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I agree with you on this one: Sanchez was better than last year, but he didn't show anything that made me think he was capable of leading a team into the playoffs. First off, the interception isn't inherently terrible, but the read that he made in throwing that ball was. You simply can't screw up like that in the NFL: one time is more than enough to swing a game.
Secondly, most of his efficient work came against the Giants' second string. And even their first string wasn't really a first string, since Corey Webster wasn't playing. Thirdly, Sanchez wasn't any good until they started rolling him out to the right, which is where he excelled last year and again in this game. It's the Jake Plummer formula all over again, and it uses his mobility effectively while taking away half of the field (thus mitigating his inability to scan the field and read coverages well). This is effective as a short-term solution, but if this becomes the book on him, then it will be easy for opposing defenses to gameplan against him.
He has to become a better pocket passer, and that's not going to happen this way. If anything, it'll come at the expense of his long-term development, just as it did Plummer's; years later, when he was 30, he still wasn't an effective pocket passer, because he'd never had to be.
Agreed, I see their passing game kinda like I'm worried our run defense might turn out: plenty adequate against teams that aren't well-suited to exploit it as a weakness, but heavily exploitable against teams that are strong in that area. That's not a recipe for winning a SB, unless they hope to blaze a path to the SB without ever playing a team that has good press corners (could happen, but still not a good situation).
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