I have to say, I am going to miss Chad Pennington. He didn't have a lot of arm strength, thus his abilities were limited, but the Jets had a couple of great runs with him, and he was a good guy throughout. The team has never had a hotter stretch than they did in the second half of the 2002 season, and in 2004 he led a team that could have gone to the Super Bowl (sandbagged by Doug Brien's missed regulation ending and overtime FGs in Pittsburgh). Sure, he never won a championship, but he was "our guy."
Now, the Jets have traded for a quarterback who isn't "our guy." At least, he's not my guy, buddy. Brett Favre is the opposite of Chad Pennington. He has the arm strength that Pennington does not, but he doesn't make good decisions, and thinks he's bigger than the team. I don't want to sound too much like the police chief in any 1980s cop movie, but he's reckless. The Jets made signings to drastically improve the team last offseason (Faneca, Pace, Woody, Jenkins), and were going to be better no matter what. But now if they do go to the playoffs, I think we'll see the credit go to Favre. If they lose though, we know what's coming...30 interceptions being excused away with "He's a gunslinger," "He's just trying to win," and "{Jets intended receiver} must have ran the wrong route."
The 2008 New York Jets will be quite a circus.
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I can't wait until Favre, unable to locate a receiver, underhands the ball to Thomas Jones in the middle of traffic, only to have the ball bounce off a defender's helmet, at which point Jones catches it and scampers five yards for a first down. That is when Ian Eagle and Solomon Wilcotts will both yell "Gunslinger!" at the same time, and my television will explode, and the Jets will lose because on the next play Favre will throw an interception.
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