While the last sentence is true, one problem is that Tebow has all of the same areas to improve that you list out for Sanchez. One difference is that Tebow, usually instead of making a bad throwing decision, will start running around. I thought Cavanaugh was right on point, accurate in his assessment, but a little too candid for an interview about his player. I don't think he should have spoken that specifically about the winning stunting his development. He should have stopped after the part about the need to reduce the turnovers. The one big difference between Tebow and Sanchez -- Tebow has a strong tendency to challenge down the field. It's like he barely sees the first 20 yards from scrimmage sometimes. He figures "look for chunk yardage, if not there run for about 4 or 5 yards." He's having to de-program to look for the quick, short range windows.
:rofl: Obviously, you haven't observed many Tim Tebow pass attempts. The only reason Tebow doesn't have a boxcar full of INTs is because he doesn't throw very much. Throwing in the general direction of his receivers is something "Tebow is inherently good at". :rofl: I doubt you are correct, but one can always hope ...
I see nothing wrong with what Cavanaugh said, in fact he did point out the obvious that not all Int's were Sanchez' fault. On the other hand, those who seem out raged at this seem to be wearing the same kid gloves that some question the Jets coaching of doing when it comes to Sanchez. 26 TOs in one season is way to high for a QB and makes it damn near impossible for teams to be successful. If the Jets are going to have success Sanchez needs to cut down on the mistakes. Pretty basic philosophy.
Zach overreacted in the OP. He's a good poster but no comment by anyone in the Jet organization is acceptable to Zach unless the person quoted blames anything and everything on Schotty. Conversely anything said that points to problems with the O as coming from Sanchez is a form of blasphemy. That is a problem since any fair minded person would have to say that Sanchez made plenty of unforced errors last year that cost the Jets bigtime. But as for the complaint that Cavanaugh should not have said anything, I think those saying that are missing the point. While I do not think the Jet FO has already given up on Sanchez, you do have to wonder what their view of him is. Then again, maybe you don't have to wonder at all. Here's the Qb Coach, someone clearly who has worked within the organization for a few years, retained after Cally and Schotty both left, now working for a new OC, who has described something he sees as a significant issue for the O. NO WAY Cavanaugh would do that unless he thought that view was common in the Jet organization. NO WAY. In short, whatever people here may think, however many wanted to blame Schotty for all the O's problems, well Schotty has left and there is still a huge problem, and it is called Mark Sanchez and his difficulties playing as an NFL Qb with efficiency and effect.
Sanchez obviously makes poor decisions from time to time, but this year we will see how many of them were directly related to Schotty and his god-awful offense -- both his play calling and horrific play design -- and how much was just on Sanchez. I'm of the belief Schotty was a total disaster and things will improve just by him being gone. I think Cavanaugh should have followed him out the door too, but oh well.
Sanchez' mistakes should go down simply because the oppourtunities to make them will be down. Sparano will provide a vanilla run oriented offense that dates pre 1990s. The Jets offense should reduce the miosakes but will become more one dimensional.
Maybe some of it had to do with the OC, and I despise Schotty, but things like calling a premature timeout to give the other team more time and throwing the ball to defensive linemen have nothing to do with the OC. I'm sure I could rattle off quite a few more poor decisions that had nothing to do with Schitty if I thought about it.
No, it's clear Sanchez made plenty of mistakes himself, nobody can dispute that. But when your OC insists on running his system that has proven to be bad year in and year out, that virtually all the players complained about, where it seems as if he goes out of his way to put his qb in a position to fail, it really leads to more mistakes. The offense just seemed like a big clusterfuck most of the time and everyone points fingers at the QB.
No, he shouldn't say anything to the press. What he tells management is one thing but in the tabloid wars in NY anything that he says is going to get spun in the way that sells the most papers. The Post and the Daily News are dying for a major QB contoversy this year on the Jets. Short of the team going on a Super Bowl run that QB controversy will probably sell the most new print for them. It was irresponsible of Cavanaugh to feed that growing fire. It looks like the Jets plan this off-season is to publicly start to disavow Sanchez so that if he fails they look like they got it right (well, after giving him that ridiculous extension if they thought he was failing). If he succeeds? Well then they were brilliant because they decided to put a lot of pressure on him and look what happened! It's a too-smart move by far and of course what is most likely to happen is that it blows up in their faces somehow.
