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By CHRIS PERKINS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 29, 2009
DAVIE — For the third time in three years it's to time to be concerned about wide receiver Ted Ginn, Jr., and his play-making ability. Well, for some people.
"I told you last week, Ted Ginn right now has a lot more receptions than he did last year at this time," said Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano.
Actually, that's not true. Ginn, a first-round pick from Ohio State, has three receptions for 45 yards. At this time last year he had eight receptions for 97 yards. Neither set of numbers inspires confidence, but Sparano said to look beyond Ginn's numbers.
"The game didn't dictate (throwing to Ginn) last week," Sparano said. "We threw maybe one or two balls his way. I'm fine with where he is right now."
Ginn, vying to make a name in the AFC East alongside game-breaking wide receivers such as Buffalo's Terrell Owens and New England's Randy Moss, hasn't been the threat the Dolphins had hoped.
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Doesn't bother me, if he played more than 8 snaps a game I think he would be doing fine. Save him for the regular season. We know what he's capable of.
 
If we win 10 superbowls in a row there will always be someone finding something to whine about. It's sad that instead of working hard to find something interesting to write about these guys nit pick pre-season games when starters get a hand full of snaps.
 
i love ginn and was happy to see him returning kicks. that maybe where he helps us the most. he'll do fine running reverses and maybe some wr screens. but he doesnt fit with what the offense is . hes a home run hitter and right now his type of game doesnt fit with all the short throws and ball control offense. if he was in a vertical passing attack with a good qb none of these questions would be asked.
 
People get way too hung up on numbers in the pre-season. I remember in 02 Ricky had like 8 or 9 carries for 30 some yards and people were panicking. Yeh,whatever.
 
That's what the offense was about last year. Rarely did they target one player week after week. Someone different stepped up each game throughout the season whether it was Ginn, Fasano, Cam, Bess, Cobbs, Brown...someone different each week. And as a result of that, teams had no clue who to gameplan against. As the season moved forward, Ginn was drawing double teams. I expect much of the same this year in terms of the different targets each week.
 
I have been hard on Ginn since he was drafted but this pre-season, I do like what I see from him. His route running has improved greatly. Have not had much of a chance to determine if he has gotten smarter on the field but being in his 2nd year with the same offense, he can't help but be.

Those numbers are really meaningless in pre season. I am surprised because normally the post has pretty heads up analysis.
 
idk what the yap is about i have been seeing him running solid routes and in preseason game 1 i think it was we featured him while he was in and he made some nice catches off of poorly thrown balls. he is poised to breakout
 
i think it's more important to solve who's going to be WR#2 trying out all the other receivers, than throwing all passes to ginn, because he'll do fine this year, and is the only WR who is safe right now at his spot.
 
It does not worry me one bit because in the first preseason game we saw that there is a big plan to incorperate him in the game plan... Come regular season he will see his touch's...
 
I have been hard on Ginn but this preseason he has shown much improvement. Ginn will have a good year, when he was show cased for a quarter in that first preseason game that was enough for the staff to know he was going to bring it, now it was time to find number 2. Even though many have not hit on it Bess looks a step slower and has dropped a couple, not Bess like, thats the reason Hartline got his opportunity and thats why there is a 3 man race for that spot. which I think will be won by Hartline or Cam.

Teddy is going to have a good year.
 
we know what ginn kind of brings to the table, we need to see what the wr's bring like hartline, turner, and london when they are on the field, hartline is going to be one of those go to guys on third down along with bess, we also had to what gc has after that injury, as much of a ginn hater that i am that doesn't bother me
 
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