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What would it take from Henne

If you project to 16 games using the average stats from his best 8 games last year, then you get the following:

completed: 356
attempts: 550
yards: 4,186
percent: 64.2
TDs: 24
INTs: 18

If he could approach that, then I would say he has achieved consistency and improvement.
 
I just want to see more flashes of brilliance and less mistakes (especially in the red zone). The one thing that Henne lacks is consistency. If he can improve that, and carry this team on his back to a few wins, I will be happy.
 
We could start with throwing more TDs than INTs, that's always a plus. Maybe he could work on throwing his INTs every other game, instead of 9 consecutive games.
 
More TDs than INTs is huge to me (by a significant margin - say 8 or more). If he does this, that means he has started eliminating some of his mistakes and improved his red zone play. So, in my mind, this stat has to be solid.
Also, he has to improve the deep ball and hit the open receiver on those plays. I don't know how that is measured, but that has to improve. Many missed opportunities last year with Hartline.

I should note that I really believe that a lot of the poor performance in the red zone last year was horrible play calling by our friend Dan Henning and other factors that I can't place solely on Henne (although he certainly shared in the blame). The team could get the ball inside the twenty and just act like a completely different offense when they got there. Henning would get cute and run the wildcat or completely abandon whatever was working and go to something else. I remember numerous instances where there would be holding penalties and all kinds of other crap that sucked the life out of the drive. I think it is fair to say that the whole offense needs to improve here, not just Henne.
 
Not throw a bunch of picks that cost us games. Win games. Throw more deep balls and hit many more of them. Generate POINTS.

Im not at all concerned with yardage statistics or even TD passes for that matter. Im concerned with TDs in general, whether we throw them or run them, points, and winning. The one stat I want improvement on is INTS!!! Stop turning the ****ing ball over. Do that and generate some more points, put the offense in the endzone more often, and we will win games as a result.
 
Stop turning the ball over first and foremost. Lead the team to points. As WV said, doesn't have to be him throwing TD's. Maintain drives by not missing your receivers and throwing the ball to receivers behind the 1st down marker on 3rd downs, and the points will come. I also need to see some leadership from Henne.
 
I'm a Henne supporter but you cannot deny he made some really dumb mistakes in critical junctures of his games over the past two seasons. I still remember the Tampa Bay game in 2009 where Henne threw a pick-six to Quincy Black deep in our own territory with a small lead over the then one-win Buccaneers (1-10 I think). We ended up winning that game with a good no-huddle drive by Henne but in all reality he shouldn't have to be in that situation with the game nearly won.

This is a make-or-break year for Henne and he's really going to have to step up to win over this fanbase. At least 20 touchdowns, no more than 11 interceptions.
 
Actually helping our team win instead of the opposition. That's a QB's job. Even Sparano & Henne say his job is to not turn it over ... freakin' SWELL.

As far as the OP's Hater comment ... I notice the true haters, HATE Reality & replace it with Fandom wishful thinking with no basis in reality.. Usually what they're driving at.

All of us would love to see Henne succeed ... but HENNE has to do it & prove himself ... has nothing to do with fans opinions, boos, applauds, etc.
 
All Henne has to do in my book is not F**K UP. It seems like for 96%of the game, Henne actually wants to win. Then the 2 Minute drill Henne steps in (even if we aren't losing) and just blows it all to hell. 2 Minute Drill Henne thinks "Time to throw 3 INT's in the final few minutes. Hell, I'll even make one of them a Pick-6"
 
i could see him walk on water at this point and still not believe in him, my faith has been damaged that much.
 
It's not about numbers, its about being productive in the RED zone. His turnovers in that area of the field were just awful last year.
 
For me it's not wins or stats. Last year when we started 2-0 I kept thinking, we had 2 big road wins but the offense needs to score more points. Many on here felt we should just enjoy the wins. The problem is that we dominated those 2 games and the other teams offense was still on the field for the final drive with a chance to steal the game. This has really been a theme in the entire Sparano era, even when Pennington was the QB the biggest difference being that Pennington was more careful with the football. For me to believe Henne has turned the corner we need to see games we control on the scoreboard. Not win 15-10 or 14-10 with the other teams offense driving at the end of the game. There have been so many games that have followed this script since 2008 it's not even funny.

Miami jumps on a team early with a big 7-0 or 6-0 lead.
Controls the game but can't score, maybe they put up a couple of FG's.
Opponent finally puts together a drive and with one TD is back in the game.
Game ends with either our defense stopping the opponent or the other team scores and wins.


2008
SD
Houston
Seattle
Oakland
St. Louis
SF

2009
Indy
NO
TB
Jacksonville

2010
Buffalo
Minny
Pittsburgh
GB
Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit

Some of these games we won, some we lost but many of them should not have been close. We just let the other teams hang around and either stop them at the end or do not. This offense needs to put people away when they are dominating games.

For the record I'm not saying we we in complete control of all of these games, but if memory serves we were in control of a lot of them, win or lose.
 
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