Sanchez and his deep ball accuracy

Look it's fairly simple. I couldn't give a toss where our offense ranks against the rest of the league. The only team I care about is the NY Jets.

When I look at our team I see the potential to blow teams away.
Why is that important? Well for reasons I enumerated earlier.
It's a long season. Blowouts give you the opportunity to keep guys fresher which becomes more and more valuable as the season wears on.

Is it neccesary to win? Well of course not (as these last couple weeks have proven)....but with just a tiny adjustment... we could possibly capitlize on plays that could give us an extra 7-14 points per game.

If we have to win every game the way we have the last couple of weeks, scratching and clawing our way to a W these guys are gonna be gassed by the end of the year....and let's face facts, external conditions aside, this is one of those games we probably should have won on cruise control.

We could make things a whole lot easier if we connect on just a few more of those home run balls. Even one per game improvement could make a huge difference, in our gameplan, and how we use our personelle.

That's all I'm sayin.

 

You're the one who is complaining about the 50+ yard shit, not me.

He has led his receivers on deep passes on the sideline and in the middle of the field. These are not high percentage plays though. I'm still waiting for your examples of failures outside of the monsoon.

And as someone else posted, he's tied for 7th for 40+ yard passes. That's only 3 though - which shows how low percentage those plays are. He's tied with Brees, Cutler, E. Manning and M. Schaub. He has more big passing plays than Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan and Brett Favre.

Hell - if Hill didn't interfere with Holmes he probably has another one and is better than the guys he's tied with now too.

 

You want big plays and Sanchez is 7th in pass plays over 40 yds and 16th in pass attempts. Only 1 QBs with less attempts have more plays over 40 yds.

 

You're the only one putting words in people's mouths. Sure, he could be better, but you're making claims that simply aren't true. You're making statments like:

without any evidence to back up such a claim.

You're making it sound like he hasn't completed a single deep pass. He has. In fact he's right up there with some of the best in the business in that category. It's simply not a high percentage thing you're asking for.

 

You are not even reading some of my posts.

 

Here is where your position falls apart. On some of those very same drives where Sanchez missed a receiver deep, they scored anyway. I don't recall too many drives ending on a bomb by Sanchez. Can you name any? The team is scoring in the mid twenties. As far as offensive rankings go it is a good barometer of how a team is doing.

If you are the leading rusher on the Jets, but 35th in the league overall, what would that tell you about the running game? That is where league wide stats have credence.

 

I'm begining to sense a pattern here that seems to indicate it is folly to suggest ways that our team can improve because our team is winning every week....

 

See post #166.

What I consider "folly" is the fact that some ignore the fact that the Jets have one of the best scoring offenses in the NFL and are a run first team to begin with.

 

One deep ball per game is a lot to ask. You're talking about a very low percentage pass. That's the problem I have with this argument. I understand Nacho could have better accuracy on those passes, but it's simply not something that gets completed very often - by all QB's across the board.

If Nacho could hit one 50+ yard bomb per game that would be freaking outstanding.

 

BINGO!

Not only is he "not used to" the deep strike, until recently (Game 2) Sanchez had been shackled and practically prohibited from throwing the deep ball in preference to the "run first" that we so blatantly advertised in Preseason. Consequently, the Ravens game was replete with examples of non-deep ball throwing.

I think the OPs original point is that Sanchez is not leading the WR sufficiently in some of his deep passes. He hasn't been doing a superlative job of sticking to that one complaint and left himself open because of all the other off-point remarks he's made. But I'll give him that point. In the past 4 games, there have balls thrown that could have led better, the above videos not withstanding.

But if Sanchez is having problems with this, it's not entirely his fault. After all the INTs last year, we didn't want him experimenting with much of it in Game One (especially since the Ravens defense is so good and were looking for some INTs).

I think, after the Ravens game, our coaches just decided to let it fly and I think Sanchez will be fine with this (the occasional bomb). And especially when he developes more chemistry with Holmes. He's already improving in this area. This is all Bye-Week banter.

 

Nacho needs to improve on that 55% accuracy. I don't need the 50+ bombs, but what I do need is better completion percentage on the mid-range passes of 20-30 yds. Regardless, this might not be his fault considering who we have as our OC, but to be fair, some of those passes are sailing over WR heads. He needs to keep the ball down.

 

This is where I'd like to see him improve the most too. These WR's can make plays with the ball in their hands.

 

I totally disagree with this statement. Their WRs were making catches that were unbelievable... every one of them a highlight catch practically. Tebow and the whole team were playing over their heads. This was no cruise control game by a long shot.

Bottom line is, it was ugly but it's a W. You're gonna get those. Every team does.

 

That is it in a nutshell. Well said. Again, if this is the only complaint about the offense, then we have alot to be thankful for. They are still scoring at a good clip, certainly good enough to win. I love a deep bomb TD like anybody (see: Wesley Walker) but will take the grind it out, kill the clock, running game as well.

 

I think you may be basing this on the Denver game. His percentages were shit and his timing and accuracy were not the Sanchez of games 2-5. We were lucky we didn't turn the ball over 4-5 times, seriously.

 

I am really starting to think the OP is looking for the Patriots offense circa 2007.

 

I'm pretty sure he came into that game around 55% for the year. That should be one of his main improvement goals during the bye week.

edit: Yea I just looked and the Denver game actually improved his yearly completion percentage to 54.3%.

 

Last two weeks have been problems with accuracy. I will give Sanchez the benefit of the rain affecting things against Minnesota, but there were alot of high passes in that game. Perhaps he was pressing again to avoid turnovers but the last two weeks brought his 5 down from the sixties into the fifties.

 

In post 166 you bolded your point and unbolded mine.

It's as if you are saying the fact that we are winning and Sanchez is doing OK there is no room for improvement.

Convoluted logic at best.

Game after game in the press conferences in the locker room and on the sound bytes we keep hearing from the team it'self that there is a lot of room for improvement.

What's wrong with fans on a forum being specific about some of them?

No one is whining here or bemoaning our 5-1 record. I love the fact that we are winning games despite clicking on all cylinders. For my part I see this as an area where we could make our road a lot less bumpy and keep guys a lot more fresh by the end of the season with just a tiny adjustment....which brings us full circle to the OP..

Just lay it out there a little better Mark...and some of these games will get a lot easier.