Gus the Can
Hey Dolphin faithful… What are you looking at? I gotta right to be here…
I’m Gus. “Gus”? you say…”Who are you”? I should just say what’s to you? But you don’t know me so I’m gonna educate you: All you gotta know is wherever Jay goes, I go!
I’m Gus – the can Jay likes to kick!
Some of you think you got it all figured out (Gus spits on the floor). You say “Jay Cutler, that pouty brat who acts like he is too cool for football, why did we sign him?”
Well let me tell you right now…You don’t know what you are talking about. Me and Jay go way back. He’s been kicking me since college.
And I’m here to tell you Jay gets a bad rap.
Sure Jay pouts a bit on the sideline but that’s no reason to judge him.
I first met Jay as a freshman when he was at Vanderbilt. I was a nerdy can who was nervous to be away from home. Jay was a big time college quarterback.
We were roommates. Jay was always good to me…he let me carry his books for him, pay for his lunch and sometimes I even got to watch the halls to make sure no one was watching when he had a girl in his dorm room.
We were great friends!
In four years Jay threw for over 8600 yards and 59 touchdowns. Everyone knew he was going to play in the NFL and probably gonna be a first round pick. He was the biggest thing at Vanderbilt.
Vandy doesn’t put a lot of players in the NFL..but Jay’s talent was too much to ignore. His arm was a cannon and NFL scouts coveted him.
He was the most popular kid in school!
You think that might go to his head right? But no, not Jay.
Jay never cared what people said.
He always made time for me. Whenever Jay had a bad game he would say to me “hey” and I was like back to him “hey”. We nodded our heads at each other like cool guys do. Then he flicked his cigarette on the floor and then he would look at me and…
Jay was always my Fonzi…
But college would’t last forever. It was time for Jay to move on to the NFL.
On April 29, 2006, Jay was picked in the first round. He was the 11th pick overall and the third quarterback taken in that draft after Vince Young and Matt Leinart.
Both of those guys are probably giving foot rubs for nickels right now…but Jay would go on to have a good career and I would be with him the whole way!
First stop: Denver!
Those were great times. In three years Jay threw for 54 Touchdowns and over 9000 yards. His final year in Denver was particularly impressive, he threw for over 4500 yards!
But they always say nothing good lasts forever. The Broncos fired Coach Mike Shanahan after the 2008 season and hired Josh McDaniels who built himself quite a reputation as an offensive guru for the Patriots in 2008. McDaniels wanted his guy so the Broncos traded Jay to the Bears for Kyle Orton, a 1st rounder and a 3rd rounder.
The Broncos would go on to draft Tim Tebow in the following draft. Hah Hah – they deserved him!
Jay kept kicking me in Chicago. Jay had a pretty good first season with the Bears passing for over 3600 yards and 27 touchdowns. However, 2009 was his best year in Chicago for some time.
I’m not going to lie – times were tough in Chicago. There was a lot of can kicking. But it wasn’t always tough – in 2015 The Bears brought in Adam Gase as their OC and they set a franchise record for offense with over 5500 offensive yards. That brings us to Miami where, as you all know Adam Gase is the head coach and managed to bring Jay Cutler out of retirement.
So this season look for me I will be at all the Dolphins games. You can kick me if you want…
Finsmob Unleashed 
67 counties in Florida are in an official state of emergency, i doubt it will be played on thursday or any day in the near future in Florida
They should move it to another state, a neutral site. That would be much better than us losing our BYE week
Atlanta or Baltimore make sense
Would JAX be safe, or still too close?
under a state of emergency
Gotcha – Then either ATL or BAL
well i’m off to get some golf in
I wonder if there arent some stipulations in the NFLPA where you have to have your BYE during a certain span of weeks to help players recuperate. If so they might not be able to switch our BYE to week one and have the players forfeit a bye week to get healthy later in the year. I guess we will find out, but i think they should bring the NFLPA into this if they dont want the BYE week messed with.
Having said this, there could be an upside to TB game moved back. TB didn’t play very well on the road in last half of the season last year, and they have some players who are prone to injury so we might get them at a more vulnerable time than Game 1. We too could be banged up, so theres that, but we played better as the year went on, than we did starting out and have somewhat been that way the past few years, so it might be better to get them later.
