{"id":10548,"date":"2012-01-26T02:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T06:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2012-01-26T02:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T06:52:14","slug":"the-sanchize-an-in-depth-look-at-marks-2011-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/01\/26\/the-sanchize-an-in-depth-look-at-marks-2011-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cSanchize:\u201d An In-Depth Look at Mark\u2019s 2011 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us remember that Mark Sanchez only started 16 games at the University of Southern California.\u00a0 He had two years of up and down moments, however, led the New York Jets to AFC Championship games in his first two seasons.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it comes as any surprise when I say that Sanchez had a year of regression in 2011-2012.\u00a0 With poor offensive line blocking and complicating schemes, Sanchez was constantly looking down to see how his protection is holding up.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, or Drew Brees, when you\u2019re being rushed on every play, it is extremely difficult to focus on finding an open receiver.\u00a0 I believe that Sanchez never truly trusted this offensive line this season and it was a major reason for his decline.<\/p>\n

\"\"However, most of the problems I see with Sanchez are physical and a few are mental\u2026some can be fixed, some a quarterback either has or doesn\u2019t have.\u00a0 One example would be Sanchez backpedaling when the rush is coming, rather than stepping up into the pocket or using his legs to roll out and make something happen.\u00a0 He often stepped back into sacks of 7 yards or more.\u00a0 Any successful team is consistently at 3rd<\/sup> down and 4 or less, but it seemed that the Jets were always in 3rd<\/sup> down and 8 this season.\u00a0 In an era where a quarterback\u2019s ability to extend a play is vital to the team\u2019s success, Sanchez found himself on his back more times than passes completed on the roll out this season.\u00a0 The problems with his throwing motion are small matters that he can fix.\u00a0 He needs to keep the ball high and tight to his body when he drops back (this will decrease the amount of strip sacks he takes). His release should be over the top and often times, in times of a rush, he slings the ball sidearm and doesn\u2019t follow through with his arm or his body.\u00a0 Many times this season I believe Sanchez threw blindly into crowded areas.\u00a0 He was fortunate that he didn\u2019t have more interceptions than he did (18).\u00a0 The major flaw with his game is his inability to scan the field.\u00a0 Any fan can see that when a play is designed to go to Dustin Keller, or Plaxico Burress or Santonio Holmes he immediately looks at that receiver.\u00a0 If that receiver\u2019s covered he looks to check down right away to a running back.\u00a0 This is why he completed 308 passes for 3,474 yards.\u00a0 A lot of check downs.\u00a0 308 completions should lead to well over 4,000 yards passing.\u00a0 This may not be an area that can be fixed.<\/p>\n

Tony Sparano, new offensive coordinator is going to have to develop an offense that fits Mark\u2019s strengths and minimizes his weaknesses.\u00a0 He needs to roll out, he needs more options to throw to, and he needs plays that require him to make the easy decision.\u00a0 Once they have confidence in his ability to do these things, they can expand the playbook.\u00a0 I believe he still has a tremendous amount of potential.\u00a0 After all, check out Eli Manning\u2019s third year in the league (301-522 for 3,244 yards, 24 TDs, 18 INTs).\u00a0 It looks awfully similar to Sanchez\u2019s third year line (308-543 for 3,474 yards, 28 TDs 18 INTs).\u00a0 He is still young, he has a new offensive coordinator, and regardless of the cowardly reports by anonymous players, he has a tremendous work ethic and wants to be great.\u00a0 With a few minor adjustments and simplified playbook that caters to his strengths, Mark can have an excellent bounce back season in 2012-2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us remember that Mark Sanchez only started 16 games at the University of Southern California.\u00a0 He had two years of up and down moments, however, led the New York Jets to AFC Championship games in his first two seasons.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it comes as any surprise when I say that Sanchez had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-2K8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}