I was watching Good Morning Football this morning on NFLN, and after showing highlights of the Panthers vs Bucs (42-28), and Saints vs Rams (45-35), yeah, it looks pretty wrong seeing 13-6, Dolphins over Jets. Kay Adams and Kyle Brandt presented it as a good ole 1990’s defensive struggle, a throwback. They got it all wrong, this wasn’t a defensive struggle, it was an offensive struggle. Jets rookie QB Sam Darnold didn’t get the memo that his team was wearing the white jerseys, because he threw better passes to the dark jerseys than he did to the white jerseys. If you want to credit our pass rush, which actually existed yesterday, feel free to do so. On our side, we couldn’t block (run or pass), we got one defensive TD and two FG’s. Light it up!
I’m not singling anyone out here, but our O-line play was just terrible, and of course as per usghe, injuries were the reason for this. Both tackles missed time in this game forcing Zach Sterup to man both the RT spot when James was hurt, and then slide over to the LT spot when James came back in and Laremy Tunsil got hurt. So now Brock Osweiler, who I will say has better pocket awareness than Ryan Tannehill has ever had, has no pocket awareness because players were on him in 1 second or less. Our O-line isn’t good with all our starters in there, but subtract one of our tackles, who are our 2 best OL, Tunsil #1, James #2, it really goes downhill.
I don’t want to knock the optimists here, because it’s wonderful that fans can still believe we’re in this, but I laugh inside (a sad laugh) when fans say “Oh, not good, the Chargers won, gonna be tough to catch them”. From what I have seen this year, we don’t belong on the same field as the Chargers, they score 28 PPG, and we’ve scored more just once this year, in OT, and never more in regulation. We’ve had injuries, but we still have Devante Parker, Kenny Stills, Jakeem Grant, David Amendola, and Mike Gesicki. We have Frank Gore and Kenyan Drake, a formidable 1-2 punch, yet our offense is putrid. Yeah, we’re 5-4, easily the worst 5-4 team in the NFL. We’re the only 5-4 team.
My guess is we’re probably going to have Brock Osweiler as QB one more time as we hit the BYE week, and then after the BYE, it will be Ryan Tannehill’s team once again. We travel this week to Wisconsin to take on the Packers in their house. This is an angry Pack team, having lost to the Patriots in Foxboro. Anyone know who the OC is for GB? Tee-hee, it’s Joe Philbin. Not even kidding. Possibly, this explains how the GB Packers are only scoring 24 PPG, just a few more than our Dolphins. Hey, is it bad that Saints WR Michael Thomas accounted for more yardage and scoring by himself with 211 yards and 1 TD, while we accumulated as a team 203 yards and no TD’s?
It’s easy for Belichick to do whatever he wants, he’s beyond reproach at this point, no one questions the master. How smart does he look using Cordarrelle Patterson as a RB? Can we get some of that ingenuity from our offensive genius Adam Gase? Don’t bet on it. I wish he would read this and it would inspire him, but I won’t bet on that either! I wish something would inspire him, maybe keeping his job, something like that.
I know Toba, Bookman and ER are attending the GB game, I hope they enjoy and I hope our team gives them a great game to watch and a Dolphins victory! Enjoy fellas, way to represent!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Carroo is playing football today.
We converted a long third down
There goes Grant
Grant blows an Achilles!!!!!!!
That was going to be a big play
That’s bad
Poor GrAntman
You think we might be snake bitten? Fuck!!!!!
Well Parker lasted longer than expected?
Looked like a calf injury. Sprain at least
I’ve had that injury
I have pulled a groin…oh wait a minute
Nicklaus
Well at least they are still playing hard!
There goes that drive
I think Sanders can hit it!!!!!!!!
😦
Well it looks like The Packers dialed up the pressure!
Will the new guys have an answer?????????????????
You think this is on Gase? We’re playing with 2nd and 3rd team players but yeah just do this and that and we’re all good. Come on guys, you’re all veteran fans. Stop being silly.
I don’t know what it is, but the Dolphins are like the Mets for me. Plenty of talent, than they all go down. No excuses, yeah right. Ugh!
Nobody is blaming Gase????????
No not at all. I’ve never heard that before. LOL
Mistaikens
Hey that guy #33 might run the ball fellas!
MR 15 yards hurt…..Meh
Ah a fake
My 2nd half fear has come true and I hate it.
