Two conclusions jump out from your analysis for me. (Obviously, people can draw their own causes, but this my feeling).

One is that the system is different this year. We are attacking down the field more. And we are scoring more points.

Two is that you can see that the there is a correlation between how the offense is performing in the preseason and how it does in the the regular season. That bodes well for this year.

 

I've read a lot from the media expecting the Phins to be a very conservative team, running a lot, because of Sparano and Daboll's history. I have seen the opposite in preseason, and opposing D's have no film to get ready for this unknown.

I believe we will see this on MNF. It will not be like the Wildcat vs the Pats but, be a big change. I can see it as enough to confuse Mr Bill and a Phins win.

 

The one thing that we can also draw from the numbers you pulled up, is that the offense during the PS pretty much matched the results from the resulting seasons as well (from my memory, not from the stats, I'm too lazy to look it up). That has to be a good sign. If this offense can jump up 5 points a game during the season, we could see a more successful season. I'm not sold on that just yet, as everyone says, it's just the PS, but there is a correlation that can't be too far overlooked...

One other thing that's a good sign for us and imho is most important, is that the players have bought into the system as being 'better' than what we had with Henning. Whether the staff has bought into that yet remains to be seen. But at least the players think we can do some things we haven't done in the past...

That is a big question, whether Sparano buys into the more aggressive style. If he tries to hold Daboll back that could be a 'not so good thing'. We'll see. Hopefully he will open up his ultra-conservative approach and let Daboll do his thing...

 

Yeh..I keep reading in most media..football, fantasy football, and it's like everyone is ignoring everything we have done in preseason. You'd think they thought Henning was still here. When our offense indeed looks night and day compared to the past..there will be this scripted shock...and all of us will be like...where have you'll been?

It's funny because everyone still humps the Jets legs, but Henne has been lights out compared to Sanchez. Which is fine for me...because I'm getting Marshall in the 6th round!!!

When you have a head coach who has nothing to lose...and an OC in the same boat...it can be a powerful combination if caution is thrown to the wind

 

The one disturbing thing was the appearance of the running plays once inside the 5 when you moved the ball down into the 5 with the pass. That brought back the ugly memories.

 

I will wait until the Dolphins actually play a game that counts before I accept that they are going to be an improved offense. Since defenses in the NFL don't game plan for preseason games, there is no possible way to determine if the Dolphins will be a more productive offensive team this year. Last year the Patriots were a far superior team to the Dolphins and next Monday night will show if the Dolphins have improved or if we can just expect another year of bad to mediocre play from the offense. I still have big doubts concerning Henne and I have seen no improvement in the offensive line play from last year. While Bush certainly adds speed to the offensive lineup, I just don't see him being able to run effectively behind this offensive line. He also has a history of missing games due to injury, so I would be surprised if he didn't miss 3-4 games during the regular season. While I hope this offense is improved from last season. What it did during the preseason means absolutely nothing once the real games begin.

 

I have been very successful in my fantasy leagues over the years by looking at the offensive flow of teams in the preseason. I'm not talking stats or wins, but the rhythm of the offense. I find that correlates very well to the offensive performance during the regular season. And everything in Nardo's numbers coincides with that.

 

IMO if we're averaging 24 points per game, we'll be winning quite a bit. I think that with our defense that anything above 22 pts gets us in the thick of the playoff race. In '09 our defense wasn't good enough to make that 22 pt average pay off, but this year's defense should be much better.

 

It seems like the offense was bailing out the team more often in 2009 and the defense was doing the saving in 2010. In '08 they were both doing pretty good.

 

Good news and bad news no?, good news, passing game, bad news, running game..

I agree on your take on the correlation between the preseason and regular season, and the reason why I have calculated optimism is because I don't believe we were a good running team last year, yet we still controlled TOP in most games, won 8 games, beat the two teams that played each other in the superbowl, and did it with an incredible amount of variables that were condusive to losing football teams, especially teams that were in year 3 of a serious rebuilding phase..

I also like what we have done without the offenses best player, and blindside protector..That should really give Henne a boost of confidence knowing how he performed without his best player, and when you add the leagues best lineman to the equation, you can expect different results.

Here's the thing, and it may sound strange, but I like the approach of somewhat conservative style football when you have a very good defense, I just want to do it with better balance as a football team, and addressing those weaknesses with better skillful players, and coaches, is all that I had in mind, because I thought Henne performed well enough under those circumstances to continue the rebuild.

What I'am hoping for is a more aggressive, yet with still a bit of conservatism left in, with better special teams, better scheming offensively, with more explosive skillsets adding yac and dynamics to create space for the players to make plays.

 

As I've mentioned before everybody defines "aggressiveness" (or "conservative") their own way. Is a check down pass out of the spread to Bush conservative or aggressive? I see it as a fairly safe play, but some would see it as aggressive just b/c of the formation. Others would say that any thing but a run up the middle is aggressive.