Postseason bound? By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports November 14, 2006 He never had running back Curtis Martin. He's starting two rookies (left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson and center Nick Mangold) on the offensive line. And he's dealing with a No. 1 wide receiver (Laveranues Coles) who has played most of the season injured. Yet, rookie coach Eric Mangini has turned the New York Jets into a top-10 team suddenly in the thick of the AFC's playoff race. And lest anyone overlook it, he went home this week and beat his mentor Bill Belichick, who hasn't gone out of his way to say anything good about Mangini since he left New England in January. Considering all those mitigating factors ? not to mention the fact that we weren't even sure who the starting quarterback would be four months ago ? Mangini is pushing for some coach of the year votes. And you could argue he's done the best job of all the rookie coaches, including New Orleans' Sean Payton. And with only one team left on the schedule with a winning record (Chicago), we could be talking about Mangini driving the Jets into the playoffs. As for the rest of the NFL, here is a look at how the league stacks up heading into Week 11. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-rankings111406&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Shoot. I'm not used to this new format yet and forgot about the "Jets News" forum. Please delete this.
Not to mention That QB we were unsure about has pins in a broken wrist, a twice surgically repaired throwing shoulder (no one has ever returned from two surguries of that type), and a new coach that owes him no favors. Give Pennington credit for winning the job, playing well to get us some confidence building early wins, and playing well enough to keep the hope alive against great teams like Indy and the Pats. The losses at Indy and at home with the Pats was complete lack of defense when it mattered, the loss at Cleveland (where Chad was not very good) was as much a bad officiating call as anything, and the blowout loss to the Jags was complete lack of anything positive from anyone including CP. Mangini is aggressive in style and Chad is a thinking QB - That combo coupled with good WR play and an improving running game has elevated the status of the JETS. If the defense can repeat last weeks performance, we can beat the Bears or anyone else. I'm positive about the direction the JETS are headed!
I think a lot of that might have been his arm being fatigued. The bye week couldn't have come at a better time, but you hope it doesn't start rearing its head again towards the end of the season/beginning of the playoffs. Hopefully it was a one time thing, and it'll hold up the rest of the way. Still, it's a maddening drawback to Pennington. You wish he would just get past all the arm troubles and could play at a high level consistently, without always worrying about something like that every few weeks.
does anybody remember the vinny days, penny will only make it look good every week, he doesn't have what it takes to air it out and win the big game. His arm is shot, and so is his career. Where would we be if we had a legitimate qb?
been throgh too many season as true fan to buy into crap about penny being the man, any more than vinny was the man. Lets upgrade now and save ourselves the misery.
I'm just glad the guy is playing better than I thought he would. Still not getting my hopes up for the post-season though.
