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Among the many problems for the Jets’ offense last season was that Sanchez completed just 54.3 percent of his passes, ranking 30th of 32 qualifying quarterbacks. But new OC Marty Mornhinweg says that’s not necessarily that big a problem. Asked in an interview on the Jets’ website if there’s a certain completion percentage benchmark that he’ll need his quarterback to reach, Mornhinweg answered, “No, absolutely not.”
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
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Mornhinweg went on to say that he has seen quarterbacks have great seasons without great completion percentages. “Some of the great ones have really not thrown for such great accuracy,” Mornhinweg said. “Steve Young was astronomical accuracy-wise. Brett Favre wasn’t. Brett Favre, I believe won an MVP two different times out of the three times that he won it, throwing 58, 59, 60 percent, somewhere in there. ...” For Favre, it was actually a bit over the numbers Mornhinweg cited (63.0, 59.9 and 59.3 percent in his three MVP seasons). Meanwhile, in four NFL seasons Sanchez has never completed more than 56.7 percent of his passes. Of course, making bigger plays would mitigate a weak completion percentage. Mornhinweg acknowledged that a less accurate passer needs to make up for it by making more big plays. But Sanchez comes up short in that department, too. He averaged just 6.4 yards a pass and threw just 13 touchdown passes last season. We'll go ahead and suggest anyone banking on a noticeable turnaround might want to lower the bar a bit.
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