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 
I got on some where around 2006 I think?????
My superpower – Stalking quietly waiting to drop a sarcasm bomb!
what were you like 12 at the time?
😉 winky eye, JBB, etc (just jealous old man wishing he was still young)
LOL I knew what you were implying with ‘in the club’ I was just playing dumb to
SQUIRREL!!!!!!!
All good Steve, Tone does not come across well on there. I knew you were only bustin balls.
If you didnt notice I was originally saying what you said, so everything I said to you I was saying to myself.
son of a son of a shula says:
May 10, 2018 at 9:08 am
He went by Mr Bungle when I first started reading along and then posting.
I remember Mr Bungle, I did not know that was Tim.
I never knew NJsomethingorother was Mike E!
Rock – Are serious or kidding? You have to be kidding, right?
19
19
19
19
19
Why am I remembering this number?
19-0 is our record at the end of this season. Come on play along with the fairy tale narrative.
Mike, kind of serious. I remember now you having (Mike E) in parentheses after NJ I just can’t remember what your NJ name was. (I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night either so there is that) Later after you changed fully to Mike E I didn’t associate you with NJwhateveritwas.
For multiple reasons i think you should change your name to groundhog day, or squirrel day to be original 😁
Rock you’re a barrel of monkeys this morning.
Yep, Tim was going by Mr. Bungle when I first was on the boards. I remember thinking “Cool, another Mike Patton fan!”.
Wasn’t there an SNL skit, or maybe it was Kids in the Hall, or one of those comedy troupes of Mr. Bungle? It was basically like a takeoff of one of those old educational films of “how NOT to do things”.
Rock – I was NJ1Dolfan, and NJ was NJ PhinPhan. Then I went to NJ1Dolfan (Mike E)
i remember think’n, not another NJ fin fan! one’s enough, DAMN!
LOL
i started on topix
i remember jet fan use to drive home up the wall!
i remember home stalking Tim relentlessly
Home trolled everyone, that dude has a screw loose.
Rock
I used to use the Yahoo boards back in the day!
It was around 2006 or so when I stumbled onto the SS blog.
I remember making a comment and all of Homes personalities would call you a “dip shit” for the next 20 posts!
I took a lot of breaks from the board back then!!!!!!!!!!
Omar would ask us to please click on his videos, i think the more clicks the better for him… So NJ got his feathers ruffled, i can’t remember the reason but that dude Chris banned him for it.
I know NJ and I had are bad moments and i know he didn’t like me however that blog would not be the same without him.
so i devised a plan to protest getting NJ back, i kept posting until NJ comes back i’m protesting clicking on any links that Omar provided and was urging others to do the same.
Omar came on the site and was devastated.
It worked like a charm….the next day NJ was posting.. LOL
Chris T was a cool guy, he wasn’t always the moderator. If something happened when he wasn’t there, he would look into it,and say to us something what you kids do now?
There was another moderator their or maybe the manager, i think her name was Maria?? anyway she was very HOT!!
Chris T was awesome. And he didn’t ban on content….those were all at Omar’s request unless obvious outside troll stuff. He did take it a bit personal when Home would try and clog the board out of useful existence though.
Chris would ban if arguments got out of hand and rightfully so, i remember he banned Walker.
on topix someone was an imposter of Home, and kept saying negative things that Home would think the opposite, Home kept accusing jetfan, it was funny as hell
Where have we heard that before?
Seems every year they say this about someone, but rarely has it ever come to fruition. Beats the alternative though.
I’m hoping for the best! a 100% DeVante and a fully matured DeVante could be DANGEROUS to opposing teams.
Why is the lower part of Bryce’s picture blurred out? It’s as though he’s flipping the bird because he went to the stej.
I started with the blog on the SS in 2008, a little known acquisition in the Pennington signing. I remember I had also posted on the Herald but it seemed very strange there in a bad way. So I stuck with the SS.
