although we prolly wont finish the AFC East here…

i was not mentally prepared to go 0-3 to start this year.
anybody remember last year? we were all ready to go win 3-5 games and not be overly dissappointed because we knew in 09-10 season we would be superbowl contenders
and then we all bring out the blame game
arguements amongst fans, mocking by rivals… its hard to lose with such high expectations.

you bout covered it.

is that we need a threat at KR. NEED in all caps. Leon Washington is a FA coming up, if we don’t throw the bank at him, I’ll be mad.

without the presence of a big-play wideout. We just don’t have any longball potential on this team and it’s killing us.

no ronnie no CP10 high draft pick

I do know that Vincent Jackson is a bad-ass. Weren’t they trying to get rid of him a few years ago in a trade? Anyway.Matty was right about Henne, for sure. He didn’t look comfortable, and I’ll leave it at that. Wil Allen was looking a little old also. Honestly Porter, Allen, and JT have looked kind of old to me during the 3 games.

It doesn’t look good and maybe I’m too optimistic but I’m not ready to give up on the season. I’ve seen teams turn it around too many times in bad situations, so you never know. Lets hang in there and see what happens. The worst that can happen? Maybe Sam Bradford.

Dudes looked fierce this afternoon. We need to get them a two-gap nose tackle.

Some other thoughts I had going through my head during the game:

- We will never get to a super bowl with Channing Crowder playing ILB. We need to address that position sometime this season or in the draft (this means you, Brandon Spikes). More specifically, we need a leader on defense.

- I am ready for Chris Clemons. The lack of speed we have at the safety position led to us getting torched by Vincent Jackson on that long bomb.

- What the hell happened to Anthony Fasano? Did those fumbles in ATL rattle his cage? He looks nothing like how he did this time last year.

We have to remember that this is year two of the rebuilding process. It’s kind of like a sequel to any movie: high expectations going in, but utterly disappointing and unsatisfying early on, so you keep holding out hope that things are going to turn around just in time to salvage the whole production. I was prepared for this little nose dive, and I hold out hope that year three is when this team is really going to take it’s place as one of the best teams in the league.

and haynos was in. Any word on this?

needs a reality check. This team is a 9-7 team at best, and I could have told you that 3 weeks ago.The people that thought miami would be a division contender are the same people who stopped watching miami when they were 0-4 in 2007.

Where do you expect the talent to be on that offense. Ted Ginn? Davone Bess? Anthony Fasano? You could put the greatest oline in there and we still wouldnt have a wr to throw to. We are a power running team that should run the ball at least 30 times a game thats WHO WE ARE!! WE FAILED IN 2 OUT OF 3 GAMES of reaching that mark!! Also, Chad Henne in the limited action he has been in has looked absolutely atrocious. Plus, who is he going to throw to? Miami hasnt had a great reciever since MARK CLAYTON!

What irks me MORE is that this organization doesnt seem to like making risks at all! We could have at least offered Denver something for Cutler (A FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK) and Brandon Marshall (top 10 wide reciever) Yes, The price of both would have depleted partially our 2009 draft (no pat white, no vontae davis) and Marshall probably would have cost us a 2nd and 3rd in 2010. But if Henne doesnt pan out, chalk out a FAIL on a 2007 2nd round pick and drafting ANOTHER qb high next year….But I’m willing to waste 5-6 draft picks for Cutler and Marshall. Plus half of those picks would have been for qb’s anyway…

Passing offence and passing defence have been the most important factors in the game for years now. Blame new rules or what have you, the evidence is overwhelming.

Warner wins a Super Bowl throwing it like crazy. Pats won a Super Bowl with Brady. The Colts start to get dominant with Manning. Pats copy them, move to pass-first, win more SBs. Colts win SB as well. Arizona makes the SB last year, and passing offence was the only damn thing they were elite at! Even Pittsburgh, a classic power team, has moved to pass first these days. That’s not by chance, that’s strategy.

Without great receivers we’re going nowhere. I honestly believe CP10 is a fantastic QB, and he’s probably limited more by our poor WRs than he limited them.

Show me a contender that can’t pass the ball and make big plays, and I’ll show you a team that won’t get as far as you think. (That sucked, I know)

Anyway, we’re not done yet. Henne was awful but it means nothing. Let’s regroup and beat Buffalo and NY.

