HERE WE GO! Week 2 was officially the first week for the Dolphins and Prawny and I really enjoyed opening game.
In Prawny’s case, maybe a little too much…
Prawny are you okay? I’m sure everyone will understand if you want to call in sick.
You may have had too a little too much too drink…
No you want to go on? What a trooper!
This first half was not so exciting. Actually it was a little but frustrating.
The Dolphins didn’t stretch the field as some of us thought they would with Jay Cutler at the helm. Actually there was a ton of dink and dunk.
I think the most notable positive thing to say about the first half was the Dolphins run defense which did a good job shutting down the run.
Actually the Dolphins held the Chargers to 44 total rushing yards for the game. One of our better performances in recent years.
Prawny what did you think of the 1st half?
Oh my God Prawny!
It wasn’t that bad! It was just a slow conservative stuff.
Man….what did you eat before the game?
gross…
It picked up in the 2nd half.
Above is Kenny Stills celebrating a 29 yard touchdown early in the 3rd quarter.
Our wide receivers lived up to the expectations and they all contributed in their own way.
Landry caught 13 passes for 78 yards.
But no one was an impressive as Devante Parker who made a spectacular catch
He finished with 4 catches for 85 yards. But neither Parker nor Landry could get in the endzone. Likewise, Jay Ajayi didn’t score a touchdown.
But Ajayi was till impressive. He ran for 122 yards on 28 carries.
The Dolphins actually had 336 yards of total offense. Not horrible but not really as explosive as most of us want.
Thankfully a certain waiver wire acquisition was clutch.
Cody Parkey was the hero of the game.
He hit 4 field goals on Sunday including the game winning 54 yard field goal.
Honestly the last few minutes of the game had Dolphins fans more frustrated than the first half.
But the Dolphins won and are now 1-0
Meanwhile the Dolphins next opponent, the jests, got blown out. Bring on the Jests!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Nice work Piggy
Alright an important road win to start the season. I am satisfied and now I must rest. I am out. Peace
We didn’t do too badly against the run without Lawrence Timmons, but we could be even better WITH him. I hope Timmons is alright with whatever is affecting him.
A road win after the week the team went through with the storm and no game on opening day, take it and onto two game 2. 🙂
Why was Timmons inactive?
Non football personal mystery reasons.
Oh okay. I was like where the hell is Timmons.
He went AWOL. They’re being very hush hush about it.
Good Job Pig. Devante looks like he’s about to explode. He’s finally playing up to his size and potential, now he’s just got to start finding the end zone more. Apparently Cutler realizes Landry is the go to receiver in tough spots as well.
How about a coach that makes half time adjustments?
Overall I am happy that we are one and O and all alone at the top of the AFC East but we need to clean a lot of things up. Getting lucky is not sustainable. We need to start next week by laying a SmackDown on the Jets. Nothing but Total Domination will make me feel better.
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TOP 5 GRADES:
DI Ndamukong Suh, 89.7 overall grade
EDGE William Hayes, 82.6 overall grade
T Ja’Wuan James, 81 overall grade
QB Jay Cutler, 80.3 overall grade
CB Bobby McCain, 78.5 overall grade
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TOP 5 GRADES:
T Russell Okung, 88.5 overall grade
WR Keenan Allen, 87.2 overall grade
TE Hunter Henry, 82.8 overall grade
CB Trevor Williams, 81.7 overall grade
QB Philip Rivers, 80.0 overall grade
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DL NDAMUKONG SUH, 89.7 OVERALL GRADE
Ndamukong Suh continues to be one of the best interior defenders in football and he dominated this game up the middle for the Dolphins defense. Suh finished the day with just one solo run stop, but that doesn’t take into account how he consistently squeezed holes shut or forced Chargers’ running backs to change their points of attack. He finished with a game high 90.2 run defense grade. Suh also recorded four quarterback hurries, a few of which happened less than two seconds after the snap.
EDGE WILLIAM HAYES, 82.6 OVERALL GRADE
It was an impressive game for Hayes, as he made a big impact despite limited snaps. Hayes only rushed the quarterback 17 times in this game, but ended up with a sack and three additional quarterback hurries. That’s good for a very strong 19.1 pass-rush productivity score in this game. Hayes also played well against the run, finishing with a run defense grade of 81.9.
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QB JAY CUTLER, 80.3 OVERALL GRADE
QB Jay Cutler looked comfortable under head coach Adam Gase’s familiar offense. He excelled when given time in the pocket, completing 83 percent of his 24 attempts for 199 yards and a touchdown. Cutler took a fair amount of shots deep, attempting 7 passes over 20 yards and completing 3 for 91 yards.
