antonio gates is next…

The one play that got me angry the most was running it on 3rd n 6 after that its the 2 runs to start the final drive, the positives other than one big run by the Colts we shut down the run and sean smith had a very good game

I agree with your take on Ginn fully. While he could have caught it (IT WAS IN HIS HANDS) and it would have been dramatic, Gibril Wilson is just awful. I said it early before the season that I didn’t have a good feeling about the guy. Of all the bad safeties that we’ve had he is the worst because he seemingly can’t do anything. He can’t tackle, cover, or run. He looked as slow as a lineman and I think I’d rather have Jason Allen in there or maybe the rookie Clemons who is at least fast enough to run someone down. Crowder had a poor night as well; I think he was trying to do too much and he was out of position many times along with the missed tackles. And that play calling at the end wasn’t cool either…

On the bright side I loved that wildcat. Ronnie and Ricky were playing beautifully and that was a sight to see. They really stole the show.

How the hell do you lose the game when you literally controlled the ball for 3 quarters. If the defense is sitting down all that time why don’t you go over some notes on the game and figure out Manning. The Trifecta better start taking names and get this team together. This is ridiculous.

I had two paragraphs written and said F-IT…I’ve been a die-hard for 39 of my 45 years and these types of moronic losses get tougher by the year,it’s sensless and totally preventable and I knew when we ran it on 3rd and 6 and was more than happy to settle for a FG that we had just lost the game and it was and is a sickening feeling and something I will never get used to even though it happens all to often to the team I love.

i just did not go into as much depth as you did in my postgame write up

wut willl we be next year or two? CP not signed Ronnie not signed Ricky retiring after next year….were not winnning it all this year so is next year gunna b bare cubbords again? not alot of structure going into next year we could be a totally different team

i really dont feel like reading all the comments but has anyone mentioned those last 3 mins? we can blame the defensive let down all we want but the reality is that 3 minutes is more than enough time to win the game.. poor choices in play selection has to be blamed on the coaching staff and the fact that they moved around like cows after every play was ridiculous…did peyton run the ball thru out the countless audibles he made? I dont think so… so why did the fins choose to run and on a 3rd down for that matter? why didnt the O line move their asses to spike the ball? fact is they could have won this game…. they should have picked better plays such at THROW THE BALL and HELLO THE CLOCK IS RUNNING!! the best teams win under pressure plain and simple… they need to go back to practice run tackle drills over and over and work on the 2 minute drill offense..

i automatically think..0 yards on this drive killing random play. Pat White is worthelss if we dont let him throw the ball and give him more than a “pinch hit”. WTF man “hey pat do good on this one play or your out OK!”

Because missed tackles and lazy linebacker play drive me nuts! We just lost our ass in our home stadium and that makes me mad. Our defense wasn’t scaring anyone tonight, and I want our defense to scare people. Dallas Clark was practically laughing at us as he was coming over the middle. That’s unacceptable. I would be depressed over this game if it weren’t for our offensive line which looked pretty good tonight.

To think that 18 months ago we were looking at a 1-15 season with absolutely no foundation to speak off. If someone said to me in 18 months The dolphins would have a chance to beat the Indianapolis Colts on the last play of the game on MNF!! I would consider asking you to check into the nearest mental institute.SHAKE YOURSELVES PEOPLE! Your team just sent a message that last year wasnt a fluke. This is a proud moment to be a phins fan. We are rebuilding and only getting better. You guys act like we are one of the best teams in football!! BE REALISTIC!!!

WE CLOSE THIS GAME OUT IN 2010, 2011,2012….

I miss Zach Thomas….

Two defenses played poorly tonight. If the Colts offense hadn’t been able/allowed to score big on their very few opportunities, the story of the game on the Colts side would be how their defense was completely man-handled and couldn’t stop Miami’s run attack to save its life. Miami defense gave up too many big pass plays and couldn’t tackle yet again, but the Indy defense gave up a ton of rushing yards and 3rd down conversions.

