Buzz: Braddock fuels a Sanchez hate machine
Unfortunately, I couldn’t ignore this on TJB much longer. Jayson Braddock’s Mark Sanchez “takedown” at theXlog.com has buzzed a little on Jets forums and Twitter for the past day, and it’s so unbelievably bad, I had trouble figuring out where to begin.
Ultimately, I decided to nuke his opinion since the grammatical corrections would border condescending (and would be too much extra work). I’d like to keep it a little classy.
There are plenty of reasonable criticisms to make of Sanchez’s play since he’s been in the NFL. His completion percentages aren’t impressive, his field vision needs to improve, and he needs to adjust more quickly to unexpected defensive wrinkles. For optimistic Jets fans, it’s not a big deal because experience is the cure. For Braddock, hinging the future on Sanchez is absolutely hopeless.
The self-proclaimed NFL Scout simplified Sanchez’s two-year career, but not before wishing for more Peyton Manning-Tom Brady showdowns, making the all-too-easy Trent Dilfer comparison, and suggesting Brad Smith is a franchise quarterback in waiting.
Oh, and he also implied Sanchez is gay in the most clichéd ways imaginable. I hate incendiary journalism.
If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you already know that I feel the biggest weakness on the New York Jets team is at the most important position. I’ve written plenty of articles like the one making a case for the Jets to unload the bank for Peyton Manning.
That’s a terrible idea. Jets management is supposed to engage in a bidding war with the Colts to make Manning the highest-paid player in the league? And sacrifice the free-agent weapons Sanchez worked with in 2010?
Manning might make receivers like Pierre Garcon better, but you don’t “unload the bank” for a 35-year-old quarterback who won’t be in Canton as a Jet, and leave him with Jerricho Cotchery, Dustin Keller, and a receiving corp filled with lesser evils.
How great would it be for the world to see Manning vs. Brady twice a year for the next 5 or so years?
Once a year isn’t enough? Realistically, we could see them play twice a year — if either team survived long enough in the postseason. There are no more questions to answer with regard to this ballyhooed duel between future Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks. Do you value championships? Or do you value routinely prolific passing performances? That’s the black and white of a tired discussion.
If Braddock’s article wasn’t about Sanchez, I’d think this was written five years ago.
Either way, it seems like the world really needs a young, hotshot quarterback in a big city with bright lights to lead a team into the playoffs and dispatch both Manning and Brady from the postseason in back-to-back weeks. That might give lazy writers something new to discuss.
I think Sanchez should join the Broadway plays that he forces his teammates to go see. I’m sorry, I rather my quarterbacks take out the team to a bar and if a fight breaks out so be it. Maybe this makes me a meathead but I’ll take that rather than having NFL quarterbacks taking their teammates out on dates like in “Pretty Woman”. And it’s not only that I don’t like the fact he takes them there, I don’t like his feminine reactions when talking about the date.
Oh, what a dandy! He won’t even fight and risk getting arrested like a real man. I bet he spends hours trimming his beard. That pretty boy is better suited for endorsing phone companies, televisions, and sneakers — like… Peyton Manning. Next you’re going to seriously tell me he pats his teammates’ butts.
Seriously though, if Sanchez was a franchise quarterback, I would look past his patting on his teammate’s butt.
Well, damn. Even more seriously, I’m half tempted to stop this FJM-style post right here. I feel like I’m giving Braddock more credence by acknowledging him from this platform. It’s not even funny that a faux-NFL scout is pretending slaps to the ass are exclusive to the Jets’ Broadway-loving quarterback. This is worthy of an eye-roll only.
Sanchez’s supporters like to mention him playing in two consecutive AFC Championship games. My rebuttal, Trent eff’ing Dilfer won a Super Bowl.
SLAM! Except it’s tired and we expect more from an NFL Scout. (I’m really enjoying that title.)
Sanchez supporters don’t back him only because of two-consecutive AFC Championship appearances, but because of the performances he delivered en route to those games. His regular-season statistics are pedestrian, but Sanchez turned out remarkable performances in the postseason. Apparently, his 4-2 playoff record (all away games), nine passing touchdowns, and 94.1 QB rating in the postseason don’t hold enough merit.
