Your absolutely right about everything but the fact is the good QB's don't let this kind of thing happen even on their worse days. They find a way to do something. He is the starting QB for a team with SB aspirations and his young QB pass is over. It is time for him to produce during the regular season as well as the playoffs.
Yes, every team needs to aspire this, but maybe we've had a little too much talking about it. Right now we need to aspire to beat the Patriots and then aspire to beat each opponent one at a time after that. Otherwise, our SB aspirations are just that... aspirations and nothing more. And we need to kick ass too, not just talk about kicking ass.
I have even seen Brady have a bad day with that type of pressure. I would hope he would have done better (he was horrilbe last night) but he was getting killed from the first play.
Yes ... but this ... The Maybin play could have been the biggest paly of the season. We were on the doorstep of making it a 7 point, or even a 3 point game after getting the snot kicked out of us for 3 Quarters. We were already in FG range before the ball was snapped! The team was stoked, the fans were nervous and a score there would have had the Ravens totally flustered because their offense was dogshit after the 1st quarter. Can you imagine how pumped up our defense would have been coming onto the field trailing by only three points? Sanchez killed us in ONE play. Plain and simple. If he doesn't kill us there I love our chances to make another incredible comeback. He took that away with one ridiculous pass. A "franchise" QB throwing away the game on a pass like that is INEXCUSEABLE. There's no defending it.
Everyone talks about "body of work" with Schottenheimer as proof that he sucks. Well, then the same can be said of Sanchez. It's not like he's never gave away his targets with his eyes, failed to protect the ball, made poor decisions, run down the playclock, underthrown receivers, etc before. Sanchez has been the QB of two conference championship games. You know who else has done that? Donovan McNabb. This is another good point. I've long been a defender of Rex's big mouth, but it's really at the point where he's just shooting off at the mouth. He's bought into his talk so much he believes it should just happen. Enough talking. Show me that you can actually do it. I actually commented on Twitter last night after the game that I couldn't wait for the postgame where Rex would say "We have to get better, we will get better." Sure enough, the same old tired speech.
Those SNY guys are SOJ enthusiasts and love to think they know everything. I remember last night they were bashing the organization for losing leaders in the locker room and one guy goes "If they brought back jenkins he would not have stood for this and wouldh've done something" when I'm sure that everyone on here knows that the guys knees are blown up and there's no way he could play this season.
I like the SNY post game show alot. You're not suggesting they didn't know Jenkins had knee problems, are you? It being likely they did, I assume you took what they said out of context.
Gholston especially -- wow. #6 overall ... huge bust. HUGE. Even Aaron Maybin is playing ball... he has a sack at least.
I take it back...I love how honest Lucas and Schein are...Its great to hear them. I like watching the postgame SNY show to see the reactions of these players. Alot of these guys were just not into it...Maybe its the loss or maybe its just the trip they have been going around on. They just looked unprepared
Mark Sanchez's completion percentages this year: VS Dallas: 59.1% VS Jacksonville: 70.8% VS Oakland: 61.4% VS Baltimore: 31% Do you think maybe you're overreacting to one game? Sanchez has been more accurate this season than ever before, and going into Baltimore he had a 63% completion percentage which would put him in the top half of the league in completion percentage. Yes, he played a nightmare of a game last night and contributed to the loss. It's a bit of a stretch to judge him based on last nights performance alone.
This is one of those "stats only tell part of the story" things. He throws awful passes that his receivers need to break stride to catch. When they don't make athletic plays, they don't catch his throws. No. I'm not overreacting.
Granted, I've seen him throw behind WR's but I've also seen him throw some great passes. If I had to describe him, I wouldn't say he's inaccurate as much as he's inconsistent. He can make 3 shit throws then get hot and complete 6 in a row. He has gotten better from year to year too. He just has to moderate some of his mistakes in bad games (like yesterday). I was hoping he'd do that this season, the same way he progressed from his rookie season to year 2.
Imo this has been painfully obvious. It's not just last night. It's not the progress we had hoped for.
I'm throwing yesterday's game out cause Sanchez had the case of DCS (David Carr Syndrome). That aside Sanchez is streaky with his accuracy. He'll hit 6-7 accurate throws in a row followed by 6-7 inaccurate ones and visa versa. I think that's going to plague him throughout his career.
That's not true, Alio. There are throws in the numbers. I've seen the passes you are talking about, but they aren't the norm. They like dropping his passes too. Keller seems to average a dropped pass that hits him in the numbers every other game.
I loled at random times today thinking about Rex calling the timeout just to yell the official. Think about that, you call a timeout just to swear at the ref. Thought it was great actually, it's the way he is.
Wildly inconsistent is fair. He's good on short range passes whenever he doesn't stare down his target, giving the coverage the jump, but he can't seem to throw well downfield. No doubt his receivers let him down quite a bit. They drop balls that are in their hands, which is unacceptable no matter what the circumstances. Still, when you throw terrible passes to spots where there isn't a green jersey, either your receivers are awful route runners (and we know for certain that isn't true with Holmes) or you're making poor throws. This happens with everyone, so it's hard to argue that it's every receiver and not Sanchez.
