Monday Night Football! The Mecca of matchups! Eh, not anymore . . . Marquis matchups have been completely and thoroughly watered down by TNF, SNF, and sometimes even Saturday Night Football. Can’t say it enough, but it’s time the NFL drops Thursday Night Football. Maybe if they had 2 a year, that would be special, and only for teams coming off a BYE week. Also, no need for Sunday Night Football either, leave Monday Night Football as the marquis matchup, and dump SNF. I don’t even want to talk about Saturday Night Football. Do they realize that some of us fans are married, or in a relationship? “OK honey, you remember I’m watching football tonight, and all day tomorrow, and then Monday Night too, right?” Yeah, good luck with that!
So the Ajayi-less Dolphins travel to Carolina to play the Panthers. The Dolphins are not the only team who’s accomplished their record with smoke and mirrors. If the Dolphins have no business being 4-4, then the Carolina Panthers certainly have no business being 6-3. Carolina’s defense has been their savior, but their offense isn’t all that much better than ours. Cam Newton is what I’ve always thought he was, a super athletically talented QB who in reality, just isn’t that good a QB. Cam has a QBR of 78.4, with 1978 yards passing, 10 TD’s/11 INT’s. To his credit, he’s completing passes at a much higher percentage than his entire career, 62.4%, but take away his rushing threat as a QB, and this guy just doesn’t cut it.
The Panthers defense has been inconsistent, pitching great games against the Niners, Bills and Bucs allowing only 3 runs (points). On the the bad side, they gave up 34 to the Saints (L 34-13), 30 to the Patriots (W 33-30), and 28 to the Eagles (L 28-23). The defense of course features the league’s best MLB, Luke Keuchly, along with other standouts, LB Thomas Davis, LB Shaq Thompson, DT Kawann Short, DE’s Mario Addison and Julius Peppers, 6.5 sacks and 7.5 sacks respectively, and DT Star Lotuleilei
On offense, the Kelvin Benjamin-less Panthers bring a 2 headed backfield attack with a power attack from Jonathan Stewart, and a RB/WR hybrid Christain McCaffery (Former Bronco’s WR Ed McCaffrey’s son). Stewart barely leads the team in rushing with 350 yards, just 9 yards ahead of one Cam Newton. McCaffrey easily leads the team in receptions with 54, and has 406 yards receiving along with 2 TD’s. He also has 183 yards rushing, to give him nearly 600 all purpose yards.
The Dolphins will once again bring their own 2 headed rushing attack of Damien Williams and Kenyan Drake. So far, it looks like Williams is more McCaffrey while Drake is more Stewart, but don’t be surprised to see Drake catch more passes, and Williams get some more carries too. It’s a work in process, and I don’t believe anyone’s role has been defined. Devante Parker is back, and WOW what a catch he made last Sunday night! Ted Larsen should be starting at LG, which will probably mean Jesse Davis, who played LG this past Sunday will now move out to RT to replace hamstring injured Ja’Wuan James. Davis will mostly be going up against Charles Johnson on rushing downs, and Julius Peppers on passing downs, both good, veteran DE’s. Keep an eye on that, as the Dolphins will be sending some help over to his side.
On defense, we get recently activated off suspension S T.J. McDonald back! TE Ed Dickson is quietly having a nice season for the Panthers, and w/o Benjamin, he may be targeted even more, so look to see if T.J. McDonald is a factor there, or do we let Kiko Alonso chase him around all night. We’ll see Sunday night. The defense looks so good at times, and so bad at times, you just don’t know what to expect. I hope T.J. brings some much needed energy, and maybe a guy who can cover a TE effectively.
Now, for the moment everyone has been waiting for! Fest photos!
Ok, one more . . .
GO DOLPHINS! Zero in!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Nice photos
Looking forward to seeing McDonald play
Good stuff, Mike!
Tim
Tech-tarded Mike realized he just had to download all the pics and save them, I didn’t need a photo program, although I still with I had one. 🙂
LOL
I’d like to thank Toba and Doggy for supplying many of the photos you’re viewing. I wish I had a better pic of Doggy strumming that ol’ guitar, it was dark and windy and rainy that night, tough to get a good pic. That boy is a true entertainer!
Also, I thought I had a pic of me and ORob, but I don’t have one. If anyone has one, if you could please send it to me. Thanks!
I wish MNF was still like this . . .
I swear, it still gives me chills
Monday Night football was great, i believe it started in 1970 at 9 pm, before at 8:30 was the Don Shula show, never missed it back in those days
With all the talk about the salary cap in 2018, Armando did say a couple of weeks ago before we traded Ajayi that sources from inside the building told him the offense is going to go through a bit of an overhaul for the 2018 season. It hinted that Gase doesn’t exactly like the way it’s setup and doesn’t have all the pieces he wants.
Ken – Hope you feel better bud! You’ve a tough few months there.
Thanks. This was a just a stupid sports injury. It is a pain in the ass but it is the other stuff I have to worry about and not this.
Woohoo! I love Fest photos and putting faces to names.
I’m the good looking one
I know which one you are. The one without any pants! 🙂
Great Job Mike E !!
I must have dodged the cameras!
I guess you did! I could swear we took a pic together though, but it wasn’t my phone, because I don’t have it.
