Defying Odds, Pennington Has Cemented Future With Jets
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Chad Pennington played a great game against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, completing 29 of 39 passes for 339 yards. But simply by suiting up, Pennington accomplished something he had never achieved in his six previous NFL seasons: He started a 14th game. The oft-injured Jets quarterback has stayed healthy and played well enough through these 14 games that whether or not he leads the Jets to the playoffs, he proved many skeptics wrong.
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