Thursday, May 7, 2009

Pat White the #2 QB?

By Ronn Burner • on April 27, 2009

pat-whiteJohn Beck was cut today by the Dolphins after it became painfully clear this weekend that they were not going to get any draft picks or trade partners for his services. It just pisses me off to know that he was an absolute waste of a Draft pick… a freakin’ #2! The 40th player selected in the draft and we got nothing for him. That stings. We couldn’t even get a 7th rounder for him and the majority of those guys don’t even make the team anyway. We got absolutely nothing. What a disaster. Thank you Cam Cameron. Thank God that regime is over. The new regime comes in and hits a mammoth home run with Jake Long and I believe they went back-to-back with Vontae Davis. Imagine if that John Beck draft pick would have been used on a marginal special teams player, at least it was a contributor. That’s just frustrating. I wish John Beck the best of luck but his stay in Miami has been a monumental bust that was inevitably going to end the second the Dolphins drafted the 44th player selected in the 2009 draft.

Enter Pat White. I am convinced he was sought after and a priority of Sparano, Bill Parcells and Jeff Ireland to come in and run the Wildcat offense. He’s coming in to do it all out of that formation. He’s a hybrid player and he’s going to run a hybrid offense and he’ll be great at it. The Wildcat has just been legitimized and I promise you every single team on our schedule is terrified of that formation now that they know there is a legitimate pass option now back there that also gets Pennington off the field thus making White a legitimate receiving threat as well. Crack on it all you want but that hesitation and uncertainty that will be displayed by opposing defenses will at the very least move the chains and enough first downs always leads to points.

Tony Sparano says that White will compete for the #2 QB spot but I don’t care what Sparano says, Pat White is the 3rd string QB brought in solely to master the Wildcat. Of course he’s going to say that, it’s competition which makes players work harder in the weight room and the class room. It’s smoke and mirrors though. I don’t care if he looks like Dan Marino in camp he is not beating out Chad Henne as the backup QB. No way. We’ll sign Ocho Cinco before that happens and you all know how likely I feel that is. There is too much invested in Henne, he’s in line to be our savior. He’s the next great QB to finally give Dolphins fans something to talk about that isn’t criticism because we’ll never see another Dan Marino, which makes every single QB that comes in a disappointment. Henne is going to be that guy, even if he’s not going to be great, he will be given the reigns and chance after chance to prove that he is great. Until Chad Pennington leaves town Pat White is our 3rd string QB albeit he may be the flashiest and most successful 3rd string quarterback in the history of the league.

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