Your wife took it
There’s not a lot from D&Bs
Is mostly the game and Hollywood beach
I don’t remember taking a lot of pics Saturday night…do you guys recall heather we did or not
I think it was you i and piggy in that pic
I do remember a pic with you at D&B
Good stuff Mike
But hoping the NFL drops Thursdau night (or Sunday night) is a pipe dream IMO
Here is way too much $ in it for the NFL to drop it
I personally think the NFL is straddling the edge of saturating the market with so much football but I doubt they recognize he mystique they are losing and I’m guessing the profit outweighs that
Players hate it, and more and more players are and coaches are speaking out about it. They may reduce the amount of games they out on TNF, and that’s a step in the right direction.
Maybe the Next CBA will address it
Right now I think it’s thought of as a brand new marketing venue to the owners
Nice photos of the Fest! Agreed with Kong, it’s nice to be able to put faces to names… y’all are a good looking group.
Mike E, I’ve gotta tell ya, you’re STILL a young looking 50-something, Bro! And if I may say so, your wife is a good looking woman, man. Please don’t take that the wrong way, either: it’s merely a complement to her and your good taste!
I’m going to make it to a Fest sooner or later, and I look forward to as much!
He needed the assistance of a cane most of the time
The whole fest we were all yelling “hurry up Mike E, we are going to miss it”
He may look young but he sounds old . In person you can actually hear his bones creak everytime he moves
😜
😆
Thanks my young padawan – You better make it soon!
As sure as the Force, I will, Master Mike E!
Speaking as someone who lives in NFC North territory, I love Thursday night games. Hell, i’ll take games on any night because it increases my chances of being able to see my Fins if they are playing. I rarely get to see them on TV and have to deal with some shitty internet feed, so give me more games! Besides, if the Thursday night games sucks…here’s an idea….don’t watch it! Lol
Tim Knight says:
November 8, 2017 at 12:21 pm
M13, yes Modern Problems was the movie. It’s a silly but funny Chevy Chase movie.
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I STILL can’t believe I’ve never seen that movie, and I’m being SERIOUS! I MUST/WILL be checking it out! Thanks, man!
He’s driving behind a toxic waste truck when it pours out on his car he gets magical powers. LOL
when miami played on monday night they would do the don shula show from wherever they were playing as it was live
monday night halftime highlights were the shit! back then we didn;t have ESPN, the halftime show was the first glimpse of how the rest of the teams played that week
Now we get highlights mid-highlight via Twitter
Oh how the world has changed…
that’s when howard cosell got in trouble saying “look at that little monkey run” referring to Joe Washington
That would go over well today…
My grandfather used to call me monk or monkey when I was a young kid. I don’t think Cosell meant anything bad with his comment. If he said that about a white player nobody would have cared.
Awesome pics MIke E….the group photo looks like the sky could have been photo-shopped.
And yeah too bad was dark when the Dog was slamming it Fri nite. Hoping he does many such gigs in the future, but in my mind this one will always go down as the P-Dog Fest. And next time….a vid with audio.
Thanks to Toba and Doggy, who gave me most of the pics.
OK Rob, you were right, my wife took it. I look like an old midget next you freaking giants. lol
A sleepy old midget 🙂
Thanks to them (or maybe it is the better halfs) as well……and LMAO that Son and ORob are now both found.
^ both Toba and Doggy.
Try to find Son in the group pic……he’s doing his best Where’s Waldo impression.
Tim
That’s exactly what I mean when I say PC crowd. What Cosell said was absolutely not racist, in that he meant absolutely nothing racist when he said it. He had to be fired to appease the PC crowd, and that was a long time ago man, it’s 1000X worse now.
Absolutely!
^^^^^
stangerx says:
November 8, 2017 at 10:07 am
Don’t know about the rest of them, but I couldn’t get out of bed today cause of the deep dark depression from yesterday after learning the Koolaid/Homeriad/Stand the F Superhero had gone Debbie Downer. 🙂
Stangerx, I am sorry to have thrown you into a depression 😉 but I cannot overlook that the way they have played they SHOULD be at 0-8 right now. No amount of alcohol / drugs / secret homeraid ingredients can make me overlook how dreadfully awful the offense has been this year. They have been historically bad. Cam Cameron’s offense was better……
You speak the TRUTH, Rockphin… and we’ve offensive weapons galore.
0-8, come on.
Damn Mike, there’s something wrong with your wifes camera, it makes things appear bigger than the are!
LOL, she purchased an app from Iphone specifically for taking picture of Mike…..
😉
He may look young but he sounds old . In person you can actually hear his bones creak everytime he moves
I didn’t make it this year, but as of last year Mike could still run the 9 route!
It’s called the “90 route” now
LMAO @ Piggy!
https://twitter.com/List10bee_Swagg/status/928299830954332160
Is that yours?
He’s a WR on our PS.
Oh, LOL – OK
Tim Knight says:
November 8, 2017 at 12:21 pm
M13, yes Modern Problems was the movie. It’s a silly but funny Chevy Chase movie.
I like the scene where he gives his wife / girl “the best night of her life” from across the room with his powers. “ooh, ahh, ooohhh, ahhh”
Yeah, that was funny. I like the nosebleed scene too. I’m sucker for slapstick humor
Love the nosebleed scene and the ballet. LOL
fascinating photos, but how does anyone know who is who if we have never met any of you?
Not trying to be nosy or to ask anyone to do any extra work, just wondering if I missed something as several folks are saying “nice to put names to faces” etc. Did i miss the Pix ID key somewhere?
Did anyone notice that the pic I put up of the player coming out of the tunnel was Ajayi? 👿
Ajayi who?
Holiday Spirit
😉
Those are some big . . . .uh . . . .turkeys
I guess they give away melons too…
I love Thanksgiving.
