Pennington Has Early Lead

As the Favre to Jets story has faded, all reports out of camp have Chad Pennington taking the early lead in the quarterback race. Kellen Clemens has been struggling so far, throwing quite a few picks, which certainly isn't good news. As I've written in previous posts, if Pennington wins the job this team is in trouble. We all know what he can do. He can throw short passes, manage a game well, but certainly doesn't strike fear in ANY defense. He also threw some HUGE interceptions last season. I don't like pounding Pennington; he really has served this organization well. However, I still feel the team would be much better off having Clemens take over and lead them into the future. If he can't grab hold of the starting job, this team takes a step back. It is still early, so Clemens has time to turn it around and take the starting job. So we'll just have to see what he can do over the next few weeks. The next few days may just bring us a new "old" quarterback too. You never know.