Shame of the Game - @ OAK, 11/28/10

[Spider-Dan]

Carpenter, I guess?  The effort all-around was pretty good.

[Dave Gray]

Yeah -- 2 missed kicks made the game closer than it really was.

[dolphins4life]

Henning

[StL FinFan]

I hesitate to give it to anyone, but he did miss 2 FG, so I guess Carpenter.

[raptorsfan29]

Carpenters misses weren't exactly chip shots. 49 and 51 yards.

[Brian Fein]

Benny Sapp for not being able to cover that Jacoby Ford dude all day and getting abused on the opening kickoff coverage.

[bsmooth]

Henning

Reasoning?

[CF DolFan]

^^^ Stalling our offense at every opportunity. I think he would rather prove he can run the wildcat than win a game.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Carpenter is the Dolphins entire fucking offense this season the Dolphins have scored more FG than TD, he should be the team MVP. 

[Cathal]

^^^ Stalling our offense at every opportunity. I think he would rather prove he can run the wildcat than win a game.

Pretty much this. ^^^ How many good chunks of ground were made when Henne would throw the ball, to only be screwed because two Wildcats were called and Henne had 3rd and long? Read the Live Blog and you'll see a lot of folks complaining that Henning seems to want to just screw the offense as much as possible.

[Tenshot13]

Sapp

[JVides]

Pretty much this. ^^^ How many good chunks of ground were made when Henne would throw the ball, to only be screwed because two Wildcats were called and Henne had 3rd and long? Read the Live Blog and you'll see a lot of folks complaining that Henning seems to want to just screw the offense as much as possible.

NO NO NO.  Disagreed.  The Dolphins need to run the damned ball.  If running "stalls" a team that scores 33 points, what does doing nothing but pass do to a team that gets shut out by the Bears?  The offense must remained balanced.  For this to happen, they need to run the ball like they did yesterday.

[Spider-Dan]

Agreed with everything JVides said.  Unless you are being blown out, you need to stick with the run (even when it is unsuccessful) to do two things:

1) keep the other team defending honestly
2) wear down their line so you can have success in the 4th

I can't agree with this idea of only running the ball if we are doing good at it.  It doesn't take a professional offensive coordinator to know that if they can't stop the run, keep running.  It's when they are stopping the run that you need to show perseverance and stick with it (provided the game is not out-of-hand).

[Cathal]

NO NO NO.  Disagreed.  The Dolphins need to run the damned ball.  If running "stalls" a team that scores 33 points, what does doing nothing but pass do to a team that gets shut out by the Bears?  The offense must remained balanced.  For this to happen, they need to run the ball like they did yesterday.

Wow. I agree that a team needs to be able to have a good run game, like the Dolphins did at the start of the year, but calling the WILDCAT all the time stalls every drive we have. I want them to be able to pound the ball, but NOT with the wildcat. I thought I made that clear.

[fyo]

NO ONE is saying that we shouldn't run the ball. Even run the ball OFTEN. The problem is in very specific game situations... Like once we get inside the red zone, situations like the 2nd and 18 at the edge of field goal range... stuff like that. Situations where Henning clearly gets EXTREMELY conservative and appears perfectly content with a field goal... and with our anemic rushing this year (and predictability of his play calling in these situations -- NO ONE was fooled by the run on 2nd and 18, which gained all of 2 yards), that's a recipe for leaving a lot of points on the board. Yesterday, it kept the game close for way too long.