By: Randy Campbell (OLD DOLFAN)
GAME 2: MIAMI @ OAKLAND, Sept. 23, 1973
The Miami Dolphins 21-13 win over San Francisco the first week of the ’73 season raised several questions. Foremost among them was “What happened to the offense?” After three quarters the Dolphins had scored just six points. Only AFTER the oppressive heat forced several 49er starters to the sidelines did Miami finally score 15 fourth quarter points to win the game.
Head coach Don Shula knew there was no chance a heat wave would come to his team’s rescue when Miami flew to California to play an outstanding Oakland Raiders team. Shula had to find a way to ramp up his offense as they prepared to meet one of the NFL’s best defenses.
The Oakland Raiders were the eighth and final charter member of the fledgling American Football League. In late 1959 managing partner F. Wayne Valley hired ex-Navy coach Eddie Erdelatz to be the Raiders first head coach. Oakland finished 6-8 in their debut season. Ownership conflicts prevented Oakland from signing ANY of their top college draft picks in 1961. (Most of those picks signed with the rival NFL during this era of fierce competition between the two leagues.) When Oakland lost their first two games in the ’61 season by a combined score of 99-0, Valley fired Erdelatz and elevated O-Line coach Marty Feldman to head coach. Feldman led Oakland to a miserable 2-12 record. His successor, Red Conkright, presided over an awful 1-13 team in 1962. Oakland management was desperate. In 1963, little known Al Davis, age 33, was hired to be both the GM and head coach of the Raiders. Davis immediately installed his “vertical game” passing attack, an aggressive passing strategy developed earlier by Chargers’ head coach (and future Hall-of-Famer) Sid Gillman. Under Davis, Oakland improved immediately to a 10-4 record after going 3-25 the previous two years. Davis was voted the AFL’s Coach of the Year in 1963. The Raiders slipped to 5-7-2 in 1964 but rebounded to 8-5-1 in 1965. Davis’ promising coaching career came to an abrupt end when he was named Commissioner of the AFL in early 1966.
Davis was instrumental in bringing about the AFL-NFL merger. When the deal was finalized, Davis returned to the Raiders as a part owner (he bought 10 per cent of the team for $18,000) and head of football operations.
In 1967, Davis’ hand-picked coaching successor, John Rauch, led Oakland to a 13-1 record. They destroyed the Houston Oilers 40-7 in the AFL Championship Game to advance to Super Bowl II in the historic Orange Bowl. On January 14, 1968, Rauch’s Raiders fell to Vince Lombardi’s Packers 33-14 in what was Lombardi’s last game with Green Bay.
The Oakland Raider teams of the 1970’s were thoroughly dominant (and nasty) for much of the decade. They produced 8 Hall of Fame inductees plus a Hall of Fame coach in John Madden. Oakland made the NFL playoffs in 1970 (where they defeated Shula’s Dolphins 21-14). From 1972 through 1977 the Raiders made the playoffs for SIX CONSECUTIVE SEASONS. The highlight was the 13-1 1976 team. After defeating New England in the AFC semi-final game, they defeated their arch-nemesis, the Pittsburgh Steelers, to advance to Super Bowl XI. The Raiders led the Minnesota Vikings 16-0 at halftime and coasted to a 32-14 victory, claiming their first Super Bowl title.
Oakland’s reputation for dirty play went to a new level in the 1978 preseason when Patriots’ wide receiver Daryl Stingley was paralyzed for life by a hit from Raiders FS Jack Tatum. However, a critical loss by Oakland to the Miami Dolphins late in the season kept the Raiders out of the playoffs.
In 1980, the Raiders, under 2nd year coach Tom Flores, advanced to Super Bowl XV where they easily defeated the Eagles (quarterbacked by Ron Jawaorski) 27-10. Two years later, Al Davis moved the team to the L.A. Coliseum after the courts ruled the NFL was wrong to deny his move. In 1983, the Los Angeles Raiders destroyed the Washington Redskins 38-9 to claim their THIRD Super Bowl Championship.
In 1989 Al Davis opened negotiations with the city of Oakland to return the Raiders to 
that city. In mid-1995, a deal was reached. This time the NFL did not stand in Davis’ way. Since 1996, this franchise has again been known as the Oakland Raiders.
All Davis passed away during the 2011 season, ending one of the most colorful, litigious and controversial careers in NFL history. His signature phrase, “Just Win, Baby,” has become a registered trademark of his bad-boy Oakland franchise.
On Sept. 23, 1973, the Dolphins met the Raiders NOT at Oakland-Alameda Coliseum (as wrongly reported in some inaccurate renditions) but in the University of California’s Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. Upgrades and repairs at the Raiders’ home stadium forced 
this change of venue. It was bright, sunny, and 62 degrees at kickoff. A sellout crowd of boisterous Raider fans was waiting for Miami. And Don Shula was worried. His offense struggled on opening day against San Francisco. And All-Pro wideout Paul Warfield was unavailable due to an injury. New offensive coordinator Bill McPeak (who replaced Howard Schnellenberger when Howard became the new head coach of the Colts) knew he’d have to pull a few rabbits out of the hat to confuse and fool the highly rated Raiders’ defense.
