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Mark Sanchez to Sam Darnold: How To Avoid My Jets Fate.

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Mark Sanchez to Sam Darnold: How to avoid my Jets fate

Mark Sanchez was putting his 17-month-old son to bed on Thursday night in Dana Point, California, when he noticed his cellphone lighting up with text messages.

The Jets had just used the third overall pick to draft Sam Darnold, a fellow former USC quarterback, to do exactly what they hoped Sanchez would do for them when they drafted him with the fifth overall pick nine years ago.

“Obviously, this draft has some parallels,’’ Sanchez told The Post over the phone late Thursday. “I was thrilled for Sam and his family. I’ve worked out with him a few times at USC and I know his family. I always root for fellow USC Trojans — especially quarterbacks.’’

Sanchez serves as both a cautionary tale and an asset as a learning resource for Darnold, because he’s lived this. He’s been thrown into the cauldron of pressure that comes with being the quarterback of a Jets franchise seemingly forever in search of its next Joe Namath.

The tone in Sanchez’s voice over the phone Thursday night ranged from genuine excitement for Darnold as a mentor wanting him to succeed, to a wistfulness that he wished he had another go at it in green to finish the job, bring a title to New York.

Most of all, Sanchez offered words of advice and encouragement for Darnold, with his life about to change forever.

“You’ve got to have the mentality that football is your No. 1 priority,’’ he said. “There’s nothing wrong with getting involved in the city and getting involved in the community and embracing New York and having fun and using all those resources to get your teammates together.

“But they’ve got to know that football’s your No. 1 (priority) and you’re working your butt off — just like I thought Nick Mangold, Brandon Moore, D’Brickashaw (Ferguson) and all those guys knew about me. No matter what anybody else would say, they knew that I cared about ball and I cared about my teammates and I wanted to win.’’

Sanchez, whose family always was by his side — his father, Nick, never missed a home game, and brothers Nick and Brandon were always close by — also had a message for Darnold’s family.

“I told his parents, ‘You guys have got to be his rock. After his big games and after the crappy ones, you guys have got to be there and strong for him, because New York is going to demand a lot from him — emotionally, physically, all that,’’’ Sanchez said. “I told them, ‘I guarantee he will get booed.’ It’s different than college. It’s a different atmosphere. It’s a different experience. I told Sam, ‘You’re going to love it, but understand that your life’s going to change.’’’

No one can predict how this will work out for Darnold and the Jets. Two years into Sanchez’s Jets career, he’d been to two AFC Championship games, had a 4-2 record in the playoffs and was the toast of the town. Four years later, after some coaching malpractice by Rex Ryan on the offensive side of the ball, Sanchez was gone.

Since being released by the Jets in 2014, Sanchez has been on four different teams and started just 10 games. Now at age 31, he’s searching for a new team with an impending four-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance (he’s stated that he believes there was a contamination in the supplement he was taking) hanging over his head.

If there’s a moral to Sanchez’s story, it’s that nothing is guaranteed and that timing and circumstance have as much to do with a player’s journey as talent does.

Sanchez didn’t say this, but I will: Hopefully, the Mike Maccagnan-Todd Bowles regime will build a strong foundation around their talented USC quarterback instead of neglecting one side of the ball the way the defense-obsessed Ryan did, leaving Sanchez exposed and broken and gone from New York too soon.
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4 minutes ago, Warfish said:

I'm fine with Sanchez as a future backup QB as he winds down his PED-usi'in career.

He’s always been a positive guy...always. He just wasn’t a good QB. He probably can’t teach a QB anything worth a damn..but from a moral stand point, he is a solid guy.

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9 minutes ago, Warfish said:

I'm fine with Sanchez as a future backup QB as he winds down his PED-usi'in career.

the guys offering some sound advice and in typical cruel fashion this is how Jets fans respond ? Remember this is Mark the Person talking and trying to help a fellow Trojan not Mark the football player. 

 

2 minutes ago, Integrity28 said:

Mark, all due respect, but stay away from our guy.

 

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Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

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8 minutes ago, Smashmouth said:

the guys offering some sound advice and in typical cruel fashion this is how Jets fans respond ? Remember this is Mark the Person talking and trying to help a fellow Trojan not Mark the football player. 

Why are you presuming I was being sarcastic?

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First, Darnold is a dramatically better prospect than Sanchez was pretty much in every way.

Second, I think that Sanchez could have been a decent starter if developed correctly. He actually regressed as a QB, especially his footwork and ulitimately his confidence and conviction was shot.

The ENTIRE focus of the Jets has to be in developing Darnold correctly. That does NOT mean sitting him for a year.

Pretty excited we got Sam Darnold. Who would have thunk it.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

Both. But I think mostly coaching. They yo-yo'd the hell out of his development. Do this, don't do that...careful here, wear this, but don't fk it up...etc.etc.

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2 minutes ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

He wasn't a good QB, but it was made worse by the fact that he couldn't really handle the pressure as a Franchise QB.

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1 minute ago, Warfish said:

Why are you presuming I was being sarcastic?

I didn't use the word Sarcastic War I just think the guy is offering some help and advice and all you can think of is PED's ? 

 

23 minutes ago, Warfish said:

I'm fine with Sanchez as a future backup QB as he winds down his career.

Fixed :)

 

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Sanchez just was not mature enough. He seemed to get sucked into the GQ lifestyle in New York and LA very quickly. Then there was that 17 year old girlfriend thing. Instead of doing the Drew Brees thing where it was all about football and improving he did photo shoots.

Granted the coaching staff was terrible and certainly they did him no favors. Just all-in-all recipe for a bust.


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31 minutes ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

The jets history points to the latter.  

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32 minutes ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

I think it was probably a combination of both. But we all remember Shotty 

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34 minutes ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

I remember reading he could only read half the field, troubling going through his progressions.

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Just now, C Mart said:

I remember reading he could only read half the field, troubling going through his progressions.

It's because he got nervous. As long as everything was going well he was okay. He had some really fantastic games.

When things went wrong they went really wrong.

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35 minutes ago, Smashmouth said:

I didn't use the word Sarcastic War I just think the guy is offering some help and advice and all you can think of is PED's ? 

Sorry, but his PED suspension is funny.  I'm not a humanitarian, I can laugh at a multi-multi-multi-millionaire getting a 4-game for PED's.

I'm not laughing at his seemingly kind-hearted advice to Darnold.  

I liked Mark, wish he had worked out better here, wish HE had done more to improve, because he never improved.  Not from day one till the end, all he did was devolve as the talent around him stopped propping him up.

But I still liked the guy enough, and would be fine with him whiling away his final NFL years as the Jets #3, if only to heal some wounds and calm the karma gods.

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1 minute ago, Warfish said:

Sorry, but his PED suspension is funny.  I'm not a humanitarian, I can laugh at a multi-multi-multi-millionaire getting a 4-game for PED's.

I liked Mark, wish he had worked out better here, wish HE had done more to improve, because he never improved.  Not from day one till the end, all he did was devolve as the talent around him stopped propping him up.

But I still liked the guy enough, and would be fine with him whiling away his final NFL years as the Jets #3, if only to heal some wounds and calm the karma gods.

I hear ya man I just felt the comments were made as a friend, player and how to deal with the media/fans

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1 hour ago, KRL said:

Speaking of Sanchez I'll always wonder what was the main reason he tanked
with the Jets.  Did he not put in the work or was the coaching staff totally
inept in developing a QB?

This answer may not provide much closure but I've always believed it was a little of both

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