WR Ted Ginn, Jr. (All B1G, All-American)

[Taosman]

He's just about the only weapon they got. They better get him the ball often! And he still runs past everybody!

 

[Buckskin86]

Ginn has impressed

Asked about his current receiving corps, Sparano said he has been pleased with the way this group has competed, and that virtually every day a new player has stepped up.

Though Ginn has not been featured prominently in the Dolphins' passing game so far in training camp, Sparano has been quite impressed with the progress he's made.

"What I like the most about Ted, and I've told him this, is when we came here I think Teddy was playing faster after he caught the ball then before he caught the ball," Sparano said. "And some of that has to do with learning the offense. Learning what you're doing a little bit and this is a young guy.

"Right now, Teddy is starting to play really fast and he's putting pressure on the defense and I really like that. You could see it. It's jumping off the film a little bit how fast he is playing and all of a sudden the ball is finding him.

"That tells me the game is slowing down a little for Ted and that's a positive for us."

Miami considers signing former Dallas WR Glenn | news-press.com | The News-Press

Game slows down for speedy Dolphins receiver Ginn
By CARLOS FRIAS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

DAVIE ? Somewhere between the Nos. 1 and 9 on wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr.'s jersey is the bull's-eye.

It comes with the first-round draft pick money. It's what you get when you essentially disappear in your first season on a 1-15 team. It's what you live with during an all-too-long off-season when the man who picked you No. 9 overall is fired for a series of bad decisions.

It's makes you the target of criticism. And it gleams fluorescent aqua and orange when the new man in charge, Bill Parcells, and coach Tony Sparano revamp the roster, tossing dead weight and adding their type of players.

The only thing that will make it go away, Ginn knows, is taking every shot squarely in the chest and responding with the productive season he feels he can have.

"You have to come in and prove to everybody - not just your head coach, the whole coaching staff - that you want to be that guy," Ginn said. "You have to show them how you learn. You have to show them how your run. You have to show them everything that you bring to the table."

Ginn started off his rookie season slow, but by the end, had caught 34 passes for 420 yards and two touchdowns. More than that, as Sparano reviewed endless hours of tape, he saw how Ginn improved throughout the season, culminating in a seven-catch, 53-yard performance, when he caught his second touchdown against Cincinnati.

"He wasn't even the same player," Sparano said.

Game slows down for speedy Dolphins receiver Ginn

 

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Ginn in TC

I'm back guys... Here goes some stuff from TC today.

Still no sign of Terry Glenn. They were practicing in Full Pads today. Beck?s up, this time from the 14 yard line. Slant pass to Ginn, touchdown. McCown is up now at QB and leads Ted Ginn a foot too far on a deep bomb down the left side line.

 

[Bestbuck36]

I hope your info is right because Omar Kelly was ripping both Beck and Ginn in the Sun Sentinel. He says McCown missed Teddy on that slant and Beck basically missed every throw due to the "buzzer". He's now calling Beck "Checkdown" because he continues to throw those passes and he's on Henne's jock bigtime. Any thoughts on this guy from the newspaper?

I have a feeling Omar's a bit jaded and his aspect is skewed.

 

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TC

Not a whole lot to report on for the morning practice. They did Kick Return scrimmages with just the front 9 guys. They did do 11 on 11 but it was only running plays. Omar Kelly is right for the most part, Beck has looked pretty bad. He throws a ton of interceptions. As for Ginn, he has been pretty decent, very few dropped passes but he is being over shadowed by David Hagan right now. Ginn is playing with a ton of speed right now, they shortened up his stride off the line so from point A to point B he is 100 times faster than last year. We really wont get a feel for it until the preseason starts. And still no sign of Terry Glenn or Quincy Carter.

 

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Ginn TC

Afternoon Practice 8/01: 11 on 11 Passing drills - McCown - Throws over the middle to WR Ginn for about 5, and then Ginn usues his quickness to get a few more. McCown - Throws over the middle to a streaking Ginn, and it's a nice play that goes for about 10 yards. Beck - What should have been called a sack, was a dump off underneath to Ginn for about 5 yards.

2 Minute Drill: Henne - Shotgun, nice throw to Ginn on the outside left. About 10 yards on that one. Ginn is really getting off the line, and using his speed and quickness to do so. He made some nice catches today.