Look at the Colts, even in their Super Bowl year their defense was statistically ranked toward the bottom. They win because of their offense! Defense can keep you in games, but it’s the offense that wins games! I’ve seen defenses play terrible all game but the offense scores points and makes the necessary plays to win, we all saw that happen tonight in the Colts. I don’t buys statements like, “Ginn can’t be expected to make that catch because he’s not Moss or Fitzgerald”. That’s a problem, we need receivers who can do that, whether it’s Ginn or Bess or Camarillo or someone else. Ginn said post-game that he should’ve made the catch. Any NFL receiver should catch a ball that hits both hands. Conservative play calling bothers me a lot… it says, “we’re not going to try to win the game, instead we’re going to try to not lose the game”. Week in and week out teams lose close games that way. Not beating yourself and not making mistakes is critical, and a key part of what the Fins do, but at some point you have to take control and make the plays to win games. That’s what Peyton and the Colts did, that’s why they win so many games year after year, again with less than dominating defensive performances many times. The last Miami drive was disgusting, I would have never believed a veteran starting quarterback and an O/C with decades of NFL experience put that thing together.

This was another heartbreaking loss in Dolphin history.

But at the same time, all of the “what if” questions about tackling, play calling, penalties, field goals, time outs, catches, near interceptions, etc, etc…. the fact is the Dolphins were in it until the very end, and actually dominated most of the game. Before the game I’ll be honest, I was worried about my team getting utterly embarased on MNF by Peyton and the Colts, and when the first play went 80 yards it was indeed going to be a one-sided collapse.

The Dolphins came close to winning, and could have potentially won under a variety of circumstances. It’s weird thinking about the Atlanta loss and this loss… two tough losses that showed a lot of glaring weaknesses in the team. Against Atlanta the defense held its own in a lot of situations while the offense coughed up the ball and couldn’t get anything going at times. Against Indy the rushing attack is tremendous out of base formation and wildcat, the O line is a dominating force, and 3rd downs are converted with ease. The defense gives up big play after big play, can’t tackle, barely pressures Peyton, and allowed approx two points for every minute the Colts offense had the ball. The real scary part is though, put last week’s offense with this week’s defense and you’ll lose games 62-7.

I guess the conclusion is the defense played terrible but there were still opportunities to win that didn’t come to fruition. Somewhat comforting that we were still so close to victory, but at the same time so frustrating because we WERE so close to victory. There’s a lot to be excited about, but a lot to be concerned about as well.

No doubt it was a game that will be talked about for a long time.

It is probably cold comfort, but your team played an excellent game tonight, really dominating the Colts in almost every aspect. My perspective is that it was clock management during those last 3 minutes that killed the game. I was fully expecting the offense to be rushing (or at least moving quickly) to the line of scrimmage before every play, and for time outs to be taken immediately after a sack or short yard rush. Even the announcers were astonished at how slow everyone was to get set. Pennington and Sparano share the blame in my opinion.

I feel a bit dirty saying this, and will probably be clobbered by my fellow fans over at Stampede Blue, but this must be what it felt like to be a Patriots fan after the week 1 win at Buffalo. Certainly Miami didn’t hand the Colts the win a la the Bills, but the last few minutes was where the game was lost.

Good luck going forward and I truly hope to see your team do great things, starting with beating the Chargers, the Patriots and all of the other AFC South opponents you face.

say this and that about the game, but you all watched it.

If e lose to SD next week, put Henne in and move on with rebuilding. Not only Henne, but all the rookies and see what we got at every position. And don’t give me all this crap about we can still do this and that. At 0-3, in the AFC we aren’t going to ANY playoffs.

One dude on ESPN sums it up, blame it on a wara arm QB, or the WRs, but you CAN"T argue:

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Ted Ginn Jr. dropping the ball sums up the Dolphins. They can’t make a big play!

" — Justin (Boston)

Eighty yards, four minutes or less, a FG? Maybe. But we aren’t getting a TD because WE CAN"T GET DOWN THE FIELD.

Wait, he doesnt suck, because without him we would not even have gotten that far down the field, but he is not the clutch receiver we are looking for. Our defense had 19 tackles all night, and allowed one of their biggest weaknesses to kill them. Touche to Dallas Clark for exploiting the Dolphins D.