On top of that, it would mean that we start with Chargers, Jets and New Orleans, which would be starting with 3 of the worst teams from last year, and 3 of the easiest (on paper) that are on our schedule. That might give us a head start on the year, and buy us a few games to hit our stride before hitting the tougher part of our year. It would probably be a lot easier on the psyche of our young team to start 3-0 instead of 3-1 and it taking 3 games to get to a winning record.
Again, not that i want us to have to use our BYE so early, but if we do i guess there is a little bit of a bright side to it.
BAL would work for me, but I would rather have it played later in Miami.
Week 11? I think that sucks. I know D just portrayed the possible positives, but I think we need our BYE week a little later than week 1
I havent checked the NFLPA agreement but it might be in there that they cant do that.
I hope so. I guess we’ll see, and truth is, we don’t have a say in it, so whatever the NFL decides to do, we’re at their mercy
Atlanta would be a good place for it, would give them a chance for a little more revenue or if they wanted to they all could donate their proceeds to the Irma relief fund.
All schools in Collier County (here) are closed Thursday and Friday.
It is raining buckets right at this very minute.
Is that storm related?
It is the normal weather pattern here to rain every afternoon in the summer, so this is just that. Doesn’t help the saturated land though.
Gusts to 220 MPH. The current path has it slipping past Miami and hitting Naples.
Hope that’s not the case
Naples — how are you set up for such a storm? Pretty clear that at least all of South Florida is at risk at least.
I have gone surfing in hurricanes. Cat Ones though.
My house is very well built, but I am not sure ANY windows can stand up to 200 mph.
I need to take care of my mom first and then my sons. I think I am sending Jason to Orlando, which will probably get hit but not catastrophically. His house is still under water from the Harvey backwash.
You know about your situation best of all of course, but if you are worried about your windows then time to think about boarding them up. No hurricane shutters? Safest out regardless is just head somewhere else.
My mom has shutters but not me. I think the way my house sits vs the way the wind will blow is optimum for my protection, but I will not be bull-headed or falsely heroic.
I am probably sending Jordan to Atlanta where his new fiance lives. He was just there last weekend selecting a site for their wedding, so he can just go back up there if his boss lets him. He works in hospitals, so they might need him to stay. He lives in Brandon near Tampa. The storm could sweep south of Florida and then turn north and back east as Charley did when it sliced through. That was a vicious little cutter storm.
Naples i think it was you that was asking about Praise Martin-Oguike and if he had been signed by another team the other day, i posted a good ways up the board about what i found.
latest National hurricane path projection…..
https://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=608842&part=2
Just popping in to wish all of you in Florida a safe next several days. Harvey was my 3rd Hurricane in Texas… it will be my LAST time thinking “it will be o.k.”. 18 miles SE of Rockport where it made landfall… no power for 6 1/2 days… still cleaning up inside the clinic.
All the flooding in Houston dominated the news (as it deserved)… but Rockport became an afterthought. Our employees gathered a truck load of essentials to take to Rockport … the town is gone. The news likes to show “boats on land” for drama, what they missed were the thousands of lower income families (those without the resources to evacuate or ‘board up’) were pushed into 3rd world living conditions.
I’ve never purchased a generator before, but the predictions of “lingering” by Harvey made me seek one. After several stores, we walked into a Lowe’s just as they unloaded a shipment of 20 generators at $800 a piece. We got one, but the moment wasn’t lost on me to be grateful for being able to do so without worry.
I spent most of this week on the phone with the hundreds of friends, family, and colleagues I have throughout the greater Houston area. Most believed that “it couldn’t get as bad as predicted”… turns out it was worse!
Watching Harvey approach Corpus Christi I too kept saying “they always turn, I’ll wait until the last couple days”. No longer. As long as I have the means to do so, I will prepare in advance and be grateful if we don’t need the preparations.
Best case scenario for Florida seems to be the west coast, taking the “weaker” side of the storm while the worst side is toward the Atlantic. An east coast of Florida route will certainly cause the most destruction to the most people.