Two things tie those last two sentences in well. The first thing is that neither one of the quarterbacks mentioned are better than backup QBs.
Just full of zingers, huh? But while we’re here: Dilfer, for all his unmistakable mediocrity, was pretty good that postseason. The defensively-dominant, run-first 2000 Ravens closed out the regular season on a seven-game win streak, but Dilfer took over a 5-3 squad and kept the offense from being one-dimensional in the playoffs with a few deep shots. Kerry J. Byrne from Sports Illustrated analyzed the stats that rebut Braddock’s rebuttal.
Dilfer finished the postseason with just 35 completions, but a 16.9-yard average for each of them. He also tossed three touchdowns and just one pick, good for an 83.7 passer rating. Peyton Manning, he is not — but they have the same amount of jewelry.
The second is Rex Ryan factored into both defenses. Ryan was the defensive line coach on the Ravens team that “Dilfer led to a Super Bowl” and he implemented the defense for the Jets that routinely set up Sanchez with great field position at a rate well above the league average.
Figured that might be a credit to Mike Westhoff’s direction of the special teams. But okay, I’ll let it stick.
If you are a Jets fan you are probably cursing at me right now saying “who the hell is this SOB bashing our QB?” Well, if you don’t trust a scout’s eye…
… With a roster of quarterbacks that consist of the wiener eating Mark Sanchez (referring to the hot dog eating instance during the game, I promise)…
Boom! Double entendre, son! This guy’s witty.
[The Jets] can either get someone via free agency to help win that championship while the window is open or they can give more touches to Mr. Excitement, Brad Smith.
Brad Smith is a weapon that is being drastically misused in New York. Every time he touches the ball, he’s an instant threat to “house it.” … Smith is often the fastest guy on the field for the Jets and they use that ability in the kickoff return game. But, outside of the return game, he averages less than 3 touches a game. It’s time for New York to become more creative.
Damn. He is serious. What Braddock would have the Jets do is become a professional pee-wee football squad and hinge all offensive success on Smith’s ability to routinely evade a blitz, or throw an accurate pass to one of the receivers running a short route from that formation. That’s foolish. So very foolish. Mainly because it’s predicated on the unreasonably biased notion that Sanchez is completely incompetent, which we know not to be true.
The Jets’ Wildcat often resulted in momentum-killing plays and rarely looked worth the risk. I was all for letting Smith toss the occasional pass, if only to snap the monotony of the two- to three-yard stumble behind a congested wall of blockers, but this is by no means a resolution. If the goal is to get your franchise quarterback comfortable — whether Braddock believes Sanchez is one, or not — you don’t kill any chance for him to establish a rhythm.
Would it hurt to take Sanchez out from under center more and sit him on the sideline? He would probably enjoy it and be able to eat something or catch up on the latest reviews of the newest Broadway play that all the girls are screaming about. While he’s getting his mani / pedi with the Jets logo on his nails for his red carpet premiere that night…
Still at it. This macho, chest-thumping ignorance Braddock keeps injecting into this article is more absurd than the premise. You’d think he discovered his 17-year-old sister ‘liked’ Mark Sanchez’s fan page on Facebook.
Smith, more than any of the other QBs that run the Wildcat can throw the ball (as evidenced by the above Sanchez/Smith passing comparison).
No, he really can’t. Smith’s opportunities to play QB in preseason games often featured erratic, inaccurate passes. And Michael Vick is upset now, too.
Smith should take snaps with Shonn Greene and Bilal Powell lined up behind him, but he should pass it almost as much as he runs (and that will actually help him when he does run it). … He can’t be any worse than Sanchez. The Jets could also give Smith more touches as the slot receiver, if Mark can get him the ball.
If only Mark didn’t waste so much time targeting Braylon Edwards, Santonio Holmes, Cotchery, and Keller, he’d find Smith running money-play routes EVERY time!
For the record, I’m convinced Braddock wrote this pompous rant without realizing that Brad Smith is a free agent this offseason.