I have to say that the reason for this is that the Defense of the Chargers realized and probably knew if he came in, he hasn’t had next to none experience behind this line and it seemed they bullrushed every down to try and ruffle his feathers. I’m devastated to go 0-3. Smells too much like 07…. I dont like it. And behind a 150 million dollar O-Line it’s not respectable at all… Our running backs are what makes our offense look good.

And as for our defense, I miss Andre Goodman… to me, if he’s worth 5 years for Denver, why coudn’t we offer him another contract instead of some of the other contracts that dont seem deserved such as Carey, Crowder( even though I think we needed him, not showing now)

He’ll get his reps with the first team this week and hopefully will shine in his first career start next week.

because it’s like they expected a cocoon to come standard equipment with Henne.This OL hasn’t gelled worth a damn as of yet and the jacked up play calling is only exposing and amplifying that fact.

It seems every damn time we have a team back on their heels,Dan comes up with some bright ass plan to absolutely kill what little momentum we have fought and scratched for in the first place and while I LOVED the first play of the game but why totally abandon it?The mere threat of the bomb keeps the D from charging the LOS on every play and needs to be in the back of the D’s mind and would do a hell of a lot more to loosen up the D than those tired ass 5 yard dinks that only serve to further compact the D closer to the line of scrimmage and I just don’t understand it….Rivers missed on a couple of those but he didn’t stop and then they hit pay dirt.

I didn’t expect much from Hennes first action,it will take time and plenty of it so his play doesn’t bother me in the least and he throws a much different ball than CP and you could clearly see his velocity when Ginn went down for those catches and it looked like they snuck up on him because he was used to CP’s ball just diving for the dirt.

I think we will have a good idea within three games because Henne and the WR’s will build chemistry and get used to his ball,maybe by then David Lee will be calling ALL plays and not just the WildCat plays because Henning is hendering the development and progress of what I believe to be a potentially explosive Offense.

Oh yeah…Will Allen should NEVER cover the opponents best WR and Crowder should be cut!

We could be 3-0 right now, but we’re not, why?

Lack of concentration. All of the plays we’re not making and the mistakes we are making are a lot of times what I’ll hear referred to as “Concentration” plays. Screwing up a handoff for instance and fumbling the ball is due to lack of concentration. So are the 1,001 dropped balls we’ve had. As are our secondary falling freaking down on a play that nets the Chargers three quarters of the field.

If you’re in the “zone” or whatever you want to call it, you’re not going to screw up like that. You’ll get beat physically cause the guy is stronger or faster than you, or simply has better hands or a better position on the field, but you’re not going to drop a catch or fumble a ball without getting your helmet knocked off in the process.

Problem with the Phins right now is mind over matter, a correctible mistake. Plus we need some big playmakers that we don’t have, especially at WR, which would help overcome the mental errors. And though I love Fasano to death cause he’s one of my Fighting Irish stars, we need a TE. We haven’t had a TE on the field since last year. It’s like playing with 10 guys (sometimes it’s like the other team has 12), it sucks.

I also saw a quarterback who made a terrible decision to seal the game for the Chargers. Henne dropped back and did look right before coming back to Davone Bess, who was running an out pattern to the left. But he took too long to get back to him and make the throw. Henne needs to throw that before Bess makes his break. He was late with the ball and Eric Weddle read it all the way. But he’ll learn from that – I hope.

It was also taht same stupid play we had been running all day, that screen to Bess, it was only a matter fo time before the Chargers sniffed it out

The dolphins can’t seem to finish, we can get the ball down the field, but yet again missed oppurtunties kill us. Our defense couldn’t hold Rivers and Jackson. We need to practice hard this week on account that we have a division game this week. Pick it up Miami.

I know the schedule is a killer, but we could and should have beat Indy and SD. You can’t have 3 drives reach inside the 5 and end with 6 points.

The risk is that if we can’t beat Buffalo or NYJ, the team could really fall in a spiral and things won’t get any better.

This was why part of me (i posed this on CBS Dolphin forum) would have preferred to finish 8-8 or 9-7 last year, instead of 11-5. Remember the Cowboys in 89? they moved gradually over the next few years and built a dynasty. We are in the end building a team from 1-15 and that doesn’t happen so easily.

