Game Thoughts

[Turnaround 06]

The taunting penalty on MacMike was garbage. It goes on ALL the time in the league. That said, there are obviously too many guys like Madison and Salaam who are "all about me, you ain't gonna disrespect me ever" guys who care more about themselves than the team.

Saban has to cut more than Denney this week. I'd cut Donnie Jones and Salaam as well. Just to make a point and enforce the idea that stupid PF's and mediocre play won't be tolerated. Jones is too up and down to count on.

Miami must really hate Lawyer Milloy. He seemed to be in the middle of every fight yesterday.

The Chambers detractors have a point. The guy has to be more consistent every game. Its the plays he doesn't make that really hurt the offense. The dropped bomb in the 1st qtr, not making a play on the ball Vincent picked off where Chambers just stood there waiting for the ball. I still think the guy has #1 WR talent but the inconsistency has to stop. He has to beat good corners like Clement and he just isn't doing it enough.

Speaking of Clement, if Buffalo doesn't franchise him he should be target #1 in free agency.

Lance Schulters is the only guy in our secondary who can play.
Troy Vincent always did and still does have it.

Why can't they run a screen play, a middle screen or otherwise? Jason Cole is killing Ronnie for that busted up middle screen but we had 3 OL who couldn't block Sam Adams. Run the play somewhere else.

Gus is better than we we've had in years but we still need a better QB. The pick in the endzone was so Fiedler/Feeleyesque and killed the team's chances later in the game.

Carey has to play somewhere. Stockar isn't that good and I'm having my doubts about Hadnot, too.

 

[AlanSaysYo]

Salaam should have been handed his walking papers immediately after the game yesterday as far as I'm concerned. You can't act like a fool when the only action you see is on special teams, especially when you're lucky to be on the team in the first place because of your poor off-field decisions.

And in Chambers' defense, that pick you blame him for was severely underthrown. The ball should have come over his shoulder. He already had the D beat and had to come back just to attempt to make a play. And there's no way he saw the safety coming... he was just trying to catch the ball.

 

[Firesole]

Gus is better than we we've had in years but we still need a better QB. The pick in the endzone was so Fiedler/Feeleyesque and killed the team's chances later in the game.

I agree with everything except for this part. I can live with Gus' interceptions yesterday. I was disappointed especially with the one in the endzone, however, the last few years have pretty much made me get used to that sort of thing. I was basically celebrating that it didn't go for 6 the other way, which I have grown accustommed to see. I thought Gus did a good job for the most part. It's not his fault that his O-Line makes ******ed false starts time after time, putting them into long yardage situations. I honestly think the defense was tremendous after the first 3 Bills drives.

On a side note, how good is this coaching staff? Have you seen many teams make halftime adjustments like this staff? We have been outstanding in the 3rd quarter this year. With maybe only the exception of the Jet game, we have come out hot after halftime. If the previous coaching staff was still here, that game would have been 10 times as ugly, with Miami probably going scoreless.

 

[Firesole]

And in Chambers' defense, that pick you blame him for was severely underthrown. The ball should have come over his shoulder. He already had the D beat and had to come back just to attempt to make a play. And there's no way he saw the safety coming... he was just trying to catch the ball.

maybe you didn't see the pocket crumble and Gus get hit while in the motion of that throw.

 

[Turnaround 06]

Salaam should have been handed his walking papers immediately after the game yesterday as far as I'm concerned. You can't act like a fool when the only action you see is on special teams, especially when you're lucky to be on the team in the first place because of your poor off-field decisions.

And in Chambers' defense, that pick you blame him for was severely underthrown. The ball should have come over his shoulder. He already had the D beat and had to come back just to attempt to make a play. And there's no way he saw the safety coming... he was just trying to catch the ball.

You know what? It was a bad pass as Gus was hit by Sam Adams as he threw but the I watched that play again and Chambers looked like a deer in the headlights on the play. He had time to go to the ball and froze. He clearly had to know Vincent was there and he let him cut inside for the pick.

He has to be more aggressive in going after balls.

 

[FinFan013]

My thoughts were..i keep hearing saban saying he gonna fix these things ( penatlies)...hmm havent seen it ..but whats really sad for the bill is that the fins..had 5 turnovers 18 penatlies.....and still they only beat us by 6 points...had ronnie not fumbled we would have probably won that game ..even with all that ...so i think the bills got lucky there

 

[SA_BUTTA]

Somebody help me as I was not able to watch the game because of regional action. I had to watch the Texans get crushed again. Anyways what happened in the first half that we could not score and gave up 17? I was able to read about the second half. I got say I am still proud of the Dolphins who in past years would have just crumbled after a half like that. To produce a comeback like that deserves some credit. Even though we did lose we gave ourselves a great chance to win. Really too bad about the Brown fumble, which I hear was contraversial. But Im sure the officials made the right call. I understand we had 18 penalties for the game, did most of those occur during the first half? Did we correct the problem for the second half? Also I was wondering if someone could explain the interceptions thrown by Gus? Hopefully with RW coming back next week we can give defenses something to ponder.

 

[bigmiamifan]

Somebody help me as I was not able to watch the game because of regional action. I had to watch the Texans get crushed again. Anyways what happened in the first half that we could not score and gave up 17? I was able to read about the second half. I got say I am still proud of the Dolphins who in past years would have just crumbled after a half like that. To produce a comeback like that deserves some credit. Even though we did lose we gave ourselves a great chance to win. Really too bad about the Brown fumble, which I hear was contraversial. But Im sure the officials made the right call. I understand we had 18 penalties for the game, did most of those occur during the first half? Did we correct the problem for the second half? Also I was wondering if someone could explain the interceptions thrown by Gus? Hopefully with RW coming back next week we can give defenses something to ponder.

First drive, corner back slipped, 50 yard run to the 1 yd line.ills TD. Then we moved the ball well and had an INT in the endzone. Then we had a punt muffed due to bad snap, FG. Etc. We were OK, and while the defense slipped they had TWO goal lines stands inside the 2 and held!!

We killed them in the second half! Murdered them. But another 2 INTs and Ronnies fumble around the Bill's 10 1:40 left game winning drive killed us.

I love this team! I love the play calling. We threw like 5 bombs and a few were caught (won't rag on Chambers for his gaffs) and the defense is coming around.

Man if we get those penalties under control we're good to go. Some of thr INTs are from being agressive and not from bad decisions, that's the difference from last year. I don't fault Gus at all, I loved the game and Ronnie WAS DOWN!!! But, we're 2-2 and getting better.

 

[Hellion]

You know what? It was a bad pass as Gus was hit by Sam Adams as he threw but the I watched that play again and Chambers looked like a deer in the headlights on the play. He had time to go to the ball and froze. He clearly had to know Vincent was there and he let him cut inside for the pick.

He has to be more aggressive in going after balls.

I agree to a point, Chambers should have comeback to the ball then at least it would have been dropped by both players. But know way he saw Vincent coming from his left. It looked like he was waiting for the ball to come to him because he had the corner boxed out of the play then boom Vincent.

And also Chambers was a poor pass from a 100 plus day and a TD when Gus threw the ball too far out of bounds.

 

[dolphan78]

Did Vernon play at all yesterday? Is it safe to say that he is now a bust? Or do we keep making silly excuses as to why he cant claim a starting position?

 

[newlownorder]

I will state for the record and dare anyone to agrue otherwise that the Bills did not beat the Miami Dolphins! The Miami Dolphins beat themselves!

 

[newlownorder]

Speaking of Clement, if Buffalo doesn't franchise him he should be target #1 in free agency.

Couldn't agree with you more.