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!
Finsmob Unleashed 
steveccnv says:
August 24, 2017 at 8:23 pm
It’s hard to run forward at someone and tackle them back.
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No doubt, but don’t help them with your momentum. I know it was a “in the moment” thing where you don’t think you just tackle, but if our guys had him arm tackled or was standing him up FUCK INTERCEPTION
Moore should have made that tackle!
Thomas looks slow
two int’s and a fumble
I would be furious in the reg season
But in the preseason I just like to watch what they do on offense
Alright I have seen what I needed to see let’s keep Cutler healthy and pray we find some run D and we can compete
Nice run play by Drake
That’s a really cool play for Drake getting him in space like that
It’s great to see Drake so involved
Drake is looking good, we have three good RB’s.
Drake is running against the Eagles’ #2s. Let’s not go overboard, here.
And Drake is running behind our #1s. Let’s not go overboard, here.
Drake is a stud regardless of who he’s running against
LOVE Drake!
Andre Branch is going to be a STUD this year.
They totally read that plead and could not stop it
But I guess a penalty isn’t bad
Wake was held right
Lol yep
And the tackle is throwing up his arms like “what do you mean?”
YUP! But if was against the Patsies*, a hold would never have been called!
If they called all the wake holds our defense would be great
What’s stronger:
Moore’s tackling or his unnecessary pumps?
What’s wrong with Matt Moore this evening? Jeez, he’s looking horrible.
56-yard FG by Franks!
Foot long Franks
LOL
That’s far better than Jared Fogle ‘foot-long’ subs.
The throw ro Landry was nice but yeah , more if an exception
Moore lol of an exception
Franks Footer
Moore is not so good tonight.
Wake did some “acting” on that play. He was definitely held, but he threw his arm up and arched to bring attention to it. Like he was throwing his arm out to keep his balance. The flag wasn’t coming out until then IMO (or the ref could have just been slow fumbling it out of his belt but the flag was late on that hold)
I just Frankjackulated
Our first team Defense has me concerned. Way too many soft spots. Played a good down, gave up a big play, had a good down, gave up a TD
We miss McMillan speed..
man is it me or is this a long as half time?
15 minutes
Offense
Our O-Line is going to be our Achilles heel. Cutler is going to work out for us this year and hopefully our O-Line stays healthy enough to spring Ajayi as it did last year. NO MORE INJURIES!
Defense
We’re going to miss the 3-down ability of young Raekwon McMillan. If Maulauga can stop the run as advertised, we’ll be good in those sits. Seems we either need to knock more rust of on the D, and/or Matt Burke’s Defense needs to get accustomed to. NO MORE INJURIES!
When ISN’T the OL our Achilles heel?!!! Burke’s D is very similar to Vance Joseph’s. I think that we are just seeing more of the same as last year from this D.
why does your mustard bottle have weird peanut eyes?
Nuts
Cutler has the best arm Miami has seen in a while, we have to protect him though
I think the 2nd pick was more moores fault as well, thomas was covered like a blanket on that play. why would he throw there?
Prof Lou,
You don’t seem to understand that we only have approximately $3-4M in cap space. We’d have to trade a $$$ player (not just an early Draft pick) to accommodate a premiere player.
Special teams HAS looked a lot better tonight. They were putrid the fist two games.
Did Franks’ hair grow really fast this offseason, or does he have extensions in?
Nice pop by Allen
YUP!
we have given up a ton of 10+ yard runs tonight.
And this surprises you why?
Nice drop. He was WIDE open again
Brian,
I feel we done FUNKED UP by not drafting my man Desmond King, buddy.
The NFLN announcers are total Philly homers.
Our backup O-Line SUCKS.
Not happy with the starting DBs.
Seems as though Byron Maxwell has as much rust to knock off as the next guy. Frustrating!
Maxwell also looked luke crap beginning last year , about game 4 he started BALLIN.
JAKEEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GRANTMAN
Wow hes fast
manitobafinfan says:
August 24, 2017 at 9:27 pm
Maxwell also looked luke crap beginning last year , about game 4 he started BALLIN.
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EXCELLENT point, Manitoba. Perhaps Maxwell doesn’t take offseason training as seriously as MR. Wake.
Some players are Gamers as opposed to practice. It happens 😎
Conversely, sometimes it DOESN’T happen! :8
Yep sometimes a dog is a dog as well .. unless its a Phindog
That should have been another granT TD
Looked really overthrown when he let go. Grant made it close.