HB JAY AJAYI, 77.7 OVERALL GRADE
HB Jay Ajayi was a workhorse for the Dolphins in their win, carrying the ball 28 times for 122 yards. Ajayi was tough to bring down for the Chargers as he forced 8 missed tackles and finished with 82 yards after contact. He ended the day with an elusive rating of 78.1, for context he led the league last season with an elusive rating of 76.
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QB PHILIP RIVERS, 80.0 OVERALL GRADE
For the second straight week, Rivers played well and put his team in a position to win with a last-second field goal, only to see special teams let him down. Rivers was quite effective in this game, pushing the ball downfield as often as he could. He really showed what he could do when he was given time in the pocket. When throwing from a clean pocket with no pressure (63 percent of his dropbacks), Rivers completed a ridiculous 24-of-25 passes for 265 yards.
T RUSSELL OKUNG, 88.5 OVERALL GRADE
The Chargers shelled out big money for what they hoped would be an upgrade at the tackle position when they signed Okung this offseason. He proved to be just that in this game, playing extremely well protecting Rivers’ blind side. Okung allowed just one pressure all game and it was pretty late in the play. He’s allowed just three total pressures this season and has a pass-blocking efficiency of 96.6. Okung also had a team-high run-blocking grade of 87.7 in this game.
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CB TREVOR WILLIAMS, 81.7 OVERALL GRADE
Second-year CB Trevor Williams was the standout player in the Chargers secondary, as he was targeted 5 times, allowing three catches for 41 yards. He limited opposing receivers to only three yards after the catch and also recorded a pass breakup. Williams finished with the second highest coverage grade on the team of 81.3.
EDGE MELVIN INGRAM, 76.0 OVERALL GRADE
EDGE rushers Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa were neutralized by Miami’s game plan of getting the ball out of QB Jay Cutlers hands quickly, as he averaged 2.34 seconds per attempt. Ingram and Bosa still had their impact as they totaled 6 pressures and a sack. Ingram finished with a pass-rush grade of 77.7, which was tops on the defense.
Is it true that
Dolphins are undefeated when Ajayi has 100 yards rushing.??
PFF GAME BALL: NDAMUKONG SUH, DI
Nice Job Piggy !!
oh and this was a very fun article by the Flying Pig, as always.
Phish are you saying that Gase made good halftime adjustments or did not?
I felt some of his play-calling sucked.
I especially hate those “trips” bubble screens which rarely work and are so obvious to see coming.
It seems like we can never execute a screen properly and the other team seems to always gash us with them….
He’s saying good adjustments at the half. When you have 3 pts in the first half, are trailing, then score 16 pts in the 2nd half after opening up the offense, and win, yeah that constitutes good adjustments, even though it’s what we expected from the start.
Gase seemed to be really concerned with Ingram and Bosa, so his approach seemed to be stay in the game early, so Cutler’s Int issues didnt show up, then once comfortable open it up, but not wide open. I expect a similar approach next week. We’re again going to be frustrated at the slow start. I doubt Gase takes too many chances.
Cornerback Xavien Howard was targeted a league-high 13 times in Week 2 and allowed a league-high 10 receptions for 87 yards, including a key one on San Diego’s final drive that ended with a missed field goal. His overall grade of 46.8 ranked 62nd among all cornerbacks for week two.
While linebacker Mike Hull – forced into a major role – held up in the running game, he allowed all nine passes thrown against him to be caught for 95 yards. The targets, receptions and yards allowed were all the most for any linebacker in coverage for Week 2.
I as I am sure all of you noticed both of these failures but the numbers are even worse than I suspected.
10 receptions for a 8.7 YPCA is not bad. Think about WR YPCA and then revisit these numbers.
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After dealing with “a personal matter” Sat, Miami LB Lawrence Timmons scheduled to meet with doctors today to determine issue, per sources.
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Dolphins LB Lawrence Timmons is “doing much better today and wants to resume playing immediately” with hope he will practice this week.
I was disappointed in Howard’s play. I kept saying who is that? Oh, shit it’s Howard again. #41 was looking really bad on a bunch of plays too. Maxwell and Howard better tighten up fast. We face a bunch of really good QB’s this year and they will roast us if these guys don’t up their game.
Fortunately for us we did not play Jameis and that WR corps of his in our first game. And fortunately we play the QB-less, WR-less jests next, so maybe we can get our assignments and coverages worked out so that we don’t have such poor pass defense numbers going forward.
Timmons wants to see a doctor?
This is so strange of a sequence of events. What did he get into out there?
Hull isn’t very good in coverage but the defense played well against the run
Without Timmons and McMillan we are basically the same group of LBs as last season
That worries me
So, are any of you guys planning on attending the MetLife Takeover this coming Sunday?
