Henne did not open up the offense at all

 

Had trouble reading your post for some reason. Had to copy + paste the sentence into a notepad document.

 

I think you meant to say Henning did not open up the offense at all. And, I'd agree. But hey...it's still just preseason.

 

I've seen Henne do much worse in last year's preseason. He bounced back nicely last year, too. He won't get rattled, he'll just keep progressing.

 

Henne doesn't worry me. Really, I think the offense will be okay, once they start clicking. It's the defense that will be our Achille's Heel again.

 

henne seemmed great. there were too many drops.

and as far as defense, vontae davis was the dolphins player of the game last night.

 

and 2nd was Tony Mcdaniel.

 

i meant that the Henne wasn't operating the offense smoothly, he was staring down his targets, he didn't spread the falcons defense, and he wasn't moving the offense. But it wasn't all Henne's fault the OL was horatious, the Wr were dropping passes and Henning play calling wasn't on point.

 

Exactly..

We need to not lose track of the fact that Henne is the biggest part of this rebuilding process and will have to be given time to develop along with the team. Can't expect the kid to walk out of the tunnel in Buffalo, playing like he's a seasoned pro at the prime of his career.

It may also take a few games, maybe more for this unit to gel.... but we have some exciting pieces out there, including Henne. Given time I think we'll all be very happy with this offense.

The team looked kinda flat..... the play calling very vanilla. I see no reason to sound any alarms over Henne...

So far my concern on offense is Hartline and Fasano and what is their ceiling as a player. Can they take full advantage of all the opportunities they will have this season...... or do we need to upgrade? A lot riding on those two guys this year and whether or not they rise to the occasion.

 

That's what I said when I noticed you were doing this on our main

 

I am not down on, Henne. but I am a little bit down on the team. They look lethargic. I am not noticing any urgency...this from a team that has started slowly the past 4 seasons. Right now, I have seen very little to make me optimistic, other than the ability of some players in past seasons. There hasn't been one consistent player in camp, besides possibly Solia?

I understand its preseason (and all that it implies), but as you said, it takes faith--meaning to "believe even in the absence of evidence". It would be great to see a some evidence as opposed to having faith.

Faith or not, evidence or not, I know I am out of patience. We better not start the season 1-3 or 2-4, because if we do, Tony Sparano is going to know what hot water feels like. This is year three....year one, great. Year two, bad; No excuses this year. The owner has spent alot of money. No cap, so no need to keep bad players.

We must see results THIS year.

 

It must be fun playing QB when you see the ball get droped six times.

 

Once we get that starting O-Line, I think this Offense will be clicking. Guys missing a lot of blocks contributed to the problems. Henne hasn't gotten much time to throw this preseason compared to a guy like Mark Sanchez but he's done much better. Once we install Jerry as unquestioned, Grove or Berger takes the reigns, and Incognito/Thomas win that job, Henne will have more time. The reason receivers are running shallow routes is because we know we can't protect Henne properly yet so we want to dink and donk until the line is fully set out. That will also open up the running game and the play action passing so I really think we'll be okay.

 

It's really hard to make the argument that they look lethargic when they are knowingly playing in a game that doesn't mean anything. Let's face it, not getting hurt in preseason is more important than looking good.

7-9 ain't bad, it's mediocre, but we know what BAD looks like (2-14).

as for starting the season 1-3, yeah. That would suck. But take a good look at our schedule, the first half of the season is rough. We could start out playing really good football and still lose games.

 

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All true, thusly the "thanks".

For myself, because the lethargy was across the board, I chalk it up to Two a Day legs, notice how Sapp could fly down the field on kick coverage, but none of the players who have been here since the OTA period save for Nolan Carroll had the same sort of pop to their effort?

Not the Dline, not the Oline, the only DB who was moving really well was Vontae, even Ricky was not hitting the hole with his usual authority.

Gm #4 I'll be right or wrong on that if the first Qtr, if the Oline is pushing the Cowboy's defenders off the ball from the Opening Snap on offense, we all can breathe a bit easier.

 

Actually, Slow this wasn't a very good analogy. First, Jerry has been in there as the RG since early in TC. Incognito has been the other guy for at least two weeks. Berger and Grove have been rotating, however I haven't seem much of a difference in either guy. So the OL is what the OL is...barring some sort of dreaded injury. It would seem to me that the OL should probably be a little ahead of the curve, but they are not.

I think one of the things that has made this O look off is all the interchange of personnel. Once the starters are determined, they'll start to work together and hopefully that cohesiveness will turn them into the OL we all expect from them...

One thing that seems to be different about our teams' progress is that most other teams game planned and for the most part had their lineups intact for this game. We did not. We didn't game-plan (according to the booth announcers and Kim Bokamper) for this game. The questions around this team right now are less than a week ago and that's what you want to see, progress.

I'm not down on Henne as there is 10 or 12 other guys who didn't exactly set the world on fire Friday night either... The bad thing is that we seem to have an issue with dropsies from our receivers. That has to be corrected in order to see Henne develop...

 

When I played O-Line, it took a pretty good time for us to gel. Even though for the most part the line was locked, just one or two guys rotating around sort of messed with the chemistry. We had to get used to each other's size, strength, speed and agility. On different protection schemes we sort of got blown up because we weren't used to each other and I often had to disregard the MLB and help out the Guards.

 

he w/ terrible for whatever reason. no time for excuses, where's the fix?

 

All I know is, if we lose against Buffalo week 1 then someone needs to be fired. Yeah I'm looking at you Henning.

 

I didn't think he was terrible. I thought his touch passes were improved and he went through his progressions well. The one area he was worse at was reading the blitz and going to his hot reads. I just thought the timing was off between the QB and the receivers. That made the whole passing game seem worse. IMO the fix is just continued reps. You're going to have days like that sometimes just like you'll have days like the week before where he was nearly perfect. Continued reps should decrease the frequency of the bad days and increase the frequency of the good.