So if you go back to the Texans game with 2:00 on the clock and the ball in his hands with a chance to win the game he throws a high ball to Cumberland and it gets deflected and intercepted ending the game, Fast Fwd to this week in overtime same scenario only overtime with a chance to win the game with a TD and he get's sacked and fumble's the ball once again ripping our hearts out. It seems like this season Sanchez turns the ball over right before the half in the redzone or at the end of the game and it's getting ridiculous. I used to think he had a clutch gene but he has completley lost it on alll levels, Why does this keep happening??????
Its the curse of trying to win games under pressure. The great QBs with great teams, drive down the field and score and win. The alternative is usually an INT or fumble (even by the great ones when they lose in the same situation).
Its not his fault that he got sacked, it is his fault that he fumbled tho. And Cumberland should have made that catch in the Houston game.
Sanchez was clutch today. He led some really great drives. Its not his fault he got sacked on that play. Yeah, he had ONE bad pass the entire game. If its any consolation, it wasn't a bad decision, just a bad pass. If Hill makes that catch, people like would just stfu. Was it Sanchez's fault Hill dropped that pass? Stop blaming him today. He was not the issue. The D played great, but couldn't step up when they needed to on the last two defensive drives.
A clutch player would have led the team down the field to win both of those games. Sanchez did not. Sanchez turned the ball over when that was the LAST thing you wanted.
Sanchez was clutch today??? No Eli Manning was clutch today when he throe a 70 yard td pass with 1:00 left in the 4th qtr to take the lead and win the game. There's nothing clutch about a strip sack to lose the game
He led them down the field...Hill f***** it up. He catches the ball, they are gonna score a TD and leave Brady under 1 minute left.
erasing a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter, and then taking a 3 point lead with about 90 seconds left against one of the best team in the NFL is clutch to me. Throwing a perfectly thrown pass to Hill for FD that would have ate a bunch of time and possibly a TD instead of a FG is clutch on the QBs part. He had some incredible drives today. He kept so many drives alive by simply spreading the ball around. Those of u bitching about him, need to look elsewhere.
Brady can move down the field in under a minute. It was apparent in the Superbowl last year. He led them to points in that drive. He didn't lead them to points in the drive that counted. The last one. He didn't take care of the ball, and that is why we lost.
The Patriots aren't as good this season as years past, i don't know why but there not. Since when are they 3-3 going into week 7
To an open receiver...the Jets don't have anybody in Cruz's league. Manning also had TWO horrific picks and the injury riddled redskins put up 480 yards of total offense (250 rushing) against the vaunted vagiants D giants are lucky
So, here we are, again. Another part of the offense failed to get it done at a key moment and that turned into a Sanchez failure. Which is what happens when you have a not quite good enough QB leading a unit that has question marks at key positions. What happened today? Sanchez had a few things going for him that he hasn't had most of the season. The Jets running game was competent for the second game in a row and Dustin Keller was back in non-disappearing mode to make some clutch catches and force the defense to actually police the middle of the field further than 7 yards from the line of scrimmage. Sanchez had one thing going for him that has been there all season and that was another strong performance by Jeremy Kerley, who is turning into a lot more than a slot receiver when the chips are down and he has to be more than that. So there was some space to throw too and a few people really catching the ball well and Sanchez took advantage of that and made some throws up the seams. The running game was keeping the Pats honest and the offense looked coherent for a long stretch of the game. But, as usual, there were pieces not working so well in the scheme of things. The drop by Hill in a key situation was inexcusable. Yes, he's a rookie, but that was a right in his bread basket catch with no defender anywhere near him and no mustard on the ball at all. His feet were on the ground. It was a gimme. It was the kind of drop that a RB has now and then when they are looking to run before they make the catch because they know a LB or safety is right there and the play is going to be bang-bang. In Hill's case it was just his bad hands, which we know about, magnified by the usual rookie issues in a tight situation. His head was turning as he reached for the ball and it just bounced off of him. The rookie part was that all Hill had to do was catch that ball and fall to the ground and the Jets are going to wind up kicking a FG with very little time left on the clock for Brady to do anything. It was a total win situation. Catch a well thrown pass placed in the perfect spot to do so and with no defensive players in range and the Jets win the game. Of course because the Jets are poorly constructed again that's what the key moment in the game evolved into: a rookie with bad hands being the target that Sanchez had to hit to win the game. That's why we lost the game. This is a little bit like last year's offense going missing because the guy that Sanchez had to hit a lot on the left sideline deep to open things up for Holmes underneath and Keller up the seams was a 34 year old sloth coming back from a 2 year layoff. And in the end Sanchez wasn't good enough to make up the difference. When you have a game manager playing QB for you the need for highly competent cogs in the machine is intense. This is especially true if that game manager is a mercurial talent who flashes in and out of brilliance seemingly at random. When the Jets get that shot down the field they have to catch the ball, because the next drive the QB is going to be the issue. Watching Sanchez drive this Jets team down the field is always an adventure because no matter how good things look it can all break down in one massive brain fart or missed play by just about anybody on the field not named Mangold or Kerley. No matter how bad things look there's always the chance that Sanchez can pull a throw nobody else can make out of his ass and thread the needle in the endzone on a play that makes the announcers mutter about what a tight window he just threw the ball into, half sounding like they'd like to criticize him but you just can't do that on TV when the guy just laser-guided a TD pass between 3 defenders. Very few people can make that pass but even fewer try to make it. For good reason.
Sorry, dude. 'Clutch' wins. PS- and he had several piss-poor passes during the game. Horribly slow-bad decion-making, resulting in floaters a plenty, ankle-breakers, and check-downs when he didn't need to and bombs when he shoulda checked-down. And he stepped up when it mattered most, with a fumble because he was trying to pass while falling on his ass with a 300-lbs'er in his face. But, yeah.... other than that, he was clutch.
Everyone blaming Hill for dropping the Sanchez pass we gotta go both ways Sanchez under threw Hill for an easy TD today, right or wrong
