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I'm giving it equally to Bess and Henne with HM to Bell.

Sounds like a good game ball award to me.

Henne had his best game (injured mind you) without Brandon Marshall. That says something. It might say that the Raiders really suck. OR it says Marshall is a bit of a cancer on our offense and might be in Henne's head. Chad thinking he has to get him the ball and force things to him. Which is effecting Henne's play.

What STL said.

YB had a great game, but can't overshadow Bess.  Big catches on 3rd and longs to convert, and a great 40-something yard punt return.

Bess gets the game ball, with HM to Henne and YB

good call, I gree with you on that

Bess

Marshall for sitting this one out and letting Miami's offense but balanced.

Thanks, Brandon.  Feel free to sit them all out.

Bess...I love you man  :o

HM Raiders game plan against us.....Silly Raiders,don't you know we struggle to throw against soft zone coverage......

Can't argue with Bess...can't argue with Henne. Both played outstanding games.

With that said, I'm going to give my game ball to an obscure player who easily had his best game as a pro, in an area that we'd been hurting, and it had a direct effect on Miami getting this big win.

I nominate:  Backup S and special teamer, Jonathon Amaya

In his first 4 games since being promoted from the practice squad, Amaya had 4 total tackles. On Sunday, he had 4 solo tackles on special teams, with two of them being very nice open field jobs that could have led to decent return yards had it not been for the excellent wrap-up skills of Amaya.

He didn't make any highlight reels, but it was a very solid performance anyway.

I think the game ball needs to go to Mike Nolan for the defensive scheme which held the second highest rushing offense in the NFL to 16 yds. The fact that Oakland couldn't run the ball obviously hurt their offense and helped the Fin's offense gain confidence (better field position, not having to play from behind most of the game, etc).

I agree with both Stl Fin Fan and Philly Fin Fan.  I'm giving mine to Bess and Henne with an Honorable Mention to Mike Nolan.

I'm giving mine to Andre Johnson who knows how to finish!!

Ok So I can't do that ...  I'm going with Henne for showing that a QB makes all the difference. We were a different team with him versus without him. Now if Henning would just realize that. 

I'll give mine to Bess.  Clutch.  HM to whomever decided to run the effing ball finally!  Can we all agree that running the ball 30-40 times is the key to offensive success?

^^^ It makes those Play action fakes,actually mean something....  :o :P :D

Not necessarily, but if we're within a score or so, we should definitely keep trying to run it, that we can agree on.

I can't say I completely agree either. I think it was an aberration that Miami was able to have 79 offensive plays in the game. In a typical game if we ran the ball 40 times I would expect we would only pass it a handful and we don't run the ball that well.

^^ The way I see it, running the ball 30 times is not what wins the game for you, it's the reverse.  Playing from ahead in the game is what allows you to run the ball 30 times.

The unsung hero in this game was the defense.  They did an absolutely amazing job shutting down the running game of Oakland.

My game ball goes to the Dolphins Defense.  They only gave up 10 points and pretty much all of those points came from just 2 plays.  Other than those 2 plays Oakland's offense was non existant.

Ok, maybe not 40 times, but half of the time at least.   The Fins consistently seem to score more when they feature the run game first and passing game second.

The Fins seem to consistently score more when the running game WORKS.