And the coach is right. This is not yet the time to throw a promising rookie into Miami's talent breach as if he was a pagan sacrifice being thrown into a volcano.
Henne is confident and calm, and every turn he gets on the field confirms publicly what the Miami brass believes privately: That he is this franchise's future quarterback.
WAIT, THEN SEE
But the future has not arrived yet.
And right now, for the first time in recent memory, quarterback isn't Miami's big problem anyway.
It is true Chad Pennington could not generate any offense against Arizona and went to the bench in the fourth quarter with a modest 10 completions in 20 attempts for only 112 yards.
But Pennington wasn't the reason the Dolphins got shredded on defense and didn't really compete on offense.
That wasn't Pennington blowing a coverage on Arizona's first pass, a 79-yard strike from Kurt Warner to Anquan Boldin in which part of the secondary was in one coverage and the other part was in another coverage.
That wasn't Pennington's fault when the Miami defense acted as if it didn't know Boldin was in the NFL, often leaving him so uncovered he was lonely running across the Miami secondary.
And that wasn't Pennington who put a defensive scheme on the field the Cardinals exposed as flawed. That is on defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni.
''We watched [the defensive coordinator's] tendencies, went over the preseason games and their first regular season game and we did some things that we thought we could take advantage of as far as spreading the field out,'' Boldin said.
