Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mid-season MVP
Funny
Monday, November 09, 2009
Option play
The Patriots rules
Naturally there was no flag.
great stiff arm?
Charean Williams of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the league will emphasize to officials this season that stiff arms to the face should result in a 15-yard penalty. N.F.L. rules already say that "hands cannot be thrust forward above the frame to contact an opponent on the neck, face or head," so the instruction to officials to call such penalties is not a rules change, just a point of emphasis. The league's Competition Committee believes that the rule has not been adequately enforced in the past.
Said Titans coach Jeff Fisher, co-chairman of the Competition Committee, "We try to give the benefit of the doubt to the defense. When (offensive players) do stiff arm, they've got to be careful about going to the face."
In other words, the refs blew this call as well, and Dierdorf and Gumbell extolled it as being a "great play."
Ted Ginn is (still) a Miami Dolphin
Another oddity
Sunday, November 08, 2009
It's mid-season
Overall, they get a c. They've had their moments and appear stronger than last year. But they are 3-5 and have no receivers.
Offensively. The run game is strong. The passing game not so much.
Defensively. I like what I'm seeing from the rookies. The linebackers have been up and down. The line generally has been average.
Special teams. The kicking and punting is strong. The return game has been steadily improving.
Best game: Monday night. The jets. Nicely done.
Worst game: I'd still same game 1 against the falcons. Miami was not ready to play
MVP thus far - Ronnie Brown.
Rookie of the mid-year: Sean Smith. Though vontae is pushing him
Now here's to hoping they can do 5-3 the rest of the way.
And when you say Miami....
I was thinking about that line in the song. It was written in 1971 and was in the midst of miami's 3 consecutive appearances in the game.
But it turned out to be prophetic because Miami has hosted 10 games while the dolphins haven't been back in 25 years. And won't be back this year.
So when you say Miami you are talking about hosting the superbowl.
What I'd like to ask Sparano (but won't)
Cause it doesn't look that way now.
This game was over when....
I said aloud that they had to hold new England on their next possession.
They didn't and that was it
But miami wasn't quite done and punted from the NE 43. A dumb move if ever there was one. The pats got back to that spot in 3 plays.
An option run?
Miami ran a true option play with White in at qb. It was the closest thing to a wishbone I've seen in years in the NFL.
I'll have to diagram it later.
Too bad
So their rematch will have to wait for the game in Miami.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Cry me a river
And then there were two...
Amusing
Monday, November 02, 2009
NYTimes: Dolphins Leave Jets at a Loss
> From The New York Times:
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> DOLPHINS 30, JETS 25: Dolphins Leave Jets at a Loss
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> Despite three touchdowns from Mark Sanchez and six sacks by the
> defense, the Jets still lost to Miami for the second time in 20 days.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/sports/football/02jets.html
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> Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://itunes.com/apps/nytimes
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Ted Ginn
So, in the first shot, Feeley has the arrow pointed to him. He made two tackles and was a dancing fool.
TD?
recently found photo
Rule
He's generally right, but I think that in this case it still may not have made a difference. The whistle blew and some players made no effort to get to the ball.
Therefore with no clear recovery it likely still woulda been miami ball.
But in any case sparano was smart in running a quick play.
Rules #2
Phil Simms made a comment about this being a muff and he was right. But the officials got it wrong. It was inside of 2 minutes so the "Dave Casper rule" was in place. That is only the player who fumbled can advance it.
It was ruled jets ball 5 yards up the field. It should have moved back to the spot of the fumble and it would be 1st and 10 from there.
Yes it's quirky and doesn't happen often.
What was up with that?
And next up on CBS? Bull riding. Boy that's scintillating tv. I switched to the game on fox.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Rules
to fumble, but the ref ruled him down. Miami hurried to the line
before a challenge could be made.
Seems simple enough. But what really happened?
By ruling the play dead, and saying it was not a fumble, the ref "blew
the whistle" and play stopped. Anything that happened after that was
for naught.
So if the Jets had challenged it, the best they could hope for was
that it was indeed a fumble; but with no change of possession.
In other words, Miami hurrying to the line really only helped with
momentum because the jets were momentarily confused.





















