I really honestly can’t remember the last time we got lit up like we did today. If I think back long enough, I’d have to say that Marino’s last game was it. We couldn’t do ANYTHING right and we kept shooting ourselves in the foot with dumb penalties, lack of focus, and just plain outright idiotic plays at times. Like you mentioned Matty, how in the world do you leave the backer alone with Boldin? It is absolutely just begging to get picked apart.

One thing that really frustrates me as well is the horrendous misusage of Teddy and Ronnie. Even on our sorry 0-7 team last season, Ronnie was our lone bright spot. Nothing has changed (don’t even bring up his knee because he is FINE) and they just are capping his production by allowing Ricky to take his carries away from him. I don’t know the stats off hand but Ricky played decent, but Ronnie steps up. I can’t say it enough how much I love his style of running. I just can’t help but get jacked up when he lays a bigger and better lick on the defender than anyone on our defense can dish out. I love this guy, plain and simple. He is a beast when properly used. And sure, he should have caught that TD pass from Henne but it was a bit behind him and he did make up for it but I’ve come to expect Ronnie to make every play possible because I just think he is that DAMN GOOD.

One thing I’ve noticed that I wanted to pose as a question to you all. Does it seem like Ricky gets tripped up fairly easily and can’t really seem to break one tackle anymore or is it just me expecting him to save the day every time he touches the rock? I could have sworn in previous years, he would have absolutely BLOWN by some of these suckers trying to shoe string or arm tackle Ricky…

GINN NEEDS MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE SUCCESSFUL. I don’t care how you flip it, chop it up, twist it, GINN NEEDS TOUCHES. He is not a good enough #1 wide out just yet and for him to NOT be returning the ball every chance we get is asinine. I can’t get over it. He needs every opportunity to learn the WR position while polishing and honing his skills for the return game.

I have to give it to Cam Bam… he, or his staff, really knew how to utilize Ronnie. Even if he was the only thing they had, they really knew how to use him and tap his potential. Everyone knows the type or back he can be but it just seems like Parcells and Co. just aren’t buying it. I don’t know anymore. I can’t figure them out at this point but I do trust them. Sparano will have his fair share of lumps but Parcells is someone we can definitely trust.

Today’s game is different. You never would have thought the Dolphins perfect season would ever be duplicated with the type of competition we have in this league and conversely, you would never think a team would flirt with 0-for the season until last year. We have lost 20 out of the last 21 games we have played. This franchise definitely needs a culture change and that is what we are going to get and trust me, it will begin this year. The results may not come as fast as we would like, but the process has begun.

Man. This team is horrible. 3 touchdowns for Boldin+Warner. We can’t even use Ted Ginn. Use Ronnie Brown more. I don’t care if we are down 21 points. Throw him the ball something man. We only allowed 1 or two sacks I can’t remember which is good. What was that about facemasking the qb.

Come on. Use Fasano, you traded a draft pick for him. You better use him especially if he is looking good.

I really want to abandon Pennington already. I mean originally the reason I wanted him was to keep the organization stable and help get us a couple of extra wins, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to do that. We need to trade for Peyton Manning and maybe that goal would be achieved. Pennington will only qb for us this year and maybe next year max. So what’s the point? Are we really going to go into the exact same footsteps every year? An unexperienced youngling playing qb with horrrible weapons because the veterans get the boot every single year. If we start Chad Henne now we’ll at least have experienced qb with slightly better weapons next year.
I mean there’s reasons Pennington couldn’t his job to Clemens.

this is a process this is something that we have to swallow and we will face because we are REBUILDING yeah i get mad yeah i am like WTF, HOW THE HELL, and YOUR KIDDING ME!!! during the game but thats because there are just some things that are excusable and other that are not but in the end this is how things are going to be and i am still going to be there to watch the good bad ugly and the great

Was poor when it came to evaluating the quarterbacks. If you recorded the game please go to when Henne was in the game to see that the Cardinals were not playing a prevent defense and still trying to keep Miami out of the end zone. They were still blitzing on that last drive get the facts straight.

And because Beck is fragile does that mean every time the fans call for a rookie quarterback to start your going to bring up what happened to Beck. These two guys can’t be any more different and how do we know if Beck was ever capable of being a NFL quarterback if he didn’t go through what he went through last season. Did Beck ever look as good as Henne did in his playing time last year including pre-season? The answer is no. Henne is ready the question is whether or not the coaching staff and FO will swallow their pride and bench Pennington.

Stop holding back. Tell us how you really feel.

I dont mind losing,after all we are rebuildiing,i think(?)BUT at least show the F*** up and maybe Bill could teach the coaching staff to F***king count to 11 and stop there.DAMN they looked UUGGGGLY!

With a young team and new qb we need stability and not more roster moves. I think we can write off the season but we new that before the jets game. So lets pick our starting lineup and let them play until they prove themselves unworthy and not until they prove themselves worthy.

