After week #1, the Miami Dolphins D is ranked #31 of 32 in the NFL. We are consistent in being #32 vs the pass, #30 vs the run, and #29 in rushing the QB. How could any O not look forward to playing this pathetic D?
Wait until Sunday, and you will see a VERY PISSED OFF D with something to prove. We got killed last week, and it ain't gonna happen again. Players on D are foaming at the mouth. led by Wake, to play again, and prove their worth, and they will.
There is nothing you can do about it. It is coming, and will happen.
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I think it's going to very different. Miami's approach to the game will be tire out the Houston D in their dark blue uniforms by running at them all day and using a quick ball-control offense to stop what Wade Phillips brings to the table (Speed).
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The Texans don't have the O-line that the Pats have. That will be why Shaub won't be as successful as Brady.
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We have never beaten Houston. What gives us any reason to think this Sunday will be any different? Especially after that pathetic display by our defense. It will be up to Chad Henne and company to keep up, and if they can't it will be just as bad or worse than Monday.
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They should be better..they got caught with their pants down monday...and Will Allen should help keep Shaub from targeting "the Dolphin that looks like he is lost" like Brady did... since the communication should be better and if Clemons starts the Free safety spot should be less "exposed".
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Maybe if the Dolphins figure out how to score at the goal-line. Otherwise they would be better off getting some penalties on purpose so they can move back for some open field. I cringe when Miami is stopped at the 1 or 2 yard line.
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Do the Texans practice in their dark blue?
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This game will make Henne a short passer and that's a good thing. The speed at which Henne gets out the ball against the blitz will serve him well against the Texans D. Reggie Bush and Fasano over the middle will be very hard to stop especially after the catch (remember 08-09 days when we faced quick RBs and TEs). Not only that but Brandon Marshall will really hurt his match-up. Either way if Henne can get the ball out in under about three seconds or so (he did against New England), the Dolphins' offense will give tremendous trouble to the Texans.
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If we play anything like we did Monday, Andre Johnson is gonna set the single game record for catches yards AND touchdowns.
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The whole key to this game is Miami's ability to control the ball and keep the defense on the field. Thats one of the biggest problems our defense had, other than apparently conditioning. Brady kept our defense on the field and wore it down. I hope Thomas can run the ball between the tackles because that was a missing aspect of the NE game, you can't strictly run the ball to the outside and expect to maintain ball control.
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The offense used to kick our defense's *** every single day in practice last year but this year it's been different. Everyone and their mother in Houston believes that Wade has really turned this defense around. Hope that's the truth. :D -
That's nice except Brian Waters is their RG and Conolly is a solid lineman.
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The Pats linemen are good players all of them including Connolly. Waters has been the best pass protecting guard in the league for seven years. Give that team their due. Brady is excellent. Keep reaching for straw-man arguments about how this guy is successful etc etc... Point is they have a great scheme, a great coach, a fantastic QB, and good players.
Are the Texans as good? They're good but I have a feeling they're going to get pressured by the same Fin D from Monday.MarinePhinFan likes this. -
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We're gonna Shotgun Pooper them to smithereens.
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Two great seasons is not enough to make a QB an all time great. When Brady retires he will most likely hold one major, individual QB record...50 TDs in a season. Even then he got 50 while playing every second of every game and during a time when QBs can't be looked at wrong or else get a penalty. manning got to 49 while sitting 2 games and Marino got 48 during a time when QBs where killed and their WRs were raped every play. Hell every record Marino held that has now been broken (17 of them) was done so by either Favre or Manning except the one Brady got.gafinfan likes this. -
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What we do know is that Wake should be pissed off this week because he got his a$$ kicked by a rookie RT that was playing out of position. He played LT at CU.
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However I'll ask the simple question, what about our OL and RB personnel makes you think we are actually capable of being able to run right at and sustain a ball control drive against anyone this year.
At this point, I don't see it.
I also see our defense having very similar issues as they did with the Pats against Houston.Ophinerated likes this. -
You have to be old, real old, to remember Dan's great play. Because at Brady's age Dan's play trailed, off. Big time. I know, how dare ye blaspheme. But Dan has a touchdown % of 5.0%, Tom Brady 5.6%. That's career. INT's Dan has a % of 3.0. Brady? 2.2%.
