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Is Marshall killing the offense?

Jasone said:
You throw to Reggie Bush, except the fact that we never have him in on redzone possessions, which makes no sense whatsoever considering he was the Saints' best redzone weapon. I think we threw to him a total of 1 time in the redzone, and he ended up scoring. Why did we even trade for him if we're not going to have him play on the parts of the field where he can help us the most? The offense has no creativity whatsoever. We're either running up the middle in the redzone, or throwing to Marshall.
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Ok, what you are saying is instead of running Bush between the tackles, you want to use him in the passing game.

Well.

If you look at Bush's history he has not been a very good back running the football but he has become a very good pass catching back. He caught 88 passes last season and 73 in a 12 game season the year before.

One thing that gets me about us trying to run Bush between the tackles is that it seems that everyone in football including most fans believe that R Bush cannot run between the tackles. Once again, almost everyone in the media, everyone playing in the NFL, everyone working in any form with any football, most football players down to high school JV, most fans that cover football at all, including most Dolphin fans believe that R Bush is not effective running the ball between the tackles.

Yet we did it. And when it did not work, we kept doing it.

And I think also, most people would say that expecting the Dolphins to defeat the Jets using Matt Moore throwing to B Marshall against D Revis 12-15 times would not work.

Yet we did it. And when it did not work, we kept doing it.

Reggie Bush made a statement early this season that he was the feature back. The man.

Brandon Marshall made a statement last week that he was going to play like a "Monster" against the Jets (and try to get thrown out?).

And each time afterwards our Head Coach was asked about it. And both times he agreed and there were stories about how now R Bush would be a main back (did Sparano even know before it?) and there were stories about how B Marshall was going to destroy New York.

Who runs this team? The Coaches? The Players? The GM? The Owner?

Or is that part of the problem in itself?
 
I think the coaching staff is killing the offense by force feeding Marshall. Instead of using him to pull coverage away from another receiver they just continue to fire away. How long are we going to continue to use a play that doesn't work. The redzone offense is so scripted its a crime.
 
Marshall is the highest paid player on offense, he should start catching balls to earn that salary. Is he killing the offense? Yes, because those are TD's we need to win ball games. If they hit your hands, they are catch-able balls.
 
BAMAPHIN 22 said:
Marshall has dropped 7 TDs and run out of bounds on another. That's 8 TDs that were not scored. That is a lack of 56 points. The Dolphins have scored so far, a total of 75 points this season. That equates to 15 points per game. If Marshall had made those plays, the Dolphins offense would have scored a total of 131 points. That averages to 26 points per game. IMO Marshall is not the only factor in the Dolphins inept offensive production but he accounts for 43% of the lack of production.


What are your thoughts?
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If there were field goals or touchdowns scored by other people on the drives in which Marshall dropped the eight TDs, you can't very well say we're 56 points short because of Marshall.

That said, the big picture is that Marshall is definitely a problem IMO, and I personally think he should've been temporarily removed -- yes removed -- from the offense in the red zone long ago, just to teach him a lesson.

That's how you deal with a diva receiver who's undermining the team. You show him exactly who the boss is.

You have to do that also to maintain the integrity of your team, whereby players are rewarded for good play and punished for bad play. As soon as you stop doing that, you lose your team.
 
i say would should cut marshall along with dansby carrey and fasano. while were cleaning house the strength and conditioning coach the o-line coach and the head coach, they will all be gone eventually. might as well get started
 
So Marshall should have 9 TDs in 5 games if he didn't drop any passes? The math is logical but the logic isn't
 
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