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The Second Coming Of Breesus Christ?
Dan Shipper is a lifelong Jets fan, current sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania and web entrepreneur. You can find him on Twitter here.
I’m going to step up and admit it: I have a love hate relationship with Mark Sanchez. Every Sunday I’m just as likely to rant about how much he sucks as I am to rave about how clutch he is in the fourth quarter. That’s because, as we’ve read over and over in this publication and in others all across the football world, he’s maddeningly inconsistent. Except when it counts.
When he was first selected by the Jets I remember reading comparisons between Sanchez and Drew Brees by football analysts. They have a similar body type. Both are relatively short as far as NFL quarterbacks go. They’re both pretty mobile, and need to use their feet to open up passing lanes with their receivers. But after three years can we really say that Brees and Sanchez are in the same category of quarterback?
In 2006 the football Gods shined down upon the city of New Orleans and sent their only begotten son Drew Brees, a free agent quarterback castoff of the San Diego Chargers, to the Big Easy. Breesus Christ proceeded to take the league by storm, leading the once woeful Saints to their first NFC Championship game appearance in his first year, and three years later to a stunning victory over the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.
Brees is a 5-time Pro Bowl selection, a Super Bowl MVP, and boasts a 93.0 career quarterback rating. He’s thrown 265 touchdowns to 143 interceptions and is continually threatening to break Dan Marino’s all-time passing yards in a season record. That doesn’t sound Mark Sanchez-esque to me.
Taking a closer look at the numbers however, reveals a totally different story. Let’s take for example Brees’ third year in the league. That year, while still with the Chargers, he appeared in 11 games. Leaning on a running game powered by newly minted superstar LaDanian Tomlinson, Brees managed to throw 11 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions. He completed 57% of his passes for 2,108 yards on 356 attempts.
Now let’s take a look at Mark Mr. Inconsistent Sanchez in his third year. Through 11 games (the same as our sample for Brees) Sanchez has thrown 18 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions. He has completed 56% of his passes for 2,500 yards on 373 attempts.
Not only are these numbers astonishingly similar, it’s clear that at this point in his career Sanchez is a slightly better player than Drew Brees was. Considering the fact that the quality of his supporting cast has gone down while his numbers have gone up, while by contrast Brees had LT to lean on I think it’s fairly reasonable to conclude that we don’t have as much to worry about when it comes to Mark Sanchez as we may like to believe.
In his fourth year Brees made a giant leap, going from completing 57% of his passes to 65%. Am I saying that this will definitely happen with Sanchez? I think given his trend of upward statistical progress from year to year it’s certainly a possibility. We’ll just have to wait and see.