I hate Ted Ginn and I hate Peyton Manning. I’m gonna take a whole lot of shit today thats for sure.

Young teams on the verge of being special have that one game where they seem to cross a metaphorical bridge and rise up and show how great they can be. Miami approached this bridge last night with way too much caution and failed to make it across.

For the defense, I agree with the idea to blitz, but why are we literally sending the farm? It was picked up and exploited almost every time and Manning completed short passes in those situations that went for huge gains and 2 criticcal touchdowns – a third time everyone ran past the running back who broke for a TD.

Tackling. All I can say here is WTF. These guys need to close and wrap up, period. Tackling was piss poor. Manning got to do whatever he wanted.

10 great plays erased by one bad one (maybe 2 bad ones)…Ginn. #1 receivers make the winning catch in the endzone, whether a CB is draped on their back or not. WINNERS make that catch. You can say the CB was pushing Ginns arm, but he has to make that catch. He didn’t and everything he did to impress prior to that becomes erased to me.

May have been Ginn or Bess, but the QB sneak you mentioned: We wouldn’t have been in that situation had the receiver on the previous play lowered a shoulder while headed for the sideline and shoved just a little for the first down. Instead, they avoided contact and Miami called the sneak on the next play.

I appreciate Pennington’s calm and poise, but take an adrenaline shot or something when we’re down by a TD and need to go 85 yards…no sense of urgency at all.

Ugh.

1. Defense takes the entire blame. Regardless of time of possession, if it takes our offense 11 minutes to get down the field and score, and it takes Manning 1 minute, that is a game we will lose everytime. Our defense simply cannot let a team answer our magnificent clock eating drives, with quick scoring drives of their own.

2. The clock management at the end of the game simply baffles me. There has to be a reason they ran it like they did, but I cannot figure it out.

3. It seemed as if the play calling at the end of the game got scared. I don’t know why, because the playcalling for the first 3-1/2 quarters was pretty imaginative I thought.

4. Ted Ginn is not a #1. BUT, He didn’t draft himself #9 overall, he didn’t put himself on a team with no true #1, he plays the best of his abilities. He is a good #2 receiver, but he is in the position of having to be the #1. His situation is not his fault. That being said, you are a frickin pro football receiver. If the ball hits BOTH of your hands, you have to catch it, period. I also wish the pussy would take a hit.

5. CHAD WAS THROWING 30-40 YDS DOWNFIELD IN THE LAST FEW SECONDS!! WHY DO THEY NEVER GO DOWNFIELD DURING THE FREAKING GAME?!? I UNDERSTAND THAT PENNINGTON DID NOT COMPLETE THOSE DEEP BALLS, BUT EVERYONE KNEW THEY WERE GOING DOWNFIELD ON THOSE 3 OR 4 PLAYS. SPARANO, HENNING, PENNINGTON…PLEASE TRY TO GO DOWNFIELD SOMETIMES FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!!!

4. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY

our D was horriblle against manning.
its depresing.

gibrils pick? that cost us 3 points. All we would need to do is kick a chip shot 4 the win

Agree with almost all Matty said, and he reminded us of the great special team coverage that we lost in the mix, especially from Lex (now we know why he beat London for a squad place).

But on the play calling again, why be so conservative? you have the Colts defense on the ropes, they are dead tired, you converted 70% of 3rd downs, and you run again on 3rd down???

Not just that, our last drive in first half, its 4th and 1 and you have two time-outs, why not fake a play and try to draw offsides? heck why not risk it and run a play? they were so scared to give manning a chance to go for a final drive and he did it anyway!

I think the O, and the O-Line, did their job (the O-Line was on the field for 45 minutes, talk about being tired, and we only gave away 1 sack, plus all the rush yards, and maybe what, 1 offside penalty?). The D let us down, and i remember the gripe on Wilson is he was a more natural SS then FS. I have never seen an SS that can’t tackle!

