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Originally Posted by milkman
They are just numbers.
Sanchez made a couple of big plays in the playoffs, plays that the Jets needed him to make.
Numbers don't tell us that.
Does any of it mean that he's going to be a great QB?
No.
But don't throw numbers out there and try to tell me it proves anything, because numbers mean jack.
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But they weren't just numbers. When it comes to the playoffs, it proved that he wasn't asked to do very much in the 4th quarter--how many playoff QBs have that luxury? And it showed that a lot of his scores required him to do virtually nothing. If you look beyond the numbers at the regular season, you'll see that in most games, the Jets won because the defense held the lead for an entire quarter or held a small deficit to exactly the same margin--how many defenses are that good that they can do that?
He was a game manager who made about 3 or 4 big plays of 40-50 yards. That's the best way to describe his playoff performance. That's not a bad thing. But a few months ago, everyone acted like being a game manager was such a terrible thing.
Like I said, not saying he was good or bad. Just saying that right now, he's a game manager. And people are trying so hard to pretend he wasn't Trent Dilfer. But that's basically what he was all season long. A game manager who wasn't asked to do much but delivered on the rare occasion that he was.