Recap of Miami Dolphins preseason after three games

The Miami Dolphins preseason rolled right along and with just one more left to play here is what we know so far.

This will only cover the first three Miami Dolphins games since the last one has yet to be played.

The first half of preseason games left most fans divided on how the team did. Fans are impatient and want to see high scoring affairs. They want to see these new weapons on offense unleashed. However coach Gase had other ideas by keeping a lid on it while doing things like having Mike Gesicki on blocking assignments and running a draw play on long yardage with goal to go due to penalties. My take was Gase was mainly focused on getting the hurry up down game one than incorporating it game two.

There was a fair amount of doom and gloom coming from social media and even from a handful of local media types. The main complaints coming from poor third-down and red-zone situations that both failed game two. I don’t think a third down was converted by the first team offense and there was no scoring aside from field goals. Of course a third complaint/concern penalties sprinkled with a few negative plays was the culprit of the first two. (8 penalties for 69 yards)

Jerome Baker looked good game one and bad game two. Raekwon McMillan also looked bad both games but showed some good work as well. Coach Gase backed him up saying he is progressing. He does look like he is adjusting to what comes down to his rookie year as he missed all of last season to injury.

David Fales also looked good game one than bad game two. Cordrea Tankersley: I thought Tank played like trash he was getting burned and picked on game two. After the game he even used the same terms saying so himself. The play of the DT, CB and QB were all up for grabs heading in to game three as no one is reaching out to claim it. Where there is tight competition is at kicker, undrafted rookie Greg Joseph made a FG of 54 yards and evened things out with seventh-round pick Jason Sanders.

Kenyan Drake busted a run for 34 yards game two which can almost be expected of him most times. Although some in the national media still seem to not know he is a stalwart player. He finished six for fifty-four yards. Robert Quinn stood out with two sacks game two but graded low with Pro Football Focus due to poor defense of the run. Xavien Howard had a nice interception were he got into zone and the QB never saw him.