While I agree that the Jets were right to replace Sanchez, the metric at the time was not even that so much as that the Jets had no one on staff other than McElroy to play Qb. Even if you thought you wanted to give Sanchez another shot going into 13, it made no sense to make NO move at Qb. The question remained, though, whether Smith was a good pick or some other option should have been pursued, such as FA, trade or a different Qb in that draft. By the time the 14 off season rolled around, though, Sanchez obviously was not going to be part of the picture going forward, and it should have been clear that Smith had not established himself as the man going forward.
I think the fan-base would have been fine with Mark Sanchez starting in 2013 - everyone knew he wasn't the answer but he could have been a stop-gap. Mark is a professional, he holds himself accountable, unlike Geno Smith who thinks he's a pro bowler. To me, Geno was a waste of a 2nd round pick.
No, I should have used a comma and said something like "neither OF them are" and then list the litany of true franchise QBs. Rereading it, it appears that I am saying that none of those guys are franchise QBs. I may be a dick but I'm not THAT big of an idiot _
This one still hurts, as I remember not liking this pick at all even back then. I [understood] why they did it, and I wasn't going to disagree with the pick on the spot, but now it's getting clearer and clearer that they should have stayed away from Geno. P.S. I am expecting a blue moon on the horizon tonight - this is a very, VERY rare moment where I and junc actually agree on an issue. P.S.2 I really hope Bowles brings his A game. If he fails, then we will know we kicked out the only relevant HC material Jets had in the past few decades, with the help of a Ivy-leaguer retard. [How do you even achieve that feat? It takes an extraordinary talent to be an Ivy-leaguer and a retard.]
The former is confirmed J*rk Off (See the East Hanover NJ police report) and the latter is, well, I won't be too hard on him except to say he seems like the type who blames anyone but himself. So, while I don't doubt what they had to say i wouldn't put too much stock into it coming from these two. I'm just glad to look forward rather than behind.
He was horrible the last half of 2011 and 2012. He had to go and no one knows if he would have started if he didn't get hurt. As it was the team went 8-8. To think if Mark had started we'd have made the playoffs is a fantasy.
They signed Garrard but that was a joke. They should have brought someone in but they went with Geno. A mistake.
Like Taj Boyd? gtfoh with that pick...like they could afford to throw picks away to draft friends of their offspring...fuckin' jack asses
If Idzik was such a hardass and anti-Rex he wouldn't have let Rex draft Taj Boyd. He also backed Rex up when the press for a change was on his ass before opening day when Rex visited Clemson to see his son's game.
I don't think we make the playoffs w/ him, but I bet we draft a QB in 2014 because the CS finally realizes MS isn't their guy. I'd take a chance if I had the last pick in the 7th round. Mr. Irreverent indeed.
There's people around here who loved the Boyd pick to......Lol only Jets fans could get excited about a guy like Boyd.......
Sanchez was bad - but he was never "I missed the team meeting because I didn't know the time" bad. Geno is a fucking disgrace to put it as nicely as I possibly could.
Perhaps it is frustration over the slim pickings that seem to be what makes up a very short list of practical options for the Jets to upgrade the Qb position this off season. But I admit I have gone beyond mere disappointment about Smith's play to a near visceral dislike of the man. I was one of the consistent Sanchez critics here, but I never disliked him in the same way. Yeah he would give lame answers at post game pressers. There was the hot dog eating incident. Of coures the buttfumble, which was really stupid. But I never developed a personal dislike for the person. Sanchez by all accounts worked hard. He tried. He just didn't see the field well enough. Stuff like who he was banging never bothered me, like it did some people. I'm not saying he's probably a great guy to have a drink with or anything like that, either. I just never developed a negative view of his personality. That is different with Smith. I realized last season I could not sit through his post-game pressers. There was the airplane incident last off season, which maybe should have made more of an impresion on me. But missing the team meeting, and with such a lame excuse. And of course way back at the beginning his morose and entitled performance on draft day when he felt he wasn't picked high enough. Turns out he was picked way too high as it was. And now he just doesn't seem to get it. He exudes a woe is me kind of attitude, clueless about his personal responsibilty for his unacceptable performance. And then there's the indications he just doesn't seem to work that hard at his job. And he certainly doesn't seem to be developing. Last off season I at least acknowledged the possibility he could materially improve going into his second year. He didn't, of course, and I see no reason why this off season should be any different. So it probably is in large part frustration on my part. but right now, I am so opposed to the idea of him coming back, I admit ANY altternative sounds more appealing than that.
Agreed.. Geno resembles a Prima Donna basketball player averaging 1.5 pts a game and thinks he's an all star. He doesn't get it and never will. He's very detached from reality. I never understood the uproar over the whole hot dog thing, I'd rather have my hungry QB stuff his face and get back into focus on the game than be hungry on the sideline thinking about food.
