I was thinking closer to the 'deer that bent the front bumper' eyes. Hurts to laugh, but thats too funny.
The D cannot play much worse, and Jones should never see the field again outside of Specials and sub packages.
Yeah maybe I'm still a bit steamed...But Jones looked a lot like Gibril Wilson to me out there tonight...I don't think I saw Clemons out there at all, except for the onside kick.
Need to lock the offense in the bubble for about 8 hours to work on our RedZone plays. Also wondering if this is the beginning of the 2nd year slide Nolan's Defenses always have. Overall pleased with the Offenses play tonight for the 1st game.
This coaching staff had no solution for anything Bellichick did to us. The front office and the coaching staff have failed to address the same recurring personnel weaknesses over several seasons: the offensive line, coverage linebacker, the secondary, kick returns. They failed to develop an effective game plan, counter the Patriots' game plan, condition the team or prepare the team. I see no reason why Sparano, Parcells' last toxic legacy, should have remained employed even one minute after last night's game ended.
Bottom line is we did not execute on the number 1 way to beat the Pats and that is to get to Brady. He will cut any secondary up when he has that amount of time..... Those TE's are special and will reak havoc this year. The dissapointing thing to me was we knew this, had plenty of time to plan for it and we did not even come close aside from 1 sack. The upside is our offence specificaly Henne/Daboll had a outstanding game, yes we need to fix the offensive line but teams will have to start respecting our passing game which should open up the run. It is dissapointing when you consider we could have had Waters. The upside is we were in with a legitimate shot to win until late in the game, even with Brady having his best game, we punch it in and erase the Welker score and who knows what would have happened. The upside is that our D and Nolan have to be embarrassed, they obviously drank to much kool aid, and will play with a real chip on their shoulder for the rest of the year. The upside is that I feel pretty good about our chances for the rest of the year, we have to much talent on our defence to not get it right. I absolutely love Daboll for what he has done to improve Henne and thus willing to give him a pass on that one call.
i dont know why anyone had any expectations for Larry Johnson... he's insurance, hes our 4th RB, you need bodies and he is one... we need Daniel Thomas healthy and the run game will be fine
I'm interested to hear Tony's take after watching the film. Jason Taylor mentioned in his PC after the game that it was blown coverages, lack of pressure & credit to Tom Brady and their offense for being so great. I'm not ready to dismiss Nolan Carroll, Reshad Jones, or Benny Sapp. I mean the Patriots had us running around all over the place with the no huddle. It was crazy confusion. I think that's where they attacked Reshad Jones the most. His ability to get everyone in the right play, right position in chaos like that. Benny Sapp is what he is. He made a play last night. He missed a few tackles. The 99 yd TD, sucked but I think at the point the defense was exhausted and packed it in--which shouldn't have been the case. The cries for Tony Sparano's head should cease too IMO. Everyone wanted him to change his stance up, he goes out and gets a new OC, he opens it up for his QB, they run an exciting offense, he goes for it on 4th down, he's aggressive, and now after 1 game against the best team it's crazy chaos. Let's give the guy a little time. The defense isn't going to play this poorly. They've got holes, that's obvious, but it's not where you start, it's where you finish. We were 2-0 last year and finished 7-9 in 2010, we were 0-2 in 2008 and finished 11-5. Anything can happen. Daniel Thomas will be a big help for us coming back. Hopefully he can produce.
I don't understand why you think that about Henne. I'm impressed. Have been all year. But you don't pass on an Andrew Luck if he's there.
I just don't understand why he wasn't even used. It's not about expectations. Two or three carries is not much to expect.
BTW, Sean Smith actually had a pretty good game. His agent reminds us he gave up one play to Hernandez and that was it. When his body was in full cramp mode.
While I think Henne certainly showed improvement last night. I am certainly not ready to say that our QB position is now set for the future. Now that teams see that Miami has no real running game. It is going to be harder for Henne to have games like last night. Also I think the DB's of the Patriots are a definite weakness and the Patriots also do not have a very good pass rush. So I will have to see how Henne plays against the strong defensive teams on the Dolphins schedule, before I concede that he should be the QB the Dolphins bank on for the future. That being stated. I do agree that if the draft was being held today. The Dolphins should certainly consider using their first pick to draft for defensive help and not to pick a QB in the first round. Of course if Luck was somehow available when the Dolphins pick in the first round. I would pick him without even thinking about it. He is the next great QB in the NFL and to pass on him would be just plain stupid.
Insurance for what? He is in fact the only legitimate complete RB on the roster right now. We all know what Bush is. He's good at it but he's not going to help us pound out yards when we need to. Thomas is a rookie, unproven and at this point injured. Insurance..... my god...... do you think that's why the Dolphins are now trying out any RB that can walk on two legs still right now? They know they've screwed up by not having a back that can help them establish a tough running game. The discussion on the decisions they made on the OL is a whole other discussion that factors greatly into this as well.
Yep, I'll bet they put up 600 yards on everyone else too. Nothing to concern ourselves with here. We're just fine!