I ordered Idiot DC to replace
Christian Machado in the starting lineup with
Ralph Fortune and since he wanted to save his job, he complied with my demands.
We caught the 4-0 New England Patriots napping and ambushed them 34-21 to hand them their first loss of the year.
Zach Roaches continued the RB controversy by running 10 times for 94 yards but the real hero of the game was
Volney Murphy, who passed for 300 yards on the button and 3 TDs, adding a fourth touchdown on his own two feet.
The jubiliation turned to disappointment when we dropped one 23-17 to the New Jersey Jets in our next game. No real standouts there and honestly the game was nowhere as close as the score suggests. What did happen was that
Tony Profit, our starting split end, tore up his quadriceps bad enough to be out an estimated 7 weeks, so we moved
Jack Russell into his spot.
Green Bay showed us what a good team looked like when they came and walloped us 30-7. Our MLBs,
Ken Pruitt and
Danny Garrett each broke the 10 tackle mark, but
Horace Kournikova continued to show signs of fumbleitis and
Volney Murphy looked quite mortal.
Chuck Bullard took over the starting flanker spot the next game and got the first 100 yard receiving game in Dolphins history with just that many as we damn near beat the other NFC North giant, the Chicago Bears before falling 14-13.
So there we were, 2-6 at the halfway point. Tell you the truth, it's about what I expected in our first year. It was becoming more and more apparent to me that we had a dearth of talent virtually everywhere on the team and it was going to be tough deciding how much of the crap we had was worth keeping after this year.
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1960 Summary for Miami Dolphins
Year 1960
Record 2-6
Winning Pct. .250
All-Time 2-6
Winning Pct. .250
Playoffs 0-0
Playoff Visits 0
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Kurt Boyd
Record 2-6
Winning Pct. .250
Off. Coord. M. Barthwell
Def. Coord. J. Kleman
Miami Dolphins Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.9 25
Rushing Yards 93.0 26
Yards Per Carry 4.07 23
Pass Attempts 37.1 5
Completions 21.5 9
Completion Pct. 57.9 22
Passing Yards 206.1 18
Yards Per Attempt 5.55 21
Yards Per Catch 9.59 20
Total Yardage Gained 284.9 19
3rd Down Conversions 34.0 22 (T)
Points Per Game 17.6 17
Pass Rush Pct. 5.2 27
Pass Defense Pct. 59.0 29
Turnovers 8 3 (T)
Turnover Margin +5 6
Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 31.1 26
Rushing Yards 134.5 28
Yards Per Carry 4.32 21
Pass Attempts 28.8 3
Completions 20.3 16 (T)
Completion Pct. 70.4 30 (T)
Passing Yards 226.6 29
Yards Per Attempt 7.88 32
Yards Per Catch 11.19 31
Total Yardage Gained 350.8 30
3rd Down Conversions 40.0 25
Points Per Game 23.8 26
Pass Rush Pct. 8.6 28
Pass Defense Pct. 64.7 12 (T)
Turnovers 13 13 (T)
Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 12 at PIT 17
2 21 BUF 13
3 23 TEN 45
4 14 at HOU 27
5 34 at NED 21
6 17 at NJY 23
7 7 GBY 30
9 13 at CHI 14
10 KCY
11 MIN
12 at DET
13 JAX
14 NED
15 at BUF
16 NJY
17 at IND
Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
10 V. Murphy QB 261 156 1484 5.69 10 5 80.4
4 L. Delpino QB 36 16 165 4.58 2 1 65.2
**Team --- 297 172 1649 5.55 12 6 78.5
$$Opp --- 230 162 1813 7.88 14 5 104.8
Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
32 Z. Roaches RB 89 363 4.08 1 1
27 H. Kournikova RB 76 327 4.30 1 2
**Team --- 183 744 4.07 3 9
$$Opp --- 249 1076 4.32 8 16
Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
88 J. Russell WR 51 25 264 10.56 5.18 4 3
86 C. Cancilliere WR 46 25 337 13.48 7.33 5 0
89 D. Cook TE 27 23 167 7.26 6.19 2 1
85 M. Fink WR 54 22 205 9.32 3.80 7 2
32 Z. Roaches RB 16 15 102 6.80 6.38 0 0
84 T. Profit WR 31 15 200 13.33 6.45 2 1
80 C. Bullard WR 20 14 166 11.86 8.30 1 0
82 J. Towne TE 16 10 98 9.80 6.13 2 2
27 H. Kournikova RB 12 9 74 8.22 6.17 0 2
35 M. Stills RB 12 8 11 1.38 0.92 1 1
Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
91 D. Garrett ILB 46 11 0.0 0 1 2 74.2
59 K. Pruitt ILB 37 10 1.0 1 0 1 70.9
41 C. Brown S 31 9 0.0 0 1 2 77.2
53 R. Freeman OLB 28 4 1.0 1 1 0 74.6
44 J. Shields CB 25 9 1.0 0 0 1 73.8
94 F. Campbell DT 24 15 1.0 4 0 0 79.6
29 R. Fortune CB 24 8 0.0 0 1 2 75.0
50 K. Carpenter OLB 21 7 0.0 2 0 1 76.1
46 C. Machado CB 21 7 0.0 1 0 1 71.2
57 J. Morris OLB 16 12 0.0 0 1 2 74.3
93 C. Breeden DT 14 4 2.0 2 0 0 81.7
95 R. Hardy DT 14 4 0.0 1 0 0 80.7
55 A. Spiva OLB 14 8 0.5 0 0 1 71.5
78 S. Diaz DT 14 4 0.0 0 0 0 80.3
96 M. Schau DE 13 3 3.5 4 0 0 81.8
26 A. Duda S 13 4 0.0 1 0 2 75.7
31 V. Williamson CB 11 2 0.0 0 0 0 74.3
97 S. Hazeltine DE 8 3 0.0 1 0 0 79.2
90 A. Martin DE 8 7 2.0 3 0 1 83.9
92 E. Trujillo DT 8 4 0.0 0 0 0 82.5
To be honest with you I was a little puzzled how Garrett and Pruitt managed to keep hogging the tackles as they both weren't on the field all the time, but I couldn't be too bothered with it at that point. The only thing I knew for certain was that Murphy would be getting a contract renewal and so would
Mark Schau, the LDE who was the lone legitimate pass rusher we had.