Blast from the past

Fielder to D. Ward to set up the field goal.

Could Wanny bring in the talent or what?

 

That was the game I realized we were the best team in the AFC....then?? Ray Lucas happened.

 

I was watching that video , I knew exactly what to expect because I remember that game vividly. So, WHY was my heart pounding on the Dolphins last FG drive.

 

I remember after that game Oliver said " Kelly`s been throwing that endzone slant pass for years, its about time I made a play on it ".

 

Honestly, this was probably the best Dolphins game in the regular season that I can remember. Fantastic game.

 

Great 4th quarter is more like it.

 

We have the arm talent for that. Hopefully the head talent catches up to it.

 

Was that the hard hitting game that felt like playoffs from the start, it was early in the season?

 

Sucks that over the years we've had great players and good playmakers, but haven't a complete team since the 70s/early 80s.

 

yep. the one where kennedy destroyed chambers with that nasty hit. Fiedler broke his thumb. Olindo Mare won it with the big field goal. One of our best games ever IMO but it cost us dearly.

 

Hopefully we can keep Grimes.

[video=youtube;rYvqs0AXfYc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYvqs0AXfYc[/video]

 

They only way I could be ok with not keeping him would be if we signed Alterraun Verner instead.

 

Goddammit that 2002 team....,


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Someone is in a nostalgic mood..I'm verclemped.

 

verklempt.

 

Look at those stands. My God. Not an empty seat.

 

I was there. It was pretty amazing how the stadium went instantly quiet. We've done very well against Denver in the regular season. Unfortunately I was also at the playoff game here when we got pounded.

 

Wasn't that Denver game the game that, although the Phins won, pretty much derailed the season? Didn't Fiedler break his thumb and Gadsden did something-or-other and a few other people got hurt and it wasn't the same team?

 

That Denver game is just so emblematic of everything that (in my mind) used to happen so much back then during those Wannstedt days.

* The defense holds the Denver Broncos to only 12 points through three quarters of the game but then gives up 10 points in the final quarter which helps Denver get out to a 22-21 lead.

* The offensive line is getting their teeth kicked in on pass protection and Fiedler is having to use his pocket presence and improv ability on most snaps.

* Randy McMichael drops a ball that hits him in the chest and would have cost the Dolphins a timeout if he'd caught it, then makes a circus catch down the field on a ball that helps us ultimately win the game.

* Jay Fiedler is throwing horribly despite his pocket presence and overall good improvisation. He makes a decision throwing to McMichael that might have cost the Dolphins a timeout after only gaining like 5 yards. The next ball is woefully inaccurate. The one up the field to McMichael is so far behind him I'm not sure how McMichael caught it, and the final ball to Dedric Ward to set up the game winning field goal should have been intercepted by John Mobley.

* Olindo Mare missed a 48 yard field goal earlier in the game but nails the 53 yard game winner.

 

If you are talking about the HOF ceremony, I was there with my family and my brother's family. What an unbelievable day and one of the best memories i have ever had....packed with Dolphin fans and adolation for Dan Marino

 

Deep down, I've never been truly confident in a Miami dolphins defense...

I saw some glimpses of it last year when Patterson was in the lineup..

 

Team game. We would have been a LOT more confident in that Miami defense if it were to be accompanied by an offense that could consistently reward our defense for holding a high-powered Denver Broncos offense to only 12 points through the first 3 quarters, by actually running out to the kind of lead that puts pressure on the other offense.

Take that game as an example. The defense held Denver to just 12 points through 3 quarters, but our offense only scored 7 points through the same. We then scored a touchdown to go up 14-12 and then a defensive touchdown (Surtain) to go up 21-12. But the game was still in reach. It's a 9 point game with plenty of time to go in the 4th quarter.

So here's the bottom line there. The defense allowed 22 points...but they also spotted the offense 7 points. When the defense scored that defensive touchdown that should have put the game away with a multiple-touchdown lead. We should have been winning at that point 26-12 or something along those lines. Instead it's 21-12 and Denver are still in it.

 

Don't know how old you are... but..
If you watched the Dolphins during the Olivadotti years... you are probably still having nightmares each time the offense hands the ball over to the other team's offense. What a horror show a set of film clips [do we have anything called lolights?] from that defense would be!

 

I feel this has been the story since Jimmy Johnson took over.

I am a big Hartline fan, but the fact that him and Marshall are the only receivers with back to back 1,000 yard seasons since then is pathetic.

 

I see what your saying, but nahh, doesn't have anything to do with the offense, just wasn't deep down confident that we were a bad *** defense at all three levels..

Safety position has been average here for a very long time..Atkins..Marion..wooden...couple of very good corners here and there, just never a complete dominant defense.

 

Best receivers in the modern era..Clayton..duper..fryar..chambers..

Man has this personnel dept sucked, I'm not crackin on those guys, they were very good players, but the time span is so long since Warfield.

 

I'm really very sure that it does have something to do with the offense. This is all going off perception. If you're up by multiple touchdowns in the fourth quarter and you're able to just keep your foot on the gas then fans don't come away thinking your defense gives up yardage and scores in the crunch.

 

It's really pretty sickening although to be fair much of the post-Johnson era was with crap at QB so there was never much opportunity to have a consistent 1000 yard receiver.

I have a lot of respect for the fact that we couldn't find a QB during all that time. The really good ones were kind of scarce. It's not an easy position to find.

What I still can't understand AT ALL is how we come away all that time (going back to the Marino era) without having running backs that can gain 1000 yards in a season consistently...to where they had to give up two 1st round picks for Ricky Williams because the franchise was just so desperate. I mean, how the hell does that happen? Seems like the damn things grow on trees nowadays.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis ran for 1100 yards last year. BenF**kingJarvis Green-F**king-Ellis. And Zac Stacy ran for nearly 1000 yards this year.

 

I include the crap quarterbacks in my 1,000 yard receiver complaint. In the modern day NFL you should accidently get 1,000 receivers.

I remember when KAJ was touted at being a 1,000 runningback when he had 3.3 yards per carry.

 

I kinda miss those Wanny days, at least the team was fun to watch and played in some big games back then. Also miss the times when the Dolphins weren't run by a bunch of douchebags in the front office.

 

Mark Higgs. Sammie Smith. Bernie Parmalee. Bobby Humphries. Jon Avery. JJ Johnson. Karim Abul Jabar. As much as we catch crap for the post Marino QBs the Marino era RBs and Post Marino backs are just as sad.