Great job by them all today, definitely. Bess had the one drop on fourth down, but it would have been a very difficult catch. I'd hate to imagine if Ginn had dropped that one. Also, on Ginn's second catch on the slant, he ran a beautiful route. Absolutely gorgeous, hopefully I can find someone to make a .gif of that. Any volunteers?

 

I agree. At the same time though I'm almost happy about it. The mistakes we see with Henne are overwhelmingly mistakes that correct themselves with experience. In the future, he senses that he has more time and will also learn to ease up a touch on throws like that. Same with thing really with the first half interception. Take those things away with experience and we have a hell of a bright future under center right now :yes: We've already seen him make practically every throw, and he never seems to make the stupid facepalm throws. I think Pennington helped him a lot in that aspect.

 

the receivers were great today because Chad Henne was great today

 

The Pats had no answer for Bess, and I feel bad for Camarillo because the guy is all heart and he is money but I doubt we keep him after this season.

 

Also, was it just me, or was the pass blocking exceptional today? Just one sack and it seemed like Henne had all day a number of times.

 

Well, overall, this is the worst pats defense we've seen in years. All the guys that used to make all the plays for them, Vrabel, Bruschi, Seymour, Samuals, etc. have all left in one way or another. And they have not done a great job (surprisingly) replacing them.

They still have big ol' Wilfork, so their run D is still pretty darn good. But right now, Banta Cain is their best pass rusher. that's not good. Our Pass blocking showed that ain't getting it done for them.

 

i thought he did well in the pocket today too
improvement already in that area
i'd like to see Henne put a little air under the football when needed, a little more touch
that is the main thing i see that needs improvement

 

It has nothing to do with bias and everything to do with the fact that Ginn has put himself into a position where every ball that touches his "two" hands is magnified. Heading into today's game:

Ted Ginn Jr. - 8 drops in 342 plays. 8 drops/ 25 receptions. Those are the worst numbers in the league.

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With numbers like that it's kind of hard to make a case that the real problem is over reaction and bias.


As far as today's game, that catch he made at the sideline was the most impressive thing I've seen him do as a receiver. That wasn't one of his "track star" plays.

These next four games are a perfect opportunity for him to show the FO that he should be in their future plans......in fact it's probably critical that he does.

 

Ginn deserves some praise for sure. He was getting open a lot and made two clutch catches.

Bess was a monster...

 

They all played well. If only we had a consistent deep threat though.

 

Honestly....I think what we saw today was finally a good offense. We became a passing offense today, we spread the field and boom all of the sudden the recievers look good. I really have felt for a long time that our biggest problem is just the offensive scheme and not as much of the players. We finally spread the field and let our recievers loose and thats what we have to do now especially since Ronnie is out.

The O-Line is solid and they are giving Henne time, lets spread them out and let our quick recivers run some slants and crossing patterns and I really think were going to see a lot more production out of all of them. Just like the title said, every reciever looked good out there today. Hartline and Bess were the shining stars of the game to me, but they all put in a solid preformance.

Hopefully we found something here, if we stick with it, its could be a fun season ending.

 

How about D-Bess?

This kid is becoming Nat Moore right before our very eyes.

 

Or OJ McDuffie, Mr. 3rd down.

 

Almost the exact same M.O. Man. Many aspects of his game are the same.
He really reminds me of Mr Incredible (Nat).
All we need now is a nice "Helicopter" catch and I am convinced he IS Nat :up:

 

I disagree.....I think your optimism and assessment of Ginn is far too generous. He's a limited receiver that needs to make more plays and more often. His future here and in this league depends on it. He had a nice day today but over all as a starting receiver this year, he's been terrible. I have a feeling he's under the microscope right now and nothing's set in stone as far as their plans for him.

 

The key words in that last post is "this year." Judging Ginn on one year is as bad as judging Henne on one year, as some posters have suggested about him. You don't judge any player based on one year. Has Ginn struggled THIS YEAR? Yes. Are his struggles THIS YEAR representative of his career? No. I highly doubt you see Ginn in a different uniform next year.
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i know when ginn picked up that 3rd and 10 if he chooses to not duck down on the safety and runs he might have scored

 

And I "know" that "if" Henne had thrown to Ginn instead of Bess (the pick he threw), that Ginn "might" have gone for a td because he had his guy beat to the inside.

You can't play the "if" game. Ginn made a good play, and you're dogging him on "if's". Kinda unreal...but not surprising when it comes to Ginn.
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All we really need is a true #1. Bess, Camarillo and Hartline are great and it shows when we trust them they can do things. Your pushing it though, you still need that true #1 big play WR. It could be possible that Hartline CAN be[Camarillo can catch, but isn't really fast enough, he's great for 10-20 yards though], but the Phins better not take any chances, they better be very agressive in FA for a WR and drop $$$, and build up the D in the draft. Trying to draft a #1 WR is very hard. We'll be fine for next year if we do that, could be "talkin' super bowl" again in 2010[Finally!] I feel like we're so close, the team has showed they are, aside from the Bills game.

 

If he didn't duck he was going to get clobbered. If he could have withstood it, he was gone but thats a big if...

 

I focused a lot on Jake Long today, the guy is the premiere left tackle in the game imo..Just dominant.

Franchise tackle, franchise QB..2 players who played big time college football for 4 years together, 1 draft....Respect.

 

Its a shame how shockingly unfamiliar stats like that are to us...

"Two" TD passes to WR's? Somebody pinch me...lol

 

its about time Ginn did something. He needs to learn how to catch the ball. He is a great special teams player, but if he caught the ball more often, he'd be worth our first round pick. Great game for Bess too. I think Bess and Hartline are going to be awesome next year.

 

I think you're more a Dolphin fan rather than a football fan. Yes receptions are the main goals of a receiver, but they're supposed to do a lot more. the fact is Ginn, after 3 years, has horrible route running, cannot block on run plays, has so much speed but can cant break away, and gets jammed at the line way too easy. It has been 3 years and he still rounds out his routes and thats unacceptable, especially with his speed. I get the fact that he's on the dolphins but I'm a football fan first and dolphins fan second.

 

Teddy Ginn had 141 total yards, he went over 100 on kick returns.

Love to see him make the pro bowl

 

I agree FS. Let's just celebrate the victory, and a great game by the receiver corp as a group. Great effort by all.

 

Now imagine us having a good, high caliber - play making reciever, how much would that boost our offense up? ALOT.

 

With the big plays that Tom Brady had on us, a ball hawk free safety would be nice. I'm all for drafting/signing a big time WR, MLB, FS, or NT.