Testaverde and Henson

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Watching Dallas on MNF they kept talking about this and it got me wondering. Most seem to think by next year Henson will be the starter, and that he's going to start soon. I kind of doubt it.

The interesting thing is while every excuse Parcells is giving makes sense, Vinny is playing well, don't want to give up, Henson isn't ready, you can't help but wonder if there is a money incentive too? Henson signed an 8 year contract with a 3.5 million bonus. The contract voids to 4 years if Henson plays in 15% of the offensive plays THIS season. If he does, he gets 3.5 million bonus at the end of NEXT Season, if he doesn't deal stays at 8 years and the bonus is paid out over the 8 seasons. So obviously Henson stands to get a substantial advantage financially by playing in 15% of the plays this year, which is essentially 2.5 games. Do that deal voids to 4 years, gets a bonus after next year, he's good to go.

I'd be pretty surprised if Drew starts before week 15.

I'd go off on Green now for not parting with a 2005 3rd round pick to get Henson but from what I've read Henson told Houston he wanted to play for Dallas, he handpicked them based on a list he made on opening at QB, talent at WR, coach, and caliber of team. You can certainly see that when he signed, with their defense they appeared to be a better team than us, now that's arguable and we have the opportunity and the coach, but at the time it happened, we had the worst defense in football. I still think Graves should have picked him 2 years ago but Houston wasn't the only team planning to do that, just the ones that actually did it, no guarantee we'd have gotten him, and of course if we'd picked Henson, we wouldn't have Reggie Wells!



Going to be interesting, I read where Testaverde said Henson has one of the 5 best arms he's seen in his entire NFL career, but the Cowboys are still working to get rid of his habit of dropping three quarters or sidearm from his baseball days because he'll get passes batted down and balls will sail high on him as a result. Testaverde said in his youth he had a pretty good arm himself but "I could never throw the ball the way this guy does."
 
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Lex said:
Yeah, but can Henson throw better than McCown?

Right handed?

He's got a great arm, always has. josh has a nice arm but there's no comparison there.
 

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Good to have a great arm.

But is Henson better at baseball, than Josh is at basketball?

He must be, he was drafted by the yanks.

That does it, Henson is better OVERALL, than Josh.

But he costs more.

So who's the best value?
 
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Lex said:
Good to have a great arm.

But is Henson better at baseball, than Josh is at basketball?

He must be, he was drafted by the yanks.

That does it, Henson is better OVERALL, than Josh.

But he costs more.

So who's the best value?

henson was all state in basketball I think, and he set the national HS record in baseball for home runs.

Not saying Henson is better than Josh now, he hasn't played in a real game in years. But if it were possible for us to have gotten him, I have no doubt by next season Henson would be ahead of Josh.
 

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Russ Smith said:
henson was all state in basketball I think, and he set the national HS record in baseball for home runs.

Not saying Henson is better than Josh now, he hasn't played in a real game in years. But if it were possible for us to have gotten him, I have no doubt by next season Henson would be ahead of Josh.

....and I have no doubt you would prognosticate that. As Lex said, at least you are consistant.

I have a hard time believing you would think Josh would be better than just about anyone, let alone your own personal matinee idols. :D
 
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Tangodnzr said:
....and I have no doubt you would prognosticate that. As Lex said, at least you are consistant.

I have a hard time believing you would think Josh would be better than just about anyone, let alone your own personal matinee idols. :D

He's got a magic arm, or had in college, anxious to see what he looks like in a real game after such a long time out.

Just hate to see a kid with that much talent wasting away in the Yankee organization and if he turns out half as good as I think he will, will hate to see him as a Cowboy.
 

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SunCardfan said:
Tango, how's your chess game coming along?

I've registered at red hot. Only had time to do a quick and cursory "tour". I forgot...What was your sceen name there?

(Mine shouldn't be too hard to figure out :D )
 

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Russ Smith said:
Henson signed an 8 year contract with a 3.5 million bonus. The contract voids to 4 years if Henson plays in 15% of the offensive plays THIS season. If he does, he gets 3.5 million bonus at the end of NEXT Season, if he doesn't deal stays at 8 years and the bonus is paid out over the 8 seasons.
That's not exactly correct. Henson has the same incentive for each of his first three seasons -- minimum playing time earns a $3.5 roster bonus the next season and voids the deal to four seasons. In essence, the contract was written so that both things (bonus and voidable years) would happen at some point, unless he's a complete bust. So really, the incentive is no reason not to play Henson, since he'll get it sooner or later.
 
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AdamJT13 said:
That's not exactly correct. Henson has the same incentive for each of his first three seasons -- minimum playing time earns a $3.5 roster bonus the next season and voids the deal to four seasons. In essence, the contract was written so that both things (bonus and voidable years) would happen at some point, unless he's a complete bust. So really, the incentive is no reason not to play Henson, since he'll get it sooner or later.

Interesting, i took that right out of an article after he signed, that's on the Cowboys official site so i assumed it was correct.

If that's the case, obviously there's no incentive to not play him as you say since he'll likely get it next year.
 

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Henson messed up his career playing two sports.
Deion did it because he plays CB not a QB.
Deion was not know to be a good tackler.

Playing QB in the NFL is a full time profession.
 

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