 

[Buckskin86]

Ginn Jr. catching on
BY CARL KOTALA ? FLORIDA TODAY ? August 2, 2008

In some ways, Ted Ginn Jr. became a symbol of what went wrong with the Miami Dolphins in 2007.

And it wasn't even his fault.

When the Dolphins took the speedy Ohio State wide receiver with the ninth selection of the first round, the majority of fans -- at least the ones who came to the draft day party -- booed because they wanted Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn.

It didn't help when then-Dolphins coach Cam Cameron told fans they were going to love watching Ginn return kicks. His skills as a receiver were almost an afterthought. The fact Ginn caught only 34 passes for 420 yards and two touchdowns on a team that went 1-15 didn't help, either.

But wouldn't it be funny if the kid actually became . . . good?

Word around Dolphins training camp this past week is that the new coaching staff is pleased with the progress Ginn has made since his rookie season, and he is doing more to take advantage of his biggest strength.

"His route-running is coming along and (so are) his ball skills," quarterback Josh McCown said. "He's made some pretty good catches. But obviously, what jumps out at you -- and with everybody -- is just his speed. He's so fast."

Dolphins coach Tony Sparano looked at tape of Ginn from last season and noted to reporters this past week that comparing the receiver in his first couple of weeks to the end of the 2007 season was like watching a completely different player.

He also noticed while Ginn was using his speed after making a catch, he wasn't so fast in the time leading up to it. When they met in the offseason, Sparano told the 23-year-old he wanted to see him play fast at all times.

"What I find in our league, with our players, is if you make it important to them, and you make it seem important to them, all of a sudden they focus on this a lot more," Sparano told reporters earlier this week. "I think you throw out the positives to them, and you say, 'Hey this is what we need to do, this is what we need to work on.'

"And one of the things me and Teddy talked about early on in the spring is that, 'Hey, you're catching the ball fast at the end, but from A to B it's taking you a little bit of time, we need that.' And I told him, 'That will improve when you start to learn the offense.' And it has."

"Every day I come out, I try to do something different," Ginn said. "I try to go in, watch film by myself, and try to see what I'm doing wrong. The older guys on the defensive side are telling me different things to work on and showing me how to get open, showing me when I'm doing things right and when I'm doing things wrong.

"That's what training camp is about. It's to work together. That's all we can do."

"Right now, Teddy is starting to play really fast, and he's putting pressure on the defense, and I really like that," Sparano said. "You could see it. It's jumping off the film a little bit how fast he is playing, and all of the sudden the ball is finding him. That tells me the game is slowing down a little for Ted, and that's a positive for us."

Ginn Jr. catching on | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

 

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Ginn in TC

8/04 Morning Practice: A Ted Ginn sighting: He toasts Roberson for a 40-yard touchdown from Chad Henne. John Beck is still inconsistant. I personally think Henne will start over Beck. Ginn didn't do too much during the morning practice.

 

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Depth Chart

Also the Dolphins released they're first depth chart.
WR 1: Ted Ginn, Derek Hagan, David Kircus, Jayson Foster, Anthony Armstrong
LT: Jake Long, Ikechuku Ndukwe
LG: Justin Smiley, Shawn Murphy
C: Samson Satele, Steve McKinney, Matt Spanos
RG: Trey Darilek, Donald Thomas, Mike Byrne
RT: Vernon Carey, Daren Heerspink
TE: Anthony Fasano, David Martin, Sean Ryan, Justin Peelle, Matthew Mulligan
WR 2: Ernest Wilford, Greg Camarillo, Davone Bess, John Dunlap, Selwyn Lymon.
QB: Josh McCown, John Beck, Chad Henne
FB: Regan Mauia, Boomer Grigsby
RB: Ronnie Brown, Ricky Williams, Patrick Cobbs, Jalen Parmele, Lex Hilliard

 

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TC

8/05 Training Camp: Henne is at QB and they are running 2 WR's vs 3 DB's. A perfect deep ball to Ted Ginn for a touchdown, about a 45-yard strike. Led Ginn perfectly past Andre Goodman, and the ball fell right into his hands as he crossed the goal line. As far as Special Teams go, Ginn, Bess and Armstrong are returning punts.