You made the right choice, for us that is 😉
We’re all better off, because you’re here, but I can’t say you’re better off, because you’re here with us 😁
The Herald blog was a zoo. It was crazy there. A few people made their way from the Herald to the SS, like Payaso and a couple of others, but it was a like a free for all on the herald, like a HS class with a substitute teacher. lol
BTW I saw sometime this week that Hewitt signed with the Jets. I hate that. Glad he still gets a chance to play but any other team. Did anyone post that on here? I’m always surprised when I read something like that elsewhere that I didn’t already know about from here.
I believe it was on here, I remember it being discussed.
FYI, I’ll be in Charleston WV soon for a day.
What part of WV do you live in?
That’s where I am. When is it? What brings you to my neck of the woods?
And goes to show I’m not reading the blog every day. It’s been crazy busy at work lately.
The girlfriend and I are doing a capital tour of all the state’s, going back through some of the state’s we didn’t see the capitals in. If you want to meet for a quick drink or something email me at the address I have on this site.
Cool. It’s funny, I suppose our capital building is pretty, l used to work there way back in the day. It’s hard to think that someone wants to visit it on purpose. 😂
I ran into a guy last weekend wearing a WVU shirt, he was boasting about your capital.
M – I don’t buy into anything with Parker. He’s just got to out there and prove it for a full season. We hear this every season, and he always disappoints. This is his $$$ year, so hopefully that pushes him harder.
I’m right there with ya, Mike E. Being it’s his $$$ year, I EXPECT to see a great season out of DeVante this year. Time shall reveal…
If DeVante has a ‘typical’ season, as we’ve seen over the last 3 seasons, he’s GONE.
He’ll find a job somewhere if he has his “typical” season, but it will be for a lot less than he thinks it should be
Exactly.
I cant see us giving him anything close to the money he could make in FA, if he has a good year, see whats his name KC signed, from the Rams through Buffalo.
Not sure, if it’s better he has a great year compared to a pretty good year. Don’t know if he sees the throws his way needed for a great season. I’d like to see modest # of catches with 7 TDs. Too many Yes will cost too much, spread the wealth.
That didn’t take long
Ring your own bell lately ESPN? Really? Dynamic?
I changed from Mr. Bungle because that is an actual patent name and someone created a phony blog using that name pretending it was me, so I wanted no link to it.
Someone actually created a blog pretending to be you? And I thought I had too much time on my hands.
‘Fan’ was crazy in love with Tim. He seriously stalked him on that board.
Yep!
Parker’s issues have been about staying healthy. He happens to be a part of that WR draft class that have all had durability issues.
As you would say, BINGO!
That’s what Gase keeps telling us, but at some point he’s going to have to play better with the injuries, they’re all banged up.
Parker shouldn’t have been on the field last year if he was injured so much. I can’t count how many INTs he was responsible last year. He wasn’t able to jump up and contest balls which was supposed to be a strength. They should have had him on more underneath stuff while he was on the field. Rarely did I see him used like that. They keep throwing those jump balls to him.
He did miss 3 games because of his foot injuries. I guess in some of those other games he tried to play through it but you’re right, he did hurt the team by not being healthy in some of those instances.
steveccnv says:
May 10, 2018 at 12:49 pm (Edit)
I ran into a guy last weekend wearing a WVU shirt, he was boasting about your capital.
Gotta watch out for those WVU shirt wearing folks. It could be just any uneducated redneck. You see someone wearing a Herd shirt? You know they’re educated. 😊
Lol, this guy had a son going to WVU Law School, but he was in Fallon NV, so the redneck label applies.
CavalierKong says:
May 10, 2018 at 10:54 am
Yep, Tim was going by Mr. Bungle when I first was on the boards. I remember thinking “Cool, another Mike Patton fan!”.
That’s funny, When Tim changed to “Knight who says Ni”, I thought cool, another Monty Python fan.
Lol, it’s funny, all the little dynamics that went into the community we’ve all created here. Pretty awesome. Glad to have found it pretty early on, and still be a part of it.
Exactly,
Time sure does fly, I can’t believe how long this has been going on.
