Big Moves For The Miami Dolphins Pennington and Al Harris In!

Today the Miami Dolphins, have made what they believe to be two improvements to their football team.  The move the Dolphins made was to cut starting corner back Jason Allen and  sign veteran Al Harris who was cut by the Green Bay Packers earlier this week.   In Al Harris the Dolphins are getting a veteran(36 years old) corner who hasn't played since week 11 of last year.  What they are losing in Jason Allen is a player that led the team in interceptions, but also a player who it seemed was victimized by  the opposing wide receivers weekly.  I think that this is a last gasp for something positive to happen to the Dolphins secondary.  Al Harris will most likely be included in nickel packages and as a backup, so expect Sean Smith to start opposite Vontae Davis.  Here are Al Harris's career stats:

Defensive
			Tackles					Interceptions
Year	Team	G	Comb	Total	Ast	Sck	SFTY	PDef	Int	TDs	Yds	Avg	Lng
2009	Green Bay Packers	10	34	29	5	1.0	--	5	2	0	29	14.5	29
2008	Green Bay Packers	12	24	23	1	0.0	--	9	--	--	--	0.0	--
2007	Green Bay Packers	16	37	33	4	0.0	--	9	2	0	17	8.5	17
2006	Green Bay Packers	16	41	35	6	0.0	--	14	3	0	39	13.0	34
2005	Green Bay Packers	16	53	46	7	3.0	0	10	3	1	30	10.0	22T
2004	Green Bay Packers	16	62	56	6	0.0	--	19	1	0	29	29.0	29
2003	Green Bay Packers	16	47	45	2	0.0	0	11	3	1	89	29.7	56T
2002	Philadelphia Eagles	16	24	22	2	0.0	--	17	1	0	0	0.0	0
2001	Philadelphia Eagles	16	22	20	2	0.0	--	10	2	0	22	11.0	14
2000	Philadelphia Eagles	16	--	--	--	0.0	--	0	0	0	1	0.0	1
1999	Philadelphia Eagles	16	--	--	--	0.0	0	0	4	1	151	37.8	84
1998	Philadelphia Eagles	16	--	--	--	0.0	--	0	--	--	--	0.0	--
TOTAL		182	344	309	35	4.0	0	104	21	3	407	--	84

The second move and the move that will have the biggest impact on the team is that they have benched starting quarterback Chad Henne in favour of Chad Pennington.  Chad Pennington was the one leading the Dolphins to their 2008 AFC division title a year in which he won the Come Back Player of the Year Award, for the second time in his career.  Last season Pennington started at quarterback but was injured early in the season and replaced with Chad Henne.

Henne has really struggled the last few weeks for the Dolphins, last game against Baltimore being his worst.  Is Henne's time with the Dolphins done?  I really hope not, I still think that he will one day be a good starting quarterback in this league, but in the situation that the Dolphins are in they need to win now.  That means for right now Chad Pennington is once again the starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins.

Here was a quote from Chad Pennington during today's press conference courtesy of the Miami Herald and Armando Salguero.

"I just think as an offense, we've got to make sure we create a spark," he said. "Offensive football is about energy, it's about momentum. It's about synergy. It's about a feeling you have. And none of that happens with stats, it's not a statistic you can throw at it. So we have to find a way to create sparks during games. And when there's a chance to stick a dagger in a team and take their heart out, we got to do it. And when there's a chance to make a big play and get our crowd involved, we've got to do that. It's really important our crowd comes and supports us and so our we. So we have to create sparks and create energy and feed off that."

Go Get Em Chad!!  We Need Ya!!

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