Thursday, September 10, 2009

Former Trojans


For more than two years, Mark Sanchez and Brian Cushing were typical roommates, with the typical pranks. Now Cushing will be trying to rattle Sanchez on Sunday, when Houston hosts the Jets at Reliant Stadium. The two former USC standouts will be making their NFL debuts on the same day. "He’ll be coming full speed, I know it, off the edge," Sanchez added. "That’s going to be fun to play against him for real because in practice at SC, I was wearing that yellow jersey so he couldn’t touch me, but now it’s on.""Yeah, that’s a first," Cushing said when asked about potentially hitting Sanchez. "I’ll be excited." And on the field, he respects Sanchez just as much as Sanchez respects him. "He’s a real competitive kid," Cushing said of Sanchez. "He’s done a great job in his four years developing as a quarterback. He’s in the perfect system and he flourished.

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