By Tom Rock
Chad Pennington came up short of saying he wants out when he spoke this week. His father apparently has no such qualms.
In an article by Mark Burgess in this weekend’s Knoxville News Sentinel, Elwood Pennington, Chad’s father, says it’s time for Chad to move on when this season ends.
“After you become an eight-year veteran, you see it as a business and you know how the organization does things,” Coach P said. “With the new coaching staff and organization, they’re going to go in a different direction. Chad doesn’t fit into either’s plans as far as the future is concerned. He’s at the end of his career and he wants to be somewhere he can compete for the starting job, win games and maybe get to a Super Bowl.”
Mr. Pennington also says that Chad gave his heart and soul to the Jets, fighting through injuries and even taking a pay cut last year. The elder Pennington also said that he doesn’t understand Mangini’s reluctance to name a quarterback this week (even though he cleared the situation on Wednesday, essentially saying that Kellen Clemens is the starter even though he’s probably not healthy enough to play this weekend).
"I don’t know what their thinking is, or what they’re trying to accomplish by doing that," Elwood said of the quarterback shuffle. "It looks to me like if I have a quarterback — Kellen or Chad — I’m going to hang my hat on one of them and let them know I’m behind them. They haven’t really committed to either one of them.”
Comments (2)
its simple. mangini is gutless.
I'm inclined to think that inside the organization they are well aware of who will start on Sunday, but decide to make it more difficult and time-consuming for the opponent to have to study both quarterback's tapes.