{"id":17188,"date":"2012-12-18T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2012-12-18T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:17:02","slug":"why-rex-ryan-chose-greg-mcelroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/12\/18\/why-rex-ryan-chose-greg-mcelroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rex Ryan Chose Greg McElroy"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Jets head coach has pulled the plug on Mark Sanchez<\/a>.\u00a0 Earlier today it was announced that Greg McElroy would get the start on Sunday against the San Diego Chargers.\u00a0 It had been speculated by some, including myself in our NY Jets Podcast<\/a> this week, that Tim Tebow would get the starting nod this week.<\/p>\n

Tebow getting the starting nod would have made sense for business reasons; ticket and jersey sales.\u00a0 Fortunately Rex made the decision based on football reasons, which is why they will take an extended look at Greg McElroy.<\/p>\n

Rex met with the media today and answered questions about why he decided to bench Mark Sanchez and start Greg McElroy.<\/p>\n

On why McElroy starting is the best for the team\u2026<\/b>
\nWell, that\u2019s what I feel in my gut. I liked what I saw from Greg against Arizona and I liked what I see on the practice field. I just truly believe I think it\u2019s best for our team right now and that\u2019s how I feel about it.<\/p>\n

On whether Tebow and Sanchez will be active\u2026<\/b>
\nI\u2019m not sure right now. As it goes on, the week goes on, I\u2019ll make that determination. But right now, I\u2019m not ready to do that right now.<\/p>\n

On why he didn\u2019t choose Tebow as the starter\u2026<\/b>
\nWell again, I think it\u2019s where we are right now and I just think it\u2019s best for our team and for this game. That\u2019s how I feel.<\/p>\n

On why McElroy wasn\u2019t active the past two games and is now the starter\u2026<\/b>
\nAgain, I think I\u2019m not going to get into all the other particulars. You guys know what I\u2019ve mentioned in the past about him. So I\u2019ll just go with it. Right now, I\u2019m more focused on really what\u2019s in front of us and not looking back on what\u2019s behind us.<\/p>\n

On whether Sanchez could be the starter in the future\u2026<\/b>
\nAgain, really we have two games left and I think that\u2019s where my focus is going to be and obviously, what\u2019s passed that will be determined later.<\/p>\n

On why Tebow is not qualified to start over McElroy\u2026<\/b>
\nAgain, I look at this, I know Tim is a tremendous competitor, and I don\u2019t doubt that at all. For right now, I think this move, it\u2019s a move that I made, is best for our team in this game. I believe that and that\u2019s why I\u2019m making the move that I\u2019m making.<\/p>\n

On why starting McElroy is the best decision for the team\u2026<\/b>
\nThis is my opinion. I do believe that it is best for our team that Greg is our quarterback. That\u2019s my opinion and I\u2019m the guy that\u2019s making this decision. Every decision I make is based on what I believe is in the best interest of our team. When I say that, that\u2019s what I believe.<\/p>\n

On how McElroy gives the team the best chance of winning\u2026<\/b>
\nI\u2019m not going to get into specifics. This is my decision and solely my decision. When I say I believe it\u2019s best for this team, that\u2019s what I truly believe in. You can make it anything you want it to be, (but) this is how I feel.<\/p>\n

On why Tebow is not the starter\u2026<\/b>
\nI can answer this question a million ways, frontwards, backwards, sideways, anything else, but it\u2019s my decision and I\u2019m going to base this decision on my gut feeling. Everything it comes down to, I believe that this is the best decision for this team. Like every other decision that I make, that\u2019s the factor. That\u2019s the only factor that goes into these decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Jets head coach has pulled the plug on Mark Sanchez.\u00a0 Earlier today it was announced that Greg McElroy would get the start on Sunday against the San Diego Chargers.\u00a0 It had been speculated by some, including myself in our NY Jets Podcast this week, that Tim Tebow would get the starting nod this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16709,"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":[213,491],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"category-player-interviews"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/McElroy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4te","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17189,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions\/17189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}