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End of Season Reports on Pro Football Weekly

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Overview: Nick Saban’s first season as head coach was a rousing success after improving the team’s record from 4-12 in 2004 to 9-7 in ’05. The team beat Denver and Carolina in the first three weeks before losing 6-of-7 games to fall out of playoff contention. However, Miami finished the season with six straight wins, including road victories at Oakland, San Diego and New England. The defense set a franchise record for most sacks, the offense improved 15 spots to 14th in the league, WR Chris Chambers became a Pro Bowl player, and RB Ricky Williams made a triumphant return to football after a year in retirement. And a strong rookie class helped lay a foundation for future success.
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http://www.profootballweekly.com/PF...mi/Games/2005/2.17+-+Miami+at+New+England.htm
Turning point: The comeback against the Bills at home in Week 13. Trailing 23-3 in the fourth quarter, the Dolphins mounted a three-TD rally behind backup QB Sage Rosenfels and Chambers. Chambers’ TD catch in the dying seconds lifted the Dolphins to a 24-23 victory and gave them the momentum to end the season on a six-game winning streak. Thanks to his big game vs. the Bills, Chambers finally began to play like a No. 1 receiver, reaching the Pro Bowl for the first time.

Rookie/free-agent recap: The Dolphins had a great draft class, with three rookie starters (RB Ronnie Brown, LB Channing Crowder and CB Travis Daniels) and four other promising rookies for the future (particularly supplemental-draft pick DT Manuel Wright). The free-agent signings were solid, with QB Gus Frerotte growing in the offense by season’s end, DT Keith Traylor giving the team the run stuffer it badly needed, FS Lance Schulters offering a needed playmaker in the secondary, and DEs Vonnie Holliday and Kevin Carter helping lead the team to a franchise-record 50 sacks. OT Stockar McDougle was a bust and likely won’t be back.:dolphins:
 
I love what i see so far....
 
That's a very good review of our season...it was a nice draft class and the free agents were mostly hits....now what I'd like to see is only 2 or 3 free agents that can come in and start or at least help us out and a few more rookies that can at least come close to last year's class and we're getting closer to the big game.

Ozzy rules!!
 
We broke the franchise record for sacks? I thought we were 1 short?
 
FinNasty said:
We broke the franchise record for sacks? I thought we were 1 short?
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I thought so too. Not sure if the information is wrong on the sacks.

We did have 49 just looked it up.
 
csabe said:
I thought so too. Not sure if the information is wrong on the sacks.

We did have 49 just looked it up.
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I am pretty sure we beat the old record by 1. I KNOW we at least tied it though.
 
OT Stockar McDougle was a bust and likely won’t be back

> Man I was so pumped when we signed him, but what a let down....
 
IM glad they screwed up the sack record thing cus we deserved it anyways. they took that away from us and made fluties drop kick all the glory. yeah. Now you get your *** kicked!

But the bit was right on target. I think four players could change the face of this team and that is one of those LT's in the draft, Nick mangold, TO, and Brodie Croyle.
 
FinNasty said:
We broke the franchise record for sacks? I thought we were 1 short?
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I think we broke it (at least that's what they we saying in the New England game IIRC). We had broken it early in the New England game, then they took it away saying that Cassell gained no yards, but it wasn't a sack. Then, we got another sack later in the game that broke it.
 
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