Shame of the Game - Indianapolis

[CF DolFan]

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 !!  

[ethurst22]

Gibril Wilson

[Tenshot13]

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  ).

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.

[BigDaddyFin]

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.

[Dolphster]

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

[SportsChick]

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

[Phishfan]

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.

[CF DolFan]

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.

[Brian Fein]

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.

[DZA]

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.  

[Doc-phin]

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.

[JVides]

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!