Stay Safe, everyone!!
omg… one year not teaching history and I already swap around “west” and “east”. smh. Where’s the edit button. 😦
Got what you meant, but was just nice of you more than anything to worry about us after what you just went through. And you are right on how this one is different…..storm surge and wind are the big risks, least for right now.
The CBA doesn’t stipulate when a BYE week can be scheduled, though usually they don’t get scheduled by the NFL for any weeks before week 4 i think. Still there is no rule saying they cant be in weeks earlier than that, so if they want to, its within their power to do that.
The only rules that exist for the Bye week in the CBA is that at least 4 consecutive days must be given off during the Bye. Loosely, i would think they might have grounds if the NFL waits until the last minute to tell the teams that the game has been moved in uch a way that the cannot prepare for the next weeks game because they might violate the 4 day rule in the CBA.
For example, if we dont know if the game will be moved until maybe Friday, then we will have practiced every day this week aside from Saturday and Sunday. That means counting Saturday and Sunday, we would also have to give the players Monday and Tuesday off as part of the CBA on Bye weeks, and only have W, Th, F, S to practice, and unless we wanted to blow our only week with 2 padded practices, we would only get in one padded practice and 3 walk through days in preparation, as per regulation on normal week restrictions. So instead of having up to 3 padded practices (using the two in one week thing) and 6 walk through’s we are going to be limited to about half the preparation time we would have normally gotten for a bye week.
I dont know if that would be good enough to get us out of it, or if the NFL would even take the time for that argument to be presented, but ultimately its going to cost us not having that time to recoup, and it definately is going to cost us in not having that extra time to prepare for the Pats.
Fairest solution for both teams would be moving the game to a neutral site
How is that fair?
What do you think would be fair given what is going? Not anyone planned on this happening.
Play in Miami Thursday or Friday.
Does that really give people enough time to evacuate that have to?
You play Thursday and that gives you Friday and Saturday to evacuate. Yeah there’s going to be traffic, but the entire state won’t be evacuating at the same time, they’ll do it in stages, and you’d be surprised how many people don’t go.
Steve
It won’t really disrupt the season and force any schedule changes other than the venue for both teams, and it will allow both teams to keep their BYE week at week 11. To me, that’s fair.
Surely that’s better than playing week 11, that’s the absolute worst, but we’ve already lost a home game for this stupid London game.
Dolphins volunteered to do the London game, the NFL didn’t force us to play there.
That’s not true, they had to do the London game, because they were awarded the SB.
One way to look at it too is this team could probably use another week to get prepared for the season. There’s been quite a bit of change due to injuries and roster turnover.
I do not think a bye week is all that crucial. Week 4, 7 or 11. What does it really accomplish? You can’t time your recharge/healing stage. Teams that have byes in week 4, what happens when they’re all banged up by week 11? They still have to play through it.
Playing the game and putting people in harms way is way more troubling and dumb.
Here’s the thing, If we’re a good team we should be able to win in London or at a neutral site. Why do we always have the other team has the edge mentality? Go play ball.
How much prep can we get if we don’t play? When are we allowed to practice for next week?
Just more practice, getting up to speed and focus on the next opponent – the Chargers in LA. TB has been the focus for probably a month. It’s not going to happen now. The team is going to go somewhere to practice unless this storm is so catastrophic that sports mean nothing.
They’re not playing in Miami this week. First responders are going to be busy with evacuating people.
I agree
Yeah — when I was out preparing a QAM said upfront, “don’t even bother calling me about how playing 16 games straight is going to be bad for player safety……lot of people worried about other kinds of safety right now.”
Steve – It’s like the chicken or the egg. We volunteered to play in London so the NFL would look more favorably upon us and consider us for the SB.
Not
Rhino, God bless you and your family and everyone devastated by Harvey. You were right at ground zero glad you’re ok.
I thought we got the SB for putting the lid on the stadium?
Hope we still have a lid next week.
The renovation was key, but we still kissed ass and took a London game to make nicey nice with Roger.
That black dot for 2PM Sunday is about 125 miles due south of my house. That would not be too horrible unless it took a hard right turn north.
