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 
Phillips and Howard BALLING !!!
That was pretty
Cutler had a really nice running throw
That was VERY nice.
Proud of my team today. Is that okay? 😉
Hell yeah me too
I’m proud of them too but we are beating a team that looks to be going through an Dolphins phase lol.
I kill your dark cloud!!! LOL
We have been known to play diwn to bad competition, so i will take this 👍👍
Sure Tim! You are the bearer of false hope! 😉
(Notice the winking smiley to indicate I’m just messing with you)
Now does the Def get thise points ?? 😎😎
MikeE getting his wish of a big win instead of a 13-10 kind of game. 🙂
OD is having a great weekend with his boys winning a C-USA Championship and now this
WTF are we doing an on-side kick for?
Onside?????
They look like us today
Damn I wonder if Gase is just punishing Joseph
I’m glad we got it, but what is the purpose when we have a 24 pt lead. Seems kind of like bad sportsmanship.
Gase sticking it to Joseph
Like how they righted the ship in this game when it sprung a few leaks. But how dysfunctional is the Broncos offense…also, what did Vance do to Gase to get the onside kick lol?
Wow no flag on that
Gase is doing this for his guys not particularly against Joseph
Maybe a little of both lol
The running the offensive foot on the gas I’d agree with you, the onside kick…. Not so sure
Bizarre series
ANOTHER safety. lmfao
Wow the Broncos are bad
They are having a us vs the Ravens kind of game
2 more for Def lmao
That was the ST
Well for all the Matt Burke haters I do believe Vance Joseph will be available next season
I’d have him back as the DBs coach
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I was almost going to play the Dolphins D today. SMH
Oops
But who could blame you
I left Stills on my bench 😰
Part of me wants them to let Drake go for 200
Denver sucks more than we do. LOL
Oh my God where was that flag
Roby never looked back
Hey they tried to throw to Parker
That was another 3rd and 1 pass lol
We’re not used to playing with the lead!
Oh no we killed out draft position!!! LOL
No we are still on track for a top 10
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Lol Joseph playing it out to get at Gase
Lol Joseph wants a TD
I hate that Blue field!!!!
That was all kind of bizarre with the onside kick and long pass by the Phins and then the Broncos calling the timeouts trying to score at the end.
I think the time outs at the end were Joseph pissed off at Gase for the onside kick.
100% agree
Agreed….but why was Gase doing that in the first place? I know the offense needs reps, but seems like more than that to me. I half expected them to break out into hand to hand combat at the end of game handshake at midfield….
That was a satisfying win! Some crazy games today. The Jets vs Chiefs game was a wild one.
I agree was a feel good win despite playing a bad team
Rob must have been loving the run game today! 23 carries for Drake, and he made the most of them. We’ll run when we can, I think that’s the case with Gase. Hard to run when you’re down a couple of scores, or when it’s not working.
That’s been my debate all year.
When you’re 4-7 and 3-9 challenge your team. I would think both Gase and Joseph said let us challenge our teams. Why not?
Drake gave us hope today. He is a playmaker.
Total Rushing Plays — 30
Total passing plays — 34
We held the ball ten minutes more
Drake was 23/120 and a TD
ORob is right on about running more and creating a mix is a key to victory.
I knew that toooooooo. I was just letting ORob harp on it for me. lol
Yeah, you have to be able to run the ball and be in the game to do it though. Hard to run when you’re down 14 points or more.
Seems they found a way to be a running force though this game and what a performance by Drake. Seems we found our running stud we were looking for a a coach who lets him loose……they actually sat him towards the end.
Orob made it about Ajayi, not just running the football. We all know we play better when we have balance and run more. The problem is, and thus was as much Ajayi’s fault as the OL and Gase’s play calls, is he put us in a hole a lot of times by trying to do what he thought was best. Then we got to where we couldn’t run and/or Gase didn’t trust him to run the right play.
Drake would of had at least 27 more yards is it were not for two holding penalties. Those were the ones I saw there could have been more called back (dunno, tried to watch at work). I know those two holding calls on Pouncey were drive killers. Did not see replays on whether they were BS calls or not.
The one I went back and watched was, which was the one on the last big Drake run
Can we put to rest that Gase is not into running the ball? Sorry Rob, it depends on the game.
How about the Drake? 😉
I think it had to do with Ajayi not doing what he was asked too. Easy to give up on the run if the plays you are calling, the ones you use to set up others aren’t getting executed correctly.
