Game 6 (Got to get better)
It feels like the 70’s when the teams would play 6 pre-season games. So far there have been 5 totally vanilla games and the Dolphins have won the two that mattered the most.
The “third” pre-season game the one where we hold out the most hope since the previous season that we see a glimmer of what is to be was a win over a Falcon team that showed pretty well in their season opener on Monday Night. The next important win was obviously the season opener. A win that left everyone a tad deflated. The feeling we had was strong in anticipation of the season there is no reason to lose the feeling after only one game against a weak opponent while playing as vanilla as can be allowing the team to sort of ease into the season, maybe we go into December a more well rounded team. A team that is truly ready to contend for playoff positioning.
I remember when I took notice of our friend and fellow blogger Rhino on the boards. He had a different screen name at the time, as I recall, and he came on saying – “Home field advantage is our responsibility”, prior to the start of the 2012 season. He was telling us as fans that we needed to be there to support the team, that we needed to fill the stadium so our team could feel the support essentially. That stuck with me, I found it clever and fun. As a fan as always I was ready to do my part. The problem was deep down we all knew that all we had was one thing – no chance. We had hope and we had spirit and we even had some decent players but despite all of our wishes we were a long shot at best. The hype wasn’t there, the prognosticators wrote us off, there was a rookie coach and quarterback and Jeff Ireland.
Here we are three off seasons later, Jeff Ireland is gone, our quarterback has grown into the position and the team has thrown its confidence behind the fourth year head coach.
And we Signed Ndomukong Suh – Ndomukong Freakin’ Suh – Is a Dolphin now.
The stadium has been nicely updated, season tickets are flying out of the box office, there is a 
buzz from the media, and there is honest hope in fans hearts. You can’t tell me that this year doesn’t have a much different feel as compared to the last (fill in the blank) seasons prior. There is something almost tangible this time, when you defend your team to your friends and fans of other teams you actually have coviction in your rebuttals and had confidence for the first time in a long time when you said, “we’re gonna kick your ass”, you know you did. No more dreaded thoughts of Jeff Ireland confusing your judgement, there is clarity. There is a much different vibe this year and we have started right on script – one game one win.
Game 1 of the regular season and you have to go and play at the circus called the Washington Redskins, followed by (can you say Dolphins of the 2000’s) Jacksonville Jaguars. The travel is minimal so far the team is relatively healthy, according to Tim Knight we have 20 new players on the team so it just has to gel. I believe the coaches are taking a slow and steady approach so maybe we set our expectations a little high based on the feeling (we finally have) and lost site that this team needs to tighten up. Most of the receivers are ne
w, Jamil Douglas is a rookie starter, Jordan Cameron is new so the offense has a little uniting to do. Suh is new on Defense and the linebacker core has been overturned and we have 2 new starters in the secondary. There wasn’t tremendous scheming, that I saw last week, I thought we looked like we played pretty straight up. We took their punches, stood our ground and punched them right back when we needed to. Remember it was a second half shutout. Plus we did one thing that was on everyone’s list for needs improvement for next season list and that was kill the clock at the end of the game to preserve a win. We did it. Incidentally Ryan Tannehill enjoyed his best opening day QB rating of his career.
Style points, or lack thereof, aside the Dolphins have done everything we asked for leading into the season. Now we have one more pre-season game – Game 6 – to go before the shit gets real. Jacksonville is another home game for the Dolphins, it makes up for the one in London, and there is still no reason to put the pedal to the metal. We sit back holding our cards, watching our division rivals, getting guys a lot of snaps, getting guys healthy and becoming cohesive. While not overlooking Jacksonville you just won’t show some stuff yet and continue with a larger rotation than perhaps we’ll see going forward.
It’s way too early to panic and its way way to early for despair. The team has done what we wanted so far so let’s do what they want from us. Let’s let them know we are behind them, we know last year was last year and that this is a different team. Until there is something to worry or gripe about – we won’t. But don’t get me wrong I am not telling anyone how to be a fan, I’m just saying you should trust that feeling that you know you finally felt for the first time in a long time. Afterall, “home field advantage is OUR responsibility”! Hopefully we see an expanded role for Devante Parker this week as we prepare for the season opener excuse me I mean Home Opener next week.