It’s a shame Caroo is so far down the depth chart
manitobafinfan says:
August 24, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Yep sometimes a dog is a dog as well .. unless its a Phindog
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LOL, YUP! To be SURE, Phindog is one VERY cool cat… err, DOG! 😀
Where’s Matt Moore when you need a tackle
Bad
Triple coverage off his back foot , true has a guy in his grill but……
Don Cherry Rock em Sock em …
TOOOOOOOO MANY penalties Gase is going to tear them a new ass
They were one of the highest penalized teams in the league last year. That has to change.
This Allen kid is a thumper , noticed him last game too
Yeah. He’s laid a few good hits
Id keep him over Laicey so far
Who is he?
Is he a rookie?
Yep UDFA i believe
Yes. FA out of Southern Illinois
Ugh
Carson Wentz (R1P2 in ’16) or Blake Bortles (R1P3 in ’14)? Two smaller-school prospects…
Wentz pleeze 😎
Let us say they both came out in the same Draft year and we don’t have NOW hindsight. I wonder who goes first?
As most know i dont watch much college ball , but i heard a lot more hype behind Wentz than i did about Bortles
Bortles had a great senior season but never got talked about as number one overall. Jax surprised everyone taking him at 3.
Wish Blake would get his shit together.
I just think his head is all messed up right now Son. He’s got no confidence.
Dough Boy sucks.
I Doughty makes the team
That actually works with your accent!
And my First name 😎👍
Haha!
Doughty try that around here again!
Mind you im not the one with the accent 😜
Doughty hasn’t an NFL arm. Accurate as he is, he’s going to throw more INTs than TDs.
That was a terrible pass
M13,
Your boy King would be looking good right now, but that would likely mean that Lucas gets bumped…
Oh well! In the world of professional sports, may the best man win!
Put Fales in so we can win
Never Fales
Perfect QB for Cam Cameron. He Fales Forward
Allen is really active
Allen is key tonight
Nice lol
Tankersly – good stick
I’ve seen him make a few good hits this preseason. The book on him was he didn’t like to tackle/ glad he’s proving the draft analysts wrong thus far.
When we picked up Doughty I was really pulling for the local kid, but he’s just not that good at all.
Same here, Rockphin… but he just doesn’t have an NFL arm. He sails (LAME DUCKS) his passes consistently.
“Tankersley is a highway speed guy. If you draw up a corner, this is the guy. He can run fast. He’s a press corner. He’s the least interesting defensive back in this entire draft in supporting the run. He was directly for support on two Dalvin Cook touchdowns and did not get involved at all.” — Mike Mayock
That was a nice throw despite the drop
Fales sucks too.
Fales sails passes, too.
I would trade next year’s 2nd for Kendricks.
WE CAN’T AFFORD HIM!
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/mychal-kendricks-9856/
Ah, they could make it work.
He’s a 3-4 ILB. Not sure he’s prepped to become a 4-3 MLB. Still can’t afford him. Prof Lou has been calling to trade for Mychal over the last 3 years… we’re clearly not interested.
What IS it that some people don’t understand? We’ve got approximately $3-4M left to spend (under the cap). You guys who think we should make an emergency trade don’t seem to understand our cap situation… unless it’s ‘assumed’ that we can borrow once again from the ‘Bank of Suh’.
Last I checked, no one is currently shopping starting LBs right now…
^^^
Dude, I’ve got ten fingers so I can count at least that high. Any NFL team can clear $2M in cap without any serious thought. What part of that don’t YOU understand?
Who do you cut (with DEAD $$$) or trade???
You’re acting as though I insulted you… NOT THE CASE!
Smokin’ Jay don’t care.
Well im out. Have a good one people. And remindder im still looking for one more team for FU Fantasy league. If interested email me at drp667@hotmail.com Later
Why did I stay up until 10:30 to watch a preseason game when I have to be up at 4:30 am? Good night all.
Yeah, I’m out as well. G’night, y’all!
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Big Big game tonight in HS football…#4 vs #5 nationally ranked HS teams. St.Thomas at home against St. John Bosco. Both are nationally ranked yr in yr out. Should be nationally televised on a sports channel. Worth watching the future NFL stars of the future.
