Q&A: Dolphins WR Ted Ginn, Jr.

(On how it feels to be playing for a competitive team) - "First, this is my best record ever, so I enjoy that. It is a big difference as far as the locker room, as far as the players on the team, as far as the coaches, different things. Just getting up every day was hard knowing that we've got to do this again and we're not getting a good outcome out of it. Now, you're getting up and you know that you've got a chance. Every time you get up you know you've got a chance. There's no doubt in your mind that you don't have a chance. With this coaching staff and with the people that they brought into this building, it just gave us a lift where now we see that we can compete with anybody and play with anybody. The only thing we've got to do is have belief and that's all we got and we just try to go out every day and keep getting better and better."

I think this says a lot about the coaching staff this year compared to last year... Coming from the former coaching staff's first round pick..

I really liked how Ginn presented himself here...

oh ted, you are awesome. keep up the great work

(On what has to happen to continue his success) - "We've just got to go in every week and find out the holes in the defense and just trying to score. This week was a great week for the receivers and next week might not be a great week for us. It might me a pound, pound, it might be a throw it around. Whatever the week is about, we just go out and try to execute the plays they've got installed for us and just keep trying to get victories."

i like this quote... i like how he says we had a good day talking about the receivers... hes not looking at it as an individual accomplishment... hes all about the team and teamattes... gotta love it

I think Ginn gets open down field all the time. I hear radio annoucers saying all the time that on the field he is open on those 1 on 1 matchups but Pennington does not want to risk that throw. This was the first time we saw Pennington take chances becoming aggressive. Sparano may have forced his hand a little but it worked. Hopefully they can be consistent because Ginn has that desire, confidence, talent and experience now to bring it down.

It seems defenses want to stack the box on 1st and 2nd down against the Dolphin offense and play cover 1 leaving the receivers 1 on 1. It will be interesting to see if they respect Ginn now and play more cover 2. I think teams will stick with cover 1 since the Dolphins haven't proven consistency yet. In this case Pennington may be able to take advatage of that as he now has more confidence in Ginn and his own arm. So depending on coverage we could see Ginn have some success again.

If teams play cover 2 Pennington will just go to his TEs. It doesn't matter who shines with this coaching staff. One week it can be the receivers the next it can be the TEs. It's robably why they don't put too much of a premium on those positions when they draft.

"GridIronKing34 wrote:

I think this says a lot about the coaching staff this year compared to last year... Coming from the former coaching staff's first round pick..

I really liked how Ginn presented himself here...

Did he just dis the front office and coaching staff that picked him 9th overall?

I wonder what his relationship is with Cam.

"arsenal wrote:

i like this quote... i like how he says we had a good day talking about the receivers... hes not looking at it as an individual accomplishment... hes all about the team and teamattes... gotta love it

It's refreshing. Considering all the arrogant, selfish, blabber-mouth receivers these days...Ginn isn't one of them. And I love that.

nice read, nice to hear what he has to say, and finally see some real positive news about the guy. Hopefully he can keep playing like this, week after week, and hopefully he keeps this type of low key, team first attitude.