Hurricane Irma has cancelled the Dolphins vs Bucs game originally scheduled for this Sunday. Obviously the game could not be played in the state of Florida with a lethal hurricane on the way with FLA in it’s path. Much to my dismay, the NFL couldn’t relocate the game to a neutral stadium this week.
What does this mean for the Dolphins? Both the Dolphins and the Buccaneers will now have Week 1 as their BYE week, and will then play 16 straight games without a week off, and for Miami, that includes a trip to London October 1st to play the New Orleans Saints at a sold out Wembley Stadium. To be more clear, what that means for our Dolphins is 3 straight road trips, to Los Angeles to play the Chargers next week, to New Jersey the following week to play the Jets, and then to London to “host” the Saints. That’s not great, especially knowing you don’t get a break the rest of the way.
So is it all bad for Miami? Obviously, with most things, there are positives and negatives. MLB Rey Maualuga gets another week to get into shape and get the defense down. It’s one less game that injured LG Ted Larsen will miss. It will give time to any injured Dolphins players to heal up now, and start the season as healthy as possible.
Back to the negatives . . . Safety T.J.McDonald is facing an 8 game suspension, and this just adds another week to his suspension. McDonald would have been eligible to play week 9, but now will have to wait for week 10. No matter what any player or coach says now regarding the situation, I can guarantee that they would have preferred to play this week, and keep their BYE week intact. The season is a long haul, and yes, up until 1989, teams played without a BYE week, BUT, the Dolphins and Bucs will be the ONLY teams NOT getting a BYE week, while every team with get to rest for a week at some point during the season. Fuck you very much Irma!
Back to the positives . . . We have Adam Gase coaching this team, and I believe if anyone can turn this into a minor annoyance, rather than a season changing dilemma, it would be Gase.
Go Dolphins! Zero in! Zero BYES!
To all our Florida friends in harms way, please be smart and get out of harms way. Board up your houses and make them as safe as you can, but keep yourselves safe. Your house can be replaced, but you and your family cannot. Love and best wishes to all of you!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Neat trick to charge your phone if you lose power
https://twitter.com/catchme_flower/status/905629314280017920
Good one UK – Very relevant with the storm coming
Very nice thanks…..even if hoping have no need for it.
awesome tip.
Marqueis Gray
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYuPn42lLHn/
Thanks as always for your well written and well informed articles Mike.
Just one other comment to add – the last time it happened we went 11-5 and won the Division. Not saying history will repeat, but it doesn’t automatically preclude us doing well.
Go fins
Thanks UK – My pleasure. Don’t worry about losing the Dolphins game at Wembley, it won’t happen.
Agreed!
time to nay injured Dolphins players
What does nay mean?
I fixed it, typo – ANY
I made you make a horse sound though. 🙂
geez I should have figured that one out by myself.
My bad.
whinny whinny
Howie
Irma 1 Bucs/Fins 0
That crying boy looks so much like my 3 sons at that age that it’s spooky.
(My wife is half Swedish / half Irish.)
Based on satellite data, Hurricane Irma’s eye is roughly the size of metropolitan Detroit, at about 1,300 square miles (3,400 square km), the Detroit Free Press reported. Hurricane-force winds (at least 74 mph, or 119 km/h) extend 50 miles (80 km) from the center of the storm, and tropical-storm-force winds extend 185 miles (298 km) from the eye, according to the National Hurricane Center.The forecast models that are predicting the path have a error of margin of error as 100 miles either way.
Here’s something interesting Turkey nuclear plant is being shut down and to start it back up they are going to evacuate the surrounding area. I remember when this nuclear plant went on line and we didn’t evacuate anywhere in fact the news stations
the news stations were reporting from outside the entrance gates. Maybe because of the age maybe.
Toba
So sorry for missing the draft last night. I’m such an idiot. I love to eat dinner with my family, it’s something I look forward to. My wife was going out last night to celebrate one of her good friend’s birthdays, and my son works in NYC and usually comes home for dinner. I text him, call him around 4PM, and ask him if he’s coming home for dinner. He doesn’t get back to me. He finally gets back to me about 7:45, tells me he was in a company wide meeting, and couldn’t respond, but no, he won’t be home for dinner. I was so hungry, I made myself dinner, and totally forgot about the draft. True story, and ridiculous! 😀
damn, you had all us fans on pins and needles thinking you are making a epic trade for that 1st pick.
