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Anything Is Possible

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Wandering around the house today and thinking about football, something occurred to me regarding this week’s Pats-Jets showdown. If John Fox can land on his feet as the head coach of the Denver Broncos a scant few days after being let go by the Carolina Panthers following a 2-14 season, anything is possible.

(And let’s be clear about this, because precision and clarity do count. This wasn’t a 2-14 season where one could make the argument that the team caught some bad breaks – they were every bit as bad as their record indicated. Combined with the fact Fox gave the franchise a big FU by signing some guy off the street to come in and start against the Baltimore Ravens, I’m not sure how he managed to get a job of any kind let alone make a lateral move right into another head coaching spot with a couple million coming his way. Shouldn’t there be some kind of penance for a season that bad? Shouldn’t he have to go back to being a coordinator or picking up dirty jock straps before getting another chance to cash very large checks?) Continue reading →

Chad Pennington Is One Tough Mother…

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For all the things I said about Chad Pennington during his days with the Jets and Dolphins (something along the lines of his arm was essentially a balloon animal tied to the rest of his body), there’s one thing I can’t and won’t deny – the guy is tough. Let’s just get this out of the way – if you, as a sane and reasonable human being, decide to step out onto an NFL football field as a quarterback, essentially putting a very large target on your front, back, and sides… that’s tough. Should you have to undergo several surgeries to repair yourself, go through lots of physical therapy and still be willing to jog out there only to have very large men chasing you and wishing to undo all that repair works… that’s pretty damn tough. When you pop your shoulder out and then… Well, let’s have Chad explain this one shall we?

Pennington recounted popping his shoulder back in after hurting it on his first play of the season against the Titans a month ago.   Pennington then completed a pass and the shoulder came out of its joint again.

“I had popped it back in, and then it just fell out and it was stuck,” Pennington said. “I looked at Ronnie and I said, ‘Hey Ronnie, pull on my shoulder. See if you can pop this thing back in.’ He’s like, ‘I’m not touching that shoulder.’”

Yeah, that’s some cauterizing your own puncture wound with gunpowder and a match level tough. Good luck with the surgery, sir.