Inexperience aside, I can’t imagine that Clemens, unless he has experienced a spectacular growth in skill this off season, is really so much better than Sanchez that he would be a better choice.

That being said, I agree with WebBard, there was no way Clemens got that start last season unless Favre was injured once that trade happened

What is this magical new NFL where rookies lift teams to great heights all by themselves? I’m just curious why a LOT of people seem to think that Mark Sanchez is going to turn the entire team around by himself. He is NOT Joe Flacco and he is not Matt Ryan, and I will tell you why. He doesn’t have a Michael Turner in the back field having the season of his life. He has Thomas Jones and an offensive line that COULD do good things [something Clemens never had]. Sanchez isn’t Joe Flacco either, because he is not getting backed up by one of the best defenses in the league, and before you chime in with your new savior Rex Ryan, ask yourself, does having a teams Defensive coordinator as your coach guarantee that your team will play like his previous defense? How’d that work out with Mangina? Do you really expect Ryan to have the same effect without Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and a thousand other legendary defensive players? You think Vernon Gholston is gonna rock the house the same way Ray Lewis can? Flacco scored ,on a good day, 21 points with his offense, with receivers similar to the ones you have now, but his opponents were lucky to get 10 to 14. That’s why Flacco won.

As far as I can tell your all really excited to see a guy take control who could not even win the starting job at USC until his senior year, yeah, he couldn’t beat out a guy named Booty, and Sanchez was surrounded by receivers who could catch anything, and backed up by a top class defense. I don’t think Sanchez is a bust by any means, but he certainly was not worth the number 5 overall pick and he is certainly not a first year starter in the NFL. I do not get why you think Clemens can not cut it. Xander’s point about "not being able to beat the guy we ran out of town" is faulty as hell, because the guy you ran out of town went down to Miami and promptly took that suckfest to the playoffs, so maybe the problem was YOUR team and coach and not your QB. Clemens did manage to win some games and make things at least close in his time behind the NFL’s greatest paper origami front line. He DID just spend a year backing up Favre. You think he might have gotten better, just maybe?………….. No, your right, Mark Sanchez is gonna rule this year. I bet its Super Bowls and parades and unicorns all the way, I mean, he STARTED at USC, and stuff and he has a super cool haircut.