Mark Sanchez Named Starter
Plain and simple – this is a decision based on the past. The decision to start Mark Sanchez is based on AFC Championship games for 3 fucking years ago. Based on Mark’s performance when he was a different player leading a different team. Based on unwavering, unreasonable loyalty from his head coach. The only sense that this is a move for the future is they know they are stuck with Mark for the foreseeable future so they need to try to milk some value out of him for another season.
If the Jets were looking to the future, McElroy would be the choice. Not in the sense that they believe McElroy will undoubtedly lead them to the promised land or anything delusional like that. It would be more of an understanding and admission that Mark Sanchez is not the ultimate answer, and Greg McElroy is the guy to play quarterback while this team transitions and rebuilds. Even if you’re still of the belief that Sanchez is not to blame and his struggles are a result of the rest of the team around him completely sucking, you gotta admit – at the rate Sanchez is regressing as a player, by the time the O Line and running game and wide receiving core is rebuilt, Sanchez will be truly shot. Mentally and emotionally this guy is a lame duck. Physically he’s not good enough to overcome that. He’ll inevitably lose his job to someone – might as well start now. Might as well start the new regime with a spark and some change rather than holding on to old memories and false hope that this team will magically return to 2010. Mark Sanchez starting is backwards thinking based on sunk costs and pipe dreams. Greg McElroy would be the reasonable, realistic choice to kickstart the rebuilding process for the future.
PS – Its a perfect opportunity for McElroy to build on last week going against the worst team in the league. Again, backwards thinking to say Sanchez can regain some confidence by beating up on one of the worst teams in the League. A) After watching Arizona there’s a chance Mark doesn’t go out there and whoop on Jacksonville and B) even if he does, he’s still a lost cause. A game against the worst team in the league is the perfect chance to ease a 3rd string QB into his career.
At least your accounting career did something for you…..taught you the concept of sunk cost and how to apply it in other areas. Well done.
I almost drove off the road when I heard this on Boomer and Carton today.
btw McElroy goes against the worst team in the league every day in practice. Jacksonville will be a step up.
And just like that, Rex Ryan put his own head on the chopping block.
I kind of feel bad for you, KFC, because this team is fucking dogshit and it’s infuriating watching Pinkeye Dropchez get the start when he deserves to be on a bus to Guadalajara. Probably the only time I’ll sympathize with jets fans.
NO WAY he makes this move if the game was at home. NO FREAKING WAY!!! Sanchez would literally cry.
Throwing games to get a better draft pick . . . I like the strategy.
Don’t knock Sanchez…he’s gonna take the Jets to the Superbowl!!
BWAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Do they have dreams of Geno next year?
It’s not because Shanchez took them to the AFC Championship game a couple years ago, the reason they are keeping this mook as starter is because they owe him 8 million dollars next year. If he wasn’t owed so much money no way in hell he starts this week, or ever again in the NFL
When you italicize words we can really feel your writing, really strikes a chord.
KFC, you know nothing about football. Building on what McElroy did on Sunday!?!? He scored one touchdown! This is the NFL, you can’t expect to win scoring 14 fucking points a game unless you have a combo of the 85 bears and 2000 ravens of defense and even then you have to scrape and bite and claw to win every game. You have ZERO quarterbacks. Your season is lost! It doesn’t matter who plays! You need a real quarterback and your not going to get one until maybe the draft or by trade. Complaining about mark Sanchez over Greg McElroy is akin to having the worst team in the NFL. You sir are dumb.
No, its because Tannenbaum runs this team.
kramerica is right, kfc is wrong.
When the Dolphins had a crappy QB situation they came up with the Wildcat. When the jets ahve a worse QB situation — even though they signed a wild cat specialist — they come up with the butt fumble.
Nicely done foot fetish boy, nicely done. I never realized that Rexy was a Pats/Bill B plant in the camp of the enemy.
Sanchize. Need to use that more.
drafting another QB next year will only make this entire situation even worse..they just signed McElroy and extended Sanchez, why on Earth would they draft another QB..they need to draft another WR, preferably one who catches the ball more than 50% of the time and is a threat deep down field, unlike Stephen Hill..they need to start rebuilding on DEF too..a lot of the D backs are getting old and Revis is probably going to ask to leave soon, I would if I was him
I’d bet the farm the Jets lose this weekend…by 2+ TD’s
and false hope that this team will magically return to 2010
LMFAO, as if the goal is to eat shit int he AFCCG you bozo.
For this I thank God every day I am not a Jet fan.
Stoolies are coming out FIRING this morning. Solid comment section.
Was waiting all morning to see this post and hear KFC mention the glory years of 2010. Being a non-Jet fan NEVER gets old!!! lmfao
@valbroski, You sir are dumb fucking idiot and must not watch football. You do know that McElroy played only a quarter and half, right? He had 2 scoring drives, second one taking a knee to end the game. So your agruement about scoring 1 TD makes zero fucking sense. Also I think KFC would agree with you about having zero Qbs. He is clearly stating that Sanchez is not the answer and while McElroy is not the going to be thier savior, he can do a better job of game managing and/or develop for the time being.
KFC it has nothing to do with money owed. This decision is going against the dipshit owner Woody Johnson who wanted McElroy to start
@wiseguy good call, getting worked up over a quarter and a half of football is a reason to write an empassioned blog about who’s the starting QB. If you want to blog about a QB controversy, blog about the 9ers. But if you’re actually wasting time blogging about the promise of a QB from a quarter and a half of football your team stinks and you probably haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1969. Also if the top story of your team is the plight of its number one losing his smile then you should kill yourself.
hahahaha…. Jets are a fucking joke. Let this shit crazy train roll forward….
Hey Silly Nanny, NY blogger…Hence a blog about a NY team. You should be crying to a more neutral media like ESPN for all the time they waste covering the Jets.
Rex is future is up to ButtFumble now,that cant be good
$1,000 says Mike Vick will be the Jets QB next year
@patsbetterthenurteam i love not being a Jets fan too but if I was you I would still kill myself. You’re not the face of the league anymore
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@BossHogg: You’ll probably win that bet.
@KFC: If as you say the Jets’ decision to keep Sanchez as their starter is based on the past, they must not remember that past very well, because he lost both AFC championship games he played in. The one against the Colts was particularly brutal– Peyton and crew basically spanked him that day.