I know it seemed like bad sportsmanship with the onside kick but honestly when are they going to get to practice in a game situation except one like this where it doesn’t matter if you don’t get it? If they don’t like it, recover it and show us what a bad decision it was.
It’s a wierd spot for it is why it looks bad, I have no problem with it, the players shouldn’t care about any of that. Just go out there and do what you are asked to, it’s that easy. Maybe that’s part of it, don’t know. Probably is being blown up because Joseph is struggling and Gase did it to his former coordinator. It’s talking head drama
The bad argument here us that we don’t have players capable of running the ball. We have a couple pretty solid rushers.
I agree. Drake can run the ball fine. I’m actually surprised we don’t throw to him more out of the backfield, but yeah, he can run the ball pretty well, and plays stronger than he looks.
Drake still has a lot to prove, but this should prove to us he has the capability. That’s still a tough defense to run on, so it should at least help with our confidence in him
Can’t help but love what we saw in Drake today. I thought when we drafted him he had the ability to be a big play back
32 pass and 30 rush. Just saying!
We should had 2 more scores but for our 3 turnovers today
Ken, Drake has Jamaal Charles/Ahman Green type ability.
He reminds me of Robert Smith from the Vikings of years back. Similar size and explosive speed
Great Win Today 👍 We played good on both sides of the ball.
Go Dolphins.
I had to go to Bokampers. Boy was that loud.
Drake needs a full back to reach his full potential!
Just sayin!
Gray lined up that way many times.
I think he means a real FB
Better play STs and do more than block in I-formation 5-7 times per game. Today’s FB needs to be an H-back too.
That was a beat down.. Enjoy the win. Drake proved the naysayers wrong 👏🍺🍺
Not just Drake….how about Howard? Dude might be nominated of D player of the week.
PFF said he sucks so it’s known, LOL
Howard played well today-finally
Howard had a hell of a game 😎
The onside kick was ridiculous
But herd is right
We have had so few offensive snaps his season may as well take them when you get them
I didn’t like. It was something Bellicheck would do and that makes me hate it even more
Ken, when we were allowing 20 or less points the first 4 games who was playing corner? Howard! Tank started from I think game 3.
The defense can play, but not without support.
Howard has been horrible all year. How many interceptions do we have? How many game changing plays does he make? Today he did so I will give him that and hopefully that is a sign of things to come but otherwise he has done jack shit all year. I don’t care how well the D played early on but it was not because of him
Easy man .. Don’t turn green. We Won 🍻
Ken, Howard hits and tackles like a safety. The 2018 defense should be better than what we’re seeing in 17.
Fix the offense.
I’ll agree to a pass catching FB not an out of position TE trying to block!
This New Orleans vs Carolina game may convince me there is hope for the NFL yet!
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December 3, 2017 at 3:32 pm
Are you ever right? lol
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Once i thought i was right but i was mistaken.
We won 35-9 today…..was a beat down like other teams handed to us before.
Thinking maybe OD has a point in Ross should treat him better. Unless he missed today at the last minute, we are now 3-0 with his fanny in a Hard Rock seat.
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Dolphins WR Jarvis Landry is now the only player in the NFL with at least 5 catches in every game this season. Incredibly reliable player.
Top graded out today from PFF.
CB Xavien Howard, 94.8 overall grade
RB Kenyan Drake, 94.2 overall grade
CB Bobby McCain, 91.8 overall grade
DT Ndamukong Suh, 84.3 overall grade
CB Alterraun Verner, 83.8 overall grade
Someone will tell you those stats suck after they used the same stats last 4 weeks to make their point 😎
And won’t blame them for that…..but turns out my two players of the game today are the same as theirs. 🙂
Tim:
I agree that we need to fix the offense but the defense is broke too. It is hardly a well oiled machine ready to roll once we fix the offense. We need impact players at almost every level on the defense. We have so few big plays on D. We had that today but we also played a really bad team.
Tim:
I also we get a big fix on offense next year when we get Tannehill back. Cutler was not good again today. He is not the only problem on offense. The line needs help but I do think having our starting QB back will help a lot.
Your score is: 17684 (GRADE: B)
Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 16 (WASH): Quenton Nelson, OG, Notre Dame (A-)
Round 2 Pick 9: Rashaan Evans, OLB, Alabama (B+)
Round 2 Pick 16 (WASH): Ronnie Harrison, SS, Alabama (A-)
Round 3 Pick 9: Mason Cole, C/OT, Michigan (A+)
Round 3 Pick 16 (WASH): Tyquan Lewis, DE, Ohio State (B+)
Round 4 Pick 9: Mike Gesicki, TE, Penn State (A)
Round 4 Pick 32: Jaylen Samuels, FB, North Carolina State (A+)
Round 6 Pick 9: Jerry Tillery, DT, Notre Dame (A)
Round 7 Pick 9: Riley Ferguson, QB, Memphis (A-)
Round 7 Pick 10: Andrew Nelson, OT, Penn State (B+)
I hope today is some kind of sign that there’s hope for this team, if not this year then next year. But there’s that voice in my head that says yeah but the Broncos suck this year soooooo.
