Completely disagree. Sanchez never takes full responsibility for his bad play. Ot is always someone elses fault. We need to play better. We need to catch more passes. We need to block better. We need to play better football. When pressed he said I need to play better. He does not take more than marginal responsibility for his bad play. Watch real team leader QBs regardless of whether they play well or not they take the blame. Sanchez only makes excuses for his own play and deflects blame onto others. The way Sanchez handled the Tebow affair and the Geno affiar was also immature. Claiming I do not why they are bringing them here. Why this happened to me followed up by attacks that this is my job and I don't care. Then his juvenile passive aggressive attacks all summer designed to intimidate Geno that this is my job and if its a "fair" competition there is no way I can lose. The man is immature, insecure, unable to take criticism and unable to accept responsibility for his poor play.
Off topic but I actually saw Sanchez last night around midnight in front of a building I work by on University place and Waverly off Washington Square Park (I work security for NYU). He was bull shitting with a doorman and a few other guys for a minute before getting in a black SUV and driving off. Didn't hear him say anything particularly interesting. Doorman asked how his shoulder was and he said it was sore. Doorman brought up the Rex sideways presser and Sanchez said "yeah, what was that all about?" Was asked what he thought about McElroy and Sims and said, "I'll tell yah, Sims can really rip it". Didn't mention McElroy at all. He was wearing his green head band. One of the members of his group walked into the doorman building (residential). I asked the doorman who he was and he said he was some big shot at Hugo Boss. The Harrell news broke about a half an hour later. Seemed like a nice guy. Wasn't above chatting it up with a doorman.
Im not here to trash the kid..god knows he has his hands full but when I heard the clip of him defending his coach..hmmm..I didnt take it that way at all. "I just do what they tell me to do" kind of comments? To me..he looked pissed to be out there...he looked unhappy when he got hit the first time. He had the look of almost this was beneath him to be playing at that time. Now, with all due repsect, the kid is a cue card reading nice guy for the most part. I just didnt hear it the same way. Could be wrong. My son was driving with me..a huge Jet fan..and I looked at him and said "did that sound like he was defending his coach?" he laughed and said..not really. Again, could be wrong.
Let me just add something to that. Considering Rex entire career was hinging about 70%with Sanchez..and the loyalty Sanchez has received from him for the most part..something like "hey..you cant blame the coach..I had not played well this preseason and he was just trying to get me some reps anyhow..anyway" would have been defending his coach.
The bolded part. See, he thinks he is smarter than everyone else. He will knock his play with "I have to be better" "Yeah..that was a bad decision by me..I cant let the team down"...but its always followed up with how there were good things he has done. Like an open heart surgeon who gets em right 50% of the time saying "yeah Mr Smith got by me but Mr Allen is alive". He just has always had this sense of entitlement. Its like he is shocked when the Jets bring in a decent backup. He seems to be above a qb competition. Watching that 4th quarter..from the time he entered...he just seemed pissed to be out there..and its bullshit to think its because he feared for his safety. Any qb can decide to roll out and get his ass handed to him...and it was a dumb move by Rex..but in fairness, at that point, did anyone think to themselves "well...Sanchez is ready for game 1 and has looked very good so he does not need any more reps". What Rex should have done is gone by what WE ALL SAW. By halftime, Geno was not going to be the starting qb for the Jets game 1. That was a given..he should have started Sanchez in the second half and pulled everyone after 2 series.
If he leads us to a SB victory, Sanchez will own New York. Anything short of that and there are many who will view him as a piece of shit. Nothing he does, whether it's his play, his response to stupid questions, his hair, or his personal life, will ever be good enough. He will be considered a loser. That's what comes with being a QB in NY.
Sure he does. His play has been maddening. He shouldn't on videotaped dancing around naked with hot chicks (to this I say BFD - No one was hurt or even in danger). His hairband looks stupid (Brady??????). But criticizing him for making a team first, I'm not going to trash my coach comment is fucking stupid and typical of the idiocy that reigns around this team and this message board.
Damn we really expect perfection in all phases huh... Sanchez is a good dude, nice kid, always respectful. Too bad he sucks at QB.
There must be some real angry people in Jets land these days to nit pick about someone making 'cue card' statements in press conferences. If i was an employee, would I make snide off-the-wall comments about mt my boss knowing that he has the authority to impact my career in a negative way? This is just plain 'hate Sanchez no matter what he does or say' thread..
Whats really sad, is no one in the media pointing out how that is exactly like Kotite, getting Esiason killed, with Everett McIver.
is he a class act or is he thinking "well, I'm not going to throw my coach under the bus in fighting for a starting job and want to be marketable to other teams after this season." what on earth would it do for sanchez's already joke of a status to call out his head coach entering the regular season. sanchez would look like a giant pussy, no doubt about it. rex may well be the last guy on earth that has any semblance of a belief in mark.
More of a, "Sanchez sucks at football, and it doesn't matter what he says to reporters" thread. As far as I'm concerned Sanchez could smear himself with human feces and chase reporters around the room trying to bear hug them as long as he didn't suck on the field.
the way people process comments made to the media can be mind boggling. Like they expect the person to be honest. If you are in your office and your boss pisses you off, and someone asks you about it are you going to throw your boss under the bus? Not a chance, unless you really don't care if you lose your job.
