Dan Henning playcalling stinks

Haven't been happy with him since the Colts game last year

and away we go. FIGHT!

I agree and wonder why he was kept. We could do so much better than this old geezer. His day was back in the 1980's.....wake up dude its the 2010's !!

I agree... but lets not forget, its preseason. We're not going to show our hand just yet.

If his trend of strange play calls continues into the regular season like it has the last year or two, lets talk about it then. Right now, this shouldnt be much of an issue just yet.

I like Henning but he needs to do a better job of helping Henne with his play calling.

The antichrist of the 2 minute offense...

It's PRESEASON! The play calling is going to be vanilla and boring. They're not going to give anything away.

I haven't been happy with Henning since the game where he called for Ricky to PASS the ball in a goal line situation.

I want aggressive playcalling .

There was no gameplanning for this game.Just basic vanilla plays.We dont want to show anything we dont need to.

Well, ill sound like a broken record buuuutt, ive been saying i hate his play calling since 08 when he first started with us. He needs to go or we will not be able to take the next step as a team.

"Rocky Raccoon wrote:

It's PRESEASON! The play calling is going to be vanilla and boring. They're not going to give anything away.

To some extent , a lot of other teams are putting up big offensive numbers.

This not giving anything away is overblown. When you are good you can play and dominate , we aren't there yet.

"jpep13 wrote:

The Dolphins are only as good as this guy. Geez,
We are not doing anything here with his calling.
This has to be his last season, Too bad for the continuity.

It's PRESEASON!!!!!!!!

"jpep13 wrote:

I want aggressive playcalling .

this is preseason. if you want to see an open/complex playbook and trying to win at the expense of evaluating talent, go watch the Jets.

"dolfan22 wrote:

To some extent , a lot of other teams are putting up big offensive numbers.

This not giving anything away is overblown. When you are good you can play and dominate , we aren't there yet.

Exactly, I am getting a bit nervous and am starting to expect another 7-9 or maybe an 8-8 season. It just doesn't look like we have progressed on offense at all. This "not showing our hand" crapola is just that - crapola. We should look a lot better than this or we will start off the season 0-2 just as we have both of the past two seasons under Henning.

"NJFINSFAN1 wrote:

It's PRESEASON!!!!!!!!

and other teams are just humming on offense, yet we sputter on, and look like we'll start once again 0-2 and in the crapper by 10th or 11th game of the season.

"brandon27 wrote:

I agree... but lets not forget, its preseason. We're not going to show our hand just yet.

If his trend of strange play calls continues into the regular season like it has the last year or two, lets talk about it then. Right now, this shouldnt be much of an issue just yet.

There's no reason to believe it's going to change. He's 68 years old. It's been this way for two seasons and he's in midseason form already.

Tonight we saw an offense struggling mightily. Yeremiah Bell gets them the ball back at midfield with just over 1 minute left. Ok, now lets do something!

Henning trots out two backs runs the ball for a loss (who else noticed Henne yelling at the sideline after that play, motioning to call pass plays?).

Then we complete a nice pass to Marshall. Gets the offense going. So Henning answers with a heavy 1-WR formation.....and throws out of it

Then he calls a sweep to Ronnie out of the slot for another loss.

By the time Henne completes the next pass to Marshall at the 7 and spikes the ball, there's 11 seconds left.

The guy just cannot seem to get out of the way of this offense when we're in hurry-up mode or in the red zone. It's absolutely maddening.

If he weren't a Parcells guy, I'd swear he was a covert op for the New England Patriots.

"jpep13 wrote:

The Dolphins are only as good as this guy. Geez,
We are not doing anything here with his calling.
This has to be his last season, Too bad for the continuity.

I admit some of his calls were off, but the team should still be able to execute them. I hated how he would disrupt the offense with pointless run calls The biggest problem I saw was with the O-Line, they we pathetic today.

In lighter news at least "The Flyswatter"(VD) looked good.

"Sethdaddy8 wrote:

this is preseason. if you want to see an open/complex playbook and trying to win at the expense of evaluating talent, go watch the Jets.

Don't hate just because they're in it to win it. 4 games closer to the Superbowl baby! :shifty: :sidelol:

I agree about Vanilla with Nolan and the Defense this season, but the Offense and Henning is bullcrap. When we play good teams we screw it up. We have the weapons on offense open it up on the 3rd preseason game. also settle on a freakin oline already, same crap every year with this coach.

I don't care about the vanilla plays being called. It's the 2 minute offense that has me pissed. Put your effin' quarterback in shotgun and take shots down the field or on the sidelines. We're like the only team in the league who runs play action under 2 minutes. It's OK to run the ball and take shots in the middle of the field out of shotgun especially considering we had 2 timeouts left. Don't run end arounds which is a clock killer (That's directly on Henning). They had 2 timeouts left and wasted 10 seconds downing the ball on the Marshall catch at the end of the half because they're obviously retarded (sorry, clock management impaired or challenged).

It's got to be embarrassing for Henne to run these plays. He's got to speak up and tell his mom to stop dressing him funny because all the kids at school are making fun of him.

The preseason excuse is so lame IMO. I've seen this before and posted plenty of times that if it continues it's going to get Henning fired and set the club back.

I love Henning. Not sure if theres another OC I'd rather have. His protection schemes are great.

There's vanilla, and there's stupid.

We have a propensity to call ill-conceived plays/formations on offense.

You hurt the team much the way a struggling backup quarterback affects the bubble players he's throwing to in practice. We've seen said struggling QB have his reps limited and game reps eliminated.

How hard is it to recognize when playcalling is preventing the offense from establishing rhythm and getting on track?