Accountability important for players and others

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I really think there should be media stats.

The media is constantly hammering players and coaches for decisions and mistakes they make, why shouldn’t we be held accountable?

I was wrong about Calvin Pryor earlier in the year. He was on the cover of JC Magazine, along with a cover story saying how precocious he is, how quickly he picked things up. I fell for the coach-speak. He should be good in time, but should not have started immediately. He should have been brought along slowly.

I should be held accountable for getting ahead of myself.

And all these reporters putting Mark Sanchez in Canton now, some of the same people who ran him out of town, should be held accountable for their flip-flopping.

It’s ridiculous.

Sanchez did some good things early in this Jets career, but turned over the ball way too much during his time in green.

Perhaps you can blame the Jets for some of his shortcomings during his time in Florham Park. The coordinator hired to replace Brian Schottenheimer wasn’t a good choice. Saddling him with the moody Santonio Holmes, who quickly wore out his welcome in Chicago, wasn’t fair.

There is plenty of blame to go around, but it was time for Mark to get on with his work someplace else. The well was poisoned in New York.

Sanchez is in the perfect spot.

Sanchez isn’t great at going through his reads. He tends to fall in love with his first read. Eagles head coach/offensive coordinator Chip Kelly is brilliant at dialing up ideal first reads. Trent Dilfer recently described Kelly’s playbook as the most quarterback-friendly system in the NFL.

Kelly is an offensive genius, who has a good feel for what to call to take a lot of pressure off his quarterbacks.
Kelly is right out of central casting to call plays for Sanchez.

Now Sanchez did okay in his first game for the Eagles (two picks and two interceptions), and in this second game, he helped Philly blow out Carolina. Keep in mind, the Panthers don’t have a very good secondary, and their pass rush was been devastated with the suspension of defensive end par-excellence Greg Hardy.

This week’s game in Green Bay will be a good litmus test for where Sanchez is at as a quarterback.

But where he didn’t need to be at was in Florham Park.

It was time for him to move on.

Time for the Jets to move on.

And the nerve of some of these writers to forget those articles they wrote running this guy out of town, and are now writing about the big mistake the Jets made moving on from Sanchez, have a lot of gumption.

After 52 turnovers in his last two seasons as a starter, that ship had sailed.

Hey, I hope Mark does great in Philly. I’ve always liked him personally.

But I’m not going to be a hypocrite.

It was time for the Jets and Sanchez to go their separate ways.

Some writers need some amnesia medication.

November 13, 2014

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