The Tennessee Titans are coming to town, and luckily for the Miami Dolphins, we’re catching a little break. Titans QB Marcus Mariota suffered a hamstring strain last week in their blowout loss to the Texans. In Mariota’s place will be veteran QB Matt Cassel. I think it’s going to take more than a break for us to beat the Titans. It’s not that the Titans are unbeatable, because they got drubbed 57-14 last week. The problem is, the guy on left in the picture above, has to figure out how to get the guy on the right to perform better, and start putting points on the board. Would you believe Cutler is completing 66.7% of his passes? OK, would you believe his average yards per attempt is is a paltry 5.8YPA? The majority of Cutler’s career, that number is 7 or better, with a couple of seasons where he had 6.6 and 6.8. Under 6 yards per attempt is pathetic. We have been unable to move the ball downfield through our passing game, and as of late, the running game too. Gase has a lot of work to do.
Why is this guy still starting? The only answer I can come up with is it’s only our 4th game. That’s it. He was so wide open last week against the Saints, not a player anywhere near him when Julius Thomas made his play of the year, a 23 yard reception where he was, lack of a better description, completely ignored by the Saints defense. I don’t have game film, but this guy can’t block. He’s not helping Jay Ajayi or Jay Cutler lining up as a TE. I recall MarQueis Gray being a pretty impressive blocker, and not too shabby catching the ball either. We all know Fasano can block, so how about jump starting this offense with a tandem of Gray and Fasano in a 2 TE set? It’s been painful to watch Ajayi get the handoff, and always having to try to beat a defender just to get to the damn line of scrimmage. Far too often this has been the case, and of course that’s not all on Julius Thomas, or any one OL, it’s all of them. This O-line needs to find their nasty fast before the season slips too far away.
With Matt Cassel starting at QB, DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry will be shouldering the load against us this Sunday for our 1st true Home game at The Rock. Last week Cordrea Tankersely gave us a glimmer of a pretty solid YOUNG CB tandem, with he and Xavien Howard. I’m a fan of Byron Maxwell, despite being much maligned by our fanbase, and I’ll be honest, he didn’t play well so far this season. He started slow last year too, but ended up playing very well for us down the stretch. His services may still be needed, so don’t hate on him too much. Nate Allen is exactly what I expected him to be, underwhelming. He’s done, but he’s our guy until week 9, when newly signed S T.J. McDonald comes off his 8 game suspension, which incidentally got pushed up a week thanks to our friend Hurricane Irma.
I think it’s going to be a physical game, the Titans have fashioned themselves as a physical team, with an aggressive run blocking O-line, and the 2 horses in Murray and Henry to carry the rock. The Titans targeted their man in the 2016 draft, and with Tunsil still available at #8, the Titans nabbed OT Jack Conklin. Conklin is not the physical specimen Laremy Tunsil is, but that guy is all heart and desire. He’s a very physical player who never lets up. The Titans O-line, especially their run blocking is their strength on offense. LT Taylor Lewan and RT Jack Conklin are the bookends, with Quinton Spain at LG, Ben Jones at C and Josh Kline at RG. This is an old school team, coached by and old school HC, Mike Mularkey, along with some old school assistants, like Terry Robiskie and Dick LeBeau.
Speaking of Dick LeBeau, he’s been around longer than NFL films has. Not really, but he’s been a defensive coach in the NFL for 29 years. The Titans have a pretty good front 7, base 3-4 defense. DaQuan and Jurrel Casey are the ends, with Sylvester Williams at the nose. Big, physical LB’s are the thing here, with Derrick Morgan, Wesley Woodyard, Avery Williamson and of course, Brian Orakpo. Logan Ryan (from NE) and LeShaun Sims are the corners, along with Jonathan Cyprien (SS) and Kevin Byard (FS). This season so far, even before last weeks blowout at the hands of the Texans, this defense has not been getting it done. They have allowed 126 points in 4 games, which puts them at 30th in the NFL. Of course, this week, we face them after a blowout loss, so LeBeau will have these guys angry and riled up.
What we need is Ajayi running in space. He’s got to have some creases to run through, and lately, they haven’t been there. I think we all know Ajayi is the key to getting this offense going, and of course, opposing defenses do as well, which is why they have been focused on shutting him down at all costs, and it’s working. It seems we can’t rely on Jay Cutler to throw the rock all over the yard, hitting bombs to Parker, Stills and Grant. Maybe someday, but it hasn’t materialized yet. Get Ajayi going, and work it from there.
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Good write up Mike
Henry and Murray are a pretty good tandem
But the one things we’ve done well this year is defend the run
So hopefully that continues
If we make Cassell look like a HOF qb I’m going to be furious
I think our run defense is a little skewed, as stats are always susceptible to that. Teams have thrown on us with success, so when you’re throwing well, just keep it going. Chargers game, Rivers threw for 323 yards. The Jets, McCown went all world against us completing 18 of 23 for 249 yards for his best game in 10 years, and the Jets went over 100 on the ground too. The Saints put up 246 yards passing and almost got 100, 86 to be exact. We’ve been better against the run than the pass, but not really great against the run.
Howie, 21-17 miami
mike,
good write up. I truly believe if we get the run game going our offense will start looking a lot better. I hope that’s the focus this week. The oline really needs to step up.
Howie
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maybe Gase is not the offensive genius everyone has been making him out to be. Maybe he’s average at best. So far that seems to be the case.
We started out slow, and then really turned it around last season, maybe we need to give him some time. Not quite the exact same circumstances as last year, but because we have Cutler, and not Tannehill, it’s sort of like starting fresh all over again.
If that was the case then we should have started the season with Moore and gave cutler sometime. That’s what I suggested in august when we got cutler. So if cutler needed time and thats the reason for our slow start then its all on Gase.
I just don’t buy that excuse. This offense is pretty bad right now. Almost as bad as 2007 and philbin’s last year.
