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Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Jets' Sanchez to miss game


Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — The Sanchise is taking a seat this week, and he's not happy about it.

New York Jets coach Rex Ryan decided yesterday that Mark Sanchez will not play at Tampa Bay on Sunday because of a sprained right knee, and Kellen Clemens will start in his place.

"It's just a frustrating part of this game," a clearly irritated Sanchez said. "I asked him if I could at least try to practice (Thursday) and he said, 'No way, because I know if you practice tomorrow, then you're going to play and we don't want to run any risk of further injury.' It's difficult to handle."

Ryan said he consulted with team doctors and made the call to sit Sanchez, who's "mad as a hornet" at him.

"He wants to play in the worst way and he's going to play," Ryan said. "It's just not going to be this week. I have a lot of confidence in Kellen Clemens and I think that instead of delaying this decision, I'm just going to make it now."

Sanchez sprained the posterior cruciate ligament in the knee during the third quarter of the Jets' 19-13 win over Buffalo in Toronto last Thursday.

EAGLES

3-YEAR EXTENSION FOR REID

On the day he signed a new contract, Andy Reid joked about his weight.

The usually stoic coach has plenty of reasons to be happy, and it's not because he can afford his own cheesesteak joint. Despite failing to win a Super Bowl in his first 10 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Reid got a three-year extension through 2013.

"He has all the ingredients: leadership, football knowledge, the ability to gain the respect of everybody that he works with, especially the players, assembling the staff," owner Jeffrey Lurie said yesterday.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Reid reportedly will earn between $5 and $6 million per season.

Reid is the winningest coach in team history, leading the Eagles to the playoffs seven times with five trips to the NFC title game and one Super Bowl appearance in 10 seasons. The Eagles are 8-4 heading into Sunday's game at the New York Giants and in solid position to make another postseason run.

Since joining the team in 1999, Reid has won 115 games and compiled a .611 winning percentage, both best in Eagles history.

Reid inherited a team that was 3-13 in 1998 and went 5-11 in their first season, then went 11-5 a year later and made the playoffs five straight years.

ELSEWHERE

Chargers: San Diego placed defensive lineman Ogemdi Nwagbuo on injured reserve with an ankle injury, meaning his season is over. Nwagbuo played in all 12 games, starting five, and had 25 tackles, one sack and two deflected passes.

Cowboys: The NFL has docked Cowboys left tackle Flozell Adams $50,000 for shoving New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck in the back. League spokesman Randall Liu said the fine was for unnecessary roughness, Adams' fifth such infraction this season.

Lions: Detroit plans to rest Matthew Stafford's banged-up, non-throwing shoulder for at least one game. Lions coach Jim Schwartz said yesterday that Daunte Culpepper will start at Baltimore and Stafford likely will be the No. 3 quarterback behind Drew Stanton.

Rams: Fifth-year safety safety Oshiomogho Atogwe, the second-leading tackler for St. Louis, was placed on injured reserve yesterday with a dislocated shoulder sustained in Sunday's loss at Chicago. He will miss the rest of the season.

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