with your points on the coaching decisions for this game.

btw….ronnie showed burst….ricky was complimentary to ronnie in 2005 so continue that tradition…ted ginn needs to be given oppurtunites…(kick returns, punt return, and screens)

reverses dont work unless YOU ARE GETTING YARDAGE IN THE RUN GAME!!!!!!

pennington is the man…and to people blaming chad pennington…name 1 qb in the past 5 years that would have gotten us to that spot?….take all the time you want i’ll wait…

Watching the game today, I made almost the exact same comments to my friends. Particularly the 3rd and goal from the 2, and the empty backfield sets.

If you know you want to go for it on fourth, and you need two yards…why not run BOTH times? Instead we pass twice…

Why is it EVER YEAR we have to literally shake the sense into our coachse to utilized Ronnie Brown the way he was meant to be used.

especially the Ronnie > Ricky

~Gripe #2: play-calling. Specifically, when the Dolphins had 3rd & goal from the 2 and 4th & goal from the 2. How is one of those plays not a run? ~

Have to agree with this one, and to take it one step further… with jenkins eat the inside of the line up… why where all the runs to the out side??? (btw: the flea flicker would have been wide open had the line held…)

~Gripe #3: return men. I’m sorry, but Ted Ginn has to be out there for all kick and punt returns. It’s not like he was overly active in the passing game to begin with. And he’s too good of a returner to not use him. He could be an X-factor that this team has never had.~~

seriously – I thought the same thing until I saw Bess take bake the opening kick off and then I remembered what a kick returner is suppose to do - make people miss him - then T Ginn goes down in the 4th? when a jet blows on his shoelace??? Bess should be the return man… he is far more elusive then Ginn.

~Gripe #5: empty backfield. No more friggin’ empty backfield sets. It’s clear to everyone that the offensive line isn’t ready to handle those situations. Not too mention the Jets were doing exactly what you are supposed to against empty sets: blitzing the house. But despite the repeated pressure, the Dolphins continued to use these sets. And the Jets continued to send 6 or 7 players – meaning there was always a blitzer who was unaccounted fo~ eh… thought they were 2 for 3 on the empty back field… getting Ricky to the outside paid dividends…. I wouldn’t run it every play but it looked like it worked for the most part…

~SECONDARY WOES
Outside of Will Allen and Yeremiah Bell, this secondary isn’t very good.~

spot on – except I have to wonder where the heck was J Allen… he showed last year and during preseason – he’s a big play machine (pro/con) (btw: I think crocker was suppose to be deep on the first TD and he jumped the wrong receiver) so if the FS is going to give up big plays… crocker on the first td – hill on the second – you might as well have J Allen flying around – putting a lick on people….

~RONNIE BROWN SHOULD START
This is another thought that might get be flamed, but here it goes: Ronnie Brown is better than Ricky Williams. I repeat: Ronne > Ricky.~~

I won’t go that far… Ricky sure did look a heck of a lot faster then Ronnie…. but Ronnie did show better vision or less discipline out there… taking runs that were suppose to go inside and going to the outside with them where there was some more room….which goes to my gripe… with ricky looking so freakin fast… why the heck didn’t they try to run him outside the tackles some?

~The inexperience of Dan Carpenter and Brandon Fields showed. Carpenter had some terrible looking kick-offs and Fields, besides shanking one punt for just 9 yards, had too many line drives- providing the Jets with return opportunities. At least the coverage was decent, though, saving Fields’ ass a couple of times~

yes and no - I think i’ve been on record saying – me thinks fields sucks? the guy is way to L_O_N_G and when he is pressured in game situations and he shortens things up … BAD thinks happen… really there has to be a better punter on the open market? but carpenter showed some life… dont forget he did have that big touch back in the 2nd half…

couple of other points that you missed

• where the heck was j porter… yeah i saw him during the pregame mixing it up with a coach but maybe he should save that energy for the game

*Pennington showed why the jets where happy to trade for Favre and let him go… the staff should be setting a target game on when Henne should see some action… cause pennington isn’t anything but a short term solution.

