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I was just curious. We are in the pre-season, but which side of the ball must show more improvement in your opinion? I know that eveyone is looking at the Oline to see if they improve, however I am looking for the defense to have a better night. I hope they can put more pressure on the opposing quarterback, and allow the cb's, and safeties be able to get in sink. I would like to see some blitz schemes that we get to the quarterback. I hope Daniels had a good game, along with Roth, Crowder, and Bell. I hope Shulters catches up, and gets up to speed as well.
 
I would like to see our o-line get some push in run blocking against the beasts that Jax has as their DTs. That and some better secondary play.
 
If our secondary dont improve we are screwed. We saw what happened when we couldnt defend the run last season. Being unable to defend the pass puts serious pressure on our D line to pass rush.
 
definitely the defense, the secoundary was horrible in the HOF game
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
I was just curious. We are in the pre-season, but which side of the ball must show more improvement in your opinion? I know that eveyone is looking at the Oline to see if they improve, however I am looking for the defense to have a better night. I hope they can put more pressure on the opposing quarterback, and allow the cb's, and safeties be able to get in sink. I would like to see some blitz schemes that we get to the quarterback. I hope Daniels had a good game, along with Roth, Crowder, and Bell. I hope Shulters catches up, and gets up to speed as well.
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I think the lack of pressure on Chi's QBs was lost on many fans last week. The secondary looked workmanlike at best, but they go hand in hand and if the DL puts more pressure on the QB, the secondary will look better...The blitzes seemed a little bit staged, although there were a lot of them...I look to see more pressure from the DL, allowing those blitzes to work better and the secondary to look better...

As far as the O goes, the RBs have to do a better job this week. The OL had it's moments and had a rough time handling the blitzes in the first quarter, but the OL played overall decently. Gordon, in particular, was late hitting the holes due to his dancing around...Minor did a better job. RW was, IMHO, testing his power and found that he has lost a lot of it from previous years. He's faster, but not necessarily quicker as of yet...he has to get his timing down better to see the holes...There were a few holes, the backs just seemed to miss time them...could be the fact that we spend less time on the middle drills than with the previous regime and a few more games will work that out...we'll see...
 
LarryFinFan said:
I think the lack of pressure on Chi's QBs was lost on many fans last week. The secondary looked workmanlike at best, but they go hand in hand and if the DL puts more pressure on the QB, the secondary will look better...The blitzes seemed a little bit staged, although there were a lot of them...I look to see more pressure from the DL, allowing those blitzes to work better and the secondary to look better...

As far as the O goes, the RBs have to do a better job this week. The OL had it's moments and had a rough time handling the blitzes in the first quarter, but the OL played overall decently. Gordon, in particular, was late hitting the holes due to his dancing around...Minor did a better job. RW was, IMHO, testing his power and found that he has lost a lot of it from previous years. He's faster, but not necessarily quicker as of yet...he has to get his timing down better to see the holes...There were a few holes, the backs just seemed to miss time them...could be the fact that we spend less time on the middle drills than with the previous regime and a few more games will work that out...we'll see...
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I think the front 7 pressure is huge to the confidence, progress, and communication of our back 4. What will also help is once they figure out who the starters are going to be, so they can mess as a unit as well.
 
The offense.

The blocking needs to be better, and the QB play needs to give us something to be proud of.

Defense isn't as much of a concern because defense is generally vanilla in the preseason. That means both that the Dolphins are going to get better at D and that the offense isn't going to do as well once other defenses start to play better.
 
win it in the trenches---O line and D line, the two most important things on the pitch--Those two do there job and john Candy could play QB
 
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