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Well this is the first Monday Night game the Dolphins have played in more than one year.  The last time they did that, they played an ugly game against the Steelers that remained scoreless until the final minute, when Jeff Reed hit a chippie field goal to win it for the Steelers.

The Dolphins have changed dramatically since then.  Now they face the always tough Indianapolis Colts.  Peyton Manning will look to have success against the suspect Dolphin secondary.

Hopefully Fasano remembered his stickum tonight.  And we will see how much of the wildcat will be used.  BTW, Ginn was open on that pass White threw to him last week vs. Atlanta.

Here we go!!!!!!!!!

GO DOLPHINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been listening to T-Pain's version of the Miami Dolphins on loop for like 30 minutes now...I'm pumped.

As Joe from Family Guy would say....

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GO DOLPHINS!!!!!

The Dolphins will win because it's my birthday. You're all welcome.

^^^^

Really?  Happy Birthday.  Then again, nobody remembered my birthday last Monday either

Great way to start the game  LOL

That was pretty pathetic

ouch.

That's a bad start... Clark uncovered. One poor tackle (Gibril Wilson) and he's gone. Colts up by 7.

one whole fucking play and the colts score? Defense, hello???

Two straight wildcat plays give us a first down

I think one safe conclusion after this whole NFL weekend is: The Wild Cat is not dead. Not even close.

I've never seen so many teams run Wild Cat type plays - and often.

Wild Cat Touchdown!

Really Nice play by Cobbs on a screen a few plays earlier.

Wildcat gives us a TD!!!!

We are all tied up!!!

nice TD play, hopefully the defense shows up to stop peyton

What's up fellas?  The death of the wildcat was greatly exaggerated!

Every time Manning throws it downfield, I hold my breath

They just forced a punt, Now THEY'VE got the momentum.

Why did the Colts dump Hunter Smith?

How nice is it to hear commentators saying "wow, it's loud". Been a while since I've heard anyone say that about Dolphins Stadium.

The defense finally decided to show up.

Ricky and Ronnie are tearing it up

Ginn makes a nice grab after running a crisp route

But, wow, that ball is in the air for a long time on sideline throws. Even ones that only go < 10 yards downfield.

nice try fasano

Ronnie looking like a beast.  

Pennington overshoots Fasano.  He had a TD there if he threw it lower.

Wonder what Tepop thinks of Ronnie's performance so far

Ginn blew that one

Carpenter gives them the lead with an FG.  Nice job kicking on the dirt

Pennington NEEDLESSLY overthrows first Fasano and then Ginn, for would've been touchdowns.

Instead we settle for 3.

Damnit, that's not what you're here to do, Penny.

Then overthrows Ginn.  Ah well at least we got 3.

yeah, penny overthrows fasano, but it's ginn fault he didn't catch that, personal bias alert.

If pennys throws were a little shorter both would have been caught for a TD.

WTF? You need to move closer to your TV, dude. He was going full-speed out of the endzone. No way can he NOT slow down a bit. And the ball was OUT of the endzone. He had his man beat by several yards, but Penny just overthrew it.

Fasano's was closer to a drop, yet you call that an overthrow. Ridiculous.

i think you mean land shark stadium

Pennington over threw someone? Now I've seen everything  ;)

Wow, Crowder bit bad on that Addai run up the middle. He was GONE.

Not hard to overthrow Fasano. He's not exactly a fast mover...

The Ginn overthrow was from inside the 30. Even Pennington can throw the ball 40 yards ;)

Nice tackle by Bell.

Who was covering the drag route behind Bell and Clark? (Probably Reggie Wayne running it). He got beat and had to grab a good handful of jersey. Lucky on the no-call there.

The Colts thus far have had little luck hammering toward the end zone. It's big play or bust.

Bad throw by Pennington to a double-covered Ginn. I get really scared every time Pennington lobs the ball up there.

I thought Ginn could have dove for it.  I've seen him make some incredible catches, more impressive ones than that one would have been if he caught it.

Fasano was open for an in-instride pass, yet Penny sailed it. 

Then he would've been 5 yards out of the endzone... He had to break down as he got to the back of the end zone...

OH Nate Jones just missed an INT!

SO VERY CLOSE TO A PICK!!!

