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Traditionally NFL teams rest their starters for the vast majority of the final preseason game, satisfied they have reached a sufficient level of sharpness after fake game No. 3.

Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, however, might be tempted to go against tradition next Thursday at New Orleans after watching his team slog through a 10-6 win over Tampa Bay.

"I don't know what he's going to do," Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington said Thursday. "I know what we've got to do is focus on having some good practices from here on out. Then we'll see what coach wants us to do that last preseason game.

"If he wants us to play, we'll play. I'm up for anything as long as we're getting better."

Sure, the Dolphins' first-team offensive line stayed in the game until about 14 minutes remained, but it's not like Jake Long and Co. were overly sharp. They allowed two sacks, one each to Pennington and backup Chad Henne, and both times it was right tackle Vernon Carey who broke down.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-dolphins-offense-082809,0,6229263.story
 
Man I think the fins have a lot of pieces to the puzzle but the offensive line needs to learn to run block because that's the strength of our skill guys. I'm was really hoping we could just avoid all the debates about why Ronnie has 1 game with 150 rushing yards and the next two he has under 50 yards.
 
Hmm...Saying you need some good practices now after the third game, worries me. What were they doing since camp opened up?
 
Yea, the extra work is inserting Pat White and game planning. We proved last night we're not good enough to go straight up against a good D and consistently move the ball. We also need to get the OL and QB's on some wheat grass with super high octane!
 
finner said:
Yea, the extra work is inserting Pat White and game planning. We proved last night we're not good enough to go straight up against a good D and consistently move the ball. We also need to get the OL and QB's on some wheat grass with super high octane!
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That's the wierd thing....
We did prove it last week, but this week we proved we couldn;t against a poor D. The Bucs Defense sucks, and the Panthers D is way better.
 
I think our Offense is fine. I think in the Tampa game we ran a very basic offense against a pretty good defense. In the regular season you will see different formations and much more motion. For some reason the coaching staff didnt want to show its hand against tampa. I'm wondering if Tampa D and Atlanta's D is similar and we didnt want Atlanta to have game film on us on how we would attack that style.......IMO something was up with that game and we decided to play very conservative and run basic plays. With that we still should have played better.
 
jvw said:
I think our Offense is fine. I think in the Tampa game we ran a very basic offense against a pretty good defense. In the regular season you will see different formations and much more motion. For some reason the coaching staff didnt want to show its hand against tampa. I'm wondering if Tampa D and Atlanta's D is similar and we didnt want Atlanta to have game film on us on how we would attack that style.......IMO something was up with that game and we decided to play very conservative and run basic plays. With that we still should have played better.
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That's a good point.

Teams don't show a lot in preseason for those reasons. And we all know the Dolphins are more secretive than most teams.
 
jvw said:
I think our Offense is fine. I think in the Tampa game we ran a very basic offense against a pretty good defense. In the regular season you will see different formations and much more motion. For some reason the coaching staff didnt want to show its hand against tampa. I'm wondering if Tampa D and Atlanta's D is similar and we didnt want Atlanta to have game film on us on how we would attack that style.......IMO something was up with that game and we decided to play very conservative and run basic plays. With that we still should have played better.
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I agree with this....something was totally off last night, you can't look as good as they did against Carolina and then come out and lay an egg against Tampa...to me the team looked completely uncomfortable....something is amiss....
 
Without knowing what Wilsons assignment were....you don't know if he was off, or in the right place just a bad playcall...
 
I can't see how anyone can say "our offense is fine" after last night, regardless of the game plan or lack thereof. I'm 99.999% sure the coaching staff doesn't think that right now.

It's obvious we're going to have to outcoach most teams to win because the team is STILL a work in progress. No doubt we're better than last year, but by no means "elite."
 
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