CP is a never was. I was estatic when we drafted him and like the guy, but his weak arm strength and health concerns have left a bitter taste. I say let the two young guys fight for the job.
Just how many times are we going to re-re-re-visit this over-discussed topic. Is this the Week of May 5th's version of this tired old debate? Give it a rest.
...but Chad Pennington has the arm strength of an 80 year old stroke victim, Kellen Clemens has the brains of a mongoloid after massive head trauma, and Ainge should never have been drafted in the first place, especially as a reach in the 5th round.
Just be thankful that we don't have a QB who plays like an 80-year old mongoloid and licks the window in the little yellow buses on his way to a Chicago Bears game. Be happy that we don't have Rex Grossman and be happy that we drafted a QB for the future instead of drafting no one to replace the most inept QB in the league.
I think the Jets have learned from the past, and will finally give the guy they drafted so high an opportunity right out of the gate. The starting QB has to be Gholston.
Whomever the CS feels is most competent. I can't make that judgement. Even based upon last seasons performance.
Coaches don't worry about last season, they worry about now. One thing Mangini says that I agree with is this--just as we didn't get to start last year at 10-6 and in the playoffs, we don't start this year 4-12. It's all new, what happens now is what matters.
i voted Pennington because what I saw from Clemens at the end of the year made me vomit. honestly, i don't care...
If the CS is going with the "here and now", they believe that the competition between Chad and Kellen is a valid question to answer this off-season. It would be fun to watch, and I'm sorry we don't have access to more of the competition process.
The odds of either Pennington or Clemens being as bad as they were last year are pretty small. Fact is both Clemens and Pennington outright blew chunks last year. Chances are good that who ever they pick will give us better QB play than we got last year and better is always better than worse unless it isn't in which case its not going to improve and might actually get worse. Who would have thought a great young coach and GM could take a 10 & 6 team to 4 & 12 last year? The odds of repeating that are so small it has to give you confidence that doing nothing at the QB position gives us tremedous odds of improved play. I say go with both Chad and Clemens just like last year because it can't get any worse unless it actually does.
I think the team around them affected both guys, I have not given up on Clemens but I'm not giving up on Chad either. Chad has a proven track record and last yera was his only bad mostly healthy year. I don't care who the QB is as long as he plays well but I do feel more comfortable going into the year w/ Chad rather than KC.
