We won’t get our first look at this newly crafted Dolphins defense until our first minicamp, which will be June 5-7, but we can catch a small glimpse at the OTA workouts which will be May 22-24, May 29-31 and then June 11-14. I can’t wait to see the new faces, and even some new old faces. We’ve definitely made a lot of changes, and only time will tell if the moves we’ve made help our team. Besides the obvious cap cost cutting of Ndumakong Suh, the Dolphins brought in DE Robert Quinn for an exchange of draft picks, the Dolphins sending the Rams 2018 4th and 6th RD picks, in exchange for the Rams 2018 6th RD pick and of course, Robert Quinn. We recently traded a 2019 7th RD pick to the Detroit Lions for DT Akeem Spence. In the draft we selected the versatile FS/CB/DB Minkah Fitzpatrick who can cover anywhere on the field, against anyone on the field, from RB’s to TE’s, to WR’s. To continue the pass coverage theme, the Dolphins drafted speedy cover LB Jerome Baker in RD 3. In RD 6, the Dolphins added another piece in CB Cornell Armstrong who will add depth to our CB stable. In RD 7, LB Quentin Poling will be a ST’s player, and then we signed a bunch of UDFA’s, most notably Utah State CB Jalen Davis.
It seems as if we’ve made quite a few changes, and in my mind, it was quite necessary. Of course, offensive struggles beget defensive struggles, but I’m just talking about the defense, which was far from good last year. Mid pack in yardage allowed, and 29th in points allowed. Something had to change, and changes were swiftly made. While jettisoning Suh won’t make us a better defense, my hope is we will be less reliant on one player. As great as Suh is/was, he played an insane amount of snaps, and let’s face it, he’s still human, and at 6’4 310, playing close to 900 snaps with the majority of them being double teamed had to be exhausting. I think more frequent rotations of lineman will ultimately benefit our team. You can’t expect one man to do it all, and I think in some ways that’s what happened.
Let’s look at the front 7. New additions to this group are 2017 NFL Draft 2nd RD pick LB Raekwon McMillan. I’m excited to see the young man back on the field manning the MLB position. He earned the job last season, and hopefully now healthy, will retake it. We traded for DE Robert Quinn, and he should be starting, and then getting some help from last year’s 1st RD pick DE Charles Harris. 36 year old Superman Cam Wake returns for his 10th NFL season, and we brought back run stopping DE/DT William Hayes for another season. DT’s Jordan Phillips and last year’s 5th RD pick and surprise success DT Davon Godchaux will likely be the starters, but again, there will be frequent substitutions to keep players fresh. We may see the LB we traded a 2018 5th RD pick for to the Saints Stephone Anthony man the SLB spot, and returning WLB Kiko Alonso. We declined to pick up the 5th YR option on Anthony, which hopefully will have Anthony playing hungry for a new contract.
I think what we’ve really improved upon this season is depth, and that definitely counts big time in a sport where injuries occur daily. This is what I believe at the moment would be our starting lineup, and then depth behind the starters.
RE Robert Quinn/Charles Harris
DT Jordan Phillips/Vincent Taylor
DT Davon Godchaux/Akeem Spence
LE Cam Wake/William Hayes
SLB Stephone Anthony/T.J. McDonald
MLB Raekwon McMillan/Chase Allen
WLB Kiko Alonso/Jerome Baker
RCB Cordrea Tanskersley/Tony Lippett
LCB Xavien Howard/Torry McTyer
NB Bobby McCain
FS Minkah Fitzpatrick
SS Reshad Jones
I think safety T.J. McDonald will be transitioning to LB play on passing downs, and I won’t be surprised in the least if our 2 nickel LB’s at some point of the season are Jerome Baker and T.J. MCDonald. I strongly believe Minkah Fitzpatrick will be our starting safety from day 1, and will easily earn that spot next to Reshad Jones. I truly hope that McDonald will embrace that change and take it as a positive. We have him under contract for 4 years, now he just needs to play where we need him, and earn it! Even if Minkah Fitzpatrick does start, it’s great to have McDonald right behind him on the depth chart.
