Defense leads the way as Dolphins leave Buffalo with a win

It doesn’t matter they both played great! Damn it Henne that should of been a Td for marshall. I think the O line did a great job, but the vikings will be a real test

And stop calling Misi “The Player” or “#55” in his articles?

Yea i see it to. Looks like Ricky is a little heavier and little slower but still looks great. Maybe they dont want brown injured again and gave the ball to ricky late. Weather someone has 20 carries or 13 carries it only takes 1 carry to get hurt. Feed the Beast!!! Oh wait who is the beast, we have 3. And if it wasn’t for 1 underthrown ball we would of had a great day. but thats all it takes in the NFL 1 play will make the difference, just ask the Lions they were robbed.

Anyone realize that put him up with the league leaders! i just thought that was cool for our pass rusher

he wasn’t putting the pressure on the qb like wake did. Misi sack was a coverage sack

even with the couple of drops he had. if Henne hits him on the long pass play. (where he beat a double team badly….by like 3 or 4 yards) his numbers look like this….9 catches for 120 yard and a TD. but maybe the best play marshall made was the crackback block he put on that DB. man that was a nice hit. he sent the guy into next week. Marshall is as good as advertised!

He went through his progressions, and the only few times I saw him actually lock onto a receiver, was after he had gone thru his progressions and was looking for an outlet (usually he locked onto Ronnie or Bess)

The under thrown pass to Marshall, Henne was under a significant amount of pressure and didn’t get to step into the pass….that was all arm baby. But would’ve been nice if it had hit him in stride.

Hartline was invisible on the stat line, but there were several plays where he was wide open. One he had a good 5 yards on his man, and streaking downfield… but Henne got under pressure and scrambled to the other side and never saw him.

Wake, Misi, Clemons and Dansby looked fantastic……and (GULP), Jason Allen was impressive…. even if he did drop an easy pick 6 (same goes for Sapp).

The offense isn’t in mid season form yet….which of course is fine since its only the first game of the season. As far as the deep passing game goes, lets remind ourselves that Buffalo had the second best secondary in the league last year…. They had us well covered for most of the game, and almost all of the second half.

Our offensive line gave Henne all day to throw, the only place Henne really ever had pressure was up the middle….so I hope they address that this week.

Just my $2

This win was pretty vanilla schemed (on both sides of the ball) by design, I think. But as a tune-up it helped and Minnesota doesn’t have any real informative film on us yet.

We’ll see all of what both coordinators have been cooking up next week.

I think mixing it with Ronnie is a good thing. Their styles are complimentary and help to keep D’s a little off balance.
Ronnie getting better as a game progresses? Excellent! We got 15 more for that!

Jason Allen played both sides, to make sure he lined up over Lee Evans…..
Vontae didn’t cover there #1 all game….

Henne & Brandon Marshall would have had the mega-stats if Henne didn’t under throw him (even though Marshall still dropped the ball).

Hartline… 3 Targets, 0 catches. Anyone ready to see some other talent lined up instead of Hartline?

Hartline looks like a High School Football team Wide Receievr.

But I can say that I’m pretty excited with our D. As for the offense…well…it feels great to watch B Marshall catch all those balls, but I guess I understand Henning’s option for the running game. Brown is a stud, no question, the guy rules. Although we are all eager to see some cool passes to Marshall, we are lucky to have a running game led by Brown and Williams.

Things will only get better. =)

Dansby is such an asset. I love having the relablity.

a few throws were late (including the deep ball to Marshall), and some just looked out of rhythm. Some of that was the Bill’s D—in the second half it seemed that they rushed less, dropped everyone into coverage, and gave Henne tight spots to fit the ball, and it seemed to really throw him off. Some of that is probably just inexperience, though, and should get better with more reps.

I was surprise to see them move the ball, well in the first plays of each series, but they ended up stalling and not putting the ball in the endzone.

One negative comment, is the coaching staff said Henne is checking down more than they want. Which I do not think is a totally bad thing, check down live to see another day.