One thing is for sure, the Jets can’t just go into the season hoping to be one dimensional on offense and beat everyone with defense. There are three other teams in the AFC that drafted and got better this offseason and they’re also known for having a hard nose defense like the Jets: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and San Diego. Their quarterbacks are Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers, and Joe Flacco.
Not respectively, of course. Unless Flacco and Rivers swapped squads. Maybe this scout knows something we don’t?
Here are the 2010 key stats.
- Pittsburgh Steelers: #1 Scoring Defense / #1 Rush Defense ( Jets will need great QB play to stand a chance)
You mean the same Steelers that won the game because the Jets failed to stop Rashard Mendenhall from racking up 95 of his 121 rushing yards in the first half?
That game was a 24-3 dismantling for the first 30 minutes, until Sanchez’s great QB play produced 233 yards, two second-half touchdowns and brought the Jets a touchdown away from a trip to the Super Bowl. It was the defense that allowed a 14-yard completion from Roethlisberger to Antonio Brown after the two-minute warning.
The Jets won’t be able to just beat teams with their running game and great defense.
Like they have.
If they don’t replace Sanchez with a free agent quarterback (which they won’t)…
Well, they better! Because Seneca Wallace, Matt Hasselbeck, Alex Smith, and Matt Leinart hold the keys to the future. The bidding wars might be too intense for those guys, though. Mike Tannenbaum’s contingency plan better include Billy Volek, Drew Stanton, and Tarvaris Jackson. Otherwise, Gang Green is Gang CREAMED.
…they’ll need to be more creative in the offensive attack, which means fueling up the Jets on Brad Smith. If Ryan holds Smith down to only three touches a game again this year, the Jets won’t get off the ground.
So, that’s really the point to take away from this entire article? Yet, it’s buried deep beneath layers of flat puns, homophobia, unwarranted arrogance, and poor writing.
Hat tip to S-Dubb at NYJetsFan.com for alerting me to this madness.
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had a lot of trouble reading this. and i mean that simply in the sense that it’s crappy journalism. i wanted to puke every other word
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juunit says:
I was pretty sure that being an NFL player gave you the right to act as gay as you wanted. Hell, look at Dennis Rodman, and he played basketball not football… he also dated Jessica Alba I believe. But really, even if Sanchez were gay, I don’t understand what the problem would be, he’d still be much tougher than this guy is. It’s not like all gay guys are fairies. In fact, I’m sure I know a few that would probably break this guy’s jaw. What a fa-… never mind.
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Bent says: Even if you think Sanchez sucks, this writer is not funny, doesn’t understand the salary cap and apparently lacks any semblence of a clue about the NFL generally.
I’ve never heard of the xlog before but I have to assume it’s like a crap Bleacher Report.
Goodness knows what the rest of the articles about how the Jets should make every effort to get a QB ten years older than their starter (even though he’s never going to become available and the Jets can’t afford him) were like.
And yes, that was a horribly written run-on sentence. Consider it my tribute.
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Bent:
Regardless of what…. After Ryan’s (what..third?)guarantee, he has absolutely placed all the marbles (credibily) on this season!!!
The fact is that Sanchez must stand away from mediocrity and make an impact this season!!!
There will be no if’s, but’s or almost’s if the Jets don’t make the Super Bowl!!
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Brendan says:
They’ll just reload and try again in 2012. Rex isn’t going anywhere and neither is Sanchez.
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Yup. And technically he’s only guaranteed one super bowl. Every other year he said he believes he can win it all.
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Sorry but you’re wrong. First year he said he was plannig to meet Obama but not for his inaguration.
Second year he said the Jets were going to win the SB
And this year he GUARATEED IT!!!
Short memories guys. We all forgot Rex crying and apologizing for missing the playoffs????
Question… What would have happened to the Jets last season if Stuckey had not fumbled that pass and stepped out of bounds in regulation time ???
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Bent says:
How is he wrong? He says Rex only guaranteed one Superbowl and you respond by confirming that fact.
It’s utterly irrelevant what he says. You think he gives a hoot about his credibility?
He does this to deflect the pressure from his players and to inspire them into thinking he believes in them. It’s led to them exceeding everyone else’s expectations two years in a row and has top players around the league saying they want to play for him. Don’t you get it?
