The day we’ve waited so long to arrive will be here in 3 more days. Yeah, there’s a game on tonight, and may even be a good one, but I’m looking right past it to Sunday, 1PM, Hard Rock Stadium. This team has made a lot of changes and we will be relying on a lot young players, but if you look at the drafts we had last year and this year, I feel pretty confident.
On the offensive side of the ball, we brought in free agent LG Josh Sitton, I feel that is a clear upgrade. Returning at LT is Laremy Tunsil, and he will most definitely benefit by playing next to Sitton. At center, we said goodbye to Mike Pouncey, and traded for SF 49ers C Dan Kilgore. In theory, it will be nice to have all our starting OL practicing together and hopefully developing a rhythm and a chemistry. Kilgore will probably be an upgrade run blocking, but Pouncey was good last year pass blocking, and throughout his career, so Kilgore will have to play very well to in that regard.
Gone is the go-to-guy Jarvis Landry who caught over 400 passes in 4 years here in Miami, and in his place will be veteran WR Danny Amendola, as well as rookie TE Mike Gesicki, and WR Albert Wilson. 3 new faces for Tannehill, each with their own particular skill set. I never loved Amendola, but that guy is a clutch performer, helping the Patriots big time in the playoffs with excellent performances. Wilson was relatively underused in KC, and my hope is it’s not because he didn’t have the goods, it’s because they had too many weapons in KC with Kareem Hunt, Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce. Gesicki can be the TE we’ve craved here for too long, at least as far as a receiver, his blocking is a work in progress. Gesicki brings athletic ability we haven’t had, and he’s a very talented pass catcher. We’ll also have the oft (minor injured) Devante Parker and Jakeem Grant as well. Grant will bring excitement, and Parker disappointment, just the way it usually is.
Ryan Tannehill returns from injury as he hasn’t played a regular season game since December 11th of 2016. Tannehill is acutely aware this is his team now, and if he can elevate his play, the team will come along as well. This is a great opportunity for him, I hope he makes the most of it. With Kenyan Drake, Frank Gore and Kalen Ballage, I think he has the tools to succeed. I think the backs will share a workload, but Kenyan Drake is the primary back. There won’t be a workhorse among the 3, but Drake is the lead, Gore next, and then Ballage and Senorise Perry.
On defense, we let go a pro-bowl caliber DT, one who played an exorbitant amount of plays for us, and he will be replaced by the frequent rotation of Jordan Phillips, Davon Godchaux, Akeem Spence and Vincent Taylor, with an occasional sprinkling of DE William Hayes. At LB, 2nd YR Rookie Raekwon McMillan returns after missing last season with an ACL injury. He’s joined by Kiko Alonso and and a combo of Jerome Baker, Stephone Anthony and Chase Allen. The biggest change is at CB, where Xavien Howard returns at RCB, but opposite him will be Bobby McCain, who was previously the slot and nickel corner. Depth wise, Cordrea Tankersley, Torry McTyer and rookie Cornell Armstrong round out the CB position. At safety, a few veterans return in Reshad Jones, T.J. McDonald, Walt Aikens, but they are joined by do it all rookie sensation Minkah Fitzpatrick. We’re going to see him on the field A LOT!
So on to the game! Tennessee will be lead by 5th YR QB Marcus Mariota, and the run game led by big back Derrick Henry (Kenyan Drake’s RB mate at ALA), former Patriots RB Dion Lewis, former Dolphins WR Rishard Matthews, 3rd YR WR Corey Davis and veteran TE Delanie Walker. The Titans like to impose their will with a power run game led by a tough OL with excellent bookends Taylor Lewan and Jack Conklin. Henry had previously been splitting carries with RB DeMarco Murray, but with Murray out of the picture, Henry will be getting the lion’s share of carries. We have struggled defending the run, at least in the preseason, so we’ll see if we can hold here at home.
On offense, Devante Parker is OUT, so Albert Wilson will likely replace Parker as wideout. In the preseason, the offense was a fast pace, no huddle short pass game clinic. Not sure if that continues in the regular season, or if we’ll be more balanced with more of a rushing attack, and also get the TE’s more involved in the passing game as well. We have a rookie kicker, and supposedly Jason Sanders has ice running through his veins. Let’s hope we don’t need to find out!
