http://www.nfl.com/inactives Listed as the #2 quarterback. Chad Henne is inactive. Look out folks! Other inactives are: Chris Clemons Shawn Murphy John Nalbone Patrick Turner Andrew Gardner Cameron Wake
It just means they are going to use him in the Wildcat, as we all suspected. Is Henne inactive or is he the number three QB? ETA ok, Henne is the number three. If anything happens to Penny, I am about 100% sure they would put Henne is as the backup.
i figured they would both be active but if only one was active i figured it would be henne. i feel more comfortable with him out there if penny gets hurt. i hope we see some neat w-cat plays with white tho. im just excited for fball. go fins
I am too. I know White can bring some good things to the table in the Wildcat, but if Penny goes down, Im really uncomfortable with White being the QB
they have to make pat white the number 2, otherwise he cant play the wildcat. the only way around it is to list white as wr
I'd imagine this is just to use the Wildcat. If Pennington were to get hurt I would imagine Henne would be the main replacement.
I don't see why anyone would be surprised. If Chad gets hurt you just activate Henne, take Pat out of the game and let Ronnie run the wildcat exclusively.
Actually, you wouldn't have to take Pat out of the game completely. If you bring in your 3rd QB, that means the first QB can't come back, but it doesn't mean the second can't. At least I think that's the rule.
I gotta say, I am glad to see this though. It means there are twists they didn't show us in the preseason, and God knows our offense needs a twist right now. We didn't score that much in the preseason.
I'm pretty sure if you bring your third QB in, neither of your first two can come back into the game. I may be wrong though.
you have 53 players 45 have to be active. you do not have to make the 3rd qb in active, but if he is once he comes in to the game if its not the 4th qtr the first 2 cant come back it. so you can use all three all game as long as they are all active. by making the 3rd inactive you really have 46 active if it would come down to it.
but thats if you use him as the emergency qb-inactive if you make them active you can play them whenever you want.
Sorry, heard early on that Henne was inactive. In that case if all are active I would assume you can rotate them as freely as you'd like.
henne is inactive. i was just saying that its not always the 3rd qb cant play without the first 2 not being able to go back it. you are correct, henne is inactive today.
Well, the first day of the Pat White experiment has ended, and that offense fell flat on its face. Not only that, but it took an effective power running game off the field, which is what we should have been running all day. We let a small defense that is not very good swarm around slow-developing plays and completely neutralize an offense that never got any rhythm because they were never allowed by the coordinators to establish any sort of identity whatsoever. Unless you call the 'Keystone Cops Offense' an identity. This is why you don't run a college offense run by a college QB against an NFL defense. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. This is why myself and so many others here doubted White would be active. It astounds me that Dan Henning would have the balls to bring in such an ineffective package. It's just unbelievable. Coaches get fired for that sort of thing.
The ONLY time this offense posed a threat today was when it was doing something exotic... The "Pat White Experiment" was abandoned far too early as was the wildcat. Penny from the pocket and running from the base isn't going to get us to .500 against this schedule. We need all the help we can get. We need to commit to the wildcat more and quit tinkering with it. How much risk was there to trying ten more WC plays today than we did? Those "college plays" , just like last season are our only hope to be competitive.
Don't expect a logical answer form many today... That was longest pass from schrimage today...to bad it fell incomplete... but I am sure it made Defenses notice it...
Is this a serious question? Are you asking me that... if Pat White had any success whatsoever today, would I have said what I said? No, I wouldn't have. I would have admitted I was wrong. But, that's just me.
His job is to complete those passes, he didn't and the play was a dud. I think folks let their imaginations run wild as to how effective White would be, looking through this thread is evidence enough that some felt that he was going to be a major factor and he wasn't. You can blame it on playcalling or whatever, but the fact remains that when he had an opportunity to do his job he didn't execute. If you don't execute, you don't win, that goes for all of the players out on the field. There is no silver lining in anything White or his teammates did, aside from Merling.
Dude, that sure is a ballsy statement. But, and even though it is only one game into the season, I will say...I tend to agree with you. I just think there were too many other better players available at #44 that could've helped us elsewhere. Having said that, it is what it is. So, I guess we just have to wait and see what the kid does as the season plays out.
I tell you what, my main problem with White is that he's just so incredibly small. Short and light...he's gonna get killed trying to run the ball in the NFL.
Let White play more than one game instead of criticizing him and saying he was a mistake. He had ONE pass today. He was not the main reason we lost. Hell, he's NOT even close to the reason why we lost. It was our Line and Pennington playing like sh!t.
He's not ready, he showed the same issue in training camp, he overthrew a pass. Good call and now I died a little inside.
They had all training camp to come up with plays and these were what they came up with? There was a noticeable lack of creativity in these "wildpat" plays.