A nice three-and-out there, followed by a terrible punt.  >:D

Dolphins have good field position.

They just need to keep hammering the ball.

Nice grind there for the first

I thought one of the Colts jumped there...

It is up, it is good.

Dolphins 13-10 Colts

4th and 1, and Sparano decides to bring the field goal team out. Got it, but couldn't sparano have gone for it.

Gotta take the points in a close game.

I like how they're managing to keep the Colts' offense off the field. Really long drives, eating time, wearing down the defense and keeping our own D fresh - critical against Peyton's no-huddle.

Crowder gone in coverage. Looking really bad at times tonight.

it's not like it was 4th and 10, it was one yard, polite made that play earlier in the game in a one yard situation.

Nope. That ball came out. They'll reverse it.

He just didn't get the ball tucked in; was still holding it with the tips of his fingers, making it an easy target. Even the ground alone would probably have knocked it out.

I needed that catch by Wayne for my fantasy team but real team needs trump fantasy team needs.

Not a pick, it squeezed out. But still a very lovely defensive play.

Adam with a lucky kick to tie it at the half. 

Damn. I wanted them to go for it on 4th and 1 for the very reason .......NOT to let Peyton have the Ball.   >:(

Still........considering the way the first 12 seconds went of the game, I'm not complaining.  ;)

If we fail, it will probably be 13-10 Colts, it could be 17-10 Colts.

If we succeed, it could still be 10-10.

It's the risk you take.

Not a good defensive showing there at the end - allowing a 3rd and 15 conversion, turned 3rd and 10 by an encroachment penalty on McDaniel. Can't jump the gun on a 3rd and long, that's just stupid. And can't allow a corner / out route to get the ball and go out of bounds. Any tackle in bounds would have had a good chance of ending the half.

I hear you......but Ronnie brown and Ricky are HOT. They could have gotten us 1 Yard. I think it was a small risk worth taking.

Lucky return there. Slipped around the 10, got to the 25.

Dolphins are 7/10 on 3rd down. Colts are 2/5.

Nice second effort by Ginn, who converted third downs on at least two catches tonight.  

Haha, free play there, Ronnie and Ricky do it in the Wildcat

The best thing is they are keeping Manning off the field.

Not often the Colts O stay off the field this long. Keeping Peyton out of rhythm may play to our advantage.

the next thing they should do with White is handoff to ricky and then flea flicker it

Man, Justin Smiley missed his blocking assignment on that Pat White wild cat play. The d-linemen crossed and Smiley Just didn't pick up his guy, waving him through untouched.

Carpenter shanks one.

Well Carpenter misses the kick, and it is up to the defense now

WTF was that?

Owwww.

Peyton didn't stand a chance.

Joey Joey Joey!

Peyton was under pressure the entire way.

2 three-and-outs for the Colts.

What a sweet play by Manning, just going down as Porter was about to hit him. Untouched (really bad blocking mistake). I have no idea how he knew Porter was about to blind-side him. Gotta respect that "instinct" or whatever you want to call it.

I believe that's called "deer in the headlights".  ;)

Cobbs with the big run!

Ronnie Brown isn't having a very good time out there right now. A really good start - first 8 carries or so. The last 8... not so hot.

And as I'm writing this, Brown gets a 14-yard wild cat run.

RW has really looked powerful out there, getting a few extra yards on every single carry.

Talk about someone looking good: Cobbs.

Keep pounding the ball!!!!

this is a great game.  wearing out the colts d. can they get 3:1 in the TOP?

This is a beautiful drive so far.

What is the chant after a first down is made?

Ginn with another key catch

What is the record for most lopsided TOP in NFL history?

It's very close I'm sure.

KEEP THIS UP!!!

announcer: That's another miami dolphin...
crowd: first down!

3Q

Colts: 1:30
Dolphins 13:30

No, that would imply Peyton freezing, doing nothing. What happened was Porter had a straight run at him from the blind side. Peyton never looking, but RIGHT when Porter was about to pummel him, he pulled in the ball and dropped. Result: sack. Yeah, but no risk of the ball popping out and no risk of quarterback injury. Clever play.

I would have liked to have seen the Phins run some no huddle in the 3rd quarter. The Colts D is tired as it is, and some no huddle would have had their D looking for some oxygen.

