If you want to focus on Chad Pennington in that Baltimore game that's any man's right, he did throw 4 interceptions after all, but to me what the Ravens merely did was stuff the hell out of the run game and show that when you stop Miami's wildcat and ground game in general, suddenly you realize they're trying to throw the football to Ted Ginn, Brandon London and Patrick Cobbs. That's right, those were our wide receivers. Camarillo missed the game, causing the Dolphins to only even dress three wide receivers in that game, and then Davone Bess gets hurt and misses more than half the game, had to be replaced by Patrick Cobbs who played slot receiver for the first time...pretty much ever.
Tony Sparano dressed three tight ends and three halfbacks, one fullback for that game...with only three wide receivers. He essentially bet everything he had on the ground game and the backs, and he lost the bet. That's the game that best embodies how foolish the Ernest Wilford contract was. With four wide receivers healthy on the roster, with one a rookie and another one a UDFA type that hadn't done jack...they chose to only dress three wide receivers and not even put Wilford in uniform. One of those receivers gets hurt for half the game and suddenly 3-WR formations aren't even in your playbook unless you put a tailback that's never played it before in.
