Dolphins Stick To Game Plan A Little Too Well

September 22, 2009 @ JeffNo Comments

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How the heck do you lose a football game when you had possession for over 45 minutes? The Dolphins were looking really good last night running the Wildcat and really pounding Indy’s defence. And when Peyton Manning only has 15 minutes of time with the ball, you’d think your damage was limited.

Unfortunately, it seems Miami had a gameplan to play ball control all night, which worked to a T. Until you find yourself down 4 with about three minutes left to go and staring down over 80 yards of field with ol’ Chad “Noodlearm” Pennington. So Miami stuck to the gameplan. Grind out the clock, hit the running game hard with no sense of urgency. That’s not gonna cut it in that situation.

And they STILL had a chance to win it, if Ted Ginn Jr. could have held on to a rare deep ball (which for Pennington is anything over 25 yards). Amazing.

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