NY Jets bloopers

Maybe the long-beleaguered Mark Sanchez finally caught a break. You remember Sanchez. He used to be the starting QB for the NY Jets. To say he was a mistake-prone underachiever might be putting it mildly. Worse yet, it seems Sanchez's biggest claim to fame was his "butt fumble" a while back. Lord knows, it's been replayed a couple gazillion times. That was when Sanchez somehow managed to run into the butt of one of his own offensive linemen, and bounce off backwards while fumbling the ball, only to watch a defender scoop it up and return it for a touchdown. Very embarrassing stuff.

But perhaps now Sanchez's infamous clown play will finally begin to fade from memory.

Enter his replacement, one Geno Smith.

In the game against the Tennessee Titans, Smith found himself in the unenviable position of dropping back near his own end zone to attempt a pass, but suddenly found a rushing defensive lineman in his face. So what did Mr. Smith do? While in the process of being tackled, Geno attempted to switch the ball from his right (throwing) hand to his left -- BEHIND HIS BACK.

Hey, when a massive defensive lineman has a QB "wrapped up" and a "sack" is in progress, trying to play the shell game with the football is a bad -- repeat BAD -- idea. Of course, Smith fumbled, and the ball was pounced on by the very same defensive lineman in the end zone for a Tennessee touchdown. As he did with the former Sanchez blooper, Jets' head coach Rex Ryan grimaced. Smith finally got up and started looking around like he'd just woke up on the planet Uranus (no reference to Sanchez's butt fumble intended). Whuh happened?

With still a quarter left in the game, Smith had already thrown two interceptions, and had lost another fumble. So chalk up 4 turnovers to Geno. This is the guy that's supposed to be an improvement over Sanchez?  And the Jets are shelling out millions to both these guys, but Tim Tebow wasn't good enough to even make their roster? Really?

Tell ya what. Maybe they should bring TT back. Couldn't hurt. Besides, at least Tebow wasn't afraid to pray during the course of games. And right now, with the personnel they have available at their QB position -- the Jets could likely use a few prayers.

Nevertheless, Geno Smith's boneheaded play will no doubt be reshown a few gazillion times itself as being amongst the Top Ten worst plays, bloopers, whatever, on various TV channels and websites in the future.

And maybe with all that negative attention turned to his replacement being held up for the world to laugh at and mock  -- Mark Sanchez smiled inside -- just a little bit.

Yep, it's nice to catch a break once in a while.

Even if it's for all the wrong reasons.