Not me
I’m going to witch the game from my apt comfortably
But NYC Dolfans has about 1000 people on board
naplesfan2010 says:
September 18, 2017 at 10:46 am
I as I am sure all of you noticed both of these failures but the numbers are even worse than I suspected.
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Yeah man, 182 yard given up by two players in one game is unacceptable. They need to tighten that shit up or the team needs to do a better job masking this glaring weakness.
The neat are horrible offensively
Particularly their passing game
So it will be interesting to see our D vs them
the neat?
LOL
How did that happen
the Jests
Probably accurate
http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0701382247437046346-4
This is another reason I hate ESPN.
We beat the Chargers yesterday, but ESPN has them right above us in their revised “power rankings” this week. SMH.
Its technically not their power rankings its some kind of stupid formula they apply for success.
I tweeted my criticism to the writer and he replied back this morning
And the exchange ended here
Who cares it’s a beauty contest. And the Russian judge says 2.6…😉
it really doesn’t matter
it matter less in week 2
I was just busting the writers chops and he ended up replying to me with a pretty dumb analogy
Dolphins LB Lawrence Timmons is “doing much better today and wants to resume playing immediately” with hope he will practice this week.
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I can’t find it now, but I read somewhere that a “League source” said that it is not early onset CTE. what ever that means. (I know what CTE is, just don’t understand the context)
I guess we will hear after the 3pm press conference this afternoon.
We were joking about it yesterday but Timmons is sounding like a J Martin situation as time goes on. No mention that he was sick so it almost has to be a psychological thing with the limited information we have. I’d rather he be sick. You can get better from that. Head cases are trickier.
I guess the difference is Timmons is an 11 year veteran and Martin was fairly inexperienced in the NFL
So I think we give Timmons the benefit of the doubt for now
If the Jets had beaten the Raiders yesterday, would you have woken up this morning and said the Jets are *better* than the Raiders?
Terrible analogy. The Dolphins ARE better than the LAC
The raiders and the jests are on the complete opposite side of the spectrum
So I probably would have still believed raiders are better
But I think, as you stated, the Dolphins beating the chargers in CA is proof that the Dolphins are undeniably better
Really bad formula overall
He also has he cheats over the Chiefs when that game was just a week ago
And a couple of 1-1 teams like the Seahwaks and packers who both look prett bad early in the season are ranked highly
The difference between the Fins and Chargers is the Fins know how to win close games, and as we know from the past many years excluding last year that’s huge.
Now that we know the Timmons issue is some type of health issue, maybe some type of cancer or some other type of disease and he plans on getting back on the field soon, we can breath again. Its good news for the team, but bad news for him long term.
The Bills ran for 190 yards on the jests
the Raiders ran for 180 on them
How do you think Ajayi fairs next week?
Generally the jests play us tough but they are so bad this season and the matchups seem favorable to us – we might have a really good game this Sunday
That poor guys job subjects him to arguing with a cartoon flying pig on Twitter
somewhere on his resume its says
“replies quickly to pork”
I’m not sure that Timmons’ issue is medical… it may be mental. Remember, he got extremely angry about something on Saturday. He may need to be cleared by a doctor for a mental issue. We’ll see what happens…
And it may not even be a ‘mental issue’… if something traumatic happened to a loved one, perhaps it was just a temporal matter. Nevertheless, he’d probably need to be cleared by a doctor as ‘good to go’ after the event.
No tough guy is going to a doctor for that issue this quick.
Another key stat which helped the D shut out LAC in the 4th qtr (barely):
TOP: Dolphins 33:28 LAC 26:38
Running the ball 30 times with the dink and dunk (though not exciting) helped achieve that. We still took some shots down field though.
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NFL’s Lawrence Timmons: Dolphins Had Filed Missing Person Report
http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/18/lawrence-timmons-miami-dolphins/
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Dolphins teammates very supportive of Timmons, while saying they know no details. Pouncey said absolutely will be welcomed back.
If Pouncey said he’ll be welcome back, then word.
My thoughts on this game.
Not great, not awful.
Some encouraging signs, some discouraging signs.
We didnt win as much as we didnt lose,
Lucky to some extent, unlucky to some extent.
Now for the meat and potatoes.
Cutler played well, it look though as if our game scheming didnt really let him open it up much. It was a confidence building game, and i really didnt think we were playing to win as much as playing to get in the swing of things and make our team lean on each other to win, not try to have one guy carry us.
That said, and as i said before, pocket presence, hands down Cutler over Tanny, and i doubt with great certainty that Tanny ever gets that good. He moves in the pocket better, he can throw regadless of what the pocket is giving him, ie the high release, side release, etc that they were talking about in the game. Its one game but we know what he is capable of and Tanny just isnt.
