NEW YORK -- Outlined against a slate gray sky my plane landed in Gotham (Grantland Rice started flowing through my fingers) and I was reminded that a game in the Meadowlands lurks for Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez.
If you are a daily reader of this blog, you might vaguely remember that on Oct. 18, during Miami's bye weekend, I blogged about Sanchez before he began a nightmare performance against Buffalo. If you remember or check out the archives, you'll know I predicted Sanchez would have a horrible game because the winds were swirling at the Meadowlands and I have been told by three NFL personnel people that Sanchez simply won't be that good, in the short-term anyway, in those type of conditions.
The personnel folks told me being a Southern California kid who hasn't really experienced either cold weather or swirling wind conditions, it will take Sanchez a while to figure out how to handle the Meadowlands because the winds are so unpredictable.
Well, Sanchez that day threw five interceptions and had a defining outing in that the offense has since been taken out of his hands and put in the hands of the New York running backs. Anyway, Sundays game against the Dolphins is the first for Sanchez in the Jets back in the Meadowlands since that disaster game on Oct. 18.
Not surprisingly, the issue of weather and swirling winds came up this week, in part because I brought it up, and offensive coordinator Dan Henning seems to agree with my NFL sources, at least in part, about Sanchez and the Meadowlands.
"Yes, I think Sanchez might have some problems," Henning said only half-kiddingly this week.
If the winds are biting, absolutely. Remember, it's not necessarily about cold temperatures, although that can also be a factor. The weather Sunday is expected to be in the 50s so that really isn't frigid. But the winds, the winds are the big factor.
“It’s important to get a good grip on the ball and practice in those elements, but it’s one of those things where it’s football, you just have to play," Sanchez said. "Trust your instincts, body guys up in the rain, you have to make sure they’re not jumping and tipping balls up in the air and it slips through their hands, and you just have to be even more accurate and more conscious about the football and ball security.
"We will for sure go through that playing here in the Meadowlands, and we just need to be ready to play in it.”
I contend that if the winds are kicking on Sunday, it is the Dolphins, quarterbacked by Chad Henne, that will have an advantage getting the ball out and to their intended targets. Henne has a better arm than Sanchez and has more experience playing in difficult climates than Sanchez. Henne played at Michigan while Sanchez played at USC.
“I think sits going to be difficult for all of us to adjust to the climate," Henne said. "Obviously we’re down here in warm whether all the time, we haven’t played in a cold weather game yet, so we’re going to have to adjust to the climate, adjust to the winds.
"I’m kind of accustomed to that with college being in the north and adjusting to the cold weather and the wind. I don’t think that should be a factor to me, and hopefully we can just adjust to it.”
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Al...u R finally out of your coma?
if i were a nurse, i would not touch u, insurance or not
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:39 PM
that's how the VICKING KINGS LIVED ,
SLEEP
EAT
RAPE
SLEEP
EAT
KILL
EAT
F..K
SLEEP
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 02:39 PM
mellow dude, nothing good to say....
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:40 PM
mando,
delete Al don't like the reference to rape or kill, not cool
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Harricane,
I am ready to recover from a very bad weekend this week.
Nj,
I know 60 degrees not cold for you, but I'm like rest of Miami, at 60 degrees I am bundle up to prevent frost bite.
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Go Hurricanes!
Go Dolphins!
Henne the Hero!
Ronnie the Rabid Beast!
Ricky the Rhino!
Can the real Dolphins D, please stand up?
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Carlito - my a/c's on 60, I live in Miami. Mans that's no where near cold!
Posted by: D-dense | October 31, 2009 at 02:44 PM
I can't wait to see Rex Ryan fat face after lose the game tomorrow and see what he have to see for himself...
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 02:44 PM
Aloco,
Thanks. Peace, love and happiness.
That's what it's all about my brother!!!!
That is...........until kickoff at Meadowlands.
Loot, pillage and plunder.
Sanchez is going under!!!!!
