his peak.
I like the idea of Chad teaching Sanchez. I also like the idea of bringing in Chad Henne as a backup. Now that Sanchez signed an extension, it frees up some cap money.
What you want now is for the Jets to go get a real backup QB. A guy who is going to cost them $1.5 million on the cap and can come in and play without embarrassing himself or the Jets if Sanchez gets hurt. Ideally they draft somebody late as a developmental guy and let McElroy move up the food chain to the #2 slot this season. If not, and I know this will send shudders up a few spines, David Carr is free this off-season and he'd be a great signing as a #2 for the Jets.
I hope Chad is about to teach some him touch pass skills to Sanch. We all know he can chuck it but his short passes really need work.
Nice article there, thanks for posting it. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for those meetings.
It's good to see Sanchez showing some initiative. He has always been good with organizing offseason workouts I guess so I shouldn't be surprised he did this to get a jump on the new system. I think Pennington could help him a lot too. Any of his football knowledge he could pass along will be invaluable and chad knows how to handle adversity in new York. How many years did he have to read about how his arm wasn't strong enough.
Very poignant. I remember when Chad first got called on. Of course he had that head fake/juke touchdown that got us all excited but when you got down to it he could just really play. Off the charts intelligence and he just understood the game like nobody that I at least had ever seen wearing Green and White. It's a shame that injuries kept him from doing more of the things with us that he really could and should have accomplished. That's life though. I look at Sanchez as kind of the culmination of the change in structure that started sweeping over the Jets around the start of Pennington. A sense that there were going to be guys brought in that could get the job done. Some team pride and so forth. Of course they're very different quarterbacks, but the best thing that Mark Sanchez could possibly do for his game right now is absorb everything he possibly can from Chadwick Pennington. I can't tell you how many times I've been sitting in the stadium after a boneheaded throw or series and thought to myself, "if only there were some way to put Chad's head in this kid's body....it wouldn't even be fair". Unfortunately it'll never happen but I'd like to see as much as possible rub off on him at least. That Sanchez is smart enough to know all this and actively seeks it out speaks volumes about the kind of guy Mark Sanchez is and will become.