In today's media world it seems to make no difference whether or not you say anything. The meda will always speculate and try and makes flames wherever there is a smoke.
I agree with you that the signs are that the Jets have moved on from Sanchez and are just waiting for the right moment to make it happen. I disagree heavily on Tebow being better at making decisions than Sanchez. The Broncos did everything they could last year to minimize the choices he had to make as a QB. They had him throwing the ball into the ground as a rule so that if his receiver couldn't catch it nobody could. If you look at the way Sanchez started off the 2010 season you see the same pattern by the coaches. They had him throw no risky passes and they minimized his exposure to turnovers and he threw no Int's through 5 games. Then they opened it up some and he threw some picks, although the Jets kept winning, including a few of the comeback wins that are one of his traits at this point. The season looked very much like the one that just about any young QB not named Tom Brady or Peyton Manning had in his 2nd season. Young QB's make mistakes. That's just what it is.
And this is where Bill Parcells is a genius. He chokes off all that stuff by enforcing the no-speak rule on the organization. He's the only source on the management side who speaks and he keeps a wary eye on the players, letting them know that if they speak out of turn there will be consequences. My view on the Jets at this point is that the ship is already smoking and it's only a matter of time before it catches fire. That's on many different levels, not just the simple level of who will play QB this year. The odds the Jets avoid a major conflagration are low at this point and having somebody as low in the pecking order as the QB coach throwing fuel on the fire is just stupid from an organizational point of view.
Look at the Jets of 1999-2000. There was potential media controversy all over the place with them not living up to expectations and no QB in place after Vinny's injury and Keyshawn getting shipped out of town and all of that and yet no flames and no conflagration. The storyline remained Martin, Vinny, Chrebet, etc, because the Jets kept their mouth's shut, particularly after Keyshawn left town. They didn't achieve the things they wanted too, missing the playoffs in both years while the Giants went to the Super Bowl in 2000 but they didn't go up in flames either. That was Parcell's scheme at work and it was a very under-rated head coach in Al Groh who was also low-key.
yet both teams choked while w/ everone talking in '09 & '10 we made 2 title games. You can be successful in a variety of ways.
Sorry all of U are missing the key point that MS lacks the innate ability to make snap decisions & that is not a coachable thingy:sad:
Cavanaugh being down on Sanchez, and this being representative of the views within the organization, of course does not in itself make Tebow any better a player. At this rate I would not be shocked if we saw McElroy in there at some point this season.
I think that MAY be what is going on, but in truth it is not in most cases, and probably not in Mark Sanchez's, either, a distinct line between what is coachable and what is an inherent limitation in the player. I also think what you said should be clarified - Mark in fact does make snap decisions. He just makes the wrong ones too often. How much of this is coachable? I really don't know, but you definitely get the impression it is more and more the consensus within the organization that it is not the coaching that has been at fault. Turning back to the whole Schotty controversy, it is of course interesting that nothing being said about last year and Sanchez amounts to blaming Schotty for the problems. As someone said they could have been saying, well you know we have a different system and different plays coming up this season, and that should benefit Mark. No one is saying that, as far as I can tell. They are saying Mark needs to do better. Something tells me Sparano is not unhappy this is happening.
The 1999 team didn't choke, they faced an impossible situation in which even the coach was in despair and yet they pulled it together and avoided a disaster. The 2000 team just didn't have the talent yet. They didn't have a #1 WR after Keyshawn was traded and the bounty they got for him was still too young to make a heavy impact. They still managed to win 9 games in what was a very tough division at the time, with Indy, Miami and Buffalo all contending alongside the Jets. The 2009 and 2010 Jets had one team to beat and two weak sisters. Not a 5 team cluster that included every other team making the playoffs either the year before, that year or the next.
