Chad Pennington
Chad Pennington
James Chadwick "Chad" Penningtonis a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for eleven years. He is currently a color analyst for NFL telecasts on Fox. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round, as the eighteenth overall selection in the 2000 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1976
CityKnoxville, TN
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My plan's to gain some weight and come back bigger, stronger and quicker and to be the complete quarterback that I know that I can be and that the Jets need me to be to be successful.
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I know when I'm healthy, I can compete with any quarterback in this league and help this team win. To have that scenario next year is pretty exciting for me.
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The biggest adjustment for me is, I try to get inside a coordinator's head, ... That's going to take some time still, but I think we accomplished a lot in the preseason.
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It was just there, ... It never was a thing where we truly had to sit down and work on it. It just happened. It's really unexplainable.
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Things feel really good. ... My whole focus is to get healthy, because when I'm healthy, no one can really argue with the success I've had as a quarterback and us as a team.
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I'm proud of the response and I'm not surprised. Robin and I received a lot of support while we were here. People were so generous to us and other players here. Once people find out what it's for, they come through. This is a way to give back to the community. People are interested and want to be a part of helping improve quality of life.
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I'm trying not to be to analytical and not too perfect. That's one thing Coach Heimerdinger talked about. Play, and you may miss something, but don't worry about it. Just keep playing the game. That's what he's been working with me on, playing a game and not trying to be perfect on every play.
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It's your money going to work. I promise you every dollar gets out.
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It'll take some time to get on the same page (with Heimerdinger), ... but we made great strides in the past week.
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To be honest, it probably made us better football players in the end, ... We had to go out and learn to work with other people.
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You need a big play to give you a spark, ... After that, we didn't have any negative plays on first and second downs.
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I hate missing practice and I'm happy that I can go through two practices in one day now.
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I told him I was proud of him for all the work he's put in. After all the criticism he's been through, to do what he did this year is remarkable. When your organization drafts someone to replace you and you end up being the leader of a division champion, that's just inspirational.
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For all you book writers out there, you can't write a better book than that. There's not a better Christmas present that I could have this year than to watch our team go into the playoffs and win the championship.