Dolphins dominated by Bears in 16-0 defeat

I mean the kid did not have 2 seconds to throw a pass and with ZERO effort from Brown and Williams.. AND Marshall how good should Thigpen have been? No this was a total breakdown of the offense and that cannot lie only on the QB.

and who the hell is John Denney? Anyways I guess all we can hope for is for all AFC teams ahead of us to lose this Sunday. But even just a Jests loss will help.

Now I’m drunk, angry, and depressed. AND I have to work at 7:30 tomorrow morning. I should’ve known better than to expect anything, I really should’ve.

Can the Thigpen is Jesus talk PLEASE stop now?

How crappy has offensive calling been! How do you do that to a QB who doesnt start or have any help?

i mean how can this be anyones fault but the coaching staffs???

He’s one of the better pass-rushers of the class already. That may not be saying much, but it’s kind of ridiculous to ridicule this pick considering we didn’t even have a second rounder.

isn’t getting all the reps, seems they use him in more of a run situation

I don’t know why were all so pissed this team did just what it always does. Another loss on national TV so much fun!! Bad play calling and poor execution from our STAR receiver (Who acts more and more like a petulant child every game). Get use to it kids another season in the toilet. Just love how the last game that mattered seems to be a distant memory?

He hasn’t been as advertised at all.

Two terrible penalties and two bad drops – 4 negative plays when we only really had 30 meaningful offensive plays. Awful stuff. Hope this isn’t who he really is when times get tough.

You have a banged up OL,D pinning theirs ears back,no delayed draws,calls are 8+ yds with a 6’1" cold QB w/3 step drops,no one reading blitz and breaking their routes off,no double slants and working the seam off of that,Bess not targeted etc.etc. .

Henning put the WC on the back-burner then more weapons on the field this week so maybe next week he can learn how and when to use them since he’s making baby steps towards an O scheme worth a damn.

After watching that game i don’t even care anymore i want a QB even if it means getting Kolb or drafting Luck or something, Ireland better think of a way to get some draft picks FAST

I assume you won’t be watching from here on out?

but…is our season over?

all the blame can’t be put on pigpen. are o-line was seriously hurt, and we could tell by watching the way we played.

1. Fire Dan Henning. This season is over anyway, so we might as well get a new offensive coordinator and start learning a new offense. It could be like a really long preseason…..

2?? Fire Sparano(not sure about this yet). We have had 2 seasons where the whole team goes down to injury. We totally retooled an offensive line that was pretty dominant with a bunch of pieces parts and at the end of the day came out much worse. With all the changes on the offensive line, we kept probably our worst offensive lineman last year(Vernon Carey) and what a surprise… he is our worst offensive lineman this year too….

4. Let Long get better. He can’t play well anyway with that shoulder bothering him, and we risk injuring him more seriously. There is not any chance we are going to the post season anyway..so we might as well play for a good draft pick. We should also do the same thing with anyone else who is even mildly injured— except Chad Henne. We should play him and Tyler Thigpen, if he can play and see if we will need to use our first pick on a QB or not….

3. Move John Jerry to RT already, and move Carey to LT. Once the season is over, dump Carey and draft some more interior lineman.. or go after some in free agency like our QB’s life depends on it… it does. Can we get a a dominant Center please??

This is painful to watch.

one of the biggest disappointments I have seen from this team in a while. And there is a whole lot of blame to be given out.

The defense made it’s share of mistakes yes, and couldn’t stop the Bears on 3rd down, but they were also on the field for 38 minutes. Quite simply, they were tired by halftime and then having to be on the field for almost the entire 3rd quarter just completely depleted them. Chicago’s drives got longer and longer as the game went on, and you could just see our defense was running on fumes. Still, they needed to have made those stops on 3rd down but they couldn’t. Although I will say that Cameron Wake, Karlos Dansby, and Tony McDaniel all had a pretty good game.

The Dolphins offense was just atrocious. Whether it was Marshall dropping passes and making stupid mistakes, or Thigpen having a terrible game, or the O-line not blocking worth a damn, we just plain sucked on offense. Marshall’s drops were bad enough, but then when he finally does make a catch, he has to go and taunt Cutler and negate the catch? That is unacceptable. Our offense was already struggling pretty badly and he still went and made a stupid mistake that we couldn’t afford.

As for Thigpen, he just flat out played a terrible game. Now, I’m not saying the loss is all on him, it obviously isn’t, but he has his share of this blame. He made many poor decisions and many bad throws. There were a few times that he should have thrown the ball away but didn’t, and the result was a sack for a loss. And that ended up getting us into 3rd and long many many times, which contributed to our 1-11 3rd down conversions.