Yep Mike…..normally think too much focus is on the QB, but Cutler sure hasn’t been the gunslinger we thought we were getting except in garbage time. Don’t even see a lot of deep missed passes.
Jay-Cut was the one claiming, if see Parker one-on-one will just chuck it to him.
Maybe he hasnt seen that much. The whole PS was people talking about Parker going to have a beast year, and how great he has looked, etc. Maybe the rest of the league was listening and their game plan is to eliminate Parker from those opportunities.
BTW mike,
I really think the main issue is the run game and not cutler. And the run game is not working because of the oline that Gase and Mike T decided to put together. MAybe they need more time to gel but again that’s an excuse.
I have to admit, I felt the same way when we got Cutler, that Moore should start until Cutler’s ready, but how does he get ready if he’s not playing? That’s the problem, and that’s why he’s starting, and not Moore. For better or worse, our season, at least at the moment hinges on Cutler.
I think it was just take our lumps and get him up to speed. I promise Moore doesnt start out much better, if any better. One isn’t use to being the starter, and leading the team, and the other hasn’t been the leader of the team before and was sailing off unto the sunset before we reeled him back in. Cutler isnt going to shake the rust off from the bench, he needs to be forced to pull up his panties and get back out there and have to build character by gutting through his problems instead of running from them. We unfortunately have 0 better options, and no benching him in favor of Moore is not going to save our season. We either save our system by getting this shit fixed, Cutler included or we wind up draft high next year lol. It is what it is.
system = season
Our passing has always relied heavily on our run game, and there is a good reason why, our OL arent good enough at walling off a 7 on 5 pass rush and our QB’s have never been good at reading the rush and planning on the dump off to a uncovered receiver, which the slot, TE, or RB will shave at least one them uncovered if not 2.If we dont provide them a reason to play honest, they just bum rush us over and over and over. No OL can stand up to that, and ours has a hard time with anything past 4.
Our running game is suffering because we keep running into the teeth of a stacked box defense. Since we need the running game to help the passing, we got to get some counter runs or jumbo set force it down their throats running going then open the passing and then the balance keeps them honest so we flip back around to it helping the running game we keep trying to really start working. We might have to suffer through grinding out 4 yar gains on pure power running before we get the zone blocking to start working so Ajayi can really get the creases he needs to be as susccessful as he normally is when he does have those.
So to me the running game is more on Gase not being more creative or helpful (ie extra blockers) to get it going.
Well said. agreed.
OCRob, bumps stock mods ARE illegal, all those semi-auto to full auto mods are illegal, but how do you know someone has done them. Its not like people go online and report that they have modded their guns. The only place you might catch them saying they have is social media, but everyone says you cant use social media to police people. So if ya cant police people doing something that you cant control and you cant control them doing it, how do you stop this kind of stuff.
Majority of people who do the bump stock mods though, are not going to kill people they just like the thrill of having an automatic weapons. Its the crazy that kills not the gun, not the mods, not any of it. If thinking controlling something thats pretty much uncontrollable, will fix this you are missing the point. The only thing that fixes this is sacrificing some freedoms so those that could identify and monitor people who are unstable enough to do it. Could there be abuse of this system, absolutely, they could use it to walk all up in our lives. Could they use it to label people as mentally unstable even if they arent, they were just popping off online? Sure. There is going to be a consequence for it, you just have to figure out is it worth the gain, and that goes back to the trust you have that your own method of solving the problem is going to fix things.
If you don’t like that loss of freedom for the sake of safety, you actually are accepting these thing will continue to happen. I just said the other day, you don’t even have to buy guns anymore, they have video and blueprints online for making your own. 3D printers can print the parts and you construct it. People are going to find a way to do crazy shit in the crazy part telling them to do it cant be silenced. Again, this is another example of freedom being a double edged sword.
Again, what we can do to help this…your guess is as good as mine, im trying to follow the common factors in all the shootings and majority of the time it starts with some crazy actions that people try to shrug off as just being different, or just popping off to friends, or on the internet, but maybe we shouldn’t let these kind of things be passed over. Maybe its like how we have to be at the airports “please report any suspicious activity to the nearest law enforcement officer” maybe we need to have heightened security over the internet and phone services, etc to see if we can catch these guys before they do themselves or anyone else harm. Maybe we need to start saying, little Johnny seems to be in a bad place, kids have been picking on him and his attitude towards life and just seems different BEFORE we are saying it to a reporter after little Johnny shot up the entire school.
Im not trying to call anyone on here stupid, but maybe uninformed. It seems like a lot of you are thinking this guns are made with the intention of being modified, and that is why you shouldn’t be able to buy these guns legally. Thats not the case. These modifications are made by people circumventing the design, not using something intentionally left there for the modification to be allowed.
If we don’t score in the 1stQ chances are good we will hear some boos from the crowd. Generally not a good sign at your home opener.
If we don’t score on our first possession there will be booing, you can count on it.
I’m already booing
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Good job Mike. I’m at the point where I need to see the offense start scoring. They’ve really shocked me so far in how inept they have looked the last two weeks.
D, from the report I watched the mods to the weapons are legal to make and sell. It’s only illegal to install and possess the weapon after the modification is finished. That’s how screwed up this thing is. Legal to sell, illegal to possess. Makes no sense.
It’s like fireworks. You can buy them in PA but can’t set them off. You can’t buy them in NJ but you can set them off. Gee I wonder how that game gets played.
FLA is the same way
It’s illegal to Buy or sell certain fireworks
But everyone buys throes fireworks in GA and brigs them over
But those are differences on state laws
I wonder is this is just a Nevada or a federal law (about selling the device)
I still think Gase calling the plays as a beginner HC wasn’t a good idea. That and the lack of experienced coaches running our team. When I say experienced coaches, I mean experience in running things other than positions. If you look at team’s that have turned franchises around or been successful recently they have a lot of former HC’s at coordinator and even down to positional coaches. Our entire staff is learning on the job.