As for your “what if?” question, you can play that game with any team in the league. The Jets nearly won five of the six games they lost last year. Heck, what if Jenkins never got hurt. What if Bart and Greene didn’t get knocked out of the 2009 title game? What if the Jets got the ball back in the Steelers game?
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Bent:
First of, lets put things in perspective and remember that the Jets have still not won the division yet and Rex has lost the BIG game what , three times? So lets not say Rex is the second comming of Lombardi or the Jets GB is slightly premature, isn’t it?
Although there is optimism, lets not fawn over our LIMITED success weve had over the last two years!!!
Second, Rex may not have ,as you say GUARENTEED the last three years twinning the Super Bowl, but lets be honest shall we, and recognize the fact that Rex has ASSURED us that he would win every one of them!!!!
And last but not least, every one here thinks Sanchez is such a great leader, franchize QB, with such incredible maturity that you’d think he was the second comming of Bart star or Johnny Unitas for crying out loud, when in fact his efficiency is horrible, his INT/TD ratio is under 500% and has placed SECOND or THIRD from the BOTTOM his two years as a Pro!!!
True, the optimism today IS the best but not nearly as high as the Sack Exchange era!!!
To read and swallow the biased press is absurd and most of the time the keyboard gets sticky from all the gook spewed!!!
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Two AFC Championship games is “limited success”? I think you need a lesson in Jet history.
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Bent says:
If everyone was saying Ryan is Lombardi and Sanchez is Unitas, I’d agree with you. However, most Jets fans are more level headed and are merely thrilled with the direction of the team under Ryan and some of the signs of development from their young quarterback (and, yes, he’s still one of the youngest starters in the league and did improve statistically).
If there are fans here that are too enthusiastic in their praise, what did you expect? This IS a Jets fansite after all.
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Bent;
“…he’s still one of the youngest starters in the league and did improve statistically).”
Not in THE one major stat and how he compares to thvie rest of his peers…he is still THIRD from the bottom, which BTW is always ignored when gushing over him!!
And one more thing referring to your privious comment: I’m not playing the “what if” game.
Simply stating the fact that the Jets have needed the “other” team(s) help the last two years to reach the championship game.
Winning teams make their own detiny,!!!
Wether we like it or not, that Jets are NOT the Pats nor Rex Belichick, we are not not even the Giants, but all the talk and make PROMISES as if we we have proven to have done great things!!!!!!
Keep in mind we HAVE NOT won our dision (with Ryan)STILL!!!!
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Bent says:
Actually, he did. His completion percentage increased slightly and his QB rating increased significantly.
If we also take into account playoff games (and why shouldn’t we?) then both would have been even better. Still probably only 22nd in the league, but that’s still a decent improvement on last year.
We STILL haven’t won a division title? He’s only had TWO chances and it’s not like that’s something that’s easy to achieve when you have the Pats ahead of you. You could be the second best team in the NFL and still not win the division. Considering how far behind the Pats they were when he took over, he’s come closer than I expected.
I don’t understand the “winning teams make their own destiny” comment. Are you that unprepared to give the Jets ANY credit for the success they’ve had under Ryan?
You hate that he makes these promises which is your prerogative, but I’ve already said why I think he does it and it seems to work, so it doesn’t bother me.
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Am I not (as you say THAT)unprepared to give Ryan (as you say ANY) credit. Apparently you missed the part where I say that “we DO have reason for optmisim”.
You can align the figure any way you want, the fact is that Sanchez needs to step up BIG time to climb out of the QB cellar!!
I’m willing to wager a dollar to a doughnut that Henne, with a lessr team but with Dabol will out perform Sanchez this year and he might be looking at the bottom with rooks as his only company!!!
You say that Rex “…has only had two chances”
I know, but the fact is you would never know it by All his talk (and the players)about they are the best in the NFL and own NY with the Giants being the step-child and on, and on and on!!!And last but not least…
I do HATE that he spews off. You may call it a form of Psychology 101 ie. behavior mmodification, Chamelion effect ETC., but I totally disagree!!!