*Where the heck was the challenge on the delay of game penalty!!!! Favre throw to stucky that set up the 3rd TD was at least 2 seconds over… that 0 on the play clock sat on the screen for a long time….

• what the heck is going to happen in AZ when these guys can’t cover coles & stucky…

• hate to revisit this but wow the 2007 draft looks worse for the fins… Revis OWNED Ginn… heck T.. should put his pants on the freaking night before the next time he plays the jets, cause revis must have got in them with ted this morning.

**Finally – something you missed Matty … unlike last year the team didn’t die in the 4th quarter… the conditioning seems to be paying off… the jets looked a heck of a lot more tired then the phins in the 4th….

so in reflection it still looks like a 4 win team to me…

Pennington have a very poor 1st qtr. I also saw our defense give up a ridiculous, and I do mean RIDICULOUS TD on 4th and forever. Also I saw a couple of "questionable" play calls when we were at the Jets 2 (the series we turned the ball over on downs).

Hey listen, I bought into the hype. I still believe this team will win 6-7 games. I’m a fan and I was pulling and hopeing for a win, but lets be realistic.

To say this entire team, including coaching staff, was thrown together over this past offseason I’m pretty proud of them. Not to mention how young we are.

We made ALOT of mistakes but yet we were in a postion to win at the end. Give our young Fins and newly form coaching staff some time to mesh and get some experience and we are gonna be alright.

How many time last year did we score 2 meaning ful TDs in a game last year? I love My Fins and I’m very proud of the effort they put forth.

1) Chad Pennington is not the problem.
2) Ronnie needs to start, Ricky needs to play allot…if i see Cobbs 1 more time im kicking my dog.
3) NO WR’S. Ginn was shut down due to Camarillo…being Camarillo. he effin sucks
4) Dbess/Langford had the best games
5) Kickers played as bad as you can. Fields is a joke
6) Fasano is the real deal. That deal was a steal. Booker basically for those 2.
7) Sparano cant hide his inexperiance with his attitude…he got exposed
8) The O-line was just nervous…real bullets in the gun..they got spooked
9) Get that effin dirt off the field. The marlins were done 5 weeks ago
10) I hate to love Brett Favre

Jesus christ lits like these guys have no depth perception or something

It’s been a while since I’ve completely agreed with you. Would Ronnie have missed that wide open end zone pass like Ricky? I don’t think so, I think Ronnie would have made the jump or the dive to come up with the ball for the win. I love Ricky, and he’s my favorite player, but there’s some situations where you automatically have to put in Ronnie. Especially when Ricky isn’t showing anything spectacular.

Wtf is up with putting London on active and leaving Wilford inactive? That was absolutely ludicrous. The whole point of getting Wilford was for the exact situation we found ourselves in THREE TIMES: in the red zone and needing a TD.

How do you not run at 3rd & goal on the 2 yard line. HOW!?!?

I’m not going to knock Patrick Cobbs, because he did well, but I’m starting to feel like this is little league and every player is guaranteed playing time. What happened to the ruthless Sparano from the offseason?

Why would you get Flamed Matty for pointing out the truth, oh yah there was the Beck thing. Secondly I’m not going to copy have off your article to make my post appear grandeouse. That would be something I’d expect from someone from NY, ha!

Gripe 3 – Maybe Ginn should be in WITH Bess on Kick Offs but no way should he be doing punt returns. Bess was solid in his returns while Ginn can’t even judge the punts. If you can’t at least fair catch those punts, at the end of the game, to save all the bounce and roll yards as well as time off the clock it’s to the bench with you!

Gripe 4 – Huh, I haven’t rewatch the game yet but I thought I saw Ronnie wiff one blocking assignment and totally blow another one. And of course the blown time out. Ronnie should start I agree, but todays line up was based off Preseason performance and Ricky had out played him to this point. Ronnie looked lost out there at times and Penne was getting killed, that’s why Cobbs was in there, I thought he did a better job yesterday of blocking, and if not needed he flared out on the flat.

Now I’m sure I’ll be the one who gets flamed, ha!