I am really worried about Key West and those small islands getting hit right at this very minute such as Antiqua, Barbuda, and Anguilla and the Virgin Islands tomorrow morning. They might have every structure washed into the sea.
Key West is sitting right under that black dot for Sunday.
I think the players side with me! 😉
http://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolphins/post/_/id/26200/dolphins-hopeful-to-play-buccaneers-in-week-1-want-to-keep-bye
It’s just the Bucs let us polish them off so we can move on.
pressure just dropped 10Mb, we might be looking at 200mph at 11:00
Unherad of in the Atlantic
Tim
I was asking more about the rules on practices during BYE weeks, if/when we’re allowed to practice due to the CBA rules.
Well we’re not on a bye, the game was cancelled. If the NFL is that rigid I have no explanation. Sometimes business needs to take a backseat to nature. We’ll see. I hope my superior opinion didn’t blow your mind. LOL
LMAO!
EveningUpdate
DOLPHINS-BUCCANEERS
Howie 31-27 MIA
M-13/ 37-31 MIA
Son 35-9 MIA
Old27-23 TB
Tim 30-27 MIA
Naples 27-17MIA
Herd 34-24 MIA
KxFINS 26-21 MIA
Douche 28-24MIA
MikeE 26-24 MIA
Piggy 38-20 MIA
Bold 31-24 TB
Real 34-13 TB
GO PHINS!!!
If it is not a home game, are the scores still relevant?
If it is in Atlanta, I might change to 24-23 MIA. (smile)
stang 0-0
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Yes Sir … I read your post on Praise Martin and agreed with your assessment of what it all means. Thanks for the info.
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Sometimes you gotta will yourself back up
I just like that guy for some reason. I hope he makes it in the league somewhere.
Week 1 bye
🙁
But I understand
Steve, They cannot play in Miami Thursday or Friday. Miami Dade county provides 100’s of police and fire fighters to the games for support as well as other city & county workers. The city and county will be preparing for a potential disaster and will not incur the overtime, etc. for a football game. No way.
So it was ok a couple of days ago, but now it’s not?
Not picking on you Steve, I swear.
steveccnv says:
September 5, 2017 at 7:20 pm
That’s not true, they had to do the London game, because they were awarded the SB.
They didn’t have to do the London game BECAUSE they were awarded the SB. They had to in order to be eligible to host one. There is some rule about playing a “home” game in London within “x” amount of years before the superbowl. We got screwed because the previous years we have played there fell outside the “x” number of years.
You are Steve’s Irma
Pig I got you Irma right hete😂
naplesfan2010 says:
September 5, 2017 at 8:19 pm
I just like that guy for some reason. I hope he makes it in the league somewhere.
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That makes TWO of us, man! 😀
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Zeke Elliott – 6 games upheld, per source.
no more Ray Rice mistakes.
Actually, Steve is right about the London game and SB
“It is yet another opportunity for this franchise to play in front of its many fans that live overseas. Why the Dolphins? A league source said it was directly related to a resolution approved by the league in 2014 that states if a team is awarded the Super Bowl, as the Dolphins have, the league may select that team to play a home game in the United Kingdom once within the five years of being awarded the Super Bowl.”
Thanks Mike you’re bigger than most here to admit you were wrrrnng.
YW douchebag! 😉
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Official word that Zeke Elliott’s 6-game suspension was upheld came with 5-10 minutes to go in the court hearing tonight.
I think the neutral site option is best. I don’t know why they haven’t called and asked me what they should do. I’m always right! 😉
At this point it is neutral or week 11…..and of course you are always right. 🙂
douchess
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So: Zeke Elliott still can get a TRO from court. Judge could rule by Friday, and Zeke still could be playing this week.
Alright you fuckos:
The NFL makes a lot of demands on any city that wants to host a Super Bowl.
For instance, any city that bids on hosting the game has to agree to let the league control “100 percent of the revenues from all ticket sales” including “ticket sales in all suites.”
The NFL also demands exclusive, cost-free use of 35,000 parking spaces for the game. Plus, team hotels must agree to televise NFL Network for one year leading up to the Super Bowl.
