Jersey DolFan
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I know i retired from this site, but who cares about the negativity when its indisputable right now. I know there will still be alotta hair brained dooms day threads but ill just ignore them..
the point of this thread is Chad Pennington.
i heard on sporanos postgame..a few reporters asked about henne, things along the lines of how will he be prepared blah blah blah...but on 2 occasions Sparano said that he needs to see whats going on with pennington before he goes down that road.
that being said - penny is out and he prob is out for the year and out as a dolphin. He is a great player and will prob always be one of my favorite dolphins, but he cant put together back to back seasons and he hurt his already injured throwing shoulder.
some poitns i want to make about penny tho - 1) he has an arm - that first pass was plenty far enough, too bad it was too far and the big one
2) If you dont realize that the dismal atitude around here and the lack of offense had ALOT to do with Pennington getting hurt ur outta it.
we drove all the way down the field and should have had a TD. That is the story of this year so far - efficient runing and not closing. Pennington was looking hungry and was playing ok - we went into the half tied. This game slipped away at the same time my confidence did - when Henne became the starting QB. This isnt a knock on Henne, this is just the truth.
think about this team - they have heard prob as much as we have that Penny wont stay consistant etc. Then before their very eyes their emotional leader and the guy who has run this offense so efficeintly goes down and stays down. The entire confidence and heart of this team had to collapse at that point - i think that has alot more to do with this loss than everything else. I am not saying that we will do squat this season b/c i too think its a lost cause, ESP b/c penny is gone. but what im saying is dont think we have gone back to square 1 completly and that we havnt gotten better - b/c from a talent and a team standpoint we are in year 2 of rebuilding and we arent doing that horribly - the D and O fell apart as soon as Penny went down. After losing another game and how most fans tend to treat these guys i dont expect an emotional recovery for a few weeks or until we get a win.
Mark my words - if we come out and beat Buffalo we might turn the page and jump on an entirely new begining and emotion, b/c that might show the team that after a dismal start, this new guy Henne might be the spark they needed - but if we lose again i expect a steady, steady, decline. Penny was the MVP of this team last year - and him going down completly dismantles this team. I of course could never prove this but we were running and moving the ball pretty well and the Chargers werent doing nething great on O prior to Penny going down and i think if he stays in we win this game. Dont mistake a HUGE HUGE injury for our entire team being pathetic.
the point of this thread is Chad Pennington.
i heard on sporanos postgame..a few reporters asked about henne, things along the lines of how will he be prepared blah blah blah...but on 2 occasions Sparano said that he needs to see whats going on with pennington before he goes down that road.
that being said - penny is out and he prob is out for the year and out as a dolphin. He is a great player and will prob always be one of my favorite dolphins, but he cant put together back to back seasons and he hurt his already injured throwing shoulder.
some poitns i want to make about penny tho - 1) he has an arm - that first pass was plenty far enough, too bad it was too far and the big one
2) If you dont realize that the dismal atitude around here and the lack of offense had ALOT to do with Pennington getting hurt ur outta it.
we drove all the way down the field and should have had a TD. That is the story of this year so far - efficient runing and not closing. Pennington was looking hungry and was playing ok - we went into the half tied. This game slipped away at the same time my confidence did - when Henne became the starting QB. This isnt a knock on Henne, this is just the truth.
think about this team - they have heard prob as much as we have that Penny wont stay consistant etc. Then before their very eyes their emotional leader and the guy who has run this offense so efficeintly goes down and stays down. The entire confidence and heart of this team had to collapse at that point - i think that has alot more to do with this loss than everything else. I am not saying that we will do squat this season b/c i too think its a lost cause, ESP b/c penny is gone. but what im saying is dont think we have gone back to square 1 completly and that we havnt gotten better - b/c from a talent and a team standpoint we are in year 2 of rebuilding and we arent doing that horribly - the D and O fell apart as soon as Penny went down. After losing another game and how most fans tend to treat these guys i dont expect an emotional recovery for a few weeks or until we get a win.
Mark my words - if we come out and beat Buffalo we might turn the page and jump on an entirely new begining and emotion, b/c that might show the team that after a dismal start, this new guy Henne might be the spark they needed - but if we lose again i expect a steady, steady, decline. Penny was the MVP of this team last year - and him going down completly dismantles this team. I of course could never prove this but we were running and moving the ball pretty well and the Chargers werent doing nething great on O prior to Penny going down and i think if he stays in we win this game. Dont mistake a HUGE HUGE injury for our entire team being pathetic.
