Guy’s I just want to gush about our team.
First of all I want to give credit to the coaching staff. They prepared these guys well as they always seemed to be a step ahead of the Jets. Henne was ready, the offensive line was spectacular and the defense was solid.
I think we finally have a Quarterback. FINALLY. No I’m not crowning Henne as the next "anything" but we finally have a guy. Someone who has all the tools and we can build with. That guy was awesome as he was firing the ball all over the place. That’s the kind of guy our offense needs. He’s the guy who should have been starting all season and I’m so glad he’s in there now.
That was a great catch by Ginn. Right before that play I said that we need a bomb to Ginn and the next play it was done. Frankly, I’m sick of all the Ginn bashing here on the blog and in the papers. We have a damn good player who is unselfish and can make plays. Maybe he doesn’t carry the team but Ginn can get it done. He’s simply better than most not as good as some. He made that play on Revis by the way.
Channing Crowder played a great game as well. He did his job tonight by really stuffing the run. I think he’ll build on this for a solid year, after a rough start.
I don’t want to hear or read any negativity; this is a great night to be a Dolphan!!

HALLELUJAH!!

Of course, I felt vindicated during the post-game interview with Chad Henne where I thought Steve Young was literally going to get up and sit on Chad’s lap. Also, was I the only person who was uncomfortable with Chad sitting next to Matt Millen? I was hoping the two didn’t make any physical contact, possibly causing Henne’s promising career into a something more Charles Rogers-ish.

Because he carries an unbiased enthusiasm for all things football, unlike Jaws, who still insists the WildCat is a “gadget”, and Tirico, who just tends to bore the living hell out of me.

Can we please get Chris Berman and Tom Jackson to just do it already? At least they have broadcast chemistry, and I’d love to see Gruden play off of them.

No nanceys.Ball up. you non Mil boys.

I did just need to point out one thing from after the game. Rex Ryan, when speaking to the media, said, “We made that quarterback look like Dan Marino.” Three problems with that. First of all, no. Marino would have put up even more yards and points. Second of all, “that quarterback” has a damn name – I suggest learning it. And third of all, could it be that Chad Henne made your defense look foolish rather than your defense making Henne look great? Just a thought

MOTHERF***ING SLAP!

The funny thing was “Revis is one of the best shut down corners in the game” Ginn pwned him on the long pass and I remember seeing atleast 1 other pass that Champ Bailey/Nmandi would have forced an incompletion, he’s very good, just not great yet.

I also found it ironic that they were salvating over Revis’s tackling ability. I’ve always felt he was decent but never great at it. There were numerous times when he missed the tackle although he did have one great play because Ginn didn’t hold his block.

screen pass is a blitz killer… and they made those play calls at the perfect time. loved to see that. If there is one thing you left out Matty is a hat tip to Dan Henning for really turning the tables on ryan’s blitzing D with those perfectly timed screen passes.

Also you gotta love the adjustment of going with the “JUMBO” wildcat formation to counteract what the jets were doing to them. Rex said he wasnt prepared, and thats a big part of it.

I would like to say I was very, very impressed with his play tonight. There were a couple of touch passes he missed badly, but I hope, as the announcers said, that he will get better with those in time, but other than that, wow—-this game, unlike the Bills game (where he didn’t play badly, but didn’t dazzle me, either) made me feel excitement in anticipation of things to come—a feeling I haven’t had since Marino’s rookie year. I’m not saying Henne is going to be Marino, or anything, but if he can continue to play like that and keep improving——-I think this will be a fun ride. But now I have to wait 2 weeks before the next game :(

Braylon edwards woulda been perfect for us…. reuiniting with Henne. I wouldnt have traded Ronnie Brown for him as it was reported by Adam Schefter, but for what the Jets gave up for him, I def would have gone there. Maybe they can snag him from the Jets this offseason with a big contract offer (uncapped year)

WOW
What a game; Instant Classic.
I’m just saying, but I think we’ve found another gem in Henne from the Keystone State(PA)

“Celebration Bitches” as Rick James would say.

Henne is something special, now we all finally know what the staff has been talking about.

I cant believe they were still saying what a great game that Sanchez played 12 for 24 is nothing to talk about.

  I loved the play calling final drive Wild Pat insane, Rickey taking the snaps kept defenders on there toes. Ronnie and Rickey are both going to the Pro Bowl!

Thanks Ginn for making that catch it was something we knew you could do and congrats on your longest reception of your career keep it up.

What a great game i want to watch it again and again….

HEY NEW YORK!!!

