Dolphins Vs Jets Live Blog

[Diehard_Dolfan]

The hitch has been there all game as well... I've said since 1st qtr how far the jets were playing off the receivers.

[dolphins4life]

The defense needs to stay aggressive and so does the offense 

[dolphins4life]

stay aggressive with the offensive play calling on this drive

[Cathal]

Staying aggressive and executing. Good to see.

[CF DolFan]

Not aggressive enough. only 3 points in the fourth quarter. Doesn't do much to help offset our trend of shutting down in the fourth.

[Tenshot13]

After reading this thread, you'd think we didn't win.  Mistakes were made, but it was still a dominating victory. Go phins!!!

[EDGECRUSHER]

It was a good victory, but a lot of fans have checked out due to how this season has gone and the Jets are just terrible right now.

That being said, I was very happy going for it on 4th down twice and I liked the SUDDEN APPEARANCE of screen and slant passes. That, and beating the Jets is always the best.

[Pappy13]

The Hurricanes scored many TD's wit Miller running stretches and toss sweeps... few people have the speed to keep him out the end zone.

He's not in college anymore. Miller has nice speed but he can't just run around the edge on guys like he could in college. They run a fair number stretch plays, but with this line there's not much there and there's a bigger chance of losing yards on those plays. Most of the runs these days are pretty much just to keep the defense honest and to avoid big losses. They'll have to upgrade their line in the offseason to run to outside more.

[Landshark]

It was a good victory, but a lot of fans have checked out due to how this season has gone and the Jets are just terrible right now.

I'm one of them. I'm happy they beat the Jets and would love to see them sweep the season series but this team is going to stay stuck in this rut until Ireland and Philbin are replaced

[Diehard_Dolfan]

He's not in college anymore. Miller has nice speed but he can't just run around the edge on guys like he could in college. They run a fair number stretch plays, but with this line there's not much there and there's a bigger chance of losing yards on those plays. Most of the runs these days are pretty much just to keep the defense honest and to avoid big losses. They'll have to upgrade their line in the offseason to run to outside more.

They rarely ran stretches with Miller... they usually ran them with Thomas.  Miller is better suited for stretches than Thomas... that showed today as he got the edge on a couple runs. I understand fully what you're saying but Miller is a much better stretch or toss runner than Thomas.  Thomas is better suited for the dive although Miller can run those as well.  Problem with our offense is more to do with Sherman than anything else.

If you don't know how to use your personnel it doesn't matter who you have blocking or running the ball.  It's not coincidence that the plays I've been calling out all season worked nicely today! 

[Downunder Dolphan]

The game was broadcast here (fist pump), some of my quick observations:

I thought the O-line actually wasn't bad between the 20 yard hashes. Goal line is another story, although the bizarre play calling doesn't exactly help...

Tannehill was pretty good, although he did have a couple of really loose throws early, ate a sack and copped some hits by simply hanging on to the ball too long - you can't blame the O-line for that.

Clay was dynamite as a receiver, but his blocking sucks - if we had a guy with his catching & Sims blocking abilities we'd be set at Tight End...

We dominated the game so thoroughly in the first half, yet struggled to put any points on the board - I thought that might come back to bite us, but thankfully the Jets were so horrible I shouldn't have worried.

Sturgis really does have the yips, especially early on in the game. The guy seemed to be automatic until he missed his first one against the Ravens, now you could toss a coin. With what's come out with the Martin/Incognito situation, you have to wonder how much additional pressure is being heaped on this rookie every time he misses.