Issue 4:

Current Record (4-5, 3-1)

A lot of emotions after a crazy, crazy week. Usually a victory against an in-state rival gets us a bit more exited. But, of course all this is partly due to the sad sad news coming Thursday evening.

To a fallen soldier!

Medic, Mosul, I need your help with this one. Ronnie, I love you man, but you gotta stop doing this to us, brother! I mean, at the end of the game and everything, this is too reminiscent. We all remember the last season you peaced on us. You left us to die as the laughing stock of the NFL! In fact, If it wasn't for Greg Camarillo, well, we won't even go there. Ronnie, you pulled a Ron Burgandy here and left all us in tears.

I guess this is Ricky's team now. So everybody, grab your favorite strand of sticky icky and light one in his honor. One love, my brother.

Last Sunday's game and looking forward to Carolina on a Thursday night can definitely be best described as the Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Ugly.

THE GOOD

THE BAD

THE UGLY!

Listen, we know the BAD and UGLY of Week 10, but I'm gonna try to keep this a positive post and to avoid 'THE SKY IS FALLING' theme that is oh so common on our blog. We're not Cleveland, we'll make it through the negatives. Yes, we barely beat a 1 win team after collapsing in the 4th. Yes, we made a unthinkable INT with minutes left in the final quarter. But we fought through it, just like we will continue to fight for the rest of our season. Since Henne has started, he's 4-2 with losses coming against New England and New Orleans. He's also had 2 game winnning drives. Not bad for any QB IMO. Opposing teams, don't think we're bending over like Brady and letting us you rail us for the remainder of the season! This is why I'm gonna focus on the good for the remainder of my post.

THE GOOD:

• We won our game and the rest of our division lost. This is HUGE, and anytime it happens we need to appreciate it!

The Bills, who never really were a threat in the first place, are in shambles. Getting a Big F U in Tennesee and then your head coach getting canned. Yikes!

New England had the arguably best team in football all wrapped up when Bill Belicheck flexed his giant ego and tried to do the usual act of "I've got the biggest balls in football". He may have the biggest balls, but maybe not the biggest brain, and needs to remember he doesn't have the greatest QB, the Colts do. Their schedule gets increasingly difficult and one can't help to look ahead at that Week 13 matchup in Miami that could be for the lead of the division.

And the Jets... where do I start? I guess I'll just be the bigger man and leave at the fact that Maurice Jones Drew felt too bad to score against your lowly defense. And Rex Ryan cried like a schoolboy bitch. And you've lost 5 of the last 6. And you play IN New England. And, Rex Ryan is beginning to look alot like Dick Jauron. But way, way fatter. I mean I could mention ANY of these things, but i'll take the high road. We all remember how trash talking ended up for Calvin Pace!

• JT is still the real OG of Miami. It feels great. It's like the guy is Benjamin Button and never ages. Or Jack, but less hairier, u know?

• Yes, it sucks putting Ronnie on IR. There's very little to be positive about here. However, we all knew how good he was, and we all knew in all honesty it probably wasn't our year to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy. In fact, we're realistically ATLEAST another year away from being a SERIOUS contender. This being said, let's say 2011 is our year; we can use this year to see how our young reserves will fare in the future. We already lost CP10, and we remember how much it hurt. But, looking back we can all probably agree that we're glad Henne got a shot, because CP wasn't the QB to take us to the ship, and we got to see that Henne could be that guy. Now you can't replace a Ronnie Brown, just like you can't replace a Gary Buttiere, but now that him and Cobbs are done in 2009, we need to see if Kory Sheets or Lex Hilliard can be valuable starters for our team moving forward. This is a great way to judge our depth at the RB position. Worst case scenario, and they don't impress, then we might look to the draft to draft a complementary back to Ricky and Ronnie who are accumulating alot of miles under their belts.

• We're not the only one's banged up. Both Carolina's backs are questionable but probably will play. Jordan Gross, their top O-linemen is also on the IR and so is their best LB, Thomas Davis. Yes, going to Carolina is tough, especially because they have been playing well as of late. But if our D can focus on stopping the run and just contain Steve Smith I'm not scared of Jake Delhomme to beat us. Offensively, I think Ricky will hold his own but Henne will need to be a major factor in managing the game OUR WAY, if we want to walk out with a W. Having Ronnie out will allow us to experiment with some more aggressive styles so don't be surprised if Miami airs it out, and if Pat White is on the field early and often. I guarentee you this, we will MOST DEFINITELY learn alot about our team in the next few weeks. 

Wildcat Weekly Points-

Because nobody came close to last week's prediction vs Tampa Bay there were no WW points handed out this week. Feel free to comment below and predict the score and 3 other minor predictions about tonight's game.

For example, here's mine...

Miami 23, Carolina 21

1. Ted Ginn catches a TD of longer than 40 yards
2. Ricky has over 80 yards but no rushing TD's
3. We will be +2 in the TO margin.
   

Closest prediction is the Nostradamus of the Week and gets 5 WW points!

Here are the point totals so far:

Matty-6

Mosul-5

kdock-5

BuckeyeBill- 3

Trivia:

You know the drill. First to post all 5 correct answers below gets 5 WW points!

1.) Currently, who has the best QB rating on our team?
2.) Who has the most rushing yards per attempt on our team?
3.) Who has the most receiving yards per catch on our team?
4.) True or False: Dan Carpenter's FG% is actually better than his XP%.
5.) Who was credited to our only safety last year? Who did we play?

So that's it. Here's to an early football game so we can relax on Sunday and enjoy the other games from around league. Like who do we root for between NYJ and NE?

As for Carolina, I hate to say it, but we desperately need to get to .500 if we want to make a run in the AFC, but their team is in the same boat and will make it a tough matchup. It should be a great game, and if we can squeak out a win without Ronnie we can put some pressure on New England! Let's go Fins!

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