Goal Line Standing Strong

With the Quarterbacks of the day throwing a combined 3 interceptions, they gave the Dolphins every opportunity to put points on the board and take a massive lead. Thankfully, the defense came up huge on the day, not allowing rookie John Beck to take advantage of any turnovers his defense produced, and repeatedly putting the ball back in our offense's hands.

Turnovers are dangerous because of the fact that they often put the opposing offense in great field position, making putting points on the board, that much easier. But considering our defense did not allow Miami to produce any points from the turnovers that we handed them, the interceptions were less of a game killer and more of an annoyance.

This 17 to 7 win would have had a very different outcome had the Dolphins taken advantage of the 3 interceptions their defense produced that gave them the ball back and a chance to score. But our defense allowed only 109 passing yards and held Chatman to 72 rushing yards, a net total of 186 in comparison to our offenses 352.

We still seem to be in a drought of producing turnovers but the highlight of the day by far came on the goal line stand that eliminated Miami from drawing closer towards the end of the 4th quarter.

Joselio Hanson brought Jesse Chatman just 1 yard shy of the endzone on a 17 yard run and though that seemed to be the predecessor to an easy touchdown, the defense held on strong.

On 1st down on the 1 yard line Trent Cole was able to break into the back field and drag Chatman down with him on an attempted run up the middle.

2nd down on the 2 was where Takeo Spikes shined, back in pass coverage on tight end Aaron Halterman he stuck his hands up in the air and was able to defend the pass just enough so that the tight end wasn't able to hold onto the ball.

3rd down, another Chatman run was attempted, this time to the left, but Spikes wasn't having it.

One more try, 4th down, moving things to the outside Chatman got a toss to the right only to be met by Juqua Thomas. With one of the most disciplined defensive plays I've seen all year Thomas proved why he was promoted to that starting defensive end spot over Jevon Kearse.