The other thing with Gase is that he says of lot of the right things, but he’s slow to do actually execute those things, or he doesn’t execute them at all.
I like that he takes responsibility for things that are his fault, but at some point the action has to match his words. He’s not getting the most out of guys, especially the role players. This is something Philbin got criticized for and rightly so. When you look at teams that consistently makes playoffs and go far, it’s because those supporting guys were given chances to make plays and they did. Landry is our most electric receiver and he’s still not being used properly to maximize his potential. He hasn’t been since he got here.
This team needs something to get it’s unbeatable swagger back that they had going into the playoffs. I don’t know what that would take, but something needs to happen and soon because it’s gonna be a long season.
There are lots of 1st time HCs who called their own plays and still do and they’ve had success. I think we’re all just looking for solutions because of the terrible funk we’re in.
Had success is the key phrase Tim
All we need is to score some points early to get the funk off. If we’re down say 10-0 or even 10-3 at the half it’s going to reach ludicrous levels.
I really think an early score can make all the difference for us
But if we have another half like we have had in all 3 games – the Dolphins will deserve some serious Boos
It’s been pretty ugly this year
I don’t care about the boos. Just don’t want to see this continue any longer. I want to see our team pumped up and celebrating making plays.
I think we’re going to have a good game at home. I think this team definitely needs the home crowd behind it. It’s obviously a lot more than that, but I think it will help.
Hopefully that will help.
Kind of my point. They need the crowd behind them. If they start slow as usghe, it might not be pretty.
sleeping in their own beds might be good for them
Bump stocks are legal and uncontrolled items. You can buy one on line (http://www.slidefire.com/).
Mike, we’re only allowing 77.7 YPG rushing. That’s pretty damn good.
Like I mentioned, teams have been throwing on us with success, so they’re just getting their yards a different way. I put up the stats there, you saw them. The Jets went over 100, The Saints didn’t need to but up 86 yards rushing,. The game where we looked particularly tough against the run was the Chargers game, shutting down Melvin Gordon, but they didn’t really try much either, only ran 14 times, because Rivers was picking us apart.
And allowing very little points. We’re definitely keeping everything in front of is in pass defense. I don’t buy the because they’re passing argument. 3.1 YPC is the telling stat. The Jets had 34-103 3.1 YPC. Just because it was a 100 yards doesn’t tell the whole story. They had the ball for 36 minutes because our offense did nothing all day.
Defense is the least of the worry. Hope dictates effort……I can’t blame them falling off late because the offense just keeps 3 and outing all frickin game.
Time of possession is really putting a lot on our defense and they’re still holding up. That won’t last for long. We can’t keep allowing teams to have the ball for 10+ minutes more than us.
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But only 57 PA and 4 TD pass allowed in 3 games with no support from the offense the last two weeks. That is why PFF doesn’t get it.
They have been playing a soft “zone”
which I hate by the way!
Allowing short routes
It would look better if our offense had the ball more and actually scored some points. I’ll take that over getting torched down the field all day.
Tough when Mando starts bashing….nice to know Drake runs a 4.3 though, and he did have a nice run last game.
We need to get him more involved for sure.
Only way for the O is up….knock on wood.
“Miami’s third-down percentage (21.2) is the lowest by any team since the 2002 Cowboys. The Dolphins are averaging an anemic 8.3 points per game, while no other team is averaging fewer than 15.0 PPG.”
Cutler’s presser looks like they woke him out of bed for it……
He did say he at least he executed the wildcat play exactly how they wanted. Lol
What i was saying is that these mods, can be purchased, but they can be done without buying them. The buying them online might be controllable to some extent, but its not stopping it. The bump stock is just a spring in the stock that when the recoil kicks back against the shoulder a rod in the stock pushes forward causing the firing pin to strike the next round, and the spring causes the stock to push forward so that the next recoil can cause it to strike against, so on and so forth. There is nothing to doing that kind of modification on your own.
Same thing for the crank mechanism. If you have ever cranked a hand winch you know there are teeth and a lock that falls over past the teeth to keep it from going backwards. The cranks they have are just things that do the same thing, but when it pulls over the teeth and fall in behind, it instead hits the firing pin when then strikes the bullet and you have a crank auto like the old Gatling guns.
There is no way to truly control it, even if you locked down the sales of these items, making them completely illegal to purchase. You might limit what people could actually do these mods in that scenario, but the ones that are really going to want to do it to harm people, they will go the extra mile.
I saw someone insinuating that the reason the guy that did the shooting isnt being called a terrorist is the color of his skin. REALLY? Thats damn ridiculous. He isnt being called a terrorist is because the definition of a terrorist is “a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” Until they establish that he had political aims or was part of an organization that had political aims, he’s a mass murderer. Every frigging topic isn’t about race lol, jesus.
It’s becoming absurd. You have news networks falling all over each other trying to figure out who to blame. Uhhh… how about the shooter?
Also, typical political type people on social media using phrases like “this is Trump’s 2017 America”, as if this sort of thing has never happened before. Also seeing inquiries about why “white” males commit mass murder? Nothing could happen on this planet without people looking to blame someone not even involved in it. Do people see what they’re doing?
You start with what you know and then you work to what ya dont and after you have answer to questions you make statements of fact based upon the information you have validated. Journalism 101. You call it terrorism when you have proof.
I saw someone say yesterday it didn’t matter what or why he did it, my reply was yeah i do think it matters because it tells you have sinister it really was. This is what i was talking about, if they find out he was part of an terrorist organization, that’s a whole lot bigger issue than mass murderer, it probably means there is more to come. If we is a lone whackado who killed himself, probably isolated to this one tragedy. Doesn’t help those killed but surely helps us know if we need to be on a higher alert.
