The Miami Dolphins, along with the National Football League and ESPN, will culminate the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a number of major initiatives, festivities and community outreach taking place throughout this week and ending with a grand fiesta at the Dolphins-Jets game on Monday, October 12 (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN Deportes).

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Special events surrounding the Dolphins Monday Night Football game will include:

• A customized version of the Hank Williams Jr. opening video on Monday Night Football featuring Grammy award-winning singer and Dolphins' limited partner Gloria Estefan.
• An NFL FLAG Regional Tournament on Saturday, October 10 in Lauderhill, Fla., with 250 youth from local NFL FLAG teams and members of Las Águilas, national champions of Mexico's NFL Tochito program, the NFL FLAG football program in Mexico.
• A kids clinic organized by ESPN Deportes, Team ESPN and the Miami Dolphins with participation by 100 kids from Amigos For Kids and other area youth in Miami-Dade County.
• A Monday Night Football Chalk Talk Luncheon the day of the game for 300 invited guests at Land Shark Stadium with Marc Anthony and Emilio Estefan and alumni players from the Jets and Dolphins scheduled to participate. Local non-profit organizations, Amigos for Kids and the South Florida Autism Charter Schools, Inc., will be recognized for the groups' work in the South Florida community.

On game day, Land Shark Stadium will throw a major fiesta, presented by Bud Light. Among the festivities:

• A special "Celebration of the Americas" halftime show, presented by AT&T, produced by Estefan Enterprises with participation by Gloria Estefan and a live performance by rising Latin star Jocelyn Rivera.
• Grammy award-winning singer Marc Anthony will sing the national anthem, which will be covered by both ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
• Latin Grammy award-winning Jesse & Joy on the Land Shark Tailgate Stage and other pre-game entertainment.
• Hispanic celebrities walking the Celebrity Orange Carpet and a VIP pregame private reception hosted by Dolphins' CEO Mike Dee in the Ocean Drive Club, presented by Lexus.
• Latin-style tailgating at Calle Dolphins, in collaboration with Bongo's Cuban Café, offering traditional Latin food, Latin music and a dominos tournament, presented by Pepsi.
• Radio Row with live remotes by local and national Spanish-language stations.
• Integration of Latin music, special graphics and Hispanic celebrity video messages in-stadium throughout the game.
• Las Águilas, the national champions of NFL Tochito in Mexico, will be honored on the field.

ESPN's Monday Night Countdown (7 p.m.) and ESPN Deportes' NFL Esta Noche (8 p.m.) pre-game shows will highlight Hispanic Heritage Month with special features and coverage of in-stadium festivities.

The game telecast on ESPN - part of MNF's 40th season - will feature special graphic integrations, features and audio from the ESPN Deportes telecast featuring Spanish-language Emmy-nominated play-by-play commentator Álvaro Martín and analyst and former NFL kicker Raúl Allegre. ESPN Deportes, the official Spanish-language television home for all MNF games, will feature its broadcast team – Martín, Allegre and sideline reporter John Sutcliffe - and NFL Esta Noche pre-game from Miami for the matchup between los Jets and los Delfines (the teams' Spanish names, which will appear on the Land Shark Stadium scoreboards during periods of the game).

The MNF commentator team of Mike Tirico and analysts Jon Gruden and Ron Jaworski will call the game on ESPN. Reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya, and Countdown's Stuart Scott, Matt Millen and Steve Young, will all be part of ESPN's on-site coverage.

The Dolphins' game can be heard locally in Spanish on Radio Caracol WSUA-1260 AM, the Dolphins official Spanish-language radio station, and nationally on Univision Radio.

Univision Radio, the NFL's Spanish-language radio partner, will broadcast the game in 15 of the top U.S. Hispanic markets.

For other Spanish-language information on the Dolphins, fans should visit the team's all-new Spanish channel on MiamiDolphins.com.

For the latest NFL news and video highlights in Spanish, visit NFLatino.com.

DIFFERENT TEAM, SAME DEFENSE: Jets head coach Rex Ryan figured out his own formula for success against Miami's offense last year, specifically when it came to stopping the vaunted "Wildcat" offense, as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. Now he has brought the same scheme to New York and some of the same players (linebacker Bart Scott, safety Jim Leonhard and defensive Marques Douglas).

Sparano confirmed on Wednesday that he hand his staff went back and looked at film of Miami's two meeting with Baltimore in 2008 - once in the regular season and once in the playoffs - and he expects Ryan did the same. Of course Ryan doesn't have the same personnel on his side of the ball, most notably no Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs or Ed Reed, but he still has plenty of capable players and Miami's coaching staff is well aware of that fact.

"I would think that overall he would look at what he did against us with Baltimore last year and figure that's a good plan. I would if I was him," said Dolphins offensive coordinator Dan Henning. "He doesn't have the same players and they don't move the ball as well on the other side but I thought they did a good job and I would think that would be a pretty good maneuver on his part. But then again he's sneaky. He might say, 'Well, Dan's thinking that so maybe I'll switch things around.'"

Henning, Sparano and the offensive players have broken down a lot of tape on the Jets from the first four games to see where their strengths and weaknesses are and to see where they might be able to have the most success, and of course it starts on the ground. The Dolphins own the NFL's top-ranked rushing attack, averaging 183.5 yards per game, and New York is hovering near the middle of the pack in run defense at 13th, giving up an average of 100.2 yards on the ground.

Tight end Anthony Fasano, who had two catches for 25 yards in the first meeting with the Ravens last year but was held without a catch in the playoff loss, is relying on more than just the experience and recall of those two games. He enjoyed more success against the Jets last year, catching eight passes for 84 yards and a touchdown in the season-opening 20-14 loss and then another three balls for 39 yards in the AFC East title-clinching 24-17 win at the Meadowlands.

"They're running the same defense (as Ryan ran in Baltimore) it's just different people, so there are some different wrinkles in there so watching our games from last year might help out a little bit," Fasano said. "But we have four good games to watch from them this year already and I think we've had some good points throughout the year on offense. Being able to put all those things together last week in the win over Buffalo and actually score some points was a good thing."

Sparano, of course, always has the last word on these issues and he gave a thorough explanation of how the Dolphins plan to attack a defensive system they struggled against last season.

"I think we always try to adjust. We tried to adjust from game one to game two last year [against the Ravens]," he said. "There are some things that you feel like you might have done, you've seen on tape that you think you can do during the course of the ballgame, but we certainly made adjustments in the second ballgame. I don't think we planned on a couple fumbles and a couple interceptions or whatever it was, which I would really rather not relive, but we have to be able to do that.

"We game plan, we game planed according to what we've seen on tape, and maybe what we thought might be coming down the freeway here that might be new. So, that's what we've tried to attack. From our end, we always try to throw a little bit more at our guys, and just again, we talked about it yesterday, there's some unknowns out there, and I think Rex and his defense do a great job with those unknowns."

INJURY UPDATE: Defensive end Phillip Merling (ankle) and outside linebacker Joey Porter (hamstring) returned to the practice field today but both were limited. Head Coach Tony Sparano said he did a good amount of work. Inside linebacker Akin Ayodele (back) participated in a full practice.

For the Jets, cornerback Donald Strickland (ankle) and offensive tackle Damien Woody (foot) did not practice. Wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery (hamstring), safety Kerry Rhodes and cornerback Lito Sheppard (quadriceps) all were limited and linebacker Larry Izzo (hamstring), safety Jim Leonhard (knee) and linebacker Bryan Thomas (wrist) practiced in full.

Andy Kent contributed to this story.

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