I didn’t see a lot of the game, I had it on but was doing some decking the halls stuff. Busy weekend, my daughter turned 18 yesterday. Doesn’t seem possible.
Congrats and happy birthday to your daughter
Happy Birthday young Herd
Lol….she doesn’t share my football or team loyalties. She’s all about the horse stuff and planning to be a UK Wildcat. Oh well…..
Stanger I hope OD goes next week. That would be a sweet win.
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Updated draft order:
1 #Browns
2 #Giants
3 #49ers
4 #Broncos
5 #Colts
6 #Bears
7 Browns (#Texans)
8 #Buccaneers
9 #Cardinals
10 #Jets
11 #HTTR
12 #Dolphins
13 #Bengals
14 #Chargers
15 #Cowboys
16 Bills (#Chiefs)
#HTTR = Redskins (that’s their hashtag)
‘Hail To The Redskins’ is what it means.
I’m happy about the win and people Are going to gripe about our draft position. #KEEPWINNING
I want to draft at #32
Dilly dilly !!!
Well we do like to trade with Philly 😎😎
I think Manitoba has had one too many victory Molsons
Whut ?? Philly wins Superbowl , we trade For their pick , Voila we have pick 32. You get yer wish 🤡🤡
I was more commenting on your rhymes and not on our draft
Totally unintentional, but well played by me 😎
Did you guys see this cheap shot from Gronk
The player has a concussion now
https://twitter.com/maxwildstein/status/937423058297638912
We got 15 yards for this
That was almost self defence
He was assaulted and then penalized
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December 3, 2017 at 8:36 pm
Did you guys see this cheap shot from Gronk
The player has a concussion now
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I’d heard about it, but that’s the first I’ve seen it. WOW, SMH! Tre’Davious White appears to be convulsing right after that cheap-shot: VERY disturbing to me. 😡
I hope he gets suspended no LESS than 4 games for that blatant BULLSHIT. Gronk won’t be playing us next week, that’s for sure. I hope Tre’Davious gets well soon.
Wow on that video of Gronk. That’s bad
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Broncos’ defensive players irked by Gase’s onside kick election but offensive players not surprised
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21657338
So the Broncos entered today’s game as the #1 run-Defense in terms of YPC (3.2). Drake left the game with 5.2 YPC… behind a patchwork O-Line, at that. There is HOPE!!! And I feel GREAT for Drake!!! WAY TO GO, YOUNG BUCK!!!
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.@God_Son80 is tied for the league lead in receptions with 80.
#ProBowlVote : http://miamidolphins.com/probowl
Really good game going on right now between Philly and Seattle, and it’s my first time watching Ajayi live in an Eagles uniform. He’s still a STUD.
It should be illegal to have a 2-headed rushing attack with Blount and Ajayi behind a decent O-Line.
Yes that 3 points is amazing. LOL
Lol
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CB Xavien Howard’s five passes defensed today are tied for the most in an NFL game this season. (LAC CB Casey Hayward, 10/1/17, vs. Phi.).
D says:
December 3, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Orob made it about Ajayi, not just running the football. We all know we play better when we have balance and run more. The problem is, and thus was as much Ajayi’s fault as the OL and Gase’s play calls, is he put us in a hole a lot of times by trying to do what he thought was best. Then we got to where we couldn’t run and/or Gase didn’t trust him to run the right play
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I could care less about Ajayi, my problem is Gase dumped him without a replacement and this team has suffered for it.
I doubt Ajayi is gone because he put us in a hole???
Ajayi is gone because he was causing a distraction by bitching about only getting 11 carries in the Balt loss, he didn’t get the carries in the other 2 losses and i’m sure he was bitching about that as well.
and his bitching may not be because he didn’t get the carries but he may think the limited carries cost his team the games. which they may have.
Well you did say there was no way Drake could handle 20 touches so there is that 😆
I never said that? From what i had seen Drake was running into a brick wall every time he touched the ball the last 4 games
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December 3, 2017 at 10:00 pm
Yes that 3 points is amazing. LOL
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LOL, it doesn’t help that Carson Wentz isn’t making things happen through the air against the LEGION OF BOOM. That, and Seattle is a top-10 run-Defense (3.9 YPC).
