Watch this and see if you still are worried about the deal. http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-7-126/Video--Sanchez-on-move-to-New-York.html I'm as happy with a Jet's draft as any since 2000 and we've only selected one player so far. I grew up with Joe Namath talked about in the house all the time and by the time I got a chance to appreciate him he was a broken down old warhorse with a few good games left in him. I've waited my entire life for the Jets to draft a guy that might be the next Joe Willie and take the team to the last game of the season. For at least one day I get to think this might be that guy. We'll see how it turns out.
Those players are JAGs and Mangini's an idiot. He can't commit to Quinn as his QB, he trades a one of the best TE's in the league, he's already alienating fans and players, and the only good player he's brought in so far is Eric Barton, who's about to hit the proverbial wall.
How about this stats line: Sanchez went 4-0 against Top 25 teams this past season, completing 68.3 percent of his passes for 1,155 yards and 13 TDs with just 1 INT.
I am sorry but I am in the "I will beleive it when I see it" department. The guy was inexperienced even by college standards. .
Browning Nagle went on the 34 pick. That's not great. That's good and slipped. The Jets have not drafted a QB in the top 10 in 32 years now! Richard Todd came in to a much more unsettled situation and a much worse team and he almost got us to a Super Bowl in the end anyway. I expect we'll do better this time around.
He was at USC from 2005 to 2008. He redshirted as a freshman and then sat his freshman and sophomore years, as every QB since Carson Palmer has done there. He came in his junior year and ran the USC offense nearly flawlessly, ending with a destruction of Penn State in his last game. He was right. Another year at USC would have been for Pete Carroll not him. Three years of carrying a clipboard and one great season was all he needed to prove he was ready to go.
I'm not a big fan of USC QB's. They are pampered pretty boys who are surrounded with loads of talent that makes them look better than they really are. These guys never get touched due to superior huge Ol, have giant WR's, and lightning fast RB's to complement them at all times. Sanchez could easily be another Leinart. Don't go fellating this guy before he sets foot on an NFL field. We are in bust territory now.
Three years of carrying a clipboard and one great season was all he needed to prove he was ready to get paid. --I fixed that for you.
When you pick in the top 5 you are always in bust territory. The difference this time around is that the Jets aren't booming or busting on a setup player like D'brickashaw Ferguson, or a piece of the puzzle like Keyshawn Johnson, or a relatively unknown player from a weak program at a real impact position like Dewayne Robertson. They are going to boom or bust on the most important position on the field and from one of the strongest program in college football. By definition if they succeed this team has just joined the NFL's elite teams. If they bust, well that's the risk you take with every pick. It's just nice when a boom means you are in.
You know what the wild card is? Matt Cassell. Dude started NO games at USC and seems to be okay, and he was nowhere even close to the recruit that Sanchez was. Having said that, I'll say again, he might be too pretty. As an extraordinarily good looking person, I know what sort of burden that can be. I also question his Mexican-American credentials. It could be that he's a third-generation subversive. That's a problem.
I realize that is some sort of joke thing but, Richard Todd, Ken O'Brien, Neil O'Donnell, Browning Nagle, Chad Pennington, and Kellen Clemens were all either goofy looking or ugly. None of them led the Jets to a Super Bowl. Ugly doesn't work with this team.
And Joe Namath was a Hungarian-Polish-American, otherwise known as "Bohunk" (his terminology), pretty boy. I think Mexican-American is going to work just fine for the Jets.
