Sick's Scrimmage Write Up 8/7/11
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SICKforum_veteranOPWell that was fun. Football certainly was back, I have been to quite a few training camps, never had to wait in line to park however. Got there about 130, found good seats on bleechers, perfect timing as players are stretching and doing some warmups.
Ill do a quick run down of everything with a summary and collection of all my in-practice tweets.
Henne looked great today. You can tell the timing and chemistry has gotten GREAT with he and Brandon Marshall, Henne was throwing the ball before Brandon even completed a route and was turning around as the ball was hitting him in the numbers, tons of zip, lots of confidence, Henne knew where BM would be, Marshall caught it, and it was not defendable regardless of defender.
A few guys that stood out to me today, Karlos Dansby, he had a very nice jump infront pick 6 on Henne, and he WAS scoring. They were blowing the whistle, but he was not going to stop until he crossed the opposite goalline.....Also I know Mike Nolan is loving all the different options he has for front 7 looks. We saw many different ones today.
One in particular I thought was awesome was Cam Wake at Weak OLB, Starks next to him, Odrick at RDE and Jason Taylor at SOLB. What a scary fron 4 for opposing offenses to battle against.
Jason Taylor caught a ton of **** from me for going to new york, but im over that now, hes back, and god damn....he is BACK. dude looked likehe was in his prime out there today. Running around, causing havoc, dominating murtha or colombo (colombo sucks btw) and outright being one of the smartest defenders in the game today still.
He sniffed out 2 seperate swing/screens and made each offensive reciever trying to get the ball pay for it. On one swing route to Reggie bush, Jason was untouched, read it immediatley and ran bee-line right at Reggie, shoving him backwards onto the ground before Henne could even get him the ball, the crowd went nuts, The next one was AWESOME....it was right infront of me, quick bubble screen to Brian Hartline, once again read perfectly by Jt, this time he took a tad longer to get there, but no worries, right as Brian catches ball, there is an aqua #99 jersey ingulfing Hartline, and slamming him down to the ground like The Rock putting a wrestler through the ring, Brian dropped right to his back, and Tony Sporano SPRINTS towards JT and slaps him a down low high five.....pretty awesome moment I must say.
Didnt see much out of vontae today, they didnt throw to him much, Sean Smith stayed with Edmund Gates a few times, had good coverage on a deep TD to Beast, but Henne placed it in a good spot, Brandon got it, Smith had his back to the ball.....Thats one thing I didnt see much from Henne, trusting Beast to make a catch, or taking advantage of turned around Corners.....he did that today.
Henne also had a little Chad Pennington in him, Brandon being covered over the top so Henne would drop it behind him for a nice back shoulder fade.....so sad to hear some fans in the crowd mumbling "horrible throw" not realizing it was infact a perfect throw, and was 100% meant to be that way, they probably also started the "orton" chants :rolleyes:
One thing I LOVED today was our offensive formations, motions, and routes ran to disguise plays, and confuse the defense.....remember when defenders against us last year said we were predictable? No longer my friends.
A few examples.....Henne in shotgun by himself.....Hartline out to the right, bess, beast, bush bunched over to the right, Bush motions into backfield, or stays, and the bunched recievers run delayed/crossing patterns to really confuse the defense....Reggie Bush ran wide open a few times up the seam of the field and brandon marshall broke free for a few deep out routes, drags etc.
One thing I liked was Bush being motioned alot, to cause miss-matches. Also, Reggie was wide open at one point in the middle of the field, i caught him immediatley and was like "throw it to reggie"
Henne of 09-10 would have immedatley, but today? Henne was looking downfield to b-marsh (covered) checked to gates (covered) looked down, hit bush for a 25 yard gain. Huge progression from chad, and really looked off a safety to double brandon leaving bush open.
Daniel Thomas is impressive, hits the hole hard, never goes down first contact, but has a explosive one step juke, cuts ona dime. Awesome to see.
Edmund Gates is FASTTTTTT....caught a few kick returns and FLEW like out of a cannon down the field, cutting while keeping his A to B straight line speed up. It was awesome.
Lots of good stuff from Henne today, talking to Marshall CONSTANTLY on the sidelines, high fiving in the huddle, and the major few things I saw today....this impressed me the most and imo shows we are closer to being a good team.
during the scrimmage I saw alot of battles, Sean Smith losing to Marshall.....usually that should be the norm right? Marshall is a beast.....nope, sean smith was beating himself up, he expects to beat marshall, he EXPECTS to be the best.....good to see. Our guys wanted to win the battles today, offense vs defense, and they expected to win, regardless of how good the other guy was opposite him.