Oakland decided to pound the football time after time after time. They ate up the clock with long drives on several occasions. Their first drive ate up over half of the first quarter. It ended at Miami’s 5 yard line when 46 year old placekicker and back-up QB George Blanda booted a 12 yard field goal. (At this point in NFL history, the goal posts were still on the goal line, NOT the end line as today). Oakland stuffed Miami’s subsequent drive and the opening quarter ended with Oakland leading 3-0.
Raider running backs Marv Hubbard and Charlie Smith took turns running the football behind future Hall of Fame linemen Jim Otto and Art Shell. After another long drive, a penalty forced Oakland to attempt a long field goal. Blanda’s 46 yard field goal made the score 6-0 at half time. Miami’s offense was dead in the water.
Shula and McPeak made some half time adjustments. More flare passes were called for the Dolphin running backs, especially Mercury Morris and his back-up, Charlie Leigh. McPeak hoped this might free up wide receiver Marlin Briscoe and tight end Jim Mandich for some intermediate passes from Griese.
But Oakland’s ground game kept Miami’s offense off the field for most of the second half.
Another time-consuming drive engineered by QB Darryl LaMonica ended at the Miami 12 yard line. Blanda’s 19 yard chip shot expanded Oakland’s lead to 9-0 after three quarters.
Miami was having little luck with their running game. Morris would run for just 48 yards; Csonka for just 47. So Griese switched to the passing game. But the Dolphins were forced to punt again. One final time Oakland marched down the field, using the pass sparingly. The drive ended at Miami’s 3 yard line. Blanda’s fourth field goal gave Oakland a seemingly insurmountable 12-0 advantage.
With only 1:05 left, Griese completed a 28-yard touchdown pass to Jim Mandich. But it was too little, too late. Oakland ran out the clock
Head coach Don Shula and quaterback Bob Griese of the Miami Dolphins Sept. 23, 1973. (Photo by Sporting News/Sporting News via Getty Images)
and Miami’s 18-game winning streak was over. The Raiders had won 12-7. Raider nation was ecstatic! On the day, Griese was 12 for 25 for just 90 yards. And the ground game produced only 105 yards. “Their offensive line was exceptional and their defensive line took away our running game,” said a disappointed Don Shula. Left unsaid was the absence of Paul Warfield. No crack-back blocks to spring the running backs. And no double-teaming of Warfield by the defensive backs to free-up other Miami receivers. It is a fact that during this two-year run, Miami was UNDEFEATED in games played by Paul Warfield.
For the first time since Super Bowl VI (19 months ago) the Miami Dolphins had tasted defeat. But better days were on the horizon. The New England Patriots, a team Miami had dominated in 1972, were coming to town.
The 1973 Miami Dolphins were now 1-1.
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Congrats to Rhino and Jahn!
Nice work OD! Where is your works cited page?
The same place it’s always been, in my head. Much of the hard work was done back in ’72 and ’73 when I read, and re-read, every newspaper account of these games I could lay my hands on. When I was in the Army during most of ’72, my mom would ship me clippings of Dolphin games from the south Florida newspapers. I also read accounts of their games in the northern California papers while stationed at Ft. Ord. ANY info I could get in this manner was committed to memory and, in some cases, written down on note pads. Some exact info (such as rushing and passing stats), was gathered from Wikipedia and worked into the story of each game. –Much to my wife’s chagrin, I STILL HAVE big boxes and boxes of Dolphin info in the garage, mostly from the ’80’s and ’90’s.–But I promised her I’d throw out all the stuff from the ’70’s when I completed these articles as we only rent a very small house in the Tampa suburbs. –AT NO TIME did I plan to publish a book or do anything formal. My goal was to write the story of the ’72 and ’73 championship seasons and put it down on note paper and perhaps offer it FOR FREE to the Dolphins to use as they saw fit. –ONE TIME I sent a note to the Dolphins in 1974 offering to do JUST THAT! I even included an example of my work. But i NEVER HEARD BACK from Mr. Robbie, so that was the end of that.
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When I offered to write the story of “ABSOLUTE PERFECTION” for the site once managed by Miss Gigi, she urged me to do it. The rest, as they say, is history. I’ve never seen this as a money making operation, so I dispensed with formalities such as footnotes and bibliographies. My only desire was to share my experiences with those who I thought might appreciate these special moments in Dolphin history.
OD
I can’t speak for anyone else! But I appreciate the history!
If someone doesn’t like It?
DON’T FUCKIN READ IT!
It is after all a free country still?
OD
We appreciate the work you put in, and thank you for sharing it with us here. I personally enjoy reading these very much, as I’m sure many others do as well. THANKS!
Ah shit we finally lost and 12-7. Damn! LOL
Always great stuff, OD.
Congrats to the Warriors fans! I was watching highlights and it was so ho-hum when the Warriors won based on how the networks showed it. I was like, did they win the championship? Anyway, glad the almighty one went down in defeat once again.