Charles Harris seems like the forgotten man after trading for Robert Quinn, but I think he will see plenty of snaps on passing downs at both RE and LE, subbing for both Quinn and Wake. I think he’s actually going to have a very nice season for us. At LB, the additions of McMillan and Baker should make both the run defense (Raekwon) and the pass defense (Baker) better. Add in T.J. McDonald, and it just seems so much better than watching Kiko Alonso trailing just about anyone from 5-10 yards behind them. I know it’s unfair, but that’s what it looked like most of the time, and that’s why Baker and McDonald are here. If Robert Quinn is healthy, we can hope for big things from him, and if he starts out hot, Wake will benefit as well, because Quinn will get more attention, which will allow Wake to just beat the RT, and not worry about a RB or TE on his side.
At DT, Jordan Phillips will have his chance to show the NFL he’s a premier player with the absence of Ndumakong Suh. He’s now going to be the man, and up and comer Davon Godchaux, who had a nice rookie season now steps up into the starting lineup. Redundantly, and I apologize, there will be lots of rotation, but the next guys in need to hold their own, and that’s where trading for Akeem Spence comes in. He’s been the next guy in for Detroit, and should thrive in that role here in Miami. Vincent Taylor will be also counted on to be that next guy in, and DE William Hayes can double as a DT on passing downs, much like the NASCAR or speed package many teams employ.
Last year at CB, Xavien Howard really made a late season push, and hopefully he takes over where he left off. Cordrea Tankersley looked good out of the starting gates, but had his ups and downs IMO, but the knock on him that he shies away from tackling didn’t show itself last year, which was encouraging. Slot CB Bobby McCain easily had his best and most consistent season last year. Arguably, he was our best DB last season. To me though, the biggest addition is S Minkah Fitzpatrick. Like I said earlier, he will be starting from day one, and he’s the lynch pin to the back end of the defense. He gives us something we haven’t had our in quite some time, a player who can protect the CB’s in our zone defense. He has the instincts, the speed, and the recovery speed to make plays in the secondary. This allows Reshad Jones to help out closer to the LOS, with Minkah patrolling the deep skies. Honestly, I just can’t wait to see this in play.
I don’t think we’re going to be a top 10 defense this season, but I do think we will be close in some categories, and if the offense holds up it’s end of the bargain, who knows, maybe top 10 is attainable. Why not us? next week, I’m going to look at the offense, but in the meantime, D-fense! D-fense! D-Fense!
Finsmob Unleashed 
NJ and Gigi taught me that you can fall in deep love, break up spectacularly and ruin the cyber lives of all around you without ever having actually met. Still wish the best to both of them though.
They went from lovey dovey to being brutal to each other.
Went way beyond “lovey dovey”……do you remember the “I love you” and “no I love you more” competition on a given night? And again — they had never met.
Stanger:
Why did you have to remind us of that night?
Part of our history Hulk…..and it was way more than one night. And all was playing out in front of like 50 of us. Who does that?
I just reached out to Jeff and told him to get on the blog for a minute. Not sure if he pays attention to FB though.
ER – I know he had a tough time with the ramifications of the hurricane, so I hope everything is OK for him now. Sometimes you get away from a thing like this blog for while, and then you wonder why you spent so much time doing it. LOL
I was talking about GDP
Yeah.
For me this is my escape. I don’t watch much TV or go out all that much. My place keeps me working and always doing something…..
Here I get to read about my favorite team in the only sport I follow anymore, have a laugh at you guys, and unwind a bit.
Rob, you should have just sprayed Polyiso and been done with it.
I heard Spray insulation can gas-off, creating a smell in the house, that could cost me big time making the home unliveable, i wasn’t going to take that chance.
TryPod was another poster.
Phinagan, japman
from the game above
Phinagain – Great one! Cool dude. Japman I believe is New Age
How about Cowbell?
CB was Cowbell, right? I mentioned him earlier. I think we sometimes called him Cry Baby too, because he was relentlessly complaining about our team.
The whole NJ / GIGI thing sickened me. It was bad before they started fighting MUAH! ick
LOL – It was pretty crazy
Malchkiwick was another regular poster for several years
yeah, I mentioned him earlier too
Convict
Wasnt he part of the flying banner over Davie headquarters?
