Football is neat

Well today was the first preseason game. It was an interesting game. I am sure all my readers want to know what I thought about my beloved phins(Woody). Well like all fans I want to watch my team dominate and destroy everything in their path. They did not. They looked like a team learning a new scheme in their first preseason game. Few things I did find curious. The first thing is the fact that it almost looks like Miami plays a 5-2 defense.

Positives.
Y. Bell played well at safty. He is so fast. It looked like he played strong safty.

K. Carter did well against the run.

The offensive line's pass blocking was a lot better than last year. They need work on the blitz pick up, however they were not getting totally killed like last year.

Mario Edwards sucks


Kay Jay Harris looked good in blitz pick up. I think his chance of making the team increased after this game.

L. Diamond looked like a diamond in the rough. I had no idea who this guy was, however he looked like he is going to earn a spot on this team.

Pretty much all the starting recievers looked good. They got open, they made most of their catches. Well D. Thompson did drop a one he should of had. Awesome catch by Gilmore. Boston looked like he is close to returning to form.

Ehhh things
Quarterback play was pretty decent. AJ made some good throws does not look as calm under pressure as Gus. The problem with AJ is that he is just not experienced enough. Gus did drive them down for a touchdown. A pretty decent drive.

Run stopping was decent. It wasn't world beating, but there were some improvements. One big run came on a blitz where either Madison messed up or he was supposed to go to the quarteraback. Basically the perfect play call for that blitz package.

The play of the guy they traded the Seahawks for was ok. Not world beating(fun thing to say), yet much better than Mario Edwards. Richard was his name

Negatives
Pass rush. That sucked. They need to improve on this a lot. Hopefully they will get their blitzes down better. It ain't easy.

I would say pass defense as a whole, but the cornerbacks needed a better rush and for people to get into passing lanes and stuff. To me this seems like a defense that depends on getting to the quarterback and making him make mistakes.

Run blocking. For one reason or another it did not look great. I do not know as I have not and will not look at the film.

3 slash 4 string defensive players are very unimpressive at pass defense.

Closing statements
This is the first preseason game. One of the main faults with fans is that they look way to deep into preseason games. These are games that are glorified practices. Right now Miami as a team has a lot to learn and they have plenty of time to do it with.