I firmly believe it is ingrained in his DNA, stemming from his BIG MOUTH father(Buddy) Ryan!!
To prove my point you only have to look at the times his has put his foot in his LARGE mouth and all the times he has dissed his own players!!!
I bet you he and his brother were the two big MACHOS in the playgroud
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Bent says:
Swing and a miss, Hank…
“Back in high school, Rex was sort of the quintessential goofball, always laughing or joking about something. That part of his personality was in stark contrast to his dad, who rarely cracked a smile and didn’t tolerate mistakes well.
Buddy’s influence was easily seen, though, in how the Ryans handled themselves. Rex and Rob were about doing the right thing in high school. Rob is now defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, by the way.
The brothers stayed out of trouble and never made an enemy as far as I could tell. They were always friendly, often the first ones to step up if someone was getting picked on.”
Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20100123/sports/301239966/
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Bent says:
PS – I acknowledge your giving Rex some faint praise.
Yes, Sanchez needs to keep getting better. I’ll worry when he stops improving.
Rex doesn’t diss his own players. Even when he called Gholston a phony, that was in the context of his workout numbers during the draft. I can’t think of a single example of him publically criticizing a player.
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Bent:
If you can’t think of single instance then you havent read his book.
Even in the article you quoted the author points out that..”
Rex obviouslyacquired that speech pattern from his father, who loved to create controversy around himself with the idea it took pressure off the players”….in high School???Buddy Ryan has always been known as a loud mouth in your face type of coach!!!
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Bent says:
I haven’t read his book. I assume you have so please give me an example of him publicly dissing one of his players. (If he yelled at them behind closed doors then I don’t have an issue with that…that’s coaching.)
Thanks for inadvertently confirming that I was right about him doing these sorts of things to take pressure off his players, though.
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Bent says:
I don’t blame Hank for this. Rex is portrayed as a loud-mouthed blowhard by the media when in reality he’s a sensitive, jovial, hardworking family man.
It’s pretty ironic though because this conversation started with Hank talking about how the media is biased towards Rex and he isn’t buying it. I’d say the negative press he gets is a lot more inaccurate than the positive press, even if some of it is a little over-optimistic.
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We are not the Pats or Giants? Are you serious? You would rather have more regular season wins the last two years and go 0-2 in the playoffs? Atleast that is debatable, (barely), but nobody in their right mind wants less wins and no playoffs! Even Giants players have openly said they wished they played for Rex. Since Rex has been here and Sanchez, I take the Jets. I also took the Jets over Pats in the Playoffs. That makes Rex 3-2 against them, I’ll take that too!
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The “one major stat” that matters are W’s. Sanchze has over 20, and has as many road playoff wins as anyone, ever.
That’s the stat I care about. And look at his 4th quarter splits, pretty damn good if you ask me.
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I wish these replys didn’t get pushed all the way over to the right hand side so i could get a better view of bent owning hank.
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Odocaver says:
I would say as to whether or not Sanchez is going anywhere all depends on whether or not the Jets get lucky with McElroy.
Still I think Sanchez will have an amazing year this go around as long as we keep both S.H. and B.E.
Either way anyone who watched every game last year saw that Sanchez is the QB of the future. He is an amazing scrambler, and even when he does take that hit he is tough and durable.
Never mind the obvious traits of leadership, initiative, and general work ethic that are displayed in last year and this year.
I love that Sanchez is setting the bar across the NFL this year of what expectations are for the players. This is only even further exemplified for me when I see other teams only beginning to do what he was doing a month ago while he is going over last years playbook with everyone and doing film sessions planning to execute a full team OTA in a month if the lockout continues…
Please dont post garbage like this guys Sanchez bashing article, its just adding fuel to a fire.
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JDB says:
Well he doesn’t get to come to the parade when the Jets win and Sanchez is holding the Lombardi.
FTR Sanchez is not gay, but his choice of women is questionable, 17 yr old uggo
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I’m sure he thinks parades are gay anyway.
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This guy is an a$$! I stopped reading the article. Sanchez is still developing and showing huge promise. He barely had college experience! This guy will eat his words when Kid Sanchez leads us to our SB!