Got to get better in a little while…
Steve Jordan laying down a bad-ass beat
Finsmob Unleashed 
Right on D
Sung to the tune of the Nationwide jingle:
Peyton doesn’t look so good
Lol
8 men in this group and this “song” is one of their best but has 0 lyrics lol
more Kool……….
Feeling real proud of you guys right now.
Lots of possible/intentional racial slurs grabbing on yesterday’s theme, but most of them are about Asians rather than Orientals.
You are offending in proper vocab at at least. 🙂
Good song for the time we live in….
haven’t heard that in a while
for Stanger & the Asians 😉
Great vid. Real fun.
My Asian peeps wanted me to mention that they are not in there cause they didn’t film at MIt or Cal Tech. 🙂
LOL, ooook.
If Wake doesn’t go then maybe we’ll see a lot of Fede @ DE, that or slide Suh over just for fun & put Phillips in next to Mitchell. That Jax OL will be falling like dominoes.
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stangerx says:
September 18, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Feeling real proud of you guys right now.
Lots of possible/intentional racial slurs grabbing on yesterday’s theme, but most of them are about Asians rather than Orientals.
thats such bs. we are all equal opportunity offenders. why just pick on the best broccoli and beef making people
”they cal that a reach around”
D,
that is old school. now a days most men just call that a Mike E.
This pretty much describes me….
http://some.ly/8Is1pcK
Sad but true for me as well….smh
hmmmm, ok wow. so now i know herd wants it all day long.
herd,
it isnt a matter of when you pull it, it is just a matter of that you do.
i think the big monkey wins with the you tube post. nothing beats e, w, f.
Just like he did in his very first game with the Dolphins, safety Michael Thomas found himself thrown into the action on defense late in the game Sunday with Miami trying to protect a lead.
Now, Thomas is looking at the possibility of making his third career start with the Dolphins in light of the hamstring injury to Reshad Jones.
Jones missed the end of the 17-10 victory at Washington on Sunday and didn’t practice Wednesday before being a limited participant the next day.
“I prepare every time like it’s going to be my one shot,” Thomas said. “It started with my first game here. Anytime the coaches give me a chance to go out there on the field, I’m going to go out there and make plays for my teammates.”
Philbin said he was confident Thomas would get the job done if Jones isn’t able to play at Jacksonville
“He’s a really hard worker, number one,” Philbin said of Thomas. “He loves football. He comes into the building every day with the same attitude. He’s very positive and he’s a good, solid football player. He has good instincts out there, he’s a good tackler, his play speed is good. Yeah, he’s been a good contributor since the day we got him.”
Thomas, whose first appearance in a Dolphins uniform ended with his game-clinching end zone interception of Tom Brady in December 2013, started two games last season.
If does he end up starting Sunday alongside second-year player Walt Aikens, the Dolphins would have a starting tandem with a combined three career starts. But Thomas isn’t worried about that lack of starting experience.
“I’ve got confidence in Walt,” Thomas said. “He plays off me, I play off him. Our teammates and our team trust us. We’re going to go out there and compete if that’s the case.”
GRIMES GETS DIRTY
With three Pro Bowls on his resume, including each of his two seasons with the Dolphins, Brent Grimes has earned a reputation as one of the best cover cornerbacks in the league.
But he earned kudos from defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle after the Washington game for his work in run support, something you don’t necessarily expect from a 5-foot-10, 185-pound defender.
“It was a physical game,” Grimes said. “There was a lot of taking on of blocks and things like that, but it’s football. Things like that happen from time to time.
“It’s part of the game. Sometimes you have to tackle running backs and take on guards and tight ends and things like that, but it’s part of the job. It’s cool that people notice, but I’m just doing my job.”
GD, what do you mean if Wake doesn’t go?
