Well that was fun. Football certainly was back, I have been to quite a few training camps, never had to wait in line to park however. Got there about 130, found good seats on bleechers, perfect timing as players are stretching and doing some warmups. Ill do a quick run down of everything with a summary and collection of all my in-practice tweets. Henne looked great today. You can tell the timing and chemistry has gotten GREAT with he and Brandon Marshall, Henne was throwing the ball before Brandon even completed a route and was turning around as the ball was hitting him in the numbers, tons of zip, lots of confidence, Henne knew where BM would be, Marshall caught it, and it was not defendable regardless of defender. A few guys that stood out to me today, Karlos Dansby, he had a very nice jump infront pick 6 on Henne, and he WAS scoring. They were blowing the whistle, but he was not going to stop until he crossed the opposite goalline.....Also I know Mike Nolan is loving all the different options he has for front 7 looks. We saw many different ones today. One in particular I thought was awesome was Cam Wake at Weak OLB, Starks next to him, Odrick at RDE and Jason Taylor at SOLB. What a scary fron 4 for opposing offenses to battle against. Jason Taylor caught a ton of **** from me for going to new york, but im over that now, hes back, and god damn....he is BACK. dude looked likehe was in his prime out there today. Running around, causing havoc, dominating murtha or colombo (colombo sucks btw) and outright being one of the smartest defenders in the game today still. He sniffed out 2 seperate swing/screens and made each offensive reciever trying to get the ball pay for it. On one swing route to Reggie bush, Jason was untouched, read it immediatley and ran bee-line right at Reggie, shoving him backwards onto the ground before Henne could even get him the ball, the crowd went nuts, The next one was AWESOME....it was right infront of me, quick bubble screen to Brian Hartline, once again read perfectly by Jt, this time he took a tad longer to get there, but no worries, right as Brian catches ball, there is an aqua #99 jersey ingulfing Hartline, and slamming him down to the ground like The Rock putting a wrestler through the ring, Brian dropped right to his back, and Tony Sporano SPRINTS towards JT and slaps him a down low high five.....pretty awesome moment I must say. Didnt see much out of vontae today, they didnt throw to him much, Sean Smith stayed with Edmund Gates a few times, had good coverage on a deep TD to Beast, but Henne placed it in a good spot, Brandon got it, Smith had his back to the ball.....Thats one thing I didnt see much from Henne, trusting Beast to make a catch, or taking advantage of turned around Corners.....he did that today. Henne also had a little Chad Pennington in him, Brandon being covered over the top so Henne would drop it behind him for a nice back shoulder fade.....so sad to hear some fans in the crowd mumbling "horrible throw" not realizing it was infact a perfect throw, and was 100% meant to be that way, they probably also started the "orton" chants One thing I LOVED today was our offensive formations, motions, and routes ran to disguise plays, and confuse the defense.....remember when defenders against us last year said we were predictable? No longer my friends. A few examples.....Henne in shotgun by himself.....Hartline out to the right, bess, beast, bush bunched over to the right, Bush motions into backfield, or stays, and the bunched recievers run delayed/crossing patterns to really confuse the defense....Reggie Bush ran wide open a few times up the seam of the field and brandon marshall broke free for a few deep out routes, drags etc. One thing I liked was Bush being motioned alot, to cause miss-matches. Also, Reggie was wide open at one point in the middle of the field, i caught him immediatley and was like "throw it to reggie" Henne of 09-10 would have immedatley, but today? Henne was looking downfield to b-marsh (covered) checked to gates (covered) looked down, hit bush for a 25 yard gain. Huge progression from chad, and really looked off a safety to double brandon leaving bush open. Daniel Thomas is impressive, hits the hole hard, never goes down first contact, but has a explosive one step juke, cuts ona dime. Awesome to see. Edmund Gates is FASTTTTTT....caught a few kick returns and FLEW like out of a cannon down the field, cutting while keeping his A to B straight line speed up. It was awesome. Lots of good stuff from Henne today, talking to Marshall CONSTANTLY on the sidelines, high fiving in the huddle, and the major few things I saw today....this impressed me the most and imo shows we are closer to being a good team. during the scrimmage I saw alot of battles, Sean Smith losing to Marshall.....usually that should be the norm right? Marshall is a beast.....nope, sean smith was beating himself up, he expects to beat marshall, he EXPECTS to be the best.....good to see. Our guys wanted to win the battles today, offense vs defense, and they expected to win, regardless of how good the other guy was opposite him. Player of the scrimmage: Chad Henne, although his pick 6 was bad, it was right after back to back redzone touchdowns to beast with absolute fire on the ball....the back endzone crossing pattern was a fireball, marshall was running behind 2 defenders and henne put it right where marshall would be, he had no choice but to catch it, i believe it indented into his hands, crowd was fired up all day. Bad player of the scrimmage: Holy ****, Marc Colombo is bad. Very bad. Jason Taylor was working him silly, we miss jake long out there, our running backs were ehhh, Bush looked good catching the ball, if he stays healthy he is a HUGE boost to missmatching against defenses. Gates looks very comfortable, as does Thomas, saw now issue with pouncey, although not much push up the middle (we have a good defense folks) Other than that, it was humid, i was sweating, my son saw TD the mascot and loved it, Jason Taylor looked great as did Henne, and I loved my time there. Funny moment of the day: Field Goal time, everytime Carpentar hit a field goal, random people in the crowd (including me) were yelling "FIST PUMPPPPP" Got a good laugh out of it. My in-practice tweets:
Good job,thanks. EDIT: Question for you.People have mentioned that the jump ball TD's to Marshall were not that impressive throws from Henne but rather Marshall's ability. What's your take on the throws?