Suck MY D!@K

I say we go get him Dwayne Bowe!

going against the #6 pass D i think 300+ yard games will be common even with our “worst recieving corp in the NFL”

im just trolling around ready comments. i feel like a peeping tom. maybe i should grab some stalknoculars.

remember guys they didn’t have Lito Sheppard tonight.. those numbers from Henne got a little boost because of that

I hope that all the jets fans realize that if they did’nt get Braylon Edwards they might have been shut out that game. Also not to mention the fake punts. AND I’M SCREAMING GO DOLPHINS 4 LIFE ! ! ! ! ! ! !

And this win against the Jets was one of the sweetest in my life. I love how exciting this Dolphins team can be.

hi Matty,

Great summary, but one of the biggest factors for us has been the O-Line play after the season opener. These guys have been unbelievable, and keep in mind how many plays they play with all our time of pos, i am seriously worried they will run out of gas by week 10!

Just to add on some other comments:

- Henne was very very impressive, but he will have his mistakes and his “rookie” days. Remember, the Jets played to stop the run, they played with 3 DBs at times and never really blitzed us as they did NO or NE. Its not our or Henne’s fault of course. Ryan is improving this Jets D and they have some great players, but so far i am not sure they can dominate as they would like. Against NO, they focused on stopping the pass and got creamed in the running game. Here they focused on the run and got creamed both ways.

Also remember that our WR group is one of the weakest in the whole league, all going to effect Henne.

But i like the kids poise, he has a lot of confidence i think he has great upside. He showed a great range of passes and it seems he learnt Penny’s best strength – don’t force anything, take what the D gives you. 20-26 is super, especially that Brown dropped that bullet (guess he was expecting a softer throw). This kid deserves our full backing for the rest of the year.

- How many times will Gibril Wilson cost or almost cost us a game? the PK on 3rd and long was a killer, and again we got creamed by passes to the RBs out of the back. If he doesn’t pick-up in next few games, i am all for moving to Clemons, though having 2 rookie starters in the backfield will be risky, but Gibril Wilson is simply playing dreadful football.

- How about some praise to Polite? in an age where some coaches are removing FBs from their formations, this guy is a monster blocker. Ronnie, Ricky and Henne should treat him and the O-L on weakly basis, and they need to get alot of praise.

- Hope we stop shooting ourselves in the foot, this week it was special teams. 2 Fake Punts??? really? and Cobbs (hope its not too bad) can’t return kicks (why is he even jiggling on returns? not like you have the speed to break open). Can’t believe we keep seeing this week in, week out. We need a better return guy, period.

- Wake deserves more snaps on passing downs. 1 sack for us is terrible. Its hard to bring out Porter or Taylor, but one was coming back from injury , the other is 35, and neither was lighting it up. Give them some rest and play the Earth – Qwake!

Go Fins!

HOLY COW!!! WE’RE BACK IN THE RACE!!!

the man was a beast blocking all night, (with the exception of that whiff on Rhodes late in the game)

Gruden: he talked up the Dolphins power running much of the game….lone rider!
Great game to watch….you won’t see many games this FUN!
Go Dolphins!!
Glad it’s a buy week because I feel the need the rest after a big game like this….w/out a rest it is easy to come out flat….but w/ 2 weeks we will be able to rumble!

“We made that quarterback look like Dan Marino.”

Typical. Ryan and Jets fans are a match made in heaven. They deserve each other.

GJ Fins. You beat the Jets, Refs, and ESPN all in one night. I’m proud of ya!

I’m not ashamed to ask for a little help every now and again

Can’t wait to get me some Sanchez up in NY

He took a wildcat run for over 15-20 yards in the first quarter, and then he kept the drive alive on a 3&6 in the Red Zone that would result in Fassano’s TD with a beautiful wildcat run again where he had to jump over the defenders head to get the first down. Plus consistently getting 4 or more yards out of the base formation.
He has been playing off the hook, yesterday he was as good as Brown

I enjoyed this game so freaking much! Henne for the next 10 years! Pat White will replace Ricky when he retires. Ginn showed us all he can, but can he all the time? Fasano showed up! Ronnie needs to play the rest of his career here. Our defense sucked on third down and fourth down, but still did enough on first and second to somehow keep us in this game long eough to let Henne/Brown win it!

in that td. Hope it boosts his confidence and carries over to the next game.

hahahahahah. i can see it now – during black history month, in the super bowl, the ref is like: “TEN YARD PENALTY MOTHER******”

I love Henne, and the way he walked up to get under center to open the game, his swagger was ultra confident boardering arrogant.

Maybe fans don’t know if he belongs, but HE KNOWS he belongs. He enjoyed himself. I have a feeling Henne is going to enjoy himself a lot. I love his confidence/cockiness.

And I felt it was a detraction from our progress.

Why oh why, when we need a first down on 3rd and 4 I believe it was….during a must score drive at the end of the game, did we put Pat White in?

