next season - Mark Sanchez

[trapezeus]

I know i'm going crazy due to this season, but it dawn on me, the Jets aren't keeping Sanchez.

And originally i was joking around that he'd be a bill next year. but looking at his play, the guy isn't that bad. this year he has no run game and no receivers. he is at the 5 year mark for a starting qb, but he has beaten the pats regularly (or at least compared to the bills pathetic efforts).

I am beginning to think with CJ and fred, a decent line, and receivers, he might be a manager. he might actually be a decent interim while we groom the QB we pick in the draft. by himself, it's a bad deal. if he is being asked to be the stop gap for 3 years with a contract that lets you out if he doesn't perform after 1 year, is something i'd armchair GM.

I know nothing of his contract situation, but i just can't see the jets keeping him at this point. here in NYC, the fan base is very close to full revolt.

Thoughts on my plan? answers like "sanchez sucks!" isn't really helpful. the bills do too. and they aren't going to get a magical star quarterback off a current team's roster, and putting an andrew luck into a bills team may still have very frustrating results. I also think his asking price in a trade is a lot more negotiable than for a Rivers.

[OpIv37]

I just don't see how Sanchez is any better than Fitz. Well, he's probably marginally better, but not better enough to put us over the edge.

Throw in the $10 million or so in dead cap we'd have to eat if we cut Fitz, plus the cap room we'd have to spend on Sanchez, and it just handcuffs this team. We can't afford to have $15 million or so in cap tied up in the QB position unless it's a true franchise QB.

Oh, and:

Just say No to USC trash.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

What is this, a Halloween attempt to terrify us?

[trapezeus]

i'm not sold on the move either, but i think he's a buy low asset at this point. i think he can be a game manager. he did it in year 1 and 2 where was technically worse. it's only when he lost all his weapons that he couldn't get anything done.

i think his record is better than fitz, and obviously he hasn't had to carry a team...but i think he can manage...we know fitz can't.

i hate the idea of a one year wonder from the west coast sliding in,but i think he's a stop gap. next year, a rookie isn't going to do much better than what is happening now.

[Static]

I say go for it!

[Jaybird]

been waiting for this post.. but I see Cassell before Sanchez (not that im a fan)

[stuckincincy]

IIRC, Tebow was 6 -1 as a starter with DEN

[jdaltroy5]

No.

Just no.

The guy is a dumber, more mistaken prone QB than Fitz.

Fitz looks decent at times (although those times are fleeting) because he has a thorough understanding of Chan's playbook. Just imagine what a dumber version of him would do.

Lateral moves at QB aren't going to do anything.

Time to blow it up and do it right.

[trapezeus]

cassell would be a straight up trade for fitz but with a concussion.

i just don't see a rookie qb doing much better (or much worse than fitz). and frankly the bills offense is in the early stages of being in its prime (in terms of key player ages). Look at the line which played well. look at cj freddie combo (maybe one more year after this), stevie is of age. To get a rookie to maybe sheppard the team into a playoff run, seems harder to me than getting a veteran to potentially juryrig a salvagable effort and spend a lower round pick (possibly on Klien from KS, i know he doesn't have the fundamentals etc, but he's a winner thus far) and get some OLBs in round 1 and 2, you might have a team that can squeak its way into the playoffs and maybe go on a run.

i'm just torn between this team being completely useless and seeing some signs of trying to make it work. and since my overwhelming feeling is that this team isn't long for the buffalo area, i want a playoff appearence sooner than later.

[trapezeus]

No.

Just no.

The guy is a dumber, more mistaken prone QB than Fitz.

Fitz looks decent at times (although those times are fleeting) because he has a thorough understanding of Chan's playbook. Just imagine what a dumber version of him would do.

Lateral moves at QB aren't going to do anything.

Time to blow it up and do it right.

don't entirely disagree with you. i just hate this QB class as being our salvation. i think there are more chances to get it wrong and have another 4-5 years of futility than to keep chugging along hoping to pick up pieces here and there.

[BertSquirtgum]

I wouldn't care if they signed him as long as they still drafted a qb in the first round.

[YardRat]

Wow, things are really getting desperate.

[justasportsfan]

Someone tell Trap it's Halloween , not April fools!

[jdaltroy5]

don't entirely disagree with you. i just hate this QB class as being our salvation. i think there are more chances to get it wrong and have another 4-5 years of futility than to keep chugging along hoping to pick up pieces here and there.

Chugging along and picking up pieces hasn't been working for us. All it's done is make us average and out of reach for a franchise changing QB.

If we put all of our faith into a new QB and he fails, then what do we lose? Another mediocre season and 11th overall pick?

[BertSquirtgum]

What's the issue of bringing him in to compete with the other scrubs and the drafted quarterback?

[Skooby]

Just what we need, a quartet of losers.

[jdaltroy5]

What's the issue of bringing him in to compete with the other scrubs and the drafted quarterback?

I'd bring him in for the league minimum to be the third string QB. Same deal as Vince Young.

If he wants more than that, then he can take a walk.

[OpIv37]

What's the issue of bringing him in to compete with the other scrubs and the drafted quarterback?

He's not going to be any better than Fitz, and cap space.


Oh, and he's USC trash

[Mr. Miyagi]

IJust say No to USC trash.

No thanks to Sanchez. I agree he's not improvement enough over Fitz. If we're gonna make a change at that position, I might as well go all the way and draft one in the first.

Really? All USC QBs are trash? I guess pretty much everyone other than Carson Palmer. Maybe Barkley is better?

[OpIv37]

No thanks to Sanchez. I agree he's not improvement enough over Fitz. If we're gonna make a change at that position, I might as well go all the way and draft one in the first.

Really? All USC QBs are trash? I guess pretty much everyone other than Carson Palmer. Maybe Barkley is better?

Well, Barkley hasn't been as successful at USC as guys like Palmer, Leinart and Sanchez. That doesn't necessarily mean he won't be better in the NFL, but it's not a good sign.