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“There are two places you can go in this league every week,” Sparano told them. “You go to heaven or you go to hell. Against the Patriots, we went to hell.”
Nearly every player who addressed the media Wednesday also made a very deliberate and very transparent effort to point out that they had moved past the New England game and onto this week’s game against Houston. It wasn’t just the defense, either.
“We are on to Houston right now, so totally different scheme, totally different group of guys out there that we are facing,” wide receiver Brandon Marshall echoed. “Hopefully, we can build off the things that we did well and didn’t do well Monday night.”
Yet despite all that went wrong in this loss — despite all that Sparano is trying to get his players to forget — the debut of the team’s new offense might be worth enjoying for at least a brief moment.

For now, the Dolphins want to temper any excitement about their success on offense — just as they don’t want to overreact to the failures on defense.This is a work in progress. And Henne, who needs to string together several successful outings before he will begin to earn back any benefit of the doubt from fans, realizes it’s up to him to keep it on track.
“I don’t think we met our [expectations for the offense] because we want to give our fans a win,” Henne said. “No matter what happens, we want to win at home and give our fans something to cheer about. Obviously, they’re disappointed. We’re disappointed as well.But we’ve got to move on.”
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/15/2407713/sparano-trying-to-get-miami-dolphins.html
 
Tony would like you to forget about every bad game ok?. Because we have to move on ok?. We have good players ok? So we need to make plays ok?. BLAH BLAH BLAH His team is 1 and 10 the last 11 home games but we should just move on to the next game ok?. Hey I got an idea how about you build a team that can win so we can bask in the glow of a victory for awhile instead of "moving on" to stop the pain ok?.
 
This game on Sunday is as close to a must win as it gets this early in the season. After the Texans game, their isn't another home game for what, almost a month? Gotta win against Houston so we can shut some of these people up, at least for a week. Can't imagine what will be said if Miami loses on Sunday. I think it will be a high scoring game, which is scary. This team we have might be in a lot of shootouts this year. When is the last time anyone said that? One important thing to remember going into Sunday, Matt Schaub is not even in Tom Brady's neighborhood. High scoring game, Dolphins outlast for the win. Please Lord let me be right....
 
OKFinFanJ said:
This game on Sunday is as close to a must win as it gets this early in the season. After the Texans game, their isn't another home game for what, almost a month? Gotta win against Houston so we can shut some of these people up, at least for a week. Can't imagine what will be said if Miami loses on Sunday. I think it will be a high scoring game, which is scary. This team we have might be in a lot of shootouts this year. When is the last time anyone said that? One important thing to remember going into Sunday, Matt Schaub is not even in Tom Brady's neighborhood. High scoring game, Dolphins outlast for the win. Please Lord let me be right....
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There is no such thing as a home game for the Dolphins. They practically play 16 road games each year.
 
Nublar7 said:
There is no such thing as a home game for the Dolphins. They practically play 16 road games each year.
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Just win baby
 
I will be looking at the offense just as much as the defense this week to buck up and be good. Sure, the D sucked on Monday while the offense was great, but consistency has long been the enemy of Henne and the Dolphins O. Another strong game and I will be a big believer.
 
Nublar7 said:
There is no such thing as a home game for the Dolphins. They practically play 16 road games each year.
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funny how over the years we usually have a good home record and now we make excuses why the sparano led dolphins cant win at home it never ends
 
Great advice, similar to the Saints forgetting that hard loss to the Packers. I could not believe the Saints showed a run play, then tried to run it up the gut when the Packers defensive line was showing a crash play. Best thing to do is focusing on the future, and hope it works out in the wash later on.
 
i will be glad when we forget saparno was ever our coach.
 
Nublar7 said:
There is no such thing as a home game for the Dolphins. They practically play 16 road games each year.
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They killed their own home filed advantage by a)practicing in the bubble and b)4:00 games. We all know you like to pin the blame on the Fans but no amount of cheers(or boos) would have stopped Brady and the Pats from hanging 38 on us last week. The better question is why are the Dolphins voluntarily surrendering this massive home edge? We have to have the dumbest front office in the league.
 
I think Nublar should go to every game to prove his true fandom. We could start a fundraiser.
 
It is arguable that great coaches, such as Shula, or Knoll, would have pounded on his team for such a poor performance. Heck Shula was known to bang on lockers at halftime in a fierce tirade to raise the motivation and expectation of quality / excellence when his team was doing poorly at the first half of a game.

I know coaches have their different coaching styles, but this "forget about it" and lackadaisical "lets move on" sends the wrong message to his team as far as what he expects out of them, what he will tolerate, and how dedicated he really is about a standard of excellence.
 
KL24 said:
They killed their own home filed advantage by a)practicing in the bubble and b)4:00 games. We all know you like to pin the blame on the Fans but no amount of cheers(or boos) would have stopped Brady and the Pats from hanging 38 on us last week. The better question is why are the Dolphins voluntarily surrendering this massive home edge? We have to have the dumbest front office in the league.
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well while that may be true on balance. miami was the team that was cramping and it was a late game. i understand what ur saying about the bubble. just dont think theres a ton of merit to it. there is - just not very much.

for years miami faded down the stretch and THAT was always the talk. we would start strong and finish slow every year, and we had alot of those 1 oclock games early in the season that we would own.

this really doesnt have much merit because there are benefits and advantages to both sides. big picture u want ur team to win down the stretch. u want ur team fresh as can be down the stretch. tony has taken that approach to this one. and im not going to blast him for this. he probably made the right move. BUT with that in mind - this team should have done EVERYTHING else in their power to win that game. and they just werent ready from the front office on down.

and sean smith and davis can say all they want about how well conditioned there are and hydrated - ready. no they werent. they didnt have enough potassium in their body and they werent fully hydrated. they should have been pissing purple pedialyte. they werent ready. and thats the players fault and the coaching staffs fault. they havent seen a full games action yet. they should have been hydrated. they werent
 
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