He’s dealing with a strained hammy. Save him for the Jills & the more mobile Tyrod.
I guess fede will have to play the other side because shelby has a eye issue. So C McCain might get some action as well.
Boulder, I’d like to see them try sliding Suh to DE against a less mobile Bortles….bring in Phillips next to Mitchell….rotate Fede and or bring McCain in on 3rd and long.
Shit, Vernon is hurting a bit too.
Oh right, Shelby has an eye issue too. Fuck the DE position could be thin.
Tim Knight says:
September 18, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Oh right, Shelby has an eye issue too. Fuck the DE position could be thin.
its football. they are always issues of injuries and teams play the injury card a lot. lets wait till game time to see who is playing.
If 3 of your 4 DEs are hurting it’s a concern. I’m sure they’ll all try to go though.
tim
yep if that is how it is on sunday i agree if 3 of the 4 are out. but what i meant is all teams mess with the injured thing to effect the other teams planning. there is no way you trust what they say before game time. i seriously doubt jax is thinking anything about it
I hear ya.
lmao the idoit announcing this fsu game just said boston college is ‘seriously young across the offensive line’ and they show the graph and two seniors two junior and one sophomore. yeah way young.
No safeties, no DE’s, LB corps barely worth a shit till Vigil gets in. We beter put up that 38 I have down and I might need to bump up JAX to at least 24…
GO PHINS!!!
Don’t get nuts. The Skins scored a whopping 10 points and zero in the 2nd half. It’s not like we won 38-35. LOL
Tim Knight says:
September 18, 2015 at 8:32 pm
I hear ya.
wow and i didnt even move my lips while typing that and you still heard me.
Howie, Jags got beat 20-9 at home vs Carolina last week.
Jags had 265 total yards, 3-12 on 3rd down, 3 TO’s & were sacked 5x….I’m not ready to sound the alarm bell. 😉
I’m not ready to sound the alarm bell. 😉
i will wait till sunday around 7ish to sound any bell. well wait, take that back. i will be bitching and moaning if by 4:35 it isnt 75-0 for the fins. i kind of do that…..A LOT
But we dont have a Defense. They aint that great but they are going to march down the field on more than one occasion…
FINS 35-JAGS 20
GO PHINS!!!
It was one game opening day when the starting defense had played about one total game together in the PS. Relax! 🙂
gdp,
interesting idea moving suh to DE. Did the lions ever try that? I don’t remember.
Yeah and now the whole starting Defense is all banged up while Ndomakong Who is going to pull a Mario Williams on us and do absolutely nothing this season…
LOL
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DOLPHINS-JAGUARS
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Trypod21-17MIA
Toba 41-13 MIA
Piggy 23-10MIA
Stang 21-7 MIA
Cav 24-13 MIA
Rock 31-13 MIA
BrianNY27-10MIA
UK 23-17 MIA
Ken 30-21 MIA
Old 20-6 MIA
MikeE 23-20 MIA
ALinMIA 24-6MIA
Herd 27-13 MIA
Bold 21-14 MIA
Real 20-17 MIA
GDP 27-9 MIA
Howie 35-24 MIA
GO PHINS!!!
Personal foul on Howie for calling him – Who
I wouldn’t call Bortles less mobile than almost anyone, he’s a good running QB. Much more of a threat to escape the pocket than Cousins that’s for sure.
Yeah he is. He’s kind of like a poor man’s Luck in that regard. Both guys don’t have good protection but will surprise you with their legs and big arm.
Howie, know which teams are top 3 in points allowed? 😉
Do tell
Howie in the 6th pre-season game the Dolphins waltz through J-ville as Devante Parker tastes NFL paydirt for the first time. I didn’t see any defensive problems did you?
Dolphins 22 – 9
OK
we are very good 🙂
I’m not worried about Bortles running or passing.
That’s different than saying he isn’t so mobile
I never said he wasn’t mobile….he sure isn’t a known speedster that will hurt you with his legs….yeah he’ll get out of a jam once in awhile because everyone is playing back, not fearing his legs.
