A quickie look at the week past
Joe Philbin is a structured man with rules he likes followed. It is the reason everyone on the Dolphins traveling party players, coaches, even staffers have a curfew on road trips. It is the reason he changed the timing of the weekly press conferences for coordinators Kevin Coyle and Mike Sherman.
While practically every other team in the NFL makes their coordinators available on Thursdays, the Dolphins typically do it on Mondays because Philbin has a 24hour rule and doesn want his assistants answering questions about last week game four days after it ended.
The impetus for this view was Thursday night game between the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals the opponent the Dolphins just played (Arizona) and the one they will play after Sunday game at Cincinnati.
I watched that game and, frankly, became a little annoyed.
I was annoyed that Arizona could be defeated seemingly so easily by the Rams, 173.
I was annoyed that St. Louis did pretty much what the Dolphins did to the Cardinals offensive line, with nine sacks to Miami eight, and that pretty much was the ballgame. Cardinals did not, could not attack the Rams secondary like they did Miami was annoyed that the Rams won despite making very few big plays on offense. Yes, Sam Bradford connected on a 51yard touchdown pass. But he completed only seven passes all game. Seven! The Rams threw for a total of 141 yards. And they still the Dolphins completed 26 passes for 431 yards and still lost.
I was annoyed that Miami basically played better on offense than St. Louis, produced as much in the front seven defensively, and still lost. I can escape the feeling that a major effort wasted.
Looking ahead, meanwhile, the Rams concern me now. Jeff Fisher, who turned down the Dolphins coaching job last winter, is getting a lot out of a team that doesn seem all that talented. The Rams are 32.
And it is troubling that having defeated the Cardinals, the Rams now have 10 days to rest and prepare for the Dolphins on Oct. 14.
I will say that the Rams do not have a very good wide receiver corps and it is about to get worse. Danny Amendola sustained what the Rams called a shoulder injury during the game T.Y. Hilton Jersey and did not return. I saw on the sideline when he was talking to trainers and it looked like they were looking at his collarbone.
Judging that and how Amendola reacted after the injury throwing his helmet as if something terribly serious had happened I would not be surprised if he has some sort of fracture that will keep him from playing against Miami. It may also keep www.shopColtsnfljersey.com him out much, much longer than that.
Never want a player injured, but that injury is a plus for Miami.
And what about this week?
One thing that has slipped under the radar the past couple of weeks is the injury to cornerback Richard Marshall. The starter has not practiced so far this week and I would not be surprised if he misses practice Friday.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if he misses the game against Cincinnati Sunday.
Marshall is severely limited and even painkillers haven helped him from playing at a subpar level the past couple of weeks. Green. Even if Marshall is active, it is clear he is diminished. It been that way for a couple of weeks.
That means Nolan Carroll will have to perform at a higher level. That means RJ Stanford may actually have to get significant playing time. And heaven forbid if the Achilles injury that has hampered Carroll the past two weeks limiting him in practice rears up during the game.
None of this gives me a good feel about Sunday.
And that too annoys me.
Just to make a point, I counted the posts begining with this new title. I shyt you NOT! With only his "Cartman" persona today, he has accounted for 87% percent of the posts made today.
I sure he posted under some of his "other aliases" today as well. One being "LOL" and the absolutely ridiculous "Dummy". "Dummy" was the one trying to argue that Americans don speak CanadianLOL(He was serious you guys. This guy is THAT Fvcking retarded). If you want to throw in his aliases, he easily accounted for 90% of the posts today(just as I predicted. Simple minds are NOTHING if not predictable).
I saw so many "Cartmans(Troll Hits and more than usual)" and I thought why is this guy going so overboard? He obviously running up Blog Hit Totals, but he over the top! I did the count AND the math 87 Freaking Percent of the hits today! www.shopcoltsnfljersey.com/WOMENS-TY-HILTON-JERSEY.html I thought about it and it really picked up EARLY in the year. Then from Draft Day on, Monkey Buoy has been OFF The Freaking Hook with his Trolling Fetish.
Then it DAWNED on me. The Debates? The Canidates? IT AN ELECTION YEAR! The Political and Business Blogs are cranking out the hits. REAL LEGIT HITS.
ROTFLMFAO Mando Blog Hit Trolls are running up the Hit Totals because they in fear of being knocked off the Top Blog Spot at the HeraldLOL!
With the Election year, the other REAL BLOGS with REAL POSTERS with REAL LEGITIMATE BLOG HITS are knocking Mando, his Two Gaytard Trolls and Dolphins In Depth out of the top blog spot for the first time in years.