Miami Dolphins: Is the sky really falling? No, that's just a little rain.

Is this information accurate? Did you get it from WebMD?

Its preseason, dont read to much into it. No team is going to show its hand. Also, they played in a down pour.

Its preseason,enough said!!!!

Seems like the whole offensive game was played on the infield. To the life of me I can’t understand why we play on a baseball field. Even when its try it’s a terrible condition. Like you, I felt that the defense looked good considering this was the first pre-season game. That is what preseason is for – evaluate players and execution. That is why we have four. I sense that by game 1, the Phins will be ready.

IN THE RAIN IS NOT EASY!!
TRY AND REMEMBER THAT..
and please shut up about B-Marsh..
hes the ish!!
Remember that

Love it!

Good point about the defense. That is probably one of the most overlooked aspect of last week’s game. The defensive gameplan was very basic but they performed well (for the most part).

they have a petition out to stop BM from wearing 19….

c’mon guys, he has over 300 catches in 3 years. He’s got the hands, he’ll be fine.

Can’t wait to see what the D does this year. I also think we’ll have a rookie defensive player of the year (Odrick or Misi).

     I would like to see us get settled on our starting offensive line, but that should happen soon.
     I am a little worried about how we weren’t getting any push out of our D-line. I want to see them do better this week. I know it was in the mud, but the other team was playing in the mud too…. Everything else will be fine on offense and defense as long as the offensive and defensive lines do well it should be a fun season.

because well, it was the first game. And is it really wise to draw much from that? Not imo anyway…

Ask any football coach or go to any training camp at any level, and you’ll see that the defense is almost always ahead of the offense in the early going….even on teams with good offenses. There’s a lot more timing, subtleties, and coherence that an offensive unit requires, especially with some new players being integrated such as BM.

Anyhow, if the offense still looks dodgy come game 3 or 4 of the preseason, then I think it might be reason for concern. For now though, especially out of game 1, I’m looking more at how backups, young players, and the bubble players are doing….these earliest games are paramount for them

which stands for Dirt Infield Sucks Syndrome

it seems to hit me every pre-season and lasts until the Marlins baseball season is concluded.

my wife loves to hear me bitch about it the first few weeks of the season EVERY FREAKIN YEAR.

Nice post. That is how I like to start my mornings!!

CLS..,….ahahahahhahhahaha

You have a interesting style of writing Lefty. Love it man!!

Nat said it. Defense is always ahead of offense at this point in the season. The CLS’ers should take a prozac and calm down!!

LOLOLOLOLOL CLS just may be the next clinically diagnosed behavior disorder from the FDA.

They lacked concentration. Illegal procedure penalities and dropped passes point to this. The Buc’s #1 offense played pretty well. The Buc’s looked ready. Freeman was 4-4 with a TD against the Phins #1 Defense. I don’t remember offside penalities. It didn’t seem that the rain and field conditions affected them.

I want to see more crispness in JAX from the offense. Know the snap count. Catch the ball. Concentrate. When players step on the field they should be expected to be on top of their game. I am not sure if the #1 offense had that sense of urgency last weekend. That’s what I want to see in JAX.

And no the sky isn’t falling, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be disappointed in the effort.

people thought the sky is falling for the offense. TS just needs to figure out his line and everything will be fine. Rest Jerry Tony! I know he probably our best guard but we have depth for a reason!

loved the CLS bit.

i think the thing about the first preseason game is that we have been so starved thru the off season that when it gets here we jump all over it like a pack of ravionous dogs and way over anilyze it. the fans for the most part will settle once we get a few more games under our belts.

as my great grand pappy use to say: sometimes a good smack in the face is all it takes to get ya brain back to working.

Its just the 1st preseason game.

gets all scared for nothing, its the dolphins..people woory about there team..its been so long since weve had a team to get excited about, we know what to expect so relax and wait for the season..hopefully Marshall goes off on the JETS when i go to miami week 3!!

I’m so glad someone isn’t being a Debbie Downer on this site.

But this week, many of the same people that were very optimistic about the 2010 squad have apparently come down with a bad case of “Chicken Little Syndrome” (CLS)

^ While I am not ready to “bet the farm that we win the SuperBowl”, I have never given up on the Fins! I think by the time I am 35, I will have got to see them play in a Super Bowl as an adult! I truly believe this and the way our team is so young, I do not see why other people do not believe also!

my wife and kids thought i was crazy but it is nice to see i am not the only one

it’s coming to the point where I am getting slightly concerned about the offense. I can understand the offensive line shuffling early in training camp, but we are quickly approaching week one. It’s time for our staff to figure out whom is going to start and stick with it(I’d say Incongito-Grove-Jerry left-right).

According to this report, some starting jobs have already been won.

Center: Berger (interesting)
Safety: Clemons (expected)
RE: Odrick (expected)
OLB: Misi (expected)

Looks like the two guard spots are still up for grabs. I expect Jerry to get the RG job, assuming he’s healthy.

It appears that Ryan Grice-Mullen has been shown the door to make room for the new offensive lineman. He’s not here today.

Increased blitzing does not necessarily mean good things. Most quality QB’s in the NFL prefer a defense to blitz, knowing their WR’s will be single covered somewhere on the field.

It’s knowing when to blitz, who to blitz and how to blitz.

Yes, it might mean a couple more takeaways in the course of a season, but it also can mean your chances of getting burned increase.

The best defense is more of a positionally correct defense with occasional blitzes from the proper personnel.

I’m sure Mike Nolan knows what he’s doing though. :/

rec’d

Newly signed OG Randy Thomas worked with the starting offensive line at left guard during the second team period.

Does anyone else find it disconcerting that a FA just of the street is already working with the first team?

ungodly mud and are looking forward to the next game. lets move on from this butt ugly first game business. i hope they don’t take it too seriously and we shouldnt either. its wednesday evening.

Not to be confused with Cleo Lemon Syndrome

(and the fish wraps are the biggest offenders) is it looked like they would have run the ball 45 times and they would have done it with great success had it been a real game. Ronnie looked STRONG in the game, and there seemed to be a good push off the line… yes coach said d-line has issues in those conditions, but that just further reinforces my first point… that had it been a real game – the passing issues would have never happened.

Now the real concern – is the secondary looked like they picked up right were they left off. Smith had a couple shakey tackles (yes he made the plays but it didn’t look like solid square hits) Davis gets burned deep, and the FS wiffs on a 3rd and long play allowing a first down. I know it’s the first game but i’d like to see a little more improvement.