… as long as it results in wins. I really don’t care who is behind center getting the job done as long as they are actually GETTING THE JOB DONE. I don’t care if it’s Pennington (a little old), Henne (a little unproven), Beck (a little cut from the team), or White (a little non-traditional). Heck, when he was on the team for a few months, I didn’t care if it were Josh McCown. The bottom line is you have to produce.

1. Henne is a prototypical NFL passer and there is a reason why there is a “prototype” for QBs. In my opinion a QB is meant to pass the ball not to run with it, if you add that our O-Line is going to be supreme then I would take Manning instead of Vick if you asked me. Also add that he has shown a lot of promise and has got all the tools to succed.

2- Henne has already got a year of experience under his belt, and according to the moves this FO made during this draft, this rebuilding process is one second away from being completed so why waste more time.

Let them compete and may the best man win

even though i dont get many opportunities to watch him, but the few time i have, i enjoyed it

for Henne. I love the pick and I’m glad the regime made a statement by releasing Beck.

but I believe he saif could be the starting QB not would

in two years he wont be on the team

And his footwork as a qb is all over the place. Hes hopping and bouncing. To me that shows he is not comfortable in the posisition. Now throw him ino the NFL setting? You think John Becks footwork was unsettled? I do not pretend to know it all, maybe I am wrong here, but what I see in the vids of White is a really good running back who was told he was good at QB and was put there because he could run or pass. I always believe that teams that need a qb that runs like a rb are just trying to “fix” something with the wrong tool. Sure you may get it to work.. but its much easier and whatnot with the correct tool.

For all those who feel obligated to drop “reality checks” on the rest of us-go learn some history and study some coaching before you try to tell us what to think.

1.) There have been a number of QBs who don’t fit the “prototype” that have made it in football, including a Mr. Drew Brees who is playing right now and doing pretty decently for himself. Both Matt Stafford and Mark Sanchez were ‘only’ 6’-2"- ie closer to Pat White’s height than Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. I guess the fact that White had the best passing mechanics of any QB at the combine, INCLUDING Mark Sanchez, means nothing because he’s not an inch taller?

2.) For those who say he is a system quarterback- Donovan McNabb was a run first QB, Drew Brees and Kyle Orton came from a shotgun spread team, not to mention the Roger Staubachs and Steve Youngs of the NFL. Even Joe Montana ran the triple option in college. Thats why we have a scouting department – to separate the player from the system.

3.) If you think the Wildcat is a ‘gimmick’, you don’t know football. The principles of the Wildcat were around when the forward passing game was a gimmick. Everything you see and are used to now, be it the forward pass, I formation, the shotgun, the west coast offense – they were all inventions, and all were scoffed at upon introduction. In the words of Tony Sparano – "There was an awful lot left on the bone that we didn’t roll out there in the wild-cat". Like it or not, spread offenses are inflitrating the NFL, and they aren’t going anywhere because teams are realizing that you can take those concepts and get a guy like Tyler Thigpen or Matt Cassel to hang 40-50 points on a team like . . . oh I don’t know- the Dolphins. Tom Jackson said on ESPN that Parcells had envisioned using this offense before he had even retired from the Cowboys, and now we have one of the guys in David Lee who popularized and perfected it at Arkansas. If you’re hoping for it to go away I suggest you get out of your cave and enjoy having an innovative and daring coaching staff – it may fizzle and die but at least they were willing to take a chance and explore the possibilities of a Wildcat with a threat to throw the ball .

Oh- and for those people who are too intellectually lazy to think for themselves and spout off the old “college offenses don’t work in the NFL” – you’re beloved I formation was created at VMI- a COLLEGE.

Tom Nugent, the football coach at Virginia Military Institute, had a new idea. Instead of having halfbacks on each side of the fullback, he thought it made more sense to line up the halfbacks behind the fullback. With the offensive backfield in a straight line, they looked more like an ‘I’ than a ‘T’, and a new formation was named.

After five years at VMI, Nugent brought the I to Florida State in 1954, and it began to spread, most notably to John McKay, who used the formation to win the national championship at USC in 1962. Before long, NFL teams took notice, and the I became the most common set in pro football.

Most ideas in pro football now were either created or developed on the College level where free thinking is more encouraged and often times required to allow smaller programs to compete with larger, more tradition laden schools – and afterwards those bigger schools, and eventually the NFL steal those ideas and they become the norm – until some other little guys comes up with a way around them.

Like it or not White has a place on this team next season, and there is a better than good chance he beats out Henne to start full time.

to see people immediately pile off the Chad Henne Bandwagon and chase down the Pat White Bandwagon. 3 days ago, we were arguing about how we need more weapons for Henne, whether or not he should start, how good our WR’s will be once he’s in the lineup, and if the OL is good enough to get him some playing time.

Now, Pat White shows up, and who need Chad Henne? We have the great PAT WHITE!! It’s like last year, the minute Henne was chosen, everyone piled off the Beck Bandwagon.

It’s so short-sighted to immediately claim that White is the future QB and he’s so great, when Henne is light years ahead of him as far as being an NFL QB. He’s spent an entire year with our coaches learning the position and the offense. He spent 4 years in college running a dropback style offense and preparing to play in a pro offense. Why are we all the sudden casting him aside for an option running QB who is small (6’1, under 200lbs) and played in one of the most gimmicky college offenses going (Rich Rod’s spread option).

but what people seem to say to knock Wildpat is that he is too talented to use as a QB and that the option offense won’t work in the NFL.

Don’t you guys think that the triumverate has some KILLER plans for this guy since they picked him so early?
I think BP is onto the idea of having a new breed QB since he was the one who personally picked Jayson Foster last year.

Too small to play for a division I school they said.

Henne was suppost to win 1st stringer in two years. Now Pat White is? I dunno.