Leave Him A Hanging Chad!

I'm sure everyone is aware of the situation. Brett Favre was traded to the Jets and the Jets will no counter by releasing Chad Pennington. Many people say Chad should come straight to Miami and start week one against his former team. It seems to make sense. Bill Parcells drafted him. Pennington can give us an inside look at the Jets playbook and defenses and other insider information. However, I am NOT in favor of acquiring Pennington.

Reason #1: He can't throw deep routes.

This is a known fact. If Chad is the quarterback, don't expect any passes longer than twelve yards to be completed, unless of course, he completes it to the wrong team, which is likely. He has had shoulder issues and simply can't burn a defense with the long ball if given the opportunity. Considering our number one receiver's (Ted Ginn) best skill is speed and deep routes, this quarterback pairing would not be a good fit. This allows defenses to stack the box and dare us to hook up on a long pass. Won't happen.

Reason #2: Which quarterback will be the odd man out?

Simple mathematics, we will only have three quarterbacks this year. If Pennington comes in and sticks to the 53-man roster, who is the odd one out. Josh McCown could be cut, but we just invested $6.25 million to him in the offseason. That wouldn't be the biggest of losses but still a chunk of money wasted this year and the next. John Beck could be dangled in a trade but I doubt anybody (even Cam Cameron) would offer anything serious. If he was cut or put on the practice squad though he'd probably be picked up. We should not be so eager to give up on Beck, he still has a lot of potential and it's only his second year. We just drafted Henne and he has been arguably the best quarterback in camp. He's not going anywhere.

Just say no to Chad. He is not a quarterback of the future and isn't a worthy stop-gap solution.

(thanks to my cousin Dewey for the image at the top)