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4th Quarter scoring woes

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Currently Miami ranks 30th in the league in 4th quarter points scored. 3.6 per game. 43 points in 12 games. That consists of 4 TD's and 5 FG's.

Only 4 TD's. 2 helped us to 2 of our 6 victories. The other one was in garbage time against the Saints. The offense hasn't scored a meaningful 4th quarter TD since the last second td pass to Dion Simms against Atlanta in week 3. That was a long time ago. Before that was the Daniel Thomas TD against Cleveland to ice the game. The 3rd was scored by the defense when Reshad Jones returned an int vs Baltimore to tie the game.Not a lot to cheer about late I'm these games.

We have been held scoreless in the 4th quarter in each of our last 4 losses. That has to change for any chance at the playoffs.

By comparison
Pittsburgh scores 7.6 points in the 4th quarter and are tied for 7th in league.
New England scored 9.4 points in 4th quarter and are 3rd in the league.

The offense better pick up their game and finish these games strong.
 
You^ didn't? Didn't you see the stat they posted at halftime against the Jet's? We had a record of 2-3 in games we were winning at half time coming into Sunday's against the Jets not to mention they harp that we cannot score in the 4th for the last few games.

We've got to be one of the worst second half teams in the NFL.
 
Tannehill has got to improve his 4th quarter play. You can blame a lack of creativity and conservative play calls on Sherman but until the QB plays good football in the 4th this will continue.
 
The Dolphins' offense is more heavily imbalanced toward the passing game in the fourth quarter than in any other.

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MadDog 88 said:
Tannehill has got to improve his 4th quarter play. You can blame a lack of creativity and conservative play calls on Sherman but until the QB plays good football in the 4th this will continue.
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Tannehill's QB rating in the fourth quarter is 20 points below his rating on the season, and he's taken 42% of his sacks during that quarter.

This likely has a great deal to do with why, despite his only slightly below-average QB rating, his WPA is currently 20th in the league among quarterbacks, due to the fact that plays in the fourth quarter typically weigh more heavily in the statistic:

http://wp.advancednflstats.com/playerstats.php?pos=QB
 
I've never bought this argument that our coaching staff becomes too conservative or lacks killer instinct or plays not to lose or whatever you want to call it (if anything you could say they are too aggressive late in games), the QB is the one that lacks a killer instinct on this team and he better learn to either score a **** load of points early in games or find a killer instinct somehow. If he doesn't we could be in for another long ten years.
 
Maybe Tannehill just gets worn out by the 4th quarter after being repeatedly sacked and having to pick himself up off the ground over and over and over... :)

Anyway a good running game would be of great help in 4th quarter scoring.
 
Bills game is a perfect example of how he doesn't lack the killer instinct you arer talking about. He udibled to a pass that should have gotten a first down to win the game. This is what great teams do and what we have never done since the days of Marino. We would just conservatively run 3 times and punt it away. I had no problem with the audible as many here do. The execution or lack of pass blocking is to blame not a lack killer instinct.
 
This is something that Tannehill, and the ENTIRE TEAM needs to improve on. I want a team that plays its best ball in the 4th quarter, not its worst.
 
Even more than that, we play an INCREDIBLY conservative second half every week. Philbin doesn't bring them out as aggressive.
 
TealAttack13 said:
Even more than that, we play an INCREDIBLY conservative second half every week. Philbin doesn't bring them out as aggressive.
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I think it's a lack of adjustments being made against defense after halftime, not necessarily conservative play calling.
 
You mean that little Philbin clap-clap after the team fails to convert a 3rd down doesn't inspire the team to greatness??

It inspires me to want to slap him, in a non-bullying way of course...
 
Interestingly we are high in the league rankings in points in 2nd and 3rd qtr. I'm in the OR now or else I'd pull the stats.
 
Ruckus45 said:
Interestingly we are high in the league rankings in points in 2nd and 3rd qtr. I'm in the OR now or else I'd pull the stats.
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Yep we start slow in the 1st quarter.

28th in the league with 3.3 points

Then we are one of the better 2nd quarter teams

9th in league with 8.0 points

We actually get better in the 3rd quarter rankings but slow it down a little.

8th in league with 5.9 points

Then the woeful 4th arrives and we drop off to

30th in league with 3.6 points

On defense we are 5th best in 2nd quarter only allowing 5.3 points.
So we generally gain a FG in the 2nd.

Also on Defense we are 7th best in 4th quarter allowing 4.7 points.
Not bad but with the Offense doing nothing we are losing over a point in the 4th.
 
Surprised no discussion on the brutally slow starts in the first and 2nd quarters. We won't win many games left if we're scoring only 3 points at the half!
 
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