Visiting Jets, Cowboys camps and more Jay Glazer / FOXSports.com Posted: 3 hours ago (The Jay Glazer Annual Training Camp Debacle has come full circle! I must apologize for those who in the past followed my camp tour. This year I tried to go a mile a minute and simply couldn't find the time to write. But as they say, better late than never.So over the next four days I'll be posting this story and another chronicling my stops on the craziest training camp tour in the country. This column will have hits and tidbits from the Eagles, Jets, Cowboys, Broncos, Chiefs and a quick Saints quip. Fans of the Annual Jay Glazer Training Camp Debacle know all too well that screwy things tend to find their way across my path, and these stops are no exception.) Pennington shoulders his new mechanics During my brief stopover with the New York Jets I had one of the most informative impromptu stops of my tour. Quarterback Chad Pennington, while signing a goodbye jersey for PR man Doug Miller, who was bolting for the Big Easy, began explaining how much different his shoulder is this year as opposed to last season. First off, Pennington says it's night and day because this time around they simply scoped the area rather than a full cut. The Broadway Jets star says when they cut into his shoulder two years ago the docs had to cut and pull open so much more than just pinpointing the exact area of damage.He also said he connected a lot with Drew Brees on what he did to help his mechanics. Pennington says that when his shoulder was hurt it forced him to use his lower body and hips more and that until he was hurt, he never realized how much he relied primarily on the shoulder ? the wrong way to go about throwing over time. He started doing karate this season for the overall movements of his core and other rehabilitation exercises that allows him to get the throw now from his abs, hips and legs rather than just the arm.The day I was there was the day after he was named the starter. While the entire free football world felt it was hardly a secret, Pennington was genuinely relieved that he would be able to regain the starting role. When asked how his shoulder felt compared to the same time a year ago, he quickly stated, "Night and day!" > http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5921842
99% of what Kelly posts I would never see any other way so it's got some value to me. In fact all of the posters who bother to copy and paste articles do us a service. They gather information so we don't have to go hopping all over the place to get it. You might even call them reporters in the classic sense of the word, since they report the information that is out there. Now if a few of the NY media could just do more reporting like the quoted piece above and less sensationalizing we'd all be a lot better off.
... "He started doing karate this season for the overall movements of his core..." Chad can learn it from Brick (blackbelt)!
Let's see... I can come to one place, this board, and get the information I desire, or I can spend ten times the time required to hopefully find this stuff by googling and surfing. Keep it up, Kelly. Thanks for the post.
That was an interesting article. It's interesting to find out that Chad didn't throw correctly (using just his arm) all these years.
Every year it's something about his mechanics. First it was his footwork, now it's his midsection. Makes you wonder how in the world he made it to the NFL to begin with.
