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The Collapse of the Defense, the Rise of Chad Henne This Miami team is apparently full of surprises.  Unfortunately, they aren’t all good surprises!  We said last week that the defense would need to bring their “A” game from the beginning against New England, but they missed by several letters and QB Tom Brady had [...]

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Thoughts on Last Night

by Philip Unwin on September 13, 2011

The good news is that Chad Henne and the passing attack looked absolutely fantastic, a total 180 from last year. The bad news is that the defense also seemed to do a 180 from last year. Let’s get this out of the way: the defense was awful, from the front to the back.  Outside of [...]

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Three years later, Mike Smith and John Harbaugh are in the playoffs. The head coaches of Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens are once again leading legitimate Super Bowl contenders into the postseason. Smith and Harbaugh are a combined 65-31 in those three (regular) seasons, with Harbaugh reaching the Divisional and Conference championship games in his [...]

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Week 4: New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins

For the second consecutive week, the Dolphins return to prime time.  And once again, they’ll face a division rival with designs on the playoffs. Last week the Dolphins (2-1) lost a heartbreaker to the vomit-inducing New York Jets 31-23 in front of a rabid, sold-out Sun Life Stadium on Sunday Night Football. They’ll try to [...]

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Maybe 6-6 isn’t so bad

by Philip Unwin on December 7, 2009

Well that was a hell of a thing, wasn’t it? Last week, the Dolphins seemed to control most of the game, but made a few mistakes here and there, and suddenly one looked at the scoreboard, and it was 24-14 Buffalo (the garbage time TD was, of course, irrelevant). This week, the Dolphins seemed to [...]

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As has been well-documented, Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter was not shy in his opinion that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gets preferential treatment from the referees. According to Brady, the Patriots took it personally. “It’s really motivating for our team throughout the course of the week and into the game when you hear that kind of [...]

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