The problem is that there may be no other choice. The Chiefs have the same problem and can't even solve it with the #1 pick. For the first time in many years, there just isn't anyone out there in the draft or free agency
Trading for Sanchez shouldn't give any team hope. If it does, it is false hope. He looks beaten imo. Not in the pure emotional sense, but on the field wise.
I think many if not most people would rather have Drew Stanton for no pick and a couple million a season in such a scenario then a poorer talented Sanchez where they need to give up a pick and take on ~40-50 million in salary and bonuses yet to be paid.
Drew Stanton has a chance to do decent, I don't think there's really a legitimate shot of Sanchez doing decent. I see a hungry Stanton ready to compete with confidence high and enough years in the league for it to have slowed down. He's confident in Arians. He's confident in his ability and wants his turn. He had adversity early on with his emotions where if someone ran the wrong route or things didn't go well it would get into his head and his play would lower. But it's not 2003-2009, it's 2013. It seems he has learned to control his perfectionist ways and mature. More Eli Manning like than Jay Cutler (who would then pass the blame and hate forward), and I think he might have grown out of it like Eli has learned to do. Stanton and Mike Martz didn't click, but Stanton and Arians have.
Would he be any good? Who knows. But I see him as more likely to succeed then Sanchez. If not him then Matt Moore. Either way you're not going to be losing anything imo with either of the two if you get them and not Sanchez. If anything you have guys with more physical talent, hunger, and pure passing ability then Sanchez. IMO the only other QB overhyped more than Sanchez is Tebow.
If there isn't an answer in the draft and FA, Sanchez isn't a way to go that is above that pool, if anything, if he was to be added to the pool, the quality of it would decrease. I don't even see him midway up within that pool.
Hell I'd even take a castoff like Jason Campbell over Mark Sanchez.
I see Sanchez in a pool of David Carr, Byron Leftwich, Tyler Thigpen, Dennis Dixon, Rex Grossman, Bruce Gradkowski, and Brady Quinn. Sanchez also would be on the lower end in physical tools of that list. His future is not as a starting QB once the Jets finally ditch him imo.
As far as I'm concerned if we could get Stanton, Moore, and draft a QB 2nd-4th round, I'm fine with whatever that gives us, because it's probably the best we could do. If Arians sees someone at #7 he likes, then at this point I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.
If we went into the season with Stanton, Moore, and Smith/Barkley/Glennon/Jones/Manuel/Scott/Wilson/Bray/Renfree/Nassib then our QB troubles may not be solved, but it would be a clear step up from what we had last season under center. I'd say any of the three would equal or surpass anything we had last year. Kolb was mediocre and like every other season was knocked out with injury after a few games.
Also such a combination shouldn't cost combined but a fraction of Sanchez's contract and no need to give up a pick.
The only way I'd pick up Sanchez was a 3rd QB for roughly the vet minimum.
So we do have choices. None of them are sure fixes. None of them are probable fixes. But imo Sanchez is a sure fail waiting to happen and would cost way too much in salary and require a draft pick where none of these others would, except for a drafted rookie.
I think alot of media and fans of back east people think AZ is podunk and football illiterate incapable of understanding that we known their QB sucks and we don't want to give them anything to rid them of that suckiness.