SO, our disappointing season continues as we host the hapless Denver Broncos, who oddly enough, are in worse shape than our Dolphins at 3-8. This game is meaningless for us the fans, but to players, the games still matter, because they get paid, and they have a job to do, and for some, they are looking to make a positive impression on the coaches to earn a spot on the roster. In the big picture, it would probably be better for us to lose out, and finish the season 4-12, and end up with a top 5 pick, but Coach Gase and probably the majority of the players don’t want to see that.
I’m not even sure what to expect from our team this week. Denver is hurting in the secondary with the 1 game suspension of Aqib Talib, so one might think Devante Parker should feast. The reality is, even with Jay Cutler at QB, who loves Parker, they just can’t seem to have a big game together. His best game this season was probably game 1 against the Chargers where he caught 4 passes for 85 yards, but he scored his ONLY TD in Week 2 in the final second of a 20-6 loss against the Jets. Remember before the season all the talk about what a great year Parker is going to have, he was tearing it up in training camp, practice and even the preseason? BLAH BLAH BLAH, he’s completely underperformed again, along with the rest of the team. Broken record.
Some here will be rooting for a loss, some for a win, and others don’t even care anymore and won’t bother to watch. I’ll watch, I have to, but if it wasn’t for FF, I might find other things to do on Sundays at this point. I think when I sit down to watch, I just hope I can see something that gives me hope that we can be a good team. Show me some good play in all phases and beat the Broncos 34-3. I’d rather lose than have us win a slopfest 13-10 or something, and I really mean that. That win, to me at least is meaningless. If we’re going to win, at least give us something to watch.
Finsmob Unleashed 
I guess I’ll switch over to the Dolphins’ game from the college playoff selection show.😐
And the screen passes have begun!!!
Great block by RB.
Almost makes you think Gase wanted to put the pressure on. Not so hot today….but they do come from Colorado.
The f’ing patsies-jills are on the telly here in Naples … anybody got some bleach for my TV screen?
Oh and an alternative viewing channel?
McDonald! yes
Who deflected it? He made that pick happen.
Drake getting a chance to show if he can be the guy both rush and receive.
Should get good field position for this drive.
Weak ass attempt to catch that by Parker
Parker has to make that catch
Low ball and poor effort. Just bad football.
This offense just can’t get into a rhythm early on in games. It’s crazy! The defense sets them up over and over and they do nothing with it.
Parker = bust
Wtf was Howard doing on that play
Apparently nothing
Another crossing route we don’t know how to cover
End if 1/4 1. Def 2 off 0
Wow how was that not a PI
Tim Knight says:
December 3, 2017 at 12:56 pm
This season is not a good one to use stats and philosophies for our team. But last year we passed 29.8 times PG and rushed 25.3 PG. Not a 40-15 split.
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It seems to me the perfect time, we went 10-6 last year with a balanced attack, look how we’ve done with an un-balanced one this year.
Stills on the ground again. wow, what a catch.
That’s not PI? LOL
Still likes to make easy catches into circus catches lol. Good concentration
Well played Stills
Prettying pass by Cutler
Pretty
Nice back shoulder fade too
For the TD
Boom 💥
Julius!!!
Write that down
A Dolphins receiver caught a back shoulder fade for a TD on this date
Howard !!!!!
our defense regains the lead over our offense. lol
Lol
OMG Howard made a play
XAVIEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Thank you Trevor
Def 9 off 7 😎👍
Holy shit! I went outside to do something and said okay how about a Howard or Tank INT they are due, and when I came back in I saw the extra pt and replay. 🙂
This is looking like Howards best game yet. Have nit been impressed with him this year until today
About time he did something to justify his draft status
I had him on the cutting/upgrade block. Hope tiday is a shape of things to come , hes made three really good plays so far today
Howard has played well all year. Everyone focuses on his bad moments. You can do that with every player on this team. He also deflected the pass to prevent a 1st down and held them to a FG. He’s a young corner learning the NFL game. But he competes, hits and tackles. So does Tank who had a rep for not tackling, he’s been the opposite for us. LOL
You may be right Tim , i only recall him getting beat a lot.
I think Howard and Tank will be core players for us moving forward.
Theres my Jay 😡
that’s incomplete
That’s not a pick.
We always lose these calls anyway so whatever. The officials are all over the place. It is what it is.
