PLAYERS:
Nick Mangold,
Mark Sanchez,
Brian Schottenheimer,
LaDainian Tomlinson,
Plaxico Burress,
Bart Scott,
Jim Leonhard
TEAMS: New York Jets
TEAMS: New York Jets
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Serious question, is there anyone on the Jets as respectable as Nick Mangold? Just listening to this interview, you can tell the kind of player on teammate that Nick Mangold is, a clear leader. When “anonymous players” were quick to bash Mark Sanchez recently in a piece from Manish Mehta, Mangold was the first person to come to Mark’s defense on Twitter. He immediately followed up the report by Mehta, which called Mark Sanchez “lazy” and content” with the following tweet:
This nydn.us/xnShGZ by @TheJetsStream is false. If “unnamed sources” want to attack Mark, man up and put your name to it #JETS -@NickMangold
It was easy for the media, fans and players alike to blame Mark Sanchez for the end of the season troubles, but when you really boil it down, it was a total team effort. The team itself didn’t play well, not just Mark Sanchez. It was the offensive line, it was the running backs, the d...
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