Tim Knight says:
November 8, 2017 at 3:14 pm
Love the nosebleed scene and the ballet. LOL
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I was literally just typing a response saying the same thing. Those two scenes are my favorite along with the snorting the voodoo powder, lol.
So the last picture, I recognize Mike and Son. I assume it’s O Rob with his arm around Mike. Who is on the left? Bookman?
Son’s friend Bob
Yes, it’s ORob on the right
Bookman wasn’t there this year
That is a Sons buddy – not a regular poster here
Gotcha. I guessed Bookman since I know he’s like 6’6”. Thanks 🙂
Yeah, The ole Library Cop passed on this fest. When do we meet the Giant Ape?
Naples – Top right is Brian in NY, his son Sean (sp?) and Randy (OD), then next row below, Toba, Stanger and Doggy, next to that is my wife Dana, Doggy’s wife Annette and Toba’s wife Darlene. Next to that is my wife and I, and then Brian and his son again.
Picture with the 3 gals, on the left is Stanger’s wife. Pic with the tailgate open, from R to L, is Krishna, his wife Cheryl, and Phinpup Billy
Thank you Sir.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-sentenced-for-fiances-river-kayaking-death/ar-BBEIzco?li=BBnb7Kz
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Our justice system is so freakin wacked. Planned and executed a murder plot, admitted to it, and she gets 4 years.
The moral of the story is, if you are going to execute a spouse, make sure you do it by sawing halfway through the rope holding them to the cliff, or drill a hole in their boat, or cut the brake lines. Anything that doesn’t involve you killing them directly with a gun or a knife. SMH
That’s a crazy case!
I don’t get it either.
It was actually Alvin Garrett in Cosell’s monkey metaphor. “That monkey gets loose, doesn’t he?”
But it makes no difference. They also had Charlie Brown then, and both of them were very small WRs, which is why Cosell said he referred to them as monkeys, noting their frenetic style. He had previously referred to Mike Adamle, a white very small guy, as a monkey, so Cosell said he just used that term that way and even referred to his grandchildren as “monkeys loose in the backyard.”
As a coincidence, Adamle was a color commentator for that Redskins game, about 10 years after Cosell had called him the same unfortunate animal-comparison.
There was no “PC crowd” then. The black head of SCLC called for Cosell’s firing, although Jesse Jackson and Muhammad Ali defended Cosell, who quit. He did not get fired.
I watched the whole thing live. I was 31 years old.
I watched it live too. I don’t remember all the particulars of what happened afterwards, but in some regard, that still is a PC stance. What else would you call it?
Sorry … did not mean to be disputing your call at all, just had never heard that term back then.
Naples – I’m not being argumentative, and to be fair, I can assure you they didn’t call it “PC” back then, but to me, it’s exactly what PC is. Rather than try and take something at face value and in context, it’s just someone is butthurt, and now someone has to be the fall guy because of that.
Not sure when PC really got rolling.
“PC” can be traced back to the Neolithic Era when Ughda demanded the other members of the clan call Ughda a “caveperson”
LOL!
LOL
Sam Bradford on IR – Bridgewater activated. It’s Keenum and Bridgewater now
Mike E. says:
November 8, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Yeah, The ole Library Cop passed on this fest. When do we meet the Giant Ape?
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I would love to get down there, meet everyone, share some beverages, and enjoy a game together. I have no idea when/if it will ever happen. Hopefully we can make it happen in the next couple of seasons. More likely the wife and I will go to SoCal and try to meet up with the Doggy clan one of these years.
Gotcha Kong – That would be great in and of itself. You’re not going to find a better family to spend time with. Just fantastic people, from mommy to daddy to little puppy. 🙂
Looking forward to that Kong. Would be fun !!
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If you can wait few weeks do it. We’ll know direction of season. If you can wait until after the season, do it. Lots of changes coming next offseason.Armando Salguero added,
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hey @ArmandoSalguero, in this roster, who do you think will be the #Dolphins long term franchise’s face? I’m about to buy a jersey… Suh? Parker? Landry? Wake?
Get a #17 Octavio
That sounds like Pouncey’s done.
Anyone care to speculate on who might be removed so as to get us another step toward a winning program built the Gase way?
Well Gase loves Pouncey. I really don’t know what we’re going to do though.
Suh made PFF’s mid-season All Pro team, despite some old bad habits coming back.
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The second spot inside was a tight battle, with several players in the running. Suh is only really held back by his penalty count, which is again the highest mark among interior defenders (nine). Suh though has the second-best PFF grade among all interior defenders against the run (93.0) and has 23 total pressures.
He’s mauling people this year. I mean last year the dude was a beast, but this year he may be even topping last years production. His stats might not reflect it, i haven’t bothered looking at them closely, but he is more disruptive this year than even last.
Im thinking if we finish in the top 10, lots of changes will happen. I could see us cut or not resign most the position players on offense. I think we could see a new QB, possibly 2 new WR’s, 1 new RB and 2 new OL by start of next season.
We might wind up letting Landry walk, and cutting Stills, even after that re-sign last year. I think Thomas is a dead man walking, and if they go full rebuild we cut Pouncey and Tanny, and we wouldnt re-sign Williams or Moore.
Some would be easy to replace and other maybe not so much, but i have a feeling if we are not still holding our own by years end, we may look exactly the same on defense, but the offense is going to be damn near a whole new unit.
yep. 100%
In a recent speaking engagement, Bob Costas of NBC Sports talked about what he called “the decline of American football” and, in a nutshell, said “it destroys people’s brains”.