Dan started his career guns blazing. Unprecedented. Amazing. But look at his later years they were quite unremarkable. Brady is having an unbelievable run right now. Go back, look at Marino's years. Here they are right here.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MariDa00.htm
What were Dan's amazing years? 1984? Definitely. 1985? 30 TDs and 21 INTs? 1986? 44 TDs and 23 INTs. Now, I know the DBs were more aggressive back then due to the rules, so we can cut Dan a lot of slack. Don't get me wrong.
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We have never beat the Texans and when we have a lead we somehow blow it. Texans may not be as potent as the Pats but they will hurt us. Could get ugly.
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1. Heat will not be an issue for the Houston Texans. For those of us that were around in 2003, you know this, or at least you should remember it. All we could talk about before the Week 1 game which was at 1pm (those were the days) was how the Texans would wilt in the heat and humidity because no team could possibly be as used to it as us. Except, they were. Houston has heat and humidity on par with South Florida during the summer.
2. Motivation COULD be a problem though. Let's not over-think this one. They just KILLED the Colts. We just GOT killed by the Patriots in embarrassing fashion. Our defense will most assuredly be out for blood. Motivation will at the very least not be a negative for the Dolphins in any way, shape or form...it will probably in fact be a factor going in Miami's favor.
3. The flip side of the motivation argument is a confidence argument. The Dolphins defenders have to be questioning themselves a little bit after Tom Brady broke records against a defense that walked into the game absolutely confident that they were good. Normally they wouldn't question themselves based on one bad outing, but that wasn't just a bad outing...it was a record breaking bad outing, on national television. The Texans on the other hand, let's be kind and say they had to be 'cautiously optimistic' about how their defense was going to work out for them, considering their switch to an unfamiliar 3-4 and not necessarily having some of the conventional parts necessary for it. But the defense hit it out of the park against the Colts. Mario Williams was an animal.
It's all about whether things go too far. The Texans defense has every reason to be confident following the Colts game, but do they have enough reason to be over-confident? The Colts were, after all, without Peyton Manning. The outing has to boost their confidence but I tend to doubt it leads to them being over-confident. On the flip side, the Dolphins defense allowed that record breaking outing which would tend to slide them into 'pissed off' range...but if the outing is bad enough, it skates them right past 'pissed off' and into 'questioning ourselves', and that would be bad. The question I guess is whether the Dolphins' defenders can just chalk it up to Tom Brady being one of the best to ever play the game, that way they can satisfy themselves thinking we're still really good, but Tom Brady was just that good.
I think the Dolphins' defense could suffer a little bit from questioning themselves. Often times when a team tears open a hole in one of your units like that, the bleeding doesn't stop right away. It takes a while.
However, the Dolphins offense has to be feeling pretty confident from their outing. I don't honestly think the confidence is warranted because IMO their outing was not nearly as good as it's purported to be, but the players will still feel the confidence from it...and if the Houston defense is just a paper tiger, then we could have another shootout, and this time IMO it's not as easy to call as the Patriots game was. -
Marino played in 240 games. He has 61,000 yds passing and 420 TD's.
Brady has played in 144 games. He has 35,000 yds passing and 265 TD's.
For Brady to match those yards he would have to keep playing at his current level for at least 8 more years. Do you think Brady can play until he's 44 years old?
To match the TD's he'd need to play at his current level for over 5 more seasons.
In short Brady would have to have 5 or more seasons of above average (for him) numbers to even come close to Marino. So far Brady has had only 2 great (Marino like) seasons out of his 11 years in the league.(2000-2010) How much longer do you think Brady can play at the level he is now? He's 35 years old.Ophinerated likes this. -
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I hope all of you who see a win are correct. Because if the Dolphins start out 0-2 at home, they are looking at going 1-4 or possibly 0-5 to start the season. I also wonder why some on here think the Dolphins are somehow going to tire out the Texans, when it was the Dolphins who were the team not in condition on Monday night. I doubt if the players who were so out of shape on Monday can suddenly get into a lot better shape by Sunday. Also the game will be earlier, which means the heat will be up, compared to Monday night.
I see the Texans being able to move the ball against the defense, much like the Patriots did. In fact, except for Brady, I think the Texans offensive players are every bit as good as the players on the Patriots, if not better. So I expect the Texans to score at least 30 points and it will be up to the Dolphins offense to exceed 30 points if they expect to win this game. It should be an exciting offensive game, but I think the Dolphins defense was exposed last week and I just don't see them being a dominant defense this season.
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