This is a historical game for the 2018 Miami Dolphins. You have to go back to September 21, 2008 (The Wildcat Game) to find a Dolphins victory in Foxboro in the last decade. Win this game and remain undefeated, and put some legitimate space between them and the New England Patriots, who were/are the favorite to capture the division crown, as per usghe. On the other hand, it’s game 4, and coaches prefer to break up seasons into quarters, and starting off 3-1, even after a loss to the Patriots, while it would be disappointing, it’s playing .750 ball, and a nice start. There are so many perspectives to view this matchup through, and all the same, I think it’s important to keep perspective. If the Dolphins win this game, the Patriots are not dead and buried, and we don’t get the division crown. If we lose this game, it doesn’t put a black cloud on the season and cause us to spiral into a 3-13 season. 12 regular season games still remain
The way I choose to look at this game is I would like the Dolphins to look like they belong on the same field as the Patriots, that Adam Gase is a match for Bill Belichick, that Ryan Tannehill can be competitive in a big game against Tom Brady. Play a solid football game, fight till the end, and if you don’t win, at least you didn’t look unprepared or outmatched. We’re a touchdown plus underdogs for a reason, this is not a game we usually win.
We all prayed for no injuries this season after last year, and early on we were granted good fortune. However, in the last couple of weeks, we lost our Pro-Bowl LG, Josh Sitton for the season with a torn rotator cuff, and this past week, we lost a valuable member of the D-line, DE/DT William Hayes to an ACL injury. We have to overcome those injuries, we must persevere. The best teams always do, and we can’t let it drag us down. The Sitton injury affected us, we couldn’t run the ball against the Raiders. Ryan Tannehill led the Dolphins with 26 yards rushing on 3 carries, while Gore and Drake combined for 25 yards on 11 carries. The Dolphins did a great job of masking that deficiency last week, but we all know we have to run the ball much more effectively to stay relevant this season.
Last week with William Hayes out, and of course losing DT Akeem Spence to an ejection, really hurt our run defense. The remaining players played well in a much shorter rotation, but it will be great to have Spence for 4 quarters, along with whichever DE we choose to promote to the 46 man gameday roster. The 2018 Patriots don’t really have a feature back, they use a combination of RB/FB Rex Burkhead, Sony Michel and James White, with Burkhead the closest one to resembling Marshawn Lynch, who really ran over us last week. If not for some timely trickeration, we may have come up short last week. Not sure how you feel, but I thought if they never took Marshawn out for a breather, he might have had 200 yards.
Sooooo, on to New England. Brady gets a new receiver, and this guy is a very talented one at that. Don’t short Josh Gordon talent wise. Judgement wise, maturity wise, you can kill the guy, but this guy has top 10 receiver talent. The Patriots offense has been easy to defend this year, and the Lions gave one effective blueprint last week on how to tame the Pats offense, double Gronk, and see if the other guys can beat you. Last week they did not, but adding Josh Gordon changes that somewhat. I don’t know how much of the playbook Gordon can absorb, or if he cares to absorb it, but when he’s on the field, he has to be respected. Julian Edelman remains suspended for this game, so we have to cover 7/11 Chris Hogan, Phillip Dorsett, and occasionally Cordarrelle Patterson. I think the Patriots will use James White a lot in the passing game. He and Dion Lewis used to take turns ripping off big chunks against us, so we have to be disciplined. White, incidentally leads the Patriots in receptions with 14.
Ted Larsen has go to play better, and this O-line in general needs to be more physical. We need to give Drake and Gore running lanes, we didn’t give them anything last week. Don’t expect those trick plays this week to bail us out. We’re going have to play them better straight up, so that might mean Devante Parker getting a little more involved, as well as TE Mike Gesicki. Dont’a Hightower is a very good LB, but he can’t run with Gesicki. I think it’s time for Gesicki to get more involved.
