Wow what a sloppy, UGLY game.

Henne's played pretty smart though. The pick was brutal, no doubt about that. But he's been sacked alot, but theyve been smart sacks, he's learned from the pass he tried to force in week 1 instead of taking the sack. Nice to see that happening.

I agree basically in whole though, pretty ugly game on all accounts. Hartline did impress though. 3 catches, 79 yards, plus he had a 32 (i think) yard reception called back on an offensive PI call.

Not exactly what I was hoping to see from a nationally televised game, in week 3 of the preseason.

ugly blechhhhh... guess we had to have one game like this. a few stood out. hartline, moses, wake. really boring and flat. glaad its over

The whole game was terrible.

I was bored watching.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the Dolphins had 2 penalties for 22yards vs the Bucs 13/14 for 80/90yds.

If that was the case, you gotta be pretty happy about that. The Dolphins are much more disciplined in that aspect. Except for that Reggie Torbor personal foul where he smacked that guy in the face mask.

I have to admit, I love Sparano man, the guy is fiery on the sidelines from start to finish. Regardless if its pre-season or regular season, first string or third string, first quarter or fourth. You have to love the passion this guy coaches the game with. I would definitely pay money to have him mic'd up and hear him on the sidelines. Especially when he's tearing into a player after a stupid mistake.

I think Q moved off the bubble, and Vontae Davis is a better tackler than a cover corner, he is just really physical.

Hartline looked good, Henne looked underwhelming, and Sean Smith handled what the Bucs threw at him

The only way we could have been more inept would have been for us to have allowed a touchdown.

A win is a win. Pulling out ugly games is just as important as playing beautiful football. IMO

"Alex44 wrote:

A win is a win. Pulling out ugly games is just as important as playing beautiful football. IMO

well when the game means nothing, like this, a pre season game, i rather see us play better than this then get the win, if we played a great game but lost, it would have been a hell of a lot better than this, Lions went 4-0 last year in preseason,

"Alex44 wrote:

A win is a win. Pulling out ugly games is just as important as playing beautiful football. IMO

Agree 100%. But the win still doesn't take away the ugly. If they play offense and if the secondary continues to play like that, there's going to be a lot of ugly and not enough wins.

Going up against a Tampa team that still isn't settled on the quarterback, having your STARTING o-line out there way too long and only putting up 13 points is embarrassing on the road. Any well-established team we could have faced would certainly ended up as a loss.

After 3 weeks of play I still have yet to see anything impressive. I'm hoping that this taste in my mouth is vanilla rather than ****. I don't like this taste at all.

How did you guys think Lex Hilliard looked? IMO, I think he outplayed his stats. He had some pretty tough yards, and ran hard.

"cdz12250 wrote:

Agree 100%. But the win still doesn't take away the ugly. If they play offense and if the secondary continues to play like that, there's going to be a lot of ugly and not enough wins.

Yeah but I'm being optimistic that most of our games won't look like this. I'll take the happy side of things and just say I'm confident in our ability to pull out the ugly ones until things get better.

A lot of our wins last season werent exactly pretty either.

Ugly game but I'm not going to discount the good play from the previous two games because of one bad game.

rather peak in december/january than august...

How hard is it to wrap someone up? Way too many missed tackles, we should have revovered the ball after that blocked punt, we should have recovered that fumble in the ensuing drive.

The only time I smiled all night was when I listened to Luke McCown speak, ****ing Rhodes Scholar right there.:lol:

they didnt have their legs tonight, playin 3 games in 11 days during a tough training camp will do that to ya..

excuses, excuses.

"djphinfan wrote:

they didnt have their legs tonight, playin 3 games in 11 days during a tough training camp will do that to ya..

yeah, I was wondering when that was going to catch up to them...

"Ashraf wrote:

How did you guys think Lex Hilliard looked? IMO, I think he outplayed his stats. He had some pretty tough yards, and ran hard.

He fumbled, right?

"Frumundah Finnatic wrote:

How hard is it to wrap someone up? Way too many missed tackles, we should have revovered the ball after that blocked punt, we should have recovered that fumble in the ensuing drive.

The only time I smiled all night was when I listened to Luke McCown speak, ****ing Rhodes Scholar right there.:lol:

No doubt they should have recovered that blocked punt but the second fumble on that drive was going to be difficult for Miami to recover. Jason Taylor was the closest one to it and he was 5+ yards away. Only way they recover it is if one of the offensive linemen couldn't fall on it.

"phinnhedd wrote:

Going up against a Tampa team that still isn't settled on the quarterback, having your STARTING o-line out there way too long and only putting up 13 points is embarrassing on the road. Any well-established team we could have faced would certainly ended up as a loss.

After 3 weeks of play I still have yet to see anything impressive. I'm hoping that this taste in my mouth is vanilla rather than ****. I don't like this taste at all.

What exactly are you looking to see in the preseason?

And those complaining about the run blocking the offensive line hasn't really had much opportunity to show what they can do. Miami only ran the ball around 10 times this game. The play calling can be very puzzling at times.

"Brown42000 wrote:

What exactly are you looking to see in the preseason?

Probably more on the progression side of things. Tonight they took a couple of steps backwards. I'm not looking for perfection, just looking for signs of a well-put-together team. Tonight definitely wasn't even a close to an average outing. Blame it on the weather or what have you, it just didn't look like a team that shows tons of promise facing one of, if not, the hardest schedules in the NFL. I wasn't impressed at all.

Let's just hope this was just a hiccough in progression or growing pains during the 3 games in 11 days explanation. That's what I'm going to chalk it up to. Pennington looked less tham his normal self, Henne had an abysmal performance, and the receivers looked like they couldn't catch a cold. At least we know the defensive backs have that excuse.

"phinnhedd wrote:

Probably more on the progression side of things. Tonight they took a couple of steps backwards. I'm not looking for perfection, just looking for signs of a well-put-together team. Tonight definitely wasn't even a close to an average outing. Blame it on the weather or what have you, it just didn't look like a team that shows tons of promise facing one of, if not, the hardest schedules in the NFL. I wasn't impressed at all.

Let's just hope this was just a hiccough in progression or growing pains during the 3 games in 11 days explanation. That's what I'm going to chalk it up to. Pennington looked less tham his normal self, Henne had an abysmal performance, and the receivers looked like they couldn't catch a cold. At least we know the defensive backs have that excuse.

From the start of the game most of the players looked very bleh and slow. Couple that with what I thought was very vanilla playcalling offensively and defensively and you are going to get poor results. I think the main factor was fatigue kicking in, what else could it be when the whole team looks the way they did.

Like I said I'm not going to discount good play from the previous two preseason games because of one bad one.