Now we can add at least one more demand to the list: According to the Sports Business Journal, NFL owners made a vote last week that will require Super Bowl host teams to play a home game in London.
Under the new rule, teams will be required to give up one home game over a five-year period.
What part of this shit don’t you geniuses understand?
Love you man, but real world going on in at least some of our lives right now. How about just give it a rest for a bit? Know you are worked up over the game and such….but your are from Vegas right.
Born and raised in Miami, still vested with family their.
So maybe your main concern should be about your family right now instead of the other stuff…not that there is any problem with talking about about it either.
Theyre doing what they can, securing there property, then olanni g on leaving, if need be. Everyone acts like every waking hour people in Miami are preparing for the hurricane, but yet some have plenty of time to be here.
naplesfan2010 says:
September 5, 2017 at 8:31 pm
no more Ray Rice mistakes.
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Exactly, my friend. We’ll see how this Zeke thing turns out, but people had better keep track of this matter as it pertains to our guy Jarvis Landry (now with VIDEO evidence).
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To sum it up: Zeke Elliott plays Sunday. Could get a restraining order to stay in the field this season. Could not get it and sit Weeks 2-7.
Rhino I hope you are OK.
This is my second devastating Hurricane in Texas!
Ike destroyed everything I owned!
Harvey ( that is my last name by the way) has everything under water but me!
I’m right on the water so the only things I worry about are storm surge and wind!
I’ve already told my wife if Irma come into the gulf we are gone!
Stay safe my friends!!!!!!!!
Fuck Zeke! I’m already tired of hearing about it!
Guilty or not!
What you don’t realize is that this ruling could set precedence regarding Jarvis Landry.
If Landry was that stupid maybe we don’t need to resign him!
steveccnv says:
September 5, 2017 at 8:29 pm
So it was ok a couple of days ago, but now it’s not?
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Yeah,Exactly.
A couple of days ago we didn’t know that Miami was going to be hit. (we still don’t know that it will take a direct hit, but it WILL have at least tropical storm strength winds) The City, County and State are anticipating emergency action which will cost them millions in overtime already. It’s not the worst that will happen but it is millions that aren’t in the budget that these municipalities do not have the money to pay. (why there has already been disaster area designations, to free up State & Fed money) They are not going to take on a game too.
You’re killin me Rock.
Don’t really understand why I’m killing you.
Your logic is pathetic at best.
“I’m a guy that loves being on the field, so it’s very hard for me to pull myself off.” – Ndamukong Suh
LMFAO….fill up your gas tank.
Now they’re saying the game could be played Monday night, if the storm stays on its current path and just grazes the state.
steveccnv says:
September 5, 2017 at 8:57 pm
Your logic is pathetic at best.
This actually made me laugh out loud. Your inability to follow logic (and what the city manager of Miami SAID) is pathetic Fucking tool
You guys and your holier than though…like the city manager is someone, he’s just playing politics.
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Just heard in the latest update why the hurricane is coming.
LOL, blast from the past.
Let me have another hit off those chemtrails.
This hurricane is speeding up it may hit S FL Saturday
The Fest may have to be canceled this year
I just watched a “hurricane expert” on the weather channel and he was saying you can’t know what the storm is going to do. Even hour to hour it can weaken significantly and or strengthen significantly repeatedly and jog left or right until it hits landfall somewhere. He pointed out that Andrew was a tropical storm for 12-14 days before strengthening to a Cat 5 two days before hitting Florida (and weakening to a Cat 4 at landfall)
Don’t know why that posted as a reply.
Stanger, there’s no gas to be found around here. Or water or food or anything
Why do people suddenly need 15 cases of water? The early freaks buy everything like they’re stocking a doomsday bunker. It’ll be a few days, a week tops but instead of a normal supply of stuff they have 6 times what they could possibly use while other people can’t get shit.
Exactly…..week tops so long as you know will be safe even if the worst hits. And even if that happens and you are not stocked, FEMA and the Red Cross will be there. But people panic.
