Should Miami go after David Garrard?

[bsfins]

I say F no.

Here's what happens:
sign Garrard, people start chanting for him the second Chad makes the smallest mistake.  If this happens, the season is over.  Chad will get frazzled, make more mistakes, the coaching staff will stick with him cause they know he is better than that.  He will continue to make mistakes and fans will turn on the team.  Everyone gets fired after the Dolphins lose 12 games.

So, yeah, if you want to completely demolish the team, go ahead and sign David Garrard.

I agree with the sediment,and understand it...I feel the gnats will come out of no where and infest the board,they're idiot fans that are going to bitch either way...They will bitch the season is over after the first bad game...We lose two in a row, they'll be damn near suicidal wanting everyone fired...3 in a row, they will be screaming for boycotts,and to never watch again...We're DOOMED,We're Doomed the End of the world!

 

[Tenshot13]

Even though I think Garrard is very underrated, I say pass.  Henne is our guy, like it or not.  I was down for a QB competition in preseason, whoever they brought in, but now I think it's too late for that.  Do or die with Henne.

[mecadonzilla]

Henne is our guy, like it or not.  I was down for a QB competition in preseason, whoever they brought in, but now I think it's too late for that.  Do or die with Henne.

At this point, it's probably the best option.  I think Sporano and Ireland feel the same way also.

[masterfins]

Pass, not much of an upgrade if any.  Red flags going up if he is being cut at this point.  It's one thing to have some healthy QB rivalry in the pre-season, but its just a huge distraction now that the season is starting.

[Frimp]

No.

[Dolphin-UK]

Henne is either a good enough QB or he's not. If he is, that's great no problem.

If he's not we're going to suck and no amount of other teams' reject QB's is going to change that.

Very rarely does a quality QB enter the market, and unfortunately last time one did we took Culpepper over him and it was the wrong call. This is not the same case and we need to stop living and dying by that moment every time another team cuts a QB who has started a game for them.

If Henne isn't the answer the last thing we need is a three way competiton between scrub QB's.

(actually if Henne isn't the answer I'm content for us to suck all season long to get a high draft pick and actively attack the QB position in the off season but I appreciate that tanking the season isn't going to make the fans too happy!)

[MikeO]

Pass, not much of an upgrade if any.  Red flags going up if he is being cut at this point.  It's one thing to have some healthy QB rivalry in the pre-season, but its just a huge distraction now that the season is starting.

he was ONLY cut because of his $8 mill contract. Not because of his play

[jtex316]

Henne is either a good enough QB or he's not.

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If Henne isn't the answer the last thing we need is a three way competiton between scrub QB's.

I got news for you - Henne is not a good enough QB.

[Diehard_Dolfan]

I got news for you - Henne is not a good enough QB.

I'm not a fan of Garrard... but, I think we could use him!   He's an upgrade as a back up to any other QB on our roster.  With that being said... I have a friend who's a big Jags fan.  For yrs he has complained that other than Maurice Jones-Drew the Jags haven't had any offensive weapons... If you look at it since Jimmy Smith retired the Jags haven't had a real #1 or 2 receiver.  Despite playing with a Walmart cast on offense (that's an actual sports writer quote) Gerrard has done a pretty good job completing 60% of his passes and his TD to Int ratio ( 84 touchdowns against 54 interceptions) is pretty good!

If he could be had for a song and a dance I say yes... if it's going to cost us to bring him in?

Then I say Oh hell no!!!

[Dolphin-UK]

I got news for you - Henne is not a good enough QB.

I suspect we could have genetically enhance cross hybrid of Marino, Montana, Brady and Manning and you would still make the same comment as long as he played for the Fins, however, fair comment and to some extent I agree with it in so much as I would agree that Chad Henne is not nor ever will be an elite QB (obviously!), but I would rather wait for the evidence of the upcoming season to base a judgement on whether he is 'good enough' for us to win and build on.

QB's more so than any other players are victims of circumstance, they rely on a number of external factors to allow them to demonstrate their capabilities. Chad Henne had an unfortunate set of external factors last year (no running game, poor playcalling) and with a change in offense if he still continues to struggle my opinion will probably be much the same as yours.

[fyo]

This year is going to be a real test of what Henne can actually do. He struggled last year, no question, and didn't fit the offensive system at all. This year, Daboll is going taking the offense in a new direction and Henne will get all the rope he can handle. Let's just hope he doesn't hang himself with it.

[MaineDolFan]

Whatever brings us closer to Andrew Luck, I say do it. 

[Thundergod]

...and they'd probably pass up Luck to draft a guard.

[MaineDolFan]

...and they'd probably pass up Luck to draft a guard.

Or a corner.  Fletcher, anyone?

[Sunstroke]

I'm pretty certain that Miami won't be in contention for Luck next year...there are quite a few teams worse off than the Phins. That said, I like both of the other first round grade QBs, Matt Barkley and Landry Jones, so if Miami decides that Henne isn't working out, they'll definitely have an opportunity to grab one of those guys...