ill tell you right now, i live in charlotte nc.....and panther fans would do anything to have henne on their team right now. we are in a good spot. young qb, tons of talent, good running backs, great oline......now he needs defense and a WR and TE.

30+ points with henne under center should be winning games........thats on defense. im sorry.

 

Nice thing about Henne GRT8, is he improves with every start, from 3 fumbles and 6 sacks in Buffalo to no sacks and no fumbles in the Jets game to requiring all out blitzes by the Saints to sack him last week.

He moves around the pocket better than I thought he would.

As for Ginn...wildly inconsistent.

 

Cant wait to see what he does after seeing the Jets for a second time. You know they're going to change their approach and throw different things at him, to confuse him. Let's see if he can adapt.

 

the IceMan cometh...
Henne :up:

 

This game is going to be huge for Henne. The Jets were cocky in the first matchup, and basically thought there was no way Henne could beat them. After a 20-26 performance and 2 TD's, they'll be blitzing alot more.

The screen pass will be a huge key in this game IMO. After the Jets were burned by that long screen to Ricky in the first quarter, they seemed to be a little hesitant to send the house after that.

 

Whats the deal with Turner? Has he not done anything in practice to get out there?

 

excellent question, one Ive been asking myself
Pat Turner :shifty: and
how about that Ricky Williams against the Saints?
:escape:
Run Ricky Run!

 

If Turner hasn't seen the field by now, that tells you he's not ready or hasn't been grasping the playbook.

For those criticizing Ginn's drops, Turner didn't exactly have the surest hands in preseason.

 

I think in many ways it's numbers. There's the tradeoff with having him active as he doesn't do special teams AFAIK. So I think they'd rather have just 4 WRs active and activate a good special teamer or OLB (like Wake) for instance. That said, if he was lighting it up in practice, you make a spot for him. That appears to not be the case, so the coaches have deemed it more valuable to the team to activate someone else.

 

He's proving every week so far that he's got what it takes to be an NFL QB, and a darn good starting QB at that. So far everyone's estimations that he will be as good as Flacco and Ryan are proving to be fairly accurate. Barring any sort of relapse... (I just knocked on every wooden object in my office), I think he's our guy.

I'd love to see him develop into even half of the QB that Payton Manning is in regards to reading defenses. For a rookie he is already showing an incredible amount of progress in that. The only flaw still seems to be the 2 minute drill, to some effect, and I feel that probably lies more on our lack of receivers than it does him.

 

It has been said time and again by Sparano that it's more of a numbers game. For Turner to start seeing playing time he has to play on special teams. According to Sparano Turner is able to perform 2 of the 4 aspects (something along those lines) of special teams well. He also stated that is improving in the other areas and is practicing better as well. In fact he had one of his best weeks of practice around the bye. The reason Hartline was able to see time quicker was because he was competent in all areas. With that covered he could slowly be worked in the game and it was then that Brian proved what he could do. Remember only a few weeks ago Hartline only saw a few plays against buffalo and now he's playing a lot more. Until Turner can do all the little things exceptionally well he will be buried under the depth chart due to all the WR's we have. Depending on how the Ginn situation is handled by the coaches Turner may or may not see the field.

 

I noticed that he isnt locking on to his WRs as much as he used to.

 

hey lets not forget the two pick six and the 80 yard kick return by the saints that lead to 17 pts

 

What did Henne have to do with the 80 yard kick return?

1 of those pick 6's was also to Ginn, and it was the fact that Ginn bobbled the ball that caused it to be an int, and not a 1st down. Now if you're blaming Henne because he thought Ginn could make a catch that just about any NFL receiver should be able to make, then maybe he's just too trusting.

The other pick 6 was frustration after once again, Teddy dropped a ball that would have resulted in a first down. It's 4th down with just about 2 minutes left, you cannot afford to turn the ball over or throw it away. He had to do something. We have a better chance of scoring if he puts the ball up for grabs near his receivers, versus if we just throw it out to the sideline or have him take off with it.

Henne is not infallable for that loss by any means, but comparative to some of the other crap that went on, he played a darn good game

 

Oh dont get me wrong. I wasnt blaming Henne. I was just commenting on what sick said that it was the defense fault that we lost.

My fault. I shouldve made my post alot clearer.

 

Henne's stats lie vs the Saints.

Henne played a great game, threw some tough balls under pressure that SHOULD HAVE been caught. The 2 interceptions are bogus too. One was Ginn's fault, and the other was on 4th and 13 while under heavy pressure.

 

Sound familiar?

 

Henne wasn't a rookie was he?

 

really...bumping threads from 3 years ago...