That’s the Cutler we know and love
Tim:
Howard is the lowest rated cb in the NFL. He has played horribly this season
Rated by PFF
I think PFF is out of iys mind with that rating
I don’t think Howard is the problem with the D
It’s just the nature of he CB position
Sometimes ratings are really way off bc a guy is on the ugly end of a few plays
Okay, according to PFF? LOL
I watch the games too. Agree to disagree.
Rob, how you liking the running game?
Drake already has 13 carries
If we keep this lead he may have 30+ today
Gase is defying Rob’s concerns which is a good thing. Things chance when the game is a one possession game or you have a lead.
This team has not quit so let’s end that shit right now.
It’s not like any of these cbs are going to be shutdown types
The Dolphins like them bc they are tall
But the problem is we are not using them that way. We keep playing zone – WTF
The personel in out secondary is fine IMO
I don’t expect a lot of changes – unless the Dolphins decide they want to change their defensive scheme significantly
No such thing as a shutdown corner. The league won’t allow it. That comes from special players, not a position. The corners are not why we’re 4-7. LOL
We I think are looking for press zone CBs, but they seem to run more pure zone and I rarely see them in press and then falling back to zone like they would if they were doing press zone. You see them in press man and off man about as much as press zone, so it’s kind of confusing to know what their primary secondary strategy is. That might be the point too, I’m not sure but they are drafting press zone guys
They seem confused sometimes
Wtf pass on 3rd and 1
Putting aside 2 plays today what has Howard done this season to justify his draft status? He has been beaten repeatedly. Our CBs have been horrible
Totally disagree. By the way people were writing of McCain too and he’s been very good this year.
I think Tankersly has been pretty solid. Howard has been up and down and imo is average as a CB. I think he should be further along in his development so I’m a little disappointed in him, Tankersly is about where he should be and has been playing pretty good with an occasional rookie mistake here or there
Tim shutdown is usually what they call a island DB, and that’s usually a man or press man corner and they normally stick that guy on the primary receiver. We don’t have a corner like that, we keep our guys on their own side. So we dont try to defend that way
We play man all the time but everyone thinks it’s zone. I’m not sure what people are seeing anymore. LOL
No we don’t. We play zone a lot. We play man some when we go to our flavor of Tampa 2 but we do a mix of everything I have seen us in every one of the above listed formations at CB in games this year
Bash the team all you want….but never say they don’t have heart.
We have a 13 point lead at the half!!!
I repeat we have a lead at the half!!!
Tim zone is easy to spot because the DBs start settling into their zone and not mirroring the DB right after snap. If they are in off man it can look like zone especially wen the WR is crossing their zone, but you can tell by how tightly the coverage is in the zone and how under the route they stay instead of in the pocket of the receiver.
McCain has been much better this year but he has had some serious mistakes that cost us big to go along with some pretty great plays that stopped drives. Howard has been in similar place, ups with downs, problem is these guys are 2nd and 4th year players making rookie mistakes at a higher rate than even our rookie is
D, I know what all this stuff means. We play more man than you think. Even a quarters defense is man coverage with a zone alignment. Once it’s you vs. him it’s man. Sam Madison had a good video explaining it maybe 3 years ago or so.
Tim:
I agree that Mcain has been solid but I disagree with you on Howard and the jury is still out on Tankersley. I think CB will be a big focus in the off season
I don’t think we need to address CB
How many things can a team focus on?
We have too many. My priorities our OL and CB
I don’t. Lippett comes back to join the young group with Jones and McDonald at safety. The secondary is being built before our eyes. 🙂
LB has been revamped as well and depth on the DL in two offseasons.
I think this defense needs to stay in tact for another year instead of always thinking everything needs to change. The offense needs a change for sure. I like this defense moving forward. Maybe I’ll be wrong. We’ll see. 🙂
I agree the offence needs a LOT more attention than Def when it comes to personnel.. maybe some new schemes but i think personnel is pretty good
NIce play design and execution
The officials are lost. They call nonsense and miss obvious.
Hey NFL, better get a handle on your game, you look like clowns.
Agreed. The spot for the Landry pass on second down was junk as well.
