Chad Henne needs to work on...

[Nawledge]

a few things...


First thing is he needs to learn to put some touch on some of his passes. He does make some nice throws but he sails balls over receivers heads or just slings it so hard the receiver has a tough time holding onto it alot of the time. This is stuff he can work on so im not real concerned. Theres times where he just rockets it into coverage and hopes for the best. Its almost Favre-esque. He overthrows receivers because of this too. He sails balls out the back of the endzone. He really needs to get some touch on his passes. He has a rocket arm but not every pass has to be a bullet.

The second thing is his field vision and holding onto the ball. We dont have big time receivers. Now these two things might have something to do with one another. Im not sure if these guys arent getting open or what but it seems like Henne holds the ball for awhile and checks his progressions. I mean dont get me wrong we have seen him do some really good stuff and has shown he can make the throws and drive the offense down field. The offensive line has given Henne alot of time for most of the year. Today he seemed to get rushed more frequently. It gave him less time to check his progressions and thats why he was dumping it to the running back and throwing quick short passes/screens to Bess. Today he didnt look comfortable out there. The holding onto the ball too long can be due to multiple things or it could be just Hennes fault. Im not sure because i cant see the receivers on every play, i cant see if theres guys open down field and he checks down for no reason.

Dont take this thread the wrong way, im not bashing Henne. I have been happy with how hes played this year. He was bound to make some mistakes. Even though some have been costly i have been pleased with Hennes overall performance. I think next year with a whole offseason to correct his mistakes and work on timing with receivers and just his all around game working with the first team offense for the whole offseason he will be alot better next year. Hopefully we get a true number one to help Henne out, but what i think we need even more than a true number one receiver is a REAL offensive coordinator.

 

[vere76]

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[Mulverizer19]

I agree with you. I have seen flashes of brilliance in Henne this season and some other times it has been very discouraging but I do think he can develop into a solid quarterback. We need to draft a receiver in the first round (preferably Golden Tate) and maybe add a good TE to team up with Fasano. Who do you guys think would be good candidates to be our next offensive coordinator? David Lee?

 

[Nawledge]

idk but i personally dont think they will change the offensive coordinator, as much as we all hope they will i just dont think it will happen.

 

[Bonedoc7777]

the guy just threw 55 passes today in his first year as a starter with the fourth string running back and now big play wr, got another 300 yard game and brought them back, and threw a bomb and scored only to be called back by a BS penalty, we are fine

 

[Nawledge]

im not complaining about Henne, just pointing out some things I think he needs to work on. Things that are hurting his game.

 

[BGtoKNfor6]

The only thing I can knock Henne on right now is that for some VERY odd reason he can make the big time throws (deep outs, square in's, etc) but he doesn't make the fade route or any throws with touch very well. That is quite an enigma. Generally it is the other way around. I would have to go back and check out the size of guys like Mario Manningham, Breaston, Avant, etc to see if Henne is just used to throwing to tall wideouts. Doesn't really make much sense but bess is like 4 foot and ginn isn't very tall and either is camarillo.

Another odd thing is that Henne seems to be able to only throw the deep ball to Ginn and he does that pretty well. It appears guys like bess and camarillo CANNOT get separation on a deep ball in order to make the catch. That throw today to camarillo where he put the double move on his defender and was open, the ball was only thrown about one step ahead of him, yet he didn't lay out to make the catch?

 

[Mulverizer19]

the guy just threw 55 passes today in his first year as a starter with the fourth string running back and now big play wr, got another 300 yard game and brought them back, and threw a bomb and scored only to be called back by a BS penalty, we are fine

We may be fine but he still has things he needs to improve on like many other first year quarterbacks do.

 

[Nawledge]

That throw today to camarillo where he put the double move on his defender and was open, the ball was only thrown about one step ahead of him, yet he didn't lay out to make the catch?

That ball had too much zip on it and was too far out of reach, Cam had no chance at catching that.

 

[Breed]

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DUHHHHHRRRR!!!!!!!

 

[Tiko377]

he will learn all that as he gets exp... you guys dont get the big picture him throwing like 50+ passes and playing the way he did and only throwing 1 int (rickys faulght) is like incredible if sanchez throws 50 passes he would throw like 8 ints....

henne is a good qb and a smart one i really really like that guy hes like really mature for his age and it seems like he understands more and more.

its his first year with getting game time exp its only better from now on.

 

[NewYorkDolphin]

The Dolphins can't rely on his questionable arm to win the game. They haven't been able to control the game clock since Ronnie went out and it shows. 55 passes means nothing unless you have abandoned the running game. Which it appears we have done.

 

[clownfish]

The Dolphins can't rely on his questionable arm to win the game. They haven't been able to control the game clock since Ronnie went out and it shows. 55 passes means nothing unless you have abandoned the running game. Which it appears we have done.

Henne will be that much better with Ronnie back next year. Ronnie would not have allowed that INT last week on that swing route and he may have even caught that ball. He DEFINITELY would've caught the two that bounced off of Ricky yesterday and may have even turned them into first downs. Don't get me wrong, I think Ricky is a great backup, but no RB catches the ball like Ronnie (see last years playoff game against B-more).

 

[arsenal]

The Dolphins can't rely on his questionable arm to win the game. They haven't been able to control the game clock since Ronnie went out and it shows. 55 passes means nothing unless you have abandoned the running game. Which it appears we have done.

what do you expect? we were down 27-0 you want to keep running?

in the first quarter we ran it 5 times and passed it 5 times, neither being very effective obviously... first drive of 2nd qtr pass on first down, Ricky forgets he has hands and lets it get intercepted, next drive, ricky run 1st down, holding penalty now 1st and 20, let ricky run again to get to 2nd and 11 which we pass there and 3rd down... after that we're down 27-0 so up to that point we ran it 6 times and passed it 8 times...

so its not that we abandoned the run game, its that we were down by a ton and had to start passing, we tried to let it develop but Ricky couldn't get anything going before we fell way behind...