If the Dolphins are supposed to be Super Bowl contenders this year, they have got a lot of work to do.
Maybe someone forgot to tell Miami that the game was at 1 pm, not 4. Maybe someone forgot to remind them that you can't mail the game in in the NFL and expect to win. Or maybe the coaching staff failed to keep the Fish focused going into today's debacle.
I'm guessing that it is mainly the last. I'm not big on bashing Wannstedt as I think that he's done a pretty admirable job of rebuilding the offense while still pulling off winning season after winning season. But that being said, the pregame comments from the Miami side make it sound like they did not take the Texans seriously - and that was both a mistake and a coaching failure.
The 11 penalties is another clue that the Dolphins didn't have their collective head in the game. Even Wannstedt recognized the problem:
"The way we were playing today, it wouldn't have mattered who we played," coach Dave Wannstedt said. "We would have lost the game."
I've been of the mind that if the Dolphins had a decent year that Wannstedt probably had one more year left in Miami to do something big. But after this one, I've got to believe that he just got put on a much shorter rope. Many more mental meltdown games like this and Wannstedt will be gone.
Give the Texans credit, though. They gameplanned and executed beautifully. Miami didn't lose this game as much as Houston simply outplayed them.
Permalink | Send To A Friend | Linking Blogs | Digg this!
Filed under:
Miami Dolphins