Maybe he has a spot on this offense, maybe he doesn’t, still too early to tell, but when you need 4 yards, how many collective people said “This is Pat White time?”. Zero. We should put putting the ball into our playmakers hands on that down. Either Ronnie, Ricky, or Henne. For a guy who had less LIVE snaps than yards he needed for a 1st, I didn’t think PW should have been in the game.

I don’t know any team that when they need a first down, they go to their backup player, especially when we’ve been so successful running the ball, and throwing the ball. There was no cause for it. If PW has continually put up positive yardage, and continually impressed, then maybe. But he hasn’t. And to pull him off the bench after 58 minutes of sitting, for these plays I thought was pretty fool hardy.

Obviously it worked out, but that play calling was a little too dangerous for me.

I going to anyway. I TOLD YOU SO !!! Chad Henne is the MAN !!!

I was seriously impressed with Henne’s pocked presence, he was calm and effective even when the Jets were blitzing on him. A few more good games from him like this and he will have proven he is the real deal. Another note, Ronnie Brown is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! He is easily the best player on our team, and it shows.

How do you guys feel about signing Ryan Torain? We worked him out not too long ago, and he put up some big numbers in his short stint in Denver before the ACL…..

of course, there is that “ACL” part of the equation.

Said he wasn’t impressed with Braylon Edwards, and he thinks he made those catches, because we gave them to him… …

Seems to me Allen was the one burned on those plays or was it Smith? and that once catch was a HUGE catch….can’t take that away from Edwards.

What a huge win!!!! must win on national tv, this gets us back on track, even though we have to fix our secondary, we have to take care of some key mistakes there, and our pass rush was not too effective , I know the Jets O line is good, but we have some pretty darn good pass rushers also. But wow a huge win, the running game is phenomenal, and our Oline was so powerful inside.

**Note on a sidenote, what a classless dushbag Jets head coach Rex Ryan is, to say that they made Henne looked like Dan Marino? seriously dude? why don’t you give some damn credit where is deserved, he outplayed your jewel Sanchez, go lick his balls instead. Just ridiculous. No wonder I hate the JETS so much.

Go FINSS!!!

Time to see what Turner can do, Hartline is a non factor unless he’s uncovered, can we please see if we have something in Turner, we won’t miss Hartlines presence, lol.

I didn’t breath the entire time White was out there, Sparano is really playing free and loose out there, he does know its no longer preseason I hope, on Whites 6 yd carry he almost fell down when he dropped back, Sparano was lucky there.

Wilson was all over the field last night. He was credited with 11 tackles and 1 assist(Crowder had 3 tackles and 1 assist). I thought he played better in coverage and, with the exception of his unnecessary roughness penalty, I thought he played an outstanding game.

Cameron Wake was barely used at all last night. What was that all about. How do you reward someone that had such a good game a week earlier by keeping hm on the bench. WTF! Obvisouly Taylor and Porter weren’t getting the job done. So why not get hime in there and let him go wild.

Zombie Jet fan praying to Satan “Please grant my team another phoney and clearly political pass interference call”

- The Dude

He is awesome.

I was sitting in the middle of like 20 Jests fans, and all they did was tell me how they were going to shut down the Wildcat just like Rex did last year. Needless to say my response was, “I guess you really didn’t need Ed Reed, Suggs and Ray Lewis eh?” Even in loss they were pathetic. No credit where credit is due.

…then I got i a fight with a Gators fan lol

On a side note, WORST orangeout ever. Like a 1/16 of the people were wearing orange

i hope we beat the snot out of all the other AFC East teams as well this year, but even if the Fins did not end up with a winning record this year, last night was the high point for me as a Fins fan!

Beating the STINKIN’ JETSters on Monday night in front of the world! =)

Okay, my few thoughts, most of them echoing others here:

- Henne played very well. I am not surprised, but I am not getting ahead of myself here either. I think he has the talent and ability to develop into the QB we need. And to see him play that way on the biggest stage south of the SB, well, I am impressed. But let’s see him put the team on his back and win the game in the final two minutes before we crown him. I mean, when Danny was back there, you always knew it wasn’t over til it’s over. Henne will get there. Last night was an awesome 2nd step.
- In spite of what some other have said about CP being able to throw the long ball, the pass Henne made to Ginn, CP could not have made. It is not just about distance, as so many seem to say when talking about CP being able to throw the ball that far. It is about getting the ball to the WR at the right time, which means with some speed. Not just winding up and throwing it way up, like the Sanchez hail mary. The 15 yd out at the end of the game is another one CP could not have hit. I am not knocking CP, but I am very aware that with Henne at the helm, the Fins have a new section of the play book available to them now.
- the PI call was BS and had me PO’d.
- Sean Smith is awesome. Wilson, not so much.
- I was really panicked when they put White in at the end of the game… I mean I was screaming at Sparano! i don’t think he heard me. I don’t want to see White come in the game. Much less on the last drive to score the go ahead points.
- I was really glad to see us beat the jest in a slobberknocker game. I mean, we flat out handled them. That last drive, the last play, when they knew we were going to run, and we ran it in the endzone. BooYaaa!!!
- Ronnie and Ricky, need I say more?
- Rex Ryan is a moron, no-class, slob.
- I actually invited people over to watch the game. My daughter was there. She knew Sanchez from high school. she kept calling me down for yelling at the Fins D to “bury the punk!”. =)