LOL – No just a brain fart. Scares me some, no joking.
And I am sorry for for not being there as well. Should have said so last night, but my board list we set-up through like 70 or so. So was like they were my picks, but still know it must have taken longer….even if was still amazed at how fast the draft was over, And my excuse is not much better then Mike E’s. Was on a long call with my sweet aunt who was freaking out about us in the Irma path, Didn’t have the heart to tell her didn’t have time to take the call.
The telecommunication companies are going to offer lots of free hot spots from bal1ons towers alternative. This was thought of after 911 when I was working in telecommucations industry.
mercy hospital closing and evacuting by coral gables
in cuba they cut power for huricannes. FPL just announced some sub stations are going to be shut down in some areas. maybe a test to compare with Cuba methods?
I would think it should’ve been a standard a long time ago, and I thought they did. I remember riding out several hurricanes in the 60s and 70s and we never had power.
we were without power in south miami after andrew for weeks. We didn’t have power generator like lots of people. When I moved up to broward several days after learning how long the area was going to take to rebuild.Since then I have made yearly purchases s of huriccane things to improve and I now have 8 power generators and other things to make my family as comfortable as possible.The house was built with my supervision and the roof was secured and built to withstand the highest winds. Of course, we have made more improvements to the roof with new standards and ideas for roof standards being introduced evry year. Rome wasn’t built over night so making these small improvements yrly is the way to go.Hurricane season is the time to make them since we are reminded daily of hurricanes on the news.
we should find out if the 72 hour blackout rule for local television is lifted for sunday’s game. I hope the commissioner’s cuts us a break.
nice job mike. one more advantage is that we’ll have film on the chargers from this year while they still don’t have any film on us from this year.
And they’ll have a game under their belt to fight off the rust. I always thought it was better to have played a game, but the emotion if the first seems to be more important.
Thanks Boulder – Both good points by you and Steve. I just hope we’re sharp after not playing for a couple of weeks. We need a really good week of practice
Depends where you live, but selfishly like the latest update. Georgia and South Carolina are freaking out for good reason, but this leaves the no direct hit option. And our west coast FL friends are looking even more safe.
What are you talking about? This shows it going right over Fl.
I thought maybe he was joking again. It sure looks that way to me.
The track shifted a bit east…..not sure how else to explain it. Be glad to explain more about what that means for your relatives in Miami that are prepping though.
Mike E — again sorry that my quip about the storm being in Iowa got misunderstood. Was just to show how big the thing is.
Stanger – I didn’t think the storm was in Iowa, I didn’t even read the article at first, I just took your word that it wasn’t going to hit FLA. No worries.
The one thing that bums me out about the cancellation of the game is that it was a perfect weekend for me to watch some football. I am home convalescing from some surgery and was looking forward to binge watching the opening weekend. I still will but it is hard to get as excited for it without my Phins playing
That said I totally understand the need to cancel and I am not complaining about that
Most important of all…..how did it go?
Will know more at my post op visit on 09/20. Right now I am just chilling on some Vicodin
Chill away…..just glad sounds like it went as well as could be expected.
Pretty much went as expected. The pathology will be the key
Browns cut S Calvin Pryor after a fight with a teammate
https://sports.yahoo.com/browns-cut-s-calvin-pryor-reportedly-fight-teammate-182253138.html
Man the Browns are going to suck
Ken
Best wishes man. I hope everything turns out alright for you brother
Thank you
Anyone else notice that Irma looks like a giant cock and balls? Or more accurately a giant version of a tiny cock an enormous red balls.
Hanging this plywood on my windows is beating my ass doing anything alone sucks if I just had somebody to hand me the fucking screw that I dropped it would be going so much faster
Not to mention that most of my windows are above a tile roof because I live on the second floor and those tiles are hot enough to melt the rubber on my sneakers so the air above them has to be 150 degrees in the direct sun. I’ve had to stop for half-hour breaks 4 times in this is my fifth and I still have three windows and a sliding glass door to do. Fuck you Irma I was supposed to be watching the Dolphins beat Tampa this weekend!!