MIA 30 – TEN 13
Finsmob Unleashed 
He had a shot in the endzone.
Lol, Atlanta coach almost did an FP after that FG.
Geez…
I see Corey Clement and Darren Sproles actually (and successfully) try to block. Jay Ajayi? NOPE!
I’m beginning to understand why the Eagles will only put Ajayi in on certain downs/sits: he’s a very limited player. DANGEROUS, mind you… but limited… almost like an Adrian Peterson in that Peterson can’t block nor catch out of the backfield or downfield.
As such, I now understand why Gase traded Ajayi… and his primadonna attitude made it all the easier to do.
Fits well with Mr ummm that catch is too hard Wallace
already seen one of those in this game.
^^^
That’s why Gase says he’s got his guys, they can all run, block and catch.
EXACTLY, Steve.
And why he’s working on Gesicki’s blocking.
no Calvin Ridley yet.
After watching Matt Ryan, I think you should go head first every time, especially when no one is near yoy.
I think this is certainly going to become a ‘thing’, after Matt Ryan just messed up his brace.
They now protect the qb when slides head first right? As in hit him now and its a penalty ?
Yuge FG, you can FP that one.
5 pointer in fantasy
Holy bad decision batman
you might as well throw with 2;01 left in half, even from your EZ.
manitobafinfan says:
September 6, 2018 at 10:17 pm
They now protect the qb when slides head first right? As in hit him now and its a penalty ?
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As the “new rules” continue, Justin Beiber could be a successful QB in the NFL.
I actually dont have a problem with the sliding no touch .. but yes they have taken SO much out of the game that used to be awesome and is now illegal
As for Beiber, i wish he played qb behind our OL from 2014-2015 .. he d be silenced 😎
😆
YES!!!
Welp… we’re at 15 penalties called this evening… in the 1st half alone.
Oh wait… here’s another one as I type…
16 now and counting…
LMAO at Wallace lack of effort again , dont care if it shoulda been PI
That was the one they got right.
17 now and counting… roughing the Kicker!
Another bad call
This game looks like a 1st PS game. UGLY!!!
EXACTLY!
Well the Atl didnt play anyone in preseason and Foles gold…
Foles looked like shit in PS and 1st half
5 seconds after he punts the ball and gets blocked into the kicker, who held his leg up for quite a while. The officials are the stars of the first half. Horrible officiated game.
YUP, YUP!!!
If that were the cheats it would’ve been called a catch on the field, as it should’ve been.
Is this the kind of year we’re going to get from the officiating?
I was reading emails and saw the catch , had no idea they called it no catch , that was bad
If Shula was still the coach we’d win game 1 every year, how watered down the preseason has become.
That looked familiar
1.8
I really wanted Jones when he came out (of college) Baker will do.
Ajayi is playing a specialty roll. Seems Philly knows he isn’t an every down back.
Role
This game is still UGLY!!! Just bad football in so many ways. The CBA TC rules and the watered down PS doesn’t allow for teams to be ready to play the RS. This looks like a PS game except with the starters in there. NFL, you’re killing your product on so many levels.
’bout what we’ve been saying all game.
I know I was one who started it early on. 🙂
Wow Atl 2 and 5, you take Julio out and run against 10 in the box.
The only thing worse than this game was the commercial, it was boring.
That was 2nd down doesn’t count
Deja vu all over again
Matt Ryan is awful with pocket presence.
And horrid in the redzone
His protection was pretty bad all night though. That said he made some bad decisions and made some shitty throws. So did Foles for that matter. Ugly game.
Yet Foles was CO Player of the game , sad .. but yes was an interesting finish. And nice to have real football back !!
Go Phins
At least the game ended with some excitement.
You could see tonight many players were not ready to play a complete game. They were gassed. Not enough offseason work but we know it’s all about money now. Sad.
I hope the Phins look more prepared out of the gate than these two teams did tonight – both championship caliber teams at that.
