Always staunch in defending his players, Dolphins coach Tony Sparano sounded like a defense attorney Friday in insisting that left tackle Jake Long had a strong game in Thursday's 20-19 loss at Dallas despite evidence to the contrary. Long, who has made the Pro Bowl after all three of his NFL seasons, committed four of Miami's six penalties, being called for three false starts and a holding. "We're all going to be really happy that Jake Long is here and he is a Miami Dolphin," Sparano said. "We're lucky to have him; he's a tremendous football player, he's playing pretty well. He had a couple of penalties, he'll be hard on himself over that, but he made a couple of really big plays (Thursday). The guy he was playing against had one tackle. Take that for what it's worth The guy played his tail off." Long spent much of the game going up against outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware, who entered the game with a league-high 14 sacks but was credited with only one tackle and no sacks Thursday. Source: Palm Beach Post
It was Colombo, not Long who was getting destroyed. Long didnt have a great game, but at least kept his QB upright
Its too bad too. Colombo is a warrior. Not alot of players out there I have more respect for. But he needs to hang em up
long's false start penalties were obviously not good but in general he contained ware pretty well. long is a damn good LT.