it was a very cold and very windy day, a day for D not O. the D shut down Atl all game until the last drive when they blew it. Those D's blew many late game leads.
Cold and windy? I was at the game and yes it was nippy but it wasn't exactly the '62 Packers-Giants, Yankee Stadium.. Sanchez hit Edwards with no safety over the top on a deep post in stride with a nice, unfettered-by-the-wind pass play covering 65 yards (55 yards in the air).
I was there too, It was very windy. that was a great pass to Braylon in stride and I think we missed a FG and had a botched hold too. we had a late lead and the D blew it like they did so many times those 2 seasons.
I already mentioned the flubbed hold on the PAT-length 19 yd. FG courtesy of the 2nd string QB - not the other QB that threw 3 picks. 7 points.
09: Saints, Bills, Pats, Jags, Falcons. 5 of our 7 losses were due to poor QB play. 10: Ravens, Packers, Patriots, & Dolphins. 4 of our 5 losses were due to poor QB play. And like i said.. in 2010 "clutch games" he shined in the big moments.. but he also played poorly through the first 3 quarters of those game. The Lions, Browns, & Texans game though he balled out in. He did his thing the whole game. he also played well in the loss to chicago in 2010 that was a great game.
Packers game was not his fault. FG kicker miss two FGs. Idiotic fake punt by Rex handed the Packers 3 points. Sanchez's recievers allowed two strip interceptions. The other three games I agree he played poorly, the Ravens game though the offense was very conservative. Greenes fumble hurt us so much in that game.
Yeah its a shame between that, the intercept strip, and failing to convert on 4th down at the end of the game handed the Packers 3 FGS =/ Rodgers didnt do much that day, neither did Sanchez, Rodgers just had a better kicker that day, and better luck.
I started to not count those exact games... but i look at it like no points... no team TD's.. no significantly good drives, under 50% completion, turnovers... can't help but blame the QB. Maybe more so the ravens game than the pack game since the turnovers werent his fault for once. Same thing happened in the loss to the Jags. Braylon fumbled after a 40 yard completion, but sanchez was butt that game.
I believe we woulda beat them in the bowl had we beat pittsburgh. damn jets too little too late in that AFC chip game...
In this case, you are confusing player, with system. Or was Pennington an unusually bad QB too? (psst...generally Schotty's system leaves the checkdown receiver out of the QB's sight path, so when he has to look off the primary he is rotating his vision to the checkdown, and unless he's got all day to go back away from it.....it's a pretty big tell...) As opposed to say the Pats offense, where all the reads are in the QB's vision at decision time...usually leaving one decision, which level to deliver the ball... (Ask Cro...)
This. IN the last 40 years, Sanchez is the most talented player the Jets have drafted at the position since o'Brien. Easily, Pennington would be a distant second. He was slightly more mentally agile, but did not have the arm strength or mobility. O'Brien at least had Walton, a decent offensive mind and skill position players, but NEVER GOT A LINE. Sanchez the opposite.
Yep and Mark Sanchez is big time. He is not Andy Dalton, he is not Matt Schaub, he was different. He raised his game when it mattered most, while most would go down in flames. And people act like his struggles in 2012 was some big surprise, I mean do you not recall Antonio Cromartie cracking jokes in the preseason about how he was the best receiver on the team? Sadly he was right. Lastly, I do not want to put everything on one play, but if Stephen Hill caught that ball in New England, things would have been different. New England was cracking at the seams, the Jets were on the verge of sending them into a spiral. I knew the moment we lost that game that the Jets season was going downhill while the Patriots was going forward. Screw you Stephen Hill....
There were so many things wrong with the 2012 season; it really was the perfect storm. Let's not forget that included in this perfect shit storm was Sanchez's poor play. I'm a Sanchez guy through and through but he doesn't get a pass for 2012.
If 2012 was the perfect shit storm, what does that make this season? The quintessential shit storm? The flawless shit storm? A whole different type of storm all together?
One difference is that this season Rex pulled the plug on a guy who was killing the team. And in 2012 he wouldn't until it was too late. For that alone he should have been fired 2 years ago.