Just a pet peeve, I wish the Dolphins official site wouldn’t designate players at specific positions when they don’t know what they’re talking about – Jones as a FS, Alonso as a MLB or Davis as an OT. Jones and McDonald are interchangeable at S, Alonso is most likely WOLB and Davis is at RG. Who decides this crap?
Ajayi first down production, avg’d 5.75 YPC on first down, notice 3 of 4 runs up the middle
1-10-ATL 31
(11:19) (No Huddle, Shotgun) 26-J.Ajayi left end to ATL 23 for 8 yards
1-10-PHI 16
(2:32) 26-J.Ajayi up the middle to PHI 20 for 4 yards
1-10-PHI 4
(12:58) 26-J.Ajayi up the middle to PHI 8 for 4 yards
1-10-PHI 25
(9:48) (Shotgun) 26-J.Ajayi up the middle to PHI 32 for 7 yards
great OL they got there in Philly.
(jk)
your Point ‘s well made
neither Sproles or Clements did that well running behind the same OL
He’s still not a power back, he’s a zone runner. One first down he got was because the defender pushed him from behind for the 1st down. LOL
OK I’m bored so here are my season predictions!
Miami 8-8 with some clunkers 😦
Superbowl
Vikings over Houston
Say you’re right, and Tannehill has a season that doesn’t measure up, he regresses from 2016, do you draft a QB early next year?
I don’t think the clunker come from Tanny!
Until it’s late in desperation time!
That’s is not his game!!
I think it will come from the “young” back 7 on defense!
That gives up some big plays, that put us in a bad situation, that Snowballs!
JMHO
Power back
Tim Knight says:
September 7, 2018 at 7:17 am
He’s still not a power back, he’s a zone runner
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i disagree…. you keep alluding to this?? what does blocking schemes and the name “zone runner” have to do with anything or matter?
success is success, if he gains the tough yards up the middle on 1st down…. i don’t care what you call it just keep doing it.
oops…wrong reply
i tried to post a pic of a catepillar bull dozer but not sure how to post pics
LOL — he did care about his $10 mil and not getting hit though.
LMFAO, that is great.
HULKFEST — Sunday 10/21 vs Lions
Sat eve meet-up as always plus our new to be usghe event — tunes with the Dog on Friday on Hollywood Beach. And traditional Chef Warren spread at the tailgate.
Ended up with Sec 317 (like the 40) and way down lower than we normally get. Seats in rows, 10, 13 and 15 in Sec 317 to be had at $65 each….unless they run out of course.
IN
Hulk
Mike E (+2)
Pig
Doggy (+2)
Son (+7)
Rock
stanger (+4)
OD
Phelon (+1 and own seats)
Toba (+1)
Bookman (+1)
Brian NY (+son…in OD’s seats)
Twice
Naples (+1)
Tickets are bought. So if you are on the IN list you have ordered, but only need to pay that weekend. But if you still want to come (looking at you E-Rider) or want to bring another plus….. we can make it work.
33 in for the Fing Fest! Believe that will make it the biggest ever.
Mike E. says:
September 7, 2018 at 10:44 am
Say you’re right, and Tannehill has a season that doesn’t measure up, he regresses from 2016, do you draft a QB early next year?
wyoming85 says:
September 7, 2018 at 11:12 am
I don’t think the clunker come from Tanny!
Until it’s late in desperation time!
That’s is not his game!!
I think it will come from the “young” back 7 on defense!
That gives up some big plays, that put us in a bad situation, that Snowballs!
JMHO
Mike E
Do you see a QB coming out better than the 3 from last year?
I don’t
Tim Knight says:
September 7, 2018 at 7:17 am
He’s still not a power back, he’s a zone runner
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i disagree…. you keep alluding to this?? what does blocking schemes and the name “zone runner” have to do with anything or matter?
success is success, if he gains the tough yards up the middle on 1st down…. i don’t care what you call it just keep doing it.
as for Ajayi, i was disappointed last year when they dumped him, at first i had thought Gase had a reasonable back-up to fill his role and after the first game post Ajayi i knew that wasn’t the case and i knew we were doomed.
Ajayi’s gone..it’s spilt milk, my hopes this year rely on Gore, if he can stay healthy he can fill that role nicely…maybe Ballage/Perry can help in that area as well but Drake can not run btwn the tackles, if we rely on him we will have a losing season.
