(09-10-2024, 01:27 PM)HardcoreMoJagFan Wrote: Should we have made halftime adjustments?  We were up 17-7.  Seems like we were doing what we wanted.  To adjust then would have been silly I think.

They were doing what they wanted up until near the end of Q3. Right up until the fumble really. They were finding chunk play after chunk play and they were humming along to a potential 24 - 7 lead with a lot of pressure on Miami to score three times in Q4 to win the game. 

The adjustments really needed to happen after that fumble. When they got one of their final three possessions on offense, it was at the 2:08 mark in Q3. Where they went four and out and then the defense bailed Doug out for gambling there and he then got further lucky when Sanders missed his FG. 

That's what should bother people, on that last series of events. So, you have ETN fumble the football, alright? The Dolphins immediately responded by chucking it for 80 yards and scoring within 11 seconds. When they got the football back, they decided to run it four straight times in a row, which led to that turnover on downs and missed FG attempt. 

RIGHT THERE. That was your chance. RIGHT THERE. You got the football back at your 32 yard line. What did they do? They continued to [BLEEP] the bed. They had 1 pass attempt, 3 rushing attempts and then 2 penalties with 4 total plays. That's really where they lost the game. They also punted it there. 

To walk out of that game with no points in that second half really bothers me. And it should really bother everybody. Again, Miami has a rookie DC, that's his first game. When you look at their starting line-up, there's really nobody out there that jumps off the page and scares you. They had a hobbled Ramsey (Who got toasted by the way, twice, and we should have kept exploiting that), they have Campbell, Sieler, Long, Ogbah, Phillips, Brooks, Fuller, Kohou, Holland and Poyer. 

It's mostly an over-the-hill in age defense. There was no reason why our coaching staff and offensive personnel shouldn't have been able to regain it's composure and regain control of the football game. None. At all.

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