A big part of the game is being comfortable with your teamates. Lets take ginn, wilford and hagan and put them in there as our top 3 for a few of weeks without the juggling act. If in a month they don’t show progress then replace them.

Remember that marino fake spike play. That only happens because they knew each other.

in years past ronnie and ricky got better as the game went on. Pick one and let him get 75% of the snaps. If one is doing better then the other switch. But having one come in for a play or two and switching is not their style.

The Dolphins need only win two games this season to be 100% better than last year !!

Now… where will the ’Phins find two victories this year ??? They could probably get a game with Northwestern of Miami H.S.

Come to think of it….

The thing that struck me most profoundly was that it seemed—and I emphasize the word "seemed," because the commentators were horrendous—that the Phins were using two basically different defensive sets, one with 1 safety, 2 corners, and 8 men in the box, and a second with 2 safeties, 2 corners, 7 men in the box; And it seemed that all of the Cards big plays came in the 1 safety formation, which they dropped after the first quarter, then inexplicably brought back in the 2nd half.

As I said, it was difficult to be certain, because the camera angles were limited and I was impressed by the commentators’ complete lack of interest in analyzing why the Phins were at times giving up big plays and at other times controlling the Cards fairly well. I was actually reduced to counting the amount of men on-screen in our defense to try to figure this out. What it amounted to was that when I counted 9, it meant 2 safeties, and when there were 10, 1 safety, with the success or failure of our defense correlated accordingly.

For this reason, I can’t condemn our CB’s, especially Goodman. On the interference play where he pretty much tackled the receiver, what was he supposed to do? There was no safety help, and he couldn’t take a chance on a TD. The biggest puzzlement of the whole game was that the Cards have two phenomenal scoring threats, Boldin and Fitzgerald. WHY were the coaches so uninterested in covering them? It was bizarre. Do they really think the Cards are going to be breaking off 60- or 70-yard runs? Take the receivers away and we have a chance. Let them roam in single coverage at will, and, well, you saw it.

Did anyone think this OL would be dominate after 2 games? We Know what we got with Pennington and If the D doesnt keep us in the game we don’t have the talent or Qb to play catch up…..The D needs help from the O…..The O has way too Many 3 and outs which puts to much pressure on the D…..every D makes mistakes our problem is the O can’t bail our D out. This is going to be a work in progress and it will be painful at times like this past week……. We do not have any home run hitters on this team on O or D so this will not be our last blow out. I think coming out of the bye week we will start to see improvement and week 6 is were we will be competitive again…..there are to many new parts on this team and coaching staff to make a fair judgement on there performance thus far. They all have made mistakes and time will tell if replacements will be needed. I do think we need to stop churning the roster for a few weeks and start building some confidence in these young guys.

After watching the game in person yesterday, all of the dolphins holes were painfully obvious to me.

First off I see the oline taking alot of heat for allowing pressure and not opening up running lanes. To there defense they have played against two good front sevens the last two weeks that will give most teams problems all year.

 But the dolphins problems is that defenses know there is no threat of being hurt with the pass so teams continue to overplay the run by stacking the box and blitzing continuously. Defenses know even if they guess wrong with their blitz the dolphins cant take advantage by beating them with the pass.

Which brings me to the dolphins second problem area is they have no starting caliber recievers on the roster. People can call for Ted Ginn all they want, but he cant get off the line of scrimmage and he can’t block down field.

Not just him but none of recievers can hold a block for more than a couple of seconds ( Camillario is even worse than Ginn in this aspect) which furter hurts our run game. Even when our backs have room to break the line of scrimmage, our recievers cant stop the secondary from flying up and making plays.

Lastly the dolphin corners recive alot of criticism for their inability to stop anybody, but our safties deserve just as much blame. Between all the missed assignments and missed tackles they make all the mistakes the corners make look much worse. Our corners were overmatched yesterday by two all pro recievers, but they didn’t recive any help either.

The good thing is that our team is young and will improve as the season goes on, but it will be a long season.

Okay, so I returned yesterday and watched the second game of this “New Era” and have to say that I believe the team looks a lot like the same recent Dolphins teams … talentless and lazy. It’s not that I do not have faith in the new coach, GM, etc., but some of their off-season moves are flat out bad in my opinion, and are not upgrades to the sorry roster that went 1-15 last year. I’m not looking for miracles, but strides, hell even baby steps would be nice. I was optimistic before the season for 5 wins, now I would settle for 3. My questionable list right now after 2 games:

A. Ayodele … it obviously wasn’t his fault that he was left alone to cover Boldin on the long TD, but seriously, was he even running? It looked to me like a gentle jog before and after realizing he had no safety help. He also does not appear to fill a gap / hole consistently against the run. When he does it usually is the wrong hole from what I can tell. His tackling isn’t pristine either as it seems he not only gets pushed back, but doesn’t wrap up well. No wonder he was the “other” guy in the Ferguson trade! Anybody miss Zach even more now after watching him and Crowder?

