OK, so here we are, the most important game of the 2017 season to date. Some, not all of the starters will be playing not only the entire 1st half of this game, but some will play into the 3rd quarter as well. Game 3 of the preseason is the so called Dress Rehearsal, and this will give the coaches a much better idea how the starters look, and where the team is at.
This game will not include heavy duty strategizing, at least not as far as the game plan is concerned. Neither team is going to show their true personalities, and will follow a basic vanilla gameplan. It’s all about execution. Who’s doing things right, who isn’t, and most likely, guys that aren’t doing it right will be executed. Well, not really, but they might be cut with a poor showing.
QB Jay Cutler had an excellent practice yesterday with the Eagles, and hopefully, set the tone for tomorrow’s game. It would be nice to see Cutler excel tomorrow, I think that could really boost not only his confidence, but also his teammates. For Cutler to look good, he’s going to need help from that shaky O-line. I believe OG/C Kraig Urbik is injured and out for tomorrow’s game, so that means OT/OG Jesse Davis will probably play LG, and Jake Brendel will probably play C, with Jermon Bushrod playing RG, and of course, the bookends will be LT Laremy Tunsil and RT Ja’Wuan James. We need this unit to look solid, to protect Cutler, and to give the RB’s running lanes.
On the defensive side, it’s a whole different story. We so desperately need for everyone to stay healthy. Newly acquired MLB Rey Maualuga will not be playing, but the Dolphins would really like to see some guys step up. The CB battle should be fierce, even with the season ending injury to CB Tony Lippett, we still have good talent there. Maxwell, Howard, Verner, Tankersley, McCain, Pitts, Aikens and Thomas give the Dolphins pretty good depth.
At LB, will Mike Hull be able to make the right calls, and even more importantly, not get washed out and make tackles? I’m not worried about Timmons and Alonso, but it would be nice for Hull to be stout against the run, even though we now have Maulauga. I’d also love to Godchaux continue to impress, and push Jordan Phillips back into the rotation. Phillips looks hungry all the time, but is he hungry to keep his starting spot? We’ll see tomorrow. I like what we have on the D-line, with our additions of DE William Hayes, and of course Charles Harris. I think Harris will just keep getting better and better as the year goes on, as they limit his snaps early on, and then slowly increase his workload. He’s mostly going to be a pass rush specialist this season, and with the current depth, that’s perfect.
I want to see the run game clicking, I want see Cutler upright and throwing accurate passes for scores, and I want to see this defense look tough. Our defense last year was kind, I want to see some mean. Don’t give opposing RB’s second chances, and sometimes 3rd chances, make the tackle! I want God-show to be all up in the backfield of the Eagles, disrupting everything. I want Hull stopping RB’s dead! I want Howard, Maxwell and All-Terrain shutting things down. Hey, it’s only preseason, but like a crystal ball, it’ll show you some things to come. I think we’ll have a better idea of what our team really is, and I hope for all of our sakes, it’s not like the oddsmakers say, that we’re a 7 win team.
GO DOLPHINS! Stay healthy!
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I figure tonight is big. Gonna be the first real look at Cutler. You might not like him hear…..but what could be more important for the rest of the season? Least when it comes to one player.
Tim, i was talking about trading a vet, which is what the convo was about, someone like Landry to save a guy with talent, that might get cut, but that fate was settled with our WR injuries.
Looks like they’re showing the Fins on the big screen with sound😁 here at the sports book.
BALLHAWK!!!
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Dolphins LB Rey Maualuga was running sprints before the game. Looks like he’s a ways away from being able to play.
Was he running sprints and then napping? lol
I bet he plays next week.
Twittering device is… OFF.
Ajayi with a nice inside run!
Pouncey opening holes already
C’MON, Tunsil!!! WTF???
SIGH
Very poor communication/plan between Reshad and Maxwell.
Blown coverage
Horrible!
It’s what happens when these guys have barely played in preseason games.
Sluggish again
Bushrod looks shaken up.
He made a great tackle
Wow we suck
We just need to hit a rhythm with a new QB in Cutler. We’ll be alright, so long as nobody else gets injured.
Starters need to play off this rust.
AGREED!
We look like shit so far
Jones looks like shit
NICE blitz!!!
That was a “twist-stunt” blitz.
It’s going to be VERY difficult to stop us when we do this.
They missed the grounding big time.
Who is 94 Hayes? What am animal.
Naw, that’s Timmons, Bro.
Hayes is 95
CUTLER TO DeVANTE!!!
Great play by Parker
Enough of this shit, what a fuckin drive
That’s why Cutler gives hope. Parker Would have scored, if his shoe Would have stayed on.
Prof Lou
“NOBODY knows until it happens. NOBODY. So anyone on here who thinks they know better is just blowing smoke up someone’s ass.”
including you
Mike Mayock essentially said earlier that we’re going to go as far as our O-Line takes us. Cutler’s pocket-presence is going to help in that department, as we just saw.
Asshole mayock no pushoff
Man does Cutler have a strong arm. Doesn’t even need to plant his feet to put zip on it.