Tim
Did you see the Mets game last night? I love the way this team is finding ways to win. It’s really fun to watch. I know anything can happen, and good fortune can turn into bad luck, but it seems like this team is growing nicely together. They’re getting important contributions from a bunch of different players. Last night Parnell pitches 2 innings to get the save and preserve the Harvey win. Young guys are stepping up like Herrera and Ceciliani. d’Arnaud is back and really picking up where he left off, hitting well. Cuddyer, the wily vet with some big hits. It’s coming from all different places.
No I forgot to put it on. LOL
I watched highlights and it was good to see Harvey had his electric stuff back. In the last few games his fast ball didn’t have that extra movement and pop. His control of his other pitches was excellent. Yes the team is showing a resilience that’s not always been there. It was good to see Parnell back, they could use him. Every time Carlos Torres comes in I say here goes the lead.
If you think of what this team has overcome, all the injuries, it’s impressive that they’re still on top and very much alive in the NL East division race, and the WC.
Mike E, they need d’Arnaud to become kind of what David Wright was for this team. It would have been great to have both, but that doesn’t seem like it will happen.
I don’t know if d’Arnaud will ever be what Wright was in his heyday, but I think he could be what David Wright has been the last few years and better for sure.
Just imagine if Granderson was hitting like he was with the Yankees, and Cuddyer was hitting like he had the 5 previous years, we’d have a 10 game lead in the East
I have jury duty today
😦
Oh, that sucks. I just did mine a few months ago. Are there a lot of people in the jury pool?
In NY county
So yes
A ton of people probably 200-300
That’s actually not that big. We had over 400 in my jury pool.
Mike E, yeah I’m not saying d’Arnaud will hit over .300 30 HR 100+ RBI like Wright was doing early in his career, but .280+ 20 HR 80 RBI would be nice production from a catcher and right handed bat. I’m not saying he’ll do that this year, he missed too many games but those kind of numbers in the future.
I agree, and that would be fantastic. I almost wish they would convert him to 3B where he could stay healthy and play every day, and maybe Plawecki can be an every day catcher.
Has he been a 3B before? It’s not uncommon for catchers to also play 3B.
I don’t think so Tim
I know a lot here dont like Philbin but i have seen a real progression in him as a coach since he took over. Listening to him he just seems to feel more comfortable than he has previous years while still remaing true to his beliefs on what makes a strong team. I think his style is a throwback to some of the older greats, just have to see if it works in the NFL now. Regardless, i still like him and his style, and i would love to see him bring back some of the old school NFL.
Here here D. Here here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlGFXl_e1E
Wooohoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get ya Tim, it’s kinda like the world missed out on watching the best team in the world win a championship because the media kept saying “Hey! Look at Lebron James! He’s the best player in the world!”
(even though Steph Curry won the season MVP and not James. 😉 )
Anyway, cheers to all, and I no longer think I’m the one jinxing the Fins. My teams DO win championships…!!!!
LeBron will tell you himself he’s the best player in the world. He’s a very humble individual. (rolling eyes)
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Most total pressures allowed from an offensive line in 2014: Dolphins (210) & Colts (205).
yup our offensive line is tip top.
I’ve been called for jury duty 6 times. Had to go in 4 times. I feel my name should be taken out of the lottery so someone who’s never been called will be. LOL
CJ Mosely was a Dolphins fan growing up, he said his hero was Dan Marino, and now he gets to come to practices with his boyhood hero. Thats gotta be a pretty cool feeling.
Yeah I saw that.
Jahn, I’ve mentioned it a few times. I agree with what you have said that the Dolphins are kinda overdo to make the playoffs and it feels like it will happen this year even though it’s the offseason. I’m going to go with that feeling as long as it feels like that lol. I really feel if this team fails to make the playoffs again, there will be a lot of disappointment from the top to the bottom of the organization. I think they really feel they’re ready.
I feel it too and i think i would be more disappointed than in years past. Each year i have felt the team just felt off, sometimes it was coaches didnt seem really confidant with their system and i think sometimes it made them overthink their calls, players just seemed like a collection of people, not a team. Leadership on a player level was wierd, it was there but it almost ssemed pulled in different directions. All in all i think this team looks more and feels more like a team able to take the next step, and furthermore it feels like a team that will sustain its success. Parts are moving together and in the same direction now so my expectations are pretty high as well.
Oh yeah Jahn, big congrats to you and your BBall team. Im not a huge fan of the sport, though i do generally get behind my Florida teams (more of a Magic fan than Heat, but still really pull for Heat as well), but i was pretty excited for the Warriors to win this chapionship. I think its a good display of a great team producing as a team and winning as a team, and i think thats really good for the sport. Go Warriors!
I agree it’s fun watching team basketball. When it’s about one or two stars it makes it a sham for me because the league helps foster that.
OD — great writing but you crushed me……not used to the Dolphins losing when you are making me live the game. 🙂
Jury Duty for the Pig?………sounds like all the kosher jews are winning in that court today. 🙂
Dont ya mean Shysters?