Damn it all I want is a few cans of Beefaroni and maybe a couple cans of Spam (not bad fried)
I remember Andrew, it was nothing on the other side of the Bahamas, i was on Van Buren St in East HLWD, the last i had seen it was headed for the dade broward line, East HLWD would have gotten the worst of Andrew had it not took a turn south just before land fall, I under estimated it, went to bed and slept thru it when i awoke and walked outside it looked like a war zone. I was very lucky that storm took a left turn.
Some fuck wad has 18 cases of the shit in his garage
Don’t worry i’ll sell you some of it.
Gouge me and I’ll shoot you on site
Imagine the farts
The crazier the people get the less hurricane we tend to get (call it sonny science)
Good, conserve the bye week
If they play in Pittsburgh….could see Herd and M13 watching the game together.
We can’t start with a bye week we haven’t named the Bye Week Bi Babe yet.
as long as we don’t let MikeE pick a 70 year old from the 70’s with hairy armpits we’re all good.
Man that Luaren Bocall is hot!
She was Bi?
LOL at “no but in red”
Somebody on the news just called Irma one of the top 5 storms of all time
Wtf , there’s not a hall of fame
Weird choice of words
Sorry Herd, I didn’t mean to post a centerfold from “yank” magazine?
What a name, lol
Son, they say Luaren Bocall was Tri-sexual. She would try anything.
I read it on the internet, it must be true….
I’ll have to research her and maybe do a Old Mikey version of the Bye week Bi babe
Rita Hayworth posed fro Yank magazine too.
Son, I doubt you can find anything that will definitively prove her to be a candidate for BWBB but she played a lesbian in Young Man With A Horn. That’s close enough for me.
Me too
Thanks
You all think this is a storm will it i nothing of my life in the last 6 months or so. Talk about an epic storm. Wow. And good luck to you all who still believe the NfL isn’t the wwf. I watched a SB saying all along it would be fixed for lady boy to make an epic come back. I really don’t care anymore about it. Just wanted to say all in front of this storm to take care. And yeah to all even one who has made me leave this blog.
Heyyyy FFR … been missin you man … hopin’ it wasn’t me that drove you away.
Stay safe bro…i hope the storm doesn’t take a turn in your direction.
There he is.
Hope you’re doing well ffr
Welcome back FFR don’t be a stranger and stay safe
I’m rarely on here anymore, and when I am it’s usually just to say something goofy for a laugh. But if it means anything, it’s good to read ya again, ffr. Hope all is well.This song is for everyone except you ffr.
We appreciate goofy and South Park
Everybody can use a little goofy and South Park in their lives. 😀
Yeah that really makes ya want to stay put doesn’t it….fuck
Yo FFR be safe and be sure to unleash Hulk if ya need to vacate. Heres hoping none of yall need to.
My grandchild was just born!!!!!
Congrats Son
My daughter just had my 4tth about 4 months ago
Are they naming him or her Irma?
Congrats Buddy. I wish him/her a lifetime of happiness. He couldn’t have two better grandparents than you and the Mrs.!
Congrats Son
Er grandpa
Morning Update
DOLPHINS-BUCCANEERS
Howie 31-27 MIA
M-13/ 37-31 MIA
Son 35-9 MIA
Old27-23 TB
Tim 30-27 MIA
Naples 27-17MIA
Herd 34-24 MIA
KxFINS 26-21 MIA
Douche 28-24MIA
MikeE 26-24 MIA
Piggy 38-20 MIA
Bold 31-24 TB
Real 34-13 TB
GO PHINS!!!
Miami 34 Irma 0
Nice job Piggy! I’m looking forward to seeing more of Gus!
No she isn’t going to be Irma, that name never stood a chance.
She’s Brea. 6 lb 9 oz and perfect.
Prettier name…congrats!
Congrats Son
congrats grandpa
the only real solution is to cancel the game and play it on the bye week, these players have families and property in the path of that storm.
congrads Son-Now you get to correct all the mistakes you made being just a parent.
Concerning Irma- we now will learn the weakening power of mountains from the carribean islands since Irma is headed through the islands now.
ACTUALLY the Bucs’-Fins game COULD have been played either Wed. or Thurs. Night, thereby saving Miami’s crucial week off to prepare for the New England game later this year. But Ross chose to pick THE MOST PROFITABLE OPTION FOR HIM (Playing at home week 11 where attendance should be good) rather than what’s best for the team.