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Geoff says:
Yup… that Sanchez is a homo all right, what with his long hair, his flair for fashion, and pictures like this:
http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tom-brady-waterslide.jpg
what a friggin queen. If only he had a fashionista decoy wife…
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RJ in Fla says:
Well said sir……hilarious!
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BubbyBrister/ShovelPass says:
Say what you want about Sanchez, but to imply that the ravens are better with Joey Flacco is way out of line…We all saw that guy wilt (read: happy-feet)in the second half against Pit, while our QB stepped up his game against the Steelers the following week.
Perhaps by the word Scout, this “expert” was talking about his ability to sell cookies.
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Andrew Garda says:
Also to his Ryan was the genius behind the Ravens SB D point – well, Ryan was Dline coach, not coordinator. A lot of the success was on the DLINE but to ignore Marvin Lewis is just ignorant.
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haters gonna hate…
Angel: understand your ire, but this bee aitch ain’t worth your time, or ours….
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Here is this jokers email address if anyone wants to drop him a line. what a joke! jaysonb.mc3sportsmedia@gmail.com
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I don’t know where to start so let me start by saying” I do think with Sanchez playing better we will win the big game”. If this a**h**l think Sanchez sucks I wonder what he think about of wonder boy from ATL who can’t win a playoff game and Matthew Stafford who have not play more than 18 game.
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Cautiously Optimistic says:
Aside from all the run-on sentences, this ‘scout’ provides no actual scouting, only pulling a few lines of stats, and just tons of cliches and homosexuality references….. IMPOSSIBLE to take him seriously.
He seems like a scout the same way Ashton Kutcher seems like an actor.
The .GIF at the bottom is hilarious though.
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The Green Hornet says:
Wow, does this guy hate Mark or what?
Sanchez is going to improve, and we will win a SB.
The only thing gay about our team is the play calling from Schottenheimer
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I don’t know maybe the guy wrote it as a joke or just to get a rise out of Jets fans. Nobody’s that ignorant.
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Doesn’t Brady hit up Broadway when he’s in NY? Mr. Metrosexual even rocked the Justin Beiber haircut.
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Mark "The Chosen One" Sanchez says:
Just fueling the fire. If you’re gonna play in New York you better love the hate. All thsi kind of crap just makes the team more motivated, although I’m sure Sanchez will never even get a whiff of this article, unless Bart Scott posts it on his FB page. LOL.
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Patrick from the Bronx says:
Who is this guy ? Just a jackass wanting attention ! I hope he runs into Mark sometime and Mark breaks his head open !You do not call a NFL player a fa-, sorry gay. That deserves a beat down..
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frustratedjetfan says:
A jackass looking for his 15 minutes of fame. Don’t give it to him.
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max says:
Shout out to Geoff…. that link was too funny.
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jayson braddock is an unfunny troll and his parents didn’t spell his name right on his birth certificate. take it from me, i am a professional blog scout. i know about these things.
also he’s definitely closeted and feels uncomfortable in locker rooms.
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jetsman24 says:
just another jet hater. clearly he only watched the first 58 minutes of all our reg season games.
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Is this guy serious? I don’t even know how to respond to that. I’ve never seen that much stupidity in 1 article. This sounds like something a Dolphins fan would say in 1 of their forums.
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david i says:
I wouldnt give this jackhole any further acknowledgement of what he writes until he writes something that includes objectively. He makes subjective opinionated claims and ignores statistics.
I think Rex has already demonstrated leadership by blowing off the fat ass Giant lover and Jets hater by not appearing on his radio program to promote his book and we should learn from it. Don’t give in to giving idiots the time of day. Cut them off until they come around. It will work.
Heck, even Gary Myers came around eventually.
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This is, without a doubt, one of the worst pieces of journalism I have ever laid my eyes on. I’m not even that upset with the crappy jokes but rather the fact that he didn’t even bother to check facts and just write this fictitious junk.
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neauone says:
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, that is his. The question I have is why even give it a rebuttal? Obviously this guy is fishing and trying to cause controversy with what he says. I don’t know who he is and what he says I have no interest in hearing or reading. I read some of the article but stopped there.