But again, it’s not all on Thigpen, the o-line did a piss poor job of protecting him all night. It didn’t help that Proctor got hurt early in the game and we had to move Incognito to center, a position he is not that familiar with. Then Vernon Carey left the game later on and Jake Long was hurt throughout the whole thing. The injuries to the o-line hurt severely, but even with those they should have played better than they did. While injuries did factor in, you cannot put all the blame on injuries, these guys could have and should have played better.

Finally, the play calling. I mean, Ronnie and Ricky only get 6 carries the whole game? I realize that Chicago’s run defense is pretty good, but still. You have got to give these guys a chance to make some plays, or at least keep the defense honest and opening up your receivers. And speaking of receivers, where was Bess all night? I only saw like 4 passes thrown his way all game. And why was Fasano not involved in the game? I don’t think I heard his name called all night.

I think that after this pathetic offensive display last night, it really shows that the problem wasn’t with Henne, it was with Henning. Putting all but 6 offensive snaps on the arm of your 3rd string QB and not giving him help by changing the pace with running plays is just bad play calling. Not making adjustments when you see the Bears lining extra guys up in the box to take away Thigpen’s mobility because they don’t respect his arm is bad play calling. Not running plays designed to play off of the strengths of your mobile QB and forcing him to stand in the pocket where he is clearly less comfortable is bad play calling.

Before people were asking if the problems on offense were the cause of Henne or the play calling. I think that after last night, it is pretty safe to say that the play calling, and Dan Henning, is the biggest problem that we have on offense. He needs to be gone immediately, and if Sparano doesn’t have the balls to do it, he needs to go as well.

There is always nothing but, turnstile bandwagoners and negative talks from so called fans. Samdaman put it perfect. A perfect showing of a team playing with its third strong qb and a beat up offensive line. The biggest problem I saw from this game was the defense on third downs. Everything else I can excuse because of injuries plagueing this team. A healthy dolphins team verse a healthy bears. We win this game. We only allowed 16 points. Ilk take that. Henning what f n planet are you on. Enough said. To all the non head cases and regulars, see you around.

u got 2 be kidding me?

OFFENSE. jake long u might as well get the surgery now
 and get ready for next year.
 brandon marshall,why u drop so many passes? u haven’t done
 a damn thing in miami.
 tyler thigpen u got 2 start at a bad time with all the injuries,
 but i expect 2 see the robot(iCHAD) back against oakland.
 
 SPECIAL-TEAMS.i think this unit is doin a good job,
 keep it up.

 DEFENSE/DL.cameron wake & karlos dansby cannot doit by themselves
 the others got 2 step-up.

 SECONDARY.u got 2 make plays on the pass. sean smith how many

 passes are u goin 2 drop or is your name brandon marshall?

Get a new offensive coordinator. Fire Ireland.
We need a new regime.
Only keep mike nolan and bill sheridan.

it was a good game if you were a bears fan.
im not here to brag guys i normally hope for little to no injuries and a good game.
sorry you guys had so many bad breaks this season, i actually thought yall would fight for 2nd or maybe even first in your division before the season started.
 here is the link http://www.windycitygridiron.com/2010/9/10/1680415/surprise-teams
hopefully the phins will get back on track, i can see the potential dont hold your heads down things get better…

and lack of production from Sean Smith continue to make me question why in the hell we released Jason Allen.

Watched this very very frustrating game, i think Matty (as usual) did an excellent job of to sum it up. If i may add a couple of points:

- I agree on not being hard on Thiggy. National TV, barely any preparation time, banged up OL, no running game, awful playcalling, dropped balls, you name it.

HOWEVER, can we now ask the Henne haters something, maybe you were TOO harsh on Chad? most of this was the case all season.

The OL is simply a nightmare. The interior line, one of the best in the league from our WC days, is now one of the worst in the league.

I keep saying every game i see (this is 5ht i have seen this year) that Carey has become an utter disaster on the line. He is getting abused by speed rushers over and over again. I am not sure he needs to be starting now, not at RT at least. Move him to guard or something.

Then the play calling. with the exception of a couple of slants, didn’t you just know exactly what play was coming? there were many run stops that the D was in our side of the field before the handoff, combination of predicability and awful OL.

Henning please retire already.

and finally dropped balls. People complained that Henne should have thrown to Marshall no matter what. He had two awful drops, one which should have been an INT by Briggs (we were lucky). You all saw his attitude. Maybe Marshall isn’t getting enough separation, or showing confidence in practice, to merit this.

Summary, i ended up having a bit more respect for what Henne had to go through all season. IMO, there are several problems to fix before him.