I’M SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!
I’m SHOCKED!!!!!
Remember these words when a tired Miami team loses to New England.
C’mon Man….I’ve been dealing with evac’ing people out of the Keys since yesterday. Miami-Dade County first-responders have more important things to do than provide services for a football game. Ross isn’t picking it based on how much money he’s going to make.
Congratulations Son! Mazel Tov! That’s exciting!
Not as exciting as FFR returning, but still exciting.
Good to see you’re still lurking and living FFR, stop by again soon so I can say hello
Here’s something to ponder—Miami beach and south beach has 3-4 dozen high rise cranes that are not being taken down and the residents are being advised about the cranes falling down. The airport is required to fill any holes made for airport runways within 96 hours of hurricane from 72 hrs with new 10 day satelight capabilities. One instance protects the airpoort runways and the other protects the people. They really must be secure these cranes
Are those single wide cranes with hurricane tie downs? They should be fine.
I don’t know, I’m just repeating what the news said about warning residents about the possibilty of what is possible.I guess federal(airport) rules are different from local( high rise cranes). I’ve heard of these cranes collapsing from wind before. Maybe the cranes require a longer period to dis-assemble than 4-5 days? I know the airport runway below the cement runway where they store the jp5 (aviation fuel)
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NFL announces Dolphins-Tampa will be played Nov. 19 in Miami. So no bye for Fins. No game this weekend. Resolution.
Son.. Congrats on the birth of your Granddaughter. She missed sharing a B-day with me by one day. I hope all of you folks in the path of Irma stay safe. You all will be in the PhinDog families thoughts this weekend and beyond.
the models have moved the storm a little east this morning
Lol
spooky that TB and NE is teams involved when the game was rescheluded to bye week of 1992 This happened in 1992 when we had andrew. Same teams involved but different dates. Both could be major storms which will find out probably tomorrow if Irma is going to hold up through the mountains or even maybe be redirected towards Jamaica. I think DR and Hiati will knock the winds down 30-40 mph and maybe off course to the lower part of cuba which could take another 8-30 MPH off the speeds which has happened in past hurricanes hitting that area of Cuba. Next 24-36 hours should really interesting. Been to/through DR several times and this place has plenty of mountains.The VI has plenty of mountains also.
Awesome Son and the whole Son clan.
Technology is amazing in this day and age. I remember during Andrew we only had 2 day notice that we were going to get hit with hurricane andrew . WE have 40-45 weather sattelights in the world now and we can make predictions from days out now(recently) with predictive probabilities. But these are not always accurate sense 2.5 and 5 % of event happening. The probabilities with the new 10 day sattelight of forecasting is hopefully weighted so its more accurate but then again the NRC is probably be more cautious to justify the expense of this newest satellite.
Correction——-2.5 and 5% of NOT happening for those that never took statistics
This is crazy.
http://nypost.com/2017/09/06/wfan-host-craig-carton-arrested-by-fbi/
at the bottom of the article they have sports lines to games. Computer generated advertising but then again it has to be people who decided the ad since computer related couldn’t give the most accurate line.Boomer seems like a guy who is straight up and would be involved with gambling.
Holy sheeeeeeeeeet! That’s pretty wild.
Congrats Son!!!
congrats son!
Heree’s some storm update coverage minutes ago from the island people and news stations..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/06/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands-category-5-storm
So much for the game being moved to the bye week “won’t happen”.
ocalarob says:
the only real solution is to cancel the game and play it on the bye week, these players have families and property in the path of that storm.
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This thought occurred to me today. The players and coaches live in these areas. They are supposed to focus on playing a game? As much as it sucks football-wise, it makes sense to move the date of the game, rather than play it as scheduled on a neutral site.
Agreed.
Playing NE after the non canceled bye week is not really going to hurt the team schemes since it’s NE and we know them very well since we play them 2x a yr. Is NE going to be coming off a bye week before playing us?
Congrats to Son and Mrs Son .. and Happy Belated ? or early ? B’day to Phin Dog..
