Chad Pennington Quotes (56 Quotes)


    If the Jets can execute their offense there, they should be able to execute it anywhere. You're playing on the road and it's always a challenge to communicate no matter how well you know the offense, ... You can't hear yourself think sometimes.

    I've never looked at myself as injury-prone. I've looked at myself as maybe being injury-plagued ... Unfortunately, I've just been part of some bad luck.

    Maybe today I'll wake up and feel much better, ... I just feel like it probably got stretched out a little bit and worked through some scar tissue maybe. I don't think it's hurt. You can't hurt it it's way too strong to hurt it that bad. I don't think so. It may just be some surgical stuff, but we'll know more today.

    There are going to be plenty of critics, there already have been, and plenty of people who say I can't make it back and I can't do this and I can't do that. That's the way I want it to be because when you do succeed, when you do prove people wrong, it makes it even sweeter.

    When you get into the red zone you want to be aggressive, but when you don't have the look that you want to take care of the football, you don't want to squander three points,


    Pennington was not going to put it off again, as he did last year. Last year I felt like I could come back and help our team win and help get us into the playoffs, ... This year I couldn't answer that with an honest answer because I didn't know.

    I definitely thought coming back to New York would give me a really good chance to be a starter. Whatever coach decides I'm comfortable with. I want to be on the field. I feel like the Jets can give me the best opportunity to be on the field.

    My wife was about to kill me after a while. She knew it was important that I was talking to him, but we were talking excessively on the phone.

    You know, ... I was flipping channels, and in the back of my mind, a voice told me not to turn it on. So I didn't.

    That solidifies it for Marshall and the community on how important it is. It gives it credibility.

    It's frustrating and demoralizing. I worked really hard to get back to playing, putting in all the extra hours in over time, and trying to come back to be out there on the field. When something like that happens, it really tests you. It tests your willpower, your mind and your confidence.

    It's a work in progress, ... When you overstride, you take your hips out of the throw and it becomes all arm. It's not a pretty result sometimes.

    The third series was really important, to get some tempo and to answer their scoring drive. Our first two series were pretty ugly.

    It feels much better. I'm trying to work through some things and it's just a work in progress. It's a matter of time. You can't be frustrated. You have to keep working and feel comfortable with making the right reads and eventually the throws will come and you'll get all the kinks worked out.

    There are not too many universities around the nation, no matter what division they play in, that can say they have the support we do as Marshall University football players.

    We're not a very good team offensively, ... We're all taking turns, messing a play up.

    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.

    I think I can be very successful in his system, seeing how Steve McNair was very successful in his system, ... I'm very excited about the potential of this system and what I can do in it, but it's going to take some time.

    However, it is apparent that my shoulder was injured in the rotator-cuff area, ... In my estimation, any quarterback would have experienced some type of injury to his shoulder after being put in that position.

    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.

    Kevin's pretty fired up. I think we all look forward to the challenge of trying to make this offense work. One good thing is that all my guys take great pride in what they do. They're not sloppy. They want to get it right.

    That was probably the first time in three years that I overthrew a receiver and the first time I had an incomplete pass that I really felt good about.

    I was praying he'd make that first one because you media guys would have been all over him,

    It's always been a comfort zone knowing you have 28 Martin behind you, ... I've seen him play with two sprained ankles, I've seen him play with an MCL, I've seen him play with a tailbone muscle ripped off his tailbone, I've seen a bunch of different things. I had no idea he was hurt. I had no clue you won't hear a word from him.

    When you make a mistake, sometimes it tends to snowball and that is what happens the rest of the day. Somewhere along the line someone has to put a dam in the bridge or in the gap, and we didn't do that.

    Both Laveranues and myself probably had the longest week of anybody, ... We couldn't wait for Sunday to get here to play well and make a difference.

    When I was hurt last year, I talked to him quite a bit about dealing with the injury, ... Curtis finds a way to take an injury and make it part of his being.

    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.

    They had a lot of people in the middle, ... There were a couple of times I wanted to go there, but I couldn't get them the ball.

    I've got a lot of learning to do. This is good for me. I'll come out and look at this tomorrow and get better from it. It was good for me because I got banged around a few times, bounced back and didn't even know that I'd gotten banged around.


    At times it wasn't very exciting, ... But when you play fundamental football, you have a good chance to win. And that's what we did.

    In the losing Miami locker room there were some players trying to pour saltwater over the Jets' victory, particularly on Chad Pennington . The guy cannot get the ball down the field, ... I don't remember any great throws. It was more things we didn't do than things Pennington did.

    You need a big play to give you a spark, ... After that, we didn't have any negative plays on first and second downs.

    I don't know if it causes hesitancy, but it still causes you to think, make sure you get in your formations right, put us in the right position. I just hope as the season goes on we get better.

    That was the highest of the high and the lowest of the low. We went through a bunch of adversity and at the end of the game it looked for a minute like we had won.

    I look at the situation and the ball leaves my hands, and I am responsible and so I look at them as if they were my fault. This is a learning experience and we will make it through it and make the best of it, finishing up strong and come back firing next season.

    Byron is pretty amazing physically as far as the punishment he can take and still respond and try to help his team win games. I know how tough he is. I have seen it for a long time. It takes a lot to get him out of the game.


    The day I start getting frustrated about a win, I'll retire, ... I'll just quit, because then you don't truly understand what you're in this business to do, and that's to win.

    How important a story this is. It's about an athletic resurrection and community's resurrection and the way people embraced Marshall University. Not a lot of people can say they've been a part of that.

    I think any time you go through an offensive change, it takes a full year to totally adjust and get comfortable, ... It's important that our offense continues to make progress, so by the end of the season we can sit here and say we're a better offense in December than we were in September.

    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.

    I hate missing practice and I'm happy that I can go through two practices in one day now.

    Offensively, I think we're all searching for answers right now, ... We're not a very good football team offensively. We're not playing together. It starts with me. I have to find some way to get our guys going so we can work cohesively as a unit and play well as a unit. We're just all taking turns messing a play up.

    If Curtis can't go, which I can't imagine ... it would be a difficult situation. But I wouldn't lose confidence because I know Derrick (Blaylock) would do a great job.

    I've definitely learned what patience is all about, ... It's tough, but I'm in the best situation I can be in. I just need to keep my nose to the grindstone, keep working hard, and it'll happen sooner or later.

    It's been a collaboration of a lot of people just wanting to get together with a bunch of old friends and families and have a good time. That's been our whole goal. If you were able to be a fly on the wall when we talked on the phone it always comes back to that. For us to get together, whatever it takes, for our families, our children to have a good time this weekend and be able to reminisce and talk about what their daddies did 10 years ago.

    In the bottom of my heart I felt New York was the place to be. I was just hoping we would come to an agreement where both sides would be committed and share the risks.

    We have to convert third downs, ... It's the only way we're going to keep our defense off the field. That's our mind-set, making sure we get positive yardage on first and second down. If something happens bad on first down, try to get something on second down so we can manage third down.


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