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Bess is listed as the starting 2nd receiver, with Hartline listed as a backup for Ginn. From what we’ve been hearing, it sounds like the 2nd receiver is going to be rotating more than just a standard 2nd. So it will be some combination of Bess, Camarillo, and possibly hartline and Patrick Turner.

But Bess is listed as starting along with Ted Ginn. But Bess usually works out of the slot. So if the question is who is our number 2 behind Ginn it’s Bess. But if your question is who is going to work on the outside with ginn, it will most likely be Hartline.

Incredible coaching, discipline on the field, teams underestimating us, and so forth. We also benefited from an “easier” schedule. By no means did we not deserve what we got last year (AFCE Championship) we just simply beat the teams that we were obviously better than.

And yes the wildcat worked very well. But honestly it turned out to be less than 10% of our total offense…which is why its stupid that all these so called “analysts” keep using it as a reason why we’ll be average this year (meaning teams are prepared for it)

1st and foremost, great coaching and management. After a 1-15 season many players would just mail it in and coaches would be satisfied with winning only 3-4 games the following year. But not sparano or parcells or ireland. They dedicated their lives through the off-season gathering the “right” players. They made the tough moves (cutting Zach Thomas and trading Jason Taylor) but overall they assembled a team with talent and the ability to win

2nd has to be a stable qb. I am a believer that a guy like John Beck or Chad Henne could have mirrored Pennington’s success but there is no denying the results. He played consistent football. Sure he has a noodle arm and wont win superbowls but we werent contending last year. He helped the progression of young recievers (Ginn, Bess, Camarillo, Fasano). He minimized his errors and made plays down the field. He’s no Matt Ryan, but he was good enough.

3rd. Takeaway-Turnover. Dolphins last year had the second best (if i recall correctly) takeawy to turnover ratio. If you can protect the ball and make plays on defense, then you will be in a lot of games.

4th. May seem obvious. But every player making plays when you need it the most. It seemed like every game last year, a new player made a big play. One week it would be Ronnie Brown, the next TE Anthony Fasano, Camarillo, Ted Ginn, Patrick Cobbs, the list can go on and on. This is where the WildCat comes into play. The better we can catch the defense off guard and utilize the talent we have, the better off we are.

The wildcat only showed several times this preseason and it was plays weve already seen. He played as a QB and he’s a tremendous athlete, but needs alot of mechanical work. Thats all we know

He has all the talent in the world, but right now the coaching staff seems to be focused on getting him up to par as a passer than worrying about the WildPat, Whitecat, or w/e you want to call it.

That being said, I wouldnt be surprised if we see White out there just to create mismatches. He’s a dynamic player, small – maybe, but he sure is fast and he can definetly throw.

Ferguson is beast and our ends are no slouches. Plus say what you will about our OLB’s and not being very good against the run, its Taylor and Porter were talking about here. Youd be hard pressed to find two other lb’s who can read offenses and have as good of instincts as these guys.

As far as matching with Gonzalez, thats what the 3-4 is for. We have big and very physical lb’s with speed who can match with Gonzalez. Wether or not they CAN control him remains to be seen, but the potential is definitely there.

With the development of guys like Merling, Langford, Solia, Crowder, we have a very agressive defense. So when it comes down to that 4th and 1 game defining play…we’ll see..

and btw i dont think any team can cover Tony Gonzalez once he smells the endzone. That being said, We have a better secondary than last year, our line backers are surprising good against the pass, so It’ll be an interesting matchup to watch.

Henne had a shaky few games in the preseason but look great in the last one. He has all the tools you want, as in footwork and a cannon for an arm, he just needs to continue developing.

And yeah apparently Penny is in his last year as a starter but who know whatll happen. If he lights it up again and Henne looks so so, we might go qb in the draft next year. But as far as white taking over the starting job, not gonna happen

Lol. I personnaly feel both can be good, but at different things. Obviously White is the scrambling type of get out of the pocket passer, while Henne is the traditional pocket passer.

I think Henne should start right away. More time with pennington = progress stopping.

Hopefully this will be pennington’s last

I dont know what we’ll get out of pennington but I’m hoping he does what he does best.

Over the resular season last year, Pennington threw a total of 7 interceptions and our defense had 18 interceptions. I’m not sure what the fumble ratio was, I don’t have it in front of me and the website is blocked for me here at work.

That is definitely one of the big pillars the team is built around, not turning the ball over. It ties in with the strengths of Pennington. He may not have the arm strength of other QB’s, but he is extremely accurate on his throws, even if they are short to mid range. It definitely is part of the gameplan to win the battle of turnovers and keep the other teams offense off the field as much as possible.

I honestly don’t know how the turnovers are going to go this year. I will go ahead and say that it will probably be a similarly small number of turnovers by the Phins this year. With the exception of Hartline, Turner, Nalbone, and Haynos, the offense is for the most part the same as it was last season. And those guys did not turn the ball over very much at all. But we will have to see, we faced a good number of teams with weaker defenses last year and the Ds this year are improved. But having few turnovers is something that Coach Sparano is definitely driving into this team.

protecting the ball is one of my points to success of the 2008 season

You have JOHN BECK!!! lol

he’s not proven on multiple occasions

but the one time the game was on the line [against raiders] he nailed it.

granted thats not much but i trust the guy.