JET NOTES
CLEVELAND – Chad Pennington picked a bad game to deliver one of the worst performances of his career.
With the Jets primed to get to the halfway point at 5-3, Pennington and the Jets flopped in a 20-13 loss to the Browns yesterday.
Pennington completed only 11-of-28 passes for 108 yards and two INTs and had a career-worst 21.1 QB rating.
After the game, he was particularly down.
“I didn’t make enough plays as a quarterback to put us in a good position to win,” Pennington said. “I just didn’t get the ball to my playmakers today. I didn’t throw the ball very well, didn’t throw it well enough to help us win.”
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When Justin Miller ignited a dead Jet sideline with a 99-yard KO return for a TD yesterday to cut into a 20-3 Cleveland lead, he became only the third player in Jets’ history to return two KOs for TDs in one season.
The last was Chad Morton in 2002, doing it twice in one game, and the other was Leon Burton in 1960 for the Titans.
Miller was forced into duty as a starting CB when Andre Dyson was knocked out of the game with a right foot or ankle injury late in the second half.
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This is a pivotal week for Curtis Martin. With the bye now upon the Jets, they’re expected to evaluate whether Martin can begin practicing now that he’s off the PUP list. Whatever decision is made will certainly shape whether Martin’s NFL career continues.
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Before the game, the Browns inducted four men integral to their history into their Cleveland Browns Legends. One of them was former Jet head coach Walt Michaels, who was a Browns’ linebacker from 1952 to 1961.