- Defense played a great game, considering how long they were on the pitch. We gave up some long runs, and many 3rd down conversions, but we also only gave up FGs in red zone. They had just over 60% possession when they finally scored a TD, so i don’t blame the D at all. Big game.

Bright spots for Dansby , who is making tons of tackles now (he woke up after that embarrassing mistackle on Woodhead on national TV), but he needs some more big plays (that INT was right in his hands).

McDanial (thanks Matty) was HUGE, literally!. If this guy can stay healthy enough, and with Merling back, are DL has alot of talent to move around.

Finally Reshad Jones did well again. He was beaten badly once by Hester (who failed to make the catch), but other then that his positioning was excellent and made a lot of good tackles.

Disappointments? Sean Smith and Crowder.

I agree that releasing Jason Allen put out the fire that had Sean playing better in the past few games. He was slow, whiffed on many tackles, and had an overall poor game.

I really don’t know what Crowder’s job is on the pitch. I would assume he is supposed to plug running lanes, and Dansby is spying the QB as he is much better in coverage. Yet its Dansby making the tackles after Forte picks up 5-8 yards. I really didn’t see Crowder make a single useful play in first 3 Qtrs.

Finally, good observation by Matty on ST tackles. That IS a major concern.

I hate giving up on a season and it being just a little over halfway through, but with the incredible amount of injuries the Fins have sustained and the mediocre play at best this season, I believe it is over for my Dolphins.

That being said, I look to next season (if there is one). I will give Sparano one more year to get this thing turned around, but if I don’t see improvement next year, then I say we make a change. It boggles my mind how his teams over the last 3 years have gotten progressively worse each season, which is the opposite of what should be happening. But, we definitely need a new Offensive Cooredinator – someone who can bring a little up temp offense, and who has the ability to make players better – unlike our current OC. We also need to get a new o-line coach because this area has been very week this year, and it has to get better for this team to get better.

In regards to player personnel, we have to let Ronnie Brown go unless he signs for a reasonable salary. I don’t know how much longer I can watch him dance behind the line until he decide to run and gets tackled after 1 yard – I mean, Ricky is averaging half a yard more per carry (4.4 compared to 3.9) than Ronnie and he is 5 years older, and Ricky has also been more healthy in recent years. I believe we should draft a speed back that would be able to compliment our power back philosophy, and I believe we lack players with pure speed on offense.

We also should draft another QB to give competition to Chad Henne because I have been severly disappointed with his development this year, plus competition is never a bad thing.

We must get to o-line straightened out and add another dynamic tight-end.

Defensively, I feel more comfortable each week with our players. But, I really, really want to draft a pure 3-4 DT, that can eat up space a be a full-time starter – this is one area in which we severely lack. I also think we need to consider another safety to add competition back there, and maybe add another OLB of starting caliber.

priorities: QB, RB, O-line, maybe 1 impact WR… this game was just embarrassing

Defining Mediocrity Since 1990

I was always a big Thigpen fan, but he definetely isn’t built to carry a team with no running game and a banged up Oline. It could always be way, WWWWAAAAAAYYYY worse:

That’s something positive to take away from last night’s game.

is if NFL network played circus music every time we were on offense. That would have at least made me chuckle a little…

this on a team that had problems on offense, with a starting QB (henne) who wasn’t exactly lighting up defenses, and most recently with its best two players injured or limited (Long & Marshall)….yet why are/were people expecting some grand level of play from Thigpen?

wake played well we have some things to look forward to but with the injuries and the injury on the line especially right before kick off we really never had a shot.
btw fairweather fans leavign in the thrid go fuck yourself. seriously go find another team gtfo GTFO
really upsetting.

and I hope and pray that I never have to see him playing for the Phins ever again

B. Marshall has let this team down. Not only has he dropped key passes, he’s given up yards in penalties from stupid taunts in key areas on the field. We as a fan base can’t seat idle a watch him do this to our team. As journalist, you guys can’t let this slide! Call him out!

I now understand why Sparano took SO long to name the starters seeing how we suck horribly up the middle for starter material much less depth.

This FO did an outstanding job bringing in Grove and Smiley and had they stayed healthy I could see 3 Pro-Bowlers on our OL alone and while that didn’t happen they evidently were psychic concerning Jason Brown,you know the guy EVERYONE was clamoring for and accused the FO of being too tight when they didn’t sign him at 37.5 for 5 years with 20 guaranteed,since he’s rated 31st out of 34 who qualified at that position so it could be worse I suppose…better OL,ANY run of the mill OC under 85 and we’d be much much better IMO.

I remember when we were blest, with “Dany Marino” we needed the killer bee’s. But we burnt up the best defense, of “there time” on woodly years!