How in the world can Henne not be the QB this season if hes been running these practices and sessions? I know footballs a business and the coach and GM will do what will win football games in their opinion, but you have to think the team will mostly be behind Henne by the time football finally resumes.

 

LOLz what choice do they have?

 

Well, if he is throwing picks and incomplete passes during these sessions...

And am I the only one who is kind of over this wolf thing? What is it with this staff and linking us to other animals? Wildcats, wolfpacks...what's next, a flock of seagulls?

 

Watch it, bud.

 

This lockout MAY be a blessing in disguise as far as the team coming together, and it does seem as if Henne is taking the lead role. In that aspect, that's good. I just hope they aren't screwing up their practices.

There's the old adage, "practice makes perfect" Whie some may subscribe to that, I've always said "Perfect practice makes perfect", bcause if you're practicing it wrong over and over again, you'll perform it wrong.

We'll see.

 

It provides a template for an identity. Teams like the Steelers and the Ravens have identities already on their teams. While it may not be an animal...they are steels curtains....Raiders are Pirates...Silver and Black. Identifying with something helps create that identity. Identifying with a Dolphin probably doesn't translate into football very well...and certainly not with what Ireland/Sparano preach. I think its pretty cool.

And we didn't create "Wild<Animal>" it was inherited from "Wildhog"

 

I don't want to hear any of this Wolfpack howling bull**** this year honestly. Just line up and man up stop the stupid side show **** it got us no where last years and you looked like baby seals.

 

Don't hold back. HOOOOOWWWWWLLLL do you really feel?

 

Because it will boil down to who does more once real practices begin, Henne can blah blah blah all he wants to, if a Vet comes in and is clearly better it will not matter, how many times over the years have we heard "so and so looks great as the Qb in camp"?

Only to have them fall on their faces once the bullets start flying even in the preseason?

 

Great point. I think Henne had a alpha male problem ALL of last season. Pennington was viewed as the leader, and Henne never usurped that role, which is primarily why Henning didnt switch the offense and Sparano sat his *** down IMO. Henne acted like a backup, didnt "lead" from the front etc etc. W/ Penny gone, Henne seems to be stepping up and taking ownership, but I'll have to see it on the field in order to believe it.

 

One would think playing pro football in the NFL as part of a select few would be enough to form an identity without having to tack on silly animals beyond our own silly animal. And I am pretty sure everyone here knows about the origins of the wildcat from the wildhog, but thanks for the history lesson. And here I thought school was out for the summer.

Besides, you missed the entire point of my mini rant. At least Nabo caught it.

 

TBH, they should not give a damn what anyone else thinks Deej, that is the first step to greatness, more then a little self centeredness, outside of their circle they really should not care what anyone thinks, says, or writes.

That is how you build Unit Integrity.

 

Can start calling the end zone "The Zoo".

 

The 49ers and Redskins seem similarly "unified" under the stalwart leadership of guys like Alex Smith and John Beck.

Let's see how long that lasts.

 

Oh I do, Hennezilla is like a lightning rod Aqua, I thought the Ginn stuff was bad but I've seen good people banned for that shaved pated' robot.

For whatever reason he really gets people worked up into a frenzy.

 

In all fairness, those folks got themselves banned because they couldn't control either their love or hate of a player...or their ability to just bow out and not type something for 20 minutes :)

 

its nice to read but for me personally i´m done with this wolfpack crap

 

And what is up with Game show noises at stadiums!? Its absurd the amount of usage these little sounds get all over the place...........

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Chad Pennington came in late as a FA QB and the team did just fine. I'd say he won that team over.

 

This, minus the EDIT.

If Henne wins, he will have the team. If Henne can show that he can lead the team to the playoffs and win, then he will have the team. If he doesn't play well, the team falters again, he won't have them.

 

If the Kumbaya Effect flowed through to the win column as well as some people seem to think it does, the Dolphins would have been undefeated with a Super Bowl win in 2009.

Alas, football is also about talent and coaching.

 

Disagree. BTW, it was Josh McCown. However, we're no different at the QB spot then, as we are now. It's an unknown. We've got two guys that we don't know if they can get the job done. I say "we" meaning Ireland and Co. They've said as much because of their said aggressiveness to add another QB. They haven't given Henne the public endorsement you believe he deserves, because well, they don't believe he deserves it. It's that simple.

You don't make the playoffs, then you're in the same boat as every other team that didn't make it, whether you're 1-15 or 7-9.

 

I don't see how the lockout is a blessing, personally. You're telling me guys who had struggles last season are critiquing their own practices and are installing a new playbook is a blessing? I find it hard to believe personally but I could be wrong.

 

Well I can see it Alen, if the Qb in question develops confidence in what they are installing, if you want to really learn something, you teach it, as then you have to answer all of the questions that your students ask you, Henne should have a phD in the playbook by the time TC opens and he should know what he likes and doesn't like therein.

 

Knowing the playbook and executing it are two different things.

 

Can't have one without the other..

 

Hence why you need coaches.

 

I have a hard time believing that these "practices" involve much of anything from the new playbook.

 

I'm sure there are basics they are going through. I just have a hard time seeing a quarterback who said he wasn't going to "change the way he plays", when in fact he had some issues last season, running the first team through practices and critiquing himself being a blessing in disguise. Not to say Henne played like crap last year, when he didn't, but even the biggest Henne supporter probably agrees that he could use the coaching.

 

One can learn the playbook without nary a Coach to be found Alen.

 

You missed the point.

 

Disagree, Henne's biggest need is confidence in himself and what he is doing, by installing the stuff and learning the playbook and using it everyday he will gain unconscious competence, he will know the material and himself by heart when TC opens.