Do you mean Don Bosco Prep?
http://usatodayhss.com/2017/score-predictor-who-wins-when-no-3-st-john-bosco-calif-visits-no-5-st-thomas-aquinas-fla
John bosco was the national HS champion St.Thomas lost to them by score that was possible from a tipped pass that miraculously was caught by bosco player. If not the tipped pass St.Thomas would have won that game and maybe the HS national championship. I know about bosco in your neck of woods. They are a national powerhouse also. I believe st.thomas played them last yr or yr before and demolished them.
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Gee,
Was that Mike Tannenbaum in the booth last night talking about player for player trades? Yeah, it was. But, I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about.
any idea what players they may target or did he mention positions he is looking into. This is usually the time of training camp where trades are taking place but this year may be different with only 1 cut down day.
MANY THINGS to like and NOT to like about last night’s Fins performance. The TWO JAYS looked ready. The O-Line had a couple of glaring breakdowns, but also seemed to run block pretty well. But giving up 28 points in the first half is NOT good by any standard. Defense has NOT been “fixed” yet, despite so many draft choices. Also, wideouts looked in mid season form.
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Finally got my parking passes delivered late yesterday. AS OF NOW, ticket department REFUSES to refund me the passes for the 2 exhibition games THAT I NEVER RECEIVED!! nor WILL THEY GIVE ME CREDIT TO NEXT YEAR’S SEASON TIX!!! I’m going to turn this whole mess over to my credit card company and let them handle it.
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Last night’s beanball wars between Tigers & Yankees proves, once again, that DH MUST GO!!–These A.L. pitchers think they can throw at other players with impunity because they DON’T HAVE TO COME UP TO BAT!! Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez hit about 60 per cent fewer batters in the National League than they did per at bat in the American League!! Yankee pitcher who beaned Tiger player should be banned without pay for the rest of the season!! Joe Girardi, hopefully, is looking at at least a 1 month suspension without pay! Tiger players also should draw fines/suspensions.
TIME for Manfred to step-up before someone gets killed!!
I don’t think that he was throwing at his head OD. I honestly think that last one was an accident.
I think he was. So do the NY morning crew this morning on WFAN, Kim Jones and Mark Malusis. They said when Betances is wild, it’s almost always in the dirt.
If he was then he should be banned for a year. I’m all for throwing inside, but not at the head. I guess I just don’t want to believe that someone would actually do that.
The problem is only he knows for sure.
True, we’ll probably never know
Mike/Tim,
On an additional baseball note, did you see Conforto separated his shoulder on a swing last night and may require surgery? You just can’t make this stuff up!
M-E-T-S. Only on the Mets does shit like that happen
BRIAN: There’s a better chance that Trump is a virgin than there is that Betances wasn’t throwing at the player’s head. But, of course, only Trump knows for sure.
Wouldn’t the women he slept with know?
jetssuck
Don Bosco Prep is a northern NJ High School football powerhouse. I think there are quite a few NFL players that went there.
Like our very own Leonte Caroo!
There ya go!
didn’t know he went to bosco.Maybe that’s why fins gve up a boatload of players because of his bloodlines from bosco
i know who they are.u are correct they are a national powerhouse yr in and yr out like st.thomas,john bosco(california) I think st thomas has the most nfl players that played in NFL. Brian piccollo (brian ‘s song) played at st.Thomas along with hundreds of nfl players. Jason Taylor is a asst coach this yr also. Chris everit(sic) went there also. They play the brian’s song after every home game also.
I live out in western broward and there is American Hertitage HS which is coached by Pat surtain and they are always in the top 15 nationally. Most NFL present players and former send their kids to these two schools and thats why they are always nationally ranked.
Mike,
At least our favorite NFL team hasn’t been besieged with injuries, and our favorite NBA team isn’t an absolute train wreck…
😭
Starting secondary worried me the most last night. Rashad looked rusty as hell. The only time I saw him was when there was a miss communication resulting in blown coverage or he was missing a tackle.
The secondary worried me as well. At least we have 2 weeks to get it corrected. Too many wide open receivers.
Run D was good at times and bad at times. LB’s looked good.
I haven’t seen the game, but I’m not worried about Reshad at all. He’s a pro bowler, he’ll get back up to speed quick enough. I’m also sure he isn’t trying to kill himself in the pre season, he’d probably like to make it through 16 games or more this season. Who started at CB last night?
Howard and Maxwell
Who was in the slot, or nickel?
Cutler looked good but can tell his timing is still a bit off with WR’s (the long throw to Stills and the one to Landry that was short). That should work itself out. The pass to Parker was sweet. Pocket presence is spot on. Julius Thomas looks slow and lazy into his routes or is that just me?