Yes good one. I remember there were also protests outside of Dolphins headquarters to fire Ireland and one guy carried around a Marino doll. LOL
Damn – Good one ER! Yes, he always had the Sacha baron Cohen avi. Awesome ER!
And again — they had never met.
That is what I suspected!! It makes it all that much weirder now that it is confirmed!
NJ was better, made more money and had more stuff than ANYONE.
“I have a rental house”
NJ: “I have four rental houses”
I drive a BMW
NJ: “my beater car is a BMW, when I want to drive a nice car I take my Bentley”
He was a douche IMO
He was a 1 upper…..lots of them out there.
That was his online persona, he’s a good dude.
Never met him in person, but will trust you on that. Can guarantee his “online persona” went through a lot of lashing out drama after the cyber-break up though.
Mike, Ken, Piggy, Al and I all met NJ in NYC for a game back in 2010.
IDK, just me, but I think jetssuck should be reinstated. 3-month suspension: SURE! But lifetime ban: HELL NO. That cat may have just been having a REALLY bad day with everything he’s been through, stroke and all. JMO, y’all.
respectfully, he went way over line M, got deep and personal to someone you really respect here, and I mean not just on the blog, but outside of the blog. If you knew the details, you wouldn’t say what you said. It was vicious man, for real.
Do you believe that Pete Rose should still be under a life-time ban? People change, my Brother. And respectfully, the attacked, stemming from jetssuck, has said some rather harsh, over-the-top stuff about me here, too, UNPROVOKED, in outright ATTACK MODE against me.
I’ll respect the decision of the moderators, I just thought I’d see what’s up regarding our old friend jetssuck. No harm, no foul, in asking.
What he said to Herd was beyond any tolerable point of decency. It was also not his first go around. He pulled some pretty bad shit on OD as well. I don’t miss him
Rock – He was a really nice guy, but like you and ER said, definitely a 1 upper. I spoke to him and met him a couple of times.
Was he a real life 1 upper or just on the blog?
I have been thinking of reinventing myself online. Lol
I’m sure that’s part of his personality, but I think he amplified it here on the blog.
He’s a competitive guy, played college football, did own or manage a gym, and is in the kind of shape he said he was, the guy is ripped.
There is a lot of ego with NJ but he actually is a really nice guy underneath that persona
how about youbeenjomammaed or something like that
and
nomuslimprez
and something with clown in it
Joe Momma I speak to now and again, I was in his FF league. The clown was Payaso Del Carajo, I liked that dude, he was funny.
Joemomma….yep. nice one
Joemomma he is an alright dude. I see him on Facebook
Does anybody remember the soldier? I recall a couple chats with him and can’t remember his name or which blog for that matter.
Do you mean Top Secret?
You mean the guy who was a fake? The guy would post that he was in the military but it turned he was just making the stuff when he was called out by Gigi
Was it Derrick something?
Bingo Tim
Derek4dolphins I think
The dude that worked for Blackwater or something and was always going away to do combat tours in some hot spot place? Guy was in every fire fight there ever was….and somehow found a way to post in btwn shots. 🙂
I forgot about that guy. I liked him
I just watched the whole video above and the only other one I can come up with that hasn’t been mentioned is PSU?
Ken says:
May 9, 2018 at 4:44 pm
Derek4dolphins I think
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THAT’s him! Good call, Ken!
I thought Gigi dumped NJ because she finally met him and he was really short and she had built up the image of him as huge cuz his avi showed as jacked.
Maybe I am misremembering though. I always thought Gigi was too good for him anyway.
Seemed like she was sad and thus receptive to NJ flirting with her cuz she was going through a break-up with her BF who was a big-time jest fan or something like that.
They never met unless they both never told about the meeting, which is about the biggest long shot there ever was.
Just get yourself to the Fest and meet all the folks who are here and will be there. Good crew. Who is your +1? If your wife, she will enjoy.
NJ is not very short…relatively speaking anyway
So, I guess FME has shut down too? I was just going to go over there and see if i could go to the first archives, but alas it does’t exist anymore.
nevermind, I guess it does and my clumsy fingers just mistyped the address.
