Nolan Carroll had a rough night as did the rest of the defense. However there are two SOTG gameballs to hand out.
Benny Sapp for getting beaten on 3 touchdowns, bouncing off a guy at the five yardline instead of tackling him, and getting burned repeatedly by a tight end. Insert "Average Unnamed NFL Nickelback" in Sapp's place and we're probably in overtime.
Brian Daboll for having no semblance of a running game. I realize when we got behind we had to throw, but 4th and goal from the 1 foot line and we throw a fade? And what was that shit with Soliai in the backfield and he runs to the line and then pass blocks nobody? I'm pretty sure Chad Henne was our rushing yards leader tonight.
Sapp got burned on the Welker TD, He got burned repeatedly by Gronkowski in the first half, they threw another touchdown over him and when Hernandez caught the ball at the 5 it was Sapp who bounced off him instead of actually trying to tackle him.
Sapp is a pile of ashes right now somewhere around the 30 yard line where he fell trying to chase Wes Welker.
It's one thing when a guy gets beat, but you're nickel corner and you can't cover a tight end? And it wasn't like they were lobs over his head and Gronkowski beat him with his height advantage. He just fucking ran by him on a number of crossing routes.
Carroll had a run of bad plays on one series against Deion Branch and gave up a TD.
I'm with ya on a few things here, BigDaddy (damn, that sounds weird callin' you that.
). First of all, I thought Sapp was even more worthless than Carroll was, though both of their *performances* were pretty heinous either way...I'd just say that Sapp's was more consistently heinous, aside from that one heads-up play he made early in the 3rd quarter that of course led to Odrick's INT. idk, maybe Sapp was just out there more than Carroll since he's supposed to be our nickel corner, but either way, he just got
routinely toasted tonight.
Like you, I was also wondering about some of those questionable/terrible goal line plays, like when Soliai was in there (why? Seriously, what did he offer on that play besides being a big fatty? He didn't even really try to block anybody) as well as the 4th and goal fade. My buddy and I were both screamin' about that one, and he's not even a Dolphins fan.
I don't understand why nfl teams throw so much from the 1 yard line. like the cowboys game last night, they run on first down, then go shotgun and almost throw a pick 6, the shotgun again and romo scrambles forward and fumbles. like wtf.
How many plays did sapp blow vs. carroll. i thought most of them were carroll (28), I know the welker one was sapp. Sean smith still sucks too. and vontae talked a big game and was garbage.
You're right here, too, Tepop. I think there's plenty of blame to go 'round in the secondary for this one, though I would say that Sapp and Carroll were particularly bad offenders. I'm actually not sure how bad Smith was just because I felt like when he started giving up plays, it was after I first noticed him hurting/cramping up or whatever, but maybe I just didn't realize it was him earlier in the game if/when it was. Vontae was particularly disappointing after all that talk he'd been doing. He didn't seem to be doing jack shit out there, either. Like I said, plenty of blame to go around!
Carroll and Sapp were garbage. I've always disliked Sapp, but Carroll is creeping up on him as my most hated player on this team.
And finally.....This. Sapp's definitely one of my least faves on the team right now, if not my least fave. That still pisses me off that we traded him for Camarillo (because one of my other "least faves", even if he did have a TD for us today, is Brian Hartline, and I wish we had Camarillo still just to bench Hartline for him)...really bad. As for Carroll, I had high hopes for him, and while it's still early in the young guy's career, it seems like when he gets put out there, he doesn't make many positive plays and mostly has negative ones if he's noticed.
I mean, it's pretty bad when I'm watching it with a *neutral* fan (he's a Bengals fan, not a 'Phins fan, but like any self-respecting human being, he despises the Patriots
), and of course he's gonna try to at least be nice about the Dolphins around me, and even he's saying (not just agreeing, but stating it of his own accord) that "#27 and #28's asses need to be sitting on the bench".
*sigh* All of this negativity just to say--at least our offense looked good other than a few mediocre offensive linemen!
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