But what wasn’t mentioned at all is the wind that was in the stadium. The wind is always bad at Ralph Wilson, but today it was blowing. Just look at the towels the players wear or the game sheets attached to the belts. Look at the missed FG by very accurate Lindell and DC$. If I were the coach my game plan would have been pound it with the run and throw it underneath where the ball won’t flutter in the wind.

I think the under throw to Marshall got caught up in the wind, still Marshall had it hit him in the chest.

Chad Henne should be getting major props for game management. He did an excellent job IMO after what could have been some circumstances that totally wreck a different QB.

Complain about not giving the ball the Brown in the 4th if you want, but consider this.

The Fins only had the ball limited in the 4th, Ricky is a more than capable RB. All the Fins needed to do was sit on the ball and run out the clock. Maybe Ronnie would have picked up a first down on a run, maybe not. Maybe Cobbs could have picked it up… who knows. But I for one am glad that Ronnie was not in there, a player with injury history who has only made it through a whole season once is fine by me to rest.

Yes you can complain the game wasn’t in the bag, but Ricky could have picked up the yards just as anyone.

Would you have liked Ronnie to twist an ankle carrying in the 4th?

Congrads to the Miami Dolphins win!! the offense will

     begin 2 play better b4 the coming jet game (sept 26).

     but i have 2 say the (Killer B’s) defense is BACK.

     Thanks 2 MIKE NOLAN…DOFense!!!

Feels good. What did the Vikes do that has everyone talking like the Dolphins are agains such long odds? Ok it’s in their dome, so they get a little advantage, but what looked so great about their offense? Petersen will be wrapped up by this front 7 and Farve will be looking up at the roof of the dome. We will bring the heat. The offense will be fine, though Hartline needs to get into the game more.

our corners need to learn how to CATCH THE BALL, we woulda had 2 or 3 pick sixes if they could just learn to FUCKING CATCH THE BALL…defense looked good, although they didn’t have too much resistance, but i am liking this new look Nolan defense, gonna fun to watch…offense looked great in the 1st half, completely stalled in the 2nd half…Weapon X looks great (haha Gus Johnson called him that, i LOVE that name) fun as hell to watch him with the ball in his hands…btw, i HATE that tape he wears on his arms, looks so bad, can’t he just wear a long sleeve underarmour…running game was solid…i think the wildcat is done, it was completely ineffective…perhaps if we throw out of it to catch defenses off guard it could be more effective…overall solid performance, got some things to work on though

first the good – Clemmons was all over the field – his 4.41 speed (combine) was visible all day – he’s gonna be great with a little more playing time in this system. Dansby, Bell played like the seasoned VETS they are and are the leaders of this defense.
Odrick and Misi – both lived up to expectations (1/2 round picks & starters)…. Jason Allen deserves credit for a job well done… FINALLY… He look well suited to this system as long as he is not straight Man – 4-man…. but come on with the dropped picks !
We need to resign GRANT right away if odrick is limited, as we have no real depth now.
Ronnie/Ricky express looked good – but both need more carries to get in synch.
THE BAD…….
Henning’s offense did little to put away this game – even with the defense holding firm, and stuffing the Bills, again and again. His play calling SUCKS….and he is the weak link on this team…. I will take a win any day – but would we really have beaten the Pats, colts, Ravens, or any good team playing like that ? Hell we put up 13 points with our offense !
Henne deserves some of the blame, as he look slow in his progression reads all day long. He was slow to throw the ball too often even when the guy was open… and then there’s HARTLINE…. very poor game from him…. Yea I know he was open some times and henne missed him – but he already dropped more passes than Camarillo did last year…(nuff said) I think he will pick it up,.. but he didnt look great out there… anyone notice that Marlon Moore got in the game ? wonder why…
BUT THE BLAME FOR THIS OFFENSE LIES WITH HENNING… period…. We have enough talent to sore 28 per week….Nolan did a much better job and is an upgrade !

Here is the Brandon Marshall block. Boom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0zGNG6boY

It was a run play to his side. He blocked the DB back and then peeled off and “laid-out” the persuing player (don’t know position).

It was awesome!!

to start off the season anytime.