 

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Dolphins camp tour: Maligned Ginn aims for fast relief
Aug. 5, 2008
By Pete Prisco
CBSSports.com Senior Writer

DAVIE, Fla. -- If you're a Miami Dolphins fan, you probably have at least a little disdain for Ted Ginn Jr. It's nothing personal, mind you, but it's there, brought on by the draft of 2007.

Most fans wanted quarterback Brady Quinn in that draft, but somehow the previous regime opted to take a wide receiver with great speed who wasn't even 6-feet tall -- with a top-10 pick, no less.

They loudly booed the pick on draft day, and the video of then-coach Cam Cameron announcing the pick to the fans made its way across the country. It was a move that helped lead to the firing of the previous staff, general manager and Cameron and fueled the South Florida sports-talk shows.

Quinn, the fans thought, would finally end that elusive search to replace Dan Marino, a futile exercise that has led to a parade of ill-equipped passers through South Florida this entire decade. Ginn? What good is speed when there is nobody to get that speed the football?

That kind of talk, and there was plenty of it in South Florida last year, sure doesn't appear to bother Ginn.

"I don't pay attention to what the fans and the media has to say," Ginn said during a break this week from the Dolphins' training camp. "I just have to do what I know I can do."

What he has to do is show that he can be a No. 1 receiver, a go-to guy and a playmaker for a team that doesn't have any. Ginn set a rookie record in 2007 with 2,086 combined yards, but nobody seemed to care. Playing for a 1-15 team, with an offense that struggled to complete passes, let alone have big plays, Ginn was a poster child for what was wrong with the Dolphins.

Did they really take a 5-11 receiver over the quarterback of the future? Do we have to watch this wretched passing game? Please.

Ginn caught 34 passes for 420 yards and two touchdowns. He also averaged 22.7 yards per kickoff return and 12.4 per return on punts, including two for touchdowns. One of those was an 87-yard beauty.

"Teddy," Sparano said to him in the spring. "You're not playing fast before the catch. You have to play as fast before the catch as after the catch. That's what the great ones do."

The problem that hurts all young NFL receivers, making it a tough position for transitioning from the college game, got to Ginn. Thinking while he ran routes made him slow down, his head racing faster than his feet.

"That's what it was," Ginn. said. "Now I'm more comfortable with the offense. I'm not thinking as much. And I am playing faster."

"I've seen him make a lot of improvement out here during this camp," Sparano said.

Just moments before talking with me, Sparano was locked in his office watching the day's practice. Ginn caught his eye.

"He jumped out at me a coupe of times in one-on-one drills," Sparano said. "He's playing so much faster, so much more confident, because he knows what he's doing. Young receivers are thinking about their release. They're thinking about the coverage. Until all of those things start to happen quicker for them, they do play slow. This guy is playing pretty fast right now and he hasn't had mental errors, which is tremendous."

"So you dropped some body-fat, too," I asked him.

"I never had any body fat," he said.

OK, so he's bigger. That will come in handy as he battles corners who want to jam him at the line.

"Guys are scared of me," Ginn said. "If they jam me and miss me, it can hurt them."

Dolphins camp tour: Maligned Ginn aims for fast relief - NFL - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings and Stats

 

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Derek Hagan and Ted Ginn Jr. continue to impress coaches, and Greg Camarillo also has had some good moments in camp. Ernest Wilford, whose dropped pass Tuesday continued a lackluster camp, is being pushed hard by Hagan for a starting job.

Ginn has matured in two areas, which coach Tony Sparano noted Tuesday: 1) His route-running ''has improved tremendously,'' Sparano said. ''He's got more of a plan at the line of scrimmage.'' 2) Ginn got ''a lot stronger'' in the offseason conditioning program, allowing him to win more ''battles at the line of scrimmage,'' Sparano noted. And Sparano said he has ''developed a little bit of a wiggle at the top of his route that has proven to be a good separator'' from defensive backs.

Henne shines; Glenn decision on hold - 08/06/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

 

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8/07: Training Camp: Henne throws a slant to Ted Ginn, and Ginn makes a beautiful fingertip catch in traffic. Ginn uses those cornerback skills he developed in high school to prevent Andre Goodman from making an interception on McCown. Today was the last practice before Saturdays preseason game vs Tampa Bay.