Yep that Derek guy! Lol!
huh, the archives only go back to 2015 now. MF13 and Lou were very active posters there back then.
Payaso de carasso
I liked Payaso too. Where has he been?
Stanger
yeah good plan … yes I will be bringing my wife. If indeed we can manage the logistics.
My sons are so far away now that it would take an elaborate plan to get either of them there. But maybe some day.
One of them can fly down with me. JK
Not worried about your sons Naples….even if they are of course welcome. Just a short drive over for the Fest and you have been on the board since the Gigi and NJ days. Night before for the meet-up even better.
I told Herd that Pennington had a noodle arm several times, and I never got banned. 😄
Mike E. says:
May 9, 2018 at 4:05 pm (Edit)
TryPod was another poster.
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Yeah – what happened to Tripod? I miss that guy too
I’m worried that Phillips will ball out in his contract year, get a big contract and then revert back to his inconsistent ways.
I think he is what he is. Looks dominant at times and then just average at other times.
NJ was actually a very nice guy in person
I think it was me, Mike, Ken, Tim, NJ at Al at the inaugural NE fest (a bar on the west side of manhattan) he was wearing a Vontae Davis jersey
Yep, I posted that earlier. That was at The Landmark right? I think Vontae had a pick or made some nice play and NJ did a celebration. LOL
Naples, NJ is about 6 foot probably 200+ and yes he really is jacked up. He didn’t make any of that up. No doubt he’s a big time weight lifter.
The only thing I’ve learned from this blog today is that you guys sure have ran off a lot of people.
Word on the street is it was because of you. 😉
Lol!
NJ always struck me as somebody who was on rhoids. Lol
me too
I mean I thought he was on the juice, not me.
Hey wait
maybe I should get on steroids.
Is it fun?
I can’t really answer that but I think he was more about nutrition and working out hard. He wasn’t overly pumped where he looked roid big. But he was in very good shape for a guy in his 40’s when I met him.
and why is there no avi for me today?
how
about now?
Tim,
The problem is the good ones are gone and I’m left with you guys.
Only reason people leave is cause they can’t hack it.
LOL
This site is wack today. Or maybe it’s me is wack again
Where is ProLou by the way?
Took his ball, called us douchebags again, and went home
Of course not to our face…..
Did he really? Oh well.
I don’t know if he called everyone douchebags again, just a hunch. Lol
As far as I know, there are only 3 carry-overs from Topix before going to Omar’s SS blog: Ocala Howie, Jahndoh, and me. I’m sure there are others, who reinvented their handles upon going to the SS (or so I’ve been told/hinted at by some).
As such, I just might be the longest-tenured blogger here and still running… but I’m not sure.
I thought FFR was a Topix guy too. I started at the SS and some of the bloggers were already there but I don’t know the count.
You could be right on FFR, Bro.
NJ was the 1st guy I talked to at Mando’s blog, then a couple of days later, you were the 1st I talked to at the SS. Right after the 1-15 year. First places I ever posted comments to. It’s been over 10 years now. Crazy.
Where has FFR been?!!
Somebody should make a list this time. This is the 3rd or 4th time we’ve tried to compile a list of bloggers new and old.
I was at SS before Omar the Great showed up.
I don’t doubt that!
Did you always use the handle of “Randy”?
CavalierKong says:
May 9, 2018 at 6:13 pm
NJ was the 1st guy I talked to at Mando’s blog, then a couple of days later, you were the 1st I talked to at the SS. Right after the 1-15 year. First places I ever posted comments to. It’s been over 10 years now. Crazy.
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We’re DIE HARDS, my man!!! And I’m so with ya on the early 2000s Sactown Kings, with NO DOUBT!!!
NJ was the first guy who talked to me also on Mando’s blog
It still cuts deep, lol.
Tim:
Landsdowne was the name of the place of the inaugural NE fest. I still remember NJ flirting with the girl in the Patriots jersey
That’s it, I confused it with a banquet hall in NJ. Wasn’t that girl loaded? LOL
Yep LOL. Were you the next year we went and she was there and remembered us?
No my only other time was the MetsLife takeover.