On the bright side the plywood is pre-measured cut and drilled to install next hurricane and even though it’ll be backbreaking labor to bring them down off an extension ladder or standing on a roof hot enough to melt rubber it will be only a third as hard as putting them up
Stay safe
Damn Rock, where’s a friend when you need them?
Rock… how can you be thinking of sex during these times. When’s the last time you got laid? LOL Isn’t it easy putting up the plywood with knowing which plywood is for which window….
patriots lose WR Mitchell for year on IR.
Let me know when it’s Brady
Lol Ken, but today is 9 years to the day he went down with the knee injury in 2008, against KC.
looks like the cruise industry is going to be hit with new tougher regulation after the storm. Some cruise ships came back and dumped all the passengers before their cruise ended. Senator Rubio was red and totally pissed off at the cruise industry leaving people stranded. Miami Heat owner own a huge cruise ship company down here.
I hope their not the ones that stayed aboard another week because of Harvey!
that would really suck escaping huricanne then get hit with another major storm because of a idiot bonehead move by a inhuman CEO of cruise ship owner.I hope we find out which company..
here is a tip for stranger—if you can try to park at the airport which some people are doing because of the high standards for hurricane regulations.
Ken
best of luck to you … sending huge cargo of positive vibes your way
Thank you Naples
hope you feel better Ken-didn’t know u had procedure
Had some surgery today
hope everything turns out ok.
Thank you
Ken,
Feel better my friend. I hope that you feel better soon buddy.
Thank you
16 of Brady’s 28 TD passes from last year are gone now.
Where did they go and how did they get there?
all 19 rushing TDs are also gone for NE.
Belichick is the master of adjustments. You have to give him that. He makes it happen with a 2 TE set (Gronk and Allen) or a 2 back set (Lewis and White), or the 3 WR set (Hogan, Amendola and Dorsett). He creates mismatches all the time. He’s a great coach.
Oops, left out Brandin Cooks
Vicodin is starting to wear off. Don’t want to take another one just yet because I will never make it to kick off if I do.
Imagine bellicheck and saban on same team.
They were together with the Cleveland Browns in the early 90s.
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STILL incredible to me that Michael Lombardi, Ozzie Newsome, Bill Belichick, and Nick Saban were together as #ClevelandBrowns from ’93-’94.
And they sucked
Belicheat hadn’t mastered the art of cheating yet.
tip how to create flotation from pants—-this was taught to all nqavy people in bootcamp
Ken,
Wishing you a quick recovery post-surgery, buddy. I hope you didn’t get the surgery that I think: that you’ll never be able to turn into the Hulk again, LOL. But seriously, get well soon.
Thank you. It’s something that looks like it was caught very early
GREAT to hear, man.
Son,
Happy Belated Grandfather-hood to you, man! Don’t know if I missed as much due to timing, new blog, or page turns, but I’m happy for ya.
steveccnv says:
September 7, 2017 at 6:32 pm
Lol Ken, but today is 9 years to the day he went down with the knee injury in 2008, against KC.
Let’s celebrate the anniversary with a reenactment! GO KC!
^^^^^
Today shall be known as… “Bernard Pollard Day”!
😀
Bernard Pollard Day. I like it
Good grief, they made me watch the end of last year’s superbowl. I quit watching it as it was happening….I sure didn’t want to see it now.
Are you ready for some fo
Four and a half hours of Patriots love fest. Gawd make me puke
Go KC – KILL THE PATRIOTS!
Mike E and Stanger : no apologies required. Everyone has lives to live. Glad Stangr dud the pre draft ranking so he git some players he wanted. Hope mike E is happy with his as well.
Was it the Cheifs that broke Brady 9 yrs ago ?
Nm i just read up the page
Almost time for another Vicodin. I don’t need to stay up and watch the Chiefs try to play the Pats from behind
That is not a catch for Gronkowski.
No Vicodin for a little while longer
Pats’ touchdown negated in Foxboro by a holding call on Solder?? Too good to be true!!
