Porter & Fish LBs

This will sound odd, but even though Miami linebacker Joey Porter had 2.5 sacks in Sunday's game against the Bills, he did not play a great game. From this perspective it appeared that BIlls backup tackle Jonathan Scott did an OK job against him for long stretches of the game. Porter, no doubt, made an impact. But he ran himself out of the play on Ryan Fitzpatrick's 31-yard TD run by pulling a spin move to the inside and then looking slow to react and chase after Fitzpatrick. He wasn't real tough in forcing the run. The prediction here is Miami is going to part ways with him after this season. He will be 33 next year. Overall, Miami looked slow in the linebacker department. Linebacker Reggie Torbor looked like he was running in sand while chasing Fitzpatrick down the sideline on the TD run. Miami is a physical team. The Bills still need to get more physical to match up with them better next year. But the Dolphins could use a little more impact at linebacker, somebody in the mold of New England's Jerod Mayo.

---Mark Gaughan

Comments

[Larry]

Mark, nice post! I couldn't help, but think of Porter when I read your Tuna "plan" for reconstructing the Dolphins and Bills when you said , No Divas!! Porter certainly qualifies as one, so like you I wouldn't be surprised if Porter isn't playing in South Florida next year.

[mean machine]

Geez, is this all we are relegate to talking about now is Dolphin LBs??????? Who cares???
Come on sleepy news, start a post on why we shouldn’t be playing the Jets on the road in Toronto or something!

[realNFLfan]

Miami is suffering a little from what plagued NE a year ago. Age crept into NE's LB corps last year and you could tell players like Bruschi and Vrabel were not able to make the plays that they did a few years ago. They were never the most athletic guys in the world either. Miami has some age in their LB corps and have to address it in the offseason. Porter looks like he is not long for South Beach.