I just wish add my opinions and views from my view point at the dome Sunday. I didn’t take notes and am doing this by memory so I’m sorry if the points are a little random.
First of all it was my Wife and I very first time going to an NFL game. It was a great experience and we want to do it again very soon!
Pre game:
When we first walked out of the hotel with our Jerseys on we didn’t know what to expect but to our surprise we only saw dolphins Jersey’s until we reached the 5 points terminal on the Marta. We thought for awhile that it would be 80% Dolphins fans. That changed when we changed trains at the terminal.
Before the game the Atlanta fans were nice and left us alone. The Workers at the Dome were very nice and helpful. The Dome is a nice facility and it’s a great place to watch a game. Heck it’s a constant 72 degrees. It’s kind of like watching the game from your living room. The Atlanta fan sitting to my right told me the hottest he has ever been was at a Dolphins Home game a few years ago. I just smiled and said, “That is what we call home field advantage.” We had a good view of the field but sat in the nose bleed section, so forgive me if I get a player or two wrong when talking about the game.
As you would expect the Dolphins were booed when they came to and from the Locker room.
Game time:
One thing I noticed about the game was that I think Tedd Ginn was constantly getting separation from his coverage guy. In the first quarter Chad missed an easy 6 when Tedd totally broke free from his guy and was running ALONE down the sideline toward the end zone. Chad looked his direction and when the crowd realized what was about to happen, went nuts. Chad then proceeded to throw the ball ( I think intentionally) out of bounds 20 yards shy of Ginn. How he didn’t see Ginn is still a question in my head but I wasn’t on the field.
Pat white also had Ginn beating his guy to the end zone during one of the wild cat plays. He actually tried to get it to Ginn but over threw him.
Speaking of the wild cat, even though we didn’t score any points off it, I was impressed with the new wrinkles they put in it. There was the ‘traditional’ let Ronnie run it play, there was a Pat White run play, a Ted gin run play,A pat white pass play (where he missed Ginn), a hand off to Ted Ginn who then threw it to back across the field to Chad play. Fun stuff to watch.
The Falcon D was getting pressure on Chad a lot. Most of it came from the outside. Seemed like both Carey and Long were having bad days, My wife thought she saw Chad yelling at Long on the side line after he was sacked in first half (The play where he was hit from behind in the back of the knee).
What happened to Fasano? He was solid last year, just seemed to me that he could not hold onto the ball.
4 turn overs? Two of which where almost run back for TDs? Can’t win games when you do that.
To many penalties. It got to the point where after we made a play I waited until there where no flags before celebrating.
Where did the Faclons find their place kicker? Missed two field goals and an extra point?
Ginn needs work on kick off returns; I don’t think he ever made it to the 20. Seems like he dances around to much,
Ricky Looked Good and seemed to have a better game than Ronnie did.
See that catch Camarillo made? On his leg!Wow!
Our defense seemed good; had a couple of good passes broken up and Joey seemed to stuff most of the run plays. We also Sacked Matt (why do they call him Matty Ice?) twice.
About the 4th quarter, the Falcons fans started to realize they where going to win and started some trash talk. Funny stuff, had a guy stand up, look at me, pull out his car keys and point to them. Guess he was telling me it was time to go home? The Falcons fans in front of me actually started to root for us to score.
Beginning of the 4th Dolphins fans started to leave.
By the end of the game I think I was one of the few Fans left (from my point of view) but I always watch games to the bitter end.
Thank God we scored at the end. I knew we where going to lose in the 4th but I didn’t want a shut out. I was pulling out my hair when they called back the first TD in the 4th.
Jason Taylor was the last Dolphin off the field.
Got a lot of trash talk on the way back to the hotel. Had Random people point at us and call us loosers and say we suck @%%, One guy called us the stinky guppies (Whatever that means). Cars would drive by honking etc. Basically the beer was talking, I don’t know why but looking back at it, it was all pretty funny.
Final thoughts:
Even though I think we played badly, I don’t think it’s the end of the world. Hopefully this is the worst we’ll see them all year, or perhaps Atlanta is just that good. We really won’t know for a few weeks but in the mean time it’s important to just try and look forward to improving in the next game. Lets save the doom and gloom stuff until we are 0-3 or worse.