Player of the scrimmage: Chad Henne, although his pick 6 was bad, it was right after back to back redzone touchdowns to beast with absolute fire on the ball....the back endzone crossing pattern was a fireball, marshall was running behind 2 defenders and henne put it right where marshall would be, he had no choice but to catch it, i believe it indented into his hands, crowd was fired up all day.
Bad player of the scrimmage: Holy ****, Marc Colombo is bad. Very bad. Jason Taylor was working him silly, we miss jake long out there, our running backs were ehhh, Bush looked good catching the ball, if he stays healthy he is a HUGE boost to missmatching against defenses.
Gates looks very comfortable, as does Thomas, saw now issue with pouncey, although not much push up the middle (we have a good defense folks)
Other than that, it was humid, i was sweating, my son saw TD the mascot and loved it, Jason Taylor looked great as did Henne, and I loved my time there.
Funny moment of the day: Field Goal time, everytime Carpentar hit a field goal, random people in the crowd (including me) were yelling "FIST PUMPPPPP" Got a good laugh out of it.
My in-practice tweets:
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Had a blast. Left early i have a 3 yr old with me. Will do a full write up at thephins.com soon
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Alot of crossing and crisscrossing routes by wrs to confuse the defense. Love that
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Henne back shoulder fade to marshall its low. Through brandons arms for a would-be td
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Henne deep fade to marshall touchdown on 3rd and 2. Crowd explodes. Jason taylor destroys hartline gets huge hughfive from sporano
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Daniel thomas hits the hole hard. Doesnt go down on first contact
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Check down to a wide open reggie bush in the middle of field. 15-20 yard gain
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People standing aroud watching practice at the fence. Huge crowd. Big buzz. Nice deep out from henne to beast. Great timing
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Edmund gates and bess back on kick returns. Gates returns HE IS FAST
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Alot of 3 bunch reciever sets. Even 4 wides with rb in backfield nxt to henne in the gun
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Devlin overthrows in endzone to penn state tight end (cant recall name)
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Devlin moves well in the pocket. Looks weird having kory sheets wearing 23. Lex hillard bouncing off people
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Pat devlin in now 3's
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Fiels goal time. Crowd yelling "fist pumpssssss"
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Amazing throw by henne. Deep in back of endzone to marshall great zip crowd chants HENNE HENNE HENNE. Next pass pick 6 by dansby
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Henne goea deep to marshall HUGE td on sean smith. Crowd goes nutttssss marshall throws ball to crowd
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Sean smith running right with gates deep down middle shaking his head. Henne pressured
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Jason taylor sniffs out reggie bush swing screen blows up bush big pop from crowd
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Reggie bush breaking ankles. Making something outta nothing.
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Quick out to bess. Bit low. Big gain YAC for bess
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Startera on the field
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Daniel thomas just stood up phillip merling. Beast. Henne talkin with marshall. Moore td pass to daniel thomas for the 2's
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Breaking off into individuals
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Wake starks odrick JT front 4. Hmmmmmmm
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Jason taylor opposite cam wake on some series. Scary for opposing qbs
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Defensive walkthrus on the near field. Offense way away
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Humid humid humid at dolphins practice. Yerimiah bell is a specimen. #jacked
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Line to park at dolphins srimmage is insane
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I will be giving as much as i can play by play for the dolphins scrimmage at 150pm!!!! RT to all dolfans!
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54Finsforum_veteranGood job,thanks.
EDIT: Question for you.People have mentioned that the jump ball TD's to Marshall were not that impressive throws from Henne but rather Marshall's ability.
What's your take on the throws?
gilv13forum_veteranThanks for the writeup. Gets me even more excited for next week.
muscle979forum_veteranGreat to see Henne look good out there. Also good to see that JT may have a shot at exceeding our expectations on defense.
SICKforum_veteranHe didnt throw ANY "jump balls" 2 of the three tds mightve been not right on the money but they beat the defender and really he gave marshall all the room needed to catch the ball. Its not as if marshal had to rip the ball away from a sure int, henne put it where it needed to be. Was it manning or brady perfect? No. But if he hits em like that all season we will win 11 games. Period.
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SICKforum_veteran"muscle979 wrote:
Great to see Henne look good out there. Also good to see that JT may have a shot at exceeding our expectations on defense.