"Time of possession was 42:58 to 17:02 in favor of the Steelers, who amassed 417 yards in total offense to 248 for the Patriots.
In Pitt in 2004 biggest one i could find "

^I found this on another board.

It was a joke, hence the ;)

TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE ARE THE MIAMI DOLPHINS
MIAMI DOLPHINS
MIAMI DOLPHINS, NUMBER ONE!!!

They played "Fins" LOL!

The whole offensive line was standing a good two yards inside the Colts' endzone on that play. Nice play indeed.

COME ON AQUA!!!!!  FINISH THE JOB!!!!!!!  

Fins to the left, fins to the right, Ronnie up the middle ...

Could you guys make sure you cover Clark?  grr

Blown coverage by... Crowder... again... Clark for 49 yards.

Where was the tackling?  You have to be kidding me!

The Colts don't quit fighting, do they?

Bad play by the REF on that touchdown run. He completely messed up getting out of the way. He either needs to stand the fuck still or move. Faking moves isn't what he should be doing.

Dang it if I am going to lose my fantasy game the Dolphins had better not lose also!!

not good.

ANOTHER BIG CATCH BY GINN!!!!!

and ginn makes up for it. jake long sure does get off the ball quick.

Nice tackle by the Colt Defender, who pushed Ronnie forward

Got to convert this.

Nice catch by Ginn!

Ginn is incredible.

Are you people still going to bash him after this?

They will find something else about ginn to complain about.

I was never one of those people in the first place.

he is running very nice routes. he did the same last week but the o line didn't give penny anytime to throw. ginn has gotten a whole lot better

It's kind of sad the Phins have had the ball for almost a half longer than Indy, and it's a tied score.

I'm not a Ginn-basher (I quite like him), but he did almost single-handedly cost us this drive by missing an easy catch on 2nd and 10. If the Colts hadn't jumped off-sides, that would've been a 3 and out (probably).

One thing I've noticed tonight is that he's a little slow in pulling the ball in to his body. He almost dropped a sideline pass earlier. He got a first down on it, but he might've had a chance to turn it up field had he caught the ball cleanly and pulled it in.

That shows you what the Colts have and the Dolphins don't: big play ability.

I think Henning gets just a little too conservative when he's in field goal range.

got the lead now all we need to do is stop them.

Yeah, that's all.....

Carpenter nailed that one.

defense blew that one.

this team blows

This is pissing me off. The Dolphins D has dominated today, without blitzing. Now they big-blitz and get beat badly.

Typical

Will Allen was the one who blew the tackle on that one, by the way.

well, we got three mintues to come back.  Let's do it!!!!

this d should be put out to pasture.  I can already see TMQ's dolphin contribution under stop me before I blitz again.

HORRIBLE clock management there. 40 seconds wasted and still you had to call a time out?!

Added: And Pennington failed to get it off before the 2-minute warning, effectively wasting another timeout.

Regardless of the outcome of this game, let's not get too down.  Don't forget they started 0-2 last year and looked A LOT worse

<banging head on table>

STUPID PLAY CALLING!!!!  OK, I KNOW MY SOTG CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!

hopefully they will throw the ball this down.

Ginn with 2 great catches. 

COME ON CHAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this blows

Horrible clock management

so much for a 156 million dollar investment.

and I am losing my fantasy game by 1 point

come on one time.

someone should kick the offense right in the ass to hurry up.

Who calls a qb sneak under one minute with no timeouts? The Dolphins. That's who.

fucking useless ginn.

<pounding head on wall>

stop the clock!

One last shot at victory

What a heartbreaker!!!

that has to be the most embarrassing loss ever

was there really just ONE dolphin receiver in the vicinity of that "Hail Mary"?

horrible defense when it mattered, horrible clock management when it mattered. wow. I am just speechless.

Ginn had 11 catches, but dropped the chance to win the game, and dropped another TD pass earlier. Can you say a guy with 11 catches is shame of the game? Maybe so.

A sad and awful loss, pass defense looked like hell. Awful clock management at the end, shame on Penny.

Ah, Shitfuck.

this defense is full of pussys.  manning had 300 yards throwing only 23 times.  they are just fucking awful.  crowder is useless, porter is useless. taylor appears to be invisible.  what the fuck are they good for.