M13, the reason I mentioned FFR is because of a story some of you guys talked about where a Topix guy electrocuted himself at a fence or something.
OH… $#!T. I really hope it wasn’t OUR guy FFR.
No way. That’s not who it was
That was even before the SS blog – I think ORib can tell you that guys name bx I think he spoke about it
It was a long time ago
No not him, I thought I remembered him talking about that guy from the Topix days.
M13,
I don’t think so, but I honestly can’t remember. Lol
Tinshaker was a fun dude to talk to. He was witty funny. But he started a family, new job, moved to a new state and said blogging wasn’t for him anymore.
NJ was often the first to talk to anybody….and it was usually to argue with something they said. Lol
Tim,
Agreed! Tinshaker was a good dude with good football knowledge.
Yep, he was also a big dude, I think like 6-6 or something.
I started on the SS blog in the first days after Bill Parcells was hired by Miami. The first Big news I remember blogging about was the firing of Cam Cameron. 1/4/08
Do you guys remember when Omar used to let us ask him questions, and he would bless us with his football acumen? That always made me laugh.
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I called him out once for basically ripping off something i’d said almost word for word, and he stopped talking to me. Lol
now Tim about that girl, when you say loaded, do you mean wealthy, inebriated, or very well endowed?
At least 2 of 3
Ken – NJ accidentally elbowed Pats fan’s breast. LOL – Something I never forgot
Classic
CavalierKong says:
May 9, 2018 at 6:20 pm
It still cuts deep, lol.
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If it makes ya feel any better, I was DONE with the NBA after the way our Sac Kings were screwed in ’02, Bro. That’s when I realized that the NBA was RIGGED, just like pro wrestling, boxing, etc.
And after that, it took a few years, but it ALL came out a few years later, as you posted last evening, bud.
Yes… it STILL CUTS DEEP for me, too!!!
from ESPN:
Now the Dolphins are starting over.
Cameron was fired Thursday after winning only one game in his
first year as an NFL head coach. The move means Miami will have its
fifth coach in five seasons.
Such instability has contributed to the Dolphins’ decline.
M was one of the first people I talked to at the SS, along with NJ, Tim , Randy and Piggy. I remember Piggy was “Draft McClain” when i first started blogging there.
And it didn’t take too long for me to recognize that you were a VERY good dude, man!
Likewise my friend.
I loved your jargon, especially the way you used the word grand. 🙂
ESPN:
Late last month, they brought in Parcells to run the
organization. He hired Jeff Ireland as general manager this week,
and they fired most of the coaching staff Thursday.
“They were struggling on both sides of the ball,” Ireland
said. “Looking at it from afar, we’ve just got to put the right
person in place.”
Parcells made the decision to fire Cameron in consultation with
Ireland, who spent the last seven years in player personnel with
the Dallas Cowboys.
ESPN:
The early front-runner to replace Cameron is
Cowboys assistant head coach Tony Sparano, who is scheduled to
interview Friday for the head coaching vacancy in Atlanta.
“Tony’s an outstanding coach,” Dallas head coach Wade Phillips
said this week. “He’s got all the attributes, I think, to be a
head coach. He works well with people. His players play for him; I
think that’s important. And he’s a really sharp, sharp guy as far
as Xs and Os. And I think he’d work well certainly putting a staff
together.”
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen has confirmed through sources that the Dolphins also will consider these five additional assistants as Cameron’s successor:
• Maurice Carthon, Cardinals running backs coach
• Todd Haley, Cardinals offensive coordinator
• Mike Tice, Jaguars assistant head coach/tight ends
• Rex Ryan, Ravens defensive coordinator
• Leslie Frazier, Vikings defensive coordinator
All but two members of Cameron’s coaching staff were also fired,
although some might be rehired by the new head coach, Ireland said.
Retained were assistant special teams coach Steve Hoffman and
linebackers coach George Edwards.
ESPN:
“I saw change coming, but to this extent?” Dolphins safety Yeremiah Bell said, according to the Miami Herald.
Cameron was under contract through 2010. A perceived difference
in philosophy with the new regime ranked as a bigger factor in his
firing than Miami’s 1-15 record, Ireland said.