On defense, we need to stay focused on James White, and Phillip Dorsett. They will use Dorsett kind of like how we’re using Albert Wilson, in space, near the LOS, and letting him use his speed to get yardage. Of course Gronk is main focal point, and we;ve yet to find the right personnel to limit him, but my hopes are that Minkah Fitzpatrick helps in that regard. It would be great to have Reshad Jones back this week, he’s questionable at the moment with a shoulder injury. This would be an ideal game to have 3 safeties in there, so here’s hoping Reshad can go on Sunday.
Remember the date, September 30, 2018. The day the Dolphins started a new streak of Dolphins victories in Foxboro. I think the Dolphins are going to win this game, in a closely fought, back and forth battle. We really show our mettle here, and the rookie kicker, Jason Sanders, after being iced by Belichick, puts through a 40-something yard kick for the game winner and huge fist-pump.
MIA 27 – NE 24
Finsmob Unleashed 
Can you tell us where we are?
ND is tied and has the ball
#16
Thanks bro. That ain’t bad considering who we’ve been
PSU!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Hamler with the 93-yard TD return!!!
PennSt with a big
ND follows suit
Boom Boom
Yeah, man! Two YUGE games going on right now.
WOW! Another NICE CATCH in the endzone!!!
PSU!!!
Notre Dame with the win over Stanford and Bryce Love.
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RIP, Otis
PSU with the worst play call ever
Just looking at the score now, turned it off twice after horrible penalties. I’ve never seen any organization worse than the NCAA, football, basketball, baseball it doesn’t matter.
Nothing personal to the PSU fans, but college football has gone the way of the NFL, in that it’s all about beating Alabama, just like the NFL is all about beating the cheats. It’s pretty fucked up.
Game day bitches
This is a big one
Steve, …..and look at Alabama’s schedule. They scheduled 3 powder puff teams to give them an easier road.
I remember when these big schools wood schedule one of these easy games in the beginning of the season. Bama scheduling 3 (Arkansas State, Lafayette, and Citadel) is just pansy ass scheduling IMO.
Son, I was wanting us to draft ND DT Jerry Tillery, 6’6″ 310 lbs, but he decided to withdraw from the draft and return to ND. He was a beast last night. 6 tackles with 4 SACKS and a FF from the DT position. He was projected to be taken around 4th round this past draft. He really improved his stock last night so I’d say he made a real good decision to return.
ND looked good last night. I like taking their players and we’ll probably be looking for DL next draft.
Smythe is getting a big chance today.
It’s time for Charles Harris to make his mark. I’ll be a little disappointed if he doesn’t
Some very interesting stats on this page.
Some of which are above.
Tannehill is the best in NFL at QBR under pressure. 139 wow
Xavien with some gaudy stats as well:
giving up a 13.9 passer rating against him with 0 TDs and 7 INTs. wow
https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-nfl-week-4-cbs-houston-texans-indianapolis-colts-preview-2
3 of Brady’s worst 10 games are against us.
So much good football last night. Developed some new man crushes. Been looking mainly at defense. OLB/DE Josh Allen of Kentucky looks really good. He was a little light for an NFL DE last year but has obviously put on some beef coming into this year and seems really quick. I think he plays in a 3-4 at Kentucky but could be a 4-3 DE. He’s listed at 6’5″ 260 lbs. Through 5 games he has 10.5 TFL including 6 sacks.
IT’S GAME DAY BITCHES!!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
EMBARRASS THE PATRIOTS
Would really like to see breakout games from
Harris
Gesicki or/and
Drake
my list matches that plus ballage
Is he active?
Looks like an assassin!
The man in Black!
🙂
LOL — he’s ready
LOVE this even more because it was posted by an A’s fan. 🙂
No matter what happens in our game against the Pats, we’ll fly home with the AFC East lead. Wonder when’s the last time the Phins could say that
https://twitter.com/MDCheer/status/1046408967948300288
All Day Babe!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/ChauxDown/status/1046353350973935616
If I told you we were going to start 5 “rookies” against the Patriots, what would you usually think??
