Fox Sports on Chad

Chad Pennington MAY have a cannon for an arm, but he can still clutch throws. (Eliot J. Schechter / Getty Images)

That's how dumb Fox sports is.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: Funny to see. How can their be that many mistakes in 1 sentence and for that sentence to be bolded under his picture.

 

How come columnists and analysts never focus on the fact that Pennington has a career .600 winning pct, several big playoff wins, and the fact that he destroyed peyton head to head in the playoff game in 02, but instead its always about his arm.

How come in baseball you never hear people bring that up about pitchers in regaruds to pitchign speed. I guess everyone is going to have to start to realize that you don't need to throw the ball 70 yards to be successful.

 

good article but I disagree with "But let's face it: If Mangini had to go with Ramsey, Bollinger or Clemens, this would've been a Bruce Coslet year. A Joe Walton year. Maybe even a Rich Kotite year." I don't think we would have been 10-6 but I think we would have been fine with Clemens

 

chad is smarter than most qb's, that's all i care about

yeah it would be great if he had a strong arm, but every player in the league has strengths and weaknesses

he's a gamer, that's that

 

Um, he did.

 

I guess your opinion is based on seeing him play in all those NFL games in his career??????

How can you even speculate on how well Clemens would have played this year or how the Jets would have performed with him at QB when he has taken only a handful of snaps in a real NFL game?????

 

Here's Mike Tanier's take on this weekend's matchup. Another douche, in a land of douches who can evaluate talent based on the opinions of others and not his own two eyes. When he gets to the part about how defenses stop covering our receivers because Chad can't throw 35 yards, I wish I could prop his eyes open Clockwork-style and make him watch Coles to McCerins vs. Detroit...over, and over, and over again. (the rest of his article is linked below)

Jets at Patriots
Want to be one of the cool kids? It's easy. Just practice the Bill Belichick-Eric Mangini handshake.

1. Start seven to eight feet away from your partner.

2. Step forward with your right foot. Avert your eyes. Extend your arm like you are carrying a diaper pail during stomach flu season.

3. Turn your head and shoulders away from your partner as you clasp hands. Mumble an insincere "good game."

4. Jog swiftly away from your partner with a bad anchovy look on your face.

It's pretty obvious that Belichick doesn't much like his longtime protégé. Maybe he doesn't like looking in the mirror (that would also explain his wardrobe). Mangini has copied nearly all of Belichick's management techniques, right down to the team's secrecy rules. When a reporter asked Laveranues Coles about a recent head injury after Sunday's win over the Raiders, Coles refused to answer, then got into a heated exchange with the scribe, who didn't have the Level Triple Alpha security clearance needed to ask about injuries.

Mangini has done to the Jets what Belichick did to the Patriots in 2001: he's taken sub-.500 talent and molded it into a playoff team. Flip Bondy of the New York Daily News thinks that Mangini's real secret is his keep it simple approach. "The whole Mangini production has been both a great lesson and a cautionary tale to football coaches everywhere: Never overreach. Know your team's limitations. Throw underneath the coverage. These may not be the most inspiring of axioms, but they are the stuff of walled-in opponents."

The Jets' greatest limitation right now is also their greatest strength: Chad Pennington. He has the brain of seven offensive coordinators and the arm of a Pop Warner quarterback. Pennington throws underneath the coverage because he's incapable of throwing on top of it. Pennington has the best timing in the league, and he's the best play-action faker in the league, but he needs all of the precision to compensate for the fact that opponents know they can stop covering receivers after about 35 yards.

Belichick, of course, knows how to scheme against an opponent's limitations. Pennington threw for just 168 yards when the Jets upset the Patriots in Week 10, and a large number of his 22 completions were unproductive dump-offs to Leon Washington and B.J. Askew. The Jets won because of two untimely Patriots turnovers, both of which led to Jets touchdowns. New England's Week 2 win was more indicative of what we expected from these two teams: the Patriots shut down the Jets running game and built a 24-7 lead, with much of Pennington's production coming during a spirited-but-late comeback.

Despite Mangini's similarity to Belichick and the Jets' similarity to the 2001 Patriots, the Jets are no team of destiny (whatever that means). The 2001 Patriots had a quarterback on the rise in Tom Brady; Pennington, love him to pieces, won't be able to last much longer unless someone performs an arm transplant. The Patriots lived a charmed life in the playoffs that year; the Jets can't expect the same kind of luck. Jets fans should take pride in an exceptional season and should get ready to make some noise next year. But they shouldn't expect their young team to beat the Patriots twice in Foxboro in the same season.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6331780

 

They do. Losing your fastball is huge in baseball. When you don't have great speed to begin with, people are even more critical of a loss of a few mph, like in discussing Mike Mussina.

But baseball and football are different sports, a lot of the comparisons do not really work very well, so I'd rather not worry about it.

Pennington does have a relatively weak arm, there's no problem in mentioning that. He makes up for it with leadership ability and in running this offense. I don't see why we have to deny Pennington's arm trouble, I'd rather just admit to it and then focus on his strengths instead.

 

It's funny. Chad and Mussina are alot alike, but I've never heard Moose take nearly the shit that Chad has. Maybe it's the quantity of money.