Pennignton 26/43, 251 yds, 9.7 avg, 60.4 , 2 TD, 1 INT
Farve 15/22, 194 yds, 12.9 avg, 68, 2 TD, 1 Fumble

Pennington had 11 more completions for 57 more yds, same amount of TDs, same amount of turnovers and Farve gets rave revues while people say Pennington did poorly?!!? WTF.
Pennington played with a swiss cheese OL who would let our backs run, and no receivers on the field, while Farve stould behind a pro bowl laden line with a 100 yard rusher and Cotchery and Coles and they say he was more impressive?!?
Come on. Pennington was surrounded with rookies who played like it and coaching that was even common sense and still we were one play away from winning the game. Give the man some props!!

I disagree with starting Ronnie over Ricky. I agree that Ronnie looks good, but he is still les than a year removed from a torn ACL. If the O line is not opening holes, we don’t need the extra wear and tear on Ronnie’s knee. Put some miles on Ricky while he is stil here and save some tread on Ronnie.
Things will get better…

That’s why the Media is raving about Farve. If and when NYJ lose and Farve is that shakey, the NY media will flame him. He had two long TD passes for the highlight reel besides that I was not impressed. I watched the pregame AFC matchups on the NFLN and they didn’t even talk about Miami, it was all about the media darling boy. Give it time he’ll flop right down on his face.

Matty you’ve turned the corner on the Pennington pick up, I’m wondering if your having 2nd thoughts about the Dolphins not pursuing Farve? Too much of a Media circus right?

its the first real game for half if not more of this team together. Sparano is gonna go thru the Rookie Coach kinks just like every other coach in this league. Pennington played fine considering he had to do much of it on his own with a very poor running game. The Jets blitzing 3-4 clearly confused our young OL, but thats to be expected, they’ve only had a preseason to work together, and 2 of them are rookies,

Give it some time, let the young guys get comfortable and the new guys (including Sparano) get settled in. My ONLY gripes from that game was the kicking game and the Pass Happy playcalling. Even if we were only picking up 2 or 3 yards, isn’t it better to pound it pound it pound it punt, then to throw 3 incompletions and let the D off the field with no work?

Bottom Line: We looked like a football team again. The TE’s looked great, and Ronnie looked better than I expected. I would like to see a Ronnie/Ricky backfield on some plays to throw the D off a little. If the coaching staff deactivated Wilford, then I think it’s safe to say they didn’t think he could contribute AT ALL. He’s looked terrible this preseason, why does everyone think he’s all of the sudden our best option in the redzone? Cuz he’s tall? Get lost, I’d rather throw a jump ball to Bess against a 5’10 CB, at least I know if he gets a hand on it he catches it. I’m pretty sure he can get his hands higher than Wilfords chest, so he has a better chance of catching it anyway.

Chill out for a while, all those 10-6 expectations and playoff posts, its not realistic, so don’t get your hopes up for a one season wonder turnaround job. It’s a process, and were only at Game 1 of a 2-3 year process. Next time we play the Jets, I think we beat em. This will be a completely different team by then

OK I’ll admit it, I’ve always disliked the guy. But even i have to admit that if you’re gonna commit to a full rebuilding project you have to start with the OL, DL & QB. Because it takes a year or two for the young linemen to become solid. While we’ve seen skill players (WR & DBs) can jump in time and again and be big contributors in their 1st year. We had to dedicate the bulk of our draft to both lines and we “may” have our QB of the future. Next off season I’m hopeful that we we get better at the WR and DB positions and continue the poccess.

My extra gripe is why would you go to Ted Ginn as your redzone threat? They could have at least put London in there seeing as he is tall. Something wrong when you are throwing up a jump ball to Ted Ginn. Overall though, I loved the team’s fight at the end. I think we are going to shock some teams when we stop beating ourselves.

I was very disappointed that we did not have Wilford in there ate the end of the game for what should have been an endzone jump ball. Exactly why I thought we brought him in here. In spite of the money, if they aren’t going to play him, I would rather see him cut, and let them try out Armstrong. We need some better answers at WR.

