Watch the Kevin Coyle interview from earlier today on miamidolphins.com In the game against one of the greatest QBs of all time, we were left with Jimmy Wilson and Will Davis as our 2 CBs and Michael Thomas who arrived last Tuesday playing the nickel back position. Jimmy hadn't played CB since Coyle has been Defensive Co-ordinator. Will Davis was getting close to his first real playing time and Michael Thomas had received zero reps in practice and was expected to just play Special Teams. Thomas had also not had time to learn the signals. Jamar Taylor is obviously still not right from a health perspective (hernia? I think). RJ Stanford and Dimitri Patterson (hernia) are on Injured Reserve. Grimes, Nolan Carroll and Jimmy have been playing well for weeks.
This is pretty incredible how all of them stepped up. The criticism of Will Davis is unfair. He is still learning but he competed and that is what we needed. Given the circumstances, Jimmy, Will and Michael Thomas did an incredible job to hold it together.