“We just felt in order to move forward and not look back, we
needed someone in place who shared the same philosophical
compatibilities we shared,” Ireland said. “We didn’t really know
the guy that well. We were going to try to get someone that does
share those things, and we weren’t completely sold that he did.”
This part kills me on about 3 levels:
Ireland said the philosophy he and Parcells share involves
creating a culture of winning. That would be a change for the
Dolphins, who missed the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season,
extending a franchise record.
“We want strong character around here,” said Ireland, who
added he’ll have final say regarding all player personnel
decisions. “The vision of the team will be discipline, passionate
players, highly competitive. And we’ll be a big team.”
for example of how Ireland messed up his own criteria:
top receiver Chris Chambers was traded after six
games.
excuse me I meant Cameron messed up
because he also tried to diminish Jason Taylor’s role.
MF13,
Yeah, that was it for me too. I know the NFL is rigged too, but at least I can still delude myself there, lol.
Tony DaTiger. That was way back.
I miss Phinmanski
The Well Hungarian – That was funny as hell
Not to be Capt. Obvious here but jeez does CJ fit the Panthers perfectly or what? That looks like both the team and the player will enjoy great results of the pairing.
He and McCaffery make a solid tandem. They would skip a beat from Stewart.
Won’t not would
Yep!
Ffr most certainly was from the topix days.
I wish he’d come back.
It looked to me like New Orleans was given a Super Bowl because of the hurricane.
^
And how ’bout the Pets after 9/11. Of course they cheated that one out themselves. They didn’t even need the league.
There was a guy who was cool I think he had a 3 letter name that began with M. He would always say gouge when he meant to say gauge.
Mig?
What about Paulie Walnuts?
Mike E. says:
May 9, 2018 at 7:05 pm
I loved your jargon, especially the way you used the word grand. 🙂
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Thank you, man! That’s just who I am!
BALL HAWK!!!
😀
You love that phrase but my friends and I have been saying that since we were kids. No soup for you! One year! LOL
You’re no fun, Tim!!! I’m taking the ball I stole out of the air and going home!!! LOL 😀 😉
LOL, BALL HAWK away!!! I love that phrase. I hope we have a bunch of them this year and I think it’s possible. Our secondary could be really good. 🙂
Tim – You’ve been saying grand or ballhawk since you were kids?
No ballhawk. That’s been around for a long time. It’s used in many sports for stealing the ball.
Gotcha
Chicken Hawk
Boy, I say boy…
What’s that, I say, what’s that dog up to?
I say, you look like 2 miles of bad road!
Mike, going back to this blog article, I also see us using Minkah to man up on receivers we feel he can cover so you may see Jones and McDonald at safety some of the time.
For instance, I would put Minkah on Landry and similar type guys. He can match their speed and physicality. Similar players on the opposite side of the ball.
Yeah, I can see that. I think McCain could cover Landry too, but I wouldn’t have a problem with it if they decided he should cover Landry. Just get it done, it doesn’t matter who does it.
I like McCain on more quick twitch receivers because he can do that too. He played well last year. He’s a shorter corner who’s a good athlete and competitive football player. He’s also become a locker room leader. He’s often thought of as an afterthought when I think he’s coming into his own. We have a nice mix in the secondary.
Yeah, I’m trying my VERY BEST to raise my nephew the best way I can. As such, we watch Saturday morning cartoons they way there were ‘posed to be!
He LOVES Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, and Roadrunner cartoons!
ZERO “PC” in my house… though he knows the ledge.
WTF – No Bugs Bunny? Heresy!!!
LOL!
YES! He love Bugs Bunny too!!!
You’re raising your nephew? I guess I missed something. Way to go, bro!!! Good stuff.
I appreciate that, SIR! But as I told Jahndoh a few years ago, it’s “Two and Half Men” over here… thanks to an absentee mother.
Yes, I’m helping to raise my nephew… and I’m SO PROUD to be there for him!
Awesome!
I don’t know why you don’t ask Herd?
I wore the BLOG T-shirt the other day!
She would have US all written down somewhere!
Which blog t-shirt? The SS blog? Why don’t you just break out your t-shirt?
