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Falcons Vs. Saints: Updated Depth Chart Released Minus [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
D. Orlando Ledbetter gives us the most important depth chart this season...the depth chart for Saints week.
Most of the chart remains unchanged from last week except for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]'s absence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], paving the way for Jason Snelling and newly-acquired Gartrell Johnson to move up the ranks. Michael Jenkins and Erik Coleman are still listed as starters though their availability this week remains in doubt.
The injury report comes out later today so we should know more on the status of Jenkins, Coleman, Christopher Owens and Michael Turner (though he's expected to be fine). Of course, the injury report may not be the deciding factor in the Moore and Coleman battle. Moore, with two tackles and an interception, may have done enough in Sunday's game to keep him in the lineup regardless of Coleman's health.
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Granted, the season is only three games old. However, consider how deflating Cobbs' (the Dolphins' highest ranked returner at no. 21 of all kick return qualifiers) numbers are so far: 21.9 yards per kick return with a long of just 30 yards.
That's called pedestrian, folks.
Compensation: Whatever the salary cap will allow. Check that, there is no salary cap, and therefore whatever applicant deserves.
People often point to the traded Ted Ginn as a dynamic returner, and yes, he had two long return touchdowns against the New York Jets.
Miami was on record this week as saying they need to get their special teams "fixed." It's a consistent theme that the Dolphins hear every season.
Historically, Miami just doesn't seem to value dynamic returners. Consider some of the Dolphin returners of the past, such as Terrell Buckley, Brocky Marion, Irving Spikes Jerris McPhail, Dedric Ward, John Avery, Nate Jacquet, Autry Denson, Scott Miller,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Kirby Dar Dar, Tom Vigorito.
Maybe a classified ad such as the above is exactly what the Miami Dolphins need to bring a dynamic kick and punt returner to the franchise for the first time since, well, perhaps forever.
Following Ian Penny resignation, the NFL does not have a strong leader. It was widely speculated that former Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr would be appointed to this position in Aug 2010. However, a day after the speculation reached a climax on August 26th, both NFL Interim Director Mike Ouellet and Deputy Commissioner and chief legal officer of the NFL Bill Daly have disputed the claims that it is all hearsay,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and nothing is concrete between the NFL and Donalf Fehr. J. Meric The National football League Players Association or NFL is the labor union for the group of professional football players who are under Standard Player Contracts to the thirty member clubs in the National football League located in the United States and Canada. The Association represents its membership in all matters dealing with their working conditions and contractual rights as well as serving as their exclusive collective bargaining agent.
Wanted: One football player who can consistently catch kickoffs or punts and give the Miami Dolphins an occasional touchdown and much better field position.
Yet, you won't find any of Miami's return guys in the top 20 in either kickoff or punt returns (Courtesy of NFL.com and FoxSports.com).
Must not run out of bounds. Must make plays other than a "fair catch," or letting ball bounce in front of him even without any defenders in the area.
Can it really be that hard to find a guy?
Seriously, though, aren't you getting tired of watching Patrick Cobbs, Davone Bess,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the recently waived Clifton Smith return the ball while knowing that Miami will start on offense with the ball somewhere inside their own 30-yard line?
In his new surroundings in San Francisco, he has yet to make an impact as a returner or receiver.
Heck, Fulton Walker and O.J. McDuffie are two of the most successful returners in the franchise's history. Walker's reputation was largely based on one play (his 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in Super Bowl XVII), and arguably his best season came as a punt returner for the Raiders in 1985.
Qualifications: Must NOT plow into tacklers and go down immediately after contact.
The fans don't care how you get a worthy returner, whether it's through the waiver-wire, or an acquisition before the trade deadline, or even my classified ad (I'll let them have it for free). But find somebody who will give the Dolphins the special teams spark this team so desperately needs. Following mini camps in the spring and officially recognized training camp in between July and August, NFL teams typically play four exhibition games from early August through early September. Each team hosts two games of the four. The exhibition season begins with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, so those two teams play five exhibition games each. Historically, the American Bowls were played prior to the NFL scheduling regular season games abroad and those teams faced this similar predicament.
But Ginn failed to make a sizable impact in another game, except for running out of bounds even when he saw nothing but green in front of him. Ginn averaged 24.9 yards per kickoff return in 2009 largely based on those two 100-plus yard returns, but only 20.5 in 2008 and 22.7 in 2007 (courtesy NFL.com).
I know that the Dolphins tried with the former Pro Bowler in Smith. It just didn't work out, but that doesn't mean that the team should stop its search there and just go with "safer" guys on the roster, as it has done so now and in the past.
Now consider some of the great returners we have seen in the NFL over the years, such as Eric Metcalf, Devin Hester, Dante Hall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Deion Sanders, Brian Mitchell, Mel Gray, Joshua Cribbs, Dave Meggett, Billy "White Shoes" Johnson. None have played for the Dolphins.
Well, one way to fix it would be to finally bring a worthy returner into the mix.
Start Date: Monday Night, Oct. 4, against New England Patriots.
The answer is no. Golden Tate, Brad Smith, Dexter McCluster, Johnny Knox, Leon Washington, Antonio Brown,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], C.J. Spiller, Bernard Scott, Brandon Tate, Bernard Scott, LaRod Stephens Howling,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Jordy Nelson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Stefan Logan, Marc Mariani, and Tiquan Underwood are just some of the players who have had success returning the ball this season.
Yes, this was a depressing trip down memory lane.
McDuffie was one of the best wide receivers in Miami history, but only had one exceptional year as a returner. In 1993, he averaged 11.3 yards and scored two touchdowns on punt returns (courtesy of pro-football-reference.com).
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