We won't go Anywhere with Sparano

Carpenter had already cleanly hit a 41 and a 53 yard field goal (the latter I believe being the longest of his career) and was clearly on. They had a favorable wind when/where they were kicking. Given our special team's recent propensity towards messing something up, trying on 3rd down makes even more sense due to the chance to retry the kick (albeit from slightly longer) due to a botched snap/hold.

If you have faith in your kicker, and everything is going your way, you take you shot to win the game.
You are complaining about Sparano being too conservative. You are also complaining that we did not "play it safe" by trying to get extra yardage on third down. If you think that going for it on third down wasn't conservative enough, how can Sparano be too conservative?

 

Really?
Carpenter has the wind to his back to win it.
And guess what?
He won the game. In overtime.
Would throw the ball in that situation

 

And to prove this guy wrong even more. The Redskins kicked a FG on 3rd down in OT last week. The Texans kicked a FG on 3rd down a couple weeks before that. Last year teams who made FG's before 4th down in OT: New Orleans in week 13, Baltimore in week 12, Chiefs in week 11, Cincy in week 4, Pittsburgh in week 1. So in 11 OT games last year decided by a FG, 5 the FG came before 4th down, 6 on 4th down. And on 5 of those 6, the kicker had already missed at least 1 FG already.

This is a common practice whether you like it or not, and judging by the 6 blocked punts/FG's we've had during the preseason/season, it was a great call as far as I'm concerned.

 

My reply:

Dallas/Washington going into the half.

We won on the 3rd down field goal without incident.

 

Did you see the final score?

 

Beginning of the 2nd quarter. Quinn Johnson came up the middle and got his fingertips on the ball resulting in a 29 yard punt.

 

Bobby Carpenter missed on the block bigtime too if I remember correctly

 

And your point is? Again, 6 blocked punts/fg's in the season/preseason and a pro bowl kicker. I'd say kicking the ball on 3rd down is more important than risking a fumble or having the FG blocked/bad snap on 4th down and not getting another shot.

 

Sorry...Who are u?

 

Well done with your discussion.

 

It's not like we have a pro bowl kicker or anything who has 4 or 5 game winning FG's in his short career.

 

The day that we do not attempt to make a kick with the ball at the 26 is the day that I quit watching Dolphins football. You can exaggerate "44 yard field goal" all that you like. The ball was at the 26. With guys making 1 million per year just to kick the football, I don't think it's too much to ask something that high school kids do every friday night.

 

That's correct.

 

No discussion. I read the 1st post and LOL'd.

That is how I responded.

(side note) If you think I wanted him to die(you know,for real) You are mistaken.

 

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Actually he didn't miss a block. He got a good piece of that guy. After that kick I started looking at Fields thinking, "WTF takes so long?"

 

It makes all the sense in the world when you have a pro bowl kicker with 4 or 5 game winning FG's under his belt, and a ST unit that's allowed 6 blocks in the season/preseason. You're just not trying to make any sense out of it. Common theme among trolls/debbie downers.

 

I like how you are trying to keep up appearances of arguing a halfway coherent point when you started a thread titled "We won't go Anywhere with Sparano".

 

We will never WIN the AFC East with Sparano
We will never make the Playoffs with Sparano
We will never be above .500 with Sparano
We will never win on the road with Sparano
We will never win a game in OT with Sparano

SOAPBOX meet thread.....thread meet SOAPBOX!

 

And your assuming we're going to pick up 9 yards to make it a 35 yard field goal. Which is very unlikely to happen.

 

In overtime? Kicking on third is an option that hardly anybody argues. It is erring on the side of caution.

Bad snap? Great, you get another down to bring your offense back on the field to attempt to make the first down.

What's your options of kicking on fourth? More than likely it's a 41 yard field goal. If you get a bad snap you get Tony Romo running around crazy circa the playoffs three years ago. What was that result? Sparano was there. I bet HE remembers the result of the bad snap.

So what's the point you are arguing vehomently? Don't err on the side of caution? Great! I'm willing to bet 75 percent of the NFL coaches disagree with you.

Move on..... You have no point.

 

The second portion of your statement is answered every Sunday.

 

I see it every Friday in my area. I don't know where you are from but it's common place for high school kids to be kicking that now. I've got 7 high school games on my DVR right now. I guarantee that I could find ONE 44+ yard kick on that film.

 

DEUS DELFINES VENDICAT!!!!!!!!!!!

And the fans who doubt them.

 

Dave Trembley used to be criticized by former ML players of opposing team broadcasts for inexplicable decision-making. Dan Fouts was all over the decision today too. The end result of a win or loss has nothing to do with these decisions and the reasoning behind them.

I did see the winning field goal just not what lead up to it so I can't say much about it though settling for a long attempt in this situation is odd.

 

And that's where I disagree. We've had a punt blocked in 3 straight games, and a FG blocked last game. I have no problem whatsoever in playing it safe with a pro bowl kicker who's great in the clutch.

 

this thread is un-called for. the only thing i don't like about Sparano is clock management and not having enough time outs at the end of the half and the end of the game. other than that, i have no complaints.

 

Welcome to my world. He is in way over his head. He should be an OL coach in Cleveland, not the HC in Miami. He sucks. Truly. This game shouldn't have been close.

 

i agree on the hail mary. low risk. disagree on the fg attempt. a holding call wouldve killed us not to mention the six or seven other things that could go wrong. but the hail mary had me scratching my head as well. i wouldnt fire the guy over that and i dont think it means all that much