Halfway there. It ain’t pretty folks. We started out 3-1, and we all had some hope for a successful season. After all, seasons are broken up into 4 game quarters, and we were somehow a winning team after those first 4, although the crushing loss to the New England Patriots was a wake up call that not all was sunshine in Miami. We started out the first 4 scoring 82 points, and surrendering 90 points, with nearly half of those 90 points coming against New England (38-7). In the next 4 games, the Dolphins have gone 1-3, to even it up at 4-4. In these next 4 games, we scored a little more, 92 points, but surrendered far more, 129 points, with the points given up each consecutive game getting worse, 27, 28, 32, and then 42 this past week to the Texans. Not a good trend!
Although a 4-4 record may indicate a team that can do as much right as they can do wrong, unfortunately for our team, I feel it’s not like that at all. I see us spiraling downward, which incidentally may end up in our favor if we want to draft one of the top QB’s next season, and IMO this has now become a necessity. The QB that can lead us to great things, hope for playoffs and more, is NOT currently on the roster. Unless Ryan Tannehill gets healthy and shows us another gear that he hasn’t yet brought to the table, he’s not the guy. Unless Brock Osweiler shows he can consistently make good accurate throws, he’s not our guy. Both are flawed, and neither is a championship caliber QB.
The next item is our current HC. When he was hired, Adam Gase was considered one of the great, young, offensive minded coaches available. Make no mistake, he truly was highly regarded and sought after, and I thought he may be the guy to bring our offense to new heights. It seems as if he elevated Ryan Tannehill’s play, but unfortunately, the way he accomplished that is with a balanced attack offense, and a “make no mistakes” short passing attack. Bill Belichick said “OK, I’ll just counter your smaller, faster WR’s with nickel, dime and quarter packages, let’s see you beat that!” Well, we couldn’t. Did he find a way to make TE Mike Gesicki make all those smaller DB’s pay? No. Did Frank Gore and Kenyan Drake run all over the smaller DB’s? No. Gase had no answer for that strategy, and now it’s not even the offense that is the current issue, it’s the defense.
In the first 4 games, our defense took the ball away 10 times, while our offense turned it over 6 times, a +4 TO differential. Each game, however, our yardage allowed total began to swell, 336 yards in the win against the Titans, only 257 against the Jets, but 434 yards against the Raiders, and then 449 against the Patriots. The next 4 is where it really starts to get ugly, and the turnovers that kept us in the win column dried up, but the opposing team’s yardage continues to increase.
In Game of 1 of the 2nd quarter of games, we lost to the Bengals, losing the turnover battle 3-1, while allowing a modest 332 total yards. We turned it over 3 times, and forced 3 turnovers by the Bears, and won the game in OT, though allowing a hefty 467 yards, granted, this was with an extra 9:57 in OT. Against the Lions, neither team turned the ball over, but we did manage to give up once again over 400 yards on defense, 457 to be exact. We then got shellacked by the Texans, turning it over once while not managing to get a single turnover (or defensive stop!) against the Texans. 427 yards, and 42 points.
After 8 games, we’re scoring 21.8 PPG (174), and we’ve allowed 27.4 PPG (219). We have forced 14 turnovers while giving it up 13 times. After the first 3 games, we were 8-4. Everything is getting worse, forcing HC Adam Gase to really sit down and look at everything, in an attempt to “fix” these problems. I’m writing “angry”, so take all of this for what it’s worth, but shouldn’t he be trying to “fix” the problems every week? This defense has been pathetic, surrendering tons of yards to our opponents, and now we’re also allowing tons of points too. Our offense simply can’t keep up with that, we play too careful and calculated, and now with playmaker Albert Wilson on IR, the guy who turns a lateral or 2-5 yard forward passes into 50-60-70 + yard TD plays gone, how will we score TD’s?