Shysters can still may eat pork…….seems the kosher was the key part.
Won’t piggy easily get out of jury duty being a lawyer? I would think a lawyer wouldn’t want a lawyer as a juror.
I dunno, understanding the law would be benficial for both sides. Those you keep in the jusry a lot of time are those overlap people, so defense and prosecution both how if they make their case the will likely get his vote. I could only see him being refused IF one side or the other KNOWS they have shit for a case.
how-know
That’s the way it worked in Virginia……I was happily immune. Gotta figure Pig wouldn’t be in the bull pen if that was the case in NY. But you are right that he probably never gets on a jury though. Whichever lawyer has the weaker legal case will yank him right out of there.
That’s what I thought.
Which UDFA guards do you think have the best chance of surprising and making the team?
Michael Liedtke 6-3 305 Illinois State
Dionte Savage 6-4 343 Oklahoma
Aundrey Walker 6-6 315 USC
I also forgot we signed OL Donald Hawkins 6-4 310. He was a tackle at Texas but could move to guard in the NFL. He was a UDFA last year signed by PHI, then was on CLE and DAL before we signed him in May.
Liedtke would get my vote, but i kinda am pulling for Savage to make it. I would like to see a guy with some size at the position. I know the ZBS scheme doesn’t really need a big road grater kinda guy, but even in ZBS a lot of the ability to be successful is leverage which does rely on technique, but also a good bit on size too. If for anything but having a guy to get push in short yardage packages, i think it would be beneficial to have a guy like that.
You can be big in a ZBS but you better be able to move. John Jerry struggled in that dept.
That’s a lotta beef!
#73 is Ellis McCarthy 6-5 325. He’s another big boy along with Phillips and Francis who are also both 6-5 330+.
No this is a lot of beef, BTW its not NSFW but its probably very borderline, so if at work, probably skip this or watch on your phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Ilpm5n4iU
Big congrats to Jahn & Rhino — that was a fun championship series watching some great players. The best “team” won while the best “player” on the planet lost – you can’t win 1 on 5. Jahn – enjoy my friend it’s been many years in waiting for you!!! I can only hope the Fins break the same super long streak!!
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If anyone has ever met OD, you would know this man is a walking Dolphins historian as is his wonderful brother-in-law. I could literally sit hours with both of them listening to what happened at games starting in he Fins’ first year – 1966 – to the present. No one else around any blog or web site is as privileged as we are here. I hope those of you who have not yet had the opportunity to meet OD & his crew make it to a game this season, you won’t be disappointed.
Love ya OD!!!
jetsssuck — what you trying to do here? Maybe I missed something, but you are a great guy and Gigi is loved. Really hate it when stuff turns personal…….almost all of us just want to hang out an shoot the shit.
stangerx says:
June 17, 2015 at 11:27 am
Shysters can still may eat pork…….seems the kosher was the key part.
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Yeah i got that, i guess i just was carte blanche believing all jewish lawyers wouldnt eat pork.
D — Most jews aren’t on Pig’s no convict list……you can pretty much axe anyone reformed to start with.
Not sure if you caught/remember, but my now thankfully first wife was jewish. One time when we went out with her cousin from a conservative family to Denny’s. The girl grew up in a place with those two separate kitchens so that milk and meat would never meet even in a cleaned pan or in dishes in the washer.
She ordered sausage, bacon and ham……..guess it was teenage rebellion. 🙂
D,
I don’t like philbin. Not because he’s not a good person or anything like that. Every year in the off season we say the same thing. Oh this team seems different. The coach is really maturing and getting better etc etc…
Sorry he is who he is. In 3 years the best he could do was 8-8. When the games really counted his teams folded. How many times are we gonna lose the fucking jets and baltimore at home to miss the playoffs. I won’t give any props to philbin until I see it on the field. Get to the playoffs and I’ll change my tune.
Until then, with philbin, this is the same shit different year
^^^^^ Agree 100%!!
So does “he is who he is” also work for Belichick’s 5 years in CLE? Would you have said that about Bill Walsh’s first two seasons in SF at 2-14 and 6-10?
Belichick was the TOP defensive coordinator in the league; Philbin was not calling plays in Green Bay and nowhere near in the same league as Belichick as an asst. coach – IMO.
Also, I said it when he was first hired which I thought was a mistake – he had just lost his 20 year old son in a drowning – you never recover from that, losing a child. There has I believe been an emotional disconnect with him in his players to date.
I’m sure you can find exceptions in history for anything. Comparing belicheat to philbin is comical to tell you the truth.
Gigi, poor rebuttal on Belichick. He was bad in CLE as a HC. Lost control of his team.
Philbin was a major factor in putting together game plans in GB which is more tedious and involved than calling plays. Calling plays is based on all the work that was done during the week putting the game plan together, but for some reason people overlook that and only focus on calling plays.
so far in miami he hasn’t done jack squat. I bet there are a lot of coaches in the NFL that could have gone 8-8 with the team we had last year.