Unfortunately, I believe what he says to be true and if they don’t find a way to make it safer in that respect, and that’s something that may not be able to be done, I can see the sport going away forever.
I doubt people are going to continue to look at it from a risk vs reward point of view when playing the game and taking the money over their health. Don’t know how much longer it’s going to be around but it’s not going to survive if the long-term health of players will continue to be effected so dramatically.
Just thinking that if goes away on a college level, wow, what a huge financial hit it’s going to be to a great number of colleges and universities in this country.
You cant make concussions not a part of football. There is no equipment you can use to take that away. It doesnt take a crazy hard hit to get one. It just takes an abrupt change in mostion that would cause the broan to bounce off the skulls. Being tackled, not hit in the head does that, landing on the ground by your own force does that. I mean you could make it flag football, but even then if you dive for that pass, and whip your head against the ground, you could have one.
At some point you are right though, people are going to have to decide if the sport is worth keeping around, is it worth playing, is it worth watching knowing you might see a person take a hit that makes them a vegetable. The money though is hard to turn away from, and im not talking about just the players, im talking about the broadcast ratings, the merchandising, the commercial revenues, etc. I mean its the highest grossing sport in professional sports, and if you have a football team at your University or HS the revenues it generates usually can fund all the other sports., I doubt that it gets shutdown just for those reasons.
Its a hardcore brutal sport, and there isnt much you can do to change that, no rule adjustments, no technologically advanced equipment, etc. None of that will do anything but shrink the percentages by a very small amount.I mean hell we have been making changes to make the equipment better and the rules to prevent dangerous hits on players, and the injury rates are still actually going up. We made sure that anytime a person is even though to have potentially had a concussion we go through this rigorous protocol that makes sure they don’t go back until they are recovered, and still….. I just dont think there is ever going to be a time when we can feel like football is a safe sport.
Yeah, football is probably never going to be safer or become a safe sport to play. Especially with the speed of the game these days compared to years ago and the violent impacts. It may come down to the players signing releases and saying they’re going to assume the risk associated with concussions. I don’t know.
But, I’m also wondering if more and more players are shown to have the brain issues associated with concussions if the fans will continue to support the game knowing the health effects the players will suffer. If fans have enough of a conscience to turn away from the game that’s the thing that will put an end to it. Then, the money will no longer be there.
Bennett was released today by the Packers for “failure to disclose”.
Looks like McAdoo is going to out in NY as well.
As to the Photos.. Most of them were sent to my wife from Mike E’s wife and Toba’s wife. My wife shot a few of them. Wish we could have got more from D&B’s Sat night when we could have got more people in the photos… Next time we will make a bigger effort to get a lot of photos of everyone. Hell I didn’t take one photo the whole time I was there as I was just happy to see everyone 🐕
I’m just glad no one posted the compromising NSFW photos of me
Stanger.. As long as Son brings his guitar I’ll be more than happy to play it as long as Mike E sings if you plan on recording video and audio. Dude can hit every note.. I had a blast figuring out the songs you all wanted to hear.🎸🎼😎
I can fart Yankee Doodle
I dont know if Benett is a worth while investment at this point in his career, but he is a really good fit for what Gase wants to do at TE. Dont believe we can afford to add him though. Even cutting Thomas, where we could pick up 3mil off this years cap, probably cant squeeze him in.
Ok then im going to request he sing Take on Me by A-ha, id be pretty impressed if he can hit that note.
“Take me on—–squeeeeeeeeealll”
He easily can.. I bet he sang Franky Valley songs around a burning trash can when he was 1,270 years old 😆
Probably can do that circular breathing shit the didgeridoo players can do, and has at least a century or two of throat singing experience.
P-dog….Toba/P-Dog Fridays are all on you guys, but heck yeah would be great to have least one song to pop on the board if not more (says the only guy on the board worse at Tech than OD). Long as am doing back seat driving though…..here’s one to learn. 🙂
https://www.lyricsondemand.com/u/unknownlyrics/miamidolphinsfightsonglyrics.html
D says:
November 8, 2017 at 7:12 pm
I dont know if Benett is a worth while investment at this point in his career, but he is a really good fit for what Gase wants to do at TE. Dont believe we can afford to add him though. Even cutting Thomas, where we could pick up 3mil off this years cap, probably cant squeeze him in.
yeah, when you look at the cap situation, it doesn’t appear they could feasibly cut anyone to make room
Seriously.. Mike E can Effin sing !!
I dont hink the fans of football will ever turn away from watching it just because of the hard hits that might be career ending, hell people scour the internet or pust taped games where players legs snap and flop around like a fish, almost with just morbid desire to watch it over and over. We are callous to it. Its like the Nascar fans, which a lot of them are somewhat hoping for a collision. We are not far removed from a level if civility that had gladiators fighting to the death or being mauled by animals in a Colosseum when you get down to it.
LOL. You’re right. Not too far removed from “Idiocracy”
We need to see how Thomas finishes up this season. He had his best game Sunday night and maybe he’s starting to fit in. He has 4 catches of 20 yards or more behind only Stills and Parker with 5 each even though Parker has missed 3 games. Our offense hasn’t been stable all season but maybe we needed some time to get on the same page. OL, QB, RB and even TE have gone through some ups and downs and changes. It hasn’t been an ideal situation. We’ll see how it plays out.
