| Dolphins DE Cameron Wake has yet to get a sack through three games after getting 14 in 2010. (US Presswire) |
Miami Dolphins receiver Anthony Armstrong had two catches for nine yards in a 23-20 overtime loss to the Jets last weekend. But it’s the passes he let slip through his fingers he chooses to focus on.
“I’m not happy with it at all,” Armstrong told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “You want to be able to make plays. Some of them were basically right there in my hands that I wasn’t able to capitalize on. I just got to get back to work this week and get ready for Arizona.”
The veteran was hampered by a hamstring injury since he joined the team following training camp. It was his hands, however, that betrayed him versus New York. Armstrong was targeted six times and had three drops.
"The stuff I’ve done in the past doesn’t necessarily translate over,” he told the newspaper. “I just need to get on the same page with everybody else. I don’t think it’s a big gap. I think assignment-wise I know where I’m supposed to be going, but my GPS may be a little bit different. I’m getting there.”
In his Wake: Dolphins star DE Cameron Wake means more to the team than sacks.
The former Pro Bowler has yet to get a sack but has seven tackles, including one for a loss, through three games. He has routinely generated pressure but isn’t seeing the results in the box score. Wake saw his numbers drop significantly last year when he had 8.5 sacks after having 14 in 2010.
“Coach (Joe Philbin) always says there’s going to be a play out there and you’re going to be put in a position to make it and there (were) opportunities where we made plays and opportunities where we didn’t,” Wake said after the loss to New York. “We’ve just got to capitalize more on the opportunities that we had.”
Despite his drop in sacks last year, Wake led the league in holding calls with 13 -- six more than any other player in the league.
“I’m telling you, I think the kid’s playing his tail off,” Philbin said. “You watch the tape. He’s playing his tail off. He’s playing the run very well. He’s knocking the quarterback down a bunch. We’d love him to get more sacks and I’m sure he would. He is playing hard and playing fast and he’s giving exceptional effort. It’s hard pressed to find a guy on our film that’s playing as hard as he is.”
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