I started to post this as a comment in Matty's main thread, and realized that it was getting pretty long.  So, incorporating the main points in Matty's post, I am adding my own 2¢ here about yesterday's game.

To begin with, did this strike a chord with anyone else?

It was the kind of performance to make even the most optimistic Dolphin fan think, "here we go again."

Boy did Matty call this!  This was me yesterday.  After the Bess muff, I started to get worried and on the last Jets drive, I was definitely thinking "here we go again".

Also, I am very happy for Ginn.  As a Fin fan, you gotta be happy when a player steps up, even if he is proving you wrong in the process.  I have not been a big fan of Ginn returning kicks.... mainly because I have never seen the three things out of him that I saw yesterday:

First, he actually hit it up in the hole right away on both returns.  None of that fancy running backwards crap.  Maybe he is starting to understand the speed of the guys he is playing against.  Running backward or laterally across the line doesn't work well in the NFL.
Second, he juked someone!  Yes, those of you who have seen my posts criticizing Ginn on returns will know that this has been my #1 complaint against him... the apparent inability to make some miss.  This is the first time I have really ever seen him dodge guys! 
Third, he took some contact without giving up and crumpling to the field in a ball.  Granted, it wasn't a LOT of contact, but part of that was due to him dodging guys so they couldn't get a clean hit.  Because of his history, when he ran into the wedge, I was surprised not to see him go down right way.  But it was on the one return, when the defender grabbed for him along the sideline, and Ginn stumbled for a second, that I found myself VERY surprised that he did not fall down or go out of bounds.

These things are new for Ginn, and show some promise.  i would not even worry about his progress as a WR at this point.  I would try to reinforce what he is doing right in the return game, and build on that.  Remember, Hester is only now starting to show some skill in the passing offense, after being mainly relegated to the return game for the past few years.

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Here are a few of my own "quick hits":

- Bess had a bad game, but part of the thing to keep in mind is that Bess has not played well with Henne at QB yet.  The muff was just a stupid mistake and I don't think we will see that again.  But he might have a little trouble adjusting to Henne's throws.

- Our Defensive play calling was the problem in the second half.  Our rotation is solid.  Our guys can make plays.  But this is the 3rd, 4th? (I have lost count now) game this season when the D almost goes into a Prevent when they have the lead.  This is horrible play calling by Paul Pasqualoni.  We run a 3-4, with at least 3 solid pass rushing OLBs.  But when you leave the LBs back in coverage to try and cover the TE, we get burned.  And we have solid DBs, but when you leave the WRs all day to get open, we get burned.  When we consistently bring pressure with our front 3 (which is pretty consistent) and then bring 1 or 2 guys coming from different directions, we almost always create pressure.  i haven't gone back and looked at the game and counted the times we backed off on bringing that extra man or two, but IIRC, in the second half we have done it quite a bit.  I am definitely laying this one on the play calling and not the players.

- I LOVE our DBs!!!  I am still down on Wilson, but he played better in terms of missed tackles, and was AWESOME on those blitzes.  I still think he is a SS trying to play FS, and this is a long term problem.  But he helped yesterday and nothing bad really stuck out.

- Speaking of DBs, I can forgive Davis for going for the pick.  He played will and will learn from this mistakes.  However, did anyone else catch the announcers calling our Sean Smith for giving up a play on Edwards, and notice that it was actually Davis that got beat?  I didn't have this recorded, so I couldn't go back and look, but when they replayed it during the game, it was Davis that was in coverage and Smith coming across the field to help make the tackle.  I am not sure if it is the same play Matty is talking about in his post as a the "Sean Smith rookie mistake".

- I can't say I am surprised by the lack of drop off at MLB with Crowder out.  I was pleased to see Torbor step up, but Crowder has always been merely good... not Pro Bowl caliber.  So Torbor really didn't have big shoes to fill.  It is good to know that we have depth at the position though.  Maybe next year we draft that Pro Bowl caliber MLB.

- I was actually glad to see the Dolphins not have to rely on the Wildcat, but it certainly wasn't because they were moving the ball well out of their base Offense.  The whole Offense seemed to lack commitment this game... no WC, no pounding running game, now deep passing threat.  Ricky Williams was really the biggest bright spot.  It just felt like they were afraid to try and grind it out with the WC after the Jets had most certainly spent a lot of time preparing for it.  Which makes sense.  But wouldn't you have expected a heavy dose of TE/RB screens?  Or pounding the ball inside?  Or something consistent?  I mean, with all the 3 and outs, if you are at least pounding the ball, eventually you will have some success. 

- We are talking about mistakes made this game, in regard to our Davis and Smith, Henne, and Bess, but in this case, chalk them all up to a good thing.  If all of these guys can make those mistakes in a hostile game setting, and the Miami Dolphins can still come away with the win, then we can consider them valuable learning experiences and hope that the entire team gets better because of the mistakes.  The one area I am concerned about is the play calling.  If you win, do the coordinators learn from it?  Or do they view it as good enough to do the same thing next time?

Here are some interesting facts: 

- The Dolphins went 4-14 on 3rd down conversions. 

- The Dolphins lost the TOP battle by almost NINE MINUTES. 

- The Dolphins GAINED a net total of 104 TOTAL YDS ON OFFENSE. 

- They LOST 60 YDS ON OFFENSE due to sacks. 

- Chad Henne averaged 1.9 yds per pass. 

- Ricky Williams alone produced 68 yds of the total offense.

- While the run D was solid overall, Thomas Jones ran for 102 yd (almost as much as the total Dolphins Offense), AND averaged 3.78 yds per carry.  Those are not bad number for Jones.  What this means regarding the Fins run D is that they made the Jets grind it out and did not give up big plays on the ground.  Not bad.

- Did anyone here foresee saying, reading, or hearing the statement "Special Teams won us this game." this year?  I know I sure didn't.

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