Pre-Game Recon: Five Questions With The Phinsider

The Dolphins lose to the Texans by the same score in the first round of the playoffs.

I’m going with 34-17 Texans for final score.

A genius, unheard of idea.

Remember 2009 when we had to beat the Patriots in game 16 to go 9-7 and, hopefully, make the playoffs. Turns out we were #7 when the top 6 made the playoffs but #6 was 9-7 as well.

Do you not have Owen Daniels anymore?

What is the reason Florida fans don’t go to the games? I’ve even seen Heat’s Arena not quite filled.

Wait, the opposite of that.

…that last sentence in the second excerpt is pretty much how I see it.

If you had to endure the crap that we had to on offense last year and then watched what we did last week, you would understand the optimism. Did we run an end around and give it to the slowest guy on the field? NO. Did we go max protect the whole game last week? NO. Were the CBs calling out to Brandon Marshall the route he was going to run based on the formation(YES THAT REALLY HAPPENED LAST YEAR)? NO. Did the cameras catch Dan Henning’s grandson with a box of crayons drawing up the offensive game plan in the coaches box(it didn’t happen but it really seemed like that is where the game plan was coming from last year)? NO.
     Given all the changes on offense and everything on defense staying the same all of us fans are pretty confident. We know how good our defense was last year and we gave up a lot more points than we should have last year because our offense put us in bad positions most of the time. We were out of shape(I hope they were really embarrassed by that this week) and I expect the defense to come out hard this week to make up for it.
     I wouldn’t pretend to think that this will be an easy game by any stretch of the imagination, but do not think that you will see the same sorry performance you did last week out of our defense. Vontae Davis was saying earlier this season that he thought they had the best CB tandem in the league. They are definitely top 5, but they got embarrassed last week and it showed that they were out of shape. Those 2 guys will be driven this week to correct that and at least try to make good on that claim(they are pretty good).
     A week of heavy conditioning in the FL heat will do a lot to fix those conditioning problems. I know it gets hot in Texas too, but people that come from Texas say that it is a different kind of heat here, because of all the humidity. Its not that the Pats were prepared for it any better, they were just able to substitute, while Brady would snap the ball every time our guys tried to sub. It really hurt us that we didn’t have 2-a-days this year.

I don’t want the heartbreak suffered from last year again.

just figured id give you my view from the other side, our oline-Jake Long and Pouncey who loks promising, is absolute garbage at the moment and I whole heartedly agree that they will struggle against your retooled line. However I think if they get a little blitz happy that the phins will really work the screens with Bush and a couple of our WRs in attempts of neutralizing those blitzes since Bush is far more deadly in the open field. I also think that our Defense will be a little more ready this week and the combination of things will make this a far closer game than that, I still have a feeling Daniels kills us (luckily I have him on my fantasy team) and the Texans win 28-24 with the Phins failing to score at the end for the win. Heres to a good game though

Columbo vs. Mario Williams is the only matchup that really really scares me this year. I don’t think the Jets or any other team we face has a guy that can cause more problems that Mario will. I hope we have some other plan than just hoping that Columbo can solo that guy. Jake Long is the best LT in the league, Richie Incognito is solid at LG, Pouncey is doing good as a rookie and he will only get better. Vernon Carey is also solid as a RG, although he is not the type of RG that you can expect to pull…. EVER. Columbo… he worries me … But on the bright side if Mario get to Henne and kills him, at least we will be in the running for the Andrew Luck sweepstakes….lol

D-wise, we were picked apart by a no-huddle no-substitution offense the whole game, so it’ll take more than that performance to convince me of their inferiority.

This is the first year Chad Henne has been working with a modern offensive coordinator who gasp actually lets him call audibles! The change has really been astounding. We were not supposed to put up that much yardage against the New England D, which is one of the best run units in the league and, to be blunt, much better than yours.

If Henne plays like that again, and there’s no reason to believe he shouldn’t considering the news about him during the pre-season, we win.

He says what we all really feel. Every crew needs one of those grimy cats on board. I can care less if it offended any phins fans. Texans in a blow out, even in the bad weather.

…drag a hunk-of-cheese on a string RIGHT in front of me why don’tcha’!
I may resist the urge to gawk at the carnage just because he is so embarrassing.

He now has three sockpuppets, and he’s rec’ing his own posts with them.

And trois.
And quatre.

only I have access to rec 5 times

kept pointing out how Kerry Collins was 0-7 against Wade Phillips as a DC and we won that game easily so I’ll stick with reality instead of superstition. [[I just knocked on wood when you weren’t looking!]] :) Go Texans!!!

Dolphins/Jets games are always close and come down to the wire… There are going to be 2 teams from the AFC East that make the playoffs.

Im hoping for tons of leg and shoe string tackles. Wishing for Qb and Rb sliding with grace. Im praying hard for hand shakes and smiles.

If it rains hard then both teams could stumble early

The ski mask isn’t garish enough.

Doesn’t seem to be as much as previous years…so far. We’ve only seen one game in the 3-4, but he was moved around some. Previously in the 4-3, he’d move around to create mismatches.