Who is the All-Time SECOND Best Jets QB?

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Who is the All-Time SECOND Best Jets QB?

  1. Richard Todd

    0.8%
  2. Ken O'Brien

    37.8%
  3. Vinny Testaverde

    13.4%
  4. Chad Pennington

    44.1%
  5. Mark Sanchez

    3.9%
  1. HackettSuxTNG

    HackettSuxTNG Well-Known Member

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    The only way my argument is weaker than yours is if you think Cleveland was in a better situation with 2 downs remaining, 3rd and 24 on Cle 18, than the Jets were.

    Do you believe the Browns would be in a better situation than the Jets in that scenario?
     
  2. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    you were asking for facts, is it a fact that the Jets win if there is no penalty?
     
  3. HackettSuxTNG

    HackettSuxTNG Well-Known Member

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    If Gastineau does not rough the passer, the game is over. Period.
     
  4. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    I thought you only deal in facts? that is certainly not a fact.
     
  5. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    As big of a Namath fan that I am...

    Vinny, Sancho and Chadwick had better win percentages...all three on the good side of .500

    This is a fun topic...and a way to dissuade us from thinking about our current qb situation.

    I never imagined I'd miss Mark Sanchez.
     
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  6. rinvesto

    rinvesto Well-Known Member

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    Stats on O'Brien:

    2x Pro Bowler.
    85-Led NFL in Passer Rating
    Pass Completion percentage ranks in NFL:
    85-2nd
    86-2nd
    87-5th
    89-4th (against qbs named Montana, Marino, Elway etc)

    First QB to ever throw for over 400 yards in a game AND have a perfect QBR in that game, a record that stood for 27 years until Nick Foles duplicated it in 2013.

    And he never looked lost like Sanchez did for the multitude of his time here. And yes, he did throw a pretty ball
     
  7. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    all of that is awesome but ZERO playoff wins.

    2 time pro bowler is nice but his 2nd pro bowl was 1991 where he was about a 7th alternate. he led us to an 8-8 season and threw 10 TDs and 11 INTs- PRO BOWL!

    5th in comp % in '87 was nice but 6 wins sucked
    4th in comp % in '89 was nice but 4 wins sucked, also sucked watching him get benched for Kyle Mackey- I guess the comp % wasn't that impressive?

    Geno Smith had a perfect QB rating in a game too. he didn't throw for 400 yds but who cares? good games are good games but wins are what matters.

    he never looked lost? you clearly didn't watch Ken O'Brien. while his individual highs were better he looked lost as much, if not more than Mark throughout his career.

    LA Raiders opening week '85
    at Mia '86
    LA Rams '86
    SF '86
    Pitt '86
    Cin '86
    Cle playoffs '86

    just to name a few
     
  8. Endlessly Counting

    Endlessly Counting Well-Known Member

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    Chad was the best
    O'Brien was the best pure passer we had since Namath. Testaverde had the single best season, but O'Brien was better.
    I wouldn't kill O'Brien for the play-off losses, but think about this, if a healthy Chad is the QB in 82 AFC championshiop, any play-off game in 85/86 or even in 2010, do we maker it to the SB? I think the answer is yes. Chad would've been the perfect QB for Walton and Rex.
     
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    Endlessly Counting Well-Known Member

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    Absolutely...Cleveland was done. The penalty breathed life into the team, although we often overlook the underrrated PI penalty against Carl Howard that came shortly thereafter
     
  10. mezzavo

    mezzavo Well-Known Member

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    You and me BOTH brother!!

    Funny...you can have all the fancy stats and pretty passes etc...etc....etc....but at the END OF THE DAY the name of the NFL game is to WIN football games!!!!! WIN WIN WIN WIN

    I've read some pretty comical posts in this thread about Kenny O and others and it all boils down to one thing...WIN...which is something none of those fools did on any type of consistent basis period. I've seen some posts about if Kenny O et. al. were in this era they'd be on billboards right along side Idzik. Damn skippy! Those guys of the Jets in the 70's, 80's & 90's couldn't win to save their lives. Not until Vinny T. got here did the NY Jets field an actual winning formula. That carried through Chad & Sanchez. As a Jets fan in the 80's I would have KILLED for a winner like Mark Sanchez.

    The hilarity of it all is I don't care if those guys looked like the second coming of Thor...they couldn't win. The reality, which all these "hypothetical Harry's" would have you ignore, is Sanchez was the ONLY QB in Jets HISTORY to come close TWICE...and how did he do that...by hook or by crook...he WON! (not including Namath, of course)

    That's the bottom line chickadees...who were the winners. At final glance that is Vinny T., M. Sanchez and Chad P. The ONLY reason Namath has his name in this game is because the fool got LUCKY and won a SB. Outside that one glorious moment he was pedestrian at best. Soooooooo...please flush the whole Kenny O., Todd and all the rest of the suck em' crew of Jets QB's down the toilet.
     
  11. FJF

    FJF 2018 MVP Joe Namath Award Winner

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    Since football is the ultimate team sport it is hard to judge these things head to head. so i voted based on who didn't make me hold my breathe when they dropped back to pass
    chad
     
  12. Unhappyjetsfan

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    There are few levels of embarrassing yourself higher than the "Defending Mark Sanchez"-level of embarrassing yourself.
     
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    Please cite games to justify that O'Brien looks as lost as sanchez in games.
    I know it is difficult for you to lose an argument, but I cited facts, not opinion. Sanchez completion percentage sucked, he had great talent on his teams the 1st 2 years, he continually made bone headed decisions his entire tenure here. You obviously don't remember O'Brien.
     
  14. James Hasty

    James Hasty Well-Known Member

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    He wasn't bashing you.

    He was talking about you realistically.
     
  15. James Hasty

    James Hasty Well-Known Member

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    Question for the Pennington voters:

    Were you old enough to watch O'Brien play or was he before your time?
     
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    I think Chad had a decent run that could have been better had he not had shoulder injuries. He definitely could have been our guy had he not gotten hurt.
     
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    Before my time. I'm 31 so he was starting as I finished high school.
     
  18. WW85

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    That was exactly what I was thinking. You can't make a clear evaluation without seeing all the Players in Poll.

    I really liked Chad, but his injury history hurts his value in this discussion. If Chad could have stayed healthy he clearly would be #2.

    Kenny O'Brien would be my choice.

    What is sad about this topic, this franchise is over 50 years old and the QB position has been rarely a strength of the team.
     
  19. rinvesto

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    NONE of those games were as bad, or nearly as bad, as the numerous 4 int bonehead butt fumble games of Sanchez. In fact, in most of them his completion percentage was high. You have cited some 1 int games. You are in fantasy world to compare Sanchez to him.
     
  20. JStokes

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    I saw them all play.

    Namath then Chad are my two favorite Jets, I was crushed the year Vinny went down because he had played as well as any Jet QB the prior year and I was a big Sanchez fan.

    O'Brien was the second best Jets QB of all time, followed by Chad, Vinny then Mark.

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