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Poster Tom Shane on the JN sent the writer this:
Hey Jay! GREAT article! It’s SO awesome to FINALLY have an esteemed NFL Scout lend some credibility to all of us who suspected that Mark Sanchez was secretly a gay man who can’t win any games in the NFL.
I was wondering if you could give some of your younger readers any advice on how they too can become a real deal “NFL Scout.” That’s always been a personal dream of mine, but I’m afraid I might not have the grades to get into the vaunted “Sports Management Worldwide Football GM and Scouting Course” that you graduated from, and I KNOW I lack the level of commitment it would take to endure the rigors of an extensive eight week online program. I can’t even imagine what kind of dedication and mental acuity that would take! I’d like to try, though. My mom says she would lend me the $400 bucks to go back to school, which rules. Maybe you could write me a recommendation or something?
Let me ask you a few questions about the program (seeing as how you’re clearly its most esteemed and successful alum!) After which week’s downloadable online lecture do you actually get to refer to yourself as an “NFL Scout”? That would be so sweet! Like, I used to tell people all the time that I was an astronaut, but I wasn’t really because I never worked for NASA or went into space or anything like that, but I DID once go to Hayden Planetarium for a Pink Floyd laser show, so it was, like, close, right? But, if I attended an eight-week astronaut class, I could have TOTALLY told people I was an astronaut and it would have been the truth.
Another question: I’m assuming you have to print up your own business cards? Or are they included with the cost of tuition at SMWFGMSC? Is it part of the Activities Fee? While we’re on the topic, who spoke at your commencement? Was it Bill Polian or Gil Brandt? I bet it was awesome when you got your degree sent to you in a PDF file (sucks that you probably had to download that huge Adobe update, though!) And, after you graduate, does SMWFGMSC offer job placement, or do I just walk into an NFL team’s front office, flash my sweet degree and ask them where my cubicle is?
Anyway, bro, any help you can give me would be super-appreciated. I’m going to fill out the application to SMWFGMSC and pray to God they accept me for the Fall Semester. I would try and take some of their summer classes as a non-matriculated student, but I’m wicked busy trying to finish up this online PhD at NinjaSchool.edu. Granted, it’s only a six-week class, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to be named valedictorian if I ever finish this stupid term paper on the history of nunchucks. That’s gotta count for something, right?
Thanks for the inspiration, Jay. You’re the MAN!
Signed,
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just a guy trying to get attention by using the jets. it kind of reminded me of how that dbag florio had like 5 ‘articles’ a day about the jets last season.
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Mr Blint says:
Jeez even though this jackwagon is a flaming A-hole, and won’t be taken seriously by any knowledgeable football fan, this kind of writing is a perfect example of whats wrong with journalism. The sort of thing that can literally lead to the development of a public perception. Some other “jounalist” with little to no familiarity with the jets reads this and makes another Sanchez is gay reference, some comedian picks up on it and adds it to his show. Opposing team media starts to use it… Really this “writer” should be shunned. In the meantime – look at all the 1-2nd year QBs from the last few years – most have abysmal stats, some have slightly better stats than Sanchez last year, but really none – have shown to be nearly as “Clutch”. Think back to all the clutch performances by Jets QBs to come back and close out games… I can number these games on one hand and I can’t think of any Jets QB having more than 1 or 2 in a season. Sanchez did it 3 times last year – but in most of their games he was excellent in the clutch with several losses coming after receivers dropped passes. Sanchez weaknesses are too many passes deflected (hopefully this will decrease with time and the biggie appears to be his completion percentage (accuracy)- but in reality his weakness is getting started. His accuracy in the first half of games last year was horrible (especially in the send half of the season), and I blame shotty for that. He needs to script the first drives in a way that gets his QB into a rhythm.
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I have thought that Sanchez was gay for a while. Of course, I don’t really care. Would we really be better with a bar room a-hole who can’t keep it in his pants like Big ben?
Glad you shared this. Sanchez is the guy. He keeps improving, he wants to win and saves his best for the tough moments. He plays the best when the lights are brightest, which is exactly what you want in your QB.
I have just two words to describe this guy
REDNECK A-HOLE