By Tom Rock
When Mangini opened his daily remarks by announcing that Chad Pennington would be the starting quarterback on Sunday, there was a near gasp from the assembled media. No, it wasn’t so stunning that he stuck with Pennington. But the fact that the super-secretive Jets coach would come out and make a public decision in either direction seemed out of character.
“I just thought it was something that was important so we could move forward and get this issue behind us,” Mangini said. “It’s always tempting not to say anything along those lines. Very tempting. But I thought it was just better to move forward even though the alternative isn’t bad either.”