Pennington takes first team reps

Chad Pennington took the majority of the snaps with the first team during practice on Wednesday and all signs continue to point towards him getting the nod as the starter in Week 3. "We're ahead of where we were last week, obviously," head coach Eric Mangini told Newsday. "We'll make sure that we're getting him enough reps so that he can be prepared, but not going so far, especially early in the week, that he has to scale back on Thursday or Friday. So we'll monitor that. We'll see how that goes." Barring a significant setback to his sprained ankle later this week, expect Pennington to get the nod on Sunday against the Dolphins.