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Whoever was responsible for that horrible clock management.

I can't give it to Ginn for that "Drop" which was a very tough play.  He had like 11 catches, and almost all of them converted third or fourth downs.

Let's not beat ourselves up over this.  The Dolphins were 0-2 last year, remember.   

Defense.  Allowing over 10 yards per play.

Pennington for his awful clock management with the game on the line. And Gabril Wilson played like a girl, getting his ass beat all night.

Ted Ginn!

What a terrible WR. He's so scared to take a hit (he ducked one out of bounds earlier), and then dropped the game-winning TD!!

Honorable Mention: The Wildcat.

Honorable Mention #2: Game Management (clock management)

Side Notes: The Wildcat simply does not work in the National Football League. I don't care how many yards per attempt the Wildcat gained against the Colts, who have the worst defense in history. It simply DOES NOT WORK in the NFL. How am I so sure of this? Because when the Colts went up 27-23, and there were 3 minutes left on the clock and ACTUAL NFL football needed to be played, it was absolutely pathetic by the Dolphins. They are running the slow-huddle, traditional 1st quarter offense with 1 timeout, down by 4, and on your own 15 yard line? And then completely blowing over a minute of time doing absolutely nothing but huddling and Chad Pennington waving to the crowd?? Then you allow completely tired DL's and DE's to beat your offensive linemen on pass protection, including an almost game-losing fumble by the Colts DL? Pathetic. And where was Ronnie Brown on the final drive?? Horrible.

This should have been a total Dolphins destruction of the Colts. Instead, they played cutesy, used gadgets, gimmicks, tricks, trickeration, and show. But when it was all said and done and NFL football was needed, the Dolphins simply could not deliver it.

...Oh...and they play @ San Diego next. I hear the Statue of Liberty works well against Shawne Merriman

Pennington.  You're supposed to be the veteran and that clock management was that of an 8 year old playing in his first pee-wee league game. 

to jtex

Dave should give us the power to delete comments in our own threads.  The wildcat kicked ass tonight

And please, shut up about Ginn, if everyone else on the team had played HALF as good as he did tonight, the fish win easily

Ginn.

I agree, especially how the defense was nice enough to let the colts take the lead going 80 yards in 4 plays to give pennington all that time to drive down the field.

The Dolphins really suck. Give it to the entire defense for letting Manning throw for over 300 on 14 completions.

CHANNING FUCKING CROWDER.   Missed tackles, and because of him we need to play Zone instead of man to man.  He's just not helping our corners out at all. WTF did we give him a new Contract? He's all mouth and no action. 

I LOVE how the commentary of the whole game was about how little the Colts had the ball...they were fucking scoring with 3 plays!!!

Colts drives:

Dallas Clark 80 yard TD pass from Peyton Manning (Adam Vinatieri extra point is GOOD), 14:48
Drive: 1 play, 80 yards in 0:12 

Donald Brown 15 yard TD run (Adam Vinatieri extra point is GOOD), 10:06
Drive: 6 plays, 79 yards in 3:17

Pierre Garcon 48 yard TD pass from Peyton Manning (Adam Vinatieri extra point is GOOD), 3:18
Drive: 4 plays, 80 yards in 0:32  I

fuck this defense is bad.

That offensive play calling was TERRIBLE.  running the ball with 3 minutes left deep in your own territory?  Sure, their run D sucks almost as bad as our pass D but shit dude!!!

My Shame of the Game goes to Gibril Wilson.  On ALL THREE of those drives, he missed a tackle that could've stopped those touchdowns!!!!!  On the final TD with Garcon, he just tagged him!!!  On top of that, he dropped a pick late in the 2nd quarter that led to an Indy field goal!!!!!  Gibril, you're a piece of shit!!!  We should've NEVER paid you all that money to come from NY and Oakland!!!!!

Honorable Mention goes to that official who failed to call pass intereference on whoever was covering Ted Ginn in the end zone in the closing seconds.  That was clear pass interference!!!!!!

^^^

I thought so too, but on the replay, there was no PI

Good call

The refs did a good job tonight 

I think Steve Young and ech ... Matt Millen said it best. The Dolphins played about as well as they can play tonight but came up short.  I can't give the shame to anyone because we did about as good as we could do. We are who we thought we were!!

My shame goes out to Dink and Dunk !!  

Gibril Wilson

There are too many, but I'll give it a shot....

Wilson for sucking hard on coverage and tackling.

Akin for not sticking it to Clark on the first play of the game.

Fasano for missing an easy touchdown pass that went right through his hands.

