Bills vs. Dolphins: Discussing Two Key Matchups

Good luck on Sunday

I think McKelvin will go against Marshall actually. Florence doesn’t have the speed and McGee isn’t capable of shutting him down – I see Leodis getting his chance early and often unless he flops badly.

Since the move to 3-4 have the DBs worked mainly in man coverage or still employed the zone. Using the latter would work best against him at least in the beginning I believe.

Whether it is McKelvin on Marshall or McGee on Marshall, hell it could be Ronald McDonald on Marshall, I will still take that over letting Ricky or Reggie having thier way with us. I think a solid pressure against Henne would force him into mistakes and our secondary opportunity for plays. The matchup I am affraid of is our Defensive Line and ILB’s. WE are minus Schobel this year, and we have yet to see what difference that makes.

Brandon Marshall dropping a pass. How appropriate and predictable.

Joining us this morning to help us do exactly that is Matt Infante from the distinguished Dolphins community of SB Nation, The Phinsider.

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To me the biggest matchup will be to see how disciplined our front 7 is on D. The dolphis will throw a lot of looks at us when running the ball (wild cat, etc.) and it will be interesting to see how our relatively seasoned front DEs/LBs do. This will be a good first test for Gailey and Edwards.

the pick of dansby – is part of it because you’re expecting miami’s line to be a little softer due to the retirement of ferguson?

Marshall, and for good reason, he’s a handful. I think our run game is going to be equally problematic for the Dolphins, despite Matt’s assessment of their front seven’s run stopping strength.

what is a vastly underrated Week 1 matchup.

This game, while not being the be-all, end-all of the season for either team is huge for both squads.

Marshall is definitely a player you have to account for, however, I think the statement made regarding not letting Hartline, Bess and particularly Faisano (can anyone say seam route up the middle) kill us is as paramount as concentrating on containing Marshall.

I’m jacked to see what Spiller can do in whatever role they throw him into. I think it is agreed by fans and followers of both teams this week that the guy is a legitimate threat regardless of scheme or placement. This week is gonna rock!

Spiller will be ALL OVER the field; the Dolphins D will have their hands on their hips by the 3rd quarter. :)

As far as Trent goes, this year he will be the second coming of Joe Montana…..

But there are so many things the Dolphins do well without Marshall that we have to play close to perfect football.

The fact George is really familiar with their wildcat, and how Chad Henne plays its truly a greater advantage then most of us realize. George will know Chads weaknesses thats for sure.

We also have to be aware that Jake Long (as it was brought to my attention yesterday) is not fully healthy and thats huge for us we have to attack and go for blood if hes not fully healthy thats got to be a huge concern for Miami, because without him the OL is just not the same.

As for our own concerns we have to worry about our outside contain, Ellis looked sharp in preseaon but this is the big time now and he will be going face to face with a decent starting RT (I undervalued him in my recent fanpost) so Chris Ellis will need to step up or our Run D could get exposed. I expect our Safeties to play a huge roll in Sundays game whether it be coming up and helping with thr un or protecting the deep ball come sunday the Bills just better be ready to play thats all I can say because Miami is hungry, we embarassed them last year, and they want revenge.

Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams are just smiling in the background.

lol. at least i hope. good luck sunday, can’t wait for the season to start.