Cutler missed the offseason so his first few games were like his offseason. You could see him becoming more comfortable and more confident with his guys. That being said, the offensive line being what it is, not having the ability to run block and not having a rb who can stick it up in the hole is going to be tough to overcome
That’s what I’m saying nothing has been ideal the way you would draw it up. Cutler coming in late, Pouncey coming back from injury, Tunsil moving to LT, new LGs and backup C, two new TEs, moving on from Ajayi. We can’t seem to get the offense to have continuity. Maybe we can moving forward and build on that. Then in the offseason assess who fits and who doesn’t. I doubt Bushrod will be back so RG will be open next year as well.
Yes, difficult to overcome everything that’s happened this year.
Time to watch Logan Woodside.
ProfLou….any chance we ever get you to a Fest? Would be great to meet you….and promise everyone who shows up is nice as can be….amazing how different than the board can be sometimes.
I’m sure it would be a good time but there’s not much chance I’m going to be making it to a game anytime soon
That’s too bad….and heck yeah it is a good time. Invitation always open though.
anyone else see this. it’s hilarious:
Awesome. Gets me back to my Peyton love days and makes me want to watch Blind Side again. Thanks.
Everyone I have met from the blogs are cool people – Mike, Ken, Piggy, NJ, Al, Stanger and Brian.
Tried to hook up with David and Walker in Miami for the Giants Monday Night game in 2015 but they got stuck in traffic and were late to the game.
When you meet people in person the online relationships change. It’s easy for typed words to create shit storms. When you’re hanging out having some food and drinks it’s a whole different experience.
No question about it Tim – It’s really nice to meet all the people here, and I still look forward to meeting more.
Graham Norton. One of the best shows on television. This is one of the best episodes. Absolutely hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoI-J-ha-dY
2nd part is a must-see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_632015719&feature=iv&src_vid=aoI-J-ha-dY&v=3Wppn4CKlmA
MIKE E: Thanks for posting the photos of the FEST!!! – – THAT’s ME in the #27 AJAYI jersey throwing a pass to Mike E!! –It’s also me standing between Mrs. Manitoba (49ers gear) and Mr. Manitoba. WHAT A GREAT TIME I HAD!!! – – IF ONLY Mrs. OD could have been there – – maybe
next year if she continues to improve. Yesterday’s cortisone shot has improved her condition and lessened her pain. Her follow-up exam is Nov. 21.
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Y’all behave while I’m away in Baltimore. Hope to return in time for the ‘Canes-Notre Dame game Saturday night at Hard Head Stadium on ABC. By that time, the FAU @ La. Tech game should be in the last quarter. GOO-O-O-O OWLS!!!
OOPS!!–That’s the #23 AJAYI jersey!!!
Woodside is quickly becoming my favorite qb in this draft class.
The Flying Pig says:
November 8, 2017 at 6:58 pm
I’m just glad no one posted the compromising NSFW photos of me……
amazing what a long focus lens can do huh Piggy. There are more where this came from. a LOT more, if you don’t make the agreed upon payment by this time tomorrow I will release them to the press.
makin bacin
How much did I drink?
I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.
I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked,”If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?”
“No, I had to stop drinking years ago,” the homeless man replied.
“Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?” I asked.
“No, I don’t waste time fishing,” the homeless man said..”I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.”
“Will you spend this on hunting equipment?” I asked.
“Are you NUTS!” replied the homeless man. “I haven’t gone hunting in 20 years!”
“Well,” I said, “I’m not going to give you money. Instead, I’m going to take you home for a shower and a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.”
The homeless man was astounded. “Won’t your wife be furious with you for doing that?
I replied, “Don’t worry about that. It’s important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up drinking, fishing and hunting.” 🤘
LOL!!
Now That’s Funny !!
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After seeking second medical opinions, Colts CB Vontae Davis is opting to undergo season-ending groin surgery, per source.
Toledo wr Cody Thompson suffered a season ending injury in his last game and didn’t play last night. Broken leg. Too bad. He was having a great season.
Phindog says:
November 8, 2017 at 7:14 pm
Seriously.. Mike E can Effin sing !!
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well he is Diamond Dave.
if you’re Ross do you give Gase a pass this year due to Tannehills injury?
It has to be factored in for sure, that and other injuries, but the season is still young. Still a half to go, so there may not be anything to give him a pass for. 🙂
Yup. I don’t even know why it’s a question.
Jahndoh taking a break from brewing?!?
That looks awesome, and terrifying . . .
Mavericks
Hmmm, isn’t Joe Philbin on that staff? LMAO!
He’ll be a Raider soon.
Mavericks is a surfing location in California, i think it’s near SF where waves reach 60 feet this time of year, brings surfers in and the great whites wear their dinner jackets
I saw a movie about them called Chasing Mavericks based on a true story.
Did everyone get eaten by sharks and die? lol
No but the surfer Jay Moriarity that the story is about did drown at 22 years old in a diving accident.
It’s a shame that we might finally get Larsen to start and James will probably be out
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I don’t think Jesse Davis will be that bad, and James will be back after a couple of games, but yeah, it would have been nice to have the 5 starters we were supposed to have from the start.
That never happens.
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Dolphins HC Adam Gase said it’s possible RT Ja’Wuan James’ hamstring injury is long term. Team still discussing options.
Nothing you can do about these injuries. They’re all over the league. I can’t remember this many players going on IR as this year
I know it’s crazy.
Doesn’t look good at all . . .
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article183670546.html
No it doesn’t.
His eyebrows look injured too
Wtf – he looks like an extra from the Hills Have Eyes
He has Alopecia.