We also saw what he isnt capable of and thats any option running lol. Tanny hands down beats him there, but honestly thats not a skill i care that my QB is great at. let other teams play like that, id be happier with great pocket mobility/sack avoidance than all that mess.
His throws were pretty solid. He could have had better touch on his deep throws but he definitely put it where Parker had the best change to do his thing, so the placement wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t a hit in stride kid of catch.
I think as the year goes on, Cutler is going to be allowed to open it up a lot more. Also, you could really see the difference in the way that Cutler audibles those plays, he didn’t just switch the play he switched them and called out what the defense was showing, got blockers assigned off correctly and as a result the protection was much improved.
Landry is Landry, he did his thing he caught a bunch of passes, no big broken yardage but he worked his ass off and gave us some good routes and showed those great hands he has. He definately had some catches that made Cutler look better because Cutler was a little behind him. Again, as to be expected when you are talking about a guy with as little time with his WR’s as he does, so i expect those to be more on target as the year goes along.
Thomas didn’t give us a ton, but i think it was not really a game designed to feature him. I think Gase is letting Cutler get to know his receiver, starting off with smaller quicker passes to get timing down, and he will work his way to getting all the players involved at full speed on a bunch of different routes. I did like to see the TE involved, but id like to see more to be satisfied with either the offense or Thomas.
Parker was pretty great, he didnt bust off a big one really, but he made some exceptional catches. I dont think at all we got as much as we wanted, but i also think given what we saw in preseason, we are seeing it carry over to the games. Its going to get better.
Stills wasnt featured a ton, he did give us our only TD and he was open a good bit. He really is a number 3 receiver for us on most plays, its still going to be Jarvis and Devante, and Stills will either have a great game, because they commit too much to those two, or he is going to have a ok game because they are keeping a safety on him to keep him from getting over the top.
Ajayi was excellent, he runs like a freight train, he is unreliably one of the best RB’s we have had since Ricky.
OL as a whole were pretty good, that was a tough assignment for both James and Tunsil and they both responded pretty well, James in particular has Bosa stalemated all game. Tunsil had some ugly oopsies against Ingram like the one play where he stepped inside first and that pretty much just opened the door for the Ingram sack. Still, two of the better pass rushers in the league, and they had what, one true sack (Ingram) and then a scramble sack where cutler was actually across the scrimmage line, so should have counted as a 0 year gain tackle. Steen held up pretty well, Bushrod was a lot better than he was at the start of the year last year. Pouncey looked pretty solid. Running game, pass prob, both wins for our OL.
On defense, we were seemingly giving them a lot of room to work with (scheme), or the CB’s are just shit. There was no coverage that was tight, and Rivers just kept picking up yards and completions. We had some decent play out of our safeties, but not great their either. Jones even had at best an OK game.
Our LBs did OK as well, especially given they were left high and dry by a supposed leader of the unit, and being thrust into the starting role, Chase Allen was solid. Really disappointed by Timmons. It might be excusable, i dont know but its not sounding like it.
DL had a decent day, but they really weren’t getting much pressure from the outside. Wake had a couple nice moments, Hayes looked about the best of everyone, Branch and Harris seemed to be non-factors. Hell even our blitzing was picked up and only slightly hurried the passer. That was one of the spots i was most anticipating some excitement, but just didnt happen.
Special teams were good, coverage on ST’s wasnt great. Grant made something out of nothing, Drake was a step from a TD on a kickoff, and Parkey looked really good too.
All in all its a W and ill take it, its also was exactly what i was hoping for but i wasnt overly disappointed by it either. I really struggled when my son, who had to miss the game, ased me how they looked because i really couldnt say good, i couldn’t say bad. I know we cant play like that every game and expect to be in the playoffs, but it could have been a lot worse and we have often seen a lot worse at the beginning of the season.
So the Timmons thing is now sounds like some sort of mental break at least from early reports of what im reading.
They are talking like ti was almost an uncontrollable mental contortion where he just walked, and didnt tell anyone. That wouldnt be some run of the mill emotional issue, that would be something that even a tough guy would have a hard time making sense to himself and would likely scare the shit out of him, givne the CTE discussion that everyone has been having recently. It looks like they ruled out CTE, but for him to get that tested, you can assume the incident was similar to the crazy that has brought several people to kill themselves and do extremely irrational things.
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Cam confirm, as TMZ reported, that Dolphins filed missing person report on Timmons Sat. night.In fact, filed with several police departnents
See above, they thought CTE to start with, so that tells you 1) why Timmons was so scared, and 2) why what he did was so irrational. Even though they confirmed it wasnt CTE, it apparently had all the signs of it.
