New York Daily News - The Jets lost another game and Chad Pennington lost his biggest supporter Sunday, a staggering blow to his reign as the starting quarterback.
For the first time since his job security became an issue three weeks ago, Pennington didn't receive a public vote of confidence last night from a seething Eric Mangini, who put the entire team on notice after a ghastly 38-31 loss to the Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.
Instead of declaring, "Chad is the starting quarterback," as he has done so many times, Mangini resorted to the time-tested, kiss-of-death: "I'll have to watch the tape." [READ]
Bottom line is this.
- Pennington is a great leader, great classy guy.
- He does not have the talent to take this team to the next level.
- We are not winning this season, we need to see why we traded up to get Clemens.
I fully expect to see a starting Clemens this week.