Saying that, i think we should play Pennington (if he is fit), till we secure a few wins and see where we stand, we don’t want Henne to face the pressure if we are 0-5 or so.

PS: Can someone PLEASE send Ted Ginn a tape of DeSean Jackson? someone who has 1 less year of NFL and almost of same build (actually slightly shorter), and plays with gut to a sense that DBs are afraid of him!

Matty,

Yes, we are running the ball and stopping the run, but the 3rd part of the equation is missing. Turnovers. We are the best in the league last year, we only forced 1 turnover this year and i believe we are at -4 or -5 already.

If we won’t fix this, and against this schedule, we will not win football games

after last year I expected so much more….I didn’t have superbowl thoughts or anything crazy like that…but I expected much better playing, less mistakes, a better “D”, & much more from our receiving corp….just goes to show we need a real playmaker or two at that position.
We look very sloppy, our QB situation is now up in the air (Sanchez, Flacco, Ryan, even Kolby look miles ahead of Henne).
I do believe our Offensive line is looking very good (at times) & will only get better, Ronnie Brown is a powerhouse, Williams still looks good, receivers-where is the seperation or “Hands” – outside of Bess.
At this point a 500 season looks tough to achieve but it can happen…..looking for another high draft pick this year..question is will it be a receiver or QB???

Theres no way I am, but why is there NO passing threat to the wildcat anymore. I know Ronnie doesnt have the greatest of arms, but still…it seemed as if it works best when theres a CHANCE of a pass being thrown. Keep the corners honest, keep the safeties and even linebackers honest, and throw it once in a while. We all KNOW that when we are in wildcat this year, it is a run, whether it be Ricky or Ronnie. The Wildcat is still effective, but the element of surprise is gone I feel when they go into it. Feelings?

isn’t ginn that guy

… I am also enjoying my second day of blind drunkeness…

Damn team…

What team…

Pour me another buddy…

I am not negative! =)

I am sorry we lost but I was thrilled to see Henne play, and the only real thing that he did, that annoyed me was that pick that the CB jumped the route on. I remember all too well that AJ Feeley days of him staring down receivers on that same damn route.

But one is not a pattern. So we’ll see if he can get it corrected. However, the rest of the challenges I saw for him out there would be alleviated substantially by practicing a solid with with all the "1s". His cadence was unfamiliar to the linemen and resulted in everyone being a little out of sync. And they also don’t know his tendencies and timing, when avoiding the rush. the line flat out blew a couple of assignments that resulted in pressure, but most of the problems will get resolved from Henne and the O-line having a chance to work together.

Also, the thing with the WRs, Ginn should have caught those balls, but it was obvious to me that the WRs were not prepared for the difference in the QBs passes. It looked like Henne just throws it harder and may need to work on "touch". But having the WRs work with Henne in practice should help those issues as well.

That being said, I place the Blame for not getting Henne ready squarely on the coaching staff, and am a little worried by what appears to be “lack of focus” by them. They’ve got the WC, and the new Pat White plan, and rotating CBs, and cutesy play calling. It is time to get back to basics. The WC works, leave it in. But if you want to work White into the QB rotation, let him get some time during garbage time. And like you said, when the run game is working, why would you go away from it? We were ahead in this game up until 2:00 mins to go in the 3rd.

IMO, this was another winnable game. We had some bad luck, like the fumble at the end of the 1st drive, but if the D shutsdown SDs passing game, we still win.

But I am excited today, because I will get to see Henne play and am pretty sure he will improve, after getting all the 1st team snaps this week. And even if he doesn’t, over the next few weeks we will start to answer the biggest question to the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a Fins return to the SB…. “Who is the next franchise QB?”.

Oh, and BTW, it’s time to activate Turner. If his problem is separation at this level, Henne’s arm will help. And he and Henne seemed to have some chemistry in preseason, so I say get him in there. Our second biggest question we are going to have to answer is, “Who is going to be our #1 WR?”. I don’t think he’s on the roster yet, but let’s give Turner a chance to show what he’s got.

=)

even though it was one game, not even a full game, I’m not confidant with Henne. The preseason showed me enough, this game didn’t prove anything I didn’t already assume.

Phinsider Dudes. Let’s stay with it. What’s the worst? We win 2 vs Jets. Let’s think how big it can be. Henne, Sanchez, Edwards. It’s like ’83 all over again.