Mark Sanchise vs. Josh Freeman.

watching Freeman grow up with his receivers… Benn, Williams, Stroughter along with Freeman are all young, athletic guys will tons of potential. If the defense can keep the other offense of the field, this will be a much improved passing game.

Sanchez played the entire season where Freeman played only half and still matched his numbers. I hope that doesn’t mean 40 int’s though.

But let’s not forget that he also played in 5 more games (started 6 more) than Freeman. So Freeman’s INT’s would have been higher but his yardage, TD’s and possibly QB Rating would have been higher with less targets.

In any case, you’re looking at entirely the wrong stats. Aggregation is a very poor way of looking at these stats. It should be obvious from the fact that Freeman only started 9 games that he’s going to have lower total numbers in all categories. Instead, you want to look at rate stats that rate on a per-game or preferably on a per-play basis. QB Rating is largely a worthless and entirely arbitrary stat that is composed of several other stats but actually tells you less about a QB than those individual stats would.

By most of those measures (except interceptions per attempt) Freeman had slightly better numbers, and Stafford had the worst numbers of the three, but the difference was functionally negligible.

I think that Schottenheimer does a great job of playing to Sanchez’s strengths, but I also think that the offense he runs is very simplified. Compared to the support he got he also performed the worst of the three QBs.
Friend of mine is convinced Sanchez is going to buckle under the pressure of being a Jets QB. I don’t know about that, but I think it won’t take long for the Jets fans to turn against Sanchez again if he has an early bad outing. Everyone seems to have forgotten that the Jets fans were calling for Sanchez’s head on a platter by midseason.

Hope you are all doing well. Just to start things out, I want to officially introduce myself on your blog. Just so you know, I am a contractor in Iraq supporting the troops. I chose this post as a way to better break myself into your site. I commented on another post, but nothing too major.

To get back to the subject here, I think that Sanchez will have a better year. I am not OVERLY impressed with Sanchez, but I still think he is surrounded by better talent than Freeman. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that Freeman has a lot of potential, but he is basically working with a brand new team with only one year in service. The Bucs are still coming together, and I think in a year or two they will look a lot better than last year. I see moderate improvement from them this year, but I still feel like the Jets have more unity and better receivers. Their running game took a hit, but I think it is still pretty strong with the additions that they made. I think Freeman will have a better year than last year, and I have heard he is making strides at improving every aspect of his game. Barring injury though, Sanchez’s numbers will probably look better than Freemans until next year or the year after.