I hate losing to the Pats...but like you said, they just flat out kicked our ***. We were out coached, and out played. You can try to assign blame if you wish, but what we saw tonight was a rare form of dominance that I doubt many if any teams could have competed with. That Offense was so efficient, I'm giving our team a pass on this as long as the pick it up next week. Houston may have some weapons, but they don't have a QB the calibre of Brady keeping a marathon spring Tempo. Was hard to watch, but impressive all at the same time. Got to give them credit.
FWIW, I thought he played well. With the score tied or Miami trailing by no more than 11, his QBR was 112. Pretty darn good. Now what I don't understand is why you guys don't remember the first NY/MIA game last year. Henne threw for 363 2/1 and had a QBR of 91.4. And like I said at the time, your defense lost that game, just like it lost this one.
Henne total offense: 471 yards 3 TDs. Miami ground game: 13 attempts for 39. 0 TDs. Penalties: 8 costly ones for 60 yards. OUTSTANDING GAME HENNE. BRAVO!!
Case and point....Steele Jantz...Iowa State's QB. Junior JUCO transfer from California...made his debut with Iowa State a week ago against UNI. UNI is a very good D1 FCS team...but they're a D1 FCS team. Iowa State should have stomped them. But they didn't....Jantz was erratic, played timid, and the team just stunk it up for the entire game..3 interceptions.....up until the last drive. Jantz marched the team down the field in the final minutes to beat UNI by 1 point. Dude was a stud for all of 4 minutes in a game....it was a flash, but if he could catch that flash and ride it...you know he could be brilliant. Fast forward to this past weekend.....Iowa State is hosting in state Rival and heavy favorites the Iowa Hawkeyes. 54,000+ people, nationally televised, HUGE stage.....Jantz comes out, plays the first quarter a bit timid, is off on a few throws, misses an open receiver for a TD and checks down for an entire quarter. 2nd Quarter begins, he makes a few scrambles, and some tight plays.....by halfway through the 2nd quarter he's playing like a a vet QB. Understanding that he CAN play at the D1 level against a solid Big 10 opponent, he grows a pair of balls, starts scrammbling, throws for 280 yards, runs for 70 more, leads us from behind in another 2 minute drill driving the lenght of the field, throwing a 45 yard TD on 3rd and 10...gets it called back, connects for ANOTHER 25 yard pass, and eventual TD with 1 minute to spare, and leads us with a 4 TD triple OT win to beat Iowa in a stunner and is named the Big 12 offensive player of the week. I have 0 fear that Steele Jantz won't pan out. Is there a chance? Of course..maybe that game was a fluke...but I don't think so. Dude has a good arm, good accuracy, lead an offense in 2 nail biters, and has "it". He flashed it, and as long as he knows he has it...he'll be alright. Henne started to flash tonight.....as long as he doesn't let doubt seep in.....he'll be just fine.
Holy ****...a Jets fan that remembers it better than most of the Dolphins fans! You're absolutley right...it was Sanchez's coming out party....when it should have been equally so for Henne. Guy performed incredibly well. The difference is he didn't have the faith of the coaching staff...he knew it, and we knew it. A few weeks later after decent (not awful) performances and tepid play calling....they benched him. Remember when Sanchez struggled last year and Rex tried to bench him?....where would he be today if that had happen? I don't think Sanchez has the tools of an elite QB...but he sure has the strut....and to me, that's half the battle. Pennington isn't breathing down Henne's neck...it's do or die for him, do or die for Sporano, and it's Daboll's debut......they're not pulling him, and they won't put him on a leash. It's going to be a cool season.
Anyone else watching Kyle Orton tearing it up with all the time in the world? Such a shame we, "couldn't land him."
Because you make it sound like this is the first game he has ever performed like this, only to have the defense fail him. It's not.
The one thing I saw from Chad today was leadership at the line. I was impressed on how he audibled and changed calls on the line based with what he saw. I believe that he has grown alot as a QB and has improved dramatically since Sparano has quit hand cuffing him.
Orton looks AWFUL. Fans are even chanting for Tebow.... Henne looks like he will be consistent this year, he made some amazing throws with pressure right in his face. Daniel Thomas...hope he is healthy by the Texans game. Gotta see what he can do up the middle. Reggie needs to be used on the outside and with screens and checkdowns. Occasionally up the middle.
Was there not a blocked punt deep in Miami's own territory? I can't remember exactly and we had enough special team mistakes it's easy to get them mixed up, but I think special teams had a big role in that loss.
Kyle orton once threw for 476 yards. Last year. Henne looked better. In my opinion he looked good, real good. 16 games or even 14 of this, and we can talk. We speak of Orton's garbage time yards, how many were Henne's after it was 31-17? Gotta be fair here. I liked what I saw. Am I convinced? Not yet. It was one game. New England was 30th in the league last year in pass defense. Have to keep things in perspective. There were some miscues by our WRs for sure. Henne needs more work with Marshall. They don't seem to be on the same page yet. And if I see another fade to hartline ... seriously, WTF
Why the **** do we carry Roberto Wallace for on the roster? Again we've said it many times, Chad Henne is at his best in the "11" or 4 WR set with a great pass catching back. His mobility has improved by leaps and bounds although he did almost throw a pick or two today. This is a QB that can produce for you. On the other hand can someone please ***** slap Sparano and tell him Nate Garner and Ryan Cook are better than the guys you start on the OL?
This is what stood out to me he was running around commanding the troops,up and down the line when needed. This showed me alot of growth and that the handcuffs are off. But best yet he answered the call. As for Marshall he just looked off all of our team did, this cramping thing is weird, conditioning in the offseason or did Belicheat spike the food seriously
I really liked what I saw in Henne, he showed a ton of improvement, thats all you can ask of a young Qb. He showed improvement in all phases of the game. The coaching staff and Henne deserve a lot of credit. Now this has to be sustained but I don't see any reason to believe this is a fluke performance, he looks to have worked really hard in the offseason. Now our defense has to be a concern, this was shades of last year's Houston defense, we are and should be considered a piss poor defensive team right now. It was an embarrassment to this franchise that our defense performed this poorly at home in prime time. We will not even compete for a playoff spot with a defense that plays this bad. Our running game is going to cost us a lot of games this year. I didn't like our personnel going into this year, and our OLine is STILL a work in progress after years of costly signings and high draft picks. Sparano will be fired if this unit doesn't improve.