Last season was an absolute disaster for the New York Jets and all parties involved. Quarterback Mark Sanchez had a terrible year and lost his starting job and the addition of Tim Tebow only added to the circus. Sanchez mostly smiled and acted like everything was okay throughout the whole ordeal but finally he’s speaking up. Read more after the jump.
From NFL.com
“I just don’t know if it was the best situation for either of us, but you play with the cards you are dealt with and do the very best you can,” Sanchez said on the “Petros & Money Show” on Fox Sports Radio this week, via SportsRadioInterviews.com. “… It’s up to us to eliminate outside distractions, whether it’s about Tebow in the media or just anyone on the outside or anybody’s expectations and really just focusing on us and really trying to get the best of each other.”
Sanchez went out of his way to call Tebow a “nice guy,” but jabbed at the Jets organization for inviting the media uproar into New York’s locker room.
“Well, I think part of that, too, is ESPN didn’t necessarily sneak in overnight at our training camp,” Sanchez said. “They had to get permission to go. You can avoid that stuff on your own if you like, in my opinion, but (Tebow’s) a popular guy and people gravitate towards the guy. He’s a special person and a heck of a competitor, so people want to know what’s going on, but that’s all I got on that.”
Luckily for Sanchez, Tebow is almost a certainty to be dropped by training camp. Things won’t get easier however as the Jets still have a ways to go to get the team back on track and Sanchez will have to put a lot of work in.
