Perhaps it’s time to rethink our gameplan. The Dolphins dominated the Colts defense and ran the Wildcat more times in one game than they ever have before, but they still lost by 4 points on Monday night. The Colts benefited from several big plays on offense, while the Dolphins offense slowly but steadily marched down the field time after time to score on the Colts. The Colts held the ball for less than 15:00 minutes the entire game, a new record low for a victorious team. It seemed that each time the Dolphins killed the Colts defense with a thousand cuts with a long drive down the entire field eating up 10 minutes off the clock, the Colts would respond with a 2 or 3 play drive capped by a 30 or 40 yard touchdown play.

The Dolphins inability to respond with a big play downfield really hurt them at the end of this game. While they could gain 6 yards every play with the Wildcat, that’s not the way to comeback in the final 2 minutes. We’ve got to be able to strike 20 or 30 yards downfield to one of our receivers, particularly Ted Ginn. Ginn let a potential game winning touchdown slip through his hands in the end zone on that final drive. Chad Pennington might have the highest completion percentage of all time (it’s true, look it up), but I don’t know if I trust his ability to accurately place a ball deep and not just “toss it up”.

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