S Jordan Babineaux

(On his big play and the loss) – “It’s hard when you lose no matter how well you feel you played. I think the guys did a great job fighting back after a 14-0 deficit. The only good thing is that the guys came out healthy and we get a chance to come out and fight again next week.”

(On his interception return for a touchdown) – “I thought the play was definitely going to jump start us. It gave us a little momentum but in the end we just didn’t finish on the winning side. It’s tough to say you played well because it is selfish because we the team did lose.”

TE John Carlson

¬(On the missed catch he had in the game) “I always feel if I can touch the ball, I should be able to catch it, but it doesn’t always happen. It’s not like you have time to sit and see the ball coming and think, well I’m going to catch it this way or catch it that way. You just try to catch the ball and try to make as many plays as you can. Sometimes it doesn’t work out.”

(On how tough missing the two-point conversion was after it looked like they had it) “It’s tough. It’s football. There are ups and downs, you just have to withstand the negatives and try to build on the positives.”

Before we came to Miami, Dave Boling told me that in 1996, he played Rolling Hills Golf Club, which is where they filmed the fantastically perfect movie, "Caddyshack." The course has changed to a private club named Grande Oaks, but I placed a call to the Golf Pro. told him I'd love to play the course and put something on the blog, and he agreed to let me play the course.

As a result, me and my friend Rod Mar, the Seattle Times photographer, set off on Saturday to relive one of the greatest movies of all time. Here is the funny part: As we are in the golf shop chatting up the guy at the desk, Bill Parcells comes shooting in with a pair of sunglasses in his hand, throws them on the counter and says, "These are somebodys." I looked at Rod and said, "Did that just happen?"

Parcells was on the putting green, so I introduced myself, told him why we were in town and explained that we were just talking about him because he holds Mike Holmgren's dream job. "I sure do like Coach Holmgren," Parcells said. That was the extent of it.

I then filmed as much of the experience as I could. Take a look.

(How limited were you with your injury?) “I’d probably say a little bit. I couldn’t run like I wanted so I think that took away from some of the roll out and movement type stuff that we had in our package this week. They had big line backers and I think there were some opportunities there where I could have used my legs a lot more and made some plays.”

(When did you get the injury?) “On the first scramble that I had, I ran and my leg slipped out from under me, my right leg, and I kind of messed it up a little bit.”

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By Frank Hughes

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The vast scoreboard towering high over the tangerine-colored seats of Dolphin Stadium indicated that the Miami Dolphins had beaten the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 21-19.
But the Seahawks know better.
They understand all too well that they engaged in an unbecoming act of self-flagellation from which they could not recover.
Which possibly makes the outcome that much worse.
On a day when they could have started the second half of their season with a hard-fought victory, the Seahawks instead were left to wallow in the noxious aftermath of five dropped passes, five false start penalties and countless other costly gaffes.
These were not just your ordinary, everyday drops and penalties, either.
No, Koren Robinson dropped a touchdown pass that would have given the Seahawks the lead after falling behind by 14-0.
Mike Wahle false started on a two-point conversion that would have tied the game at 21.
John Carlson dropped a fourth-down pass that ended the Seahawks’ chances of kicking a game-winning field goal.
The list, unfortunately, goes on.
“We’re not a good enough team right now to overcome the mistakes,” veteran wide receiver Bobby Engram said.

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(General thoughts about the game) – “It’s a little bit like groundhog day. I think the team showed great heart after getting behind 14-nothing. It was looking pretty bad, and they hung in there, got a couple of returns, a couple of really great efforts batting those touchdowns. We made it close at the end, but too little too late. I think there were some great efforts today; I think Seneca Wallace hurt himself a little in the first quarter and couldn’t really move, and that’s a part of his game that he relies on. But he hung in there and I think he played great. We were victimized on offense by procedure penalties, we had too many. And then we dropped the passes. Our margin for error isn’t very big right now. Give the Dolphins credit; I think their turnaround from last year to this year is something very special.”

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The theme with both Mike Holmgren and in the locker room after the game was that this team is not good enough to overcome all the mistakes it made. Obviously, the dropped passes and the penalties killed what semblance of momentum the Seahawks were able to build throughout the game.

For the record, we are saying there were five dropped passes -- two by Colbert, one by Koren, one by Engram and one by Carlson. You could probably subjectively say there were two others, but some of those were either badly thrown or broken up.

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On third and 2 from the 28, Chad Pennington fumbled the ball and Darryl Tapp recovered. However, the Dolphins challenged the ruling on the field and the officials said that Pennington was down before he fumbled. Miami punted away the ball. Seattle has about two minutes to get into field goal position.