LOL, good times!
Omg…I had completely forgotten about fan. It’s funny now but was soooo annoying then.
Omar Kelly @OmarKelly 14m14 minutes ago
“We have a guy who is ready to bust out,” Dolphins coach Adam Gase said of Kenyan Drake.
Just don’t let ORob see this. LOL
He might not have if you didn’t re-post it…nice going….LOL
I told you he was going to be great! 🙂
I’ll take the guy that’s just on the verge of busting out, he’s the guy that’s hungry, not the guy that has already arrived and is in relax mode and thinks he can do what he wants.
It was weird that “Home” focused so much on Tim. Probably because they are polar opposites?
Tim is level headed, a voice of reason and generally optimistic, and sane, and Home is well……opposite of that….LOL
LMAO!!!
Not sure I agree with the Home evals, his name was based on the Fins making it to the SB. He was actually a lot like Tim in the optimistic crowd, until he went over the deep end.
PHINS TRIVIA
As of right now — 5/10/18 — how many former NFL 1st round picks do we employ?
First to submit the correct answer will receive an autographed driver from our guy ORob! GO!
No worries, ORob! I just put some silly $#!t in these to pay tribute to our GRAND posters, man!
8
Dammit, you ALWAYS get it right, Tim!!!
Now… NAME THEM!!!
That’s pretty good within 5 minutes by any means, unless you saw the figure in an article😀
Relaxing
https://twitter.com/pig_page/status/994321082529341441?s=21
Quinn, Harris, Anthony, Fitzpatrick
Tunsil, James, Tannehill, Parker
*M13 bows to MR. Tim*
WELL DONE!!!
Say it on the field Gase
Posted thoughts on/at previous thread..
Thanks for the heads up Stanger !!!
On D..
As I suggested where I hang …
I don’t believe that we’ve had two really good softies at the same time since the Blackwood Brothers, and/or Two great ones since #40 & 13 !!!
Presently, we have THREE really good, if not great or soon to be great Safties!!!
GOFINS!!!
You Gyz/gals hear Gase today on the audible??
Gase starts13 minutes in…
[audio src="https://miadolphins.akamaized.net/MIA/audios/dct/video_audio/2018/05-May/AUD010_Audible-Episode-10---Guest-Adam-Gase-Final.mp3" /]
I don’t know about that, Mike and Tim are quite the softies😉
They are known locally as The New Jersey Charmin Brothers
Lol
Jesus, i’d Forgotten the days when people would come in under other people’s handles or come in with new handles and not say who they were. And, I forgot about Chris having to shake his finger at us and have “the talk”. Lol
***
It was fun though.
Does, it was fun, translate to trolling someone using a different name?
I got suspended and once
I forgot what I did – I think I told a jets fan to fuck off
I don’t see the issue.
Good to see you 13kvFINS.
steve,
It was like the Wild West, so I enjoyed watching the drama. It was like rubbernecking a car crash.
Ahh huh
It’s much more fun here, because admin understands the context and doesn’t ban like Omar blocks. Don’t think you’d get away with some of the innocent things said here like telling someone to fuck off or asking someone about their bag of dicks. Also the trolling, especially by Home was irritating, like when he’d post the same thing over and over 50 times.
LOL, “”Home”””, can you say “””simply DBess””” a million times…
Tortured us at TinsFins too back in the day!!!
GOFINS!!!
HEY back @ye Knight : )))
steve,
I almost never read anything Home posted, so that probably helped me. Lol
***
The trolling was not cool, but if you were a regular you could tell who was really whom and what was going on. And, if it was just too much silliness, you could always leave. Of course, it helped that I was never really the object of it. Somebody did impersonate me once, but it didn’t last long. I’m too boring to impersonate for long. Lol
I was first in line to not miss him.
Where are the NJCBs?
