Sometimes Tannehill held the ball longer than he probably should. Sometimes receivers weren’t getting open as quickly as they should. Sometimes the offensive line wasn’t coming together as quickly as it could.
In that red zone, where tight ends are a mismatch nightmare and catch touchdowns at a rate higher than most other positions, Jordan Cameron and Dion Sims weren’t beating their mismatches as quickly as expected. Sometimes they weren’t winning at all.
So the red zone offense was not efficient. The blitz pickups were poor. Nothing was really, truly synched up like it should be.
And rather than cringe at the sound of all this and the ominous possibilities it foretells, you should probably just accept that this is how it’s going to be for a while.
This is how it’s going to be while players and coaches mold and sculpt and adjust what has been a successful offense elsewhere into their own.
That’s right. … The 2016 Dolphins offense is going to take a minute to get going, folks.
It is almost certainly not going to sing in four-part harmony the first time coach Adam Gase gives his unit voice in the Seattle regular-season opener.
The offense is a work in progress, and because the players are mostly young and new to each other and the coach, and his scheme, getting all that to look as if everyone has been together for years is close to impossible.
