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Why the Miami Dolphins named a long snapper captain

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DAVIE — When the Miami Dolphins lost safety Reshad Jones for the season with a shoulder injury, the team had a vacancy at captain.

First-year coach Adam Gase didn’t flinch in naming Jones’ replacement — long-snapper John Denney.

“It’s never easy to replace a guy like Reshad, especially with what he has done since I’ve been here,” Gase said. “When you get to a place, you always do as much research on everybody as possible, and everybody told me, ‘(John Denney) doesn’t kind of say a whole bunch. He’s a really good player, but he’s quiet, and he does what he needs to do and leads by example.’ We asked a little more of him, and he did it.”

Denney, who has played 183 consecutive games for the Dolphins, longest in team history, delived a passionate speech to the team the night before the Steelers upset. Denney said it’s not fair to correlate Miami’s two-game upset streak to his speech, but teammates don’t dismiss it.

“Telling us you reap what you sow and if you want to expect success on the weekends then you have to put in the work during the week and it’s a true statement, no matter where you are in life – whether you’re playing football or working in accounting,” Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. “The work you put in is going to directly affect the success you have. It was good – a guy who has played a lot of football, been around, seen a lot of good football players throughout his time here and it’s a great lesson to live by.”

Assistant head coach and special teams coach Darren Rizzi said Denney is a consistent, steady, intelligent leader, as evidenced by his teammates voting him onto the team leadership committee before the season.

“He’s never too high, never too low,” Rizzi said. “He’s just got a really, really good temperament and personality. He’s great for the younger guys… He’s seen a lot of things around here. He’s been through a lot of coaches and he’s been through a lot of regimes. He’s seen a lot of things and he’s a very well-grounded guy.”

Denney, a 37-year-old, 12-year veteran, said it is an honor to be a captain and to be recognized by coaches and peers.

“If you’re not preparing during the week mentally — because we put in the work physically — but it doesn’t matter how strong, how fast or how big you are — if you don’t know what you’re doing,” Denney said. “So my focus to guys is, ‘You need to make sure you know what you’re doing. You have to prepare during the week. And if you don’t, you can’t expect to be good on Sunday.’ You reap what you sow.”
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Isn't Denney the only guy we have that was on the team last time we made the playoffs? Pretty sure he was the long snapper when Pennington lead us to an 11-5 record.
 
montequi said:
Isn't Denney the only guy we have that was on the team last time we made the playoffs? Pretty sure he was the long snapper when Pennington lead us to an 11-5 record.
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I think he's been on the team since 2005.
 
John the GOAT Denney. He should retire a phin and a statue of him should be erected along side Shula and Marino
 
Man i know some "fans" with Dolphins tattoos that don't even know who John denney is.
 
This guy is approaching legendary status.

You can't compare him to real position players as he's obviously a specialist but it's pretty remarkable to have such a long career with one team.

He will forever be considered the standard for which all other long snappers are compared to for this franchise.

Honestly, I thought he was a captain already.
 
I have always admired this guy. He rarely ever makes a mistake and he makes tackles, recovers fumbles on special teams. Don't dismiss the importance of having a guy who's 99.99999999% automatic snapping for punts and FGs. Just look at what happened to AZ against NE w their rookie LS on the last play of the game.

Denny has a brother who was a pretty decent pass rushing DE for the Bills so there's some good athlete in that DNA.
 
There is no theory of evolution- it's just a list of animals John Denney allows to live. Dude is the man. How many long snappers are that accurate and either generate or recover a fumble a year.
 
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