WE ARE DOOMED!
Well there it is!
I’m guessing Gase doesn’t think this is a season ending must win for the team!
Get healthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck, I wanted Jones and Parker to play. It will be a lot tougher to shut Gronk down without him out there.
So, rookies starting…..
Fitz
Gesicki
Smythe
Baker
McMillon?
Ya I put those fancy ass parenthesis around “rookie”
Why is Parker inactive — is it that quad injury that snuck in late? Dude is fragile.
I’m just glad he’s ‘not’ playing he way out of here. There’s just no reason to waste time and money on him after this year. He’s been a massive disappointment and it’s pretty obvious he’s never going to take care of his body properly.
Mr. Glass
His legs are injury prone. I used to argue with a friend of mine against the existence of being injury prone, arguing that you can’t be “unlucky prone” but in Parker’s case he has week legs. Feet, ankles, hammies, quads
GAME DAY vs Pats is always HUGE:
Here’s what bothers me about the professional ‘analysis’ this week…
they say “Fins beat who was in front of them, but not yet tested”
they say “Pats don’t lose 3 in a row”
Fins are 3-0 against opponents with combined record of 3-6
Pats are 1-2 against opponents with combined record of 3-6
It’s simple. Pats are NOT beating the equally easy schedule they’ve had.
On the bright side!
You Ball-age fans should be happy!
Whoever is keeping the prediction tally these days:
Fins 27 Pats 20 (only because Pats get a late TD to make it look closer than it was)
And I was joking!
I would love to see us use Ballage as a fullback for gore!
And “SMASHMOUTH”
He is a Hummer with Ohtsu tires
Ha HAAAAAAAAAA
https://twitter.com/RobF88/status/1046426380341268480
I just watched that night before last. Still funny.
I’m f*cking over Parker.
Pats offense is reeling. If Gronk doesn’t play, they will be lucky to score 20.
Getting only 10 against a Det defense that gave up 48 to Jets and 30 to SF.
Our defense is BETTER than both of those teams. Granted the Pats scored 20 on Jax but it was 31-13 until a Pats TD around 3 mins left.
With all this said, I’m still nervous because the last decade tells us that “to be the man you gotta beat the man” is still very much true.
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32 – 24 Mia
Rhino 27 – 20 Mia
With Rowe out this game should sit directly on the OL and Tanny’s shoulders!
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32 – 24 Mia
Rhino 27 – 20 Mia
Son 27-9 Mia
Dolphins speed on both sides is too much and we score a defensive TD along with a ST TD to help the point total
We don’t need any STDs Rock!
ST TD not STD
Let’s eat Grandma
Let’s eat, Grandma.
I don’t want to eat Grandma no matter how many times you ask
Tannehill Jersey on
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32 – 24 Mia
Rhino 27 – 20 Mia
🐖 31-20 🐬
Sporting the new X-man jersey!!!!!
Noooooo! No more jerseys for you
That’s the pig not me!
Mine are GOLD brother!
Ballage being active makes me feel the running game is going to be a big part of our game plan today. That’s always a good thing on the road.
We are low on TE’s! they might use him as an H-back type??
Game Day Bitches… GO PHINS !!!!!! 🐬🏈🍻🐕😎👍
🤚 27-24 🐬
🦏 27-20🐬
🎸 32-24 🐬
🐖 31-20🐬
“Against the division leading Dolphins”
Told you guys…. that bag of chips sounds pretty good
I was a proponent of holding out for at least pretzels
Nah. They make me too thirsty! Lol
Hmmmm
Parker isninactive
He played his one game
He’s a collosal disappointment
Ballage
Tankersly
Sterup
Only active because so many guys are hurt they probably won’t play much. Q
Woohoo – Tankersly
Pig, Jones already reported as inactive today. He can run sprints, it works off his frustration that his shoulder isn’t good enough to tackle today.
