Sparano Q&A:

Sparano Q&A: On Henne sack that cost last 1st-half timeout--Got to throw ball away

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/sfl-sparano-dolphins-words-122210,0,804994.story?track=rss

On the sack of Chad Henne at the end of the first half which caused the team to burn their final timeout: “Well yeah, the marching orders are you can’t take a sack in that situation; you got to throw the ball away or whatever the case is so that we don’t have to use the timeout and Chad knew that obviously. The problem on the play was not taking the sack; it was where the sack came from. He never seen it and

I think that’s sometimes as a quarterback, it’s easy for us to sit here and say, ‘aw man what did he do?’ I even did it on the field when he came off. ‘You can’t take that sack.’ Then I go back and look at the film and unless he has eyes in the back of his head he has no chance there and really it wasn’t a long time thing. In other words he wasn’t holding the ball long. This was in rhythm to his drop and the next thing you know he had a lot of folks around him so, and now way to get out of it and I think that that was just a situation where from a protection standpoint we needed to do a better job. Now I’ve sat here and told you sometimes it’s not the offensive line, this that and the other thing and in that case, in that particular snap that had a lot to do with it.”