They are squeezing each other
Speaking of the club😉
I’m just going to say this about Gase. I don’t know how he didn’t know about what Forster was doing last year. I’m sure most of us have been around people who were doing coke or have yourself. No way he couldn’t have known about it. 😳🤧
I just hope this season he proves he was the right man for the job. 🤞🏻
I feel the same way about Forster. That experience got me really down there on Gase.
Overtime could be nothing when we look back but it also could have been a sign of things to come
Yep, we’ll see.
If Foerster is a high strung guy which a lot of coaches are, it might not be that easy to tell if he was doing coke. Probably would be easier to tell if he was smoking weed. LOL
He’s got a lot on his plate, and there’s maybe 100+ people in the building, so unless Forster did it out in the open, how would Gase know? Sure there’s signs, but he was dealing with Ajayi and others too at the time, and not to mention his 24 hour a day regular job, but…
What’s with this Mike and I being softies? LOL
just having fun with funny typo
I saw 13kvFINS typo, but how did it become Mike and I?
I fixed it like 5 times and it kept spell checking back to softies!!
Stupid spell check like it never heard the word Safties before!!!
Maybe I should have spelt it
with a (WHY apostrophe S)??
Anyways, we haven’t had a duo let alone a trio of really good to great Safties at the same time since forever!!
Jones has had a different rag tag sidekick practically every year of his career!!! He wasn’t the Jones we now know when he was the sidekick to YBell, and so on all the way back to the Blackwood Brothers if not Jake & Dick!!! Lucky 13’s name wasn’t Jack…
GOFINS!!!
You guys are the easiest to have fun with, so it meant nothing. I wish i was strung that way.
No worries, I just didn’t see how it came together.
it was a typical combination of silliness and absurdity at some one else’s expense…lol
Hey 13kv. Good to see ya back here.
: ))) HIGH Herd, GO Marshall, GOFINS!!!
Talk to Gary’s Beth, or Slush lately???
I see Slush on FB. I used to get messages from Beth but not lately.
: ))) thanks for saying Hey, good to see you too!!!
Why do the Pets get a pass on everything? What is the deal with this Matt Patricia stuff mattering now that he’s going to the Lions, but it apparently didn’t matter the entire time he was with the Pets?
Seems to me that someone tried to sabotage him. Like with Tunsil and Josh Allen in the draft.
looks like everyone’s feasting on member berries
As long as it’s not the dingle kind. LOL
Member Tatooine?
I member!
😀
My nephew and I were doing ‘lightsaber battles’ yesterday in the back yard. I told him that he was doing VERY WELL! I then did a handstand in front of him…
He was like “WOAH! I still have MUCH to learn!” LOL 😀
lol, nice. I hope you busted out a Master Yoda quote.
Lol at 13kv, saf E ties
Well no f’n wonder Dumbass me, LOL : )))
Ajayi WHOOO !!!
Rut row, if Kalen sucks for us you heard it hear first. I dont like his picture, maybe its just a bad one, but he has that Sleepy Floyd look in his eye like Dion Jordan had. The super fine look, like he just smoked a J.
Just google imaged him and theres others that look concerning, but some that looked really good. Maybe RB is a lonely enough position that it doesn’t matter, since you’re always running for your life. Anyways something I’ll be watching.
13KV! What it is brother?
Ehhh Mike
“”It is”” great to see you all still kick’n arse,
and always (like I never left) being welcomed to be a part of it,
Lov’n everything the Fins did!!!
GOFINS!!!
Hell yeah KV – Always more than welcome here man! I’m also very happy with our off season, definitely feeling very positive about all our moves so far, including our excellent draft.
Kalen Ballage is going to be a very good player for us. I can feel it
Here we go… and I don’t like seeing these kinds of things happening.
Yeah, that sucks. Sucks worse (if possible) for the guys who would have been drafted much higher like Kentavious Street.
I hear ya, but I don’t care where a player was drafted. This is a DREAM KILLER for anybody who suffers as much. 😦
I say this as somebody who HIMSELF experienced as much.
He was heard screaming ” Waka Waka Waka” in pain. I’m a terrible person.
Lol
That’s not something you see everyday.
