The Facts:
Eric Mangini refused to say yesterday that Pennington is his starting quarterback entering training camp next summer. The reason? It's against his core value of open competition.
Reported by the Newark Star-Ledger
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
Pennington was voted the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year, battling back from consecutive rotator cuff surgeries over the past two seasons to lead his team to a 10-6 record and playoff berth this season; he played a 16-game schedule for the first time in his career. Pennington, who won a four-way competition for the starting job in training camp in less than a week last summer, is 32-22 as a regular-season starter -- 2-3 in the postseason. In the past five seasons, the Jets have gone to the playoffs three times with Pennington as the starter. The two seasons they didn't were when Pennington was injured. ... Mangini won't go so far, but we feel comfortable calling him the early favorite.
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