the spot-on sob from SA usually hits it out of the park ---> McElroni <---hahaha!!! McElroni Sono Buoni
Have been thinking a lot about this and this has probably been mentioned but the decision on who to start goes above and beyone who should really start...or maybe not. All off season long, Rex has preached that he believes he will be the coach of this team for years despite the situation..and he plans on coaching the team as if thats the case. Then you have Idzik saying he will be involved in the decision making..hmmm...now why would he want to do that? Because if Idzik is not involved and Rex is trying to really save his job and is full of it...Sanchez would be the qb right? You do not start a rookie to save your job unless he really performs the next 3 games. Perhaps the reason Idzik says he will be involved in the decision..and if Mark doesnt play very well....and Geno plays ok...we will have our answer on who is making the decisions if Geno is starting. Or is Rex not full of it and thinking of the future? Tough call. The problem for Rex..and its a huge problem...Idzik too..is that if you start Geno and he fails...do you try to save your job if you are Rex and go to Mark? Do you start playing with a kids head already? For Idzik if you start Mark and he does ok at least...Geno sits and waits..but for how long? This is the problem with having a lame duck HC. There is going to be so much second guessing on who really is making the decisons regardless of the choice. This is the reason I cant believe in any way shape or form...Mark starts if Idzik is looking to the future. Idzik needs to find out asap if Geno has a chance to be good. Unless Marks lights out in preseason...I cant see any reason in a possible rebuilding year, why you would start him. In this day and age, rookies get dirty.
I think Geno will be named the starter after the second preseason game. I just dont think they are going to give it to him this early. Then come game 3 (which is the most important preseason game) Geno will be out there playing with the first team.
This would have been the much safer prediction. I thought I saw some writing on the wall. I was wrong.
Your concept is right LTJF. Dead on. Whether its game 2 or 3 means nothing...it all comes down to tonite. If Geno has the look of a pro qb..he starts. Mark has shown such horrible signs the past 2 years...along with the new GM taking a chance on a 2nd round pick. Your thought process is dead on.
I won't be convinced that Rex will ever name Geno the starter until I hear him say it with my own two ears.
McElroni has a noodle arm. That was evident in both of the games he played last season. It's the funniest thing ever that you are pushing so hard for him to play. He hasn't had a torn rotator cuff or a stinger in his throwing arm and he's still got the weakest arm this team has seen in many years. The author of "noodle arm" suddenly wants a noodle arm. Bahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha
Aside from all of the QB bickering here... What do you guys think the actual time split will be? Maybe Sanchez with the 1s for 2 drives, then Geno with the 1s for 1 drive and then with the 2s for another 2? Thoughts?
With the money he is paying him, I just don't see our illustrious owner allowing them to sit Sanchez on the bench. Woody Johnson is about 2 things: money, and headlines. Sanchez gets a lot of both. For Johnson, winning (and the fans) don't matter.
Think Mark gets 2 with the first team, Geno gets 4 drives, 1 with the full first team and 3 with the second (but with the first team OL.
How does Sanchez getting articles written about him bashing him make the franchise money? If anything it convinces people not to buy his jersey or pay to see the Jets play, which only hurts the franchise. Negative attention doesn't make a franchise money. Winning does.
If opening drive is a long one, i think Mark's night is over after that. If it is 3 and out, he'll get another drive. I'm sure they'd like at least 6 plays of work. Then Geno will see 1 drive with the 1's, and the rest of the first half with the 2's.
Jaywane, heres the weathervane, as I see it. Idzik, came here preaching competiton, when there was none. garrard was never going to start for this team, even if (and lets face it, they knew his injury history) he survived TC. It was a PR move. And Garrard had he stayed healthy, would have been a searchable game or two backup. They had the money to sign Flynn, or Kolb (see, Ivory,Goodson) and stuck with Mark, trying to give him more explosive weapons, and a competent OC. Geno Smith literaly fell into Idziks lap. And while they keep talking competition...you can already see in the media reports, the coaches starting to talk up Sanchez, as much as the beat writers try to sell papers saying otherwise. Smith is a talented football player who will eventually push for Sanchez job, but not this season. Sanchez is better than 3 of the first 4 QBs we face, and can beat NE. And you know theyve looked at the schedule. Now, I looked and saw 11 wins with the Jets blowing one or two games. If that happens, the answer to your "how long does Geno sit' question, is till 2015. He will spend his rookie year learning and improving, but if the Jets make the playoffs, or win the Division, its Sanchez job in 2014 period. After that, both would be trade bait, Sanchez having been successful and Morningwood and Geno as a Matt Flynn, looks real good, hasnt done shit type. And the coaching staff will at that point make a decision, before Smith gets on the field, because thats the financially best option. If Sanchez goes, Smith gets a new deal well below what they expect him to do, a year before his rookie deal wears out. Financially Prudent.
He has the head for a WCO and he can be efficient. I liked some of the things I saw from him in limited action last year. But I don't think he should be in competition for starter at all. I'd love to keep him as the main backup for the next five seasons.
OMFG The decision should not and will not be based on Sanchez being better than 3? of the first 4 QBs we face Stop with that nonsense
It's arguable that he's even better than 1 of the QB's in the first 4 games. But what I find most humerous about Hobbes argument is he presents mark Sanchez as being the better QB in 3 of the 4 games hence why the jets will win, and then does a 180 on the Pats and says that the Jets can beat the better QB. Talk about talking out of both sides of ones ass.