53 today… Holy Shit !!
smoke a yard cigar! lol
I did drop one a little bit ago 🙂
Wyo – thanks for the response – I just meant if he did play poorly, in theory, not that he will. I haven’t looked ahead to the QB class of ’19 yet, so I have no idea.
Happy Birthday Doggy!
Thanks Mike !!
👍
Think that Escobar should do fine in Grays role…
Has plenty of blocking experience over his career as the #2 TE to go to guy TE Jason Whitten, and made the most of his receiving opportunities with 12 TD’s on just 30 career receptions!!!
Probably a more experienced blocker than Gray,
and definitely has more TD’s
though I’m not sure of Grays stats,
but he’s been here awhile blocking
with not many catches/TD’s (off the top a my head)
Yes Gray was an intricate part of what we’ve been planning towards the run,
But I think Escobar is plenty capable and experienced
Just not quite as familiar…
Was hoping to keep him all along,
Glad he was still available to us
for exactly what we need to replace Gray…
SORRY FOR GRAY,
GOFINS!!!
Blocking experience doesn’t equal good blocking. Gray was a true H-Back type that could line up in line or in the backfield, and block well. I don’t think Escobar is going to replace his skill set at all.
I know what Gray brought,
Presently as a blocker
Are Gesicki, Smythe, or Derby better run blockers??
NO!!!
So IMHO, Escobar fills that role efficiently!!!
GOFINS!!!
Happy B-Day Dog!
My dog Lucky looks exactly like the big black one, gold hat,
and yet I wasn’t invited, Hmmmm
Happy Birthday Doggy you old fart
Happy Birthday Doggy!
Mike E
I will be watching Lock this weekend!
I hope he stinks it up and my Cowpokes get the win though!!! 🙂
Thanks everyone !! My wife and son are taking me out for Alaskan King Crab tonight.. Good Stuff
Happy Birthday Phindog,
Does that mean you are actually 371 years old?
That is almost as old as Mike E.
Thanks.. but when you put it that way it makes me feel old. 🙂
KV – Smythe probably is a better blocker, much better, just not as experienced. Gesicki is surely worse, and Derby I don’t have enough info on yet to make that call
Smythe isn’t up to NFL blocking speed YET!!!
That might be the case at the moment Kenny, but it also might not be. Smythe was a very good blocker at ND, that’s his calling card. I guess we’ll see how much Smythe or Escobar are used as blockers, and then we’ll know what’s what
I’m ALL GOOD WITH WHATEVER WORKS!!!
GOFINS!!!
gray was underutilized in this offense, so it’s not like he’ll be terribly missed. It just stinks to lose his talent. I was looking forward to seeing an increased role this year.
NFL 1 hr ago
Ex-Dallas Cowboys player Joseph Randle arrested on suspicion of rape, records show
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle is in legal trouble again – this time after being booked into a Kansas jail on suspicion of rape early Friday morning, records show.
IDIOT !!
Yummy, HBD to Dogs Wife & Son,
Happy Birthday to you too DAWG!!!
TAKE CARE!!!
Thanks Kev,.. That’s funny right there !!
LOL is that a dog eating a crab or the crab eating the dog?
Wonder if English speaking dogs understand what that Asian dog was talk’n’bout ???
My dog listened with a confused look on his face…
Woof woof happy birthday Phindog
Thanks Big Green Dude !!
Happy B-day Doggy!! How old are you now? 343?
Damn! Bookman beat me to it. Of course he made you much older….
Gase always looks so bug-eyed crazy!
Ouch!
Tailback Frank Gore returned practice a day after taking a rest day. Gore, who needs 76 rushing yards to pass Curtis Martin for fourth place in all-time rushing, has been nursing an Achilles injury this week. But he’s expected to play in his first game as a Dolphins on Sunday.
However, Gore’s streak of starting 108 consecutive NFL games will likely come to an an end unless the Dolphins decide to start him over Kenyan Drake.
I hope he get’s the 76 yards he needs because his streak will end this Sunday for sure.
Rock says, “Gase always looks so bug-eyed crazy! ”
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I have bonded out a few meth heads who looked like that, LMAO!