I think people around here are suffering from dementia! lol Doesn’t anybody remember how many quarters and halves we played last year where we didn’t score…or scored a FG? We ranked 17th in scoring last year…and that was only because Matt Moore increased our scoring output the final 3+ games when he threw for a third of our total receiving TDs? And, we only had 14 rushing TDs. This offense hasn’t been a high scoring offense in a very long time. This isn’t just a problem this year. It’s been a problem for awhile.
6 points in 8 quarters is a little different.
Ajayi had emerged, changed our offense and how teams defended us too. Matt Moore only had two games with good scoring – NYJ and BUF. He didn’t do much in the ARZ game when Tannehill went down. We scored only 14 points to finish up with NE and 12 in the PIT playoff game when he was horrible. Why do people try to make Matt Moore out to be something he has never been? He can come in and perform well, but he gets exposed the more he plays. That’s why he’s a backup.
Thats also why Moore isnt a replacement for Cutler as in a ok now go be our leader, he’s a break in case of emergency guy, he likes the role, for what you need in that situation, he’s a good one to have, he isnt a starter though and he knows it too. I have never seen a guy more comfortable in his role as a backup QB than Moore lol.
Also last years scoring isnt helping this year scoring, so we need to focus on fixing that. I do somewhat agree with Randy about the past, but its only from a perspective of, we should all see that sometimes we harp on things because the target is someone we want to harp on. We tend to give more leniency to the players we like, we tend to have less patience for the ones we don’t. Its not really a big deal either it makes us human beings, but we are doing it here with Cutler, and we did it before with Tanny.
D,
To me, it’s not about one player. I said the same thing about Tanny last year…that he was PART of the problem…not THE problem. You don’t have year after year of low scoring because of one player….that was kinda my point. I don’t have the answers, but I think the focus on Cutler being the problem is really not addressing a problem that’s been there before he ever got here. I don’t like Cutler….never have, but he’s part of the problem…not the problem.
I agree with that, its hard sometimes to express it in a way that doesn’t get seen as just piling on or bashing or whatnot, especially when you loyalties, etc get involved.
Gase said our issues on offense start with him and is throughout the entire group. They’re not playing well. It’s definitely not just one guy, or two or three. Everyone is pitching in.
Tim,
I’m kinda tired of Gase’s comments already! He talks great…says the right things…and then we see the same crap next week. He also tends to take responsibility for stuff a lot, but it’s beginning to feel a little fake….or maybe meaningless.
I think a lot of coaches do that. It all sounds great once you start winning, and everyone falls back in love with you.
He looks really frustrated. I don’t think it’s fake. I think he’s a bit shocked.
MikeE,
Hence my long history of never listening to or believing anything coaches say. Lol
LOL – Understood. It must be brutal for them to do interviews. They just want to get stuff right, and when what they’re doing isn’t working, the last they want to do is discuss why. Then again, they get paid the big bucks to do just that, so it comes with the job.
Tim,
If he truly believes it starts with him and changes are needed, then why does he keep doing the same things on Sundays? You’d think he’d change things…try something new. I don’t know. I’m just tired of seeing the same crap year after year. You know me though, it’s mostly on the players, and a whole bunch of them have gotta play better.
I’ve wondered that myself. I’d go with more jumbo packages to get Ajayi and the running game rolling.
The new Yorker has a really good article on it, the writer will probably be called a racist or to have “white privileged” (to be honest i dont even know if Masha Gessen is white or not, male or female for that matter, so maybe not) but in the article i think they hit on some really good points.
They said that demands for this to be called a terrorist act is an attempt to assert something completely different, which is that white males often are the subjects of these crimes and that statistically they pose a greater threat than do Muslims in America, be they normal immigrants or even militant ones. The big part of the article is something i have said about different subjects many times. here is the quote:
“The argument confuses cause and effect. The fact that people are terrorized doesn’t necessarily mean that an act of terror has been committed. This matters, because language matters. When terms are used too broadly, or just sloppily, they lose their meaning.”
IMO this is why using the words “racism” to incorrectly identify a possibly ugly action, or when a person is insensitive about race even to a level that is disgusting to those who would have never said or done those things, or when a a person has shown prejudice, is bad. It lessens and cheapens the word racist, or racism. It blends it into the background, it starts to fall on deaf ears, it becomes associated with things that might not be viewed by all to be horrible disgusting thing it really is.
Language does matter, its how we express ourselves, our passion and disgust, it sets the tone for the discussions, and calling something racism when its really just a horrible example of something that shouldn’t be seen as acceptable doesn’t fix the problem with that thing becoming completely unacceptable and it doesn’t help true acts of racism never ever be able to be denied for what they are.
Calling this guy a terrorist so you can say , see whites are terrorist too does not help fix whatever this was, it would just wind up another brick on the stack of the terrorism wagon. Then you lose focus on why he really did it, and you never fix it or have it add to the discussion of a mental health issue we have in America, or even gun control for those that feel that’s still the right topic.
I thought it was a great article and spoke to my feelings on things, and there were other things in there too i thought were pretty spot on. Below is a link to it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-we-should-resist-calling-the-las-vegas-shooting-terrorism
I dont really think Gase is fake, i think he is doing something a lot of people do when they have no answers to things they should have answers to and they just need to buy themselves some time to at least come up with an answer, for the good or bad of it. The phrase, fake it until you make it, comes to mind, and i think that’s kinda what he is doing right now and what he did last year. I just hope this year he has success finding whatever it is that needs to be done so that things swing back around.
Stanger, even if the O improves, if its not enough to win the game or its not enough for us to switch to blaming the offense, it really wont matter if its an improvement. I promise you it will be a long, short week to our thursday game with a lot of us calling for heads and others calling for the heads of people who are calling for peoples heads. We gotta see some life in this team, sooner rather than later unless we all want to be doing draft mocks before the end of October.
This is the caption quote, which is almost a poignant as the lines of the article.
“The label feels necessary in moments of national horror. But the words we use to describe our shock and pain can serve to degrade us further.”
