A slow little white guy barely 150 lbs took the ball and scampered 71 yards against our first-string defense Friday night. You have to assume that both of our safeties, and both of our CBs, and at least one of our new stud LBs are faster than this guy. It just goes to show you that even though our men are faster than him, they didn’t have a chance to catch him because they were sooooo out of position.
Adam Gase acknowledged this over the weekend, singling out Bobby McCain, Raekwon McMillan and Jerome Baker on that play. Gase said they were all out of position. Reshad Jones was at the line of scrimmage, way off to the right. He started off way out of position.
The Panthers were facing 2nd and inches. In Gaseville, that means a passing down. Gase calls for passes every single time the Dolphins have anything-and inches, so he figures other teams will too. He had his D in a press pass coverage…never anticipating a running play.
So when your D is set up to stop the pass, and the opponent runs a simple handoff….then a play that is designed to gain one yard suddenly gains you 71. 5 of the 11 Dolphins were out of position and 6 more just got burned by the men blocking them.
But don’t worry. Adam Gase said he’ll correct it. Didn’t he say the same thing 16 different times last year after every single game?
Any difference you say? That’s an easy one. You trade or cut your 3 best players and you expect the same result? That like asking if you trade the best outfield in the majors (3 All-Stars) and expect to win more games,instead of lose over 100 games. I said when Suh left that the run defense would suffer-guess what! They may not be the worst team in the league but they are in the bottom 4 for sure. They are far worse. Rake On and Minkah have been disappointing considering all the hype.
Agree 100% but I would add…. and not fill the voids! Sorry a 34 year old DE isn’t filling in for Suh
I’m so glad that you posted this thought. Not only did Gase say that it was “OK because we know what the problem is and therefore we can get it corrected” but he also said that one of the issues with the 1st team offense struggling is they they are holding plays back so as not to reveal to much of the offense during preseason.
That infuriated me! If your New England, Minnesota, Greenbay or a handful of other great offensive teams I can see that but we’re the Dolphins. We have been in the bottom half of the NFL for almost two decades. We need all the real reps we can get!
Gase is not head coach caliber! His thinking is idiotic.
Bad coaching is what gets half your team out of position. Being out of position causes stupid penalties and blow assignments both of which get you beat.
That is what we get to look forward to for yet another year
Yeah, the plays look the same to me (Bubble screens far too much, plus 4-yard crossing patterns when we need to gain 7). I don’t buy that Gase has all these secret plays up his sleeve.
Agreed,he will never be HC caliber! Corrected? What” If you don’t have a quality player,it makes no difference. Coach al you want but if I’m better than you,it makes no difference. The drain on quality players gets worse every year,not that we had many to start with. Now we have 3 fewer.
Last time Tannehill started Miami went to the playoffs. Last year sucked but that was because of jay cutler being jay cutler he always finds a way to go 6-10. Robert Quinn has a chance to be a beast and the new linebackers should learn as the year goes on. I think the team goes 8-8 maybe 9-7 but just misses the playoffs.
McDonald also took a horrible line and was beat but I’ll give them a pass as it’s preseason. Although if anyone is to blame it’s Burke’s D scheme which he took over from his predecessor who is now sucking in Denver. Why can’t these guys just run the same successful D’s that seem to work in places like Baltimore? Instead they come up with something better… ya right.
First team D was a lot better this week the backups stunk though. Quinn is a monster!
Tanny wasn’t bad looked rusty to start but got better. I’d take Petty instead of the other two guys hopefully he’s healthy soon.
Sorry wasn’t logged in that was my comment…
I agree the first team defense looked like they were going to get rolled over again by Baltimore’s second team but Matt Buerk looked like he was nonstop screaming on the sidelines (something we haven’t seen from this coaching staff in the past) and the defense looked really good. I think that goal line stand lasted 397 plays and they kept them out of the endzone. That is what we need. Also even with some blown coverage and gap reads I think the LB cleaned up a lot of the miscommunication and general out of position play from last week. Encouraging!
Now many may say, “Well this was Baltimore’s second string offense” Yes but usually that spells doom for Miami. How many undrafted, never played before running backs have tromped all over our defense for huge games. How many scrub, practice team QBs have come in and looked like Dan Marino in the last decade? RG3 is no scrub, Baltimore’s reserve OL men are not scrubs so this was pretty commendable.
As for the offense it looked horrible through the first quarter. Exactly what you would expect from an Adam Gase run offense. Exactly what we have had over the last two years – SLOW STARTS!
I honestly don’t know if Gase will ever learn that he isn’t an effective OC or at least he can’t seem to be the HC and the OC at the same time. Geleski had one catch and it wasn’t designed, it happened on a busted play. The RB was supposed to slide out and get a short swing pass and then try to run for ten yards which he might have been able to do because the defense blitzed everyone including their branch and the RB had to stay back and block. Tannehill found Geleski who must have been his second option and it was a nice gain.
Any nice play with Gase usually has a question mark associated to it like why hasn’t Geleski the number one read on any plays?
Why did the offense not throw the ball more than 20 yards downfield until the third preseason game?
Also why do we keep hearing that Frank Gore is the presumed starter when Drake just keeps churning out big play after big play?
Final analysis = This was what this game should have looked like. To me there were a lot of positives in that the defense seemed to make a huge leap from last week to this week. That tells me we have two things. Talent and coaching. In the end we still wont have any idea what we have until September 9th against the Titans.