But I totally disagree about Ginn. He made some good plays but a better reciever would have made that play in the end zone. Ginn did much better in tonights game than he has in most, but the fact remains this team is going to need a playmaking number one reciever if they want to win a Superbowl.

About Wilson, he looked totally overmatched all night long. There was one play where Clark cut left, and Will Allen cut right, leaving Wilson to defend him. I didn’t understand that at all.

Not enough of the 3-4 this year.

I am completely frusturated!!!!

I know they were trying to prevent The Colts from ever hitting the field again, but you can run the clock in the red zone, it doesn’t have to be done on your own 30 yard line.

But out Corners are good. We need pass rush and safeties. Taylor has lost a step…The pass rush is what it is, Indy has a good line but the truth is Wilson and Bell blew that game. They do not play well together. Remember last year we had a Safety playing with Bell (I can’t remember his name) and we let him go after the AZ. game in week 2. Something is not right and the Big 3 better get someone in there that can cover and tackle. Better pick up the phone and call back Courtney Bryant!

Thanks for some excellent blogging content last night and today.

Ive been disappointing with Gibril so far…I really liked how they used him in NY when he played NE in the super bowl and i pictured the same thing being done here… Hopefully he and Bell step it up

I’m done with him and I’m done with the sissy play calling. A real NFL team can make plays down the field.

Good game, and during it I realized that I hate the Colts more than I hate the Dolphins. Man, I wanted to see Manning eat turf. Porter got to him a couple times which was good.

We’re all going to have to play the Colts this year.

Beat the Bolts this weekend. It should be a good game.

I might not come here after a loss, too many ignorant fans saying ignorant things. Its painful enough to see my team lose, let alone have to hear people blame and bash every member of the team, especially ones who shouldnt be bashed.

Did everyone get a good dose of the “rebulding reality”?

We aren’t sorry, we’re just rebuilding. Did you people think we were gonna go from the 1-15 mess we were in to the 2000-2007 Pats winning 10+ games every year, in just one year?

People get a hold of yourselves. We’re not going 1-15 or 0-16. We were 0-2, 2-4 last year we did fine. We’re gonna end up somewhere between 7-9 and 9-7, because we are rebuilding and we have a VERY tought schedule.

Stop over reaccting and get back with the program Parcells started last year now that you had a reality check.

Honestly, get a hold of yourselves.

I thought he played real well to be honest with everyone. Ran great routes, made some big 3rd down catches for us. That touchdown would have been caught by MAYBE one or 2 receivers in the whole league. His arms were getting completely yanked the entire time he had no control of his arms or his hands there, it was almost an impossible ball to catch. The ones to blame are, in order:Sparano and his clock management, the pass rush, the linebackers. Sean Smith played a hell of a game, and Matty you are right, the Pat White stuff is just plain out weird now. Kills momentum, nothing happens. As for the last thing on my mind, where the hell was Davone Bess?? He wasn’t even on the field it seemed most of the game, why isnt he in every play?

when your options are Ronnie, Ricky, Lou Polite or a QB sneak, guess what any of them would have worked with the way we were running.

why dont you pass on 3and 6 and 3 and 7? you’ve converted 70% of your 3rd downs, mainly because of Penny throwing to Ginn.

You cant settle for FGs ever, especially against the Colts

now i hate ted ginn

Our offensive line did really well Im proud of them!! Our defensive line did great!! our Inside lineback needs more speed I wish we could have gotten Rey Maualuga instead of Pat White , Rey is a dominant inside in the run and pass coverage and is not afraid to hit.

I think we should move ginn to slot because he is really quick and put patrick turner as the first reciever because he is big, physical and has hands. OR PLEASE Mr. TUNA trade for ANQUAN BOLDIN to be our #1 reciever.

I like Pennington but the late in the fourth quarter I did not see leadership at ALL on the last 3 minutes, He was too slow to the hurry up offense, he didnt tell his team to get up quickly and his time management was poor. What the HELLLLL were they thinkin of running the ball? Ronnie Brown and Ricky you would think they’ve been running the ball ALL game and they are a little fatigued, you need to do QUICK SLANTS.