Horrible no call on the PI on Landry
How you cove the guy crossing your zone just depends on what the rest of the defense is in, it doesn’t change if you were in zone or not. Example was what I called out Alonzo on the other day. He had zone and Gronk crossed his zone, Howard was in man and MacDonald was in zone. Cooks cleared out Howard and Macdonald on the deep. Alonzo needed to stay with Gronk but he hesitated leaving his zone which gave them the TD. It doesn’t mean that Alonzo had man coverage, it means he needed to stay with the receiver because there was no one to pick him up because Howard was in man. Had Howard been in zone he would have stayed with Cooks until he cleared the zone and Gronk entered it, MacDonald would have picked up Cooks and Alonzo would have been right to stay in his.
Again this doesn’t mean Alonzo zone then man no wait zone ah crap man again… He was zone lol
ahh man… defense had a chance to regain the lead over the offense. lol
😎
I think Howard is good and might improve in his third year. I think Lippett could compete with him or tankersly to start. Tankersly I think is a starter IF he continues to shake off some of those rookie mistakes and I don’t know that they keep McCain, I think they could improve in the draft over him, but he has been good enough this year to possibly earned being brought back.
I don’t think DB, S or CB, is at such a high need to make us need to draft one earlier. I do think there is a possibility if Fitzpatrick drops to us, with his position versatility we might take him. That’s about the only top CB I think we would go for over offense selection
aw shit.
Wow, really Stills…..really
did Stills really think he was gonna run over that guy ?
Pretty touch-pass there by Cutler to Stills. Too bad for the fumble.
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, sloppy, lazy, undisciplined. Luckily we’re playing against a pretty bad QB. It’s frustrating though.
This team feeds off of guys making plays. We’ve been dead so often this year. Complementary football. I love the effort today.
Suh! nice pressure!
There have been two blatant PIs not called. Refs as a whole this year are way worse than last year and last year had some pretty bad games
That’s the problem with our team is we seem to always be looking for a way to shoot ourselves in the foot
Drake has run the ball very well
Love the Drake! 🙂
Maybe he will learn not to pass on 3rd and 1
Cutler blows so much
15 yds on Stills fir ball slap
Drake has been running well and twice on third an 1 the call a pass
Like I said…….and that’s the second time we’ve thrown on 3rd and 1. Stop it.
C’mon, Cutler! SMH
Is that on Cutler or Parker ?
Horrible decision by Cutler
Little of both. Bad choice by Cutler, no effort by Parker
And that’s where we are as a team. WTF?!!!!!
That was a Cutler bad decision but he has been on point all day until that pass
We gave Denver life when it should never have happened.
Parker isn’t at all fighting for the pass. He is supposed to be a contested pass receiver so that’s another weak attempt. Cutler shouldn’t have thrown it to him though. That play was designed to get the RB open on the wheel
Miller is a great LB, both pass rush and keeping the edge.
Love the Drake !!
That’s what he can do.
Quack quack. Nice job Drake
DRAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great block by Tunsil
Yeah I was just about to say it looked like Tunsil freed him up on that run, but the announcer beat me to it
And Ken lol
WHAT a JUKE by DRAKE!!!
How about that Drake?!!! 🙂
Singing Bobby McCain la la la
Drake getting enough touches to “get stronger as the game goes on” (as he described himself).
He is damn quick. Accelerates so fast
Grant i mean
Another Ring Ding by Drake
So is this because we are playing better than usghe or is it because the Broncos are that bad? 🤔
A little of both
Both but they’re offense is as bad as we were at our lowest point
That move Drake made was the kind of moves that Bell usually makes.
I’ve been telling you guys Drake is the man…..????
Are you ever right? lol
Stills saved a pick. Looks like Cutler got hit as he threw
The Drake Shake is happening. This guy is has big play ability. We’ve seen enough and so have the coaches. 🙂
Eye-popping stat to me: Stills has only 4 catches on 11 targets.
What is eye popping to me is how many targets Parker doesn’t have
We’d have 45 points or so if we didn’t turn it over 3 times
And got PI calls we should have.
That was a shitty holding call on Pouncey. I went back and looked at it he didn’t hold
WHY are we going for it on 4-3 ?
Okay better
Because Miller was on the sidelines
Before they called TO Miller had rotated out.
Was a pretty smart call. Miller on the sidelines, can force them to use a TO, like they did, try to get them to jump or snap it if we got the right defensive alignment
Made them waste a TO. It worked👍👍