OK, I'm going to go ahead and call for Henne now.

Here's why: They're not asking Pennington to do anything anyway, so you might as well have Henne under center. Pennington has cost a shit-load of plays today. Maybe Ginn should've held on to the ball in the endzone, but he had his man beat by multiple yards (again) and had to stop COMPLETELY to get the ball, effectively making it a jump ball and the defender got his hand in there (and maybe pushed a bit before the ball got there, but nothing that'll get called).

Almost every single throw by Pennington - certainly EVERYTHING outside the numbers or more than 10 yards down-field - has been a horribly slow lob. He looked better last week, but if this is what he can do, he needs to sit down and let Henne do the job.

NFL players make the passes that Ginn dropped tonight. Hard to hammer him too much considering he did have a good game, but the difference between wins and losses are usually just the length of a fingertip in the NFL and we saw that firsthand.

Ginn had two passes that could've - and probably should've - been caught. The first one was just bad by Ginn, the second one... the one in the endzone... Pennington's slo-mo pass made that a really tough catch instead of an easy one. Sure, I wish he made the tough catch, but I can't help but place the majority of the blame on Pennington.

Does Henne play defense.  If not, it doesn't matter.

^ I don't think he catches passes either so I agree.

EVERYONE SHUT UP ABOUT GINN!!!! IF EVERYONE ELSE ON THE TEAM PLAYED HALF AS WELL AS HE DID, THE DOLPHINS WIN!!!!  THE GUY WAS MAKING CATCHES AND EXTENDING DRIVES ALL OVER THE FIELD.

11 catches, 108 yards. 

He did his part for the team

its what we thought with this defense. they effectively have 2 strong safeties playing in the secondary. neither of which can cover very well.

Channing Crowder isn't exactly making Tackles left and right either.   ::)

Get rid of Crowder, Porter, Ginn, and Bess. Save a lot of money and send us fans to therapy over the STUPIDITY of the players and coaches.
What the hell, 3rd and 7 Wildcat in the 4th quarter when you just converted 3 third downs with pass plays??? What the hell were they thinking??? Without Chad under center it is a free-for-all for the defensive line and dbacks. (Before someone jumps my stuff, I know that RB has thrown from the Wildcat, but in the 4th quarter on a game winning drive??? Not likely) >:(

Porter had a sack and almost every play in the first half , manning ended up on his ass. Problem is that Manning can throw falling down as well.  :P

Bess!!?  For what he gets paid he contributes WELL over his expections. He is out best reciver IMO. Rarely drops it , always coming through and a a decent special Teams flyer to boot.

Hey defense...

Bess: 3 catches 29 yards

Ginn: 11 catches 108 yards,

yet Bess is our best receiver  ???

WTF!!!!   Seriously...WHAT THE FUCK!!!!  Ginn had a good game..until it mattered!!  Any WR on our team makes that catch in the endzone...BOTH OF THEM HE MISSED!  Fasano, you suck buddy.  Defense?  I'm not even going there.  The corners played really good, but the safeties and middle LBs played like shit.  We had that game and pissed it away.  Every major stat we owned and we still lose?  I'm so fucking pissed right now.

Bess plays Special teams. Bess never drops a pass, AND Bess makes barely League Mininum. Need I remind you how much Ginn eats up our salary Cap year after year. Dropping passes at his level is just unacceptable.

Vs. ATL

Bess - 7 rec 57 yds

Ginn - 2 rec 26 yds

Got to go with you on this.  300 yds on 23 attempts?!?!  that's pathetic from the DEF.  I know the DBs are young and we have some new players back there, but come on!  That FG at the end of the 1st half came back and bit us in the ass

check out this loser.  he even looks like a dork when he wins

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Thats an excellent point. Bess will do it week in and week out. Ginn will show up and go back into his shell for another six games or so.

Your crazy if you want to get rid of Bess.

Right? WTF do you want from bess? the guy didn't co$t a draft pick(he was a walk on) , he has a measly contract and he Plays his heart out.  ???

Porter can still bring it. Payton was on his ass alot , problem is he can throw it from his knees no problem.

Ginn needs to take a pay cut if he doesn't step it up next year.

We are stuck with Crowder. Hopefully he will put down the joy stick and start watching some game film.