Yeah that tweet was before 11am
They look focused!!!!!!
The NFL Today focusing on what the Pats can possibly do moving forward, but all agree they will win today….
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451574c69e201b7c8adfb84970b-pi
Going forward they can go fuck themselves
I don’t care about being in 1st place even with a loss. It’s time to make a statement.
GO FINS
Here is to the Miami Dolphin’s defensive line taking over this game!
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I want to see 5-6 sacks on brady today, 10-15 hits.
Charles Harris, as a first round pick in his second year SHOULD be ready to step up… we would expect nothing less from a first round pick at any position (hell, even a 2nd round pick at any position). Plain and simple, he needs to do was he was drafted to do.
Well his sacks won’t be erased by a Branch personal foul today!
I thought you were taking about Devante Parker
https://twitter.com/causewereguys/status/1046435505867542528?s=21
How did you get a picture of my ride?
The Sheraton shuttle bus
The talking heads are not going to change their tune until Miami beats NE in Foxborough.
Crowder can be funny at times. Talking about pass coverage, he explained that he once told a coach in practice they had a bad scheme.
“Coach said, what do you mean….you just have to cover the running back?”
Crowder said “not covering a RB…. that’s Reggie Bush on Sunday.”
What’s Parker’s injury?
Broken motivation
Yeast infection.
Those are nasty…oh wait a minute
And the walls come crumbling down…
Brady has 3 INT’s – Fins run all over these sloths…
Mia 33 – NE 10
Its FUBAR time for the Pats
which one sucks more as a football player?
Wow…Cowher picking Miami to win.
🍺
Coach Cowher is picking us
Coach Cower picked us!
for whatever that’s worth????
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32–24 Mia
Rhino 27–20 Mia
Son 27-9 Mia
Piggy 31-20 Mia
Days64 33-10 Mia
What the f*^k?
Ya’ll didn’t even listen to the rest of the picks!
I got beer in the fridge!
two non-offensive TD’s today
start fast Fins, punch them in the face
Think Tim’s right about Ballahe
Dolphins want to run today
Gordon won’t help NE in the red zone if they never get to the red zone.
We may see X on him a lot, so by him just playing it may benefit the cheats, even if they dont throw his way.
LET’S GO DOLPHINS!!!!!
With Minkah playing safety today he should be on Gronk all day.
Gordon active.
Eat him up X-man, but keep him in front of you or match him step for step.
Minkah needs to play better than he did last week at Safety.
Maybe that “practice” game against Oaktown will help with that.
Everyone take a deep breath
There will be many reasons to get angry at the refs today
Stay cool
Don’t break anything
Without Parker in there — this is gonna be all about speed.
LOL@the cup of gatoraid waiting for Brady after his run out of the tunnel!!!!!
I REPEAT MY EARLIER PREDICTION:
Miami Dangerfields-34
N.E. CHEATRIOTS-17
FINALLY, SOME RESPECT!!!
Ballage in the wildcat scores rushing and passes for a TD also.
Not needed as Tannehill gets 3 TDs.
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32–24 Mia
Rhino 27–20 Mia
Son 27-9 Mia
Piggy 31-20 Mia
Days64 33-10 Mia
OD 334-17 Mia
wos nice toss Ryan.
That was a fun opening offensive play
Mike E 27-24 Mia
Rockphin 32–24 Mia
Rhino 27–20 Mia
Son 27-9 Mia
Piggy 31-20 Mia
Days64 33-10 Mia
OD 34-17 Mia
too conservative on 3rd down
3rd and long early in game, Gase just plays it safe and goes for field position on D
I know you don’t like the 3rd down call!
But I hate the run on 2-17!!!!!!!!
yeah most of that series was too conservative,
but no turnover and they have it at their 22 so
MEH
Ok, we have spotted them the obligatory free drive….
now LET’S GO DOLPHINS!!
DEFENSIVE SCORE
Piggy
It is not Sunday unless Hulk breaks something