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Everybody involved in that last play gets one 

Gore

Bill Belichick gets one, too.     

Frank and Lady Luck again

That was my pick as well, even before the final game winning run by Drake.

I think the offense as a whole stepped and played some good ball. 

Also, unsung hero, Ted Larsen who hustled down field during that last play and made a key block for Drake as he made his cut back to the sideline.

Also, Fock Gronk, seriously, Fock Gronk

Finally some offense!!  Good running game by all the RBs but the O-line needs big improvements. They added 2 lineman in the offseason and both got injured. Tannehill hd no time to even look at his receiver several times in this game. Guys were running free through the middle like crazy. Good thing RT didnt get hurt despite all the hits he took. So once again we need to upgrade our offensive line and defensive line. Defense had been playing good this season "overall". They kept Miami in alot of games but the offense couldn't respond, too many 3 and outs. So I was happy to see more down the field passing instead of all those short passes within 5 yards. I hope they clean that WR room too. They are paying too much money to some receivers, like Parker. He s very good when healthy but he's been with Miami 5 years, I think u gotta let him go. They should have traded him. They r allset with RBs, WRs, TEs as far as being on the roster. But need 0-line and def draft a good QB that can take over if RT struggles, plus RT is obviously not the type of a QB to carry his team. He's good when everything else around him is good. Also, see if u can get Bridgewater or Kap.

Stills. I didn't see the game but just looking at the stats his number are pretty impressive.
8 for 135 and TD on 9 targets for 16.9 yard average.

Tannehill. Out slung the “goat” gun slinger. With a busted wheel too.

If the Fins wouldn't have pulled this out, people would have looked back at a 2nd down pass that Stills caught and then slid down 1 yd short of the marker early in the 4th IIRC

They didn't convert the 3rd down and punted.  Not sure why he slid, yes he was looking to avoid contact, but at least dive for the marker.  Was very bizarre when I saw it live.

Stills had a BAD, BAD drop on a critical third down. Ball went right through his hands and hit his helmet.

Stills also had a play where he just gave himself up after getting 15 of 16 yards needed. And there was green grass in front of him. Gotta believe he thought he had enough, but a huge mistake that ended in the Dolphins punting.

So, no, no game ball for Stills.

Tannehill played a BEAUTIFUL game. He gets my game ball.

Gore was awesome, although he did have one fumble, and gets honorable mention along with Drake.

Gotta give some love for Bolden as well. Two touches, two touchdowns. Hard to do any better than that.

Without Tannehill that game isn't even close. The guy had a 155.2 QB rating with a 158.3 being a perfect score. There were a lot of great performances but the one short series with Osweiller proved how much Tanny was needed.

Jeff Darlington from ESPN was on the sideline yesterday and he was told by a few asst coaches there was no way he would go back into the game for the second half with his injury. We see how true that was.

That's why I prefaced my comments with the note that I hadn't seen the game. It does make a big difference watching the game rather than just looking at the stats. Thanks for pointing that out.

Maybe Stills doesn't deserve gameball because of him pulling up short of that one first down and missing a key 3rd down catch, but to give him SOTG like some of you on here are doing is ludicrous... 8 catches 135 yards and a touchdown...they lose without that production.

I want to give my game ball to a little known and overlooked player that probably won the game for the Dolphins...

#62 Ted Larsen

On the last play, Larsen hustled downfield to put a block on Patrick Chung that was the key to springing Drake.  Of course everyone watched, Drake, Tannehill, Gore, and Stills had great games, but no one is giving this guy props.  For all the crap we give the o-line, this hustle play won them the game and deserves a nod, so here's to you Ted Larsen.  Nice block!

(https://i.imgur.com/yas1igA.jpg)

I've actually heard him getting a lot of love today starting with the Joe Rose show this morning. It was a great block.

^ Bravo, Brian.  That block was sick-nasty, Patrick Cobbs-level special-teamery, despite technically being an offensive play.

I think I gotta give mine to Tannehill, though.  That dude is good.  He's hurt a lot, but there's such a drop-off when he doesn't play, that when you does, you can really tell the difference.

Also, an HM to whoever was calling the plays -- it wasn't Gase, right?  Big points. 

Ok, I've seen the game now and I'm sorry I have to go with my initial award and give it to Stills. Yes he had a bone head slide a yard short of the 1st down that hurt, but that other ball was a high hard pass and I can't fault him for not catching that one. The rest of the game he was unbelievable and pretty much single handledly kept us in the game. Not only that but he was the trigger man on the play that won the game for them and if he laterals that ball like the play is designed it's probably on the ground but instead he spins around and waits for Parker to uncover and gives him a perfect lateral. No one was more important in that win yesterday than Stills.

He gets it

I'd like to point out to all you people hating on Still to please go back and watch that last play:

The catch, the coverage on the catch, the effort it took to not get tackled immediately and to be able to make the initial lateral to Butler.

But, yes...let's run a guy down because he dropped a pass.  We've never seen a WR do that.  Or fumble.  Looking at you, Frank Gore. 

I mean, damn.

He gets it too.

If we lost then you have to take out the last play and are left with him having two really bad plays at the end of a game where we lost by 5. I don't think anyone is saying he is horrible but he did look like he was coming apart when we needed him most. Fortunately, like Edleman did for the Patriots, he got to redeem himself.

The win helped to cover a lot of really bad plays by different people. If we had lost ... that's what we would have been talking about this week.   

congrats on the win.  due to a family emergency i didn’t get to see most of it.  but from what i have heard it was a great game. 

I disagree that it was 2 really bad plays. It was one really bad play. The ball that went through his hands was a tough catch. It was above his head and it was moving pretty fast and there was tight coverage. Not a bad play just not a good one. And 1 really bad mental mistake does not take away a stellar performance for the rest of the game. My game ball goes to him. Honorable mention to Tannehill for fighting through the pain and playing in the 2nd half and performing well enough throughout.

The condensed version is on youtube and it's being replayed by NFL.COM tommorow at 2:00 PM eastern I believe. I watched it on youtube and it was a great game. 9 lead changes in the game which is the 2nd most in NFL history I believe.

Your all wrong.  The game ball goes to whoever made the decision to wear the throwback uni's for a second week in a row.  When will management admit their error and go back to the old uniforms & logo?

This past week that was a really hot topic on the radio. I even heard two people, one ebing Patriots radio broadcaster Scott Zolak, and the other being someone from ESPN ... saying that the fans need to do whatever possible to make the team go back to the old colors, uni and logo. Scott Zolak said this unprompted so you know he really feels that way.

There was a lot of hate for the cartoon whale/dolphin we now use as well as the colors. Our uniforms are a perfect example of our team outsmarting themsleves.