First off let me just say I love who ever in the heck invented Tivo…while the game was going I was watching the clock the entire time I was in class…didnt get to bed until 1am this morning. That being said, Henne was awesome. I was niether a Henne lover or a Henne hater before yesterdays game…I was simply going to give him a chance to prove that I should like him or prove that I should dislike him. While 1 game is still only 1 game, it really seemed like a major step forward and he just seemed to get better as the game went on. I gotta say though, every pass going to a RB in the first half was really getting on my nerves (hard to tell on the TV if the WRs just werent getting separation or if he was just a little cannon-shy)….but he definitely turned it on in the 2nd half. Guy has a cannon, and he is learning how to aim it, scary possibilities. As for Ronnie, as I have been defending my opinion over the last few years, he is an elite RB. Sign him to an extension already. Seriously, name me another RB that can accomplish what he has been able to in running an offensive package…..anyone? You can speculate all you want that AP or Turner could do it…..but everyone else has failed at attempting the WildCat package….and why is that? Because no one comes close to what Ronnie can do in that role. Period. As for the D, Wilson and Bell still just dont seem like they can get on the same page, argh. Also, what happened to Will Allen? Honestly, I think he is having an issue with his hips. Being fluid in hip movement is what makes a DB a great DB, and he seems a little stiff. You can quote me on this one, I think he has something going on with his hips. All in all, a killer game that had me on the edge of my seat the whole time!!

Great game Mr. Sparano…thank you sir

don’t get back on Ginn’s bandwagon just yet…it was an amazing catch but let’s see if he can do it again.

Poor Cobbs…really sucks

Henne 130.6 passer rating wow!!!!

By far the unsung hero is Lousaka Polite man can that guy block!!!! I could’ve watch that hit on Bart Scott all day!!! The way that chin strap when eye level was tight!!! LOVED the O-Line 2….i hate to hear that about Cobbs tho…..but all around great game…TIGHTIN UP THAT SECENDARY THO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was the most electrifying I’ve ever seen miami fans truly amazing but I leave you all with the best chant I heard all night and this was also echoed in the stadium as we all headed to our cars

J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK hahahahahaha

I lived through the Dolphin Dark Days ( or Triple D’s), and I’ve started to realize something. The Dolphin’s success is directly correlated to how much of them I watch during the season. 1-15 year- I didn’t have time for a single game. I never got to see them much during the entirety of the 2000s-subpar seasons. I finally got reinvested in them right after the 0-2 start- and we turned shit around to 11-5. I missed the first two games this season, so we went 0-3. After the thrid game I started watching and bam- 2-0. Its true. I’m magic.

I haven’t commented on your posts lately, and I apologize.

Great job as always!

couple of points you missed – the CS spoke all camp about how good Henne was a play action well yesterday was proof

7-7 for 140 with 2 td’s…

btw: while we are speaking of throws Henne made that other QB’s couldn’t – that first TD to fasano was a great one…
one the run (moving right and throwing right away from his body) he has the short option of Haynos at the goaling (likely covered) or hartline (i think) at the sideline but he fires it between 2 defenders… on the money… I was smiling big time on that play. No check down QBing there.

Btw: want to give Wilson some props… if you go back and rewatch the game – he makes some nice plays on the edge in run defense blowing up blockers and pushing plays inside/outside… yeah he still stinks in pass coverage, but he had a good game in run defense…

someone Please sign matt roth (err get him healthy) – this team needs a strong side run stuffer badly… i’m tired of seeing CC give up running lanes…

and with that in mind – if Joey isn’t healthy please just sit him, because he’s not getting any push on the rush right now, which either means he’s hurt or his age has caught up to him, or both… and his run defense is as mediocre as ever.

Please – Please – Please matty use your pull to fire Bono and hire bobby april when the bills ax their staff in the next week or two… it’s just wrong that the fins may have the best team in the afc east and the worst STs in the AFC.

Couple of other points – J Lo took a lot of grief early in the year, but this was easily his best game. HUGE effort run blocking -(how many big plays went behind him) and the first i heard calvin pace’s name was when he made those clown comments….

J Haynos was a beast blocking yesterday too…. a lot of good blocks out of the wildcat and two TE. this was the first game that it didn’t look like the team missed or need D Martin.