I thought he looked odd, but couldn’t put my finger on why. WTF? Does he wax his eyebrows?
The Falcons game and the Chargers i know for sure were really standout games for him. Those were pass rushers that give most guys fits and he handled them very well. He had problems against Jordan of the Saints, but most people do he is a really big dude who can switching in and out between elite power rush and speed rush moves. His game against the Ravens was a pretty good one, even though the score showed not much else worked for us. He wasnt great but not awful against the Jets both times. I think if anything he definitely has been more good than bad this year.
I think the big deal with how soon they have to make this decision is because of his 5th year option that kicks in day 1 of the new league year. If that option kicks in, his salary is fully guaranteed no matter what, so cutting him after that point wouldnt make room for us to sign anyone else using the money we saved on him.
You gotta play who you got, but Davis is going to struggle at RT. We may have no choice but to continue throwing really short passes or Cutler may be killed. Plus, Bushrod has struggled all year, and he is not going to be much help to a new RT. Larsen is not a major upgrade. He’s been in the league long enough that we know what he is. He’s a very average player…some might say slightly below average. He’s probably better than what we’ve been trotting out there at RG…but not by much. I hope i’m wrong.
I really hate the way Mando phrases it
“If the Dolphins don’t think an inconsistent RT is worth 9 million they might rescind the option”
I think that’s a real oversimplification of what the team weighs when keeping a guy or not
How many players are really worth millions of dollars
The real questions are cap space and whether the team can upgrade with the money saved
I think there’s an easy answer to that
The answer is NO
You arent going to rescind an option to James and sign an upgrade for less than 9m
You migh draft a replacement but I don’t think it’s wise to open a hole at one position and assume you will fix it in the draft
I tend to think James will be under contract next year – unless his long term health is really a problem
Oops. LG I meant.
Is that right D? Alopecia? What is that?
Its a disease that makes your body hair fall out. Eyebrows, etc. A few players have it to certain degrees. That kid from UTenn, the backup QB for the Steelers, Dobbs, also has it
Awwwww…now I feel bad
Ryan Shazier has it too.
I think the big deal with how soon they have to make this decision is because of his 5th year option that kicks in day 1 of the new league year. If that option kicks in, his salary is fully guaranteed no matter what, so cutting him after that point wouldnt make room for us to sign anyone else using the money we saved on him.
D, the Dolphins exorcised their 5th year option already, back in May.
I know Rock, but the 5th year option doesnt officially kick in until beginning of the business year this coming year.
Ie the contract language that says, fully guaranteed against injury, isnt active right now, so sending him to IR wouldnt kick in the guarantees. If we put him on IR next year, after that language is in effect, we cannot get out of the guaranteed money. He will count against the cap if he is her or not.
ocalarob says:
November 9, 2017 at 8:54 am
if you’re Ross do you give Gase a pass this year due to Tannehills injury?
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I think there are a lot of things that Gase can still be judged on that have nothing to do with W’s and L’s, or one QB leading a team vs another. They should focus on how they felt like he dealt with that adversity and how he did with what he had. I think a knock against him is going to be the Ajayi situation, not sending him packing, that might actually be considered an appropriate resolution, but how long he let things go before making a move, or not being able to get him to get back in line, before having to take more drastic measures surely doesnt look great management wise. There are a ton of way to evaluate his performance outside of just looking at the record.
It really wasn’t that long in terms of having issues with Ajayi. Gase was patient with him and Ajayi was productive last year so he kind of had to ride with it. This year he said enough is enough. Was he supposed to trade him last year when he was rushing for 200+ yards? That would have looked worse.
Im just suggesting thats one of the things that he might be judged on. How they will judge him on it could go either way, he can look like he exhausted all effort before getting there or he could be looked at as not having done it soon enough, thats all in the eyes of the person who is evaluating him. I dont have a problem with how he handled it.
I don’t think Ross or the FO has a problem with how he handled it either and they’re the only ones who matter.
I think James will be on our team IF we think he will be back at some point next year. Im afraid though that if he isnt going to be able to, we might cut him before the end of the year so that we avoid having to fully guarantee his contract next year. Sounds cold, but we can either have an extra 9mil in salary cap and use it to get a replacement, even if its a 1 year rental, or we can just have 9mil + in space sitting there and knowing we wont have him at all. One other option would be to extend him, and make next years cap hit be small and giving him guarantees that might make him feel more secure about his future past 2018.
I think plans to extend him before 2018 kicked in was always the plan, now thought, it would have to happen BEFORE the new business year, instead of anytime before FA.
D says:
November 9, 2017 at 2:22 pm
I know Rock, but the 5th year option doesnt officially kick in until beginning of the business year this coming year.
I think you are wrong. See below.
In order to extend the contract, the team must inform the player during the period between the last regular season game of the player’s third contract year and May 3 of the next League Year (Article 7, Sec. 7, (a), 31).
The fifth-year option is non-negotiable, and the non-compensation terms from a player’s rookie contract will also be included in the fifth-year option.
Many terms allowed in other contracts are prohibited from the fifth-year option. These terms include option bonuses, option exercise fees, option nonexercise fees, option buyouts, or any other compensation that stems from the team exercising or declining the 5th-year option (Sec. 7 (d), 31).
When a team exercises the option, it becomes guaranteed for injury only. If the player is on the team’s opening-day Active/Inactive roster for the option year, his salary becomes fully guaranteed for skill, cap, and injury.