He’s only been play with them for three weeks. He was by biggest Q by far…..and the answer was real good.
Cutler’ s pocket presence looks excellent
Has Miami ever had a QB with an arm stronger than Cutler’s? Think it btwn him and Dan the man.
I think we had one of those big armed QB’s either in the 90’s or 2000’s, not someone we drafted, but someone who was here for a very short time. Can’t think of the name.
Not him, but put Culpepper in that group
You’ll see what I mean when you watch the game. And not even talking the deep throws you might have seen in the highlights. He doesn’t even have to step into the throw to fire a 15 yard bullet.
More than his arm strength he has that Marino like mentality of wanting to push that ball down field
Yep — And doesn’t that match up with fast receivers who don’t necessarily have to be big. They have to earn a true comparison to Duper and Clayton, but am guessing we see some sets with Stills and Grant. That might make some DBs a bit edgy.
Stanger
I haven’t seen a thing from last night’s game yet.
Still very worried about our D especially our run D
Does anyone remember the QB I’m talking about? I think it was the 90’s or 2000’s, he was a big stiff, but guy had a cannon for an arm. I don’t believe he ever started for us in a regular game.
Dan Maguire?
LOL – He was definitely a BIG stiff, but he didn’t have a cannon. I’m thinking his first name might have been John. He went from team to team after he was drafted, he wasn’t particularly bright if I remember correctly, but guy had a rocket arm.
Joey Harrington?
Nope, not Joey. I’m going to have to look at draft histories in order to find it.
Where was he drafted? High or low?
Jim Druckenmiller
Ahhhh. SF drafted him i believe.
We had him in 2000, we traded a 7th RD pick to the Niners to get him
M13 can take a backseat on pimping King. I have been talking about him for 2 years! Lol
I missed all of Cutler’s snaps and started watching just as Moore threw that awful fade route INT. It wasn’t encouraging watching our first string D get roasted by Philly’s 2nd team offense. Our defense was the major problem last year and it appears that may continue. Even with the injuries, there is enough talent to be an average to above average defense. Whether it’s scheme, effort, or just overrated players, they had better find a way this season.
My take on preseason so far: the game we won we were trailing when the starters stooped playing, but the games we lost we were leading when the starters left. I think Gase has coached to limit the injuries and it’s showing on the scoreboard. I like that we can compete in a shootout.
Good teams, it seems to me, lose in the preseason so I’m encouraged.
drg,
I was having some of those same thoughts about our defense. What is the problem? We have decent talent, but something is just not clicking for us. I think our LBers are still a concern, and our secondary is still a question mark too. Even with that though, we just don’t seem to be performing at the level we need to be with the guys we have. We’d better figure it out quick.
The LBs play too close to the LOS to stop the run and blitz, so they do get pressure sometimes, but when they don’t it leaves a hole in the middle of the D.
Scott Mitchell?
It was Jim Druckenmiller
he drank Miller and was too druck!
Actually didn’t he have a drinking problem?
It was a fun game. Saw lots of good things and some not so good things that need to be cleaned up especially on defense. But I think we’re gonna score a good amount of points this year.
Don’t underestimate Wentz, he’s a he’ll of a QB.
Agreed. I drafted him as my backup to Aaron Rodgers in FF.
On my team from last night…..my two QBs are Wentz and Cutler. Guess I ate the cheese. 🙂
Cutler looks great but we need to protect him
David Woodley? He had a strong arm, just wasn’t that good of QB.
Ajayi looked like the same guy as last year which was encouraging. He could have a huge season. I really like Gase’s commitment to running the ball.
Tim
I think he did, which led people to call him Drunkenmiller
Right that’s what I thought.
We had issues early on D, cleaned some things up, then the dam broke. We should’ve been up 28-14, but Parker thought the game was over when Cutler went out.
I think both teams also were just playing straight up vanilla defense to get the physical work in that they don’t get much of a chance to do in practice.
When we give up a 1st down, the D seems to suck the rest of the drive.
I was getting frustrated with the D last night too. They would stop the run for a loss or no gain and then give up 15 yd run. Stop the run,give up 12 run, stop the run, give up 10, 11, 12, TD!
They need to get way more consistent. (consistently good that is)
Work to do on the D for sure, but lots of bodies flying around at least and good minds to figure out how to get them flying in the right directions.
I really like what I see from Timmons. He gives us a dynamic at LB we didn’t have last year.