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Henne and hm to fasano for some great catches.

Henne.  He had a career game. It isn't his fault the d was craptastic

While a good amount of his passing yards were in garbage time, he did show some speed out there.  Maybe he will turn out to be ok.

Henne was on point. Hats off.

Henne played his ass off.  HM to Brandon Marshall and the recieving corps

Henne hands down

Henne for sure.

Henne.  I was really hoping he'd come around like I thought he would when we first drafted him.  Now all he has to do is maintain this production and hopefully all the haters will go away permanently.

I took a screenshot of this post, printed it out, and framed it.

Henne was very very good. Passes were accurate which has been his biggest flaw in recent years.

Henne, without question. Over 400 yards and 2 TD against the Pats. That's a pretty good way to start the season. Damn defense... :-\

Henne was damn good last night!

You have to give credit where credit is due!  I' haven't been a Henne fan but he really impressed me... not only with his accuracy but his audibles out of plays and into others.

ACTUALLY...not to rain on everyone's sudden man-crush on Henne, but he overthrew and underthrew a lot of balls last night.  A lot.  Now, that being said, he also had a Patriot slamming into him or around his feet ALL night as well.  My game ball goes to Chad, hands down, but he was not without flaw last night.

Looking forward to some people saying, "Holy crap, Henne sucks, I've told you all along that he is horrible" as soon as he has his first bad game of the year.   I guess it is just part of our instant gratification society where an athlete lives and dies on each week's performance.    Having said that, Game Ball to Henne.  And a hearty WTF to Carroll and Sapp. 

Ain't THAT the truth!  Man.

Yes, that's true. he did look better than last year, and his mobility was greatly improved. 

Agreed.   Maybe it was just me, but it also seemed like Henne was carrying himself with a lot more confidence last night.  In the past, he has almost seemed timid, both as a leader and in his on-field decision making.   

His helmet seemed looser-fitting... Unlike last year, it didn't look like his mug was trying to squeeze its way out of his facemask. My game ball goes to the Miami equipment manager, for finally giving Henne a helmet that fits.

;)

I want to see how Henne does next week V Houston when he doesn't have the emotions of a Monday night / opening week "rush thing" going.

Houston, unlike New England, has a defense...and a scary good one at that.  Next week is a real test.

Same can be said for New England.  If Miami dropped almost 500 yards of offense on them, what the heck will Phillip Rivers and company do? 

Henne.  He looked like an NFL QB last night.  The O-line did alright, broke down a bit in the second half (especially Columbo).  Bush played well, was a nice change from DQ Brown.  Fasano, Bess, & Marshall had some nice catches.

Henne.

Nobody on Miami deserves a game ball..they lost, badly

I know one thing for sure... they didn't get Bess involved early last night like in the past. I'm not sure why that was the case...

But not really because of the offense... They should have had at least one more touchdown, yes, but... come on, man!

The sky is falling. We lost by 14 points in a game we could have possibly lost by 7. Yes the defense looked terrible but to say the offense did as well is just Chicken Little shit.

Of course Henne gets my game ball vote.  And I too would like to give an honorable mention to Fasano for some damn fine catches.

To me, the thing that was cool to see about Henne was that he looked like a man who is swinging back.  He is refusing to go gently into that good night.  Loved it.  Time will tell what he will be, but for now he is winning over support with his effort.  

I hope people saw what I saw when he ran that one ball down to around the three yard line.  I thought for sure he would slide and never thought for a second he would lay out like that and go head first.  I think he got an extra 7 yards or so.  Gutsy, very gutsy.  Loved it!  

I never said the offense played terrible..Sorry, I just don't believe in moral victories..clearly everyone else does....hence why this team has been content with being mediocre for as long as I can remember


yes, Henne did play much better than everyone expected, but I just don't understand how your preparation for TOM BRADY, is to let him have a career game....so much for that top 5 defense


there's a reason this site is called "the dolphins make me cry"

For those of you into symbolic victories (and based on the amount 2007 NYG love that was here, I think that is most of you) the game ball should go Jared Odrick.

Jareed Odrick ended Tom Brady's streak of 358 consecutive passes in the regular season without being picked off.  This streak goes back to October 24, 2010. 

Henne has played well in all three night home openers (usually orange jersey games).  Let's hope it continues through the season, for once.

Miami tends to end most of NE's streaks.  They also ended NE's 21-game regular season winning streak with the Wildcat game, and I think that also ended some huge home winning streak for the Patriots.

The problem with Henne has been putting together 2 or 3 good games in a row. He has had the occasional good games in his career. It's doing it consistently. Until he does the jury is still out. Although he got off to a good start last night. Now he has to keep it going.

He had a good game in preseason, people said "let's see him have two good games in a row"

He had another good game in preseason, people said "let's see him do it in a real game"

He had a good game in the regular season, against a real team, people say "let's see him do it again"

He will keep proving you wrong.  Get behind him.  He's our QB.  And he's not handcuffed by grandpa anymore.

i'm just happy that i was pleasently shocked by Henne last night.  game ball goes to everyone on the offense not named Marshall.  2 dropped balls for a touchdown, 1 of them inexcuseable...  he wants to be a big time receiver, he should catch like one.   

the defense stunk out the place... its odd to see the  patriots have better conditioning going to miami.  if i were sparano the defense would doing running sprints till they puke!!! ;D

He's not proving me wrong. I am behind him. But the preseason games are worthless. But its gonna take more than 1 good game in Week 1 to make believers. I hope he proves everyone wrong, I hope he is great. But I am not ready to anoint the guy our QB for the next few years based on 2 preseason games and one great game Week 1.

