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Well, you've convinced me. Based on this, there is no question that Rex made the call on Sanchez. It's like when Belichick went to dinner with Tebow before the draft and then the Pats drafted him....oh wait.
GMs pick players. Their livelihood depends on those picks turning out well. No way Tannenbaum would have ceded that responsibility to a first time, rookie HC like Rex, your very compelling "evidence" above notwithstanding.
Ryan talked about it from the beginning. He said Sanchez was his choice, he talked about how he went to see him personally, etc...
Here's the NYP noting it:
Mike Tannenbaum and Rex Ryan fell in love with Mark Sanchez during the month before the 2009 NFL Draft. The duo was wowed by the young quarterback’s presence during a clandestine meeting in Southern California, followed by a workout at his nearby high school field.
http://nypost.com/2012/11/14/jets-move-to-draft-sanchez-could-ultimately-cost-tannenbaum-ryan-their-jobs/
Here's the NYTimes quoting Ryan about that workout:
A team of Jets officials tried a misdirection play one night last month, sneaking Mark Sanchez in through a back door at the California hotel where the N.F.L. meetings were being held. They gave him an X’s and O’s quiz that he aced. Then they watched him throw the next day at his alma mater, Mission Viejo High School. The Jets were smitten.
“There had to be 20 receivers there that were volunteering,” Jets Coach Rex Ryan said. “That says something about this young man, the type of person he is. Guys were coming out of the woodwork to run routes for him. He’s got that kind of leadership. We saw the great feet. We saw the poise and how confident he was.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/sports/football/26jets.html?_r=0
And here's one more quote on it:
The Jets fell in love with Sanchez last month when the team's leadership met with him over two days in Southern California.
"This young man was so impressive," coach Rex Ryan said. "We knew I think right then that this was a guy that we really wanted."
http://askville.amazon.com/Abram-Elam-included-Jets-trade-Sanchez/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=50179906
It is what it is. You clowning yourself about it won't change it.