This is part and parcel why I can’t bear to think the Miami Dolphins are going to force Ryan Tannehill down our throats for yet another failure of a season. The NFL has changed, it’s getting closer to Arena football, except that you can’t really hit the offensive players. It’s a WIDE OPEN game, shootouts, and we play small ball. Teams are hitting HR’s everywhere, and we’re bunting guys over looking to scratch out a run. If it’s Tannehill, or Osweiler, or Fales that are holding this offense back, CUT them! If it’s Adam Gase that just doesn’t have the right field general at QB, then FIND him! Don’t insult us by going with the status quo, and telling us you’re going to “fix” the problem. I watch a lot of football, I have the NFL Sunday ticket, and it’s blindingly clear that we cannot compete in this NFL as currently constituted. We need a gunslinger, and we need DE’s that can pressure opposing QB’s.
11 sacks folks. E-L-E-V-E-N. 8 games, 11 sacks. That’s beyond anemic. It’s the DT’s and the DE’s, but I’d prefer to blame the DE’s mostly. (( Paging Charles Harris!)) (( Paging Charles Harris?)) Doesn’t matter who does the drafting for us, can ANYONE please identify a pass rusher? Robert Quinn? HELLLOOOOOOO! Did Quinn shoot his load in the preseason? He was unstoppable! Peaked too soon? Don’t blame Cam Wake, he’s just about 37 years old, and probably should be a role player now, not a starting DE. What happened to Cordrea Tankersley? He seemed to progress last season, and can we please end the Bobby McCain on the boundary please? If you put McCain back in the slot, at least that’s 2 spots (Howard/MCain) that are competent.
The Jets come to town being outscored in the last 2 games 61-27. I’ve got the remedy for that! The Dolphins have been outscored 74-44. That should even the playing field some. I’m seeing far too many similarities between Joe Philbin and Adam Gase. Hey, when you win the AFC East every year for a freaking century like Bill Belichick has, you can cut whoever the heck you want with minimal blowback. Adam Gase, he doesn’t have that cachet, nor does he deserve to at this point. He seems to have identified the players he likes, and has jettisoned the ones he doesn’t, but having success while doing so helps your cause. We’re spiraling downward, and while it’s possible the Jets offer us a brief respite, the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau will not, and either will the Colts, who are scoring 29 PPG.
Game 9, and it’s hard to find one thing that we do really well. ST’s have been one of our best units, Matt Haack averaging 45.7 yards, and rookie Jason Sanders 9 of 10 in FG’s, of course along with Jakeem Grant with a punt return and kick return for TD’s. Gase has a lot of work to do, and I hope he has his scouts looking far and wide for our next QB, that is if he’s still here to see it through. Most likely he will be given some latitude.
So, on to the Jets. Sam Darnold has been “eh”. Jeremy Bates and Todd Bowles do not an offensive juggernaut make. Bowles is a defensive minded coach, and Bates hasn’t been an OC since back in 2010 for SEA, he’s been an assistant coach all these years (QB coach). Darnold has thrown for 1705 yards, 11 TD’s and 10 INT’s. The Jets had to put RB Bilal Powell on IR with a neck injury, which leaves Isaiah Crowell as the feature back, with Trenton Cannon and De’Angelo Henderson as depth. Losing Powell really hurts the Jets, he usually saved a lil something for us in our clashes. Robbie Anderson occasionally supplies some fireworks, but it’s a pretty boring offense most times with Quincy Enunwa (Jarvis Landry) and Terrelle Pryor and Jermaine Kearse. The Jets recently signed Rishard Matthews, so maybe Rishard will get an opportunity to take out his frustrations on our defense.Jets defense has been just about mid-pack, nothing to get excited about.
My prediction? After all the thinking and analyzing in an attempt to remedy what has been ailing us, Gase finds a way to win against another struggling team this week. I think we win this one by about 4 or 5 points, no score prediction, I have no idea what team we’ll see on either side of the ball.
