Dolphins Win 19-14: Some Quick Thoughts

Well, I’m just happy that for the first time in years,we actually looked like a “real” football team. Tough, rugged, there is no way we go basically 0-16 this year. I don’t like a whole lot of the back-ups on defense, though.

are u upset that Beck didnt see any action?
you think its because the trifecta didnt wanna tip their hand on who is the odd man out so they can field some trade possibilities?

Porter, Holiday, Lehan as options on the first team defense rotation…our team represented pretty nicely in the first half. Meaning, some of our youngsters needed to step up strong against the Gaguar’s starting mix. Second half’s performance defensively was definitely 3rd string.

Matt Ryan 17-29-1 175 1 TD
Brian Brohm 12-16-1 103 0 TD
Chad Henne 22-36-0 200 0 TD
Joe Flacco 10-18-0 74 0 TD

Can’t read too much into preseason stats since much has to do with competition and performance against scrubs and backups as well as limited opportunities, but I like how Henne has performed thus far and I also like how the coaching staff is giving him lots of opportunities (at the expense of Beck and McCown)

without Carpenter…we lose lol

Just like last week, according to Cefalo

From Mr. Lemon. I would like to thank him, even though it was just preseason. Lol.

1. the (anything but) special team- returns for 40 yds has got to stop.
2. penalties- what was Pennigton doing the first two snaps? too many false starts and procedure errors.
3. wide open recievers- what’s with the consistently uncovered man?
4. protecting against the running QB – great to get pressure but not if you have a scrambling QB who goes for 15yds when the pocket collapses.
5. Depth- that will come with next years draft and (this and next years) trades
All in all a huge impprovement, over the last game, heck, over last year even. We looked like a team that came to play, not like a bad experiment. This was against a 10th ranked D and a good running team with an accurate passer. Nice job guys!

feeling a little better about our chances?
Not great, but good and improving! I think it is a pretty safe bet to say we will be better than 4-12 this year, doncha think?

I went over to the Jags blog Big Cats Country ( http://www.bigcatcountry.com/ ) and read their front page review of our victory last night. From where we have been as fans of the Dolphins…I read these panic mode gloom and doom game responses and snicker twice. Of course the first snicker is…we kicked your butts. The second snicker is…try feeling this way for 15 of 16 games that count like we did last year. We as Dolphins fans survived a bum rush of lame-ness last year. I am ready for the Dolphins to have every announcer of every game (like they did last night) say…“wow! they are not looking or playing like the 1-15 team of last year!”

For a pre-season game, it gave me a little hope. I do this every year too myself though, look at all the “what can be’s” instead of the “what can’t be’s”. It was nice too see good qb play. I’m getting ready too jump on too the Henne bandwagon. I like his, “just do it” attitude. As the pod gets thinner in the next couple of pre-season games, we’ll see. I bet Jake Long is going too hate film study, they showed a highlight that made him look like a near sighted drunk who came out of the bar without his glasses…lol. Rookie mistake and i’m sure it just pissed him off which will make him better. Overall, nice, and its nice too see and feel a “W” regardless.

Just a hunch, but I suspect alot of the success that we had last night was due to the game planning that we did for this game. I heard that Sparano did a little bit of scouting on Jaxsonville’s plays.. he had Beck and McCown running their plays.

Since there is no tape on what Henning is doing ( I doubt that they scouted Carolina’s offense from 06 for a preseason game…) and I bet that Jax didnt do any gameplanning on us at all from the limited week 1 tape….

thoughts?