First of all it was my Wife and I very first time going to an NFL game. It was a great experience and we want to do it again very soon!
Pre game:
When we first walked out of the hotel with our Jerseys on we didn’t know what to expect but to our surprise we only saw dolphins Jersey’s until we reached the 5 points terminal on the Marta. We thought for awhile that it would be 80% Dolphins fans. That changed when we changed trains at the terminal.
Before the game the Atlanta fans were nice and left us alone. The Workers at the Dome were very nice and helpful. The Dome is a nice facility and it’s a great place to watch a game. Heck it’s a constant 72 degrees. It’s kind of like watching the game from your living room. The Atlanta fan sitting to my right told me the hottest he has ever been was at a Dolphins Home game a few years ago. I just smiled and said, “That is what we call home field advantage.” We had a good view of the field but sat in the nose bleed section, so forgive me if I get a player or two wrong when talking about the game.
As you would expect the Dolphins were booed when they came to and from the Locker room.
Game time:
One thing I noticed about the game was that I think Tedd Ginn was constantly getting separation from his coverage guy. In the first quarter Chad missed an easy 6 when Tedd totally broke free from his guy and was running ALONE down the sideline toward the end zone. Chad looked his direction and when the crowd realized what was about to happen, went nuts. Chad then proceeded to throw the ball ( I think intentionally) out of bounds 20 yards shy of Ginn. How he didn’t see Ginn is still a question in my head but I wasn’t on the field.
Pat white also had Ginn beating his guy to the end zone during one of the wild cat plays. He actually tried to get it to Ginn but over threw him.
Speaking of the wild cat, even though we didn’t score any points off it, I was impressed with the new wrinkles they put in it. There was the ‘traditional’ let Ronnie run it play, there was a Pat White run play, a Ted gin run play,A pat white pass play (where he missed Ginn), a hand off to Ted Ginn who then threw it to back across the field to Chad play. Fun stuff to watch.
The Falcon D was getting pressure on Chad a lot. Most of it came from the outside. Seemed like both Carey and Long were having bad days, My wife thought she saw Chad yelling at Long on the side line after he was sacked in first half (The play where he was hit from behind in the back of the knee).
What happened to Fasano? He was solid last year, just seemed to me that he could not hold onto the ball.
4 turn overs? Two of which where almost run back for TDs? Can’t win games when you do that.
To many penalties. It got to the point where after we made a play I waited until there where no flags before celebrating.
Where did the Faclons find their place kicker? Missed two field goals and an extra point?
Ginn needs work on kick off returns; I don’t think he ever made it to the 20. Seems like he dances around to much,
Ricky Looked Good and seemed to have a better game than Ronnie did.
See that catch Camarillo made? On his leg!Wow!
Our defense seemed good; had a couple of good passes broken up and Joey seemed to stuff most of the run plays. We also Sacked Matt (why do they call him Matty Ice?) twice.
About the 4th quarter, the Falcons fans started to realize they where going to win and started some trash talk. Funny stuff, had a guy stand up, look at me, pull out his car keys and point to them. Guess he was telling me it was time to go home? The Falcons fans in front of me actually started to root for us to score.
Beginning of the 4th Dolphins fans started to leave.
By the end of the game I think I was one of the few Fans left (from my point of view) but I always watch games to the bitter end.
Thank God we scored at the end. I knew we where going to lose in the 4th but I didn’t want a shut out. I was pulling out my hair when they called back the first TD in the 4th.
Jason Taylor was the last Dolphin off the field.
Got a lot of trash talk on the way back to the hotel. Had Random people point at us and call us loosers and say we suck @%%, One guy called us the stinky guppies (Whatever that means). Cars would drive by honking etc. Basically the beer was talking, I don’t know why but looking back at it, it was all pretty funny.
Final thoughts:
Even though I think we played badly, I don’t think it’s the end of the world. Hopefully this is the worst we’ll see them all year, or perhaps Atlanta is just that good. We really won’t know for a few weeks but in the mean time it’s important to just try and look forward to improving in the next game. Lets save the doom and gloom stuff until we are 0-3 or worse.