Finsmob Unleashed 
3 thoughts on a Saturday afternoon…
1) I think Raekwon McMillan is who I thought he was. He’s mediocre as a pro who has poor coverage skills, and he can’t hold a candle to the TRUE 3-down LB Tremaine Edmunds… who may (or may not) become the next Brian Urlacher. Edmunds was going to be our pick if Minkah was already off the board, per our team.
2) I think that Minkah is the best selection we could have made in the ’18 Draft. Problem is, he’s not seeing the field nearly enough due to our coaches’ decisions. *sigh*
3) I think I LOVE our first 2 selections of the ’18 Draft (Minkah and Gesicki)… but we should have drafted a QB in round 3 (with absolutely NO disrespect to Jerome Baker!), and it should have been Mason Rudolph.
Now regarding my 3rd point, I done SHOWED Y’ALL the successes of the top Draft QBs last year vs the BEST defensive competition in NCAA. #1 was Baker Mayfield (first player off the board). #2? Mason Rudolph, who was taken 3 selections after Jerome Baker.
No, we can’t quantify in any fashion how Rudolph is going to pan out as a pro right now, being he has yet to see the field behind Big Ben. But once we finally do, I think we’re going to regret not taking him. JMO
So McMillan coming off of a season ending knee injury as a rookie playing his first season in year two is who he is and that’s that? Nobody ever gets better?
McMillan has nothing to do with Edmunds, different drafts and one was a 2nd rd pick and the other a 1st rd pick. Not sure why you even went there.
What about all the other teams passing on Rudolph for 2+ rounds? There will be other QBs, it’s not like it all ended in 2018. LOL
Tim, Raekwon was never good in coverage, dating back to Ohio State. IMO, ya don’t draft a MLB in the second round when he can’t be a 3-down backer… and that was BEFORE his knee injury of last year.
As for Rudolph, seems it was a matter of character/arrogance issues as to why he fell. You can’t use this excuse all the time to make your point… it doesn’t add up. For instance, ‘well, what about all the other teams passing on Reshad Jones and Zach Thomas?’. You know better than that, Bro. 🙂
Too early to call on McMillan and very few LBs in the league are good in coverage.
You can’t use hindsight every time to make your point either. Even you said nobody knows what Rudolph will be. Lots of fans here were not high on him. I happened to like him but I’m not concerned about passing on him.
If you added up all the prospects you think we should have drafted, we would need 25 picks every season. LOL
Not every prospect you like is destined to be a Dolphin and quite a few of your favorites have busted or have been mediocre at best. The draft is a crap shoot for every team with the exception of a few here and there that most if not all think are can’t miss. But even then they all get it wrong from time to time.
Only a few weeks ago everyone liked the way the defense was progressing. A few bad games and now everyone sucks. Funny how that works. What’s that saying, you can’t evaluate a draft for at least 3 years? 😉
Tim – When you use hindsight, you are always right, doncha know.
So sorry for you loss Naples… May her memories become your blessings.
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WOW!!!
Chucky going for the full TANKING THE SEASON!
He will be signed by the Pats, watch. SMH
MOST likely, Bro! SMH
Irvin is a one trick pony. He can make some impact plays but he’s never been a complete player. However he can help a team as a situational edge rusher.
I generally agree with on Irvin here, Tim.
This weekends picks:
Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 16: Gary, Rashan, DE, Michigan (A)
Round 2 Pick 16: Lock, Drew, QB, Missouri (A+)
Round 3 Pick 15: Brown, Blace, CB, Troy (A+)
Round 4 Pick 16: Edwards, TJ, ILB, Wisconsin (A+)
Round 5 Pick 16: Dillard, Andre, OT, Washington State (A)
Round 6 Pick 16: Daniels, Darrion, DT, Oklahoma State (A+)
Round 7 Pick 6: Johnson, Anthony, WR, Buffalo (A+)
Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 16: Allen, Josh, OLB, Kentucky (B+)
Round 2 Pick 16: Haskins, Dwayne, QB, Ohio State (A)
Round 3 Pick 15: Jenkins, Elgton, C, Mississippi State (A+)
Round 4 Pick 16: Oruwariye, Amani, CB, Penn State (A+)
Round 5 Pick 16: Froholdt, Hjalte, OG, Arkansas (A+)
Round 6 Pick 16: Johnson, Anthony, WR, Buffalo (A+)
Round 7 Pick 6: Love, Mike, DE, South Florida (A-)
Crackin the VICTORY BEER!!!!!!!!!
