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Sports Buzz: Why Dolphins should be very concerned about Sunday

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A six-pack of Tuesday Dolphins and media notes:

• If you didn’t know the Dolphins were above .500 (7-5) and the Arizona Cardinals were under (5-6-1), you would never know looking at statistics.

Arizona is ninth in the league in total offense. Miami is 25th.

Arizona is second in the league in total defense. The Dolphins are 25th.

Arizona is 11th-best at stopping the run and third-best at stopping the pass. The Dolphins are 30th and 11th.

Arizona has outscored teams by 25. Miami has been outscored by 23.

In the other words, the Cardinals are the best sub-.500 team that Miami could possibly face.

Carson Palmer has fallen off this season (85.5 passer rating to rank 23rd, four spots behind Ryan Tannehill), but he was terrific Sunday against Washington (30-46, 300 yards) and threw a perfect deep ball to JJ Nelson for a touchdown to seal the game.

Miami also must contend with Arizona running back David Johnson, one of only two players in NFL history to top 100 yards from scrimmage in each of the first 12 games of a season.
He has 1055 yards rushing (4.4 average) and 704 yards receiving on 64 catches (11.0 average).

Watching Johnson catch passes out of the backfield, while matched up with Dolphins linebackers, could be frightful for Miami.

Working in the Dolphins’ favor: Arizona must fly cross-country for what’s essentially a 10 a.m. Pacific Time game (1 p.m. Eastern). Also, the Cardinals are 1-4 on the road, with losses to Buffalo, Carolina, Minnesota and Atlanta and a win at San Francisco.

• Oddly, Miami is now 0-5 when Jarvis Landry has 10 or more catches in a game in his career and 1-7 when he has 90 or more receiving yards. Yes, Landry is likely to catch more balls when Miami is trailing and has to throw a lot. Still, those stats are somewhat surprising.

• It’s frustrating to see Tannehill repeatedly throw very short passes on third and long – well short of the marker – and the approach generally isn’t working.

Consider: On 3rd and 8 or longer, the Dolphins have gotten the first down on only 8 of 45 pass attempts, that 17.8 percent ranking Tannehill third-worst in the league, ahead of only Jacksonville’s Blake Bortles and Minnesota’s Sam Bradford. Play-calling and poor blocking are major factors in that.

We can understand why Adam Gase calls a lot of short passes on third and long: Tannehill can release the ball quickly and avoid pass-rushers, and perhaps the receiver can scamper for big yardage against a defense not expecting a screen.

But it hasn’t worked as well as anybody would like.

• According to makenflplayoffs.com, the Dolphins’ odds of qualifying for postseason have dropped to 28 percent.
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article119138943.html#storylink=cpy


So much for the people saying we need to get the ball more to Landry...that is surprising.
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Interesting stat about Landry. It has always frustrated me when RT seems to focus on Landy on pretty much every pass, even when other receivers are wide open. Well, hopefully the Dolphins staff will also notice the stat and start working on spreading the wealth during games. (trying to think positively)
 
DrMultimedia said:
Interesting stat about Landry. It has always frustrated me when RT seems to focus on Landy on pretty much every pass, even when other receivers are wide open. Well, hopefully the Dolphins staff will also notice the stat and start working on spreading the wealth during games. (trying to think positively)
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When Parker is healthy, Landry's touches go down. That's something I've noticed this year.
 
This offense cannot and should not run through Jarvis Landry, tone-setter or not.
 
Wildbill3 said:
Less Landry equals more wins?
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How many times I see a pass to Landry in the backfield for a loss of 2 or 3 yds. Even Lazor used to do it, now Gase is doing the same. These plays have to be removed from that playbook.
 
The Landry stats is simple. When we're running good and are ahead we don't have to pass as much. When we're behind the other team doesn't want to get beat deep so Landry can work the under stuff and his totals will go up and the other team is fine with that. Tannehill has to get rid of it so he's taking what's there at that point. Thinking about Arizona and their RB catching passes, he's going to have a field day this week, specially with Kiko not playing. We're about to start 3 ST's players at LB this week. Wow

Ozzy rules!!
 
More dumpoffs passes to the running backs ala Dan Marnio which produced big results if RT has those skills.
 
phintim said:
More dumpoffs passes to the running backs ala Dan Marnio which produced big results if RT has those skills.
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I never understood why we don't do that more often. Teams do it to us all the time. We rarely use that play which is pretty high percentage.
 
Fins1971 said:
I never understood why we don't do that more often. Teams do it to us all the time. We rarely use that play which is pretty high percentage.
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Have you seen those plays? Ajayi catches the ball and turns around to see a defender already tackling him. Our O-line is no where to be found. If we had real OGs they would know to get out in front of the play but we have 4 OTs standing around watching the play instead.
 
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