Is $9M a year that much money for a tackle anymore? Hell, even guards are getting mega deals. James has played pretty good this year. I’d have no problem paying him $9M a year if they feel comfortable with his health.
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And I have no idea what the hell Gase is saying about Pouncey. He has gotten his ass whooped many times this year. I think Pouncey must be Gase’s connection because Gase sure seems to have a hardon for the guy.
Man the Hollywood sexual harassment accusations are mounting. Wait until the pedophile rings start being exposed, then it’s really going to get disgusting.
Are you referring to the new Louis CK stuff?
I didn’t know about that one so that’s another. I just keep seeing more and more everyday. The shit going on with the NFL is nothing compared to this creepy shit.
From the Armando article that Mike posted.
“James is locked in for next year with the Dolphins because they exercised a fifth-year option that guarantees him just under $9 million and protects him for injury.
But the Dolphins have the right to rescind that option before the start of the 2018 league year and that would make James an unrestricted free agent.”
You just proved my point Rock…..
When a team exercises the option, it becomes guaranteed for injury only. If the player is on the team’s opening-day Active/Inactive roster for the option year, his salary becomes fully guaranteed for skill, cap, and injury.
The option year is 2018…not 2017 they had to make the decision to exercise the option in 2017, but the option itself is for the 5th year which is 2018.
Hmmmm i see what oyu are saying now. I didnt catch that first little blurb about the injury settlement being active as soon as its exercised.
If that’s the case we should keep him on the roster, its not going to cost us anything more or less to do so.
Randy i only remember seeing one bad game, and im not 100% sure it was his fault. It was Davis’ first game and people credited him with a good game but i saw Pouncey having to help him with his gy and then fall back over an try to pick up his and it wasnt working out very well. That was one of those ones where i saw PFF give Davis a good grade and really disagreed. I think thats why Gase can make statements that seem completely to the contrary to ours, he knows what was called, he knows who was whose assignment and he knows who maybe didnt play as well, but it was because they were covering someones mistakes.
But the Dolphins have the right to rescind that option before the start of the 2018 league year and that would make James an unrestricted free agent.”
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I think this is what i was thinking about, that you still had a cut option before the 5th year kicked in, but it had to be done before the open of the league year 2018.
D, I see you saw now. I was going to respond again but refreshed my page first so I saw your post. See saw see saw. That is what I was trying to convey. Putting him on IR this year would trigger the guarantee for next year now. Otherwise the rules wouldn’t be worded that way.
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Do you think James’s injury may keep him out some next year too? What kind of hamstring injury is that?
I guess it depends on whether he needs surgery for it.
It’s pretty bad. May require a hamstring transplant. Not a lot of donors so the wait could be 6-12 months before he even has the surgery.
Before people start googling “hamstring transplant” I was just goofing off.
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for next month’s U.S. Senate election is also being accused of sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl. WTF is going on?
Isn’t that the guy with the little gun in his speech?
This is for a very good cause but JC – the best bid for Cam’s jersey worn at the Saints debacle is over $1200!!! Hoooooooooooly Toledo! Be interesting to see what it maxes out at?
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I man stumbles into his house in the wee hours of the morning drunk off his ass and has a duck under his arm. He walks in to find his wife is awake and waiting for him. He looks at his wife and then down at the duck and says “Thish ish my pig” His wife shakes her head in disgust and says “go to bed you stupid drunk, that is a duck not a pig” the man says “I washint talking to you”
Funny!
Tim Knight says:
November 9, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for next month’s U.S. Senate election is also being accused of sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl. WTF is going on?
He will most likely still get elected anyway. It is Alabama we are talking about. He has an R next to his name so he will get the votes. He is a racist homophobe that has been thrown out of the Alabama supreme court twice. A little pedophilia isn’t going to deter any of his supporters from voting for him.
plus, the allegations are just surfacing now 40+ years after it supposedly happened.
Oh it’s been that long. Not surprised that he’s a racist homophobe. Still too many of them out there.
It bums me out to read the allegations against Louis C.K.
Yeah same here. He likes to masturbate in front of women. Like he can’t hook up and have sex the old fashioned way. SMH
He’s married right?
I’m just reading into this – but I’m guessing the masterbating thing is his Way of being faithful
He was asking women to come to his hotel room (and they did) and then asking if he could masterbate in front of them…lol
So yeah he probably could have had sex with them, but instead….
I kind of feel bad for him
Maybe I’m reading into it too much
Lol, yeah or just higher a stripper/prostitute. Then you’re just a normal perv, not abusing your position or power.
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Having an “R” next to your name makes you a Racist Homophobe?
No I don’t think so. But there are still too many people out there like that. Live and let live.
Lol, i was keying more on the fact he was saying being from Alabama made him a racist homophobe.
I think if we full reboot next year, ie cut Tanny as well, im going to double dip at QB kind of like the Redskins did when thye drafted RG3. I only mean the double dip part, no way in hell id make that kind of trade up, and really i dont think id take a first round QB unless it was really looking like we couldn’t get my guy in the second or later in the first. I also think id be tempted to trade back in the first to pick up more picks because we are going to have more holes to fill.
Id be targeting Luke Faulk Or the Thorson kid out of Northwesterns, as my first pick and they are probably 2nd round options. Then probably with one of the extra picks in the 4th id take a guy like Will Grier out of WV. Trade back in the first pick up a 2nd and hopefully get a good WR and TE with 1st and seond pick and our third round we could take an OC.
In the when legal stuff gets in the way of actual football and FF…..judge says Ezekiel Elliott is a no go this week. And even if going the legal hail mary next week — just what that is as far as the five games after.
