Most Divisive Jets QB Debate of the 2000s

[jgb]

Which Jets QB debate produced the strongest emotions/debate on both sides?

[Irish Jet]

Pennington and it's not even close.

[jgb]

2 minutes ago, Irish Jet said:

Pennington and it's not even close.

Ah yes the Penny warz lol

[SAR I]

1 minute ago, Irish Jet said:

Pennington and it's not even close.

Please.  It was obvious that Chad Pennington was a limp, glass noodle more consumed with his completion percentage than actually making plays to win games.  Universally hated.

Mark Sanchez is the second-best quarterback in Jets history, on this we all agree.

SAR I

[Grandy]

7 minutes ago, SAR I said:

 

Mark Sanchez is the second-best quarterback in Jets history, on this we all agree.

SAR I

"We" insinuates there are other people that believe the same when this statement is in fact referring to a singular.

[section314]

Has to be Sanchez. We all know the reasons.

[PS17]

I was not on any football message boards during the Pennington era. What was the breakdown of supporters vs dissenters? 

[jgb]

Just now, PS17 said:

I was not on any football message boards during the Pennington era. What was the breakdown of supporters vs dissenters? 

Noodle arm egg versus cerebral all-time completion % leader.

[Paradis]

Pennington and it's not even close. 

If you weren't there for the Noodle-Arm War, then you don't even know. 

[Jet2020]

2 minutes ago, PS17 said:

I was not on any football message boards during the Pennington era. What was the breakdown of supporters vs dissenters? 

Can’t throw 10 yards beyond the LOS, noodle arm, Glass Pennington, 

[BigRy56]

A lot of blood was shed in the Pennington War of the 00's. I think that wins running away

[QB1]

Pennington 

Proud member of the noodle egg hating brigade 

still remember screaming in joy when he threw a pick 6 knowing that it would lead to his benching. What is against the bengals? That part I don’t remember 

[peekskill68]

That's a real Murderer's Row you assembled there bruh...

[jgb]

1 minute ago, BigRy56 said:

A lot of blood was shed in the Pennington War of the 00's. I think that wins running away

[PS17]

6 minutes ago, jgb said:

Noodle arm egg versus cerebral all-time completion % leader.

Right, but what was the percentage of supporters vs GTFO?

[section314]

2 minutes ago, jgb said:

Cool photo.

[Kolchak]

Not being in any particular forum back then, I assumed Pennington was universally liked. 

Seeing the reactions to him now, I have to think back then must've been brutal. 

[Grandy]

Pennington.

Just look at the numbers for the rest of the guys, the fact that they sucked was pretty clear cut and dry after a while.

Pennington had the crazy completion numbers, and at times was fantastic. However he was mostly a game manager with a weaker arm who got close to big success multiple times but never really got there. I think of him in a similar vein to Alex Smith.

With him there was an actual debate to be had about sucking or not, and the fanbase raged on and on.

[Smashmouth]

WHY DO THIS!!!

[Smashmouth]

Its easily Pennington and its a damn shame the guy got hurt but that's just our luck

[Irish Jet]

2 minutes ago, Kolchak said:

Not being in any particular forum back then, I assumed Pennington was universally liked. 

Seeing the reactions to him now, I have to think back then must've been brutal. 

I remember assuming he was popular among our fans when I signed up. I loved the guy.

It was a rude awakening.

@Barton vs @ECURB was serious craic. 

[JoeFan]

The first game to which I took my son was the playoff game when we beat the Colts, with Peyton Manning, 41-0.   Mike Greenberg, whom I really like, was arguing with Golic that Chad was better than Manning.  The next week we played the Raiders.  After that game, I told my son,  “We will never win the Super Bowl with Chad.”   The Raiders played press coverage, and Chad simply did not have the arm strength to complete a pass outside the numbers.  I loved Chad as a person, but...

[jetstream23]

No debate.  It's Pennington by a mile.

The Penningtolists vs. the ACM (Anti-Chad Militia)?  It was like Israelis vs. Palestinians.  Nobody ever budged.

 

[TheNuuFaaolaExperience]

Intangibillington, by a mile. 

[jetstream23]

9 minutes ago, Smashmouth said:

WHY DO THIS!!!

lol

For jgb's next thread....  How many Super Bowls would the Jets have won if they just stayed put and took Dan Marino who eventually retired so that Tom Brady could take over as Jets QB for him?  (Assume they only played for a combined 30 years)

- 8 Super Bowls

- 12 Super Bowls

- 15 Super Bowls

- 20 or more Super Bowls

 

 

[UntouchableCrew]

Pennington by a mile.

There were people on both sides very firmly entrenched in their belief -- with justification on both sides.

Most Jets fans knew Sanchez sucked, he was just associated with a great era of Jets football so we got a lot of "he's clutch" nonsense.

Darnold was mainly about belief based on hype -- and when he cratered most people left the bandwagon (although I will admit it's pretty surprising how many Jets fans are still attached to the guy.)

[Jet2020]

I’m gonna be honest, I was a Chad Pennington fan. Surgeries killed his career else he probably would’ve been a top 10 QB. That 2001 (2002?) season was surreal. 

[Smashmouth]

4 minutes ago, jetstream23 said:

lol

For jgb's next thread....  How many Super Bowls would the Jets have won if they just stayed put and took Dan Marino who eventually retired so that Tom Brady could take over as Jets QB for him?  (Assume they only played for a combined 30 years)

- 8 Super Bowls

- 12 Super Bowls

- 15 Super Bowls

- 20 or more Super Bowls

 

 

[ZachEY]

1. Pennington (by a lot)

2. Sanchez

3. Darnold

4. Fitz

5. Geno

This is the correct answer, in full.  Votes for Darnold are recency bias.

[Bleedin Green]

22 minutes ago, jetstream23 said:

No debate.  It's Pennington by a mile.

The Penningtolists vs. the ACM (Anti-Chad Militia)?  It was like Israelis vs. Palestinians.  Nobody ever budged.

 

What?!?  I mean... a militia, seriously?  Doesn't that seem to be just a bit extreme?  I mean, come on, like anyone would ever embrace such a dramatic over-exaggeration of a simple debate.

 

 

 

 

[jgb]

22 minutes ago, UntouchableCrew said:

Pennington by a mile.

There were people on both sides very firmly entrenched in their belief -- with justification on both sides.

Most Jets fans knew Sanchez sucked, he was just associated with a great era of Jets football so we got a lot of "he's clutch" nonsense.

Darnold was mainly about belief based on hype -- and when he cratered most people left the bandwagon (although I will admit it's pretty surprising how many Jets fans are still attached to the guy.)

And to think we have many more years ahead of dissecting every throw he ever makes in mop up duty on another team.

[Bleedin Green]

12 minutes ago, TeddEY said:

1. Pennington (by a lot)

2. Sanchez

3. Darnold

4. Fitz

5. Geno

This is the correct answer, in full.  Votes for Darnold are recency bias.

The supposed Sanchez "postseason greatness" fairytale did always have it's own hint of Penningtology to it, but yeah, the order of this list is the only part of any Jets QB talk that really goes beyond debate.

[Beerfish]

Sanchez, the number of you dummies that thought this guy was good or the least bit responsible for the jet success was astounding.

[neckdemon]

Penningtologists were a fanatical bunch of extremists. Totally radicalized by completion percentages

[Ian Fleming]

ACM v. Penningtologists. A divisive era. Some Penningtologists were even cheering against Favre and the Jets in ‘08.

They then ignored the Dolphins’ resorting to the Wildcat to cover up for his deteriorating arm strength