Stop defending the local kid crush. 😉
He had 56 carries for 419 yds last year that’s 7.1 per attempt, that’s a good running QB. He was good at UCF too.
I’ll take a Defense that only allows 10 pts a game.
getterdone says:
September 18, 2015 at 10:03 pm
I’ll take a Defense that only allows 10 pts a game.
who wouldnt but not like they were facing an offensive juggernaut
Does it really matter? That’s good by any standards. The problem is our offense only did that too. The defense is not the issue right now, it’s the offense better get better. Like Lisa Ann better. LOL
It was both, take it to the extreme and it will reveal all. D gives up a long drive that eats up the entire first qtr, but the FG try is wide right, the O gets the ball and drives to the opponents 35, but has to punt, D gives up another long drive resulting in a TD on the last play of the half. Second half O drives down and gets a TD, D gives up another long drive, but recovers a fumble in the endzone, O has a long drive the results in a FG on the last play of the game. The O has 3 drives in the game, moves the ball on all 3, but only scores 10 pts, who’s to blame for the O only scoring 10 pts?
tim
ever one of us wants a lisa ann better, but the first game the d gave up long time consuming drives. we all want lisa ann for long consuming things but not want the defense to do that
Yes and the offense didn’t answer enough. Complimentary football. But they pulled it off in all 3 phases for the win. 🙂
tim
and you are right also. the offense did nothing great in the game. i agree to that. it takes a team to dominate. hope sunday is different
The drive before the half was pretty great.
Special teams won the game, the D didn’t give up may pts, but allowed 38 minutes of TOP, so it didn’t do the O any favors there, the O left lots of plays on the field, but did have a couple of nice drives.
STs were very good, no missed kicks, great punting, punt return TD, you can’t ask for any more from them.
The O and the D need to be better, one didn’t outperform the other.
Steve, the offense did not play that well regardless of TOP. 3 sacks for 44 yards in loss, what happened there?
Pinball, that one sack fumble resulted in most of the 44 yrd loss.
No one is debating the O didn’t play well, but you can’t say the D played well, sure they also did some nice things, but overall they were both bad.
Dude, I said the entire team needs to clean it up many times, but let’s not go into panic mode at 1-0 off a road win. LOL
That may be true Tim, but I’m just commenting what you said recently.
You said, the defense is not the issue right now, it’s the offense better get better. Didn’t you just write that or is Home trolling you 😉
When a defense allows just 10 points it’s very good. When an offense only scores 10 points it’s very bad.
But I understand that the defense allowed the Skins too much TOP.
Enough on the last game, we all know what went good and what didn’t.
Howie, did you miss my game score of 6-1? Seriously though, Miami 27-16.
Howie, 48-13 MIA. 🙂
Jax’s D isn’t bad it’s their O.
LOL, I’m having fun. 🙂
Morning Update
DOLPHINS-JAGUARS
Wyo 28-13 MIA
Trypod21-17MIA
Toba 41-13 MIA
Piggy 23-10MIA
Stang 21-7 MIA
Cav 24-13 MIA
Rock 31-13 MIA
BrianNY27-10MIA
UK 23-17 MIA
Ken 30-21 MIA
Old 20-6 MIA
MikeE 23-20 MIA
ALinMIA 24-6MIA
Herd 27-13 MIA
Bold 21-14 MIA
Real 20-17 MIA
GDP 27-9 MIA
Howie 35-24 MIA
CCNV 27-16 MIA
Tim 48-13 MIA
GO PHINS!!!
Cough
Howie
Tim is making a mockery of the score predictions. I think you should ban him in the future if he continues to do so.
Try
You should have that looked at
Can you recommend someone?
I’m expecting Jones to be out this week, really no reason to have him play, if he’s hurting as bad as they say, because Michael Thomas can fill in, he just won’t bring the Pro Bowl type of play. On the other hand guys like Wake need to play, we’re too thin at DE with Shelby’s eye and OVs ankle. I wonder, if they all play against the Jags, if not I expect Chris McCain to be active.
