Friday Roundup

Incidentally I highly recommend not using this ground water poisoning weed spray. Just want that clear.

Bringing back a classic today (if this neer-do-well blog has such a thing as a classic).

Que dramatic music and monster truck cashathon voice: "The Friday Roundup."

Basically I or my associate driftinscotty will give you links to the creme de la creme of Dolphins stories from throughout the week.

Okay, let's get to it.

Yeremiah Bell

The first thing any Dolphins fan should be thinking about going into this game is whether or not the Miami defense can even remotely hold its own against Drew Brees and the (cliche warning) high flying New Orleans Saints offense. In particular the safeties, whose play has been less than stellar.

Edgar Thompson at the Palm Beach Post has a nice article about Yeremiah Bell, which has a vote of confidence from Paul Pasqualoni. The thing that I take from this one is that Bell has not lost a step. It seems he merely needs to hit his stride.

Jason Taylor

Really grumpy Jason Taylor interview over at Aquavision. Grumpy JT is so much cooler than dancing JT.

I hope he steals Brees' stupid gold cleats and sells them to Kimbo Slice.

The Offense

Two links here. One to an absolutely awesome article debunking myths surrounding the Wildcat formation by Dave Hyde for Sports Illustrted.

The other is to a Chad Henne interview on Aquavision. This guy has ice water in his veins. Sensible, polite and intelligent ice water, but ice water nonetheless.

NFL Videos

Here's a link to the NFL's gushing Saints-Love game introduction. God I want Kimbo to wear those cleats.

Then finally there is the match-up vid, which the NFL does for each game every week. What did I take from it?

The Dolphins are a very good football team, which will rely on their league leading time of possession and the number one rushing attack to punch NO's undersized line in the mouth.

Every seems to forget that Chad Henne is Spartacus Cannonarm and that Spartacus Cannonarm can score quickly too.

And that need to score they keep talking about?

Well, how about this: The Dolphins are averaging 34.5 points per game since the Chad Henne era began two games ago.

Go Phins!