CRAZY… Bruce Irvin this year has as many sacks as Cam Wake, Robert Quinn, Andre Branch, Charles Harris, Davon Godchaux, and Akeem Spence… COMBINED
I’m not even trying to do the math here, being it’s ridiculous. $4M for Bruce Irvin vs well over $36M for 6 players combined for the same production? And Chucky CUT him?
Tim Knight says:
November 3, 2018 at 5:07 pm
Too early to call on McMillan and very few LBs in the league are good in coverage…
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I think you missed my points in this reply to me, Bro! All good, though.
Nope, I got it. Don’t agree on all points.
I can appreciate this response! Thank you! This is what I like, the agree to disagree. 🙂
Drew Lock looking decent against the Gators.
That sophomore QB for Texas, Sam Ehlinger, has impressed me this year.
Next up Derek Carr. Gruden signed a 10 year $100M deal so he has carte blanche to build his team his way.
Yeah, I’m not very impressed with Ryan Finley. No, he doesn’t suck… but by the same token, I don’t believe he’s going to be a QB who changes a franchise.
Burden is going to completely rebuild the Raiders to his liking and he’s going to do so quickly.
Then he will be a Burden. He’s still just a Gruden right now.
I think we have some nice young talent on defense. How they develop is still to be seen. We need a disruptive DE and another CB. I think we also need a LB. Baker is good….maybe better than good. Alonso does some things good and others not. McMillan needs to play faster and smarter. He takes a lot of bad steps. I’d go DE, CB, LB in terms of need. I get how they use him, but I consider Minkah as a S.
Randy, we are thinking the same thing. That is why I did this draft this way earlier addressing DE, CB, LB, and a DT later.
Round 1 Pick 16: Gary, Rashan, DE, Michigan (A)
Round 2 Pick 16: Lock, Drew, QB, Missouri (A+)
Round 3 Pick 15: Brown, Blace, CB, Troy (A+)
Round 4 Pick 16: Edwards, TJ, ILB, Wisconsin (A+)
Round 5 Pick 16: Dillard, Andre, OT, Washington State (A)
Round 6 Pick 16: Daniels, Darrion, DT, Oklahoma State (A+)
Round 7 Pick 6: Johnson, Anthony, WR, Buffalo (A+)
If there is one my top pick would be a DT with pass rush ability.
M13, D made mention about the same thing on Finley. I like him but this year he just seems like a poor man’s Matt Ryan. He is shredding FSU today though.
With ALL respect to D… I beat him to the punch on Finley on this board. I think you may be confusing me with D.
Have enough time to worry about the draft. The season is too short to look to the end already…….Beat the JETS!!!!!
Of course. But the mob has their torches and pitchforks out already. LOL
I wonder what Gruden wold take for his first first to get Herbert?
Your first for the next four years
Tim, I would like that as well in a DT but have not been looking closely at them to know who to go after. Rashan Gary is a big DE and fast for his size 6’4″ 283 lbs and projected to run around a 4.6 40. He is a guy, IMO, who could be like Hayes where he can play outside on early downs but is also big enough to slide inside on passing downs.
I have no idea who that prospect would be. It’s more of a positional desire for me. Even Suh at his cost wasn’t much of a pass rusher on a consistent basis. Taylor was starting to show some of that and of course he went down for the year. 😦
Thank you all for your kind words and comforting thoughts.
Go Dolphins.
Naples 24-16 MIA
Tim, another Taylor would be nice!
What a great game, UWV vs Texas! Congrats Herd!