I was also disappointed in Ginn. I couldn’t tell much on TV about why he wasn’t getting open, but CP seemed to do a good job of finding the open guy, so I think he was not able to shake the coverage. This would be either a route running thing, or a problem beating the jam. But what I DID see of Ginn in return duties was disappointing. Bess looked better. Ginn just seems to play scared. Doesn’t try to shake tackles. Same complaint I had with him last year.

I still failt the Oline for the play calling…. to some extent. Specifically on the 3rd and 2, and 4th and 2. I am a big believer in power ball. You HAVE to be able to run the ball for a yard – any time you want!!!. Not optional. The line knows the count, they know the direction… you gotta be able to line your’n up agin his’n and move the ball 12 inches.
We should have been able to go 3rd and 2, run. 4th and 1, run – TD. But I honestly believe that by that point in the game, Henning had more confidence in CP than in his O-Line. That is the reason for the calls, and second guessing it is weak. If it had worked, no one would criticize it (arrrgghhh…. echoes of the Mularkey HB Option argument… my apologies). Anyway, if we had been having some success running the ball inside against an 8 man front, I’m sure they would have called for it. IMO

i was just mainly disappointed because I was really expecting a win. I think I bought into the hype on here and during preseason, and thought we were going to make a complete 180 and be a completely diff football team.

overall, I’m disappointed that we lost, but I can see that we will be an elite football team, in time and with the right moves.

The Jets have spent a ton of money on older free agents and while they may be better this year I don’t mind paying our dues. Players like Feneca, Woody and Farve are dimishing returns and I hope we stick to the youth movement unlike almost ever Dolphins FO since JJ. See ya next year MF’ing jests!

I’ve skeptical for a while on the guy. I’m sorry, I think he’s done, physically with respect to his arm. Yes he’s smart and he’s in great condition but his arm is not at an NFL level. I watched the game and its what I saw. He didn’t have a terrible game his stats were decent at the end, but I didn’t see a guy that could lead us to the playoffs, so what’s the point?

I’m not letting this go, as we get on with this and lose the next 3 games I want him out. We can have Henne in there getting some seasoning.

for me it’s the Coaching errors that are the most difficult to sit through. Being mentored by Parcells you’d think Sparano would by-pass some of the simplier mistakes. Personal in a way i liked the penalties on Long. As stupid as they were it still shows what a competitor he is. He doesn’t want to ever get beat, which is the attitude you need, they just need to improve his technique.

I bet he wasn’t even on NY radar until they learned Miami wanted him, F’ing bastards snuck in and stole him.

& their lack of separation! Pennington did not have many open targets to choose from….our line needs to improve…..should come with time!
We open up the passing game & our running game will follow.

The unit impressed me, especially with the young players & being the first year many have been together! Still wish we had acquired Pace!

We’ve all been crabbing about what a bust Wilford has been, so you guys were all secretly big fans? I’m pretty sure they has a reason to sit him down for the game, even if it was as a wake up call to put some fire under his ass.
I had to remind myself that we are rebuilding, we were real close to winning this game and I’m sure they will improve as the season goes on.
Is it a good idea to bring in Terry Glenn now?

Of the 34 QB’s that played this weekend, Pennington was ranked 6th in total yds (6 yds less than Peyton Manning). Farve was 16th.
1. McNabb
2. Brees
3. Romo
4. Kitna
5. Manning
6. Pennington

Pennington was second highest in number of completions with 26 (Manning had 30) out of every QB that played!

With all the gripes about our OL and recievers this is something to feel hopeful about. I know Pennington isn’t our future, but can you imagine what our level of play would be like right now with what we have had at QB over the last few years?

The O-Line will get better. Sparano was a line coach – he’ll fix it. We will adjust. The running game will improve with the gelling of the O-Line. We are going to win some games, which is a hell of alot more fun than last year.

We’ll see how “worth it” he is by the end of the season. He won’t be eating Jake Long’s lunch all the time. We’ll see how he fairs when he lines up against other more experienced lines.

For the money the man got paid, he needs to get at least 12 sacks this year.

Satele too, needs some blame. Kris Jenkins owned the line of scrimmage.

Our defensive line is going to be pretty good this year. Kendall Langford is awesome.

We’ll get them next time.

if we get Ronnie out there more he can make plays and open up things for the receivers.