i never need an excuse to put this picture up. Nothing beats Namath in the fur...
nothing...
except for maybe this guy...
...barrelling into the end zone head first! Unfortunately the art is unavailable, but if you saw it, you hear me, if you didn't, what can i say?...
football is back and this time we have a quarterback. No, not that broken down see-sawing nancy boy Brett Farve, not the career back-up to be Kellen Clemens. No Richard Todd or Browning Nagle here, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to an honest to goodness franchise quarterback—Mark Sanchez...
the Jets won today, 24-17, and sure, the stout defense did more than its share to put a W up on the board but they didn't score any of those 24 points. They didn't lead an offense down the field to score three touchdowns and a field goal. It was Sanchez...
did he make some mistakes, sure. He seemed to have some issues with wet footballs and yipped a throw over Chansi Stuckey's head that might of been the death knell in past years—the old prevent offense as the elder used to say. The Jets used to be good at finding ways to lose. But suddenly, since the last Saturday in April, the franchise has finally figured out how to find a way to win...
and sure, he's not the guy he shares a stadium with. Eli might be better pound for pound and pimple for pimple, but Sanchez has something that i'm not sure Eli will never have. Mojo...
namath had mojo. He guaranteed a Super Bowl victory, then went out and did it. It was the last time the Jets were truly relevant. They came a half away from the Super Bowl with hometown kid Vinny Testaverde but i don't think that even Jet fans ever thought they would beat John Elway and the Broncos back then. Truth be told i cringed on draft day when the report came over that the Jets traded up for Sanchez. i didn't think he could handle it. The City, the press the weather (that still remains up for debate)—i just didn't think he was going to be the guy the Jets needed to succeed. Yes, they needed a quarterback, but Sanchez, after one year out in sunny Southern Cal, there was no way he would make it. It was after an interview later that day, Sanchez seemed to have an aura of leadership about him. He said all the right things and certainly looked the part. He shrugged of the horrors of the City and ask for more. It was then i knew we had ourselves a quarterback...
So the Jets are 3-0. Nothing to get excited about. They were once 9-0 to start a season with Ken O'Brien, only to finish 1-6 and lose in the second round of the playoffs. There is a long way to go, and Sanchez himself has a long way to go. But this team, with its defense and the protection Sanchez gets, along with his confidence he seems to have when he's slinging the ball around to the likes of Dustin Keller, another star in the making, its hard not to believe that this team isn't headed for special things. This season and beyond...
it might be a bit early but...
this kid looks good on Broadway...
No comments:
Post a Comment