What a great read. I love the hands on leadership he has brought and makes the recievers and the offensive linemen own this offense. I can't believe gold like him fell in our lap this offseason, dare I say comeback player of the year? Dolphins QB Pennington has earned teammates' respect with his intelligence, hard work and strong leadership -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
I have said it a thousand times. Brett Favre unretiring and going to the Jets was the single best thing to happen to the Phins, from a player standpoint, in a very long time!!!
Well, any awards depends on what we do the rest of the way, we can't count the proverbial chickens yet....at any rate, I agree that we were very very lucky for him to fall into our hands. He's played at a level higher than any QB we've had here since Danny and he's also a lot of the cause of our offensive resurrection. However, there are some flaws to his game that most of us don't want to take into account. He does have a weak arm, there's no denying that. The offense is limited due to this issue. It's not that he can't throw it deep or the deep outs, its that he has to be upright and use his whole body to do so. So, there are very many 'impromptu' plays like a Favre, Manning or even McNabb can throw that he physically can't... His forte is the short passing game that we are running and Henning is a master at calling plays that are within his abilities...but the big play just isn't there often enough due to his weaknesses...That's going to haunt us before the year is over...It's why we struggle with scoring points every week and why we can't put a team away except late in the game...we've had many opportunities to put teams away early and we just can't do it, much of that falls on Penny. All that said, I'm glad he's here instead of somewhere else. This gives Henne a chance to let the pro game come to him and learn the finer nuances of the game from an expert. It certainly has put our teams progress 'ahead of schedule' from where this regime thought we'd be... You could even say that they could have been much more aggressive in FA and we'd be even better off, if they'd known that we were going to have Penny running the show at that time... As to post season awards, the only one I want is a trip to the playoffs, and I'm sure that's all Penny is thinking about...(besides of course the NE pats this week)