It’s a GOOD GAME!
Mike E. says:
December 3, 2017 at 4:40 pm
Yeah, you have to be able to run the ball and be in the game to do it though. Hard to run when you’re down 14 points or more.
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It all depends when you are down 14pts, if it is late in the 4th quarter I agree, if it’s early stick to your game plan
Running the ball should be priority numero ono in the off season, this has to be the most important facet of the game which IMO it is not high on Miami’s priority list.
we should focus our personnel on strong run blocking OL and a dominant downhill RB, we need opposing Defenses focused on stopping our running game.
we have to learn how to run the ball, that takes coaching and personnel
We also have to learn to stop running kicks out of the endzone and taking penalties that give us starting field position inside the 5 where we end up running into a loaded box
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Case Keenum has posted passer rating of 100+ in 4 straight games, tying Brett Favre (2009) and Daunte Culpepper (2000, 2004) for longest streak in Vikings history.
Comparatively speaking, Tannehill had 3 games of a 100+ rating all season last year… and they weren’t back-to-back (games 9, 11, and 13).
And FOR THE RECORD, the GOAT QB (Dan the Man) has only done this ONCE in his illustrious HOF career! His was a streak of SIX games in a row in 1984, but it was the only time he ever went more than 4 games in a row with a 100+ rating.
* only time he ever went 4 or more games in a row.
All of his other streaks were 3 games in a row.
YOUNG STANGER: BET yer ass the DOLPHINS are 3-0 with my fanny in the seat–undefeated this season!!! Game today was both the LOUDEST of the season and the HOTTEST of the season. Mrs. OD had to call it a day after sweltering heat took its toll on her in the 3rd quarter. Despite what the weather bureau MIGHT have said, it was over 90 in the sun on the north side. SAW TWO folks being treated by the EMT’s, one at halftime another early in the 3rd quarter as we were leaving Hard Head.
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SOOO-O-O proud of FAU’s crushing win over North Texas in the C-USA Championship game, which we attended, on Saturday, at Howard Schnellenberger Field at a roaring FAU Stadium! Devin “MOTOR” Singletary ran for his 29th touchdown of the season in this game, THE MOST IN DIVISION I FOOTBALL. He also caught a TD pass earlier in the season, giving him 30 total TD’s this campaign!! Best of all, he’s ONLY A SOPHOMORE!!–He figures to be a top 10 Heisman candidate next season!!
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WILL TALK to you folks more tomorrow evening. CONGRATS to Son’s UCF team, now THE ONLY UNDEFEATED TEAM IN DIVISION I FOOTBALL!!
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GRONK SORRY!
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STFU
PREDICT GRONK GETS 2 GAME suspension and a massive fine, also!
PREDICT#2: Poor Baby Kraft has Gronk appeal his punishment. RESULT?-Punishment stays as is!!
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Lesson to be learned: If BOTH Jerry Jones & Bob Kraft HATE YOU, you just might be doing a better job as Commissioner of the NFL!!!
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This Old Dolfan is dog tired after a VERY hectic weekend. OUT for tonight; talk to you tomorrow.
M13, you have Davone Bess as your avi and you tout players on other teams all the time. What’s up? 🙂
LOL, my GM track record speaks for itself! 🙂
By the way, did ya see Cordarrelle today?!! The Raiders are JUST NOW realizing what a weapon he is at WR. He was drastically underutilized by Norv’s ego in Minnesota.
Yes the great Cordarrelle mystery has finally been unraveled. LOL
2018: Ross will still own the team. Tannebaum/Grier and Gase will still be here. Tannehill will be back.
What say you if that’s the case? LOL
Let’s roll!
Not much talk about how well Drake played. Interesting. 23-120 rush and 3-21 rec and another big run and score.
#32 = playmaker
He was elusive. Had to break tackles and make people miss all day. Just had that feeling he would break one eventually. Get this guy some help!
If they can get a starting caliber LG and C next year, I think that’s all they need. Tonsil and James at tackle, Davis at RG is a decent start at OL.
Nice to see the D play when having a lead. That DL did what they were built for, harassed QB all day. Good thing tho….cause if I was calling plays, I’d just kept running the ball.
Tunsil……thanks phone
We have to re-sign Landry. He’s worth it. He’s a gamer.
New money will be available to sign him in 2018.
He’s the heart and soul. He is a MUST. You don’t get better letting him go.