It’s still too early to determine the cause of this irrational behavior. For all we know at the moment, Timmons’ baby mama may have been trying to blackmail him.
We’ll see how it all pans out…
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No new info on #Timmons but Mike #Pouncey says ‘We don’t turn our back on anybody regardless of situation…He’s 1 of us…We love him.’
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More from 3Pouncey: ‘#Timmons is great teammate, great FB player…He’s a leader on our team. Just hate to see he’s going through something.
steveccnv says:
September 18, 2017 at 12:12 pm
The difference between the Fins and Chargers is the Fins know how to win close games, and as we know from the past many years excluding last year that’s huge.
“Know how to win close games” – Cross your fingers and HOPE the kicker misses an relatively easy FG? LOL
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
I don’t know what it us, but teams that don’t win close games will find a way to lose. It must be a confidence thing.
From the TMZ article posted above:
So, why Pennsylvania? We’re told Timmons had spoken with his baby mama who lives there and had told her he missed the baby and wanted to visit. He was serious about visiting her.
WTF?? So serious that he left the team hotel on Sat and missed curfew and the game???? WTH is wrong with him? He does need so help if that is the reason.
steveccnv says:
September 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm (Edit)
No tough guy is going to a doctor for that issue this quick.
If you want to play and earn your millions and that’s the condition of you returning to a team you otherwise walked out on, yeah, I think he willingly goes to a Dr for that.
100% agreed, Herd.
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The Dolphins are winners in 10 of their last 12 regular season games. Last time that happened? Don Shula was the head coach… 1992-93.
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Dolphins, in past 13 months, have now won six games in which they trailed in the fourth quarter.
TGF – The Gase Factor
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Pretty funny from Adam Beasley:
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Just checked the schedule. Dolphins are the first team to ever get two byes in the first three weeks.
Chickens
Chickens, don’t count your chicks until they hatch. We’ve had enough strange things happen with the jets, like the midnight fix, fake spike…
There were reports of him being angry. That didn’t just come from nowhere. It might not have been anyone associated with the team but could be a hotel employee who saw him leave, the driver of taxi/uber whatever took him to the airport. Could be the baby mama was splitting with him and he was going fir that reason. That sort of makes sense. Not that I think it’s what he should have done but it would fit.
It’s certainly a possibility. Again, agreed 100%, Herd.
Oh no. I have a typo. Can’t fix it though. 🙄
C’mon… lighten up! 🙂
You don’t tell me a thing to do. You go off on some unhinged inaccurate tirade at me. I’ll say whatever I damn well please.
Maybe he’s on Drugs
That Timmons went AWOL, he’ll surely be tested for drugs.
We got beat on slants and crossing routes all day. That might be part of the game plan. Keep everything in front of us and don’t allow big plays over the top. At the end of the day we only allowed 17 points on the road.
Tim Knight says:
September 18, 2017 at 2:13 pm
We got beat on slants and crossing routes all day…
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That’s the Miami Dolphin Defense that we’ve known since 2004 and counting. 😦
Tom Lady will EAT US ALIVE at that rate. 😦
It’s still about points, not yards.
I mean it may have a source of a baby nanna feud, but the reaction of leaving like that I think is what the Dr is about. Again I read something where Timmons said, it’s not CTE thank God or something to that effect indicating he got checked out at the Dr’s for CTE which probably means he wasn’t fully in his right mind making that decision for him to kinda talk like he was scared about CTE because he did something that didn’t even make sense to him. I’d be scared too if that were the case.
Tim I don’t know if it was or wasn’t part of the plan. The game plan was confusing. Sometimes it felt like they were playing soft zone, other time it seemed like press but really bad coverage so it could have been a little of both.
Again, they really didn’t beat us with any big plays. They dinked and dunked a lot. You can’t stop everything. We did stop the run well.
Incidentally, am I the only one that screamed profanities at the TV when we called a timeout for them at the end of the game?
I asked why did we call a timeout in a very polite ladylike manner. 😂
LOL
I know the bolts are 0-2 and perpetual underachievers but that was a good pass rushing team, with a good set of receivers and two almost unstoppable TEs, and we did stay close enough on defense to keep them from putting 30 or more on us. It’s not the worst we have played and we did tackle well one they had the ball, well for the most part. I don’t want to see as many completions in the rest of our game but it was effective overall. We got by with one this time. Let’s hope we destroy the Jets so we can feel better about ourselves lol.
What’s so eerie is that Timmons has always been known as a chill dude with zero sociopathic or even instability issues. At least as far as i know. And this is a guy I do know somewhat better than most.