It’s funny how poor starts by other coaches always have excuses or reasons for failures but with Philbin he simply is what he is. LOL
FYI, Shula was dogged by not being able to win the big game until he finally did. Not all careers have the same road.
I’ll move on from this topic because Philbin haters don’t budge on anything. 😉
Ok philbin is as good as shula and belicheat. happy dear?
Yeah that’s what I said. That’s why I’ll stop with this topic because people exaggerate what others say to keep pounding their point.
tim,
do you think belicheat or shula coached teams would have folded 2 years ago, if all they had to do is beat the jets at home to get in the playoffs?
There’s no way to know that. Remember Philbin also had to deal with one of the worst GM’s ever, or is that not the case anymore? LOL
oh so that was the problem. he had the worst GM ever. He’s the best coach to walk this earth, only if he had a better gm he’d be 3-0 in superbowls by now.
Belichick in CLE, you know the start of his coaching career that doesn’t count. LOL
6-10
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yea and he never won anything in cleveland. So maybe philbin will win 4 superbowls when he leaves Miami. Do I care? no. Just like the browns fans don’t give a shit about what beliceat did in NE.
Im just commenting that i personally see a difference in him, in his interviews an such. Im not saying i predict we win it all but more that i feel like this year is a point at which i think Philbin has his team, he has the people around him he needed from day 1, and that i think his chosen style of voaching is admirable and will be long term successful. I do agree he has to do something though to prove it, as i said in my previous post, its yet to be seen if his style works in the modern NFL but i really hope it does because those were much better times.
coaching not voaching lol
I guess im saying i see a greater degree in confidence in him and that usually parlay’s into better coaching.
Huh?
Gigi — look into my record and you’ll find a lengthy foreclosure proceeding against me. Looks pretty bad. Oh wait — it was the place my first wife got in the divorce and walked away from so they were coming after me cause she wasn’t worth a dime. Shit happens.
I BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE THE PLAINTIFF which is in public records—
everyone is confident in june. Lets see where his confidence is in december.
OD– THIS IS FOR YOU…..
Michael Heavener, PCI owner
NGC President Mark Salzberg
PCGS President Rick Montgomery
John McDonough, vice president and general manager of ANACS
pla·gia·rism
ˈthe practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
While OD still is trying to convince everyone on blog he didn’t copy from other sources I have sent copies to people who may have a incentive to prove how honesty matters in the coin grading industry. Plagiarism can ruin careers.
jetsssuck — what’s it matter? Why the vendetta?
I easily see how plagurism in a professional enviorment ruins careers, especially those based on integrity of the writing, but im not sure how that translates to articles published on this blog for the prurposes of those reading it HERE. Seems overkill and i think your going to find it a dead end legally. I still dont understand why you, a guy i do like, are going to these lengths. Is there something im missing?
Let’s keep this blog clear of personal information like that. This is not the place for that. It’s been removed, and I will remove any further posts like that as well. I don’t want to have babysit this place, but it won’t be tolerated.
Please delete my responses and thank you
Makes me uncomfortable knowing things are getting to a PI level here, are we really investigating our own and for what purpose. Im really not understand what this is all about. I knew there was some issues Jets had about Shula…thats fine some think he is a Saint, some think he is a regular guy, and i guess at least 1 thinks he was the devil. Still not sure how we get from there to here. Hell im not sure how you get from the plagurism argument to here, because this seems way deeper than just a plagiarism claims.
It just makes no sense…….wouldn’t try to make any out of it.
This is supposed to be a fun place to come to talk about football and other topics too, but the general spirit that this blog was created for was for people, friends, to come here and be comfortable discussing things without their personal lives being dragged into it without consent, meaning not divulging this personal information themselves. Let’s keep it that way please.
you call this fun? 🙂
Boulder, you’re not even getting the sarcasm because of your Philbin stance. LOL
I have read for years on the blogs how Ireland sucks, worst GM ever but somehow Philbin should have won despite that. Maybe that wasn’t you, not sure of your stance on Ireland, but those who did use him as a scapegoat for years can’t go back and have it both ways.
I personally don’t think Ireland was as bad as some made him out to be but he wasn’t good, and his record proved that over 6 seasons at 46-50 with only one winning season his (Parcells) first year at 11-5.
Philbin has to start winning and 4 seasons is enough time to get your program going which I’ve said many times. But some of you make it seem like we’ve been going 4-12 with him every year.
Okay I’m done with this topic for real, there’s nothing left for me to say about it. Go Philbin’s Phins!!! 🙂
Even if we get another 8-8 next season, I’m not sure philbin will be fired. Ross seems loyal to a fault.
I’m not sure about that. I think circumstances would have a lot to do with it, like massive injuries etc. Ross really wants this team in the playoffs and competing for a championship.
What the fuck is going on here?
I don’t know?
Mike E keeps deleting the good stuff! 😉
So you got in a dispute with your landlord……….I’m shocked.
I’ll add in my bitch of the day. With their record, the Pirates would be leading in four divisions and one half game off another. In their NL Central that makes them six back (damn you hacker red birds).