Phantom penalty call on same play against KC mysteriously wiped out Pats’ penalty!! Pats score on next play!! Same old, same old, with Roger Commish in the stands!!! Kraft laughing his ass off while squeezing some young girl’s fanny! Too bad she didn’t fart on him!!!!!
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Best of luck to you, KEN!! You’re a REALLY neat guy!!
Thank you OD
Wishing all of you in the path of these storms the best. This shit is scary.
Howie,
Fins 0, Bucs 0
😉
We gotta comedian in the house, but that score is taken you owe someone a beer.
Rhino — beer would be too me……and will collect at The Fest some day, least am hoping will. Hope you guys are doing OK after Harvey.
Actually 0-0 isn’t the score it’s null – null.
You wanna see something you’ve never seen before? Watch a cheats game, where they pull out the rule book and dig deep to find any call imaginable.
Belichick is like the softball manager that claims his guys are never out.
Well the picture on my set has been out for about 45 minutes or so due to thunderstorm! –Guess I’ve seen enough of this game because Pats were already ahead. –Hope to talk to you folks tomorrow.
PS: Looks like we could have intermittent TV at best this weekend as Irma pays Florida a visit. Hoping we don’t lose power for several days.
I’m hoping you and yours keep your TV and power on every step along the way.
Thanks for your kind words,Young Stanger!! Mrs. OD not taking this hurricane situation so well. But things will get better, eventually.
Yeah — not like all is well my Mrs. either. But maybe times like this is why we both married up versus who we should be with. 🙂
Does anything ever change with these cheats, as soon as they’re threatened here comes the drive killin holding call.
Lol Steve
The refs just called a penalty bc a KC player pulled a patriot player out of the pile
I already knew that were going to call a penalty on that punt, before the punt. It’s happened 4 times in this game, every time the Chiefs get a little mo.
I said earlier, you wanna see something you’ve never seen before watch a cheats game.
Wow blown coverage
Collinsworth has a mouthful of patsie D
” I don’t know what happened that corner blew it he should have covered him”
Instead of the safety bit inside and never got deep…
Slurp
This asshole storm is fixin to come right thru my backside. It needs to keep off the coast.
Thinking about you Ken hope all is well brother
Thank you Son
Gillislee.
A giant Philbin fuck up. I don’t get it, same with Hogan.
Proclaim a guy to be sooo good and then set him free. He did that with McCray the Safety in Seattle.
We’ve needed Safeties for the last 3 years…
Aka this is a penalty to offset the nice gain the offense got against the patsies
It’s like Bush said “He’s open all the time, 7-11,” so Philbin like couldn’t stand it so he cuts the guy.
Just plain stupid. Gillislee had the same power and balance, but he got nicked up with that, so Philbin Mr. Impatience cuts the guy. Plain stupid. McCray blankets ppl, hits ppl, and so of course he has to go too. Obviously stupid.
If Ross listened to Tannenbaum Dan Quinn would have been our coach the year before, Quinn who was a former Dolphin assistant and has already taken his team to the Super Bowl as a head coach. Nothing against Gase but damn the loyalty to Philbin an obvious stiff.
Al – Nu Wingland
fif-dean
Thurs-dee
awwwriiiight KC. Proving the patsies are beatable.
Now let’s see some Deeeeefense.
See him grab it two links closer on the chain?
Ramik Wilson is a guy I liked going back to his Georgia days. Nice play on 4th down by him
…but we have Brian Hartline.
Gillislee not so effective on 4th down
Stuffed
X2
Amendola got his bell rung
Big tackle by Mcourty
Hogan was not open.
“This guy’s a pretty good football player, I don’t think we can use him”
– Bazooka Joe Philbin
Walker, Stubbs, Bat I hope y’all do alright during Irma. Wish you would check in after.
Krishna, check in bro
Chiefs are ballin’ tonight. Can they last another 5 mins? If they do, NE is 1/2 game behind the Fins.
Perhaps Pats are exposed when Alex Smith is getting long ball all night.
Passed on Kareem Hunt in my fantasy draft. Not looking like a good decision
yeah you may regret that
35 for the Chiefs against the vaunted patsie D
BOOM
great play… only problem was the wrong colored uni on the turf when it was done
Hell of a play by Mitchell
… after getting beat so many times in first half… agreed! great play!
