Dolphin vrs Packers official game thread!!

Green Bay has proven time and time again that they are highly vulnerable to that sort of thing. Look at Kaepernick's career vs. them. It's not pretty for the Packers in those situations.

 

Not really the game to say this IMO. Guy made play after play all on his own in the 2nd half. Things he has never done before.

 

I agree with your statement. I do think that with a quality HC and coaching staff, this team has enough talent to be a playoff contender.

I just don't have any faith in Ross and his ability to hire a quality HC. He might want to hire Harbaugh, but I just don't see Harbaugh wanting to coach the Dolphins. He will have plenty of better opportunities if he is available after this season.

Unfortunately the next HC will probably be in the mold as the past three. It will be his first opportunity to be an NFL head coach. He will get the job because he agrees to work with Hickey and Aponte. It won't have anything to do with his ability to be a head coach in the NFL. Ross seems to only care how everyone gets along in the front office and not if the head coach can actually perform his job on game days.

 

Miami needs both.

 

well if your goal is to run the clock out, then shouldn't you be running the ball rather than taking sacks? Tannehill is a young QB programmed to try to throw the ball away outside the pocket to avoid a sack. He shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place. GB would've gotten the ball back with 40 less seconds if Philbin ran the ball, but no, instead he dials up passes on 1st down and then again on 2nd.

 

Put two hands on the ball and go down. Rodgers was in the position of needing to make a play. Tannehill was in the position of "it would be nice to make a play."

 

Based on the 3rd down call, it looked like keeping the clock moving was what they wanted to do more than keeping the drive alive.

 

It's possible if they weren't so gassed after the first half they'd hold up better. The time of possession was lopsided the first half.

 

I really liked the movement in the pocket.

 

They have so far beaten a winless Raiders team and a Patriots team that wasn't very good early in the season.

They have lost their last two games and home and were handled easily by a mediocre Bills team.

Nothing about that leads me to believe this Dolphin team is anywhere close to being a dominant team

Perhaps McCain simply confused dominant with mediocre.

 

Does not mean that was relayed to the players on 2nd down, and based on the 2nd down call it doesn't look like keeping the clock running was what they wanted at the time either.

 

We lost because we failed to score after blocking a punt and got stuffed on 4th down.

In the end that is the one major series that if you could have it back, you could entirely change the game.

 

That didn't help, no, but it didn't kill us. We had the game in-hand and gave it away.

 

The coaches detract from the "dominance" when they put Delmas on a WR with the game on the line. He's a hitter, he has as much coverage skill as Philbert has to develop Jamar Taylor.

 

Let's go Sparano, beat the chargers,

 

In don't think that choice was made in a vacuum.

 

Andrew Abramson ‏@AbramsonPBP · 6m6 minutes ago
Cam Wake says he saw the fake spike coming.

Can we clone this man?

 

And I fkng swear dude...the lack of offensive holding calls in that game...GLARING calls, time and again, is beyond ridiculous...not blaming the refs for losing the game, but at some point when does this sh*t ever stop? Is the NFL THAT concerned about protecting QBs they'll let the lines get away with murder?

 

Everybody in my house saw it coming...if anybody on the defense didn't (which it looked like MANY didn't), they fail.

 

Should always look for the fake spike in those situations,

 

They didn't have the game "in-hand". They had the lead, and made less than optimal decisions. Those decisions had a negative impact, but there are plenty of plays that had similar impact on the outcome.

 

We were the beneficiary of a non-call against James on 3rd down on our drive that gave us a 24-20 win.

 

BS...stuff that happens early in the game has minimal impact on the latter stages of the game...particularly after we'd tied it up RIGHT after halftime, and taken a lead...coaches killed our mo, and gave it to GB in spades. They fail under pressure/crunch time.

Edit: Hell yes I wish they'd have played better in the first half...but they'd erased it and taken control of the game...then gave it away.

 

Look we are a 2-3 team, in 3rd place, despite losing to an NFC team and another NFC team next week,
Need to try and stay on track within this division. 3-3 next week

 

It wasn't a fake spike. It was a first down pass. The secondary did what they did all game. Get exposed. Wilson is a very weak link. He will cost us another game.

 

Waiting after Week 17, is too long. He's not going to get fired because of this game.

 

We need 5-3 at the split IMHO...so crucial to have 2+ game cushions at that phase.

 

Our pass defense sucks, coyly doesn't adjust, another idiot that needs to go

 

Odrick referred to it as a fake spike. Pointless debating what to call it. It was a positive play for Packers.

 

gimme a break. Players making mistakes is part of the damn game! WAAAH, BOO HOO, Philbin actually had to stop picking up wrappers for a minute so he could... you know... perform head coaching duties. Why the hell does he even have a job then if you're suggesting he's only capable of doing it well when everything around him is perfect?! Tannehill did his job and got Joe the lead in the 4th quarter. From there, whatever Joe did... or didn't do... was on Joe, so stop scapegoating.

 

No, nobody needs to decide that. It's not good enough.

 

I really don't know why we can't try for one game to call a lot more plays where the QB is on the move. We see Seattle and it seems every other play the QB is on the move with the ability to run for a few or pass. Do we even have the bootleg in our play book?

 

They didn't erase it. The result of the game is the totality of what happens during the entire game. Had they played better in the first half, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to lose the lead at the end. You can't isolate it to what happens at the end of the game.

 

I am repeating what I have said in another thread, but Joe Philbin is not a new head football coach. Yet his game management and the decision making in general on the sideline was freshman like. Joe hasn't improved in three years. If anything, he has regressed. Now some of you will say the record showed improvement. But in game planning, game day decisions, and leadership can you honestly say he has improved? I will try to be open minded to any reasonable defense of Joe.