Tired of doing the WHY WE LOST bit, but here goes another one

The following are my observations of why we fell short of getting win number 1 of the season.  There is good news folks, as we face Buffalo at home next week.

• Ronnie Brown had 51 yards rushing in the 1st quarter.  75 for the game.  We got away from running the ball even though both Ronnie and Ricky were once again moving the ball with ease.

• Pennington not being focused once again.  I honestly believe things would have gotten worse had he NOT been hurt.  The fumbled handoff in football is the equivalent of someone putting on their pants in the morning and falling over.  The fact that he then did a silly standing still fake toss to the other back while the team was scrambling for the ball just proves his awareness is SH** this year.

• This is the big one - the coaching.  That was one of the worst coached games I've seen in a long time.  This is such a big factor that I have to break it down into several examples:

• Despite moving the ball with ease on the ground in week 2, and the ineffectiveness of Pat White in two games, they once again activated White in favor of Patrick Turner, who could have helped our issues with undersized receivers in the red zone, John Nalbone, who quite honetly, could not be worse than Fasano, who I'm issuing a petition for trading as of now, and Chris Clemons, a fast, sure tackler in the defensive backfield who I know, and you know, is better than Gibril Wilson in more ways than one.  These are positions of the team that have hurt us in the first two weeks (and now 3) and yet the Dolphins chose to keep things status quo.  They did make one change, which was to bring Cam Wake into the game, and he was getting good pressure early on, but they didn't give him much of a shot, as Jason Taylor and Joey Porter were out there for a huge percentage of the play-count (I'm going to guess 85%). 

• Speaking of keeping things as they are, the Dolphins once again decided they were not good enough to play good old-fashioned football, opting on 3rd and goal to have giant blob, Nate Garner run a quick out (wasn't that quick) after reporting eligible.  Don't get me wrong, the play action froze the D for a second and Garner got open, but Chad pump faked it at him, then stared at him for ages as if he expected the reserve tackle to somehow out run the DB who now came in to cover him after Pennington failed to just get the ball out.   This was from the 2 yard line, where an inside handoff to Polite would have been far more effective.  Instead, Pennington threw the ball away.

• Speaking of SPEAKING of keeping things the way they are and not making adjustments, once Pennington was injured and Henne came in, the Dolphins made absolutely no change in the gameplan, other than to run the Wildcat a couple of times for some reason, as if they were 'resting' Henne.  When Henne did get to throw vertically, he looked good, throwing the ball with zip, and low, away from the defenders.  The ball traveled with such velocity that Ted Ginn was heard to scream 'owwwchiiee!!' when it hit him square in the hands.  The throw to Ronnie Brown was impressive.  Yet the majority of the plays were little dinks and dunks, many of which were swatted down (this is an effect of not being used to game speed, and should be sorted through experience).  On the pick 6, it wasn't a play I would've called, but I do want to say that the defender made an incredible break on the ball, so I can see why Henne threw the ball.  Still, we shouldn't be throwing any ZERO yard outs EVER.  They do not work, and if they do they gain no more than 2 or 3 yards which we could get by running up the middle anyway.  The injury to Pennington meant that Pat White was instantly ineligible to play, and it makes you wonder if the Trifecta ever even thought of the impact an injury would have on that love triangle.  Now the Dolphins will have to sign another QB, which means Pennington may have to be put on IR, or someone else who actually contributes will have to be cut.  

• My final note of analysis is that the San Diego cheerleaders were exceptionally hot.  Don't get me wrong, I think the Dolphins Cheerleaders do a great job, but I think our opponents cheerleaders so far have outranked us.  Atlanta's were pretty great but the San Diego ones were really 'electric'.

And that, is why we lost the game, again.