Healthy Pennington leaning toward retirement
Chad Pennington - QB - Miami Dolphins
Feb. 7, 2012 - 5:55 PM ET
Though he believes his surgically repaired shoulder and knee would be healthy by training camp, free agent Chad Pennington is leaning toward retirement.
Pennington worked as a commentator for Fox's NFL coverage last year after tearing his ACL in an offseason basketball game. "It doesn't make sense for me to come back and try to play," said Pennington, concerned that a shoulder repaired four times can't stand up to the rigors of the NFL at age 36. "I don't want to look a coach in the eye and say, 'You can count on me,' and then I go out there and [something happens] to us like it did in 2010 and he can't count on my body." Pennington has coaching "in his blood," but will stay in the broadcasting booth for 2012.
Source: Omar Kelly on Twitter
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