The Seahawks drove down the field in six plays and scored on a touchdown pass to Koren Robinson to draw to 21-19.

On the two-point conversion, Mike Wahle false started -- for the second time today. It was the fourth false start by an offensive lineman today. It pushed the ball back to the 8, and Seneca Wallace's pass to John Carlson was knocked away by Yeremiah Bell.

Seattle needs some stops here.

Things get very interesting now after the Dolphins scored on a 16-yard run out of the Wildcat offense, with Ronnie Brown taking a misdirection carry to the left, Deon Grant missing a tackle and Brown falling into the end zone.

The 21-13 lead means the Seahawks have to score a TD and go for two if they want to tie the game. They have 5:38 left to do it.

The good news: Olindo Mare kicked another FG for a 14-13 game.

The bad news: Koren Robinson dropped a touchdown pass that would have given the Seahawks a 17-14 lead. Right through his hands.

But the offense seems to have found some rhythm and Miami is not doing a great deal offensively. The Seahawks are in position to steal away this game.

A really nice 50-yard kickoff return by Josh Wilson set up Seattle's subsequent nine-play, 31-yard drive that ended with Olindo Mare getting a field goal against his former team for a 14-10 game.

Mo Morris finally saw some time at the end of that drive, but up until this point Julius Jones had gotten all the playing time.

Thank goodness for Jordan Babineaux's interception return for a touchdown because Seattle's offense has been able to do absolutely nothing. It has a little over 120 yards gained and has not even gotten close enough to think about attempting a field goal.

Meanwhile, the defense seems to have settled down, but that was only after giving up a 39-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn on a flea flicker and a 51-yard TD run by Ricky Williams gave the Dolphins a 14-0 lead. Babs' big play got the Seahawks on the board, but they are going to need more of those in the second half.

A couple side notes: Owen Schmitt left the field early before halftime, so there must be something happening with him. And Walter Jones tweaked his left knee on a Julius Jones run play, and he appears to be not full speed. Something to keep an eye on with Walter.

Weaver I think was injured on his reception, when Channing Crowder jumped on him violently at the end of the play. He was slow getting up. Weaver is in the locker room getting x-rayed.

Jordan Babineaux intercepted a Chad Pennington pass and returned it 35 yards for a TD, enabling the Seahawks to pull to within 14-7. Craig Terrill got pressure on the pass rush. Maybe that will serve to wake them up.

Ugh. The Seahawks just fell behind 14-0, when Ricky Williams burst into and through the line of scrimmage and never was touched en route to a 51-yard TD. It looked like Lofa got stood up, Howard Green slanted too far to the left and Williams was home free. The offense better get going or this could be ugly.

Pork Chop's foot must be bothering him because Ray Willis is starting at right guard, alongside Sean Locklear.

Miami took a 7-0 lead when Ronnie Brown pitched the ball back to Chad Pennington, who whipped it to Ted Ginn for a 39-yard TD. Marcus Trufant and Brian Russell both were right there, but they got tangled up and Ginn made a nice grab.

I don't think you could tell this on TV, but Ginn wasn't even the guy that was open. On the left side. Greg Camarillo had gotten 10 yards behind I believe Josh Wilson and Pennington went to the wrong receiver -- with the same result.

Seattle

Brandon Coutu
Matt Hasselbeck
David Hawthorne
Mansfield Wrotto
Red Bryant
Deion Branch
Will Heller
Patrick Kerney

Miami

Ernest Wilford
Shawn Murphy
Lionel Dotson
Nate Garner
Brandon Frye
Joey Haynos
Rodrique Wright
John Beck

Lousaka Polite will start at FB for Casey Cramer

Good morning from sunny, balmy Miami, where the weather is virtually perfect at Dolphin Stadium. It'll be interesting to see if the heat -- probably about 80 degrees with a slight breeze -- plays a factor in today's game from Dolphin Stadium.

Today's officials are:

Referee Peter Morelli
Umpire Rich Hall
Head linesman George Wayward
Line judge Darryll Lewis
Field Judge Rob Vernatchi
Side judge Greg Wilson
Back judge Kirk Dornan
Replay Terry Poulos

Inactives are not available yet. I will post them when they come available. I do not yet see Deion Branch out on the field.

Not many NFL prognosticators give Seattle a chance to get a win in Miami today. They point to the 0-11 record of West Coast teams playing in the East Coast time zone and Seattle’s struggles on offense as reasons they won’t get it done.

But the Dolphins certainly don’t expect an easy game.

So I decided to take a look at some reasons why Seattle could win today.

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