SI Talks About Dolphins Performance

alen1 · Sep 22, 2008

Its really long, five pages so there's a lot of content. Here's an excerpt on Chad Pennington:

Pennington: "The last two weeks we've really had some good practices. But Wednesday we show up, get the game plan for the Patriots, and it's one of those grinding practices. We're not very good. It's probably 100 degrees, and we're making a few mistakes, and we don't look good.

"The coaches put the option-type plays in [with Ronnie Brown taking the shotgun snap, the QB split wide right and Ricky Williams or a wideout coming into the backfield from being flanked out to get a handoff or to fake it] and we worked on them. When you play New England, you can't just line up two backs and run the ball at them. They're too smart for that. They've seen it all. To run it on them, you've got to create some space somewhere. Give them a different look. Get them back on their heels. Then when Ronnie tried to throw that little option pass, the first time he did it, he shot it into the ground. It was awful. But he [completed] it when it counted.

"Our attitude was, 'Who says we can't go up there and win? Why not?' Coach [Tony] Sparano keeps telling us, 'Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.' And he was right.

"It's still a whirlwind for me. When I got released by the Jets and came in here, I didn't have time to think about much of anything. The day I got here, I had to start memorizing practice scripts. The way the year has gone so far, a day like today, it's pretty special.''
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Randy Moss on the Dolphins Play:

"You've got to take your hats off to the Dolphins. I've been watching football for a long time, and I've never seen a Miami Dolphins team having all these gadgets.'' -- New England wideout Randy Moss.
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Peter Kings OPOW

Offensive Player of the Week

Miami RB Ronnie Brown. He didn't have a game against New England. He had a career. The Patriots have been alive since 1960, and no running back had ever rushed for four touchdowns in a game against them -- until Brown did it Sunday. Brown, taking advantage of a smart offensive scheme that featured multiple direct snaps from center to him, threw a touchdown pass to Anthony Fasano out of the shotgun formation, with Pennington playing wide receiver as a decoy. "I think we caught 'em off guard a little bit,'' Brown said. Brown finished with 17 carries for 113 yards, along with the touchdown pass
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Peter Kings DPOW

Miami LB Joey Porter. Three sacks, a forced fumble, three tackles for loss among six overall tackles, and a whole lot of backing up of his big midweek words. Porter and the Miami front seven made life miserable for Matt Cassel for three hours.
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Peter Kings Coache(s) of the Week

Miami quarterback coach David Lee and offensive coordinator Dan Henning. You had to see the Miami game plan to believe it. According to Ronnie Brown, Lee, in his previous job as an Arkansas offensive assistant last year, used the funky single-wing stuff with the direct handoffs, and he incorporated it into the Miami game plan this week, with Ronnie Brown taking the shotgun snaps and Pennington at wide receiver. On Sunday, they ran it eight times, by my count.

Henning's got the reputation of a play-calling dinosaur, but the 66-year-old coaching vet drew up an imaginative one at New England and incorporated this oddball formation, with the direct snaps to Brown in the shotgun, one of which he used to throw an option pass from Brown to Anthony Fasano for a touchdown. Henning also had enough movement in the pocket for Pennington to make sure the Patriots couldn't always aim for one spot in their pass-rush.
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MMQB cont. - Peter King - SI.com

Don Banks take on the game.

Snap Judgments, Week 3 - Don Banks - SI.com

Desides · Sep 22, 2008

Other than what the Giants defensive line did to the Pats' pass protection in the Super Bowl, when's the last time we saw New England at a complete loss to counter an opponent's moves?
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Week 14, 2006. Dolphins 21, Patriots 0.

GISH · Sep 22, 2008

I hope New England finishes 2-14. If any team deserves it, its them!!

texasPHINSfan · Sep 22, 2008

yeah i laughed when i read king's comment about henning being a play-calling dinosaur. i guarantee you this was all lee, not henning. henning obviously successfully implemented it, but i'm strongly assuming that had henning been left to his own devices, we would not have seen these plays on sunday.

the Lee-inspired playbook was a million times better IMO than the henning one we've watched through weeks 1 and 2. :up:

Zeke0123 · Sep 22, 2008

c. No guard in the NFL had a better day than Miami's Justin Smiley, who had three crushing blocks on three of the four Ronnie Brown touchdown runs.
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good stuff.

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GISH ~mUST wARN oTHERS~

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