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Mark Sanchez will start at quarterback Sunday when the Jets take on the Atlanta Falcons at the Meadowlands.
Sunday's Starter (No Surprise) Is Sanchez
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Mark Sanchez will start at quarterback Sunday when the Jets take on the Atlanta Falcons at the Meadowlands.
In retrospect, it seems like starting Sanchez was a poor decision. They may have done more to hurt his confidence than develop it. Obviously with a rookie QB the jury is still out, but I think they're better off with Clemens as the starter. Sucks for them because Clemens isn't going to score a lot of points, either.
In retrospect, it seems like starting Sanchez was a poor decision. They may have done more to hurt his confidence than develop it. Obviously with a rookie QB the jury is still out, but I think they're better off with Clemens as the starter. Sucks for them because Clemens isn't going to score a lot of points, either.
I don't see how the experience would do anything to hurt Sanchez. Peyton Manning has said that being able to start his rookie year (with a 3-13 record, 71.2 rating) was a big help.
It also didn't help he didn't have an offensive line..David Carr certainly wasn't helped by it.
David Carr certainly wasn't helped by it.
With the potential of Matt Ryan and Michael Turner out this weekend, I don't know if Atlanta will have the offense to capitalize on all of Sanchez's picks this weekend.
Haha fair enough Deus... but my point is if it doesn't help, I don't see how it could hurt. If someone's psyche is fragile enough that one bad season will ruin his career, he's not cut out to be a QB in this league in the first place.
There are a lot more David Carrs, Tim Couches, Alex Smiths, Akili Smiths, Ryan Leafs, Joey Harringtons, etc. etc. than there are Peyton Mannings and Ben Roethlisbergers. The numbers definitely support the idea that starting too early can damage your rookie QBs, *especially* when they only have one year of college starting experience under their belts. Every single one of those guys had the physical talent to be an NFL all-pro, that's why they were drafted so high. Of course a lot of them would have busted no matter what, but the disparity is very striking nonetheless.
If you want to start a debate about whether it's better to start QBs right away vs. sit them at first, acknowledging the merits and downsides of each position, then there's a lot of directions that that could go in (FWIW, I'm firmly in favor of more slowly acclimating QBs to the pro game). But to suggest that there is no potential downside at all to the 'start him right away' method is simply wrong.
Maybe those guys just weren't cut out for the NFL?
There's no proof any of them would have suddenly been great QB's had they sat and learned for the first year.
Most rookies should come with reduced expectations (if the Jets and their fans were banking on Sanchez having a great first season and a deep playoff run they need to lower their expectations bottom line). Unless you're Lebron James, Tim Duncan, Sydney Crosby, etc it should be understood that a poor rookie season isn't the end of the world.
Believe me I'd love to join in the Jet bashing and criticize them for starting Sanchez too early also but I just don't see how getting real time NFL experience is a bad thing for any young player.
I said the same thing in my post, so I'm not sure what new ground you're trying to break here...
Post-by-post, you're moving the goalposts by about a mile. you previously said that you didn't see how starting Sanchez as a rookie could hurt him in the long term. AKA there's no conceivable downside. AKA you look at the laundry list of failed first-round QBs, all of which were blessed with enormous talent, and you conclude that there's no way that any of that could have been the product of starting too early?
When you look at the fact that the vast majority of all-pro QBs *didn't* start as rookies, and a disproportionate number of flameouts did, both must be a coincidence? That's ridiculous
Agree with the first part, not so much with the second. For quarterbacks, having a rookie season as bad as what Sanchez has had does not bode well at all. Very, very few QBs recover from this bad of a start and go on to become all-pro caliber players.
Someone on this board did a detailed breakdown that I'll have to try to dig up and re-post with proper attribution, because it gave an extraordinarily compelling case. And even then, we're talking about the relative weighting of the upsides versus downsides of to start or not to start.
What you're arguing is something totally different, which is that there is no conceivable downside to starting a player before he's ready. That's an absurd argument, and I'd be legitimately surprised if you could find a single NFL coach who agrees with you. Many might say that on the whole it's better to do it than not do it, but I highly doubt that any will say that there is no risk whatsoever.