Its immoral, selfish, and id think the trust between he and his spouse is broken no matter if he just jacks off to those women or if he fucks them. Sounds like to me though those women were willing participants, and if they are going to choose to do that, then they shouldn’t get to play a victim card later. It be different if he maybe locked them in the room until they forcibly committed to watching them, but this seems like a victimless thing to me. I dont feel sorry for him either, he made a decision that he needed to cross a line to get satisfaction, there are crossroads everyone comes to every day, and decisions to cross them come with consequence sometimes if you arentman enough to deal with the consequence, dont do the deed.
wyoming85 says:
November 9, 2017 at 3:38 pm
Having an “R” next to your name makes you a Racist Homophobe
No being a Republican in Alabama make you the only candidate Regardless if you’re homophobic racist pedophile
While historically there have been many more Democrats elected to the senate from Alabama that changed in the 80’s. All republicans since then except for Heflin who got and held his seat from 79 until sessions beat him in 97. ‘Bama Is a deep red state.
It looks like a few Republican Senators are trying to get him to step down or prop up Luther Strange (the guy Trump endorsed) as a write in candidate at the 11th hour
Honestly he’s had a ton of other very shady controversies and this one takes the cake
I don’t think the GOP is excited to be stuck with him but bc the election is so close they might not have a choice
Which increases the odds that his democrat opponent might get elected and if that happens in Alabama….well the world is upside down
LOL @ Kong – I was like damn, hamstring transplant!!!!
I’ve had so many hamstring injuries, there was one summer playing softball on concrete, I pulled one, then the other almost every other week. It was getting ridiculous.
Lol, when I posted it I thought I was just being absurd. Then I discovered there is actually such a thing as a hamstring transplant, so I threw a qualifier in there.
D, I think Tannehill will be our QB next year. I don’t think he’s part of the changes.
Gase has said Ryan will be back and ready for the start of the 2018 season.
TJ sounds like he is panting to go. Also said he watched each game with Tony Lippett.
“It’s been tough sit back and watch,. But I’ve been doing all I can to be here for my teammates. Definitely, it made me appreciate the game. I’ve done everything to get back right. Watching the games on Sunday, not being able to be in the stadium. Not being able to get the true feeling after a win or make the corrections after a loss.”
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Crazy season isn’t it? LOL
Shows what Gas is saying a W isnt not always an indicator that the team did well, and a loss isnt an indicator it did poorly.
Good job Jay Cutler!
(Piggy kicks a can)
Tim im not suggesting to bail on Tanny, but if they go full reboot, you cant count out that the coaching staff or the FO might not want to start over with a new QB. I was just theorizing a scenario where thats what decision they made, and what i would do as them if that was their decision. There is not ploy to make it a Tanny needs to go conversation.
I know that’s not what you’re doing. The fact that he’s in the meetings and on the sidelines working with the QBs and giving Gase his input is also a sign that’s he part of the team moving forward. If he wasn’t Gase wouldn’t have him playing that role. Gase likes Ryan and doesn’t have the negative opinion about him that others do,
First off, you do realize that the south was completely democrat for a LONG time, the democrats were the party of the south, while republicans were the part of the North. In fact, id bet that most older people in the south are still registered as democrats.
Secondly, There are no true democrat candidates here, there are only conservatives running on the democrat ticket. There is really no difference in the candidates here, with exception of some true democratic candidates who may get about 2% of the vote, and generally don’t make it through primaries, so Piggy, even if it does make a democrat more ikely to get elected, its still a republican in office lol.
Third, there is corruption everywhere, this guy and his 40 year old allegations are not shocking and they arent likely any less offensive as the shit thats probably going to be dug up on all the rest of the people in congress. New actors and actresses everyday are being called out, several politicians, etc, because all these people are dirty. They live lives completely different than any of us can expect, they have temptations almost none of us are ever going to be tempted with, and yet they are still just ordinary people, not the people we for some reason put on a pedestal and think they are more evolved/civilized/ethical or whatever else we might elevate them to.
I don’t find any of this shocking personally, its just a corner in your house that you might have skipped over cleaning the past few times and now everyone is embarrassed because someone came along and noticed it. This is the purge that Hollywood and DC have needed for a while.
Good post!
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Rock’s intial post talked about the change in the south so I don’t feel the urge to cover it again – and it’s not relevant. We all know that fwiw. But in the current dynamic Alabma is a deeply red state and it’s very hard for a democrat to get elected there
My point is a few republicans have asked him to take his name off the ticket, McConnell publicly did it and I don’t blame him – but there is a 75 day rule so they can’t. And then there is a new idea that people write in strange – and I don’t blame for republicans for trying either but it’s tough to push for a write in
I don’t know a thing about the other candidate burns finding hard to beleive these allegation aren’t devastating to Moore and a windfall for him. No matter conservative he might be (you get the opposite effect here in NY, the republicans are pretty liberal relatively speaking) the way Washington is these days – the mere (D), no pun intended, is devastating. Democrats basically concede that they won’t have a rep from a few states like Alabama in the senate based on recent history and this changes that dynamic
Also o don’t really think it matters how old those allegations are (I can’t imagine that anyone would be able to prosecute old crimes like that) or what’s going on in Hollywood and elsewhere
I gues there is an argument to be made for desensitized
But when you are in the voting booth are you going to endorse a guy like that. It’s a little different with a politician – where you can acutely not vote for him and vote for some one else. The election is in early December so it’s going to be on everyone’s mind