Any word on Mostert being active this week? I’d like to see him returning kicks.
With Dion Sims already ruled out this week we brought up Stoneburner. Last week after the injury we used OL in place of a backup TE to block, I know with a TE you always have to at least be aware he may slip out to catch a pass, but when a guy is more of a pass blocking TE, why not just use an Olineman?
That’s why I was hoping Lynch could be a backup in that regard. People said but we have one of those guys in Sims already. Well now we don’t.
Steve
Tawt I taw a tweet that said Mostert said he will be returning kicks this week.
Howie you missed my score of 22-9 Miami
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I think Jacksonville will move the ball on us, but I don’t think it will translate into a lot of points. Kinda like last week’s game. I’m taking Miami 20-13.
Steve
Is Stoneburner a pass blocking TE
I thought he was more a receiving threat than anything else
My understanding is that his pass and run blocking are his weaker points
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2013/profiles/jake-stoneburner?id=2539283
His draft profile
Tim,
really thinks the offense is gonna go off tomorrow. 48 points. wow.
Defense and STs too. 😉
Howie, can I change my score prediction to 62-7 Phins? 😉
Tim
You get one score change. Your first score gets you banned 1 week. The one you want to change it to is a year long ban.
LOL
Try
Not really, I don’t hink all that highly of the MD’s I use currently.
Tim
Why does 62-7 seem so familiar? 😦
They eat puppies!!!
Revenge!
Piggy
I agree with you on Stoneburner, although I’m not sure if he’s a great receiver, but he did make plays in the preseason. I wanted him to make the roster.
He’d squash you like a bug Portis. Say all that tough guy shit to his face and not 1000 miles away.
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It is kind of hard to choke some one when you have a mouthful of turf in you
What’s up FUers?
I want to see a better effort tomorrow. No more nail bitters vs. shitty teams
I think we’ll still be pretty vanilla and have a pretty large rotation of guys. We should be able to hold them down and hopefully put up a few more points than last week.
I want to see us consistently play 60 minutes of good football. Week in and week out. This team needs consistency. We have been horribly inconsistent during the Philbin years.
Clinton Squashish
Needs Chorizo Now!
Licks her bacon
Loves sausage
Quite the trifecta
Ken, horribly inconsistent during the Philbin years? Keep going……..
Here ya go Steve
4:14 – 1st
Connecticut
(2-0, 0-0 Away)
6 6
22 Missouri
(2-0, 1-0 Home)
2 2
LMAO
That’s 6 to 2
Miami can only activate 46 of its 53 players against Jacksonville. Here is a look at the potential list of inactives:
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LB Neville Hewitt
CB Tony Lippett
CB Will Davis
WR Matt Hazel
DT AJ Francis
DE Derrick Shelby
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I think we’ve been very consistent with Philbin. 7-9,8-8, 7-9. Thats pretty consistent.
Wrong. 🙂
Sausage, bacon and chorizo is a pretty good trifecta. Sounds like brunch to me!
any of u going to watch the buff vs pats game tomorrow during the early game should be interesting if the fans are gonna throw the inflators pumps at NE when enter the field. They are know for being a rowdy crowd. I bet all the NE players wear their helmets when entering the field. Their is going to be extra security according to NFL
I’ll probably be going back and forth between a bunch of games. Ever figure out the favorites issue with DirecTV?
not yet.I’m gonna have to call them.Doesn’t make sense having spending hours finding the channels bookmarked and thunderstorm knocks out all your work. Maybe I’ll ask the 15 yr old that babysits for us.
LOL @ mike. consistently average.
2004 4-12
2005 9-7
2006 6-10
2007 1-15
2008 11-5
2009 7-9
2010 7-9
2011 6-10
2012 7-9
2013 8-8
2014 8-8
not sure your point but 7-9, 8-8, 8-8 is consistently average. We were below average before philbin and average with philbin. I want above average.
Which averages out to. ..
7 (6.7) and 9 (9.3). Almost the definition of average.
