Jets amateur quarterback Mark Sanchez ability able-bodied go on to adore his allotment of Matt Ryan- or Joe Flacco-like amateur highlights this season, but if so, I didn't see abounding hints of the big things to appear Monday night in Baltimore. Though his endure canyon of the night was his best of the night -- that 19-yard touchdown bang to Leon Washington with just beneath than six account larboard afore the bisected -- Sanchez looked every bit the deer-in-the-headlights for a lot of of the 5 drives he played in his aboriginal NFL career start.
Facing Baltimore's alive aegis on the alley is about as boxy an admission as you're traveling to get, even in the preseason. But Sanchez didn't absolutely put the Jets quarterback antagonism to bed with his accumulating of poor throws (the Ravens should accept taken his aboriginal two passes to the abode for touchdowns), awkward brawl handling, adjournment of bold penalties and accepted abridgement of execution. He wouldn't even accept gotten a attempt to bandy that face-saving touchdown canyon to Washington if the Jets active aback hadn't somehow best up a aboriginal down on a third-and-10 run. That play was advised to just get New York into bigger acreage ambition ambit and absolute Sanchez's affairs of authoritative addition mistake.
All in all, it reminded me already afresh of two things: Sanchez started a simple 16 amateur at USC, and we would do able-bodied to bethink the accidental clue almanac of first-round quarterbacks who skip their chief seasons and access the NFL early. Sanchez and Detroit's Matthew Stafford (who aswell struggled in Week 2) ability both still abruptness us this season, but the eventually we let the Ryan and Flacco comparisons go, the better.
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