Thats pretty solid writing there.
If there are going to be any major changes made, look for them to happen after our bye week.
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It was a bad joke, constructed to show that we aren’t even getting a break to make a major change. We’re really going to have a tough go of it this season.
Oh i got it, but even if we did have a bye, we wouldn’t have made a change. Gase isnt that type of guy when it comes to the QB.
Ok. So no changes for the entire season. Lol
LOL, round 1 to Herd lol.
Im pretty sure thats how it will be anyways, if some kind of change happens its going to be out of necessity not Gase’s decision.
Trump makes some awful decision at very ridiculous times. Throws paper towel rolls to the Puerto Rican people (some people have said it looked like he was playing fetch with them wtf lol) who have gathered to see what he is going to do to help them. Tried to inject humor with regards to the situation, does his normal shit eating smile and doesn’t seem to grasp the levity of that situation. I know he is being popped for every little mistake he makes but damn, his publicity advisor need to be shot for letting this guy loose in public, and get on social media. Were i in that guys position, id have him pantomime as another person actually talked for him before id let him roll out there and just let it fly. FFS.
He’s horrendous with social graces, there’s no other way to say it. He just doesn’t know the proper way to behave. I’m not sure he would if he knew, but I really believe he doesn’t know.
I think Gase believes in what he’s doing and the plays need to be executed better. I don’t think he’s thinking any major changes because it’s not just a few guys, it’s everyone having breakdowns. The players have to play better regardless of what plays are called.
Gase said you have 8 players on any given play doing the right things while the other 3 are WTF……
Maybe this is why the Dem’s push gun control
^^^^^
You guys can’t be this gullible?
This is fakenews 101
some of it is addressed in this link
http://www.snopes.com/democrat-shooters-list/
Adam Lanza (the CT school shooter) was 20 years old when he shot that school up – do you really think he had any political leanings at 20. According to the article above he was not registered to vite
Congressman Giffords shooter was registered as an independent when he was registered but did not vote later
The Orlando shooter purposely sought out a gay club because he hated gays – which is hardly a democratic staple
The Charleston Church Shooter (Dylan Roof) was NOT a democrat. He was a racist who had started a website called the Last Rhodesian (celebrating white supremacy in Africa) and joined an organization called Council of Conservative Citizens (its a racists group not a political group) – he was no democrat. I doubt he was republican. He basically had wild racist beliefs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/everything-known-about-charleston-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof
Personally I will say, IMO, the most staggerring amount of misinformation out there is usually in cute memes. They are always full of bullshit. This one is just basically a lie.
Use your head guys
I just love it when Adam Gase smells napalm in the morning. He’s put EVERYBODY on notice today, particularly the O-Line. And we ALL know what happened last year when he put everybody on notice and they failed him again… bye-bye to Dallas Thomas, Billy Turner, and Jamil Douglas.
But there’s nobody left to cut. Who can they replace anybody with?
Time to change whatever scheme they are trying to block with. Heck, put out 3 TE formations. Not like they can’t catch bubble screens…..
I know, I know… and we have our backs up against the cap. Sometimes Darth Vader just makes things sound better than they truly are, though! 🙂 😉
There really aren’t any upgrades just sitting around anyway. This is the team for the most part, the offense needs to get their shit together. We’re only 1-2 and until it worsens I’ll hold out hope. 🙂
Lol M
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Tim Knight says:
October 4, 2017 at 8:22 pm
There really aren’t any upgrades just sitting around anyway. This is the team for the most part, the offense needs to get their shit together. We’re only 1-2 and until it worsens I’ll hold out hope. 🙂
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Agreed! I’m holding out hope as well, but it’s not looking good at the moment. Let’s get a home win against the Titians and build off of that.
That’s the goal.
Titians…
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I tried
I don’t know what’s up with that link
I’ve never seen “=jpg”
Thanks for trying, man. Weird.
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Maxwell says “In no way, shape” (or form) was his benching deserved. But he’s helping Tankersley anyway:
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article177048771.html
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So Maxwell WAS benched, after all…
Gase said earlier in the week Tankersley is the starter opposite Howard moving forward. He played well, it didn’t seem to big for him. Until he shows he shouldn’t be, why not? Brees complemented him after the game.
This is so awkward
Well at least he’s funny about it
THIS is what I’ve been citing (pass-pro), Bro! Happy to hear Gase reinforcing my eyes.
Yes I know
It’s a little too depressing for me to buy into I have no idea why our OL is so bad after all the investments we have made in
it it drives me crazy
No running game and teams are attacking us until we make them pay.
Piggy you know I’m a registered Smart Ass right?
Yes
I figured
But I have to blow it up anyway – such is my way
The Flying Pig says:
October 4, 2017 at 9:03 pm
Yes I know
It’s a little too depressing for me to buy into I have no idea why our OL is so bad after all the investments we have made in
it it drives me crazy
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Drives me and Old Dolfan crazy as well, Pig. We just can’t seem to get a decent return on our investments on the O-Line. And that seems to be the case for nearly 2 decades. And we’ve had some REALLY good O-Line coaches over that time, to boot.
I wish I had the answer, but I don’t. I’m at the point where if we HAD drafted an O-Lineman in Round 1, every year, over the last decade, we’d still suck. I don’t get it.
it’s depressing
don; talk about it….lol
I thought we turned the corner last year
All I have to offer on the subject is that we’ve never had enough GEL-TIME with all 5, healthy O-Linemen since the days of Marino.
We MUST keep plugging away with our current starting 5 until that gel-time is achieved.
hopefully they gel
Oh and Piggy Iyou may have changed them from being registered Democrats.
But I didn’t see you add any to the NRA list?
Just sayin 😉
I doubt there are really active politically in anything that is a legit political posture
Piggy, the Orlando shooter hated gays because he was a closet gay and hated himself for it. It’s fucked up minds that are dangerous.