There’s an emu farm (ranch?) up the highway from here about 38 miles.
I think you can pick out your bird and take home the meat that day like a turkey.
A really really BIG turkey.
THOUGHT for just a second this was about Sand Hill Cranes, which we have in abundance in the Tampa suburbs.
—————
An alum of Eastern Michigan University said his school actually gave some consideration to calling their athletic teams the Fighting EMU’s. I told him “keep your day job!”
M – No question man, always tragic. I actually had no idea Street was drafted in the 4th RD. Wow, good for him. He tore his ACL working out for the Giants pre-draft.
Game 7 NHL drama starts in just a few minutes in Nashville.
MANITOBA, I wish your team all the luck in the world!!
The draft class jersey numbers were released.
Fitzpatrick 29
Gesicki 86
Baker 55
Smythe 46
Ballage 33
Armstrong 31
Poling 51
Sanders 7
The UDFAs got them too but I’m not posting them. LOL
TIM: One of my fav Fins from the ’90’s, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, I believe wore #33.
Yes, same as the captain.
Yep and so was Sammie Smith. Ugh! LOL
I see Omars favorite in that group
, double…
Damn, was hoping Carroo would give up 88 to Gesicki…
That second 8 makes him look that much more imposing!!!
Maybe he gets it anyway at some point if not before week one??
Love 29 for Fitz, Sammy M “””DBeee”””…
GOFINS!!!
That could change if Carroo gets cut but I don’t think rookies have enough clout to demand a #. Maybe 1st rd picks if it’s not already a seasoned vet’s #.
So Tim cover your eyes or ears or whatever you need to do as I am gonna talk schedule here for a minute.
Although this year’s seems like a really difficult schedule as in group of teams to play, it is not as bad of a sequence as last year’s, and if we can start fast, we could have a playoff spot all but wrapped up by the bye. 8-2
It is not hard to project a 12-4 record if we get on a roll and certain other teams get all wack.
Of course it is also easy to see 8-8.
by that I mean if our offense cooks and NY and Buff have rookie QB growing pains and NE continues to age, we could go 5-1 in the division.
Roubbens Joseph #73 is 6’4 312 @ OT.
David Steinmetz #69 is 6’8 310 @ OT.
But i predict neither makes it even to the practice squad.
You guys can see by Baker being #55 Misi is no longer on the team.
I’m ok with that. A neck is nothing to mess around with.
I was just pointing out it’s official. He likely retires.
Quincy Redmond #66 @ DE.is 6’6 250.
Jamiyus Pittman #65 @ DT.is 6’1 319.
These guys probably both make it to the practice squad, but no more.
Not so sure if I should buy the 86 jersey in white or aqua
What do you guys think?
Wait to see if Caroo vacates 88.
How about a Dolphins jersey #12 with Brady on it as some sort of a jersey voodoo doll. LOL
That would probably curse our towels boy Brady,
(If we have one named Brady), LOL
#60 Claudy Matthieu @ DE is 6’6 250, but he has no chance to stick.
#61 Connor Hiland @ C is 6’4 303 and has a chance at the PS.
IMHO on all of these of course.
2 LBs are long shots to make the PS.
They lose out in the numbers game as we drafted 2 and signed another.
#53 Cayson Collins is 6’1 230
#58 Mike McCray is 6’4 242.
13Kv! 🤩
What up man!?
Hey now ROCK, Doin awright thanks, good to read Da’Mob!!!
Comments are so fun, that I still haven’t had a chance to read the piece as I was reading/posting today at red lights between jobs!!!
Damn Dolphins cost me at least an hour if not two everyday,
I’d be so fired if I had to work at someone else’s pace!!!
GIGGITTY, GOFINS!!!
Man bring up MIA posters and one returns to the fold.
I believe Mike E said days ago that 13Kv said hello to everyone and here he is.