Well it’s the wrong team for me, generally speaking. But I’m ok if they win. 😂
I’m thinking I might have to change my opinion on Grier. I hate saying that because WV QBs are usually not good professionals. But he might be changing my mind.
I know they are not YOUR team but thought you may be happy with a win.
Son, if you out there tonight, would you use a later pick (6/7) on ND RB Dexter Williams with all his baggage? I think he has a HUGE upside if he were to keep his head on straight.
I see the Canes are tearing up our field again!
Can’t you fornicators afford your own field!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim,
Lol, we are the “mob” after all.
My theme for the rest of the year (and always is) is….enjoy one game at a time.
Beat the stinkin Jets!
Cheers! Same here. 🙂
👍
That is exactly what I saw when I drank that homeraide at the Fest
BURN IT ALL DOWN
Fuck you, just cut Denney
Wash, rinse and repeat. Good times! LOL
Well out tonight dancing to celebrate my birthday…band is playing my favorites…mony mony…love shack…Billie Jean…mustang sally…Bobby mcgee…white boy…all dancing tunes
Happy Birthday Marvin (lol), that dancing I bet came at just the right time for you guys. Awesome
Did you moonwalk?
DENNEY MUST GO!
15 years of mediocrity! Not a coincidence!
Bookman, the language! 😉
Yeah, your offended..lol🤪
Sex machine acdc…girls juswana have sex…moondance…bakery yak…take a grenade for you…power of love
Lil red corvette…raspberry parade…love prince…like it’s 1999…proud Mary…
I do moonwalk when I dance … Thnx to Jack Daniels
Cheap sunglasses … Gotta go
Cut the rug brother, have a great time
You guys are playing with fire with going after Denney. It creeps me out. Wait til we have some punk kid sailing it over the punters head and rolling them back on FGs.
Naples glad you having a great night.. sounds like ya could both use one … thoughts are with ya both
We’ve had 1.5 weeks to game plan this against the Yets … I want to see us ROLL over and through them with ease this week.. then it’s on to Tundra fest..
Would like to not be on a 3 game losing streak going in ..
Cindy game just before the TJ penalty , we had the Taunting penalty that also granted another 1st down on a 3rd down stop…. that was the start..
Bookman
Any more tickets for game? If not I’m gonna wait and buy later this week. Hopefully Rodgers gets hurt and they go down. LOL
What ya don’t feel we could beat Aaron ? 🤔😂
Nah. Just looking for cheap tickets!
ER, nothing new on the ticket front, sorry.
Oooohh okay i read that wrong then.. thought ya meant if Rogers gets injured the packers would go down to us.. I’m picking up what yer layin down now..
FEST day bitches! Wait what? You mean today is not the Fest? According to the poll…..
The poll has been compromised!!!
Stop poking the bear 🐻 otherwise known as Stanger
Field gate???????
It’s Ross’ fault! Fire Ross!
Can’t the “U” get their own field?????
Raiders are going to cut Bruce Irvin. They are not even trying anymore
Oh they’re trying alright, trying really hard to get the #1 pick! It’s sickening! They should be penalized and lose their picks. It’s so freaking obvious
Tim, we were briefly talking about DT’s yesterday (one with a good pass rush). One that comes to mind is Jerry Tillery of ND. I wanted to draft him last year but he decided to return for senior year. 6’6″ 305. He has 7 sacks and 3 forced fumbles this year from the DT position. He had 2 sacks and a FF against a very good Michigan team this year.
I think I want Josh Allen in the first again! 😉
Here’s you a DT
Yes, he was Suh-like last night. Unstoppable.
Sex change?
https://twitter.com/ArmandoSalguero/status/1059102381907042304
Mando deleted the tweet. Said Jenny Stills wants to play
Screenshot_2018-11-04 (7) Twitter.jpg
Ah, forget it. I tried. lol
Schefter says Stills is out. Go Parker….lol
Ugh more Osweiler
So Stills is active. One of the few times Schefter gets it wrong.
