Game Ball - Patriots 2

[dolphins4life]

Jay Cutler

[Tenshot13]

Howard for 2 INTS

HM Drake, Cutler, Landry

[Dolphster]

Split that ball in half and give a piece to both Cutler and Drake.  And we'll buy Xavien a beer while we are at it.

[CF DolFan]

Lots of great performances tonight but Howard was key to shutting Brady down. I’m going to say Drake for offense and Howard for defense.

[dolphins4life]

HM to Gronkowksi for getting suspended for this game 

[mecadonzilla]

D4L continues to be a huge Patriot fan in the loss.

[Tenshot13]

D4L continues to be a huge Patriot fan in the loss.

Speaking of which, Hoodie is awfully quiet

[hordman]

Kenyan Drake......2 weeks in a row!!!!!

Love coming on this board after a Dolphins win

[hordman]

Speaking of which, Hoodie is awfully quiet

[fyo]

Howard and Cutler both played as close to perfect games as they come. They'll have to split it.

Cutler had 3 touchdowns, zero ints (and nothing even close), and a 112 passer rating that would have been a lot better if 1) Parker had hands, 2) Grant had caught that long bomb that went right through his hands.

Howard totally locked down Cook (and Amandola, when he was on him). Cook's single reception came in zone coverage when he was covered by the safety. Two interceptions helped Brady on his way to a dismal 59.5 passer rating.

HM to pretty much everyone, in particular Drake for the 193 yards from scrimmage and the defensive line for putting a whole lot of pressure on Brady and forcing him to get rid of the ball quickly. Branch, Wake, Suh, and Philips all did a great job. (Where the **** have these guys been all season??).

I'm almost tempted to give the game ball to a coach. The offensive game plan in the first half was inspired. Exactly the kind of thing you have to do against the Patriots with lots of strange plays (but without being gimmicky). Things got a little more traditional in the second half, but that's the way it goes. And hats off to Burke for putting together a great plan to stop Brady. Again, lots of looks that were just a little bit different. Some interesting stunts, safety blitzes, linebacker blitzes, etc. On the one drive where the Patriots really moved the ball, the defense was actually right there, but just missed their tackles. Fortunately, the missed tackles seemed to confine themselves to that one drive.

[Dave Gray]

I am completely split on the game ball.  Ultimately, I'm choosing Jay Cutler.  He played a perfect game, basically.  His stats should've even been better, as he had some big drops.  No big mistakes, smart play, making plays with his feet -- all of it.  He was spectacular.

But if ever Xavian Howard should get a game ball, it was this week.  He was lights out.

HMs to both Drake and Landry.
And Gase -- play calling was good.  Lots of shunts and reversing field stuff.  ...and the right amount of big plays/dump offs/running ratio.

[masterfins]

Lots of options this week, I'm going with Howard - without his play the Dolphins don't win in spite of all the other great performances.

HM to Drake, Cutler, and even Burke.

It was like some other players happened to inhabit the Dolphins uniforms last night.  My memory may be off, but didn't the dolphins kick ass last year when they wore the throwbacks?

[DaLittle B]

For me
Game ball Offense to K.Drake - For the complete game,not just for the highlight reel stuff he did,but the awesome block he did on the blitz pick up,on the deep pass Grant dropped.The hard fighting yards,and even for pulling out a Abdul-Jabbar impression a couple of times....

Game ball defense - X.Howard,2 picks against Denver,ok their Qb sucks,but 2 picks against T.Brady...

Slight rant- I hope I get proved wrong with our front office,and this game proves to the front office,No big trades,no big signing in the secondary.2018 Let use roll with Howard on one side ,Lippett/Tankersly battle on the other side (depending how well Lippett is recovered) Bobby Mccain,T.J McDonald at 1 saftey,R.Jones at the other...(Might need to draft a back up saftey,guy to develop Jones age,and $$) end little rant...

[fyo]

^ I'm not quite clear on what you mean. Is that what you want to happen or what you fear will happen?

[DaLittle B]

I fear the front office will try to make a trade,sign some free agent (I hope I'm proved wrong) ...I want to to roll young, rebuild O-line,LB,TE,etc.