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The reports from the previous accounts of the game were of a team that moved ball effortlessly on offense. Maybe I am more critical, but while Tannehill looked good and the passing game was OK, we were far from a well oiled machine that I had read. We seem to have a real problem with 1st team OL and the running game. They hardly got any push. On the first couple of drives the main reason we were able to go down the field was because of the multitude of penalties called on the Panthers. I hate to be Debbie Downer, but I was not greatly impressed.
 
I agree that the gameplay did not match the replay that I watched. I did decide prior to the preseason starting that no matter what I saw from a gameplanning and coaching standpoint that I would not get excited or disappointed by what I saw because the coaches reveal very little as far as play calling is concerned. I dont always stick to that because its easy to get emotional over what we are seeing.
 
This is exactly what preseason is for! Do you expect a superbowl, hell even a playoff team in August? Dolphins will be alright.
 
While I agree to an extent with what you are saying, I'm still encouraged. Ryan seems very sharp with his reads pre-snap and with his throws. Obviously that's very important so seeing it is nice. Even though he hasn't hit a crazy deep ball we've seen his placement improve (I.e that pass to Cameron that he dropped. Great example of pre snap read knowing where he wanted to go.) and even though the panthers helped us out with penalties, Ryan seemed to change his cadence to help with that. I think good teams capitalize on other teams mistakes and our first team offense seemed to do that.

The running game did seem to struggle. But according to camp reports our OL seems better at that so I'll cut them slack for one bad game.
 
Have you seen any other preseason games and found an offense that is running up to your standards of impressiveness ? Just curious.
 
DKphin said:
The reports from the previous accounts of the game were of a team that moved ball effortlessly on offense. Maybe I am more critical, but while Tannehill looked good and the passing game was OK, we were far from a well oiled machine that I had read. We seem to have a real problem with 1st team OL and the running game. They hardly got any push. On the first couple of drives the main reason we were able to go down the field was because of the multitude of penalties called on the Panthers. I hate to be Debbie Downer, but I was not greatly impressed.
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On the first scoring drive, there were no penalties on the Panthers until we reached their 1 yard line. On the second scoring drive, there were two offsides penalties (+10 yards) against the Panthers and one holding penalty (-10) yards against the Dolphins (all on the Dolphins side of the 50). Hardly moving down the field with penalties.
 
Basic offensive calling vs. basic defensive calling. I'm not sure what you are looking for out there but it isn't going to be "Air Coryell" out there. I'm happy Tannehill has moved the team down the field and scored touchdowns. In the past couple years we haven't seen any of that in preseason, lots of struggles.
 
This is a small sample size. The biggest thing you can read into preseason is that Miami's first team as a whole unit is playing well, the QB has been very accurate, the defense has been stout.

I think sometimes as fans we get this image that we are supposed to score on every drive and the defense is supposed to stop the offense on every drive . . . . and when it doesn't happen, there is a perceived problem . . . . the problem is their is another talented NFL squad across the line and sometimes they are gonna win battles.

I really don't see how anybody can look at this preseason and think anything negative. The oline has exceeded all expectations so far, Tannehill has been very sharp, the defense is playing as advertised . . . . I mean I'm ready for the season.
 
DKphin said:
The reports from the previous accounts of the game were of a team that moved ball effortlessly on offense. Maybe I am more critical, but while Tannehill looked good and the passing game was OK, we were far from a well oiled machine that I had read. We seem to have a real problem with 1st team OL and the running game. They hardly got any push. On the first couple of drives the main reason we were able to go down the field was because of the multitude of penalties called on the Panthers. I hate to be Debbie Downer, but I was not greatly impressed.
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I agree. It was not effortless. We looked kinda "eh". Its the second preseason game. Don't take to much from it. We scored a good amount of points with 1st team offense. I'm sure the game plan is rather vanilla on purpose.
 
DKphin said:
The reports from the previous accounts of the game were of a team that moved ball effortlessly on offense. Maybe I am more critical, but while Tannehill looked good and the passing game was OK, we were far from a well oiled machine that I had read. We seem to have a real problem with 1st team OL and the running game. They hardly got any push. On the first couple of drives the main reason we were able to go down the field was because of the multitude of penalties called on the Panthers. I hate to be Debbie Downer, but I was not greatly impressed.
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You hate to be a Debbie Downer? Dude...you are the top Debbie Downer on this site for the last month.
 
What you've seen is very little planning and very little of the playbook, and not a total commitment to the cause from anyone......yet our 1st team has scored at will. Try to imagine how more interesting it's going to be when the season starts and everyone is "all in".
 
I like what I'm seeing on offense and the D line, the big concern Im starting to have is LB, Mccain is not looking good to me, he's having almost zero impact as far as I can tell. I hope I'm wrong. Misi Im done with him, will he ever get on the field, Shepherd looks like he can't cover, and the rookies are rookies
 
I agree with you.

It was not a game in which Miami was fundamentally sound or had its best stuff going. If not for the penalty by the goal line that wouldn't have been a score. And I certainly didn't think the offense moved the ball effortlessly. Besides a few nice passing plays from Tannehill, I wasn't really all that impressed with the offense. Thought it was a game in which Carolina's mistakes bailed Miami out on quite a few occasions.

Only a few plays stood out, with the majority of the offensive snaps being meh.
 
Well you can certainly feel upset or disappointed by whatever flaws existed in the Dolphins' offense during the last preseason game, or you could simply ignore the preseason games all together. As someone who's followed the NFL for almost 35 seasons, I have to say that the second option is the much better one. The greatest trick the owners ever managed was to get the fans to believe that preseason games matter at all.
 
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