Happy B-Day doggie! Here’s to you getting your butt sniffed on this special day!
LOL… Thanks Man !!
Happy Birthday Dawg, i’ll bring a can of Alpo to the fest with a candle in it for you.
If you really liked him you’d bring Blue Wilderness. lol
Thanks Rob but as you know I’m on a liquid diet during Fest week 🙂
Any of you FF guys draft Bears WR Anthony Miller? He is going to be their starting slot WR. Me thinks in a couple weeks you will start hearing his name if not sooner. I think he will end up with the best WR #’s out of all the rookies.
What a love affair. Is he your son?
Jbb and you might be right he’s pretty good
BBM – I drafted Miller in my keeper league
I have friends like this!
https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/1038160473257070593
Discuss!
I’m just kidding
Don’t discuss it. I’m so tired of this story
It’s just a tidbit of info
Yeah I saw that and I don’t care to discuss it either because I don’t care.
I hear you Tim
It’s opening weekend!!!
Oink and Squeal and Fuck it all. Football is back!
but their stock is down
Happy Birthday Phindog
🎂🎂🎂
How many couches did you hump to celebrate?
Son, LOL, figures you’d be the one to catch me being a homer.
Good pick up Mike E.
I have a glut of WR talent, I somehow screwed the pooch on RB though. I made a bonehead move, and then I had a RB in queue, and he was taken right before my pick, and I scrambled to find another choice, but the ended up grabbing another WR.
WTG NFL.com! I wanted to look at the injury report for upcoming games this weekend and NFL.com shows no injuries reported for any game or any team. But then they have articles about players who will be out week 1 due to injury.
Looks like our injury bug flew to Indy. They have put 16 players on IR and have 9 players questionable (as of yesterday) for week 1 (3 of them are OT’s). Sucks to be luck!
Happy Birthday Phindog.
Guess we just can’t rely on these sites for an accurate injury report. They (cbssports) have WR Rashawn Scott listed as questionable for us on week 1 vs Tenn.?
Fake news at its finest
Thanks Piggy and Naples 😎👍🥃
Happy B-Day, Phindog! Hope you have a chew-toy to satisfy ya tonight! 😉
BailBondMike says:
September 7, 2018 at 6:34 pm
Guess we just can’t rely on these sites for an accurate injury report…
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Brother, EVERYTHING is on Twitter these days. It’s the quickest and most convenient way to break news. It’s SO quick and convenient, that the tweets from some of these web hosts actually forget to update their web sites.
And if you so chose to join Twitter, make sure you follow the beat writers: they generally have more specific data than even the Miami Dolphins website.
If one is in a fantasy league, Twitter is almost an invaluable tool these days.
Thanks M13, maybe I will one day. lol
You should, IMO. I’m not the one to push something on anyone, so I’m not… and it’s not as though I get ‘credit’ by getting someone to join. I just find it to be an incredible tool to get the news that YOU want, ASAP: it’s absolutely outstanding for football intel, contingent upon who ya follow.
Non-football and non-political news that I find intriguing…
Tesla stock dropped by 10% today, after Elon Musk was seen smoking a blunt on Joe Rogan’s podcast (with video) yesterday (I didn’t see him inhale, TBH). Several very high ranking officials at Tesla resigned after yesterday’s ‘incident’.
Last I had heard/seen, the US Air Force is looking into this matter. I assume that Musk has contracts with the US Air Force, hence their pending investigation.
CRAZY!!!
Hmmmm….all this time I thought Elon Musk was a cologne or perfume.
He’s been generating all the wrong kind of publicity lately
That Thailand cave dive thing had a lot of people angry
Elon Musk might be having a very public nervous breakdown.
We have Tennessee coming into town, they are a physical football team and will jamm 6’3 250lbs Derrick Henry up the middle at our young and small LBers, the question is can we stop him without using other resources?
then you have Marcus Mariota a mobile QB, will they use Kiko to spy him? we need to contain him.
one thing we have going for us is the hot weather of S FL, this should be a good challenge and a good indicator of how good this Dolphin team is against a team that made the post season last year.