Case in point on why moving to week 11 made sense rather move to a neutral site is new home buyer Kenny Stills. Say his place is getting hit by a Cat 3 or 4 while they play in say Atlanta. Is he worried about the next play or how many feet the river has to go up?
I think a houston game and miami game in 92 against the pats were moved also to bye week when there was hurricane danger. This is the NFL standard not sure why people are surprised by this move.
I sure he has people install shutters and do preparation for him.Now us poor saps have to do it ourselves or have the kids do it for zero for us. Now this is a tip for you Son—This is what they call a family bonding moment.
Stanger: you still good for tonights draft ?
Can do. Actually not even sure what else to do other than keep the ice machine cranking. Know will do a last food stock up run, but that will be tmrw.
alrighty.. I know lots on the mind, and you are on ours… just wanted to confirm…. where is Twice from , my mind thinks VA ??
You are right…..
Broward County is taking this storm serious at least. They just announced there will be a mandatory evacuation of both possible zones. The beach strip one was a given, but the 2nd and bigger one includes every place from Federal Highway to the shore…..that’s like everything within a mile and a half of the water.
What are the zones Stanger?
Do you think it’s out west? Flamingo/Stirling area?
flamigo and stirling is 20-25 miles inland—you should know this since you lived in this area when growing up.
There may be smaller areas out west where they order evacuations because flooding is a concern, but the two main general ones are concerned about storm surge. And they already said will be ordering both of them out. Where I live everything East of Federal
Stanger
I’m not sure I go along with the guys not being able to concentrate on the game because of what the storm may or may not be doing to their homes. Will they be able to concentrate the week after if their home is destroyed this week? At some point, they’re going to have to play football, so they may as well start this week when they’re supposed to. JMO
Mike E reminder on draft tonight.. 8:00 PM EST
Howie
Can I change my score to DNP
That’s not fair-you would be the first correct score but technically not wouldn’t be right unless you put 0-0 dnp
What mountains? those islands are so small that its not even a bump in the road… The only mountains that affect storms are in Hispaniola and the east end of Cuba. to far north now for that to happen. Only hope is it keeps shifting east.
Go East Young Irma go East! Amazing how just a 50 mile shift in Matthew made a Hurricane into just a big old rainstorm for me.
lots of mountains in the carribean islands. DR has plenty of big mountains. I can’t remember the famous mountain in st thomas st john. moutain top i thinks called. The islands are not small either not like many think. some of these small islands are 40-50 miles wide. Smallest island I ever heard of is a island in indian ocean-diego garcia where you can see both sides of oceans from what I heard you can spit into the wind and some days it will land on other side of island ocean side of island.
Gotcha Toba – I’ll be there!
manitobafinfan says:
September 6, 2017 at 11:23 am
Congrats to Son and Mrs Son .. and Happy Belated ? or early ? B’day to Phin Dog..
It’s tomorrow and I’m taking the rest of the week off and got a place at the beach down in San Diego with the wife and PhinPup for 4 days. Will be fun !!
An early happy B-Day to you. Enjoy the South Florida of the West. 🙂
Thanks Man !! Funny you say that. Ocean Beach reminds me a lot of Hollywood Beach.
Crap, week 11 it is!!!
Now we open on week two at SD, go to NYJ, and then London, and won’t play at home till October
And have to play 16 straight without a bye!!!
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000839621/ar…
CRAP!!!!
GOFINS!!!
Our scheduled week 11 bye WAS gonna give us two weeks to prepare for our first match-up with the Pats at NE
So we lose opening the season at home, don’t come home/Miami till October, gotta go to London, lose our bye week to prepare for the Pats and have to play 16 straight games, (to get a 17th straight game/playoff), and potential playoff games 18, 19, 20 straight to the SB!!
And now we host TB on week 11 on a short week that follows a Monday night game at Carolina!!
SCHIISH!!!!
Go get’Em Gase!!!
GOFINS!!!
just have to Win the Division and be 1 or 2 seed in AFC,, then we get the bye in week 1 playoffs. .. 🙂 Eezy Peezy… :
LOL!!!
what a incentive
Here’s something spooky—Rick Scott is the 45th Governor of the great State of Florida. … Scott enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served on active duty aboard the USS Glover.