Jt was starting and made me forget about koa misi
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Alex13subscribergreat read thanks, i´m 90% sure for the 1st time in 4 years i will make it to camp next season, can´t wait, anyways here is mando´s take
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/
http://thefinsiders.com/video-posts/2011/chad-henne-press-conference-87
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KillerphinsNew MemberThanks Sick.... Awesome write up bro.
As far as Jason Taylor it's great to hear he has a full tank again.
Maybe I'm just wrong about his ability to play still. We will see how long the gas lasts.
Paul 13moderatorThanks Chris... you homer! :lol:
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djphinfansubscriber"Al13 wrote:
great read thanks, i´m 90% sure for the 1st time in 4 years i will make it to camp next season, can´t wait, anyways here is mando´s take
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/
http://thefinsiders.com/video-posts/2011/chad-henne-press-conference-87Henne´s PC
I'll see you there Al...
Sick, great info, appreciate the multitasking of Daddy and Scout...lol
''Amazing throw by henne. Deep in back of endzone to marshall great zip crowd chants HENNE HENNE HENNE. Next pass pick 6 by dansby''
I wonder if we can get the first part of that story to go national..
''Dolphin fans now rally around Henne after the QB has 3 good practices after getting bood''..
Alex13subscriberso you think colombo makes it to friday, if he really was that bad today, they rarely show patience, wouldn´t be shocked if he is gone tomorrow
Alex13subscriber"djphinfan wrote:
I'll see you there Al...
Sick, great info, appreciate the multitasking of Daddy and Scout...lol
''Amazing throw by henne. Deep in back of endzone to marshall great zip crowd chants HENNE HENNE HENNE. Next pass pick 6 by dansby''
I wonder if we can get the first part of that story to go national..
''Dolphin fans now rally around Henne after the QB has 3 good practices after getting bood''..
that would be awesome man
djphinfansubscriber"muscle979 wrote:
Great to see Henne look good out there. Also good to see that JT may have a shot at exceeding our expectations on defense.
I think the impact of what a healthy JT can bring to the table deserves its own thread.
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I think he was asking with good intentions, I believe some of the beat writers made it look like it was more about marshall than Henne..
Alex13subscriber"djphinfan wrote:
I think the impact of what a healthy JT can bring to the table deserves its own thread.
padre, DJ just called you out...LOL
padre31luxury_box"Al13 wrote:
padre, DJ just called you out...LOL
No not I. imo that is one of the perils of bringing JT back, he still has gas in the tank and everything that comes with it, but he clearly wears down the more snaps he sees, but Coaches just love his game and the temptation to put him in as a Starter is probably not something most Coaches can resist.
Now what I would like to see is a revistation to JT's "Tiger" role from his DPOY season of 2006.
vt_dolfansubscriberThanks for the amazing write up man.....those of us out of state....rely heavily on stuff like this.....!!!!
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djphinfansubscriber"padre31 wrote:
No not I. imo that is one of the perils of bringing JT back, he still has gas in the tank and everything that comes with it, but he clearly wears down the more snaps he sees, but Coaches just love his game and the temptation to put him in as a Starter is probably not something most Coaches can resist.
Now what I would like to see is a revistation to JT's "Tiger" role from his DPOY season of 2006.
lol, whats Al talkin bout?
padre31luxury_box"djphinfan wrote:
lol, whats Al talkin bout?
I'm a thread progenator Deej, but whither JT starting over Misi is something I have no interest in doing as I feel I know what the outcome to that will be..start out great, by gm #7, he will hit the wall, we need him fresh for the late season games.
VanDolPhansubscriberPeople should be really happy about this. It's what...a week into practices.
I swear every camp it takes a good 3 weeks before we hear of any success from the offense vs our defense. It's good to hear the offense having some success the last few practices so early.
MrCleansubscriber"padre31 wrote:
No not I. imo that is one of the perils of bringing JT back, he still has gas in the tank and everything that comes with it, but he clearly wears down the more snaps he sees, but Coaches just love his game and the temptation to put him in as a Starter is probably not something most Coaches can resist.
Now what I would like to see is a revistation to JT's "Tiger" role from his DPOY season of 2006.
I thought it was called the Cobra, not Tiger.
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Alex13subscriber"padre31 wrote:
I'm a thread progenator Deej, but whither JT starting over Misi is something I have no interest in doing as I feel I know what the outcome to that will be..start out great, by gm #7, he will hit the wall, we need him fresh for the late season games.
if he really is that healthy and we keep a good snap count on him, i think he could maintain it
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