Quote:How is it that Henne, a 7yr vet, can't read a defense?

 

How come he can't make changes at the LOS to combat what the opposing team is going to do?

 

If he sees a blitz coming, change the play to a quick slant or screen pass to combat that blitz.

 

The Redskins were a bad team which lost 9 games in a row, so don't give me any excuses that they were any great defense out there.

 

Why does Henne run so many plays that are destined to fail?

 

Do the rookie WRs not know the plays well enough for Henne to change them at the LOS?

 

How hard can it be to run a quick slant pass? I see other teams do it successfully all the time.

 

These are fair questions.

 

All of these things are true.  All of these things were known when we signed him originally and all of them were known when we gave him an extension this year.

 

Those are all reasons why Henne is, from a talent point of view, a backup QB or at the very best one of the worst starting quality QB's in the league.  All I was saying was that I do respect the guy for going out there and earning the money he got paid when in reality he does not have to at this point.  Sometime after the 5th or 6th sack he could have grabbed his shoulder and then winced a couple times and let them put Bortles in.  He would still get his salary for the rest of the year and he would not have to get killed behind a garbage line to do it.

 

The fact that I respect him for earning his pay is not the same as saying I think he should be a starting QB.  I thought we should have put the kid in when it became obvious that Henne could not figure out what the Skins were doing.

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