: ))), WOWWW, Mike actually relayed that message,
I’m HONORED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😎
Yes he did. 🙂
Gonna get me a #46 this weekend😙
Naples I cannot really hope we get to meet at the fest this year we can compare homeraid recipies and brewing techniques. LOL 🤪
12-4!!!?
LOL 😆 😂
Where did cannot come from? Freaking IPhone
I really hope
Naples, you never know what UDFAs will impress. It will all work itself out. As we know injuries and bizarre things happen. This team needs a real competitive camp and some good fortune this year. Tough cuts are a good thing, easy ones not so much.
Looks like we’re about to go head to head Toba.
Game 7 playoff hockey is awesome as long as it’s not a blowout. There is nothing like the drama of a close game where every shift is important. Enjoy!
Lucas Gravelle #49, who is only 6′ 224, will probably get death threats if he makes the team @ LS.
DT #43 Anthony Moten has a slim chance to make the PS @ 6’4 295.
#41 Johnathan Alston does not even have a position listing (prob a Safety). Camp body only.
#38 Buddy Howell 6’1 215 is a RB with a chance to show he deserves a look at RB with another team.
We probably keep 4 RBs so Howell has to beat out Perry and Radcliff. STs is a must for all of those guys and Perry has the most experience doing it. Competition is good from top to bottom.
Tim, why do you keep talking about Misi, like he’s still on the team?
No I said it’s official, I never saw a report until today that validated it. I knew he most likely wasn’t coming back and my offseason roster posts and discussions showed that because I never listed him. So there! LOL
Gesicki will have his #88 before too long. Owusu will probably beat out Carroooooooo
It doesn’t even matter. Just play well big man. Whoever the possible 6th WR is he will have to play STs because I think our top 5 are almost penciled in – Stills, Amendola, Wilson, Parker and Grant (returns). But I agree Carroo is going to have a tough time making the team this year.
Liked Owusu last preseason, probably more upside than Carroo at this point, but haven’t totally given up on Carroo though I’d like to see Gesicki in 88 !!!
WOOOO-HOOOO – – – Manitoba’s Jets already up 2-0 midway thru the 1st period!!! Preds goalie Pekka Rinne (that’s Finnish for ‘Little Pekaaa) has already been YANKED!–VISITING TEAM has won last 3 games in this series!! Teams that take 2-0 leads in game 7’s have won over 80% of those game 7’s since the switch to the current format.
Think I’ll keep the Jets’ lid on.
55 is a fine LB number – I remember we had pretty quick LB maybe in the 80’s or 90’s Chris Singleton who wore #55
How did this become such an insult?
Oooooooh burn!
Wtf?
That leaves the two UDFAs with the best chance to make the 53.
One the PK from FAU #5 Greg Joseph, because that position is so mental,
and the other guy is no Sebastian Janikowski.
Joseph is taller and heavier and comes from a similar level program, plus he has been kicking in the heavy Miami atmosphere, whereas the drafted guy has been out in the high NM desert.
Even more possible …
I think Jalen Davis is the classic “OMG how did he not get drafted?” type guy.
He has a real shot at being a successful player in the NFL.
just my initial predictions.
i hope they all have great careers somewhere in the NFC if they can’t help us.
Rookies sometimes buy a number from a fringe vet, but i bet Caroo has too much pride to give up the 88 that way. I think he thinks he is still a viable option at WR.
Frankly I always thought he had talent and was just buried behind the 1st 3 guys.
I always thought Grant is a gadget guy until last year. So small.
Carroo has been here long enough to take it and run with it but he hasn’t. This is his last chance in Miami. He couldn’t jump our top 3 last year and Grant jumped him. He’s at best #6 to start this year. I’m not trying to knock him, he just hasn’t played his way into a bigger role. If he was awesome he’d be playing.
13kv, what do you think of our offseason acquisitions both FA and draft? Who are the players you really see making an impact that you’re excited about?
Positional jersey #s have changed quite a bit in the last decade or whatever.
I got a White # 17 in the mail today!
It’s sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Green #36 should arrive tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!
You may have seen it??????????????
There it is.
