Rex: Sanchez Will Stay the Starter

If he has 3 or more turnovers he should get yanked. His teammates deserve a shot at winning a game. They don’t prepare all week to go out and watch Mark blow it.

All right, I’m a Dolphin fan, and in an unprecedented move (maybe because the Jets fans were so kind when I went to the NY-MIA game at the Meadowlands), I felt genuinely bad for you all yesterday evening when I was watching the game. Not because of Sanchez—he’s very young and green, but he has a lot of talent, and he’ll grow into a good QB in a year or two—but because of his receivers.

Someone should tell Braylon Edwards that the way to play wide receiver, see, is that when you’re going out for a pass, you have to turn around and look for the ball, then run as fast as you can to catch it. On one of Sanchez’s picks, Edwards sort of jogged half-speed, looking down the field for what I don’t know, then turned around at the last moment and follow the balls path as it sailed past him into the DB’s hands. Another time, the ball flew right over the TE’s head because he wasn’t even looking at Sanchez—and this was after he’d made his cut. He looked completely surprised.

I can’t blame Sanchez for getting desperate at the end and just throwing it up there, hoping maybe somebody would at least make an effort, but the Jet receivers didn’t seem very interested. It was really strange and bizarre.

Don’t feel Bad Rex, after this game I’m crying too, if you take away the interceptions we played well enough to win the game.

Just to be clear Erik Ainge did pretty well against 4th stringers and had a very good preseason, lets not twist all the facts to prove a point.

The bottom line is that we needed to win this game, by half time it was pretty clear we weren’t with Sanchez. If Ryan paid more attention to his offense he would have realized that, instead he probably was more focused on how his defense needed to improve. To his credit the d did improve after the half but the offense didnt. Sanchez should have been benched, we probably wouldn’t have won anyway with Clemens but at least we would have a shot.

He should be benched. Kellen Clemens hasn’t had one change to lead the Jets this season. We know what Sanchez can do. He isn’t the answer! If Kellen will be a free agent at the end of the year, at least give him a shot with this team. The Jets are much better than in 2007 when he led them to three of the four wins. I personally believe Sanchez is already a “bust”. I’m a life-long Jets fan who is tired of this team looking stupid!

And was working with 3rd string receivers and a running game.

Even if Mark gets pulled mid-way thru a game and whoever gets thrown in sucks to high heaven, at least will be able to get a side-line view of bonehead plays and how it takes the air out of his team. Maybe he’ll see how simple it is not to force it, or make his progressions to quickly. Maybe he’ll see that sometimes just being a little more composed and waiting for a receiver to make his break and stepping into a throw is how to do it rather than rushing thru progressions and trying to anticipate a receivers break and throwing a pick 6.

That way when the Jets finish under .500 this season and lose 3 of 4 games next year maybe the front office will see the lack of size and arm strength and realize he’s not a starting NFL QB and look to sign a capable free agent. If Sanchez had an arm like JaMarcus Russell the jets would have a QB that would be unstoppable but what we got instead is a younger version of Chad Pennington, no arm strength, average ability, and maybe when he learns to read the defense alittle better we may have a competent game manager but nothing else.

I fear for Sanchez’s future. Kid is clearly in over his head, has no clue what he’s doing out there, and unfortunately, there’s no one on the team that can mentor him. That, most of all, may be his undoing.

that is. At least I hope he can’t.