Henry will definitely be a good test. We’ll see if Baker can handle that assignment, not that he’s the only LB, but Henry is a big boy, and Baker is not. I know Baker will stick his nose in there, we’ll see if he can bring the big boy down. Delanie Walker is a sneaky good receiver at TE, if he’s allowed to run free, he will hurt us too. Looking forward to seeing how we match up with Rishard Matthews too.
One more day . . . Just one more day . . .
2018 Miami Dolphins Football baby! GO DOLPHINS!!!
We sucked at 3rd down proficiency last year, near the bottom of the league, and as you all know IMO the reason for that was the lack of an early down run game, we had the fewest rushing attempts last year in the entire league.
this will have to change for us to contend
31.68 3rd down proficiency in 2017, we were number 31 in that category only team worse than us was Houston.
It’s real funny how we had the best RB in the league (1.8 Drake) (LOL) who gained the most yards and were the worst on 3rd down?
how can this be explained?
It’s easy, everyone knows 1 player converts 3rd downs, not the other 10.
HEY DAWG: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAN!!–YOU are almost as old as my oldest daughter!!
ATTENTION YOUNG STANGER: Operator says your home phone# has been disconnected.–I left you a message on your cell phone. SEE YOU TOMORROW AROUND 11 or so at our favorite stadium watering hole.
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HEY NAPLES! I’m sticking by my earlier 27-17 prediction of a Miami victory, thanks to a gallon of KOOL-AID! I assume you’re sticking by your 23-17 pick, also.
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HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU FOLKS AT THE GAME (Section 120, Row 30).
Randy — if my home phone went down it is up an running now and still same number. So give me a call. And will shoot for 11:30 at the bar. Not sure what parking is going to be like with the changeover though.
OT Jack Conklin and DE Harold Landry are both out for the Titans
also First Round draft pick LB rashaan evans is out too right?
I was watching some NFL coverage and listening to some on the radio the last few days. Man I really hope we’re better than a lot of people think we are.
What were they saying and who was saying it?
Just in general they treat us like we’re not even worth discussing. Only Peter Schrager thinks we’re better than people think and will make the playoffs.
I try not to get too caught up in it
But the national media is really not optimistic about our season
I don’t blame bc last season was kind of ugly
And we didn’t look anywhere near the offense Gaze had in mind
But I don’t remember seeing people sing the praises of the eagles last off-season
No Conklin? Wake needs to feast. Maybe they’ll shift protections his way and Quinn will need to get home.
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If they do run a lot as people are expecting, it’ll be a great game for Raekwon to step up and show what he can do.
Schrager always likes us for some reason. I don’t really think he’s very football smart, but he says nice things about us. Lol
He actually knows who’s on our team though and doesn’t harp on the 4 players we moved on from like everyone else. Many people seem to forget we were 6-10 with those 4 players so losing them must mean we’re definitely worse now. They also always say we lost those 4 players and don’t state it that we moved on from them so there’s that.
They do get kinda lazy and just take a shallow look sometimes.
Yes
Tim,
I don’t really care much what media types say about us…..never do. They usually all follow the same narratives and story lines whether they are true or matter anyway. Most of them are morons. Lol
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I will say I kind of disagree with the idea that getting rid of good players….and they were all good players….makes you better. Saying we were crappy with them doesn’t mean the specific players were crappy. The team was also 10-6 with those same players, so the logic doesn’t hold up. For me, we got who we got now, and you move on from there. Remember…..we don’t put W/L records on players around here….ahem Tannehill. The media is just doing what they do. It doesn’t mean they’re right. Unless you like their opinion, of course. Lol
I hear ya I don’t either. I was just commenting on what I was hearing because I did pay attention recently being that the season is just underway and I was listening for FF info. I was just sharing my thought that I hope we’re better than what they’re saying.
I know a couple of the FF prognosticators put our game as one of two potentially low scoring games. I get that, until we prove we can score TD’s, it makes sense to think we can’t because we haven’t.
That’s fair, but they act like we no talent at all and that’s absurd.
Tim – The league you have Julio Jones in, is it a PPR? 1/2PPR?
Just yards and TDs. I lost 5 points on that 52 yard catch they said wasn’t a catch. He should have had 221 instead of 169.