BBL.. SHEESH.. NO Class Jetssuck.. Not Cool Man !!!
I think he might be going to the dark side. Not sure why any of this matters to this blog.
when someone calls me a liar or twists facts they better have their house in order because I don’t take being called a liar or someone who twists facts lightly.
JS – lot more things to worry about in life my friend. If I worried about all the twisted facts in the world…..here’s what would happen…..
Gigi is woman of no words. LOL
she’s a pretender who isn’t who she makes to be. University of Miami never offered paralegal degree yet she claims to got one. They do offer paralegal certificate which is 4 months. Kinda of misleading but this shouldn’t surprise anyone since she graduated only from a community college.
That’s not what I meant. Many of her posts have nothing typed. It was a joke.
LMAO
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Rivera says if he had to pick a standout from OTAs it would be WR Stephen Hill. Also likes what OL Jonathan Martin has done in practice.
Philbin is a good coach. He’s been a good coach for 30 years. He just may not be a good fit as a head coach….because HCs don’t actually do much coaching. Position coaches are the guys actually developing players.
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Nobody wants to admit it because it’s easier to just blame the coach, but the talent on this team simply hasn’t been good enough…for what seems like a couple decades…from the QB to the punter. This roster has been full of mediocre players for a long time. But, every preseason everyone convinces themselves that the talent is better than it really is. Then, when we end the season 8-8, people start looking for scapegoats.
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It’s time for the players to start making plays. That’s what wins games.
Paralegal Certificate/Degree = same thing lol sorry I still love Coach Shula!!!
Have a nice day folks
“from the QB to the punter”………..seems we haven’t had to worry about at least one of those positions for a number of years.
jetssuck
There’s a big difference between making an assertion that something you said about Don Shula isn’t true, and then making personal attacks on someones credibility. I know you’re a smart guy, and I also know you know the difference. Let’s let this go no further please, I think it’s really unnecessary. We are what we are, but our personal lives or transgressions don’t need to be displayed here for public consumption. Please understand and respect that. Thanks.
Hey now!
All I have is an associates degree!
I guess I’m as dumb as Gigi? 😉
I’m too stupid to comprehend what you are saying and last I checked my present employer and prior ones all verified my education and my degree/certification – welcome to the dummy club!!!! Thank you W 🙂
i never said that.
Also, I’d like to retain Ken, Piggy or Stanger to defend me 😛
Once, when I was 5, I stole a piece of bubblegum. It still haunts me.
Gigi (@Mrs2620) says:
June 17, 2015 at 12:54 pm
Paralegal Certificate/Degree = same thing
JS — asking you as a friend, please just let it go. You got nothing to gain and takes away from all of our enjoyment of the place. Hurts the rest of us when people we all like very much are going after each other.
stanger,
Our punter has been pretty good over the past few years.
Pretty good? Randy — bash Tanny all you want but……..them is fighting words 🙂
Tim
We’ll find out how good Philbin is this year. He has a loaded team, great defense, and lots of talent on offense. We should be a playoff team IMO, with the team we have. Now it’s up to him to get us there, and make some noise when we get there.
Loaded on paper. Even Suh said that. Gotta prove it on the field and that’s not just the coaches. Players have to make plays.
Cut him!
Pro Football Focus@PFF
Lamar Miller was the best 3rd and 1 back in 2014, his success rate was 82%. (10+ attempts)
LOL
Ha! I get it . . . lol
MikeE,
I think we’ll find out more about our players than we will about Philbin. Will these guys step up and start making plays, or not? We’ve left too many points on the field the past couple years. That’s not philbin’s fault.
Well, they have made wholesale changes, and apparently purged the losers, so this team is built now in his and Hickenbaum’s image. These are HIS guys now. He better make it work.
Greg Likens @GregLikens · 11m11 minutes ago
Tannehill fires a deep ball COMPLETE to Landry on a PA rollout. Sammy Seamster with the coverage #Dolphins
That’s what I want to see more of, play-action rollouts, Tanny excels at it.
Gotta love how Suh is worried about respect. Hoping he can back that up……and the Lions did have the best rush D in the NFL last year.
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“It’s very disrespectful for a team to ever run the ball very heavily on you. This is a passing league. So for somebody to really run the ball on you heavily, that’s really embarrassing.”
Sammy Seamster should be a speedy TE. Just sayin’
Or incredible at sewing
Greg Likens @GregLikens · 1m1 minute ago
Tannehill hits Jennings on a nice touch pass 30 yards down the field #Dolphins
Omar Kelly @OmarKelly
Dallas Thomas told me he’s only worked at left guard all of this summer. The Dolphins are locked in with him at LG (for better or worse).
Greg Likens @GregLikens · 39s39 seconds ago
Brent Grimes just intercepted Bethel-Thompson on a PA rollout pass #Dolphins
Randy says:
June 17, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Once, when I was 5, I stole a piece of bubblegum. It still haunts me.
you hire a two bit hooker, i think we all know nothing haunts you
Shame!
stangerx says:
June 17, 2015 at 1:16 pm
JS — asking you as a friend, please just let it go.
once again, if everyone here would not respond to his attention getting bs he would go away.
