SCall13
Finheaven QB
I'm not surprised what I'm reading. I knew I would read people claiming the o-line would all of a sudden be pass blocking better. I knew people would say Harrington sucks,etc.
I posted something similar to this in another thread. A QB who can get rid of the ball quick can make an offensive line look better. Harrington did that. He was sacked only once today. Why? Because he didn't hold on to the ball. IT wasn't because the line just all of a sudden decided to start blocking better. It's not a coincedence that the line looked better. Harrington doesn't hold the ball.
Harrington made one mistake today. The second interception wasn't his fault. any Dolphin fan who isn't simply trying protect Culpepper would say the same thing. All of the announcer, commentator, etc that I heard today said it wasn't his fault. They also said that there was a marked improvement in the Dolphins offense.
The people on this forums who are protecting Culpepper seem to fall under one of these two categories: You either love Culpepper or you just hate Harrington. So if you're in one of these categories, in your mind, Harrington sucks anyway. In your mind if the Dolphins look bad under Culpepper, it's got to be someone else fault. If the Dolphins lose under Harrington, it had to be Harrington's fault.This is closed minded way to look at anything and a total crock of brown pancakes.
Something else that is being overlooked in the assessment of Harrington in today's game is that the team we played today is the best team we have played all season, a team that extremely rarely loses at home, and a team who seem to always make even the best QBs look bad.
What I think was the biggest problems today was our inability to establish a real threat on the ground and the penalties that put us in more obvious, longer passing situations. As much as the offensive line needs to improve in pass protection and run blocking, the mental errors, as far as penalties are concerned, are just as big a problem. Also, we have been playing from behind most of the season and this obviously can effect both QBs and their respective performance. The biggest difference between Harrington and Culpepper is how quickly the ball is out with Harrington. Harrington has quicker footwork on his drops and is faster getting rid of the ball. There can't be any debating that. Regardless of the reasons, Harrington is just faster at getting the ball out.
To me, the Dolphins offense played with alot more rythm and energy today and it seemed pretty obvious. What hurt us alot was the penchant for the one step forward, one or two steps back because of the penalties. Too many people are pointing their fingers at Harrington and paste the blame on him. Ridiculous. Harrington played a good game today against a good team. I thought he outplayed Brady. (Brady had a couple that should have been intercepted and his TD pass was because one of our guys slipped). The biggest difference was the mistakes by the respective teammates that put us in unfavorable situations.
I could go on, but that is all for now. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I posted something similar to this in another thread. A QB who can get rid of the ball quick can make an offensive line look better. Harrington did that. He was sacked only once today. Why? Because he didn't hold on to the ball. IT wasn't because the line just all of a sudden decided to start blocking better. It's not a coincedence that the line looked better. Harrington doesn't hold the ball.
Harrington made one mistake today. The second interception wasn't his fault. any Dolphin fan who isn't simply trying protect Culpepper would say the same thing. All of the announcer, commentator, etc that I heard today said it wasn't his fault. They also said that there was a marked improvement in the Dolphins offense.
The people on this forums who are protecting Culpepper seem to fall under one of these two categories: You either love Culpepper or you just hate Harrington. So if you're in one of these categories, in your mind, Harrington sucks anyway. In your mind if the Dolphins look bad under Culpepper, it's got to be someone else fault. If the Dolphins lose under Harrington, it had to be Harrington's fault.This is closed minded way to look at anything and a total crock of brown pancakes.
Something else that is being overlooked in the assessment of Harrington in today's game is that the team we played today is the best team we have played all season, a team that extremely rarely loses at home, and a team who seem to always make even the best QBs look bad.
What I think was the biggest problems today was our inability to establish a real threat on the ground and the penalties that put us in more obvious, longer passing situations. As much as the offensive line needs to improve in pass protection and run blocking, the mental errors, as far as penalties are concerned, are just as big a problem. Also, we have been playing from behind most of the season and this obviously can effect both QBs and their respective performance. The biggest difference between Harrington and Culpepper is how quickly the ball is out with Harrington. Harrington has quicker footwork on his drops and is faster getting rid of the ball. There can't be any debating that. Regardless of the reasons, Harrington is just faster at getting the ball out.
To me, the Dolphins offense played with alot more rythm and energy today and it seemed pretty obvious. What hurt us alot was the penchant for the one step forward, one or two steps back because of the penalties. Too many people are pointing their fingers at Harrington and paste the blame on him. Ridiculous. Harrington played a good game today against a good team. I thought he outplayed Brady. (Brady had a couple that should have been intercepted and his TD pass was because one of our guys slipped). The biggest difference was the mistakes by the respective teammates that put us in unfavorable situations.
I could go on, but that is all for now. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