Yeah – I hear you. I just doubt he was a guy with legit political leanings – just repressed sexuality
M
Using plugging and gel in same sentence is a no no….
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You sick, sick man to have even thought about as much! 😀
In the immortal words of George Carlin…
“I’m ( You’re ) a sick evil fuck and I know it!!!”
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‘Tis the season for watching spooky movies. I’m watching “Night of the Living Dead” (1990, Tony Todd version) right now. AUDI!
And yes… Tony Todd was ‘Candyman’ (I think Stanger knows!) 😀
AUDI!
Armando SalgueroVerified account @ArmandoSalguero 14h14 hours ago
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Adam Gase: Eight guys doing it right, three guys doing it wrong on any given offensive play.
You should check your facts, Bump stocks are legal, you can buy the kits for $200.
Excuse me for not giving a shit of violating someones right to seek a thrill firing an automatic weapon at the expense of the public at risk to be murdered. maybe we should make heroin legal so we don’t violate drug user rights, after all they are just killing themselves.
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D says:
October 4, 2017 at 12:10 pm
OCRob, bumps stock mods ARE illegal, they just like the thrill of having an automatic weapons.they just like the thrill of having an automatic weapons, sacrificing some freedoms
Ya but you can’t violate them until he pulls the trigger!
It would seem you can’t violate them after the trigger is pulled! we can’t learn from our mistakes.
If That’s not what Stoned looks like then I must be smoking!
Boycott over, back to foot ball
looking at the stats the T-O-P tells the story, the Defense was on the field the majority of the time, only giving up 20 points in that scenario is pretty good, having not watched the game,,,,, if you can’t score you can’t win. Taking a new QB and putting him on a new team no matter the talent these players need time to get familiar with the tendencies of each other. it would seem the offense still needs time to gel
We suck on 3rd down and that kill the time of possession
Looks like storm “NATE” will be headed to the Mobile-New Orleans area, which is good news for those going to the Titans @ Fins game.
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HOWIE/HERD — HOWIE/HERD — HOWIE/HERD
16-13 TENN …..AT LEAST we don’t get blown out by a team who gave up 57 points last Sun.
OD – Are you going to this game? That’s going to be miserable if we lose. Especially if we only score 13 points.
Omar is posting plays
He posted this omen
Why No safety valve
This was a sack
Looks like he could have fired it right away to the receiver on his right coming up the middle. Can’t make out who it is on my phone. Call a hot route, audible… Something. The whole middle of the field was in play.
Yeah he may have nee able to do that
But the drain of then playboys questionable IMO
Every is going deep
Where is the short route
Also there are 7 guys blocking and immediate pressure – Wtf is that
“Who’s fault is this?”…..pretty sure for O it would have been Tanny’s if he was the QB in the vid.
Probably
Saints put LB Alex Anzalone on IR. That was the knock on him, guy is a great athlete, he just can’t stay healthy.
Why does Ocho love Jay Cutler?
He rubs his thighs 😮
Actually I think he’s a big Dolphin fan
I’ve heard a few Dolfans calling to resign Albert
But I also heard Albert might sign with the Packers
He still wants to play I guess
Count me in as one of the fans who would at least want to see what shape he is in.
OCRob, if the bump stock mod is put on your gun, is it legal or illegal? I see what you were saying now though, i was looking at it from the angle of how do you make illegal (the use of a bump stock mod) when its already illegal to use them. Sale of them could be banned, and honestly that shouldn’t offend a damn person. I have some friends who are gun enthusiast and they have shot weapons with that mod, they say that shit shouldn’t be legal too. Its just way too much for a normal person to own and use.
My other point was that even if the mods are legal to purchase, people can pretty easily do it themselves. Its basically make a movable stock, with a pin in it to strike the firing pin, striking the bullet and some springs in the stock so that it pushes back off the recoil so that can happen over and over. If you are a mechanic of handyman or even just a hobby type machinist or wood worker, you have what ya need laying around in your shop. all it takes is motivation (ie the crazy to do something real bad) and a local hardware shop and you dont need to buy it online.
So if the play gets called, and the offense lines up and then you see the defense shift around, most likely they have figured out the play. This probably means we are running very static plays out of certain formations and not mixing up the different plas out of that formation.Thats just bad play design, or at least bad play calling since we are predictable and not making adjustments not to be. Thats a HC/OC fault, because they come up with the game plan, they pick the plays they are going to use and how they are going to use them.
That said, you cant have one failure out of that formation and call them boneheads, they might be using it to set up another play out of that formation that will be successful. However, we are seeing the same exact plays over and over out of those formations and they arent switching it up (ie the counter plays i was saying in past days) enough to make them not really know for sure and have to play honest. They have sold out on almost every play in the past 2 games, and we haven’t seem to make any adjustments for it.
If they come out and are lined up pretty much the same as at the time of snap, then they already knew what we were going to do, that’s full on prediction of our play calls. 100% on Gase since i have heard him several time reference himself as the person that comes up with the play calls that will be done in certain down and distance situation. Its somewhat on Cutler too, as a QB who can audible out of a play if he sees the defense lining up a certain way, but Cutler cant always predict if they are showing blitz but maybe going to back out into coverage, so he might not know if his hot route is as open as he thinks it should be. He could try some hard counts to see if he can get them to tip things off, but its more on gase in that scenario.
I honestly can predict every time we do that fucking WR screen, so i know the DC’s and defensive players can. Thats why we are so friggin awful at it. Its HIGHLY predictable just looking at our offensive formation, and we have to start running other shit out of that formation in order for it to start working.
Bill Belchick is a master of this shit and Gase likes to consider him a student of him, well learn from the master. Fuck having 1000’s of formations, each with a play or two out of them. Have like 5 formations that you run 1000’s of different plays out of. Its really hard to defend that, the defense has 0 clue what you are doing before you snap the ball. Aslo learn another lesson from them, let the defense burn you a couple times and then throw them a wrinkle they didnt expect and burn the shit out of them. Football is a very strategic game, its a big time chess match, BUT it also boils down to simple concepts for success.
