Halfway complete…

  " Miami (9-5) clinched a winning record to become just the third team since 1970 to rebound from a one-win season with a winning record, joining the ’97 Jets and ’92 Colts.

" San Francisco lost despite having more first downs, total yards, rushing yards, completions, third-down conversions and time of possession.

" The Dolphins are 9-0 this season when holding opponents under 20 points.

" The 49ers fell to 3-4 under Mike Singletary.

and if you think next week will be any different.. you’ll probably be mistaken.. likely be a close, hard fought game.. I just hope the weather stays decent out there in K.C.. so far it’s above seasonal.. don’t want to look ahead but damn, that last game of the year against the Jets is going to be COLOSSAL!

and yes, it’s been said here a ton of times…almost every game all season.. Ronnie needs to get more rushes!! PERIOD! like he said..it should be illegal! look at today.. 10 rushes for 67 yards…that’s almost a 7 yard average! and he only gets the ball 10 times!! in a game like this where our T.O.P. is being crushed… I just don’t get it.. at all.. we may very well be winning…but we’re playing with fire…

SF was who I thought they were… a Mike Martz offense, tempered slightly by Singletary, but dangerous when cornered. They spread the field when they got behind and we had to deal with it. Well, it wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough. The Fins blitzed often and forced Hill into some throws he wasn’t ready to make. At least one throw was over the head of a wide open Bruce (he must be an Aussie).

But I was wondering why we didn’t tighten up the coverage on Bruce? I mean, what are they doing letting some 100yr old dude be that wide open on 3rd downs?

I’ll take a “W” any way we can get it, but I was a bit disappointed with a few things. First, when the Offense got the ball back with 9 minutes 21 seconds left in the 4th, they couldn’t get a 1st down, stay on the field, and run more time off the clock. This has been their M.O. but they didn’t seem to be able to get it going this game. Also, not second guessing here, but at the time Miami attempted the missed field goal, I thought it would make more sense to go for it on 4th down due to the wind and field position. Finally, two quick hits about the run game: I am there with you Matty on the lack of run plays, and in particular, the lack of Ronnie Brown. You have got to get the ball in his hands more often. And when you have 3rd or 4th and inches, Polite has been money; why give the ball to anyone else? On that one play, Polite was past the 1st down marker and would have had the first down BUT HE DIDN"T HAVE THE BALL. Instead, they made him lead blocker and gave the ball to Ricky, who got stopped behind gthe line.

Note to coaches: Continue to innovate, but remember what gotcha here in the first place.

Congrats Fin Fans…. KC on tap. :)

  I love the fact that we have come so far, so fast. But…..yea, there is a but, we need to do so much better in some areas. Where oh where is our running game? Teams are starting to figure us out. We have no deep threat. They can cheat up, play man to man, and use their pass rush and put us into precarious positions. Plus…..we aren’t even trying to run lately. I dunno…maybe I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth…but man. We could be doing better on offense. PTR has become, tapping some pebbles.

Nearly had a heart attack watching this game. I decided to order a Cobb Salad while watching the game in honor of #38.

I must admit I was impressed with Shaun Hill. Seems like a more shakable version of CP10. He’ll be pretty good once he learns how to not get rattled by a dominant defense.

yep..couldn’t believe it but Ware got 3 sacks tonight! HE is now on a possible pace to beat Strahan for the all-time record…and not Porter.. unless he gets 6 in the next two games.. I would love to see Porter get the overall sack lead for the year..but he is behind the 8-ball going into the last two games.. he should catch and pass the all-time Dolphin record of 18.5 but likely won’t get the record and likely won’t be ahead of Ware..but either way, he’s kickin some serious butt!

-And now for my criticism. The Dolphins need to run the ball more. Ronnie Brown had just 3 carries in the first half – which is really unacceptable. And 11 total touches in the entire game for Brown is just wrong. It should be illegal. I hate to criticize after a win, but it has to be done. Ronnie needs the ball more.

-What a tale of two halves for Chad Pennington. In the first half, Pennington was 8/11 for 131 yards and 2 touchdowns. In the second half, Chad was 4/8 for 25 yards. But hey, like all of you, I still love him.

More of Ronnie and less of penne can only help the team….

btw: did anyone else notice the heck of a blocking Carey did on the wildcat first down on the last drive. he made the first down possible as he got to the second level and essentially shut down the angle to ronnie….. best block i’ve seen him do all year.

