Will the REAL Pat White, please stand up!

hand off? I would think I would put him in and have him roll out of the pocket. He seems to be able to throw on the run just fine and if theres nothing open he can just take off. Once the defense starts biting on the roll out then he hands it off in an end around to Ginn. It really appears as if hes not being used correctly!

i really havent been for or against pat white. Ive just felt kinda blah about him. I think you hit the nail on the head when you quoted

. Then the fun begins, because an offensive coordinator has to figure out a way to develop him as a QB and utilize all of his talents.
So there in lies the problem. We need an O.C. confident and creative enough to bring out the best in P White for us. We KNOW thats not Dan Henning. After all, he wasnt even the origionator of the wildcat, he just calls for it 12 times a game. Maybe someone else on the coaching staff can step up and say “Hey you need to do this with White” and maybe Henning can come out of his Senility long enough to do it.

Theres no doubt he’s an exciting runner, i would love to see him returning kick offs/punts. Did you see how he threw that defender off with the pump fake….it wasnt even a pump fake, he put his whole body into it. Even i thought he was going to throw it. Very exciting stuff, i just wish we could use him now! Good write up lefty, its been awhile since you posted, good to see one again!!

messed up that block quote a little bit, but you know what i meant.

we all know good things come in small packages

I think that they have been working with him and he looks much more comfortable under center now. Its a long season and he’ll get plenty opportunities to show what he can do. I’ll bet he gets us a win or 2 this season. I think Dolphans have become whiners lately because we haven’t had a good team for a while. The bottom line is that it usually takes a qb a while to acclimate to the NFL. Pat White has all the tools and then some.

The doubt with White here reminds of Hartline when the FO said out of ALL the WRs they auditioned that he impressed them the most,think about that for a minute,and he is really coming on strong even though many saw it as a wasted pick and a reach.

Our FO has been scary right concerning draft picks thus far and you would think they are due for some bums but they’ve been right a lot and we can only hope given time that White will be everything they liked and much more.

dammit, everyone REC this baby now. Get this man Mando’s job NOW.

Really, PW is a headache. A nice one (?!?). We are a PTR & stop the run team, grinding down the opposition thru attrition. But we are fostering talent in the background. Watch for Turner to emerge yet this season and using PW to help us score and throw defences off kilter.

I have said all season that he is the new plan for the future and Henne is just a bonus if he works out!

im pat white

also I would like to point out what he did in college is absolutely, positively and indefatigably meaningless, what you do in college gets you signed to an NFL contract, end of story, there has been Heisman winners that have gone undrafted, there have been all world can’t miss QB prospects drafted in the top 5 that have been complete busts so college accomplishments are just that, college accomplishments, sports are no different than anything else, college does not prepare you for the real world.

Now you’ve gone and done it Lefty, I’m going to repost my Pat White post from the draft.

It must be said that this is written very well, as is all of your stuff, you are a key contributer on this site.

Its pointless to keep him sitting on the sideline doing nothing.. Activate him as our kr and if he was needed in an emergency (hene and thigpen both drop in 1 game) then you can still use him as the emergency qb. Its pointless to let a #2 sit there and do nothing.

Why isnt the FO using him at WR or something? Its obvious he is not going to be a serious QB threat in the NFL

But that is nothing new for you LCFF!

I liked the fact that Pat White is on the Phins. He needs to be on the Steve McNair plan. Sit for 2 or 3 years to learn the basics about QBing in the NFL. He needs to learn the playbook, how to take a snap, adjust to the speed of the game, etc. Pat White is a project. I just don’t know if you take a project as a draft pick in the 2nd round.

I still believe that when all is said and done, Pat White will be a better NFL QB than Chad Henne. Now that might mean that White sucks less than Henne, but he will still be better.

is the way they handle and evaluate players and I think that stems from their confidence in their own abilities,complete trust in each other and not being worried about getting canned if they don’t win the SB immediately.That in no way means that desire or expectations are compromised but I do think it allows them to approach things a little differently.

Sparano said that Wake “wasn’t” a one year plan when asked about his development and if he thought he would be playing this well so quickly, said that in all actuality Ginn was really a rookie last year,he said that not me and since Clayton or Duper said last week that Ginn was never taught how to run proper routes and really be a WR and were willing to teach him it makes me think that the FO sees that as well and are content with grooming him because they feel he’ll work out.

I think they saw great upside in White all the while knowing he was going to be a project and it would take a lot of time and grooming but felt it was more than worth the risk and you simply don’t make that move unless you are very confident in your evaluations and ability to coach a guy up and have a “big picture” mentality vs. “If we don’t win it this year I’ll be looking for a job!”..they are in it for the long haul and I can’t tell you how good that makes me feel about our team going forward.

BTW Lefty,rec’d your posts is a given with me because regardless of your personal feelings concerning something you are somehow able to layout an unbiased and sensible post neither for or against your subject matter and that my friend is as rare as Hens teeth.

and I do even less now.

PW looks completely overmatched at QB and has no track record to speak of as a WR, not to mention less than impressive physical attributes even if we did want to try him at Wideout.

A 2nd round pick, a bad one, isn’t going to ruin your draft. I mean Sean Smith and V Davis have both been promising.

I think we can just say that this particular pick, the PW selection, looks worse by the day.

I’m tired of hearing about White and Ginn. I get it. They suck. Three people in our fanbase actually like them. I think your article is good, but I won’t rec it cause I’m JUST SO DAMN TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT PAT WHITE. Zing bitches.

the people who say Pat White sucks or Pat White hasn’t shown us anything etc.
He’s a developing rookie backup.
However, this is not a guy who was pretty good in college or had a good record in college, this is one of the best college QBs ever. He’s skinny blah blah blah… like the guys he was running through in college were little tiny skinny defensive linemen.
PW is the only QB ever to win 4 bowl games and he is the #1 college rushing QB of all time.

That is something.

how is it that your posts always reappear first on the list after being up for several days? you trickster you….but seriously…

Over his 3 year career, Ted Ginn has 5 touchdowns. 5. Think about that for a sec.