I Don't Care What Anyone Says About the Final Score

[insomnia411]

In the score books this game looks like a blowout, but for those of us savvy football fans who sat and watched the game objectively, we know the truth.
Despite a plethora of terrible mistakes and inexcusable turnovers, the Dolphins were still in this football game in the 4th quarter.
With 9 minutes left in a game that seemed to be an uphill battle for the Dolphins' offense, the O was moving the ball effectively and had possession in Ravens' territory.
The score was 20-9, the down was 2nd and 6, and Pennington was orchestrating a spectacular drive when Ted Ginn decided to bone his team straight in it's ***. Rather than accepting a hand off on an end around play which certainly would have paid dividends in the form of many yards, Ted Ginn muffed it, dropped the ball and lossed 20 yards.
It was a crippling play which changed momentum, changed field position, and shifted the Dolphins offense from having a first down deep into Ravens territory to having a 3rd and 25 at midfield.
In summation, despite the bumbling mistakes and idiotic turnovers, the Dolphins could have made the game very interesting had Ted Ginn not dropped a hand off.
Do I place this loss solely on Ted's shoulders? No, of course not. But Ginn certainly deserves much blame, and his status with this team needs to be seriously re-evaluated.

 

[ih8brady]

I think everybody deserves some amount of blame. Who did you see out there play as though they really wanted to win?


Maybe, Ricky?

 

[DolFanDon22]

Ravens Defense is scary, just simple fact!

 

[SRM]

I agreed with your post until I read your last sentence. Ginn showed up, he made several key catches for 1st downs for us, and yeah, he made a mistake, and it happened to be at that moment. Remember his catches against the Jets? Remember his 4th down conversion against.. forgot who, but he caught it.. Remember the Buffalo game? Alright. Everyone on offense made mistakes today, 5 turnovers man, 5. Wanting him out after his contribution for us is just not the right thing to want.

If you want to blame something, blame our O-Line, they lost it for us today. You can't expect ANYONE to have a great game when we can't get our runninggame going (courtesy of the O-line) and they only give him 1-2 seconds to throw the ball. Needless to say though, I am very proud of our team for still having a shot at this game even with all those turnovers, like you said. I think this offseason will be another one adressing the trenches, along with a playmaker at receiver and either an LB and/or a ballhawk FS.

Face it man, even if we did win this game, we certainly had no business here, and I truly believe even with a tough schedule next season, we'll be for real. We're just a few people from being a threat, and we did absolutely amazing this season for what we had to work with, and I've loved every moment of this season.

 

[hrpuffin]

Amazing that we had 5 turnovers and were still in that game with 7 minutes left. Great season now we need to work on our defensive and offensive lines. Go Dolphins!!

 

[Caliphinfan23]

The fact that this game was still within reach further emphasizes the point that our game plan was rediculously stupid. This game was set up and should have been played as a ball control no mistakes type of game. We go along with that and we win hands down. I realize we couldn't run for anything; however, 2 yds per carry and a punt is FAR better than INTs for TDs, Sacks for -10yds and fumbled end arounds etc... You play defense, you take the 2yds per carry, you run Ronnie, Ricky Cobbs and Polite at them all day and then you either sneak a 3rd down conversion to a TE or Bess on a crossing pattern or GOD FORBID you punt. Drain the clock, play field position and make the rookie QB beat you. Its not like Flacco played out of his mind or anything.

 

[Caliphinfan23]

I don't blame any player on our team. Not Ginn, Not Chad and not the Oline. They looked bad against the Ravens...duh. I guarantee that if we didn't make this game so easy on their offense (read: they didn't have to do a thing) they would have I equally as bad as we did. We are structured very much the same way they are. The difference is they know who they are. Yes their guys on defense are sick...a lot better than our guys which only means we have to be more careful and not make mistakes.