Henne was pretty damn good last night and gets my game ball.

Henne played well, but our redzone offense still sucks. Of course, when you are told to throw fade routes on 4th and Inches, maybe the playcalling is mainly to blame.

Like Maine said, Henne wasn't perfect, but he still showed a lot of improvement. Of course, playing the role of 2010 Chad Henne was our entire defense. Apparently, 2 hand touch is now allowed since we couldn't bring down anyone with a tackle. Our defense pretty much looked like San Diego State Tech A&M vs. Boise State.

Unless we get some resemblence of an actual running game our goal line will probably continue to suffer.

I've been told that in this new, wide-open offense, a fullback is meaningless.

Particularly a fullback who can only convert short-yardage situations.

Particularly on 4th and goal from the half-yard line. ::)

Yes but according to the message board god we did not use him in those situations so that doesn't count!!!!!!  ::)

exactly. We didn't use him in those situations for 3 years, so I don't see why it would have happened last game.

And if Polite is so damn good how come nobody else has signed him? Just answer that.

The guy sucks! He can't play. Lex Hillard did Polite's job fine last week picking up the stinkin yard when called on. Why didn't we give it to Lex at the goaline? He proved he can get the yard when needed earlier in the game.

We did not run a single play from the opponent's 1-yard-line last year, so I'm guessing that's why we didn't use him?  I know for damn sure that we would have used Polite over useless Lex Hilliard.  Speaking of which:

I'm guessing that the reason why you have such... interesting... takes on the game is because you aren't actually paying attention?

3rd Quarter, 4:31 remaining    Mia    1st & 1 at NE1    Lex Hilliard rush to the left for a loss of 1 yard to the NE2. Tackled by Devin McCourty.

That sure looks like they gave it to Hilliard on the goal line to me!  And he got a whopping -1 yard.  Hilliard's stat line for the night:  2 carries for 1 yard, 1 first down... oh, and a false start.  On a running back.  At home.

Tell me more about how pointless it is to keep a guy who can only do one thing: get one yard?

For the same reason that the front office cut Will Allen, kept Benny Sapp, then cut Sapp (whose salary is now guaranteed because he was on the roster for week 1) and re-signed Allen (who was also unsigned by anyone else)?  Sometimes, the front office doesn't know what the hell they are doing.

I know I know...Polite is so good 32 teams don't want to touch his greatness.

The same group on this board who were proclaiming Jason Allen as the 2nd coming of Deion Sanders last year is now out on the limb once again making Polite the next Larry Csonka.

And the person who said that a player that is useless because all he can do is get one yard is shown exactly how useful one yard can be in the very first regular season game.  MIA was at the NE 1 TWICE in that game and came up with 3 points.

Do you really want to defend the decision to keep Jason Trusnik over Lou Polite?  How about Will Yeatman?  Do you think Dante Rosario would have been snapped up by another team if MIA had cut him, or would he be sitting on his couch just like Polite?

The plain and simple fact of the matter is that on a team with FIVE F'ING TIGHT ENDS, and a multi-million dollar OL from a head coach that supposedly specializes in the offensive line, MIA was completely ineffective at the goal line.  I said Sparano would regret it if it came down to the team needing one yard, and the team needed one yard at the goalline twice and failed both times.  At the very minimum, putting Polite in the game would have freed up our receivers.

Henne had a AAA game.  He gets my vote.

it bothers me that we didn't run the ball on the goal line.  Stick Hilliard in and let him pound it in. 

You people are assuming too much with Polite. You assume if he was on the team you know what the playcalling would have been. You ASSUME for the first time in 3+ years Polite is on the field near the goaline and would get the ball. And you ASSUME you know what the Daboll would call for a play.

You are making HUGE leaps and assumptions. We gave up 600 yards, Polite or not we aren't beating New England. Some of you people are ignoring the big picture. Like ignoring the titanic sinking and looking at the ruined deck chairs. It's downright silly.

Once again, if Polite is so good and so automatic, how come nobody has signed him? How come Miami hasn't re-signed him like they did  with Will Allen? The front office admitted a mistake there and corrected it.

What some of you fail to realize is 32 teams are feeling the same way and Polite can't play in this league!! I almost hope we do re-sign him now, so when we do get the ball down by the goalline and he is on the bench and Henne is in a shotgun again I want to see your heads explode!!

I also saw Lex Hillard pick it up on 4th and 1 on a drive. Did the same EXACT JOB Polite did for 3 years!!!

Not some fantasy goaline thing Polite never did except on your video games or in your dreams. I saw Lex do it in the "real" role Polite actually had in REALITY!!!!

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Carroll never plays and got schooled on 1 possession by a guy who knows every trick in the book named Deion Branch.  After that you didn't hear Carroll's name the rest of the night.

Benny Sapp is now a pile of ashes somewhere around the 30 yard line where he fell trying not to tackle Wes Welker.

Good point.  Hilliard did get the 4th and 1. 

A bunch of fullishness over all the Polite support if you ask me.  He was a good guy, decent player and didn't fail us when he was called upon but as I said before, he was a product of being on a team with an outdated offensive philosophy.  That philosophy had to go for good reason and his role went with it.  I would rather have an atheletic line with atheletic ball handlers than a slow line that could get a yard when needed.  Polite just got behind the center and guard and moved forward, what is so unique about that?