C.Crocker … let’s clear something up, I am not a Jason Allen fan or hater, but at least he is near the ball even when getting beat. There is a reason that Atlanta (another awful team) was fine letting him go … he cannot play a lick! For R.Hill and J. Allen not to be ahead of him on the depth chart is amazing to me!

O-line … I though this would be an upgrade, but it is not. I know it is a work in progress still, but they cannot open holes and cannot pass protect either. Pitiful in my eyes. Long is still adjusting at LT and I can understand some growing pains there but he is the #1 overall pick. Smiley was said to be a “solid” free agent LG but does not appear to be much more than serviceable to me. Satele was rumored to be a young “promising” center who has been beaten like a red headed step child this year (he has been pushed back into thebackfield too consistently to be considered effective in my mind). Carey, a veteran playing RT, where I read he was “pro-bowl caliber” but is also getting beat and has no push at the snap. Worse of all is our back ups … did you see when Carey stepped off for one play? I did not see who it was, but the ball was snapped and he stood there while 2 Cardinals ran by him before he got out of his stance!

T. Ginn … where is he? Why is he not returning kicks (I happen to like Bess there, but Ginn was supposed to be a threat here right)? I know that he is getting man-handled at the line, but I watched a smaller Deshaun Jackson not have that problem for the Eagles last week. Why can’t Ginn do the same? Maybe we should go back to when he was drafted and heed the words “the entire Ginn family” (as Cammy said) by signing his entire immediate family to help him get off the line (unless they are also undersized, then we should just use their family’s sedan).

I could go on and on it seems (ie: what happened to Fasano this week?, how does the coaching staff allow 12 players on the field not once but twice?, Goodman’s obvious struggles with any and all receivers, bad penalties at key times, etc.) but I am beginning to rant myself which is bad for my physical well being.

One positive … the only thing that I can think of right now in my frustrated mind is that the league is merciful and stops the bleeding after 60 minutes.

Just my humble opinion.

I think everyone has to realize that this is truly a new beginning. Like, almost as bad as an expansion team – maybe worse.

I hate pointing the finger and blaming others, but you HAVE to point to the draft failures of past regimes that have really doomed this franchise. It’s one thing to screw up your mid or late round picks, but you simply can NOT throw up air balls on your 1st round picks for a decade. It’s one thing when your first rounders aren’t the superstars you thought they were going to be, but they have to CONTRIBUTE. Our former draft picks don’t even contribute. Jason Allen, 1st rounder, never sniffs the field. Ted Ginn is now on the verge of not sniffing the field. Eddie Moore, our 2nd rounder and only pick, gone. John Avery 1st rounder, gone. Our franchise cornerstones, Jason Taylor, Zach Thomas, Sam Madison, Patrick Surtain, Randy McMichael, Chris Chambers, all long gone.

This team has no assets outside of Ronnie Brown and Jake Long.

Our entire drat from last year outside of Samson Satele is either gone (L. Booker, R. Mauia) or on the bench (Ginn, Beck).

From 2006, 1st round Allen is OUT. No 2nd rounder. 3rd rounder Hagan is marginal at best. No other player from this draft is even on the team or contributes.

Look at our 1st round picks since 1997:
Yatil Green, John Avery, No 1st rounder in 1999 and 2000. Jamar Fletcher in 2001. No 1st rounder in 2002 and 2003. Vernon Carey in 2004. Ronnie Brown in 2005. Jason Allen in 2006. Ted Ginn in 2007. Jake Long in 2008.

Only Carey, Brown and Long are significant contributors, and a pretty good argument can be made that the running game is the weakest part of the team.

We have no game-breaking, game-changing talent from a 1st round pick since 1997, outside of a pending result of Jake Long. Maybe, just maybe Ronnie Brown can be a guy, but he is off major knee surgery now and splits carries on the worst team in football.

This team has NO cornerstones to build off of. The cupboard was completely bare when this coaching staff has got here. They didn’t have an Adrian Peterson, or a Calvin Johnson, or a Patrick Willis to build around. Their best player was past his prime (Taylor) and they did the right thing by trading him.

It is going to take 3-4 years before you see any sort of a contender, and another 2-3 years before this team is competitive. And that is assuming solid drafts year in and year out, which is no gimme for this franchise.

…that last year they were making the same mistakes in week 17 that they were making at the beginning of the year. Lets give TS the same time and see if the same mistakes are being made.

Anyone think Parcells is going to allow the same things to be happening in week 17 that are happening now?

If Lemon was so bad and Pennington is the best since Marino, why only 3 pts from the best? Did Lemon ever lead this team to only 3 pts? Say what you may about his accuracy but I think he had 50% comp in most games. He might have missed some receivers while running for his life but he was able to get the ball out unlike you know who.