Ginn...who if it weren't for Ronnie Brown might also get my game ball...for missing two catches in the endzone.

Crowder for the Donald Brown run and the long Clark catch.

Penny for his bad clock management and noodle arm (and being an ex Jet  :o).

So, if I had to give a for sure shame of the game it would go to Wilson.  Yeah, maybe it wasn't you're assignment to cover Clark or make that tip INT, but you're a safety for a reason...like as in SAFETY NET so big plays happen/don't happen.  You sucked a big one tonight man.

The defense who managed to not tackle twice resulting in two long scores and for giving up 27 points in what amounted to less than 1 quarter of football.

Gerbil Wilson for his truly horrendous tackling and apparent DUI approach to choosing an angle when closing.

Coaching for clock management at the end of the game. I thought the 400 level was going to jump and tackle sporano for the horrible wasting of time

I don't know if I should be happy or sad that SportsChick (who also happens to be a Pats fan) is the only other one who can at least recognize that the coaching may have been responsible for the lack of two minute drill effectiveness. Truth of the matter is we don't know if the issue was on the field or the sideline so you really can't blame either individually unless you know where the problem was. There was a breakdown though.

I want to blame Ginn for dropping what should have been the game winning TD, but Wilson was absolutely horrible last night.

There was no sense of urgency from the offense. That is the QB regardless. That didn't lose the game but it did reflect poorly on him regardless of the coaching. Ultimately the coaches take the blame but the blame seems to be spread IMO.

Sparano took the responsibility for poor clock management at the end of the game.  In his post game press conference, he said "that's on me..."  Pennington didn't directly point the finger but he said the same thing after the game as well. 

For this, Sparano gets the shame of the game.  Three minutes with 2 timeouts (never mind they stupidly wasted one earlier in the half) is PLENTY of time to march 75 yards and score.  If you use it right.  Couyple that with the shitty conservative play calling, and the choice is clear.  Sparano and his staff.

Ted Ginn dropped a catchable ball, but the DB was pushing his arm.  You guys are too quick to jump on Ginn for every little thing.  He caught 11 balls, he had a decent game!  Fasano dropped a ball in the end zone too - let's run his ass out of town!

Pennington is not to blame for bad clock management.

Gibril Wilson played like crap too, but he picked that ball.  I hate that "going to the ground with possession" rule.

Shame to the  DEFENSE

1. Let Dallas Clark open the game up with a TD  not even a minute in.

2. Allowing rookie Donald brown to run it up the freakin gut on ya asses.

3. Letting D. Clark once again to burn ya down the stretch

4. The Garcon score... pfffffffffttt WTF  man.

5.  Making Manning have his 37th come from behind win on National TV .


Offense was poorly managed at the last quarter,   eating clock when you are behind.  ::)

This one is on Sparano.  He played for field goals and got lucky with most of them.  He also got lucky when they didn't manage to find a way to stop our run and we actually found the end zone.

The Wildcat masked what was the most conservatively called Monday night game I have ever seen by a single team.  Even the Wildcat was conservative as it was purely designed to run the ball.

How can you expect to beat Manning/Wayne/Clark by playing for field goals?  It was sooo conservative that we didn't do any different while time was running out and we were about to lose.

We have seen this coaching strategy before, any guesses on who I am talking about?  Hint: Looked like a seventies porn star.  How did that work out?

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Tuna,

Please tell your understudy to take the damn handcuffs off of his veteran quarterback.  You spent a ton of money on making sure that your QB (who happens to be the most accurate in NFL history) has time to sit there and make a decision on where to throw the ball.  Your understudy seems to think that 1st downs are more important than scoring.  As you can see, this does not work against good teams.  This year, all we play are good teams. 

Unless you are trying to setup Chad Pennington to fail in order to gain support for bringing in your draft pick, you should reconsider your teams approach to game strategy.  Last time I looked, nobody out there is wearing a leather helmet.  It is time to move into the present and try playing to win instead of playing not to lose.

P.S. - Jets are 2-0 with a rookie QB and Head Coach.  They actually try to be explosive.  Your team is 0-2 and seems to spend more time preying not to lose the football in a turnover than figuring out a way to get the ball down the field.  Oh, and your defensive backfield sucks.

To the defensive back 7, here's a shame of the game!  Unable to penetrate the offensive side of the line of scrimmage, allergic to form tackling or basic coverage of the tight end. 

Special noteworthy mention to whomever decided that sending eight at Peyton Manning was going to result in anything other than a large gain.  You DON'T send the HOUSE to Peyton Manning!