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Ted Ginn: The Ultimate Redemption…twice

After admitting to having his worst game as a pro against the New Orleans Saints and having a sub-par season as a Wide Receiver for the Miami Dolphins, Ted Ginn was demoted to second string before the New York Jets game last Sunday.  Since being the #9 overall pick in the 2007 draft and the famous Cam Cameron quote, “We drafted the Ginn family, you’re going to be thrilled every time you watch him as a punt returner.” There is nothing funnier than watching the video of Cameron trying to explain the pick to the crowd at the Fins facility. 

Ginn was drafted to become the next Duper or Clayton down in Miami and so far has been a bust.  Brady Quinn was as shocked as many Fins fans that he wasn’t the pick and if you look even closer to that draft, Pat Willis and Darrell Revis wouldn’t have been bad choices either.   The media and fans in Miami have been all over Ginn for some of his drops this year, the Saints and Colts game the most, and for in inability to return punts or kicks (Which Cam told all of South Florida and the world he was drafted for).  He finally had a game to remember against the Dolphins arch-rival, New York Jets, where he had two kickoffs returned for touchdowns and for at least one week is enjoying the love from the fans and media.

Ted Ginn joined the Ronnie Brown Show with the Big O on WQAM in Miami to talk about the game he had against the Jets, the criticism he took the week before in the media and down in Miami, and why he thought the ball was kicked to him more than once after his first touchdown return.

Asked about the criticism he got in the last week from former Dolphins players and the media:

“It’s going to be like that, you know what I mean.  When you are a diehard Miami fan, whether you are a former player or a regular guy, they are always going to have something to say because they want their team to win in all cases.  Being drafted high and different things like that, its high expectations for me.  But at the same time you have to go out and make plays, do what you can do. My father is always telling me I can only control what I can control, so I just go out have fun.”

Asked about the support he gets from the other players in the locker room:

“It has, when you go in that locker room you have all those guys that have similar issues like you have.  Just like Ronnie (Brown) came up to me and talked to me, Chad Pennington talked to me.  You have different guys that go through the same type of situations that can break it down more easily for you.  Once you are out there and go through all the OTA’s, camp and different things you know what a player can do.  The only thing you can do is stay behind them and stick with them, and once you know you got a lot of support in your locker room; the only thing you can do is keep you r head up, keep playing, keep fighting, and then go out and control what you can control.”

Asked if he was surprised they kicked to him after he returned the first kickoff for a touchdown:

“I was shocked but then I was salivating because I felt like I was matching their scheme.  If they were going to keep overloading guys to the left side, I am going to do all that I can do to get over to the other side.  The only thing I can do is keep playing, keep having fun.  As the game winds down, it’s more of trying to keep the ball and just get good field position.  We were going into a situation where we needed to hold onto the ball and don’t try to do too much.  They were probably thinking hey we might be able to get one out of him, you know might be able to strip the ball out of him.  That coach has a big ego, he is going to keep that ego and the only thing you can do is go out there and keep it mellow.”

Listen to Ted Ginn on 560 WQAM in Miami with the Big O

Tags: 2007 NFL Draft, Brady Quinn, Cam Cameron, Chad Pennington, Darrell Revis, Mark Clayton, Mark Duper, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, Patrick Willis, Ronnie Brown, Ted Ginn