This early voting things is pretty cool. Roll out before a football game on a Sunday and get it done right quick. Never lived in a state with that before. Lot better than on a work Tuesday waiting in lines before going in, during lunch or after.
Charles Harris – Doesn’t make an impact when he’s playing or out, but it’s annoying me this kid can’t even suit up.
Sounds like Devante Parker
It’s exactly like parker
And when Parker comes up the inactive list he gets 100 yards
Maybe the problem isn’t he picks
Maybe it’s the coach
If nothing more the experience would help
At this stage though not don’t trust the inactive list for next Gase to be a reflection of the players potential production
I’m glad we signed Williams and Hood though, 2 former first rounders with quality experience in the league.
stangerx says:
November 4, 2018 at 12:23 pm (Edit)
This early voting things is pretty cool. Roll out before a football game on a Sunday and get it done right quick. Never lived in a state with that before. Lot better than on a work Tuesday waiting in lines before going in, during lunch or after.
Yeah, but I’m always thinking there’s still 2 more days for a candidate to do something REALLY stupid.
It can’t get more stupid…oh wait a minute
LOL — actually waited till the last day of early voting for that exact reason. Figure if there was some kind of surprise that it would have already broke given that like half the votes are already cast….. could have voted like 8 days ago.
The field looks crappy!!!! Go Phins!!!
BTW, my 3 early favs for the draft.
Christian Wilkins-DT Clemson
Devin White-LB LSU
Greedy Williams-CB LSU
I wish Luke Falk I would like to see what he has to offer
Was healthy ^
https://twitter.com/MDCheer/status/1059141305668956160
The offense has not been the problem? Did he really just say that? The defense is bad too, but seriously, it’s all bad.
Game time. I better take my Xanax
Here we go…
elected to receive? … hmmm … tryna shake shit up
We are getting the first drive out of the way. That way we aren’t giving the Jest 2 possessions before we do anything.
LOL
So why are we in the dark uniform?
love the unis … semi throwback … love Amendola … love Gore
We are notorious for starting slow…so we elect to receive instead of defer? WTF?
drake missed his block
19 straight games
gotta mess with Darnold’s shit early
I would take the defense actually playing today as opposed to the last several weeks
3and out what is that?
I’d call it a unicorn
LMAO
Now the offense must do something so as to keep the D off the field
Osweiler can’t fucking throw deep
He just got that
OH MY
are we allowed to do that?
LOL
Gore got it – imagine that – give it to Gore
a real starter QB would’ve hit that pass to Amendola especially after missing Parker last week.
nice catch on a bad throw
Horrible pass on 3rd down
I mean 2nd down
that’s why gase thows on 3rd
3rd string quality center gave up that TFL
drive was screwed on the horrible throw the down before
we need a full back and a HC who know what one is.
Did someone say FB????????
Don’t get why they picked a slow developing outside run
Gore was lined up in palm beach
It would help if Gore wasn’t lined up so far behind the LOS that he can call for a touchback
Wtf
I hope the Vikings beat the Lions by 60.
Wake blows that one up
nice non-stat play by wake there
we were lucky they called time out on that one
very nice defensive series
Keep it going D
Looking good
Another 3 and out? Or am I just seeing more unicorns?
https://media1.tenor.com/images/1f783a39d4a1ad5edb7d640ddc1023ec/tenor.gif?itemid=10413623
Lmao at the first defender on that Grant return
Sized him up perfectly
“don’t look stupid, don’t look stupid, damn….SMH”
Good field position gotta get some points now
TOUCH DOWN DRAKE!
Wtf are you watching
I thought my directv was behind….lol
He is drinking homeraide
what was I thinking…..it’s still the first quarter.
For luck on D
Once again proving the pig images are infinite.
This one is not working
The Jets just got their own unicorn
Great throw Darnold
Keep it up
That’s going to be a penalty
They should eject 72 for that
alonzo ran that rout! LOL
Dolfans fans loud today
Now give it Gore again
Drake
Or Gore. LOL
Nice catch Ballage
Good to see him get some snaps