The defense looked great, but it was the Bills and the 1st game of the season. We all knew they didn’t have a o-line. We’ll see how the season goes. I’m not ready to call them great just like I’m not ready to call Henne awful.

Speaking if Henne, I’m kinda thinking its time for our offense to “grow up”. Stop with the gadget plays aka ‘Wildcat". Henne and the offense proved they can move the ball without last year. Is Henne checking down now because he doesn’t want to make a mistake because he knows who is behind him? The father of all checkdowns.

Personally, I think it is Henning, probably the result of Parcells. Parcells has always not like to take chances and run the ball. Its just oo much of a coincidence that when our defense is paying great our offense doesn’t score sh*t. When our offense is struggling, (usually) our offense can throw up some points.

I jump on the Fire Henning bandwagon that continues to grow.

I’m driving this MF’er. Please Matty, you aren’t the one to criticize play-calling? How many times over the past couple of years have you brought up a very stupid, WTH were they thinking, plays especially in the red zone. Its time to move on.

I do wonder if Henne was told not to go deep because of how agressive Buffalo’s secondary is.

Offense seemed to sputter after the quick 3 and out after we used the WC twice in a row. I could see bringing it out near the goal line to confuse, but there was no need for it at that point in the game IMO.

Only 1 of 3 teams to win on the road!

We are 1-0 and avoided stumbling out of the gates. It was a game we were supposed to win and did. That’s what playoff teams do so it is a good start.

That said..

I’m in no way sold on our D being a juggernaut of any sort but….you can only play the opponents on the schedule and Miami did a good job making the bills offense look like that of a pop gun!

On the other side of the ball, the offense, particularly in the passing game, is going to need to seriously turn it up if we are to have any chance in Minnesota. The vikings are superb against the run and that will make this a game we are unlikely to win on the strength of ronnie & ricky. That D allowed all of 14 points on the road to the superbowl champs.

Oftentimes when the games start for real, we get some answers to the questions we have about our team. Yet in this case, I think maybe more were brought up for Miami than were answered.

“A number of times, Henne was given time to throw, scanned the field, and seemingly took the check down rather than going for the big play. Was that by design? Did the coaches tell him to avoid any risky throws at all costs? Or were there simply no receivers open down field?”

I feel like there probably weren’t guys open down the field. He probably is checking down too much, but Buffalo has a great pass defense. You combine Henne not wanting to throw the game away with their great pass D and you get checkdowns all day long.

Can’t wait to see what we do next week.

for the whole game. 1 penalty by the dolphins.

impressive

He had one catch in the 1st three quarters and five in the 4th quarter. Marshall can’t be a one man show like how he was in the first 3 quarters. These guys need to step up and help him out. A very frustrating performance by our receivers but it was the first game against a great secondary. I want to see the rest of the WR’s get involved more starting next game.

a few things I want to point out:

Wake is the real deal, albeit he was beating up on Bell (who no one is fond of on the Buffalo Ramblings Site)

Misi played very solid…so was this a good thing that Ike was sick?

I focused on Clemons the entire game (being a former safety I love to watch that position play)…and from what I saw he only blew one coverage the entire night (and it was a short route that would have been about an 8 yard grab). He really wowed me and hopefully he continues to impress. Can we all back off of him just a little bit now….sometimes Sparano knows what he is talking about….sometimes ; )

i said it man thhe sky is not falling and everyone was worried. look we arent there yet but we have the pieces. the only thing that worries me is henne not trying to fit things in but thats a double edged sword. you guys are a little angry abotu him being conservative but imagien if he was “forcing” throws then you guys lose you heads completely. he throws a pick and we lose hes sucks hes conservative and we win and hes a p*ssy. i dont understand you guys are never happy. i mean yeh i get it man we couldve gone down the field more we couldve couldve but we own plain and simple so we look to the vikings. front seven needs to sure up the protection but he had all day soemtimes too so it went both ways,

I dont know if our D matches up as good as the Saints, but if we can rattle favre the way the saints did, we could have a pretty good shot at beating these guys…and of course we need to see the long ball but i feel if the O-line is good and bess/fasano can be sure things…then our run offense will definitely get us the W we need