We do have to perform better, we have to execute better and we need to start playing as a team than as individuals, but every players assignment, every person they have to block, every person they have to beat on their routes is a good player too. The one advantage our players should have is knowing what the play is so you have just that second or so to get the upper hand. How can we do that if they already know the plays as well as us lol. They actually are getting to the spots our players need to be faster than they do. Watch the Jets game specifically if you want to see multiple examples of that.
I remember a game we played against denver in denver when gase was their oc and manning was their QB. They just ran the ball over and over again against us. That game changed our whole season and sealed philbins fate. We need to get to that mentality. If we can run the ball at will our offense will start to look a lot better.
It’s possible Gase does have 1000 plays, but it’s also possible he’s simplifying and streamlining things until Cutler becomes more and more familiar with all of the plays.
Its not about the 1000’s of plays, its that the ones he calls out of certain formations is the same ones he calls every time out of that formation. I could care if he had 10 plays out of 1 formation, thats a very simple playbook, but its also complex on the defense because every play, prior to snap looks just the same.
Right now they look for run with Ajayi, than Landry and Parker. What I’ve seen is not enough hats on hats. Teams are attacking us.
Mike E. says:
October 5, 2017 at 9:34 am
Saints put LB Alex Anzalone on IR. That was the knock on him, guy is a great athlete, he just can’t stay healthy.
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Mike i use to feel similar about players that have had injuries in the past being susceptible to them, ive gotten to where i dont really feel that way. There are players playing that have such an ugly injury past you don’t think they will ever play again, and then you see them running like Ajayi does, you see them playing pretty well on defense like Smith for the Cowboys, you see them all over the place. You also see players who never get hurt getting hurt early in the season or in PS even.
I think this injury is just as flukey as any injury we have seen other players get this season. Ragland and Lawson for the bills both got hurt, they didn’t have injury history. I will say it is to his shoulder, though im not sure if its the same one that he hurt early on with the Gators, but even if he is, he would be over 3 years removed from that injury, so its hard to he cant stay healthy. He had 2 injuries in college, the shoulder and a broken arm, completely un-related and also not indicative of being injury prone.
Also as a counter point. Keenan Allen had no injury history but hasn’t made it through a year yet without being on IR, is he injury prone? Since he wasnt in college does that mean he isnt? There are plenty of examples of ones that have injury history going through their careers with few of them and plenty where they didn’t have anything and never get going because they stay on IR. I think its just the nature of the NFL, and i think a lot of it is because they aren’t allowed to spend more time doing heavier contract drills to prep up for the season.
Didn’t Lawson have a bad shoulder his senior year? Allen had knee concerns that dropped him to the 3rd rd.
D
Ok, so some guys just have bad luck? Call it whatever you like, there are just some players that always have things keeping them off the field.
You know what we could do from time to time when in shotgun to add more protection, is use two backs in the backfield. Shula did that all the time with Marino and I saw Andy Reid do the same thing last week. The backs can see who’s jailbreaking easier than the guys on the LOS. If one back doesn’t have anyone to block he can break out on a route.
All of our backs are good receivers too, so it’s not a bad idea.
Congress has banned the NFL usage of both Shotgun and Pistol formations.. 🙂
The bump stock is illegal too, beyond 5 yards of the LOS
I’d like to see the same thing, but with TE’s instead of backs.
At least one of them has to be a back.
did you read the mando article about maxwell? He was calling his own plays LOL. That’s a new one for me.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article177152871.html
It did look like that and the Jets ran inside him every time on slants and crossing routes.
If that’s true, that’s a mess
There were a few times he was chasing his man across the field to the other sideline. That shows that it wasn’t zone, but man coverage.
I’m sure its true. I think its crazy.
Barry Jackson @flasportsbuzz
Though guard blocking has been subpar, Christensen said rrookie Asiata is “a ways away.”
What does that mean?
Meaning he’s not ready to jump any of the guards at this time. He’s a developmental guy but probably one that won’t survive on the PS.
That means despite the fact that our guards suck, Asiata is much worse.
So Asiata is redefining sucking
That’s a cray story about Maxwell
But I do think that is classic Mando drama
Playing off a guy rather than pressing isn’t exactly calling your own play
By doing that he was allowing the WR to adjust to an open area in the middle of the field with nobody accounting for him because we were in man. See my post above about it. I saw it quite a few times.
Oh – he deserved to be benched
I think we all “hoped” Asiata would just come in and start, but Randy knew from the get-go that he wasn’t ready. He may never be ready, who knows?
A lot of young OL are not ready to play. We’ve seen it with top picks.
(Piggy coughs)
Tunsil
Yes has to adjust at LT now and go against some really good pass rushers.
Tim
It’s usually technique. If guys have their technique right, they can get stronger as the season goes on. If they’re just powerful maulers, but have been getting by with strength, that won’t cut it in the NFL. Ereck Flowers is a perfect example of that.
Agreed.
Piggy
Sounds like you have Tunsilitis
maybe I need a gas mask?
Couldn’t hurt
Just make sure no one around you is recording it
Uh oh
Dannon fired Cam Newton for his “sexist” remarks. This world is hellbent on PC, it’s OOC.
If you were Dannon and your market was primarily women – would you want him as the face of your product
I don’t think he said anything bad. He was surprised the woman knew her routes, so he laughed. He answered the question. Are we not allowed to be human? If I was Dannon, I’d drop him because he sucks, not because of what he did.
She is a sports journalist and that’s part of her job
It’s really disrespectful to some one who does that for a living to think it’s funny that they know what they are talking about
I think for the most part it will be over quickly
But it was a dumb comment by him, I’m not going to defend him for thinking that way
It sounds like Maualuga could play this week with Hull nursing a shoulder injury.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article177198146.html
Where the hell is Stephone Anthony?
