I Usually Agree with Dr. ZBut this is rather silly:
When the shoulder injuries to Pennington and his back up, Jay Fiedler, occurred Sunday, the Jets were prime victims for the vultures. You know, the teams that get on the phone, offering marginal quarterbacks for outrageous prices. Writers, myself included, love to masquerade as personnel men in those situations, and play the game of "who's available?"
The first two names that popped into my head were Patrick Ramsey and Billy Volek. Ramsey is the Redskins' QB who wound up on the bench. Joe Gibbs, who isn't exactly stupid, felt that he just couldn't do it. Weeb Ewbank used to have an expression for picking up guys like that. He called it, "Taking on other people's problems." But, you know, sometimes these things come through. I mean the Packers did get 22-year old Brett Favre from Atlanta for a first-round draft choice.For the record, though, you'd have to be blind not to notice that Brett had a cannon for an arm way back then. I've always said that Sonny Jurgensen had the best arm I've ever seen but Favre may just have a better (and slightly better training habits, too). Suffice to say that Patrick Ramsey has done nothing to indicate that he's anything more than a backup.
Favre was 22 when he came to the Packers. Ramsey is 26. Ramsey has thrown 836 passes in his career; Favre, had thrown five passes.
Volek's a decent player, but the Jets won't get him cheaply after the way he played last season when Steve McNair was injured. McNair has also talked retirement, so the Titans may want to hold onto him. And long-term the fit isn't good; Volek's older than Pennington. He'd actually work better for Washington.
