Decision to start Freeman latest in series of QB missteps around NFL

Throw in the on-again, off-again presence of veteran backup David Garrard, and the specifics of Sanchez's Week 3 preseason shoulder injury, and New York has
Decision to start Freeman latest in series of QB missteps around NFL
Decision to start Freeman latest in series of QB missteps around NFL /

Josh Freeman went just 20-of-53 in his Vikings' debut, a 23-7 loss to the Giants.
Josh Freeman went just 20-of-53 in his Vikings' debut, a 23-7 loss to the Giants :: Elsa/Getty Images

Throw in the on-again, off-again presence of veteran backup David Garrard, and the specifics of Sanchez's Week 3 preseason shoulder injury, and New York has certainly taken a curious and circuitous route to its current quarterback situation. Putting Sanchez on the short-term IR list, only to then see him submit to season-ending surgery a few weeks later, served as the perfect capper to the Jets' series of miscalculations. New York spent it's one valuable eight-week IR designation on a player who likely played his last snap as a Jet in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. The Jets are winning, but it may be in spite of themselves.


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Senior NFL writer Don Banks joined SI in 2000 after 10 years on the beat covering the Vikings and Buccaneers. His Snap Judgments cap off every Sunday of every NFL season.