There are 11 WRs on the roster, the only new ones that weren’t part of the org last year are Amendola and Wilson. An example of the knowledge of the system throughout the roster with the exception of our additions. A lot of players who know how it works here. I think that was part of the plan. Even guys who won’t make the team know the system. The newbees have a lot to lean on going forward.
Year one under Gase was all new, year two he started to pick and choose what he thought he had. This 3rd offseason was add what we have to have to what he likes.
Most position groups have enough players with system knowledge to pass it down now than what was before. That may seem trivial but I think it means a lot.
Not at all trivial, we need more continuity.
I’m ok with Gase for the next 30 years.
I agree. When it’s brand new it is for basically everyone. Now there is more structure to how this team operates. Not everyone, but a majority.
Thanks for the Lid On OD. I just niw caught up to LIVE game. 4-1 go Jets GO
It’s over
Well that’s a start!
You got beer money
Wmpty Netter 5-1 Jets 2:33 left 🏒🙏😎
Game on
Come to the Fest … Loser buys first two rounds ?? 🤡😎🤔
Toba drinking those 7% Canadian beers!
NOW its OVER. Bring on the Knights
Knight..
You asked!!!
Bryce Petty ; ))
Wasn’t interested in any QB draftee other than “”IT”” Baker,
Figured he was the only one that had a chance of unseating my-boy THill before 2020!!
Ohh man Knight that’s a dangerous question to ask me, I can go on for days, liked pretty much everything!!!
Try to be brief…
Loved Suh, but glad that we’ll soon be no longer imprisoned via his salary…
Figured, 26 one million dollar guys, or three 9 mill guys is a better alternative.. Already got Two DLmen of substance relatively a third of Suh’s 26..
I’m excited about all the draftees, went 3 for 3 with my 3 round (pre-draft) target list, got one of top 5 in first (two were gone), one of top two in second (both were TE), and my top 4 guy in the third (two were gone!!! Loving Ballage too, there quite a few runs on his “”me against the world”” highlight that displayed absolutely incredible speed, vision, balance, and power to boot all on one play a multitude of times, WOWWW,Hence Ajayi WHOOO!!!
Think that youthful Wilson & Pedigree Amendola combined will easily match 14’s yardage & TD totals, for a lesser price.. Liked 14 between whistles, but had enough of his theatrics En-Vogue first down pose when we’re in the hurryup, and instigating our prized offensive weapons being kicked out of game for seasons final (what could’ve been) game winning drive!!
Love that we got TWO WR’s and TWO OL for the relative price of one,
and a year younger OL with Kilgore/Sitton rather than Pouncey/Bushrod.. Pouncey & Suh we’re supposed to make each other better via practice, but 51 never practiced, and o17 was his first 16 game season since o12.. Sitton has 3 of last four probowls, Pouncey/Bushrod had a total of four and none come lately!!!
Robert Quinn 27, love that acquisition so that Branch’s 10 mill can be dumped in o19, Andy having the opposite end to Harris when CWake
hangs’Em’up!!!
Really glad we made that trade for DT Spence too!!!
Liked Stanford DTHarrison Phillips in the 3rd but we went with LB Baker who I liked since dominating the skills challenge gauntlet!!!!
Hope K Sanders is’Da’chit, cuz I had my heart set on Eddie Piniero
for months, I actually wanted him (pre-draft) with one of our 4ths,
but very happy with Smythe & Ballage with those picks!!! Coulda still landed Piniero in the 6th, but guess that Rizzi wanted our K to be his very own diamond in the ruff…
Bro I could go for dayzzz, birding wanna make folks sleepy/wear out my welcome!!! Sure I missed someone/thing, like the new coaches resumes, Brief as humanly possible for me, but thanks for asking of my views!!!
LOVED IT ALL, GOFINS!!!
Go Bryce Petty go, wink!!!
Oh Yea, think that Brock (if called upon)
is a better, more youthful, more upside
with a better chance of winning than MM!!!
