I stayed up for 30 hours straight at Foxwoods to watch this freakin game. I even slept in my car for a few minutes. Fun times!!!!!!!!! I think I would have enjoyed sitting in my car and staring at the trees for 3 hours more than I "enjoyed" watching this game. FML
I'm sorry for your loss of time. How about my loss of time now for reading a post that has ZERO to do with the topic of this thread...
somewhere down the line this cannibalism will end on the forum & right thinking will prevail placing the blame for a ruined season where it rightfully belongs.
Brandon, you're right he has improved in some areas and seemed to take several steps back in others. I just want him to point a finger at himself when it's his fault. It would be nice to know if we have been trying to teach him and he just doesn't get it. Maybe that's why th ecoach benched him. No one really knows. I just know every week, teams are playing a cover 2 because he can't beat it. Cleveland is a man team, but switched to alot of cover 2 this week. At this point I wouldn't care if the whole offensive coaching staff got canned.
You hear all this stuff about how the team respects Henne as a leader and that he has the qualities you're looking for, but then when he misses Hartline deep in the game yesterday I thought Brian's reaction was more like someone who is getting constantly frustrated at Chad's missed opportunities.
He did point the finger at himself though. He suggested he made mistakes, and has to go look at the film and learn from it and try to get better. Thats why I don't see what the issue is here. I know, it would be great to know whether mentally he just can't put it together, or is he just not being fed the right information. The guy has been a starter all his life, highschool, at Michigan, i find it hard to believe he can't learn what theyre teaching him. When you look at the team, and the rest of the ineptness that surrounds from a coaching standpoint, its hard to say its the player. We fail to adjust on offense regularly, we play not to loose rather than to win, I just doubt what we're teaching these guys. Maybe he's got all the right information being fed to him, and the light just hasnt come on and he hasnt gotten enough experience against it to make it work yet. I dont know. Its definately something to be concerned about though, far more than what he says in a post game presser. I dont get it though, if the same mistakes are being made by him week in, week out, then what are we really teaching him? Are we doing a good enough job at it? When you look at the job this staff has done offensively, I just doubt that we have done a good enough job.
Never have been sold on Henne, mainly because he seems to make up his mind where the ball needs to go, hurries through his progressions with his mind made up as to where he wants to throw so he stares down his target. Anytime a guy has to keep mentioning, sua sponte, "I've got the guys' confidence" (and he's done this many times over the last two years, he's trying to convince himself. That said, I would play him the rest of this year and go QB 1st in the draft. Let him develop throughout the offseason and see if it clicks with him.
There has been a lot of failure on offense this year... many dropped balls, many poor blocks, many injuries. Yesterday, in a disgustingly close game against an inferior team, with a thin shot of playoffs on the line, trying to win one for the home crowd, there was one big offensive play that would have blown it open. Coaching and playcalling and injuries and lack of running game and interior O Line... they have nothing to do with the first interception when Hartline was on his way to the end zone. One person blew it. One person failed horribly on a throw you have to make to win in the modern NFL. That one person is Chad Henne. There is no film to look at to learn from that play. He grossly underthrew a wide open receiver down the field. Period. Personally my opinion has not been very strong one way or the other regarding Henne... he has shown potential and done a nice job moving the offense, and then other times he makes critical mistakes. After yesterday's game, I think I've seen enough now. We have a top 5 defense but we are 1-5 at home. This is ridiculous.
anyone else think this was kind've all clear to us in the begining of the season when henne was not selected as a team captain? just odd seeing your starting qb qithout a "C" on his jersey.....but i watch ryan, flacco, and even guys like josh freeman all with the "C" and all leading their teams. Dunno if it means anything really, just think it may be a sign from early on in the season.......what do you all think?
If I could feed my family with fire, I'd be 400 pounds. I can get pretty emotional, especially that last couple years when my team lost two straight championship games. I shouted, got pissed, etc., but we still lost.
I don't worry about the C thing. Romo got a C and hasn't even spoken to the media since his injury. His Head Coach got fired and he didn't even talk about it.
I don't believe he would have had a chance at a C unless Pennington weren't here, and even then I doubt he'd get it. Also, Ryan and Flacco both are in their 3rd year of starting, did they get C's on their jersey in their 1st year as the starter? I mean, I'm not trying to say that it's not something worthy of discussion, I just don't see it being that big of a deal coming into this season. Despite being the starter for most of last year, it's not like he put the job away last year. I'd feel better however, if he managed to earn a Captain's spot going into next year (though I find it unlikely).
Patrick Cobbs as captain instead of the starting QB. That should've said it all. No it doesn't put a W on the table. And it gives me zero confidence that he will put a W on the table next week. What would put a W on the table is completing the downfield pass to Hartline instead of underthrowing it by several yards. If we could string some wins together, then I don't care what the robot has to say.
