The New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is feeling frustrated as Coach Rex Ryan decided Wednesday that the team will have Kellen Clemens start at quarterback for this Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Ryan did this for Sanchez’s good. He made the decision after consulting with the team doctors about Sanchez’s sprained right knee. However, Sanchez himself does not want rest at all. All he wants is to play in his No. 6 Jets jersey.
“He wants to play in the worst way and he’s going to play,” Ryan said. “It’s just not going to be this week. I have a lot of confidence in Kellen Clemens and I think that instead of delaying this decision, I’m just going to make it now.”
Having started every game this season since beating out Clemens for the job, Sanchez sprained the posterior cruciate ligament in the knee during the third quarter of the Jets’ 19-13 win over the Buffalo Bills last Sunday, and two days after the Jets brought in Yankees manager Joe Girardi to help Sanchez learn how to slide. Surely Sanchez did not learn well as he was injured by diving headfirst.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
The Jets will have QB Sanchez to start next game against the Ravens
As the New York Jets rookie quarterback, Mark Sanchez will get his first career start against Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens in a preseason Monday Night Football game on Aug. 24.
However, that does not mean he has won the competition with Kellen Clemens for the Jets' starting job in regular season.
Coach Rex Ryan previously planned to use Clemens at the starter postiion in the preseason opener against St. Louis on Friday and another game against the Ravens. However, after Sanchez, the fifth overall draft pick, sparkled in his debut against St. Louis on Friday, Ryan just changed his mind and determined that Sanchez will start the game against Ravens.
Sanchez's performance in the opener was sparkling. He threw a 48-yard pass to David Clowney after he came into the 23-20 loss with 28 seconds left in the first quarter and completed three of four passes for 88 yards in one series that was capped by Thomas Jones’ 1-yard touchdown dive.
However, that does not mean he has won the competition with Kellen Clemens for the Jets' starting job in regular season.
Coach Rex Ryan previously planned to use Clemens at the starter postiion in the preseason opener against St. Louis on Friday and another game against the Ravens. However, after Sanchez, the fifth overall draft pick, sparkled in his debut against St. Louis on Friday, Ryan just changed his mind and determined that Sanchez will start the game against Ravens.
Sanchez's performance in the opener was sparkling. He threw a 48-yard pass to David Clowney after he came into the 23-20 loss with 28 seconds left in the first quarter and completed three of four passes for 88 yards in one series that was capped by Thomas Jones’ 1-yard touchdown dive.
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