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Ronnie Brown: “I think he makes that catch 9 times out of 10”

SRI continues to work in new writers.  This post is courtesy of Zach Krantz of WQAM in Miami.  On September 21, 2008 the Miami Dolphins offense brought the wildcat to the league.  They scorched the New England patriots for 216 yards rushing in the wildcat and Ronnie Brown had 113 yards to go with 5 touchdowns out of the wildcat formation, one of those was a passing touchdown.  One year later on the Dolphin’s Wildcat birthday, it was effective again on Monday Night Football.  Although the outcome of the game was different, the wildcat netted 236 rushing yards for the Fins and Ronnie Brown accounted for 136 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Clock management was the theme of the postgame locker room.  The Fins had the ball with 3:00 left in the game down 27-23 and poor clock management gave the game away for the Fish.  The stat of the game was time of possession; the Fins held onto the ball for over 45:00 and ran the ball for 236 yards.  With both of those stats one would assume that it was a blowout victory for the Fins.  This was not the case and there are plenty of questions the team has to answer this week going into their game on the road against San Diego. So on the wildcat birthday the team executed it to perfection, but lost the game in a horrible way.

Ronnie Brown joins The Big O for the Ronnie Brown Show on Sports Radio 560 WQAM to talk about the loss Monday night versus the Colts, the more effective a running back gets as the game goes on, the wildcats offense, and the clock management issues at the end of the game on Monday.

Asked if there was a sense of desperation going into the Colts game not wanting to go to 0-2:

“We had a good week of practice; we had a good tough physical week of practice.  We were all working hard trying to make sure that we were able to go out and play great on Monday Night Football.  The ultimate goal was for us to try and get a win.  I think as far as the offense speaking, we went out and executed a plan and more times than not when you hold the ball for 45 minutes and you hold their offense to 36 plays then your usually going to win those games statistically wise.”

Asked how team handles when more than one phase of the team goes wrong:

“At the end of the day we are a team, but not only that we are a family.  We got through a lot together, you know when it boils down to it, we win together, and we lose together.  That’s how it comes out at the end of the game.  We go in, we practice, and we put in all the work during the week together.  At the end of the day, we win together, we lose together,  but you got to go out and try to correct the mistakes that you made and capitalize on the things you did well and try to convert that into the following week.”

Asked about the disarray in the 3 minutes drill at the end of the game:

“We are sitting there with 3:13 left, we got 2 timeouts and we also have the 2 minutes warning. We weren’t able to get the ball downfield and move it effectively and we ended up using our timeout so now we are in the situation where we don’t get a play off before the 2 minute warning.  Now we have to try and get the ball downfield.  You don’t want to limit yourselves to outside passes ad trying to get out of bounds. They did a great job on the edges and we threw balls over the middle which were effective, but also the clock is still running and I don’t know if we were tired and the clock was still running.  They did a great job of making us throw the ball into the middle of the field and we weren’t able to use the clock as effectively as we would like to.”

On getting the timing down for the Wildcat with him and Ricky:

“That’s one of the things we want to be efficient with, is being able to get the snap – that’s the first and foremost thing.  We have to put a little more time in, because I am not a quarterback.  It’s something that we will get better with repetition and continue to practice and hopefully not give the football up.”

On the Ted Ginn drop ball at the end of the game to go ahead:

“You know, that’s a tough play.  Obviously he had an opportunity, but in his defense you’re going the whole game, its right there at your fingertips and the guys on your back.  Unfortunately he wasn’t able to pull it down, but given the situation, I think he makes that catch 9 out of 10 times.”

Listen to Ronnie Brown with the Big O on WQAM in Miami

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