Finhead's Musings: Thoughts on the Miami Dolphins and more.

I have a few things brewing in my head this week, which is always dangerous, but I figured I'd share a few thoughts. When I'm not speaking about specific topics I tend to drift so I'll put this one in bullet format.

1) Is anyone else a little disappointed about Miami's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs? I don't mean for those on the "Suck for Luck" wagon, but for those that wondered why Miami couldn't have played like that in any of their previous 7 games?

2) If not for Miami's 3 fourth quarter blown leads (they have now held a lead in seven games overall), Miami would be 4-4 and only one game out of first place.  Thinking about that brought on a bit of nausea.

3) I still want Andrew Luck badly, but I am excited for the win.  I never want(ed) Miami to lose.  I would still prefer Miami to make a trade for the #1 pick and the chance to draft Andrew Luck.  That has been my preferred method.  I'm still rooting for some wins from the Indianapolis Colts though in case Miami goes back on another seven game skid, but here is to hoping this week was the first of many victories so the second half isn't so painful.  I'm going to root 100% against the Rams though since they're the most likely team to make a trade and make my wish come true.

4) We now know what Miami can do when they utilize their players properly.  Reggie Bush has been solid over his past four games and I'm excited what he and Daniel Thomas can do out of the backfield with a new regime that knows how to run an offense.

5) Can people please lay off Anthony Fasano a bit now?  He's not an exciting TE, but he is solid.  It'd be great to have a vertical threat TE like Greg Olsen, but TE is not a weakness on this team.  If we can just get another TE that can be the receiving threat it would be great.  I'm hoping Charles Clay becomes that player though because he has the athleticism to be that vertical threat we want from a TE and he's finally being used more.

6) So this is what Miami's offense can do when they protect their QB?  We have some holes to fill on offense, but we do have a lot of talent on the offensive side of the ball.

7) A big thanks to Miami's defensive front seven for waking up.  I still think the secondary is struggling though, but Sean Smith did have a better game than he's had in recent weeks.

8) Miami still needs to improve their 3rd down offense.  I can't give them perfect grades for this past game, right?

9) Can we please stop these dumb penalties such as illegal shifts?  We shouldn't be making those penalties at this point in the season.

10) Dumb of Vontae Davis for his recent actions, but I don't agree with the people who want to trade him.  People are too quick to pull that trigger.  If a single character flaw/slip up would be enough to run away from a player, we never would've drafted Dan Marino.

11) Watching Aaron Rodgers makes me cry.  For all the crap people say about how we've could've taken Matt Ryan over Jake Long, just think we could've had Rodgers over Ronnie Brown. Jake Long protecting Rodgers... excuse me for a moment as I look for some tissues.