I guess sometimes the quiet ones are holding a lot in and then it gets to be too much.
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 2:19 pm
You don’t tell me a thing to do. You go off on some unhinged inaccurate tirade at me. I’ll say whatever I damn well please.
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Only after constantly provoking me to do so with your unhinged, inaccurate posts directed at me and others (with eye-ball rolls included) over a mere difference of football opinions over the last several days. If you personally attack me (or others), I WILL RESPOND.
I’m TRYING to reconcile with ya, Herd!!! You can say whatever ya damn well please, but I certainly didn’t tell ya a thing to do in jovially asking ya to lighten up (with a smiley face to boot!). I’m merely trying to reconstitute PEACE.
You’ve made two STELLAR points today, and 100% agreed with you on those points. How much longer are you going to carry your hatred towards me and specific others? HATE KILLS from the inside out.
I offer you an olive branch as a symbol of peace and Phins unity. That’s all I can do… will you meet me halfway?
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Herd, I’m not sure why you want to keep challenging everything M13 says. Then again I’m not sure where it comes from. But to me it was obvious M13 was trying to be cool with you.
THANK YOU, TIM!!! 🙂
You must have missed his big tirade the other day.
Landry’s stats also show us how much he is a part of our ball control offense. Mix his numbers with Ajayi and you have 41 plays for 200 at 4.9 YPP. That’s why we won the TOP battle by almost 7 minutes.
I believe the timeout in the end was a good idea. If they kick the FG with 3 seconds to go and make it, game over. With 10 seconds left, it gave us time to at least try to get a kick return to take the game back. I think that is what his reasoning was, IMO.
I think the game plan was oddly similar on both sides of the ball, not a common thing.
With Rivers, if you take away his running game and his deep game, he can’t beat you (okay, especially if his kicker sucks). With most teams that is the case, although not the Patriots.
We played the same game we allowed them to have, except we had Ajayi trampling tacklers.
We did that to get Cutler some confidence with a high completion rate and to keep him from getting antsy and throwing 6 INTs. This was not only his first game of the season (and not their first) but also the first with our team and the first in a long time, after quitting football. I know you know all this, but i am glad that Gase appreciated the fact that it is a long season and we needed something to build off not something ELSE to be all bummed about.
We did not want to start like we did last year.
So i think Gase was very protective of Cutler’s ego and restricted the playbook most of the time. We scored on 5 drives without the benefit of a single turnover, so if we could’ve just been a but better in the red zone, we could have gotten 25-30 points easy.
a bit better
Cutler didn’t quit playing, teams didn’t offer him an opportunity until we called him.
Has LAC signed Franks yet???
LOL
Actually that would be a very good move on their part.
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Jason Lieser Retweeted ProFootballTalk
I’m so confused. San Diego roots for losses. The L.A. stadium was full of Dolphins fans yesterday. Who actually likes this team now?
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That’s what happens when Spanos — out of hatred — relocated the Chargers from SD to LA. The taxpayers in SD said, “HELL NO… fund it your damned self like Steve Ross ended up doing”.
Ive been to 4 Dolphins games vs the Chargers in San Diego, every time there’s been lots of Fin fans, not sure why theyre making a big deal of it this time.
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Gase said he hasn’t talked to Timmons, has no idea if he’s in the building and has no update on his status or if will play next week.
This is so weird.
Victory Monday! Looks like we are going to have a similar team from last year depending on how injuries go. An offense that is above average and capable of winning the game for us, but not dominant by any means. A defense that gives up yards in sometimes embarrassing fashion, but capable of coming up with some big stops or turnovers to win the game.
We won a crazy amount of close games last season to get into the playoffs. The numbers say that won’t continue to work in our favor. I think we will be competitive with most teams though. Should be an entertaining season with our team in playoff contention again. We really need to get lucky in the draft to take the next step though.
Dave GeorgeVerified account @Dave_GeorgePBP 3m3 minutes ago
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Total stonewall from #Gase on #Timmons. Sheds no light whatsoever on what he knows or what he wants to do about it. On to other questions.
Adam BeasleyVerified account @AdamHBeasley 44s45 seconds ago
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Re: Timmons, if this is a medical issue, I believe there are restrictions on what information Dolphins can legally divulge (i.e., HIPAA).
Rigel Spikes @MF13SS 2m2 minutes ago
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It’s a private matter with #Timmons, and Gase is respecting the player’s privacy.
If it was a medical issue would he have went AWOL?
As Herd and I have expressed, we don’t believe it to be a medical issue.
Maybe. What would you do, if you found out you had AIDs or cancer?