I know Burke said they’re trying to find the right spot for him and it doesn’t seem to be the middle so I guess he’s backing up Alonso and Timmons along with Allen.
He’d be helpful if we need to stuff the run game, but we are still going into NFL week 5….no matter how Burke tries to spin it.
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“Rey I’ve known for a long time and he’s been working hard to get back and he’s getting closer. So when that time comes, he’s a big man. And he’s a physical player in the run game”……Despite the logic of having Maualuga and the fact all signs point to him finally playing, Burke didn’t want to go as far as Gase in suggesting he’ll play. Burke called Maualuga’s status “a game-time decision” by Gase….“I think he’s pretty close.”
I’m sure some nut can if he really wants too, this guy who shot those innocent people was an active member of society, he had money, so the question is when and if he was ever in a reasonable state of mind would he go thru all the trouble of making something like that and risk a felony charge, losing his rights as a citizen, jail time and legal fees to do something that was illegal? Maybe but it would most definitely be a deterrent for most in that situation. being that it is legal made it easy for him, if it’s out of site it’s out of mind,
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D says:
people can pretty easily do it themselves. Its basically make a movable stock, with a pin in it to strike the firing pin, striking the bullet and some springs in the stock so that it pushes back off the recoil so that can happen over and over. If you are a mechanic of handyman or even just a hobby type machinist or wood worker,
Here’s the depth chart from the official site.
http://www.miamidolphins.com/team/depth-chart.html
If thomas doesn’t shape up we need to get Gray in there, he’s a beast
I like Gray but not sure he’s a starter. He’s good on STs, can help as a blocker as both H-back and TE, and has shown in the past he can slip out and make some big plays.
I think this team will welcome a home game, staying in LA for more than a week then going to London is brutal.
I hope so. A loss at home will really put us in a big hole for this season.
LA to back home, then to NJ to back home, then to the UK and now a real home game. It wasn’t an easy start to the season.
Phillips and Howard are practicing.
Bring back the old logo!
Done!
Here you go
it seems Maxwell is in the dog-house, they say he wasn’t following the DC’s Defensive scheme plus poor play elevated Tankesly
Mike, if you go to the depth chart I posted and go to defense, it has Anthony backing up Alonso, Allen backing up Timmons and Maualuga backing up Hull.
I saw that. I guess that’s not a bad thing, with Raekwon expected to man the middle in ’18. Being stuck behind Alonso isn’t really good either, because he’s not taking his spot.
Hopefully Anthony and Maualuga provide better depth which has been a concern. Allen has already shown he can do a solid job.
The mad pooper strikes
https://deadspin.com/a-jogger-dubbed-the-mad-pooper-is-terrorizing-colorad-1818521863
Poop Bags aren’t just for Dogs !!
Funny how it’s written.
So I’ve been saying the defense has played well enough to win all 3 games and they have. But looking at some numbers also shows we’re not making enough impact plays. Not that it would have won the last 2 games, but just some things that need to get better.
Only 4 sacks, 2 FF, 1 FR, 0 INT and just 2 PD. I know Burke recently said we’ve had some balls on the ground we didn’t recover and he counted 5 possible INTs we didn’t make. We need to apply more pressure and contest more balls in the air. That said, we’re also playing more safe in coverage that keeps everything in front of us. I think if the offense can get going, scoring more and playing with a lead, we might see some more production in these areas.
I really despise PC culture, but Newton is an idiot. The woman should have laughed back, and said it’s funny hearing a black man talking about playing QB.
it would, but then she’d get fired. You can’t say anything.
I am actually really curious how the social media judgment circus would have felt and responded if it went down that way.
It would have been crazy
Social media would have had an aneurism
Personally though, I would rather disparage the person rather than the whole race/gender even in retaliation to a remark that demeans
Kong, this is how I see it in both network and social media.
White people, especially males – open season
Women – walk on egg shells
Black people and other non-white minorities – don’t you dare
Seems pretty accurate to me.
Racism only works one way. Jeez you big ape! Lol
Lol, I am always forgetting that!
Maybe if she said, “Maybe you didn’t hear my question correctly with those tiny little ears, there was nothing funny in what I said”, she could have gotten away with that, and that would have been pretty funny.
LOL
I’m gonna share this here. We had some bananas getting ripe but still good that we didn’t eat fast enough but a few left. I was thinking hey, maybe the kids next door would enjoy them, they’re sweet right now. Then I thought to myself, wow, think of the difference? If our neighbors next store were white it wouldn’t be a problem to offer to them. But they’re black and that could easily be looked at as a racist suggestion on my part. I then thought to myself, how sad is that, but it’s a real thing.
Insane, but I get it, and I’d probably feel the same way.
Just eat the damn bananas!
My gesture at first wasn’t anything about race, but I had to stop myself because of the hyper-sensitivity that we deal with these days. It made me sad that I had to even rethink it. The kids are 2nd grade, kindergarten and two years old. I was just thinking they would enjoy them. But because of some of the assholes we have in society who have used bananas to make racist points against people of color, I couldn’t do it.
When they moved in about a year ago, my wife and I had a friend of ours who makes creative cookies make us some welcome to the neighborhood style cookies. We did the same for the hispanic couple with a baby who moved in a bit later on the other side of us. They’re all very nice people. It really is sad that you have a feeling of being forced to be careful with such a simple act of kindness that means nothing discriminatory.
Thanks racist assholes and PC media. SMH
“I joke about it, that it’s like playing Battleship. You really have no clue what the other guys are doing, anyways. You try to organize it the best you can and go off tendencies. All it takes is one game, and all the sudden the defensive coordinator flips all his tendencies. That’s done a lot. You try to give the quarterback and the players as many answers as possible.”
— Gase on making offensive calls, and got me thinking about putting our little fast Grant destroyer in play. Hard o find.