Go Chiefs!!!!!
Pats defense EXPOSED
CHeats defense looks horrible
Brady fell….lol
First down and ballgame
ok announcers go ahead and try to make it sound like there’s no problem for the patriots.
So much for all the talk of Pats going undefeated this season. LMAO. I don’t care if they go 15-1 this year I feel great right now. I haven’t felt this good all day
Pats pressure league to call penalty on chiefs for victory formation, when everyone knows Pats actually won this game
Now I can take that Vicodin
The Patriots fans are poor losers; the stadium is empty. They can’t take it. They won’t stay and root for their team. No guts.
All we heard all off-season was the cheats were going undefeated and Brady was going to play until has 90. Well FU cheats, and they may have lost Hightower for a while too. And they were going to win it a couple more times before she retires.
Marsha went 16/36. Can it be different this year?
A little early for that, but theyve never won the SB when their D was average to decent.
Knee injury for Hightower, head injury for Amendola.
Patriots — last place team in the East.
New England — worse than the jests and jills.
Okay that i like lol
Patriots lose at home.
I actually got out of bed to watch 4th quarter of Chiefs-Pats game!!! I thought I must still be asleep as Chiefs totally dominated in the final stanza!! THIS WAS NO DREAM!! Pats got the livin’ snot beat out of them in the final 15 minutes!!! I’ll sleep better tonight!!
Guess you folks all know about the Red Sox stealing the Yankees signals with the help of modern technology.
A team from the Boston area CHEATING??? WHO’D BELIEVE THAT????
Stay safe OlD Timer. And everyone else.
I can’t wait to read the whiner patsie fans on all the boards making excuses.
Wife left Hunt on bench vs Mike E , at least she played him in Money league
Now how’s this for the big bad company Walmart company. Walmart rented 10 houses in vero beach for wal-mart families 30-40 people in each house may be crowded but everything is being furnished food and everything to bedding.. Chartered Buses to the drive to homes. Last buses to leave are for employees who help volunteered to leave within 6 hours of hurricane-Police escorted to vero beach. Real bad company.
WOW Chiefs put up 42 on Pats?
It’s a beautiful thing to see the pats at the bottom of the standings!
Went to sleep Chiefs up 21-17. They WIN! 42-27! if we can’t play this week, the next best thing is the Patriots losing. Tough loss for the Chiefs though as Eric Berry will probably be out for the season with what they believe to be a torn Achilles.
GOOD MORNING ALL U HURRICANE DODGERS!!!!
Dick Fennelly writes in today’s TAMPA BAY TIMES sports section that the Red Sox were caught trying to deflate baseballs!!!!!! (Just Kidding). He seriously suggests heavy fines & penalties for the offenders. BEST WAY to treat these kinds of behavior is to suspend offenders WITHOUT PAY!! –And, where relevant, DON’T vote these assholes into the Hall of Fame!!
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ANYONE who votes proven cheaters Tom Boy & Belicheat into Canton is destroying the integrity of the game. Same for owner BOB KRAP who financed this behavior!!! SOSA, BONDS, PALMEIRO AND MCGWIRE DESERVEDLY NOT IN COOPERSTOWN!! NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS from soft headed sportswriters (some of whom are generation Xers lacking proper moral scruples). Keep these cheaters out of the Halls.
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The sports commissioners have to step up. Either you have integrity or you DON’T!
OK, now let’s hear from the morally deficient who think these cheaters should be rewarded.
OD
Honestly, I don’t think stealing signs in baseball is such a big deal. Every team does it in one form or another. Is it really more ethical to steal signs by putting a guy in the stands with high power binoculars rather than using a camera in the dugout? Isn’t it the same?
If it wasn’t giving them a real advantage why would they do it? Why do you think using high powered binoculars is ok? Cheating is getting out of hand, enough already, but we know the money dictates cheating, so…
here’s a tip for you stranger—-lower the briteness on your phone and close all the apps. Write down your contacts on paper since we don’t have to remember now a days.cbs 4 website has local radio contacts on their website now—–
The Chiefs had 130+ yards in penalties, even the zebras couldn’t save them last night.