I was just about to post it. It truly is a great read and he makes a good point, with the 2004 draft producing Manning, Rivers and Big Ben,(and Shaub assuming he can stay healthy) and the 2008 draft producing Ryan, Flacco and Henne we could be very well entering into quite the golden age of QBs.
Very nice read. I think it's too early to crown him the second coming of Marino, but I do think that you can compare his performance in that one game. He played the role that we've been looking for for so long. Honestly watching Marino as a little kid growing up, and watching the Dolphins since then has not been the same, there is (lessened to some degree by Pennington) a serious void at QB. Pennington helped to ease it, but if any of you were like me last year and at the start of this one you still didn't feel like the QB situation was solved, we had just found a life preserver to hold us over. But now there's promise again. All the talk this offseason, and last season about Henne being the QB of the future is starting to show that it's a possibility. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, if we can pick up a #1 receiver for Henne, and IF he can continue to play like he did last night, one can make a serious argument that we have the BEST offense in the NFL. The three year projection is beginning to shape up. The ship is righting itself. Last year was NOT a fluke. It's too early to give Henne the keys to the city just yet, but by god unless we see a complete flip flop from his performance in the last two games, we've got our boy. Ok... so maybe I'm a little excited to see him doing so well... But the fact remains, if he keeps playing like this our offense is young, and downright golden for the next few years.
What I can say without much reservation is that Henne played as impressive a technical game as I've seen from a Dolphin quarterback since Marino.
That's the point I was essentially trying to make. It's too early to say he's the second coming of Dan Marino. But he certainly made it look like, for one game, we had that fire back in the QBs hands. Lord, almost 24 hours later and I'm still pumped. I could get used to this.
Yeah, Henne isn't going to be another Marino. But he can be another Rothlisberger. I was impressed with the guy's poise, judgment, arm strength and touch. He certainly looked like the real deal last night.