We need to run Ronnie Brown more. I don’t mind passing it as long as we take time off the clock and win the battle of possesion. But when are passing game isn’t doing to hot I think we just need to give the ball about 20 to 25 times to Brown and about 10 to 15 carries to Ricky. Mix in Cobbs and Polite and then I think our running game will go up nicely. I agree our defense needs to get off the field but I think the problem was that our offense never stayed on the field to long so our Defense got tired but still held off a TD.

We simple need to play better. Our defense played a little better yesterday, but still, how good did they actually do? If they did so good, how come they had the ball for 38 minutes of hte game, I think it was that. But still, they could have payed better. But still, beggers can’t be choosers. We got the job done when it was needed most, and that should count for something.

Yes I absolutely agree. He was 60 yards on 10 carries. How is that bad? That is 10 yards a carry. That is incredible, and yet they couldn’t give it to him even 15 times. That is unacceptable. We have so much talent etc. We have been over this a tousand times. But still Pennington played well. I saw a couple of his passes float because of the wind. Ones that would have completed if it weren’t for the wind. Other then that, it was a very intense game.
Thanks all for reading again. Until next time.

~Sincerely Isaiah

I’m waiting for Ted Ginn to get his head out of his ass and start helping out his teammates in the passing game.

Matty asked us Ginn bashers to apologize several weeks back because he had a nice game but, not surprisingly, he has essentially disappeared ever since.

He’s had more than his share of key drops that have stalled drives the last few weeks, too.

Ginn has just 7 catches for 79 yards since Camarillo was lost for the season three weeks ago and Bess has thoroughly outplayed him.

Maybe Ginn should apologize to Dolphin fans.

Sorry, not trying to be a hater – but I can’t stand seeing million dollar talents succumb to ten-cent heads.

Is a Miami Dolphin.

i think the only reason we didn’t see lots of R & R is that we got shut down in the second half, much as we try to do to other teams, but i think Sporano intended to PTR 2nd half, just didn’t really get a chance to… SF kept our D on the field, our O couldn’t get into a rhythm, and thus they dominated the clock…its a great game plan, and it almost worked on us, classic Singletary crap…..lucky our D decided to represent as well….and though these games keep staying close, week in week out, i keep thinking ’what great experience for playing playoff games…."

And after that play, Joey can celebrate any way he choose. He chose to rip off his helmet on the field and throw it. I’m cool with that. And if he had decided to rip off somebody’s head and throw it, I would have been cool with that, too.

He chose to rip off his helmet on the field and throw it. I’m cool with that. And if he had decided to rip off somebody’s head and throw it, I would have been cool with that, too.

I have been touting this for a about a month or so here at work with no one who will agree with me. I wouldnt be surprised to find out that much of the game plan for the past few weeks was kind of a “return to basics” mindset from the coaches. With basically a revamped line since Smiley went down they are having to find out what the back ups are actually capable of during a game rather than just practice. I wouldnt be surprised to see a wild opened offence if we went down against anyone. No need to “break the glass” as LCFF said is something that I agree with 1000%. One of the things about Henning that I used to hate and have come to love is that “well if it works I will stick with it till it doesnt” mentality. I am all for not using the WC formation for a while and breaking it out with HUGE success catching some deserving team unawares (god wouldnt it be great to see in the second half of the propellers game and see it blast out for like 3 or 4 TD’s?) but frankly if we keep winning then who cares? Wins are all that count!

and I would be very happy to see us not have to break out anything crazy agains the propellers….and yes it would be totally awesome to see us manhandle the stinking turds and beat them in our base offense. Hope to see us save the innovative stuff for the playoffs as needed. I think that is the real key. Use the crazyness only as we need to use it to stay in a game al la against the patsies. Think about it…if we had just had one or two defensive stops in the 3rd against them and kept up the shootout pace we would have walked away with the W in that one. We PROVED that we COULD shoot it out as needed but that takes US out of OUR gameplan and it seems to be that our coach knows what he is doing so why let them dictate what we are planning on doing? If it happens then I believe that we have that extra sheet of playcalling that is the “break in case of emergency” set of plays. I for one have become comfortable with getting the lead and then just stifiling EVERYTHING to win.

Of course I would love to see us put up tons of points and win easily but the one thing with that is then you get the opponents up for a comeback and thats not a mindset you want your enemy to have. You want them thinking “were still in this…just drive it down…no need to panic” because when they look up and see its the 4th quarter and we have the ball they all of a sudden know they are beaten when we go on a 7 min drive and leave them scratching thier heads wondering how they lost. Put em to sleep and slowly choke off thier air so that its not untill they realise they are about to die that they panic and at that point they are vunurable and prone to mistakes. Thats when you smile and cinch tight the plastic bag and watch them die while we move on to the playoffs!