It sure is nice to be on top of the division for a week. Since we have the Jest this Sunday, we definitely should stay on top for at least another week.
It’s good to be the king…even if only for a day.
He also said that after the pissboy came over to him.
Lol, exactly the scene I was thinking of. 🙂
I hope he’s back for the jets however the LBs yesterday did a very good job in run support holding the Chargers to 44 yards i think?
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 3:19 pm
You must have missed his big tirade the other day.
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He must have missed the shade you were throwing at me and others beforehand.
You must have missed the olive branch I’ve extended to you NOW.
I guess I did.
Yeah you missed the whole unhinged thing where he says I changed some posts to make him look bad.
Look here. I’ve tried to ignore you , but when you come here and start telling people what they can or can’t say. OH HELL NO.
You defend Lou who called everyone here douchebags and whined because he unfollowed you on twitter. Lol
You come to this blog and insult me, say I can’t read or spell. Accuse me of changing posts to make you look bad. I didn’t change a thing. WTF is wrong with YOU?
Then I’m to act as if you didn’t do that without so much as a word of apology. Again OH HELL NO.
I’m not the one with a problem. I’ve said nothing that’s inaccurate to you or about you.
Am I pissed? Absolutely. I tend to be that way when assholes accuse me of things I didn’t do.
Really nice… really nice. Your hatred has in fact consumed you. I’m now an #ASSHOLE.
You try to ignore me while I throw complements your way too, I suppose. SMH
*compliments
Yep, accuse me of stuff I don’t do one day. Compliments the next. Awesome.
Outside of one 26 yard run we allowed, the Chargers were 13-18 rushing. That’s friggin dominant.
I changed some posts this last weekend. It’s a pain in the ass, but my side fence was on its last legs in a couple of places. A couple of bags of qiuckcrete and some new 4x4s later, and it’s like I have a brand new fence.
LOL !!
So you’re the guy that’s been changing the posts…
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Look here. I’ve tried to ignore you , but when you come here and start telling people what they can or can’t say. OH HELL NO…
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I’ve continued to compliment you and never ONCE tried to tell ANYBODY what they can or cannot say. Where did I EVER say that one cannot say this or that? It was YOU who told me that I cannot tell you to “lighten up”.
Herd, are you alright?
Enough, enough
AGREED!!! I’ve extended an olive branch to Herd.
I can point it out.
No, you CAN’T.
ESPN is reporting that Timmons showed up for the game, but Gase wouldn’t let him play, because he wasn’t in a good place (mentally) to play.
What is going on with him?
They won’t say.
Adam BeasleyVerified account @AdamHBeasley 2m2 minutes ago
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Re: Timmons, CBA makes options available to Dolphins (left squad list, etc.) but I don’t see how they could just cut him. Cap hit of $11M.
Lol at the thought of this weekend’s hurricane going to NYC and having the game switched to Miami. Don’t you guys have a fest setup against the jets,😀
Why would that be funny when most have booked their flights and hotels ?
Adam BeasleyVerified account @AdamHBeasley 58s58 seconds ago
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The left squad list would allow the Dolphins to toll Timmons’ contract, but that’s only if he doesn’t return to the team in 5 days.
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If we outright cut Timmons, the Patsies* WILL pick him up, being they have major LB problems.
Barry JacksonVerified account @flasportsbuzz 11s12 seconds ago
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New: Everything Gase had to say moments ago, including Timmons, his own play-calling, Cutler, the late timeout, etc:
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article173987071.html
You don’t pay Cutler $10M to then cut Timmons, hes not getting cut.
Correct!
OK, let’s try and clear the air. I understand completely what Herd is saying. Just because I’m more tolerant of it doesn’t make it right. This blog has been very harmonious. No problems to really speak of. We have gotten along as well as any big group of people with different opinions possibly can. M, don’t take this the wrong way, and I say this with no malice whatsoever, but you just came back to this blog, and yes, you have brought up what happened on the blog as if it’s evidence of our wrongdoing, and although you may not think you’re overstepping your bounds, telling us, those who made this blog, and keep it running how to treat anyone, is out of line. What happened in the past is long gone, and we weren’t wrong for leaving and creating a new blog.
We welcome anyone who comes here, and and ALL of you that have been here from the beginning, or those of you that have recent;y come back, can admit we don’t police this blog, and we let everyone say what they want to say. I get why Herd takes umbrage to being told how to treat someone here, because we have been treating EVERYONE the right way since this blog has started. Tghere are NO sides, minions, or anything of the sort. We’re all EQUAL here, and no one is telling anyone what to do, or when to do it. That’s the best way I can explain the situation. I hope everyone can comprehend what I’m putting forth. We have put a lot of effort to make a blog where we write our own material, and publish it for all to enjoy. Herd did a great job getting the blog going, and continuing to work to keep it going all the time. So have Son, Piggy, Ken, Twice and myself. Sure, there are disagreements as expected, but we all try to respect each other, and the last thing any of us want to do is police or censor anyone, We all want to just coexist.
