Film Room: Pennington’s Turn

Move over Mark Sanchez, that Chad Pennington is soooo hot right now.

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PSA: Grantham Charity Event in July

Just a quick post to note that newest TJB Hall of Fame inductee, Larry Grantham’s golf event to benefit the recovering alcoholics of Freedom House is coming up in mid-July

Larry Grantham will welcome other members of the 1968 Super Bowl-winning New York Jets, including Gerry Philbin, Emerson Boozer and John Elliott.
Other notable sports celebrities such [...]

Link: How Much Left in the Tank?

The guys at Kotite’s Corner took a very interesting look at running backs across the league, and predicted how close they are to retirement. Using the base ‘retirement’ age of 65, they used some fancy math to come up with, in broad terms, how much gas is left in the tank for backs across the [...]

The AFC Wars: The East Edition

The AFC East [is still on sale until Aug. 1, all inquiries must be heard by Roger Goodell] is beginning to heat up even more, like an egg on the sidewalk. The Fins linebacker, Akin Ayodele mentioned that there will be more “edge” to the Monday night game come October after the Rex Ryan vs. Channing Crowder’s [...]

Film Room: He Had Two Feet Down

Although we linked to this B-Roll footage a while back, it’s bears showing again. Mark Sanchez showed off his $50 million arm (and chest, uhh … thanks Boom) a few weeks ago for a charity.

Anyone else need a shower? Let’s hope that:
1) Sanchez works better with his receivers in the future
2) Boomer doesn’t remove articles [...]

News: Brandon Marshall Likely Staying Put in Denver

Although it’s true that the Jets could use another wideout, don’t expect Brandon Marshall to come available any time soon, according to ESPN’s Bill Williamson of the AFC West Blog.

I talked to some people close to the situation Monday, and they said the Broncos will maintain their stance of keeping Marshall. The team still expects [...]

Link: Overrated / Underrated

ESPN and our friends at Football Outsiders have released their most underrated/overrated players from the decade. Here are the ones who have played for the Jets.
Most Underrated#11 John Abraham#13 Chad Pennington
Most Overrated#7 — Ty Law#21 — Damien Woody

Daily Links: MMQB With a Real QB

Slow news days ..

Trent Green stood in for Peter King this week at SI.
The Supreme Court is taking a case on NFL apparrel licensing.
How do I put this gently? Screw it, Redskin TE Chris Cooley burned up a dead cow out on his property in Wyoming!

News: Burress to Face Stiff Penalty

According to PFT and others, the latest buzz is that Commissioner Goodell is expected to suspend Plaxico Burress (and Mike Vick for what it’s worth) indefinitely.
Goodell is leaning toward suspending Burress indefinitely, and continuing the presently indefinite suspension of Vick…It looks like Burress won’t be playing much football until he puts the pending charges behind [...]

News: Jets Keep On Waivering

The Jets have picked up yet another ex-Giant on waivers, this time former Rutgers guard Mike Fladell.
Fladell is huge (6′7″, 334) and was once regarded as a potential mid-to-late round pick. From what I’ve seen of him, he is a powerful run blocker with the ability to pull. He was undrafted in 2008 [...]