The Miami Dolphins ran out of quarterbacks last Sunday. Last night, they may have lost their star receiver. Brandon Marshall re-aggravated a sore hamstring and watched the second half as his team lost to the Chicago Bears, 16-0.

The Dolphins went 1 for 12 on third down, and a 46-yard kickoff return to start the game created their best scoring threat. They moved inside the Bears 35 for the first time on the game’s final play.

Thigpen, pressed into duty after Chad Pennington and Chad Henne were hurt in Sunday’s game, finished 17 for 29 for 187 yards, and he had 27 of the Dolphins’ 39 yards rushing. But he found himself scrambling often and fell to 1-11 as an NFL starter.

–FOX Sports.

The Dolphins also had two starting offensive linemen sit out, which probably didn’t help Ricky Williams or Ronnie Brown who, if you did the math in the blockquote, didn’t do much. Obviously Miami can’t wait to go to an 18-game season. If only some of those Cubans floating over to the coast in bathtubs and homemade rafts could learn how to pass-block…

The Miami Dolphins kept their dwindling playoff hopes alive with a 29-17 win over the Tennessee Titans yesterday, but they’ll have to keep pressing on without quarterbacks Chad Henne and Chad Pennington, who were both removed from the game with serious injuries. Coach Tony Sparano had named Pennington the starter after Henne was throwing picks at a Cutlerian/Favrean rate, but the oft-injured veteran was injured very early in his return. Pennington reinjured his surgically repaired shoulder, which was already agitated by his notebook paper physique, and this pretty much means his career is over.

Henne, on the other hand, played for most of the first three quarters, ignoring Brandon Marshall with Hall-of-Fame precision, before he eventually took a shot to his knee, dislocating his kneecap and most likely ending his season. Tyler Thigpen took over for the banging Chads in the fourth quarter, and seeing as the former Kansas City Chief is the only QB left in Miami with a solid bill of health, it’s his ship to sink now.

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