Ever since Sanchez and Stafford were drafted, everyone has tried to project their potential to repeat Flacco and Ryan’s success as rookies. It’s expected. The NFL is a game of comparisons. Steve Schwarz of sportsnetwork.com tried to support his opinion on the differences between the quarterbacks by manipulating stats, and hurt my feelings in the process.

…The same won’t be the case in 2009 for Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez.

Why you ask?

Because the team’s that will surround them are vastly inferior to what Ryan and Flacco had.

Let’s look at the 2008 Ravens and Falcons and compare them to the 2008 Detroit Lions and New York Jets.

And that’s where it’s okay to stop reading.

To make this comparison fair, you have to evaluate the 2007 Ravens and Falcons against the 2008 Lions and Jets. It defies logic to try and assess what Sanchez can do as a rookie by comparing him to what Flacco and Ryan did as rookies.
And if Schwarz did that, he’d see Sanchez is walking into a better situation than Ryan and Flacco did as rookies.

The Falcons and Ravens’ success was unprecedented. It’s okay to look for similarities and try to make some educated guesses. But it’s irresponsible to examine the situation from an irrelevant angle.

We’re in for a world of analytical aggravation this season while people try and find correlations between everything Sanchez does versus what Ryan and Flacco did. I’m up for the challenge. I have no worries if Sanchez actually looks like a rookie as a rookie.

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