DOLPHINS: Texans

Sun Dec 27 20:38:07 GMT 2009

But that talent gap is in areas that are tailor-made to make it difficult for the Fins.  A team with a great QB and WR is going to be hard for us to stop with our current talent.

I don't know.  I mean, I completely agree that the Fins have obviously not played well today (better in the second half, though the Texans also are approaching things a little differently).  But (and I've probably said this before) I just never know how to define "didn't show up."  It's like "they just wanted it more."  What does that mean?  That the Dolphins didn't play hard enough today?  I don't think that's fair to assume.  That the Dolphins weren't prepared?  Possible, but that certainly hasn't been the case generally under this regime---why would it be this week?  That a number of players just didn't play well/made mistakes for whatever reason today?  I could buy that.  We've also had a ton of bad breaks in that game.... a long FG that just missed, a long TD called back on penalty, a dropped INT, a play that was clearly a fumble but ruled incomplete, Ricky hurt, Crowder hurt.  So that factors in, I'm sure.

But I think the talent gap also factors in.  The presence of Andre Johnson and a QB who can get it to him just makes such a huge difference... the running game is working for the Texans because we have to do so much to account for AJ.  Hopefully someday we'll be able to have Davis or Smith shadow a guy like AJ and take him out of the game, but that's just not the case now...so we have to scheme around him, which opens up other parts of their offense.  And meanwhile we don't have a bad-ass LB to be disruptive.

All that is why it's so, so, so important that Miami add a big-time WR---so we can create some of those matchup problems ourselves.  And someone who is disruptive--a playmaker--on defense.  But we knew all that.

All that said, as bad as this game has been, the Fins keep threatening to make it a game in the second half.... which is why I don't think it's fair to question this team's heart (not that you were, just in general I mean).

> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:13:58 -0500
> From: ldouglas at gmail.com
> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Texans
> 
> they also had a shit rushing offense and are as inconsistant as ted
> ginn. but their running tD looked like Clinton Portis' last year in
> Denver.
> 
> there may be a clear talent gap in some areas, but as a team they are
> no better than us in general. hell - numerically we've had the
> toughest schedule in the league and we're still 7-7 - meanwhile
> they've feasted on the NFC west.
> 
> we've taken the Colts and Saints and Pats to the wire by not taking
> our opponents lightly. We've lost to Buffalo and Tennessee by thinking
> a win was our birthright. When dudes are dropping sure INTs and making
>  Ryan Motes (Moats?) look like Bo Jackson on Tecmo Bowl - they didn't
> show up. period. IMO.
> 
> On 12/27/09, Kristoffer Shields <kms223 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > They have the best WR in the league, one of the top QBs in the league who
> > has been in the system for years, and the probable defensive rookie of the
> > year.  They're not 30 points better than us, no, and there's no doubt the
> > Fins are not playing well today at all.  I hope this puts heat on Pasqualoni
> > if nothing else.  I just think we're hiding our heads in the sand if we fall
> > back on "we just didn't show up" or "we didn't want it enough," because that
> > glosses over what is IMO a clear talent differential and suggests the Fins
> > are closer to the prize that we are.  I think the Fins made progress this
> > year---I think we are better than we were last year, and I think we would've
> > made a more credible playoff run if we hadn't been wrecked by injuries.  But
> > we're still a number of players away from the AFC elite, or even the
> > non-Colts/Chargers second level.
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:03:01 -0500
> >> From: ldouglas at gmail.com
> >> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> >> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Texans
> >>
> >> they're not better than us, they're just out-playing and out-scheming
> >> us. And we didn't show up.
> >>
> >> better than us on the day, sure. but had we player 3 weeks ago? I
> >> don't think so.
> >>
> >> On 12/27/09, Kristoffer Shields <kms223 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Do you think we've taken them too lightly?  It looks to me like they're
> >> > better than the Fins.  I don't understand how they're only 7-7.
> >> >
> >> >> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:53:28 -0500
> >> >> From: ldouglas at gmail.com
> >> >> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> >> >> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Texans
> >> >>
> >> >> have we ever not taken the Texans too lightly?
> >> >>
> >> >> On 12/27/09, Mark L. Diana <mdiana at tulane.edu> wrote:
> >> >> > Can you say collapse?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I've always said the Texans were the team that worried me.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If we don't make some quick adjustments, the season is over. The
> >> >> > problem
> >> >> > is,
> >> >> > what adjustments do we make? Clearly we knew we had to pressure
> >> >> > Schaub
> >> >> > and
> >> >> > cover Johnson, and we're doing neither.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On 12/27/09 12:33 PM, "ldouglas" <ldouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> the cbs crew are about as interested in this game as we seem to be.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On 12/27/09, Mark L. Diana <mdiana at tulane.edu> wrote:
> >> >> >>> Well, so far, this does not look like a team that is playing for
> >> >> >>> it's
> >> >> >>> playoff life. The Texans are moving the ball at will, and have
> >> >> >>> stuffed
> >> >> >>> our
> >> >> >>> running game.
> >> >> >>>
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