Thursday, January 26, 2012

Revis says Jets are "very confident" in Sanchez

BY NICK ST. DENIS

Darrelle Revis has plenty of confidence in his game. He also has confidence in his quarterback.

“We’re very confident (in Mark Sanchez),” Revis told the NFL Network Thursday. “If you look at his career already through three years, his stats have (gone) up every year. In the first two years, he took us to the AFC Championship Game."

The best cornerback in the NFL is right about Sanchez's stats, something I did a post on earlier this month. Still, the third-year signal-caller made plenty of boneheaded errors in 2011.

"We have a lot of confidence in him," Revis said. "We just have to get the right guys around him and just build around the guy.”

Sanchez will be working under a new offensive coordinator, former Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, so that's a start, since quarterbacks historically improve after parting with Brian Schottenheimer, who was Sanchez's offensive coordinator the first three years.

Sanchez will, however, have to work out his differences with receiver Santonio Holmes. Holmes was benched in the fourth quarter of the Jets' last game because of his bad attitude, which had reportedly been affecting the Jets' locker room for quite some time.

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