Report: Dolphins' Pennington out for year

We said the same thing at the Beatdown. Chad’s a good dude. He’s had a tough go of it. I hope he gets healthy and finds a home for 4-5 more years. That dumps Miami from the playoff picture. Ya know, I used to root slightly for the Jets simply because of your overwhelming success. But, with wind bag Ryan running his mouth every other day (and going prevent against you as a Ravens D-Cood.) I’ve recanted those feelings.

They’ll Wildcat against the teams that are susceptible. Henne is seen as the QB of the future anyway; ‘future’ just means next week instead of next year, now. And White will be a solid backup in the Mike Vick mould – has second round talent, but not clear how well it’ll convert to the NFL because of the other issues (size, temperament).

To be fair, though, Miami are a rushing team – two very solid RBs, a decent O-line, and a scrambling QB. They weren’t exactly going to win games with their WR battery as it was, and their top WR wasn’t a fit for Pennington anyway, as he was a quick deep-threat and Pennington was a dip-and-dabble 10 yard thrower.

At best, they’ll adjust. At worst, they’ll temper their QBs to make another run next year.

I always liked Pennington, so it is sort of sad to see him out again. Still, it must be admitted that staying healthy has always been his major problem and a player cannot be truly great without that ability.

For Miami this is actually a good thing. Sitting at 0-3 with a waaay tougher schedule than last year the season was lost anyway. Now they can use the rest of the way to develop their next quarterback without having to create controversy by benching Pennington at some point.

but I’ve always liked Pennington too, regardless that he plays for an AFC East rival team. Ah, what the heck, he’s a good guy and he handled the Jets’ dumping him for Favre like a professional. Tough, tough break for him (I couldn’t care less about the Dolphins.)

After he got yanked around by the Favre clown. Unfortunately, he did too well. The Dolphins already told him this was his last year at the wheel, so he would either be a clipboard holder or go elsewhere. I’m sorry he’s going to miss this year in the limelight. I hope he finds a new home in the league; there are much worse QB’s out there on rosters.

Chiefs trade Tyler Thigpen to the Dolphins for an undisclosed draft pick.

I don’t get this move at all.

They’ve been touting Henne as the QB of the future for… two years? They’ve got White as their option QB/Wildcat guy. So that’s two. What do they expect to do with Thigpen? He doesn’t know the system, but he’s an ex-starter, so surely they aren’t expecting him to be a third-string emergency QB. So either he’s the starter (which shows no confidence in Henne at all) or he’s the backup (and thus relegates the White-Wildcat experiment a failure already, since they can only use the emergency QB in certain circumstances).

Thoughts?

Wonder if Thigpen suddenly doesn’t look so good? Heh.

Poor Garcia is in that sad stage of his career- the lonely one man barnstormer living check to check. The poor guy only wanted a 2nd career. Like Flutie, he was good enough to stick around but just not as tempting as a less qualified rookie. I wanted Flutie for the Ravens back in ’98. He would have been an upgrade for the next 6 years.

Sad really. I think the age envelope is getting pushed further and further up by some great players- Warner, Favre, Fred Taylor, Ray Lewis, Derrick Mason, Willie Anderson (retired), Trevor Price. All these guys are maintaining a high level in their last few years or year.

In this player juggling league, I think coaches need to take another look at vets over rookies. I’ve always said that I’d take a good vet qb over a costly top 25 draft qb. You would get immediate returns and have the track record to go by. The Ravens farted around with Boller while many decent veteran Qb’s looked for work including Warner, Garcia, Collins and Brunell.