Great to see Henne look good out there. Also good to see that JT may have a shot at exceeding our expectations on defense.
Does it matter? All year we've heard he doesn't throw to Marshall and let him make a play on the ball. When he does that, it's still a problem for some people. Not you, but some among us and in the twitterverse.
He didnt throw ANY "jump balls" 2 of the three tds mightve been not right on the money but they beat the defender and really he gave marshall all the room needed to catch the ball. Its not as if marshal had to rip the ball away from a sure int, henne put it where it needed to be. Was it manning or brady perfect? No. But if he hits em like that all season we will win 11 games. Period.
great read thanks, i´m 90% sure for the 1st time in 4 years i will make it to camp next season, can´t wait, anyways here is mando´s take http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/ http://thefinsiders.com/video-posts/2011/chad-henne-press-conference-87 Henne´s PC
Thanks Sick.... Awesome write up bro. As far as Jason Taylor it's great to hear he has a full tank again. Maybe I'm just wrong about his ability to play still. We will see how long the gas lasts.
I'll see you there Al... Sick, great info, appreciate the multitasking of Daddy and Scout...lol ''Amazing throw by henne. Deep in back of endzone to marshall great zip crowd chants HENNE HENNE HENNE. Next pass pick 6 by dansby'' I wonder if we can get the first part of that story to go national.. ''Dolphin fans now rally around Henne after the QB has 3 good practices after getting bood''..
so you think colombo makes it to friday, if he really was that bad today, they rarely show patience, wouldn´t be shocked if he is gone tomorrow
I think he was asking with good intentions, I believe some of the beat writers made it look like it was more about marshall than Henne..
No not I. imo that is one of the perils of bringing JT back, he still has gas in the tank and everything that comes with it, but he clearly wears down the more snaps he sees, but Coaches just love his game and the temptation to put him in as a Starter is probably not something most Coaches can resist. Now what I would like to see is a revistation to JT's "Tiger" role from his DPOY season of 2006.
Thanks for the amazing write up man.....those of us out of state....rely heavily on stuff like this.....!!!!
I'm a thread progenator Deej, but whither JT starting over Misi is something I have no interest in doing as I feel I know what the outcome to that will be..start out great, by gm #7, he will hit the wall, we need him fresh for the late season games.
People should be really happy about this. It's what...a week into practices. I swear every camp it takes a good 3 weeks before we hear of any success from the offense vs our defense. It's good to hear the offense having some success the last few practices so early.
To me, Nolan should use him heavily in the 2nd half/4th qtrs of games as if one looks just at his raw numbers he is quite average until the 4th, then he was highly productive for the Jets, he also was more productive early in the yr, his snap count got to high, his effectiveness fell off, then later in the yr he re-asserted himself. To me that means you have to watch his play count.
Henne: Comradery mode initiated, attempting to build trust with talking bags of meat Marshall: Huh What about Cromartie? Henne: I mean Cromartie aint got **** on you broseph! You can beat that mofo on the field 10 ways from Sunday! Marshall: Hell yeah man! *Fistbumps all around*
No, it was the "Tiger" defense. I'm pretty sure it was only used in the 2003 Bills@Dolphins game. Basically it was a normal 4-2 Nickel that pre-snap Jason Taylor moved from end to MLB in a 3-3 Nickel defense. It was basically riding Bill Belichick's coat-tails, who figured out that seemingly every time you lined up in a weird Nickel package vs. Drew Bledsoe he froze up. Jason Taylor's 2005-2006 stuff with Saban if I recall correctly was basically revolving around the concept of going from a typical edge rusher position into an OLB in a 3-3 Stack Nickel package and then playing off him showing blitz. It very much looked like they were doing some of that kind of stuff in the camp date I attended with Taylor, interesting enough.
What I think will also make a difference----- it seems Henne is having much more fun in this year's offense.
I'am lost, Al said you were calling me out?..I'am sorry if somethin is just going over my head here..lol
Nolan was so creative with AD Thomas in Baltimore you have to wonder if he has some of those things in mind for our current defense? And I'd thought what Saban did was line up in the 4-3, then allow JT to stand up and pick his spot to rush the passer or drop back in coverage? But that is more your or Alen's cup o' tea tbh.
There's a reason why programmers program with Windows or Unix. Macs are unstable (like Windows), susceptible to viruses (yep, they are), overly expensive, underpowered, un-customizable, weak, inflexible. I could go on. OSX is the training wheels of the OS market. Linux distros are free. Change or be left behind
getting a reply from someone who was there was the basis for the question. Glad to hear Henne put it where it needed to be.
