With all the starting QB's getting injured and the Jets season looking like they are not going to make the playoffs. Would you trade Chad Pennington?
Trading Chad would do three things for the Jets: 1. If any significant value could be recovered via trade it would help the Jets rebuilding process. 2. It would open an opportunity for the Jets to fully evaluate Kellen Clemens, who they spent a 2nd round pick on in 2006. 3. It would clear a lot of cap space moving forward at the expense of most of the remaining cap space the Jets have this season plus some next season. A team that was fully committed to rebuilding would trade Chad if they could get any significant value in return.
after the season i would, but he is still a stabilizing factor in the locker room and is a leader, it would be an awful example to trade him during a season, u cant have players thinking that if u get into a slump u might get booted from the team, we would have players playing on pins and needles all game trying to do too much, mangini must lead by example and trading penny midseason would be a bad precedent to set
Very good post, short, sweet and accurate.... I'm sure it won't happen, as mid-season trades rarely do... But if there is one move that would be most beneficial to our team right now, this would be it
You would have to. I don't know how much a market there would be for Chad Pennington services. Teams all see the same things, Jet fans are seeing. Chad Pennington looks like damage goods right now. Chad Pennington really limits what an offense can do. What team do you see wanting Pennington. It would have to be a playoff team, that thinks he puts them over the top. Who is that team. Bears. You really think Chad has the arm to play in Windy Chicago.
Chicago would take him in a heartbeat, because all he'd have to do is not lose games for them... He's one of the best at that, when he's not asked to do much... I think Minnesota would also do well with him... And maybe Atlanta... He's always been a spectacular dome QB....
I disagree, Bears like to go down the field with their recievers. You really see Chad playing in windy chicago ,and throwing the ball down the field. Falcons are not a playoff team and will be looking to develope a QB of the future . Pennington makes no sense for them. Vikings- I will give you Vikings as a team that might have some intrest in him. Realistic team but I can't see them spending money tobring him in.
i agree, pennington would do worse in chicago, they have below average recievers, a shitty running game and a windy stadium, plus their defense is looking a lil more vulnerable then it has in years past, atlanta- u are right on, minnesota is the only place that would make sense, unless he is obtained as a backup
No...he is valuable as a veteran backup...in a time when teams are scrambling for guys like Vinny and Leftwich, he is a valuable commodity to be sure...it is just time the team realizes that his role is as mentor veteran backup to kellen like warner in arizona (see, it works) and collins in tennessee.
#1 we wouldn't get much for him at this point b/c he is not performing and he has a big contract, it would accelrate a large cap hit so it wouldn't clear cap space right now and we wouldn't have a backup QB. It makes zero sense to trade Chad now, ths isn't baseball where you can expect to deal people off at the deadline if you are out of the race especially a QB.
It would't hurt us cap-wise at all. We'd save money every year from next year on, and we're not using the space we have now anyway. Trade him to Minny for Bollinger and a 3rd round choice. Either that or just the pick and re-sign Ratliff.
Right because the only way we could possibly upgrade over Pennington would be if we found the second coming of Tom Brady
Maybe after the season....and it'll have to be for a 1st day pick, other than that no because every team needs a backup QB.
I'm not sure he's tradable until after this year. Any remaining pro rated portion of paid bonuses escalate and count totally towards this year. I know we are still under but I'm not sure by how much.
Not right now, but in the offseason. If he plays the rest of the season and we still do horribly, we may as well do horribly with a young QB and amass other assets.
You sound surprised, that's what some people honestly think on here, and when KC is not a superstar, they will jump on him kind of like what's going on with CP, although some of it is deserved with his recent play. As much as I would like CP to stay and be the backup, there are about 5-10 teams he could go to and start. It will be up to him, I am sure the FO will ask him to take a pay cut and be the backup but I am not sure what he will do.
