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The recipe for rehabilitating Ted Ginn Jr.

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Today, as the Dolphins coaches are drawing up their plans for the Jets game, the issue of what to do with Ginn has to be decided. It is clear Ginn will lose some snaps at the wide receiver spot. Tony Sparano practically said as much when he said rookie Brian Hartline was about to play more.
More work for Hartline will mean less work for Ginn. That is a certainty.

Deactivating Ted Ginn would basically crush him emotionally.

In fact, let Ginn take the game's first snap. Throw him the ball or hand it to him on an end around. Get him immediately involved. Give him a chance to make a play, thus allowing him to rebuild his waning confidence.
Then put him on the sideline in pressure situations as Hartline gets more snaps throughout the game.

One thing the Dolphins absolutely, positively must do: Do what Cam Cameron and Randy Mueller planned when Ginn first arrived in Miami. Give him a chance to return every punt and every kickoff the Dolphins take first and foremost.

note: I don't really have a problem with this except for punt returns. And the hands part- it could very well be that his hands left the building with his confidence, but they have been awful this year.

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Give him returning duties...leave him on bench otherwise.
 
Hopefully he can work his way back to being able to catch. Since the Colts game it has gone all down hill in terms of catching the ball. Put him on returns and hopefully he'll get out of his head.
 
He needs to be on the field so Revis can follow him everywhere opening up all the others. Rhodes will spy him too, so they don't look stupid again. He could help us by just being on the field!
 
IMO, Ginn needs to be demoted and maybe even benched for the Jets game. Personally, if we were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, I would bench Ginn immediately. From what I have seen and heard, the guy just doesn't seem to put in the time to improve. If you look at the great wideouts over the years, many of them have reached out to former great players and HOF'ers to get tips on how to improve their game. I firmly believe that Ginn is just collecting a paycheck and isn't putting in the time to make himself better. He should be the first to practice and the last to leave. He should be spending a metric **** ton of time with the ball machine and with Henne to get his reps. He should practically be begging Henne to let him live in his guest house and they should be playing catch all day long.

Something tells me that isn't happening.
 
NYinBostonFin said:
Give him returning duties...leave him on bench otherwise.
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Who else do we have the can blow by a CB & S? I am not saying the kid should be our #1. I think he is best suited for slot, using his speed vs. Nickel & LB for most coverages.

Ted Ginn makes mistakes that he should not be after 3 years in the NFL. I do see him as a #9 overall bust. But I do not see him as a complete bust type player. Miami needs to use him for the deep ball, even if it is a decoy.

I see Ted Ginn Jr. as a #2, #3 option in future years. It may or may not be with Miami. But either way he will make some great plays and some really bad drops. Last time I looked unless you are a TRUE #1 WR, those are the things that you see from a player with Talent, but never seems to have a complete game.

Call him what you want, but there is BETTER WAYS to use him in the passing game. I hold the O-Cord responsible for not moving him to the slot for the deep seem & out routes more often already. Now Tony may force it on him.

It's not Ted's fault that he was picked #9 overall. But it is his fault for dropping so many passes. He is a bit slow upstairs it seems, when you listen to him talk. But that does not give him a pass for working hard on catching passes.

I say move him to the slot for 90% of his plays, then let him have a few on the outside with fly routes. IF Miami had some really good talent with size, speed & hands, then put him on the bench/cut/trade...But we do not have any of the above. We have some really solid road graders that can make some plays. We are a team full of average #2's and a few solid #3's.

Miami and any other team that needs a TRUE #1 WR will continue to look for one. It is not an easy task and there might be 10 of them in the NFL!

Players that rise to stardom this year, may fall back into the deep dark hole of darkness next season. Just take a look at just about any team and you will find 3-5 guys that played great one year only to fall the next. Fasano had a great year last year, he started off horrible this year. Then he came back for a couple of games only to start dropping the ball yet again.
 
When I watch Ted Ginn play I honestly believe he's trying too hard, he looks really frustrated and wants to do better, but he is just trying too hard, he has a lot on his shoulders being the teams #1 receiver, I think he just needs to get his head straight, and in due time as the rest of the Offense progresses as will he, he's probably overly stressed right now with his horrible performance, I know he wants to get better, but as of right now stress and frustration is beating him down. Sure he goes out of bonds and falls a lot, but seriously, if you were that damn skinny goin up against people twice as strong as you, you'd probably do the same, the kid just needs some confidence, and in due time he will progress, he has the skill set.
 
Let him focus on on KR duties and run the fly pattern long and deep for about 12 plays a game and throw to him about 4 times to keep the defense honest and hope it pays off.
 
screw Ted ginn. this is year 3, we shouldn't have to coddle his feelings. he should be up to speed and catching that ball. He isn't so screw him lets focus on the guys who are our future, not our horrible soon to be past.
 
PorrotheDolfan said:
When I watch Ted Ginn play I honestly believe he's trying too hard, he looks really frustrated and wants to do better, but he is just trying too hard, he has a lot on his shoulders being the teams #1 receiver, I think he just needs to get his head straight, and in due time as the rest of the Offense progresses as will he, he's probably overly stressed right now with his horrible performance, I know he wants to get better, but as of right now stress and frustration is beating him down. Sure he goes out of bonds and falls a lot, but seriously, if you were that damn skinny goin up against people twice as strong as you, you'd probably do the same, the kid just needs some confidence, and in due time he will progress, he has the skill set.
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this is the nfl not pop warner. Either you have the physical and emotion fortitude to handle being a starter or you don't. he's had 2 years and 6 games to show us he deserves to be the number one target out there, and all he has shown us is that he can run fast... really fast.
 
I say he's had one year and 6 games. They seem to use him the wrong way, granted he needs to make those catches. Where was the deep fly route? How bout a screen? Slant? idn. Our offense would be lethal if we learned to implement the screen. The bess screen 5 times a game does not cut it. We have 2 elite runnigbacks who's only involvement in the passing game is a dump off. Watch the elite teams, they get the ball into the guy's hands quick and fast with blockers, so he can make a play. I trust Ginn on his feet, put him in that position to get his confidence back.
 
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