He’s a good dude ffr. A lot of him met him night before the game last year.
^ “us met him”
ffr,
Penicillin helps with keeping things from haunting me.
Patrick Finley @patrickfinley · 36m36 minutes ago
Details on #Bears bringing in Daniel Thomas, the former #Dolphins RB, for a tryout this week http://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-football/7/71/698069/bears-bring-former-dolphins-rb-tryout …
Omar Kelly @OmarKelly
The Dolphins have sold out on 100 level and 200 level (Club seats) season tickets. But 300 level season tickets are still being sold.
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They didn’t do that last year. For whatever reason the Phins are hot. Maybe it is the Suh factor or maybe people are buying now cause the shade is coming next year.
At least don’t have to worry about the blackouts any more, especially with the seats in the corners they took out.
Omar Kelly @OmarKelly · 7m7 minutes ago
Greg Jenning just dusted a 3rd team cornerback for a seam pass from Tannehill that would have been for a 70 yard TD. 17 is sharp today.
Just wanted to drop by and say there has been way too much personal BS going on here. I don’t what Jetsucks is bitching about with OD but enough. For the most part this is a fans blog and most of us should be bound together as fans. Yes we make mistakes and occasionally piss people off but this is a prolonged campaign going on by Jetsucks and I don’t get it and I don’t like it. Talk football damn it and stop with the personal BS.
LMAO @ Piggy’s chocolate lab post above.
MikeE,
Do you remember this time last year when almost every single person here was absolutely in love with our WRs….some even claiming it was one of the best WR groups in the NFL? my how that changed in a year. Just because there have been changes…doesn’t mean improvement is on the way, fans get carried away every off season.
Chris Perkins @chrisperk · 34s34 seconds ago
Tannehill continuing strong OTA/minicamp with today’s performance, He’s been impressive. Fewer mistakes.
It’s looking very bad for me making it out to the fest this year. I supposed to be at home office on Monday the 26th and there is probably a reception on the evening of the 25th that I will be expected to attend. So not looking like I will make the fest this year.
Whole thing will fall apart without you as communications master.
I am kind of bummed about it but not really in a position to say no to the boss and the boss’s boss.
Understood. But if you want to make some other game let me know. My casita is yours.
MikeE,
I also wanted to mention how many on here told me Tannehill was going to throw 30 TDs last year, but I figured I shouldn’t bring that up….so I didn’t. Lol
He fell 3 short.
stangerx says:
June 17, 2015 at 1:45 pm
He’s a good dude ffr. A lot of him met him night before the game last year.
so what, i dont know him personally. and for that matter dont know anyone on here personally. only know everyone from the blog. i think it is everyone’s opinion he is being an ass on this topic. all i am saying is if everyone drops it he will go away.
And you may be right in that ffr. Guess my definition of “personally” is a bit different than yours though. Lot of years in with people I’ve never looked in the eyes on this board. And consider many I’ve never seen in the flesh friends.
Gee, an offense looking good in OTAs? What a shock.
Chris Perkins @chrisperk · 17m17 minutes ago
CB Tony Lippett continues to impress. Has nice play on scout team defending Tannehill bootleg. Wasnt fooled.
Greg Likens @GregLikens · 5m5 minutes ago
Tannehill with a TD toss to Cameron, who’s just too big & jumps too high for the defense to stop him on that play #Dolphins
Randy
I don’t remember anyone claiming our WR group was the best in the NFL
That’s a bit of an exagerration don’t you think ?
I’m so tired of hearing people smear getting excited in the offseason about the team like it’s a crime
Lets all piss on the offseason instead
Or just not talk about it
Can you imagine having that point of view on everything in life
I’m done with work today – now I can get hit by a bus on the way home…womp womp
It’s summer time – so that means winter is coming…womp womp
Doctor says im fine so it’s only a matter of time before I’m dead because healthy people die too… Womp womp
I bought a new phone today…batteries will be dead soon…womp womp
You got excited last offseason about football….so you can’t do it again…womp womp
Come on man
Stop pissing in the pool!
I’m so tired of people getting tired of other people’s opinions. 🙂
It’s exhausting
I wonder why teams ever get rid of their coaches if its up to the players to win games by their play on the field.
Can’t fire the whole team. If it was just about coaches, it wouldn’t matter which players you have. Not sure what you’re saying here. Sports is always about talent.
I think its more about getting the most out of the talent you have.
Stanger:
Thank you for the offer on another game. I may take you up on that.
Hope you do. BTW — wife and I are heading up to CT tmrw. Was thinking maybe we could get together, but one of my buddies who lives in Fairfield jumped up the list cause his Mom passed a few weeks ago. Time to rally on that one.
Piggy,
Yeah, an opinion isn’t okay if it isn’t positive. I get it.