M – That’s great that you’re there for your nephew. Major props for that.
Good for you M13 to be there for your nephew
http://www.miamidolphins.com/multimedia/videos/The-Audible–Gase-Discusses-Tannehills-Rehab/c3b18fac-30f9-4476-82ce-e266cad2cc04
THANK YOU, Tim, Mike E, and Ken!!! I really appreciate that, cats!!! 🙂
Oh yeah, grand was one I like, but i think I liked cats even more! 🙂
🙂
Love ya, buddy!
Cats you say…
Again (if nobody caught my post about a week ago), I cannot make the FEST this year. All of my vacation time is going to see my father in Hawaii.
My father and I keep in close contact, but it’s been too long since we’ve seen each other in the flesh. And I want him to see his grandson… my nephew.
I get that man – Family comes first!
The volcano stuff is scary.
INDEED! Fortunately, my father lives on the western island of Molokai.
Alright, signing off for the night. I REALLY enjoyed the trip down memory lane! I’m here for y’all, and I’m one of y’all. MUCH LOVE!
I saw Brian Setzer open for George Thoroughgood around 1999 in Iowa. Great show. It was half a theater, and I walked right up to the stage because there was barely anybody there. The joints were being passed around freely and Thoroughgood was standing on the edge of the stage playing his guitar behind his head.
Brian Setzer is an awesome musician, guitar player, singer and performer. He just rocks!
Damn auto fix thing.
Tim,
Yeah, Setzer was great. At that time, I didn’t know how good of a guitar player he was. They both put on a great show, and there was almost nobody there. Professionals.
And it was about 1989…not 99. Geez.
LOL, I know man 89 seems like another time. I was 24.
Tim,
Same here. Born in ‘65. When I think back, it amazes me how much things have changed. Phones had cords. Cars needed drivers. Dating meant you actually met a person in real life, and people actually still wrote words with their own two hands on paper! Lol
Yep! That’s all I got other than we have more than doubled that age. Yikes! LOL
MF13,
Visit Jake Scott while you’re out in Hawaii and apologize on behalf of the punk who tarnished his number! Lol
So I read back some. Probably shouldn’t have. For those of you who have my back here I can’t tell you how much it’s appreciated. I’m not one to want to ban people without a very good reason. For that matter I’m not the one who did for anyone wondering about it. What happened wasn’t some misunderstanding. It was very deliberate and meant only to hurt me. Ironically I was the one who set up an account for that POS to post here in the first place because he couldn’t figure out how to do it himself and I helped him, the same as I did for OD. Just being helpful. See where that got me?
So moving on. I do have email addresses for most people from when I did the T-shirt. I’m not sure how much they’re checked and it’s been a few years since I did that shirt for the old blog but if there’s some you’d like me to reach out to and see if they’ve lost track of us I can do that. I’m not giving out any addresses without permission though. So let me know.
Herd – We were just trying to think of all the names of people who blogged at the SS. We came up with a bunch of names, but I’d bet we still left out a few.
Herd, I just don’t remember it, maybe I was not around when it went down. But if it was bad I’m all for good riddance. That BS does exist and you deal with it, but there are consequences. You are valued here and that’s the end of it. Go overboard and you’re out. It’s not that difficult.
Hope all is well with you and yours. 🙂
Talking about Phillips, the DL rotation is perfect for him, when he slacks off they take him out and someone else plays. I dont expect everyone in the rotation to get equal number of plays, it will be performance based. All equal to start though.
The SS originally had an open format board, similar to this one, but trolling was prominent, then some idiot thought it was a good idea to go topic based. From here FFR, Myth99, Phinmanski, and I were all on both those SS board’s starting around 2000. We’d get maybe 100 posts a day, with about 15 regular posters.
Wow, 2000. That is pretty crazy. Did you guys ‘post comments’ by carrier pigeon? lol
I’ve seen you and FFR refer to that old board, but I didn’t realize it went back that far. 18 years, man. That is probably longer than most marriages. 🙂
I was on the Heralds board in 1998, but don’t remember any of the posters.
