Pennington to the bench?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:55 pm
by Icness
Granted the guy has a changeup arm in a fastball league, but I think he's becoming the scapegoat for a lot of issues on the Jets that have nothing to do with him. Like their nonexistent run defense, and their poor coverage breakdowns. Or the problems in pass protection.
Anyone here believe Kellen Clemens is cure to what ails them?
Re: Pennington to the bench?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:57 pm
by jumanji
Icness wrote:Granted the guy has a changeup arm in a fastball league, but I think he's becoming the scapegoat for a lot of issues on the Jets that have nothing to do with him. Like their nonexistent run defense, and their poor coverage breakdowns. Or the problems in pass protection.
Anyone here believe Kellen Clemens is cure to what ails them?
Not sure if Clemens is the cure for anything but i think you have to see what you have there before you enter a draft where you'll be picking early and one that is loaded with quality QBs. Unfortunately i think Chad is finished.
Re: Pennington to the bench?
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:17 pm
by J.Kim
Icness wrote:Granted the guy has a changeup arm in a fastball league, but I think he's becoming the scapegoat for a lot of issues on the Jets that have nothing to do with him. Like their nonexistent run defense, and their poor coverage breakdowns. Or the problems in pass protection.
Anyone here believe Kellen Clemens is cure to what ails them?
Holy deja vu.
FO agrees with you.
Sean McCormick: The Bengals are doing everything they can to make the Jets defense effective. They are taking a ton of penalties that turn favorable downs and distances into unfavorable ones. Of course, this is the Jets defense we
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:19 pm
by treiz
Yeah, that's what I always thought. When a team does bad the QB is the first to used as a scapegoat. Pennington is throwing 68% ish, and they want to bench him? He has more TDs than picks and last weeks defeat wasn't his fault. He needed to come back, and was unlucky enough to throw the pick. He's one of the most accurate QBs in the league and they want to bench him? I don't understand it.
Clemens will not save us IMO, maybe next year, but not this year. The fact that we might draft a QB in this year draft just makes more sense to keep going with Pennington.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:27 pm
by Jose7
It's not just about benching chad as a scapegoat BUT, our season is DONE. You have to play Clemens to see what he can do in this league.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:40 pm
by DaGoodz
I'm not a jets fan, but Darren McFadden would really help them next year
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:22 pm
by Jose7
No, an offensive line that was actually decent would help us next year.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:44 pm
by Next Coming
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:51 pm
by bigrich88
but pennington has not really done enough to help the team win, but he does have some nice stats, the jets need a spark and i think clemens will provide it for them.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:07 am
by Icness
It's not just about benching chad as a scapegoat BUT, our season is DONE. You have to play Clemens to see what he can do in this league.
I can buy into that, but that brings up the ugly question of what to do with Pennington. His cap number the next two seasons is in the top 15 in the NFL and they've essentially killed his marketability by benching him. And if they find Clemens is not what they want/expect, the fan is really not going to smell very nice...
What happened with Nick Manglod and D'Brickshaw Ferguson? Have they regressed in their sophmore seasons?
Mangold is still a very solid C, particularly in pass protection. He's a borderline Pro Bowler (I voted for him sort of homerifically) and is easily the best linemen on the team.
Ferguson isn't a bust by any means, but he has not lived up to expectations. He kinda reminds me of Jeff Backus in Detroit--most Lions fans hate him, but he's actually a competent starter most of the time. IMO Ferguson looks like he's thinking too much instead of just reacting, and he gets out-leveraged because of it. He really misses Pete Kendall next to him--that move really set the franchise back more than Pennington's weak arm ever could.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:26 am
by NO-KG-AI
I wish they would just throw Kellen in so he show he's not the future, and we can stop hearing about him.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:40 pm
by Icness
NO-KG-AI wrote:I wish they would just throw Kellen in so he show he's not the future, and we can stop hearing about him.
That's almost a direct quote from Solomon Wilcotts on Sirius NFL Radio last week, and the insufferable Adam Schein backed it up.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:39 pm
by DaGoodz
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