Are you serious? You think only "Joe Montana in his prime" is capable of replacing Sanchez? That's hilarious! He's better than Henne, but not by much.
CatoTheElder said what I was thinking too. Brunell would have given us a 0% chance to win, Sanchez was running for his life more than half the game because Woody was out. If we put Brunell in we might as well have taken a knee every play
Ok, let me rephrase that. Are you serious? Do you think it takes someone like "Joe Montana in his prime" to replace Mark Sanchez? That's hilarious! He's better than Henne, but not by much! Thank you...
I don't. That part of my post wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But really, there was no benefit to removing Mark Sanchez from the game, regardless of how poorly he was playing.
If we had a real backup, I'd be fine with sitting Sanchez at times for a spark. Today, he was lost. Ryan said he considered pulling Sanchez, but he realized he was still the best QB we have. What does that say about the confidence they have in Brunell or Clemens? I've seen no real reason to have confidence in either (though at least Clemens is still somewhat young), and the coaching staff probably hasn't either.
Brunell was brought in to be a mentor and coach in pads. At no point was he brought in to actually play other than if Sanchez got hurt. Even though he had a shaky rookie season with all those picks, he permanently erased any doubt in Rex's mind that he was our "franchise" quarterback with his late season playoff performance. So, they never intended to have a backup quarterback that would be an option to go to for bad performance. The fact of the matter is that Sanchez is a talented kid who is having a momentary confidence lapse. Three weeks ago for Christ's sake there was MVP talk (whispers more like) after all of the late game heroics. Anyone on here saying that drafting him was a bad idea is a motherfucking idiot so let's talk about the real problem....the O.C. Schotty has no creativity in play calling or play design. I flew 2500 miles with my buddy from California to watch this game. My buddy is a 20+ year high school coach and a damn smart football mind and he analyzed so many plays today and said the route combinations were flawed and there was no misdirection. They never called a play action pass on first down even once. Sancez has traditionally been good on rollouts (he was the tits at USC on rollouts) and they called one. They never once play actioned one way and went the other on any down. We have a defensive-minded head coach that essentially gives free reign to his O.C. It isn't working as we have scored 12 points in our 4 losses (N.E. scored 33 in the first half in a blizzard today...just saying). With a better mentor to our young QB we are 11-2 at worst. Does Sanchez need to get better and stop playing scared? Yes, but Schotty needs to be canned right away as this offensive performance is unacceptable.
Loved the Shonn Greene draft choice but at first I really wasn't sure about Sanchez... I never liked his arm or his size, and whatever good college numbers he had were because... It's freaking college football, teams will score 40-50 points at will. I still think Sanchez will be a good QB but man is Sam Bradford and Josh Freeman making him look like shit
I swear to god he couldn't do any worse...bad thing is he has 5 kids and is a school teacher so NY is out of the question for obvious reasons. He isn't a Jets fan but came out with me to just hang out and go to a football game but watched for one half and spent the entire half time absolutely dissecting Schotty playcalling and play design. He honestly is a borderline brilliant offensive coach (I know it's high school but his teams have averaged 30+ points per game for 20+ years) and had a few "heated" discussions with a few local fans who were bitching about Sanchez and got them all to agree that Schotty is the reason behind Sanchez's struggles (not that it took a football rocket scientist from Cali to figure that out) by virtue of the situations that Schotty puts Sanchez in.
Wow. No reason to keep Sanchez in the game in the 4th huh? He hasn't had any 4th quarter comebacks this season? He played pretty bad against the Lions all day until the end as well. At times this season he was the reason we won, a total contrast to last year. We brought in Brunell because he's a veteran and we thought he'd help Mark at the position. Sanchez's confidence is dangerously low the past few weeks, that's on his supporting cast to get back up
