How do you feel now about Sanchez and Freeman at QB?

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Let me paint the picture in a little more detail:

The Chiefs during Sanchez's rookie season were 4-12. I don't believe there's any way that team makes the playoffs with Sanchez at QB, even if he plays significantly better during the regular season than he did with the Jets. They would have had to improve by at least 5 games to have a shot at the playoffs. So you throw out the Wild Card game against the Bengals and the Division game against the Chargers, as well as the AFC championship loss against the Colts, which was I thought actually his best half of ball that year. They simply don't exist. They wouldn't have happened.

Right there you already have a drastic change in at least the perception of Sanchez, because he doesn't have any rookie playoff wins, much less any good halves in the postseason to point at as signs of hope. All you have, assuming everything is exactly the same as it was in New York (wouldn't be obviously, but for the sake of argument...) is a rookie quarterback that completed 54% of his passes and threw 20 picks against 12 TDs on a 4-12 team.

What happens in 2010? I don't know. But again, his regular season numbers are essentially equivalent to Cassel's in all but one regard, that being he threw 17 TDs against 13 picks, as opposed to 27 TD and 7 INT. Percentage, yardage, it's close enough to I think call it a wash. Do they win 10 games with him? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe not. It only takes one loss to knock them out.

But let's say that they do. Why would there really be any reason to think the outcome would be different with Sanchez behind center than Cassel. Again, we're talking about Sanchez in his first playoff game, and not his fourth. We're talking about a starting QB that's still lost more games than he'd won, without showing that flicker of hope that the prior year's playoff games showed. Maybe I'm being too harsh on the guy, but I doubt he lifts the team to any kind of win. This isn't the 2009 Bengals we're talking about here, it's the Ravens. He's going to have to throw more than 15 passes.

Just the way I see it.

The way I see it is that you are trying to put Sanchez directly in Cassels shoes, which if ****ing stupid.