As Fox football analyst Terry Bradshaw chuckled, he envisioned the Jets’ No. 10.

“I watch Chad Pennington throw the ball and I say, ‘Get there, get there, get there,’ ” said Bradshaw, breaking up his thoughts with giggles.

“God dang it, that thing floats out there. It drives me crazy. I like everything else about him, though. I like his head, his leadership ability.”

While the Jets open the NFL’s exhibition season against the Super Bowl champion Bucs in Tokyo on Saturday morning, football analysts are still dissecting what happened to Pennington last Jan. 12.

After he led the Jets so far, did the Raiders expose Pennington’s weak arm that playoff day, taking away the short stuff and forcing him into a horrendous 21-for-47, 183-yard, one-touchdown, two-interception game?

Or was it just a blip on the way to joining Namath in Jet lore?

“You kind of go, ‘Uh-oh,’ ” Fox and HBO analyst Cris Collinsworth said of Jan. 12.

“I’m sure I’m no different than any other fan, I’m just not sure, but he did so many things so well, it is hard to dismiss all the good that you saw with one poor performance. But it was a poor performance.

“That’s the question. That is what you don’t know. Was it something schematic or was it just a bad day? He had too many good games against really good teams to think something schematic is going to make it, ‘OK, it’s over. Case closed.’ “

Jimmy Johnson, who knows a thing or two about football talent, thinks the loss of Laveranues Coles could hurt the Jets, but that Pennington’s a player.

“He gives them a chance because he is such a good player,” Johnson said. “He makes so few mistakes. For a young player to make that few mistakes is impressive.”

While Johnson seems ready to put Pennington among the elite, Bradshaw is unconvinced so far.

“He’s not somebody I turn the TV on to watch – yet,” Bradshaw said. “He doesn’t excite me, but he does a nice job.”