He was my second round plan B to first round THill in o12,
like his talent & moxey, think he went 5-2 in Peyton’s place,
all that dough messed him up in Houston, think he could still blossom, odd that he two years younger than THill though both are o12 draftees!!!
K, DONE, LOL, I TOLD YOU, LOL!!!
Sorry for asking??? LOL!!!
Probably said this at least once already,
GOFINS!!!
Cool, man. Same here. If we don’t get hit with too many injuries or bizarre circumstances we should be okay. LOL
Yea, that’s pretty much what I suggested with last comment at previous thread, before Stanger told me you guys were here…
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GoodStuff MikeE!!!
Yea, FU LV!!
Still think that the Las Vegas Raiders shoulda drafted that one armed bandit LB..
We got Quinn and Stephone out of this draft too,
While McMillan & Asiati might as well be new rookies too!!!
Lippett returns as o16 team leader in picks,
And we get our ONE TIME injured QB back!!!
QB and definitive cogs stay healthy,
And I don’t see outside distractions like (13 consecutive weeks that included)
Losing THE starting QB two weeks before opening day, or
Irma/week one home opener/cancelled bye weeks, an AWOL Timmons,
a white Dragon rideing OL coach,
a what had become diva RB, ball hog slot receiver,
or a drunk in public Maualuga
among numerous other uncontrollable beyond the field instances
taking a toll on weekly performances!!!
Not sure Vegas agrees with their own prognostication??
Kinda odd!!
Play the under, and you risk more than you can win..
Play the over, and you risk less than you can win…
Seems odd, don’t it??
Ehhh to all THE MOB,
GOFINS!!!
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13kvFINS says:
May 10, 2018 at 11:53 am
Got TWO WR’s for the price of one,
TWO OL for the price of one,
and already got TWO DL for a third of the price of one!!
What’s not to like???
So heading into early camps our roster breakdown looks like this.
Offense:
OL 15
TE 6
WR 11
QB 4
RB 6
42 – probably keep 25
Defense:
DL 16 9DE/7DT
LB 10
CB 8.5 (Aikens)
S 5.5 (Aikens)
40 – probably keep 25
STs:
K 2
P 1
LS 2
5 – keep 3
3 roster spots open for 90. I see some moves happening in June once Suh’s $17M becomes available. Nothing major, competition and more experience where needed – TE, DT and K.
3.9 wins? Well why even bother? I guess I will check in again next year to see if we have a better chance.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/dave-hyde-blog/fl-sp-hyde5-dolphins-computer-projection-20180510-story.html
so all the speculation by you guys that TJ McDonald would be moving to linebacker got shot down by Adam Gase
Until he’s out there playing LB. 😀
Agree, Gase doesn’t wanna give anybody an additional 3 plus months to prep for TJ at LB or wherever…
Though I can see Fitz in place of Tank, or BMc on numerous occasions…
X & Fitz makes for a hell of a shutdown CB tandem,
But for the most part I see 3 safEties at wherever…
GOFINS!!!
With Miami’s rookie minicamp being more of a symposium type we can at least read easier that there will be no freak injuries like we see across the league every year
SUPER CONGRATS TO MANITOBA’S JETS!! Interesting bet U have with Steve.
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Hockey’s FINAL FOUR begins tonight as Bolts host Washington. VISITING TEAMS have won 37 and lost 34 games this playoff season–unprecedented in the modern era.!
Gase says a lot of things.
Rock – Gase agrees with me that we have better depth. 😛
🧐
Tim – More recently, and possibly even more frustrating (to me at least) . . .
DT3 wore #33 originally, before switching to #30
True! LOL
That is a professor emoji In honor of you crowing how right you are before the evidence is actually in
🤓 Or I could use the Jerry Lewis professor emoji
There’s only one Professor here, although he’s not here at the moment. Maybe he’s on sabbatical. lol
I just hope going AWOL, Dodging hurricanes and Snorting Cocaine is in our wake.
If you eliminate one of those, you automatically eliminate the other two.
And 3 L’s. ; )))