Then find another young WR that can take over for Parker. What a disappointment…..
Drake seems to be the kind of back that is capable of breaking one at any time. You have to give him his share of touches and eventually he is going to take it to the house
I agree, even when he’s getting stopped you still have to give him the ball, you can’t go away from it because it isn’t working good on one day.
Wyoming, Nice draft last night.
The draft is like Christmas, so when the draft rolls around and all the kids are around the draftmas tree, some kids are jealous that one kid gets a better toy (higher pick) than him.
Don’t know why some down Bobby McCain. He has been one of the more solid and consistent players on defense all season. Everyone on every NFL team has busted plays every now and then but if they are not a future HOF or pro-bowler then they are not forgiven then some people say they are garbage and need to be replaced or up graded. McCain proved himself again yesterday for the negative nelly’s. He is definitely in at least top 15 if not top 10 slot CB in the league.
and I don’t care what PFF says, lol
i like mccain
what an amazing coincidence, running the ball 23 times or more this year we are 5-0, running 17 times or less we are 0-7, it’s just a coincidence though this can’t be the key to victory, Can it??
No it’s not a coincidence. Sean Peyton realized they trying to throw to much last year. Look what they are doing with their 2 headed rushing attack this year. Ingram is having a career year. Though, their OL has been healthy most of the sesaon.
and their rookie is outstanding!
ORob, the worst thing about Draftmas is we tell Football Claus what we want for months and months, then we end up getting not quite what we wanted. You get the next best thing like when I was a kid, my parents would get the next best thing because it was cheaper. lol
oh the disappointment! LOL
Stanger _ Just catching up. Yes, I was at the game yesterday. I’ll be there for all the remaining home games.
I guess I’m in the minority….I liked the onside kick. Keep your foot on the accelerator. Never let your opponent off the ground once you get them there. Or as Conan would say, “Drive your enemy from the field, hear the laments of his women and children.” Or something like that.
Running the ball makes your defense better, look at Jax, Coughlin gets a RB with a high pick then gets a tackle from alabama with his 2nd, you know where his mind is at, he wants to run the ball,
THE RESULT= they now have the best Defense in football and are sitting at 8-4
Miami wins out, goes 9-7 , makes the playoffs.
oh to be a dreamer again……
It is not mathematically impossible, but nearly so. IF by some miracle we can win out the next four games we would be 4-2 in the division and 8-4 in the conference. With losses to the Ravens and Raiders we would still probably not have enough conference wins and the head to head losses to these two non-division winners will kill us. This season is already over when it comes to the playoffs.
Don’t be pissin’ on my parade!
Fede is making his case to stick around next year, blocked punt,
So you are saying there is a chance? 1.1% chance of Dolphins making the playoffs this year……
I “watched” the game at a local bar yesterday. I have watched in quotation marks because I didn’t get to see much of the game with all the distractions which included a drunk, super obnoxious (but also super hot) Jet’s fan that was messing with me.
The bar tender kept telling me, “take her out of here now before she sober’s up. I’m telling you it’s a done deal, if you just get her to leave with you now.” I was aroused and disgusted all at the same time. LOL
I kept telling the, ick jets fan, hasn’t your uber arrived yet?
Make sure she doesn’t have an Adams Apple!
LOL…..talk about a bunch of moral dilemmas all at once.
LOL at Phelps/Conan
Phelon^ damn autocorrect
Good morning MR Phelps, your mission should you choose to accept it………………..
BBM:
I like McCain but he is limited imo. He is a slot cb/nickel cb. You can’t really put him on the boundary or match him up against the opponent top Wr. However in that nickel role he provides very valuable service
I could live with McCain in the slot, but whether a potential upgrade, someone to develop or just a cheap vet…we do need two guys like him. Don’t think Howard or Tank have slot cover in them.
These are quotes like ones you have read over and over again about the Evil G…except these are about Gase from guys who know him real well. Maybe he isn’t as much the “Aw’shucks” nice guy he comes off as at times. Does seem all agreed the move was aimed if anything at the Broncos management and not Joseph.
“Gase is a savage. He loves to win, he loves to embarrass you. That the onside kick doesn’t surprise you.”
— Emmanuel Sanders
“The way I guess he left the Denver Broncos, he wasn’t satisfied, so he went onside. He kicked the onside, and he got it, and he was happy about it. He got them a win and we still trying to find one.”
— Demaryius Thomas
“That’s ‘Goose,’ man. He sees blood in the water, he’s just going to attack it.”
— CJ Anderson