Abramson: Post game report / Wheeler not satisfied

[Daytona Fin]

Reports of discontent in the front office have surfaced — and there’s no doubt that many people in and outside the organization weren’t happy with the way Philbin handled his quarterback situation last week — but Sunday’s 38-14 win against Oakland at London’s Wembley Stadium will silence many critics for now. The Dolphins can go about their bye week in relative peace before two games against NFC North teams Green Bay and Chicago.
“To come out here amid all the negative things going on and have a game like this shows a lot about Ryan Tannehill’s character this week,” cornerback Brent Grimes said. “I already knew it and he still came out here and showed it to the rest of Miami, world, whatever you want to say.”
But at least one player was somewhat unimpressed with Miami’s big win.
Linebacker Philip Wheeler, who was tied with the team lead with five tackles, said a win against the lowly Raiders isn’t cause for massive celebration. Wheeler would know — he played for Oakland in 2012.
“I love the Raiders and no disrespect to those guys but for the last few years they’ve not been having great success,” Wheeler said. “To me, I don’t feel like we need to be too happy about this.”
But it’s better than the alternative. A loss may have really turned the organization upside down. Now the Dolphins are 2-2 heading in to the bye.
While most of the the Dolphins players are probably laughing it up on the long flight back to Miami, it was a tense week between players and coaches.
Center Samson Satele said “coaches said something to us” and “some of the coaches got to our heads” during the week. He wouldn’t specify what coaches, including offensive coordinator Bill Lazor, actually said. But it apparently worked.

The Dolphins entered the game with zero interceptions but had three on Sunday (Brent Grimes, Jimmy Wilson and Walt Aikens).
- The 38 points scored was the most for the Dolphins in the Philbin area. The previous high was 35, also against Oakland, in a 35-13 win in 2012.
The Dolphins still haven’t scored 40 or more points since a Thanksgiving win against Dallas in 2003. It looked like they might hit it after reaching 38 points late in the third quarter, but they went conservative in the fourth quarter and pulled Tannehill and other starters.

Miami’s three injured players — tackle Branden Albert (shoulder), center Samson Satele (leg), safety Jimmy Wilson (hip) — all said they were fine after the game. All three were questionable and none returned to the games although they didn’t appear to be pain in the locker room.

“That’s Sparano over there, he’s an old school ball coach,” Johnson said. “He likes to run the power, he likes to run those type of plays. We just had to step up. Randy Starks is a big run presence. So myself, people don’t think I can play the run that well so coaches believed in me, along with JO (Jared Odrick), (Derrick) Shelby. We had to stop the run and we got it done.”
- The Dolphins 284 first half yards was the team’s best first half since gaining 299 against the

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[Phinatic8u]

I'm not satisfied either, but this team needed that..Badly.

 

[DefensiveEnd76]

We needed the win but yes it was against a pretty pathetic Raiders team. I want to see us beat a good team from start to finish. Especially a team like the Bills.

 

[Hayden Fox]

Tony.

 

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[joeharley666]

I agree with Wheeler. Because history shows we always have big letdowns.

 

[whizafriz]

Hopefully they come out strong against GB, or we could see the Pats to Bills highs to lows all over again.

GB is going to be a tough game but I think they're definitely beatable. If we strengthen the run attack, tire out their D, and pressure Rodgers, we can keep the score-gap close.

 

[fishfanmiami]

“That’s Sparano over there, he’s an old school ball coach,” Johnson said. “He likes to run the power, he likes to run those type of plays. We just had to step up. Randy Starks is a big run presence. So myself, people don’t think I can play the run that well so coaches believed in me, along with JO (Jared Odrick), (Derrick) Shelby. We had to stop the run and we got it done.”

Without Starks we held them to 53 yards on the ground and rushed for over 150 ourselves.
Cann't wait to see Moreno and Pouncy back. This should only get better.


i hope Tony gets the job. He a good guy plus that would bode well for us in future meetings :)

 

[Sons Of Shula]

Great way to enter the bye week. Glad to know the players aren't satisfied and two weeks of prep for Green Bay should fair well.

Keep up the good work T-hill. Make us believers.

 

[bird33]

its all about the offense for us, if they score points and keep the defense fresh we're gonna be really interesting. if we have to rely on the D to hold teams to 17 points or near that we'll be picking in the top 10 in the draft.

 

[ry-dbar]

The win may have come against the "lowly raiders", but I sure enjoyed watching it!

 

[kcbrown]

Wheeler .... Just stop being a liability.

 

[enigmatics]

Linebacker Philip Wheeler, who was tied with the team lead with five tackles, said a win against the lowly Raiders isn’t cause for massive celebration. Wheeler would know — he played for Oakland in 2012.
“I love the Raiders and no disrespect to those guys but for the last few years they’ve not been having great success,” Wheeler said. “To me, I don’t feel like we need to be too happy about this.”

Bravo Wheeler. Keep the hunger alive!

P.S. pick up your play ..... ALOT!

 

[roy_miami]

All i want to say is:

THANK!
****ING!!
GOD!!!

I've been planning on making a trip to Miami to see a game this year but a loss would have probably thrown a huge monkey wrench into those plans.

 

[where's th'fish]

Well, I'm pretty happy about it. I don't the think the Pats should be too happy about their game against the Raiders last week. But you should always appreciate a good stomping no matter who it's against because even the worst teams don't get stomped all the time, even the worst teams win some.