I’ve only ever stated that politics is what separated us in the past. Nothing less, nothing more.
It wasn’t politics. It was a lot of personal stuff that went on between a few people. Some who are no longer present on the blog/blogs.
Far out, man! That was heavy and groovy, dude! Peace! 😉
Gnarly.
mf13ss says:September 18, 2017 at 3:40 pm
I’ve continued to compliment you and never ONCE tried to tell ANYBODY what they can or cannot say. Where did I EVER say that one cannot say this or that? It was YOU who told me that I cannot tell you to “lighten up”.
Herd, are you alright?
I am fine. I’m not the only one who has seen it. It has been discussed so I guess we’re all crazy. I didn’t imagine your accusations either which you seem to forget.
You conveniently forget your accusations against me. HOW CONVENIENT. You must STOP personal attacks.
Yeah. Would you stop? We’re all tired of it. I didn’t accuse you of anything. I asked you to stop doing something which you can’t seem to do.
Herd,
ONCE AGAIN… IGNORE my posts if you refuse my olive branch. And even before my offering, I’d asked you to ignore my posts. Sorry for trying to get along with you with my positive replies to you today.
Yeah after you accuse me of changing posts to discredit you? Copying a bunch of my posts to try prove whatever it was and it didn’t even make sense. And you think a compliment fixes that?
“Police reportedly found Timmons in the boarding area waiting to take a flight to Pennsylvania to see his baby daughter.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/lawrence-timmons-reportedly-at-airport-dolphins-missing-report-2017-9
M
It was so much more than politics. It got very personal, and there were accusations made that simply weren’t true. I don’t want to go anywhere near that, not with a freaking 100 foot pole, but it got ugly and personal. I think we’re so far past that now. I’d like to leave it way back there in the past. Let’s just keep it to the present, and we can all go back to as normal as it has been, however normal that is. 🙂
time for a Kumbaya Moment…
M
If you want to discuss this further, you can email me. I can point out to you what Herd took offense to and why. I think then you might have a better understanding.
I offered Herd an olive branch today. I’m sure we understand after I complimented her twice today in a mission of peace and unity.
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 4:03 pm
Yeah. Would you stop? We’re all tired of it. I didn’t accuse you of anything. I asked you to stop doing something which you can’t seem to do.
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What is that, FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!!
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Look here. I’ve tried to ignore you , but when you come here and start telling people what they can or can’t say. OH HELL NO…
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And that’s something I’ve NEVER stated! Oh, the irony!!!
POINT, SET, MATCH!!! I WIN!!!
Miami Dolphins No Cunt Tour 2017 – Fuck Everyone
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Well I’ll tell you. I’m more pissed now that he’s acting all like I’m doing wrong. Maybe I should copy that laughable tirade he posted the other evening, going off on me. And I sure hope you all watched the Dan Marino thing on NFL network or you might get a nasty message yourself. Lol
I’m out for the day. Can’t talk football without character assassination, even after offering an olive branch… and after responding to a personal attack from Herd towards me and others several days ago. Sure, she’ll harp on my harsh response to her HATE, but won’t acknowledge her very part in the whole matter: her provocation to begin with.
END THIS BULLSHIT. I’m not here to spar with others over personal BS, I’m only here to talk football with the good peeps on this board.
Herd, I once again offer you an olive branch.
Did you guys see the game yesterday ? 🙂
Did ya see we WON !!!!
Lol at the thought of this weekend’s hurricane going to NYC and having the game switched to Miami. Don’t you guys have a fest setup against the jets,
okay I read something about this yesterday and totally did not put one together with the Fest..
this would completely suck ass..
mf13ss says:
September 18, 2017 at 4:09 pm (Edit)
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 4:03 pm
Yeah. Would you stop? We’re all tired of it. I didn’t accuse you of anything. I asked you to stop doing something which you can’t seem to do.
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What is that, FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!!
herdfan says:
September 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Look here. I’ve tried to ignore you , but when you come here and start telling people what they can or can’t say. OH HELL NO…
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And that’s something I’ve NEVER stated! Oh, the irony!!!
POINT, SET, MATCH!!! I WIN!!!
What do you think you win?
Mike has told you, I’m not the only one who has seen the things you have said. What about this do you not understand? I don’t want this continuing here. No one does. We have had peace and harmony which is how we like it.
M
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