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For those of you that don't frequent GQ you may have missed out on Mark Sanchez telling their reporter that he wanted to fight Rex Ryan after benching him.
Of course the media has taken off on this story and is painting Sanchez in some sort of negative light for calling out and being angry at his coach. I look at it in quite the opposite light, I think what Sanchez did shows a side of him that most fans have never seen.
Sanchez stepped up and stood up for himself, but didn't do it in a stupid cry to the media way. Instead he waited until the moment passed and didn't go talking to ESPN of Fox Sports, instead he went to the respectable and not exactly sporty GQ.
Before this story came out I thought that although Sanchez was successful on the field, he didn't ever really stand up for himself. Now I look at Sanchez as a player who not only wants the team to do well, but wants himself to be the leader of that.
For those of you who think Sanchez saying this makes his teammates and coach lose respect for him, I think it will actually do quite the opposite. I can't wait to see what Rex Ryan says, I imagine it will be something about walking over tougher guys on his way to a fight, but in a joking way.
With the Jets just minutes from kicking off their 2011 season, it is nice to see that it is not an injury to a star that is making headlines, but a quote that hurts no one.
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