Posted by: odinseye | October 31, 2009 at 02:45 PM
carlito my brother
i am with ya....below 70 i need sweatpants...
but... i am not all jacked up like a Hurricane getting ready to fight Wake...
Speaking of Wake...hope san cheese has watched film...porter is gonna mix with cameron wake...Torbor ...Wake gets two sacks before 24 hours go by
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:45 PM
harricane aka odinseye, the vickings killed my people and you call them WARRIORS ?
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 02:45 PM
IF FINS ACT ON SUNDAY AS THE VICKINGS ACTED WHEN THEY WENT TO WAR IT WOULD BE ;
FINS 23456
JETS 0000
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 02:47 PM
AL...odin & I respect each other...i don't have time to switch back and forth with a fake screen name....i am blue u r not...go figure
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Rex is right now practicing what he will say after another loss, I think we might see tears this time, I would advice him to keep his hallowween costume on.
Posted by: Eddy007 | October 31, 2009 at 02:48 PM
and i have not killed anyone much less a "people" i respect life...no colour barrier here
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:48 PM
eddy,
that is not a chin costume? did you hear his latest comments? what an insult to his father
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:51 PM
Aloco,
Apparently your "people" were wussies.
If you couldn't manage your land and natural resources somebody had to show you how.
We actually did you a favor by enslaving your people, and conquering your land. Waste not want not.
Survival of the fittest. It is natural law. The law of the Gods!!!!
Posted by: odinseye | October 31, 2009 at 02:51 PM
i can't wait til latin people are the majority. at least they don't speak ebonics.
this will be deleted i know
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:53 PM
my blonde wifey makes me look younger......LOL
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:54 PM
odin....need a Bud my friend? where is carlito? busy takin care of buziness pre-game?
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 02:55 PM
if you are so smart vicking boy , how come right now in your vicking land most men are gay and in 35 years you will be gone from our earth as people b/c you don't make baby's any more .
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 02:57 PM
all we are is dust in the wind.
Posted by: NJ PHIN FAN | October 31, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Harricane,
I was so surprise when not so good Clemson upset Miami last week, they caught them sleeping and I hope they take Wake Forest serious.
As for Cameron Wake, I was watching him when he was in vs N.O. and I really saw his burst off the line, this guy is right on the edge to become something special
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Duuuuuuust in the wind
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Harricane,
I was on porch with rizzla. Go Canes!
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Go sanchez
Go jets
Fins sucks
Posted by: NJPHIN champ | October 31, 2009 at 03:00 PM
I thought this was a dolphins only blog, what all this Viking and other talk. We should be talking how points the Dolphins will win by tomorrow, I say 17. I want the game over by the start of the 4th quarter, don't need a heart attack at such a young age, lol
Posted by: Eddy007 | October 31, 2009 at 03:01 PM
NJ so u r as old as me...lol
carlito- canes and fins somehow always either play good together or lose together...is it fixed? why do neither get respect...
from dust to dust... i think Jesus said that
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:02 PM
I think the point here is that Henne started for 4 years in the rain, snow and winds at Ann Arbor. Sanchez started 1 year in sunny SoCal. So when it's all said and done, I'll take the big boy who's been to wars and won before. I want Henne on my team over Sanchez.
Posted by: Brian in NJ | October 31, 2009 at 03:02 PM
jet fans have no class. this is a fin blog...low class idiots.... eat crap u girly boyz
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Harricane,
Posting in between my sets. Heading for the Jacuzzi at the Hotel where a couple of my friends are staying. Trying to make it by kickoff.
Soon as I get there, It's PARTY ON !!!!
Posted by: odinseye | October 31, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Right on Bryan
Posted by: Eddy007 | October 31, 2009 at 03:04 PM
NJ Phin Chimp
San-choke the turnover machine is no threat to any team except he own with all the int he like to throw. Vontae Davis and Sean Smith going to have feeding frenzy on his lame duck passes after Joey Porter, JT, and Wake pressure and hit him every time.