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And, read closer. I said “one of”. But, I get it. It’s more fun to close your eyes and believe what you wanna believe than be honest and truthful about what you may see if you open your eyes. This site has become more about being a fanboy than being a football fan. If you don’t have something positive to say…even if you’re right….just don’t say anything because you might hurt somebody’s feelings or rain on their koolaid parade.
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Thankfully, my emotional state doesn’t depend on someone else’s opinion of a football team. But, I will go away, so everyone can blow sunshine up each other’s asses! Lol
I didn’t say it was not okay
But is sure as heck is condescending
Next time you are completely right about everything
I will be happy to not reply
Tim Knight says:
June 17, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Can’t fire the whole team.
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There is that option still I believe?
I’ve done it with the Pirates and the 76’rs! 😉
Randy is a big exaggerator. He thinks everyone bashes everything he says and when his point of view turns out to be right, he scolds the unknown masses who scorned him. LOL
LMAO!!!! Nothing like 80’s aerobics to cheer everyone up.
Sorry Man.. Didn’t mean to steal your thunder !!!
Boulder, good players make plays. Coaching can only get so much out of someone. You’re either talented or not. You think Phil Jackson was the reason he won all those championships or do you think having the best players of those times had something to do with it?
of course talent matters. But coaching matters also. Good coaches can design plays that fits their talent. That’s my main issue with philbin. He wants his players to adjust their talent to his scheme instead of building a scheme that fits his players talents. Just look at the way he used reggie bush when he got here.
BTW comparing basketball to football is ludicrous. As we saw this year one player can take you for lottery pick to the finals in the NBA.
What is Philbin’s scheme? He allows his coordinators to run their schemes. We don’t run the Packers offense.
You don’t build an offense around Reggie Bush. He also had one of his best seasons under Philbin. LOL
you just have to love the irony when someone says ‘i cant say such and such because when i do some one complains, so i am leaving’
so it is ok for one to comment and have the freedom to say as they want but not ok for someone to comment back, if that happens then they are leaving.
Stanger:
Too bad about your friend’s mom. I would liked to have met up with you but totally understand. Anytime you are up this way and have some time just shoot me a call even if it is last minute. It would be cool to hang with you once again.
LMAO
Much better than the dancing Trio!
‘but one of my buddies who lives in Fairfield jumped up the list cause his Mom passed a few weeks ago. Time to rally on that one.’
sometimes mothers can be so inconsiderate and just ruin potential parties
Drives me crazy FFRob
I don’t know why so many people say that when some one comments about their opinions
There are no opinions about the team that can’t be said there
But everyone should anticipate another opinion in reply
Lmao @ the Kermit gif
Tim,
Go back and look at the comments. I rarely exaggerate. Cite examples if you believe that’s true and not just something you think sounds good. Is exaggerating like claiming Jake Long would be a HOFer before he even played a game in the NFL? Claiming Suh is going to make our defense “great” before he’s ever played a snap here? That sort of exaggeration…or is that ok because it’s positive and everyone forgets it if it turns out to be wrong? Lol
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People just like to rewrite history to fit their narrative. Pretty much everyone on this site or the old one were hyping our WRs before the season last year. That narrative changed after the season.
Who cares if they are wrong?
That is my point
Do you walk into baby nurseries and tell them half of them will die before they are 50
Everyone knows they might be wrong when they get excited
So stop getting excited?
What’s the point of being a fan?
Randy, thanks for making my point. Jake Long was on his way to the HOF before injuries hit. He was all-pro LT, a position you didn’t think he’d be a pro bowler at.
You always claim you get bashed for saying this and that and it’s not true. Nobody bashes you, just disagree at times.
I thought our WRs would be better last year then they were. Then I found out the WR room was a mess and the results made sense. I for one never called them the best group in the NFL because I never thought that, some people thought maybe the deepest because not many teams are 4/5 WRs deep.
piggy,
yeah i dont get it, how one person makes a comment then gets all pissy about some one responding to their comment and saying they are attacked because of what their opinion is
That is basically how a blog functions…lol
Piggy,
How is that condescending? You’re the one who misquoted me. I was one of the people saying I thought we had a good mix at WR, so I wasn’t trying to belittle people’s opinion….simply pointing out how opinions change over the season and what people think in the preseason may be completely different after the season. If you’re going to comment on something I say….it would be nice if you accurately portrayed what I said. Otherwise I may need to find a lawyer.
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And I’m just busting balls. I can’t afford a lawyer. Lol
Come on
Seriously misquoted?
One of the best vs the best is misquoted
Whichever you said – it’s belittling another persons opinion even when you don’t name anyone
And it’s extremely condescending to say it
I don’t know how you don’t see that
You basically could have said “told you so” and it would have read the same
i’m neither pissed or angry. I know that’s what people assume, but it’s not true.
Randy says:
June 17, 2015 at 2:53 pm
i’m neither pissed or angry. I know that’s what people assume, but it’s not true.
nope, you are wrong there. it is a proven fact that on here if one says you are pissed, angry, defensive or worked up then you are. it does not really matter your actual state of mind. all the matters is what some other person hundreds of miles from you assess your demeanor as