JORDAN PHILLIPS!!!
Man, I got home late and was catching up on DVR and was going to post how bad we looked and had to wait for windows to finish updating and by the time it did Parker was catching the wicked deep pass and then Phillips scores! LOL SMH
No fn touchback on 3.
He was out of bounds and it was not a fumble
There is the potential of Phillips just needs to be more consistent
Nice block by Tunsil
Damn did we turn it around.
Love the kickoffs
Timmons is going to BEAST for us this year.
A little mo
Getting good pressure
Timmons again! Nearly sacked Wentz!
Unda pressa
Poor tackling
There’s the hurry-up, where we wouldn’t have had enough time to get Maulagua off the field.
Man I hate seeing wide open receivers (in colors other than aqua and orange.).
Run D is still a problem
There is the defense I was expecting. 12 yard run, 15 yard run TD
but they missed all those tackles…
Guys got tired, the facemask killed us, we had the mo.
I just realized that most of you guys are watching on NFL network. I’m not sure if you have the same announcers we have. They are turrible, just turrible.
This defense had better get their shit together soon. I don’t want to hear “It’s only preseason”. We’ve seen this all last year- the only thing that saved us from going 6-10 was big plays on D, which can’t be counted on all the time.
It’s one of those types of games.
Ja’Wuan James… WTF???
Cutler brimgs something RT never did, fear in the D.
I don’t know if I’d go THAT far, but he has superior pocket-presence.
D looks like it get pressure but is capable of little else
Not in sync yet
NICE pass from Cutler to Stills! PI called properly!
I thought it was blatant
But my eye is out of practice
I found a local sports bar with the Dolphins game
Weeeeee
I like the way cutler goes deep a lot
SUPERIOR throw from CUTLER to JULIUS!!!
Good result but not a great throw by Cutler to Stills
You’re killin me
Too easy
I know it’s preseason, but the last time I saw Miami get three TD’s this soon in a game was the infamous crying in the rain game.
Bombs away
What’s this, 3 TD’s???
Cutler is looking good
MaGroin
I don’t know Ken
I thought that throw would have been a TD but for the PI
Agree, he was held down
Perfect pass that’s why the defender mugged him. 70 yards in the air.
It was late if he threw it on time and out in front would have been TD defender would have not been in position to interfere
I don’t think a qb needs to throw balls to prevent PI? Just me on that one
He could have gotten it ahead of stills and still would probably have to reach ahead (and would have) but when it’s in the endzone it doesn’t matter
Lol too many hits on Wentz
Like the Timmons pickup
I’ve been a fan of his since FSU
Always a solid LB
you remember him playing in college? Man you are old.
Yeah
I remember watching him drafted and thinking “the steelers draft so well”
Beastly
Dline is ballin
I love seeing our guys gang tackle the running back on the blue line.
I thought that was good screen D despite the result
Did he call fair catch?
Are most or all of the starters still in right now?
What up peeps
Ajayi and Parker look to be serious Ballers this year
HORRIBLE hit on Jakeem Grant. SMH
Right call on the punt return. But that was on Grant for not fair catching.
I’m sorry, but how can you not go head to head when sparkplug is like 4′ off the ground. if you bend over to reach him you are going to have your head forward.
I’ll take the penalty, but meh.
If that was Landry the guy would have hit him in the stomach.
Take out Cutler he’s ready, he had enough plays.
I do like how aggressive we are on offense tonight but might fear is with our D we may need to score a lot of points
Ja’Wuan James is in trouble. He’s on notice.
That was different
Solid night for Cutler and Ajaiy good move to rest them now let’s see the D step up
QB controversy 😉
TIMMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIMMONS!
Holy Timmons
Wow Timmons
NICE !!!
Timmons is too old
I’m liking having Timmons. We’ve needed that forever.
And that’s why we signed Cutler
Props on the tackle Moore
I guess I see why Cutler is the starter
2 INT by nin secondary… ick payback
Is that the squirrel from HTTM ??
Tayler in there instead of Godshow
Who was saying Matt Moore should start? I think Fales should be the back-up
Maybe they meant at LB. Piggy said Moore made a nice tackle
That was a pizz-poor decision by Moore to make that tackle, too.
Ray malauag-who?
Moore Could have 10+ Tackles if he was our starting qb
He has the killer instinct to make up for his disasters
😛
That was on Parker
how was that on parker? he was double teamed and the pass was short, meanwhile kenny stills is sitting there not covered.
Come on Branch! Don’t fucking tackle him forward into the endzone!
The play before TJ McDonald showed no effort and gave up that first and goal.
It’s hard to run forward at someone and tackle them back.
mf13ss says:
August 24, 2017 at 8:21 pm
That was a pizz-poor decision by Moore to make that tackle, too.
The whole play from the start was a pizz-poor decision. He tried to throw it up to parker who was double covered and stills was wide open. Then he goes and throws his shoulder into the guy who got the pick.
Moore should have made that tackle