rex didn't refute anything, if he said "Geno won" then you might have something. No announcement was made but anyone paying attention knows who won b/c it was never really a competition.
Hours before the Jets and Patriots set football back centuries in a Thursday night slopfest, Mark Sancheztold NFL Network's Rich Eisen that if he hadn't been injured in the preseason, he would be New York's starting quarterback.
"I won the competition," he said. "There's no doubt."
Maybe not in Sanchez's mind, but the revelation was news to coach Rex Ryan, who went to great lengths to not name a starter during the preseason.
"I never said he won the competition," Ryan said in a Friday conference call with reporters, via NFL.com.
"That's his opinion," the coach continued. "It's not about a company line. Apparently, if that's what he said then that's his opinion. Again there is that ongoing competition."
Whether that's true -- that this really is an ongoing competition -- is also up for debate. Rookie Geno Smith has been adequate in two starts, which, frankly, isn't much different than what we've seen from Sanchez in recent seasons. What is different, though, is that Smith was drafted by new general manager John Idzik, and Sanchez is pulling down $8.25 million in guaranteed money this season.
I won” comment," Ryan said Friday, “I think as a competitor, I guess that’s what you expect. You want your players to believe that. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. I certainly would expect that from any competitor, to think that they’re winning the job. His comments about that he clearly thinks he won the competition or whatever, that’s his opinion.”
It's coachspeak under Idzik, this is a team that hasn't declared geno the starter saying competition is still ongoing. At some point you have to use common sense.
Westhoff didn't say anything bad about Mark.
4 playoff wins in 4 seasons as a starter which is more than your franchise from 1995-2012 and counting.
junc still living it up in the past:lol2:
so sad
Every coach should be a bad loser. Show me a good loser and Ill show you a loser.
A bad loser is a guy who acts classless at every defeat. You can lose but you must learn in order to better your team, if you trash your own men then there's no progress.
Joe Philbin, Miami Dolphins' HC is a very sincere guy and he has been angry on each losing day; but he's the classiest man in the world, he points what was wrong, encouraging his men to keep moving forward.
So you know Philbin? you hang out w/ him? how do you know he's the "classiest man in the world"? Sparano was the greatest early on too, stop anointing guys too soon.
So you know Sanchez? you hang out w/ him? how do you know he's "27th ranked but top 10 best"? Pennington was the greatest early on too, stop anointing guys too soon.
See how that works?