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 03:04 PM
I meant Brian
Posted by: Eddy007 | October 31, 2009 at 03:04 PM
my man odin,
i wont tell the wife....she loves camping out in a hotel...
but we have a jazz here at our home
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:05 PM
no worries eddy. it's all good.
Posted by: Brian in NJ | October 31, 2009 at 03:06 PM
odin, BTW
dont drink and drive my brother
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:06 PM
no NJ
I don't live in a Trailer Park
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Lost in the Ted Ginn hoopla this week is the fact that we've scored 103 points in the last 3 games. When was the last time that happened? I had to go back to the 1994 team, who scored 104 points in games 13-15 (including the fake spike game against the Jets). Could we have found our offense? Albeit one without a #1 WR?
Posted by: Mark | October 31, 2009 at 03:07 PM
SAD TIME FOR THE LOSERS FIN FANS 2-4 AND ON SUNDAY WILL BE 2-5 THEN HERE COMES THE RESTED NEW ENGLAND TO MAKE IT 2-6.
HENNE THE HERO W/ NO DEFENSE THEN HE BECOMES HENNE THE VICTIM
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 03:08 PM
but i visit the AC/DC guy at his vacation spot on our keys. name him.....
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:09 PM
You guys are going to party together in the jacuzzi ? HMMMMMM! :)
Posted by: NJ PHIN FAN | October 31, 2009 at 03:09 PM
AL,
take a breath and get a drink
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:10 PM
NJ why are U so difficult. U have not found a woman to watch football with?
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:12 PM
jersey guy not like jersey women....HHHHMMMM
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:12 PM
i am drinking my 45 black coffee today.lol
Posted by: ALoco | October 31, 2009 at 03:12 PM
Aloco, you are not fin fan. Please turn in all jerseys and Dolphin thing to Mando.
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 03:12 PM
carlito, the playbook too
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:14 PM
45% coffee? what is that
cubano coffee is 145% like a cigar...think monica
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:15 PM
or cubano sugar....yummy...i like cubano women...bring more to US
Posted by: harricane | October 31, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Go! Dolphins nothing better than Jets week I hope it's on my TV out here in desolate Nebraska as for playing in the weather watched all of Henne;s games while living Michigan no problem just think back to Marino carving up Greenbay in a blizzard it's natural for Dolphins QBS!
Posted by: robertevans | October 31, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Wind or no wind, the fast coward should be returning kickoffs or standing on the sidelines. Nothing else!
Posted by: Phinswin? | October 31, 2009 at 03:29 PM
Don't car about Ginn anymore I think he is put in a position where he has to earn the right to play agian more worried about defense collapse agian to many good players to have this happen
Posted by: robertevans | October 31, 2009 at 03:33 PM
defense collapse ? You mean Wilson's collapse!
Posted by: KillerDolphin | October 31, 2009 at 03:35 PM
and Taylor and porter and the defensive coordinater can't say his name makes me sick by the way odinseye I have a beautiful wife too not viking but indian long black hair and good with a butcher knife no liquer allowed in house only light beer
Posted by: robertevans | October 31, 2009 at 03:37 PM
Its hard to watch Miami Vs. Wake and Florida Vs. Georgia at the same time... I need to move my other T.V. from bedroom down to living room next to this one.
Posted by: carlito from golfito | October 31, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Harricane , my post was aimed at odinseye and his friends at the hotel. Guilty conscience ? HMMMM!
Posted by: NJ PHIN FAN | October 31, 2009 at 03:40 PM
Carlito do like my little brother he stacks all his small tvs on his big tv and watches three or games at once lucky tramp
Posted by: robertevans | October 31, 2009 at 03:41 PM
keep posting I probably won't get the game lastr week was fun reading you guys for awhile then just pissed again I believe I have seen every way to lose a game thisyear and years past not something to brag about GO! DOlphins
Posted by: robertevans | October 31, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Has anyone noticed most the trifecta favors cold weather state guys? If not take a look at the states guys are from they brought in on our roster. Hmm....maybe the road to nfl championships lead to the north?
Posted by: DyingBreed | October 31, 2009 at 03:49 PM