I know everyone here on Finheaven has seen a different and more confident Henne than we have ever seen before. And we've seen a lot of nice plays that make you think we could actually have something. But in the end, it doesn't really matter.
Henne has been terrible in the red zone again this year, meaning for all the yards we have gained and nice plays we have made, we aren't scoring half the points that we should. These red zone trips aren't an accident either; Henne seems to be going to Marshall every play because that's all he knows how to do, and while that's not a bad idea in theory, Henne simply can't make the type of throws that he needs to in order to score down there. He only throws straight-line passes and can't float a pass in where only his receiver just narrowly breaking open can get to. This was an easy problem to see today when he missed a pass to (I believe) Hartline where he gunned it instead of floating it, giving him absolutely no chance to make a play.
I don't know what the exact percentages are, but I know that Henne failed in two critical moments in the Patriots game, a game where it was plainly obvious what was needed was a TD to keep pace. And those drives stalled at the one both times. Today, we failed to get a TD three times in the red zone, and we weren't even close to coming up with potential scoring plays on several of those trips. And while Carpenter blew two FG chances, those didn't even matter when it came down to it because we lost by 10. Had we turned just one of these three into a TD, we could talk about Carpenter's missed FG's. As it is, we were only 1 of 4 today, and the one red zone TD we did get was more a nice play by Marshall than a great throw, as he get the 5-7 yards needed to get paydirt.
Henne will NEVER be a winning QB in Miami until he learns to score in the red zone, which I am pretty confident will never happen because that is a skill the great ones have and the decent ones don't. That's all that separates the two, but usually having it is pretty apparent early on (Cam Newton anyone? Heck even Andy Dalton is doing fine). We have a defense that is incapable of generating a game changing play, and that's not going to change until we rebuild our secondary...again. And as it is right now, they are just good enough to stop a team except for a couple big plays a game.
Henne has been terrible in the red zone again this year, meaning for all the yards we have gained and nice plays we have made, we aren't scoring half the points that we should. These red zone trips aren't an accident either; Henne seems to be going to Marshall every play because that's all he knows how to do, and while that's not a bad idea in theory, Henne simply can't make the type of throws that he needs to in order to score down there. He only throws straight-line passes and can't float a pass in where only his receiver just narrowly breaking open can get to. This was an easy problem to see today when he missed a pass to (I believe) Hartline where he gunned it instead of floating it, giving him absolutely no chance to make a play.
I don't know what the exact percentages are, but I know that Henne failed in two critical moments in the Patriots game, a game where it was plainly obvious what was needed was a TD to keep pace. And those drives stalled at the one both times. Today, we failed to get a TD three times in the red zone, and we weren't even close to coming up with potential scoring plays on several of those trips. And while Carpenter blew two FG chances, those didn't even matter when it came down to it because we lost by 10. Had we turned just one of these three into a TD, we could talk about Carpenter's missed FG's. As it is, we were only 1 of 4 today, and the one red zone TD we did get was more a nice play by Marshall than a great throw, as he get the 5-7 yards needed to get paydirt.
Henne will NEVER be a winning QB in Miami until he learns to score in the red zone, which I am pretty confident will never happen because that is a skill the great ones have and the decent ones don't. That's all that separates the two, but usually having it is pretty apparent early on (Cam Newton anyone? Heck even Andy Dalton is doing fine). We have a defense that is incapable of generating a game changing play, and that's not going to change until we rebuild our secondary...again. And as it is right now, they are just good enough to stop a team except for a couple big plays a game.