Btw
Very nice write up Mike E
Thanks ER
I started on the SS board back in 2005 season with Nick Satan because that is the year I moved and couldn’t get the morning paper anymore and couldn’t get ANY dolphins news. I stumbled across an article on the internet and realized that the SS had a web page. I would go and read their stuff every day. It was about 2-3 months of reading before I realized you knuckle heads had a running conversation below the articles posted by the writers. It was another couple of months before I figured out how to sign up to “blog” which I had never done before…..
My story is similar with respect to blogging. I went looking for Dolphins news and went to the Herald first, then someone mentioned the Sentinel was better…LOL
My first internet experience with football discussions was on AOL. They had NFL boards, I think it was just broken up into the 2 conferences, so obviously I was in the AFC chat room. It was live chat, much like AOL messenger. We had a blast. This was back in 1995. There was a Jets fan in there AMurrell29 and we used to have major flame wars. It was great! I kept in touch with a few of the people for a while after AOL closed it down, but it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
I remember those rooms, that was my first experience chatting as well.
Mike E. says:
May 9, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Stubbs was a really call ultra tall dude, but he didn’t carry a barrel around and call it a mug. 🙂
Mike,
You just have mug envy. Might be because you have such small hands you can’t handle a barrel sized mug.
It’s not so much that I have small hands, it’s that I could climb inside it. It’s proportionally incorrect. lol
your hands are kinda small……
I think the “Knight who says Ni” (Tim) was the first to ever respond to one of my comments on a blog. I knew right there and then, that I had achieved all the goals in my life….LOL!
LOL! Nirvana!
He went by Mr Bungle when I first started reading along and then posting.
AOL Chat rooms. LOL WOW
I would play bartender.
Hey Son! Have a beer……..[_]3
How’s it going Mike E want a shot……..\_/
We did that too! LOL – Also made pop tarts [:]
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Bookman – I remember pretty well one particular flame war I had with this Amurrell29 guy from the AFC chat room. It was the year 2000, and he was constantly giving me shit that year, and then the Rams visited the Jets at the Meadowlands, and the Rams beat the jets 34-14, but the kicker was their RB that day was Trung Canidate, who really didn’t have a good career, but he tore the Jets up for 195 yards and 2 TD’s. I kept telling him that only the Jets could make Trung Canidate look like an MVP canidate over and over just to piss him off. It’s was great, he went (Pardon the expression Kong) ape shit every time I said that.
People would narrate stories in those chat rooms.
“Gambit kicks the door open and enter’s the room”
“Gambit walks to the bar”
(My AOL name was Gambit69)
Gambit takes MichelleA76 by the hand and walks to the hot tub.
That was a very strange era at the beginning of the on-line chatting experience.
Yes! We did the hot tub there too. What’s up with that?
Ghey!
If my thoughts were typed in I’d be buying you a beer Rock. Speaking of Rock wasn’t Rock Hudson in the CLUB?😉😉
< throws chair at MikeE
< Could have broke my hand, but it narrowly missed due to extremely small hands
LOL Bringing back the memories! My first ex met her current husband in an AOL chat room while we were married and “cheated” on me. (How one cheats without meeting face to face is another subject, one I would have to ask GiGi and NJ about) But we eventually broke off our marriage and she went to Alabama to meet the guy in person and wound up moving there.
Create a private chat room and invite all your “friends” and have a “party” man that was bizarre thinking back on it!
Which club is that Steve? I must not be a member.
Well take a guess, Liberace was president, Rock Hudson was the vice president?
JBB
Kind of funny how you picked your handle here, naming it after the VP😉😉😉😉
Ha ha steve
The origin of my name here comes from when I signed up to post at the old SS board.
I had just moved from WPB to Rockledge fl (just south of cocoa beach) and “RockledgePhinFan” was too long a name for their system. So I just shortened it to Rockphin
You don’t have to get defensive, was JBB a little bit.
Sorry Rock, but my brother is gay, and the “in the club” reference is one of the sayings he uses when he talks about his alternative life style group, it busts me up every time.
Couldn’t help myself
Then a movie when we win the SB. Ryan Tannehill injures knee misses 19 games (remember that #), then comes back as superman and goes undefeated to claim the Lombardi.