Chad Henne Signs, Eager to Be the Guy Who Breaks All Sorts of Sack Records for Dolphins

With Chad Henne now under contract, the Dolphins quarterback job is officially a three-man race. Sure, one of those men almost lost a finger in a bizarre chainsaw accident, but whatever.

Now, though, Henne will join second-year player John Beck and offseason acquisition Josh McCown (who, as of this writing, still has 10 fingers) for the right to take upwards of 60 sacks next season. Not glamorous work, but with Bill Parcells at the controls, Miami should be competitive by the end of the decade, if not sooner. So there's that.

In the meantime, the two of the three QBs will share reps during 11-v-11 drills each practice, while the third QB will participate in 7-v-7 drills. It's a whole thing.

"We had a similar situation in Dallas [in 2005]," said [first-year head coach Tony] Sparano, then the Cowboys offensive line coach under Bill Parcells, now Dolphins vice president of football operations. "We had Drew [Bledsoe], Tony [Romo] and Drew Henson ... this three-headed monster going on.

Not the best example, I'd think. Bledsoe, who eventually won the job, and Henson are both out of football, and it took midway through the 2006 season before Romo was installed as the starter. Of course, as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Harvey Fialkov writes, if history is any guide, McCown should be the favorite; Parcells likes veterans and McCown most closely resembles that in Miami.

Not somebody you build a franchise around, but he should be serviceable while Beck and Henne battle for the gig.