My opponent had Julio, full pint PPR league, dropped 28 points on me. lol
^ point
I hope this is the year we start seeing tunsil be the dominant presence we hoped he would be when he was drafted
It would be nice If the recent 1st rounders on the roster: Parker, Tunsil, Harris and even Minkah play like top tier talent
We need a lot of young players to step up because we’re relying on quite a few.
FSU RB Buddy Reynolds
https://www.ncaa.com/video/football/2018-09-07/fbs-burt-reynolds-fsu-highlight
I’m optimistic we can be a solid team until proven otherwise. Not 12 wins or anything but competent, hopefully. I do think this is a transition year, so my expectations are tempered.
Yeah that’s where I’m at until they prove otherwise. If we were really void of talent and potential I’d say that. But I do believe we have a lot of potential and could shock people. But that has to happen on the field, not on paper.
Randy, I can’t really get on Ajayi for the 6-10 season because we were 4-3 with him as ORob likes to point out, and he really didn’t play much his rookie season in 2015 when we also went 6-10. Pouncey missed most of the season in 2015 so can’t really put that on him either. But Suh and Landry have been part of two 6-10 seasons so if they were so good but we still finish 6-10 how is it such a loss? Their impact wasn’t that great.
Suh is a stud player but he really didn’t live up to his contract and his numbers went down every year. He was never the pass rusher we expected. We’ve all been through why we moved on from these 4 players for different reasons. My point is we can be bad without them. I really don’t know what this team is yet because we haven’t seen this team as currently constructed play yet. I’m hoping for the best. 🙂
On that same token Tim, you could say we were 6-10 with hose players, we might have been 3-13. There’s always a different perspective to look at things through.
LOL @ hose players! Seems about right! 🙂
Sure but who cares 6-10 or 3-13 is still a bad team. My point is they didn’t elevate us and Suh’s contract was too big and Landry wanted to be paid like an elite WR. Pouncey was also being paid well but the team didn’t want to baby him anymore. It was time to move on. There were also some character issues with me first type stuff.
Like I said we all know why the changes were made. Now we’ll see if those moves were the right thing to do. I’d be shocked if we were any worse without them.
All that said, this is a big season for Tannehill. If he doesn’t play at a high level and this team is ho-hum there is going to be a lot more questioning whether the team should continue to roll with him. That’s just the way it is.
I think he (Tannehill) gets that more than we do
I agree and he has said that – if I don’t perform I’m not going to be here. Just like any other player.
Doggy! Happy Hangover brother!
Home Dogs on opening day 😦 As I read various “predictions” online I see a lot of LBer bashing, which is a lazy memory of last year’s LBers. This unit is mostly new and we haven’t seen what they can do through the course of an entire game. so, whatever. I think we go conservative in this game as long as we get results.
Howie? or whoever is keeping the tally:
Fins 17, Titans 16
What will it take for Miami to succeed this year?? it all comes down to one one player, Frank Gore, if he can run like he has in the past and be healthy the entire season i believe we will contend. if not we will lose unless of course Ballage or Perry can handle the load, I don’t want to count those guys out as i haven’t seen enough of them.
If Gore can effectively pick up 4 to 6 yards on 1st down it will make our 3rd down proficiency go up, it needs to be about 45%, this will affect our defense in a positive way giving them the rest they need and keeping the opposing D on the field.
running the ball effectively will have a positive trickle down effect for the whole team
This year I will make my decision on whether I like Gase as HC or not. I have had serious issues that I have told my self to wait and see on that I do not like about his style. This year will determine if I am just picky or if he really is the problem I FEEL he is. (not think his is, notice I said)
Gase likes to pass on first down and does so so often it is predictable. I prefer to run on 1st down.
Gase likes screens WAY more than I do. I HATE screens. (mostly because we haven’t been able to execute them properly in my living memory)
Gase likes an “Attacking” defense. The problem I see with the attacking defense is it leaves us too open to being gashed for big plays and for giving up way too many 3rd and long.
LOSE THE FUCKING WIDE NINE ALREADY! It opens the middle of the defense up for easy running yards when the DT’s are already 5 yards apart!