Tim
Not sure what to make of your post, other than our team has sucked for about a decade. Should we be OK with 7-9,8-8,7-9 Philbin because we sucked before he got here?
It’s 7-9, 8-8 and 8-8 by the way.
Pardon me. We’re a dynasty! lol
Just showing what we’ve been since the start of the downfall of this team starting with Wannstedt’s last year.
Mike E. says:
September 19, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Tim
Not sure what to make of your post, other than our team has sucked for about a decade.
i think what tim means is the offense sucked for the decade therefor you cant blame it on the defense.
No showing the team the last 11 years responding to Ken’s post that we’ve been horribly inconsistent under Philbin when we’ve been horribly inconsistent much longer than that. It’s not as if Philbin came in and ruined a good thing.
We all know where he stands. We’re all fans and we’ve all gone through it. I’m not defending him but I’m also not engaging in a Philbin bashing session as if we lost last week. We’re 1-0, try to enjoy it.
Go Phins!!!!
Tim:
You think we have been a consistent during the Philbin years? We have been the model of consistency. Hence why we have been perpetually around .500 under Philbin
Read above.
I think what Tim is saying is 8-8 may not be were you want to be!
But it’s better that 1-15 or 6-10!!!!!!!!!
Maybe so but that’s not what I was saying. I said the team has been horribly inconsistent under Philbin and it has. Over 3 years plus they are 1 game under 500. Their points scored to points allowed are almost dead even. 2 years in a row we manage to beat the Patriots but lose games we should have other wise won. We go on great winning streaks in November and then go on to horrible losing streaks in December
We all know this. My post had nothing to do with denying this.
tim
i was just fucking with ya. how you like to say the defense was bad cause the offense sucked. i think their record speaks for itself. i dont care what anyone calls it or when it started, the bottom line is they are not winning in the playoffs. i will let the rest of you fight over what to call it.
When did I say that? The defense started off poorly and hurt the offense by killing TOP. Then they played better in the 2nd half (zero points allowed) and the offense did a little better but not by much. STs won the game.
Not sure where some of you are coming from. It seems like you guys wants to start an argument. I’m simply pointing out where we’ve been for quite some time and hopefully it changes this year.
Mike E, pretty crazy exaggeration to what I said, Just pointing out that we were not 7-9 last year. If I listed 7-9, 8-8 and 9-7 would you let it stand? 😉
No effing way! I’d be on that like white on rice! 🙂
From the orient? LOL
But it’s better that 1-15 or 6-10!!!!!!!!!
no it isnt, at least at 1-15 you move up in the draft and you have the potential to draft better talent
Teams thAt hover around .500 are often the ones to breakthrough to be perennial contenders
It’s hard to go from winning 3 or 4 games to be a playoff team
The NFL is not the NBA
Average is not Purgatory
It’s a step in th right direction
You just have to be able to take the next step
And some teams never do
I read a article once that said gaining 2 wins from previous yr is very hard.I believe the % was around 25 %. Well we are about due according to probability statistics.
Tim:
We have not been good for a while but that does not give Philbin a pass. This is his 4th season he has to turn this around and turn us into a consistent. It doesn’t matter what’s happened before Philbin. I was talking about Philbin
I don’t disagree, I was just pointing out it’s been going on much longer than that. To me that year we went 4-12 in Wannstedt’s last year was the downfall of this team to where we are today. We’re trying to change that and we’re 1-0 so why keep harping on the recent past when we all know this is Joe’s make or break season. It’s nothing new, we discussed this all offseason. This team has to start winning or we’re going to see a lot of changes once again.
That said, say we don’t get it done and Philbin is fired. Who do you have your eye on as a new HC?
wow, calm down tim, it is just a blog. i dont get why you got to be so argumentative
LOL, yeah that’s me.
LOL, nope nope, not good enough.
Final
Connecticut
(2-0, 0-0 Away)
6
22 Missouri
(2-0, 1-0 Home)
9
No Field Goals were kicked in this game!