Tim Knight says:
November 11, 2018 at 6:56 pm
No not at all. I’ve never heard that before. LOL
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I only speak in the present!
I let go of the past!!!!!
19 points down under 9 minutes to go we got this 😵
They are going to blitz!!!!!!!
And Blitz!
And Blitz!
1 yard pass on 3rd and 2
Frickin classic
We are a shell of the team we started the season with. It’s ridiculous what’s going on. Pick your scapegoats all you want. Nobody can win with this team. Why is this happening? It’s unbelievable. WTF?!!!!
I am tired of mediocrity
I am tired of losing
I am tired of excuses
I am tired of Gase
I am tired of the coaching carousel
I am just tired
Ken, who do we have left? Excuses? Really? You’re the one who said Osweiler sucks at the start of the season then others said oh look at how calm and awesome he looked running the offense against the Bears in his first game.
You’re an unhappy fan but it’s nobody’s fault. We’re a fucking MASH unit. Be realistic about it.
What was Gase supposed to do today? He had the right game plan to start and as the game went on the players screwed up. Was Gase responsible for the bad snap that ended the opening drive? I’m not sure what some of you guys are watching.
Get a real strength and conditioning coach
Deer in the headlights!
Blitz his fricken ASS!
Well I’ll give them this!
The backup O-line was not the reason we lost the game!!!!!!!
Yeah they were. The first drive when we should have scored with a bad snap ended that. When we needed key 1st downs they couldn’t block it after moving the ball up and down the field, leading to FGs. Then they became invisible in the 2nd half.
Oh by the way, let’s stop with Osweiler is anything other than a QB I don’t want on my team anymore. What is he good at?
And they fought to the whistle!
Ken, so you think we don’t have real strength and conditioning coaches?
I don’t know what it is but this franchise has no luck.
Whatever they are doing is not working
He’s been a ray of sunshine all year!
If Grant has the injury I think he might, the cold definitely contributed.
Those quick burst guys get cold legs their muscles tighten and then the make a quick plant and burst accelerate and pop there goes your calf
Tim I don’t want to argue with you!
I went into the game knowing we didn’t have the talent on the field to win!
All I wanted them to do was play hard the whole game!
and they did!
so I’m not pissed off
There will be plenty for you to argue with that are pissed off! Ya’ll have at it!!!!!
Yeah we lost but we played considerably better than we have in the past 3 at least.
i’m glad we’re at the bye week,
time to heal, good news is Cincy and NE lost and we have the head to head against the Titans.
an out of conference tough game. not a big deal, still in it.
Hard to run with your nuts so drawn up in your body they are about to pop out the other end like a hemorrhoid
Tell that to Aaron Jones, though.
Maybe he ruined his down with antifreeze before the game
Rubbed
I fear Grant is done for the year
Same.
Depends on what it was. Calf would be 4+ weeks so could make it back by the end of the year if it wasn’t a full rupture. 6 weeks if it’s somewhat severe. So at very best I don’t see him back until it’s too late to matter rushing him.
It looked as if it was an achilles and that may take a year to heal
Yeah that would be bad
Way he pulled up just looked exactly like what happened when I tore my calf.
didn’t we have 1 starting guard in there? Jesse davis??
Yes.
we had a Caroo sighting, Gore played well, nice run to start the game. we just have to get healthier.
http://www.rotoworld.com/recent/nfl/11475/jakeem-grant
Then that was dumb to play him in the cold like that
Agreed.
I don’t know why you keep Grant in the game if he’s been nursing that injury, the game was out of hand at that point.
ONLY SAW BITS & PIECES of today’s game which, for the most part, was played while I was at the airport waiting for Mrs. OD’s flight to come in. BOTTOM LINE: the Dolphins were totally outmatched today, especially in the 4th quarter when their rag-tag O-Line collapsed, giving up several sacks. It’s a wonder Osweiler didn’t get seriously hurt by this inept O-Line!!
—Guess we need to draft fewer Offensive linemen, right???
WOOOOOPS!! Can’t draft fewer than “zero” can we??
LOL, LOL!
+1000000000000
LMAO!!! If only we could have signed some prophets. Man it never ends.
What we need is a crystal ball. Yeah that’s the ticket. LOL LOL LOL
OCALA ROB SAYS:”I don’t know why you keep Grant in the game at that point. He’s been nursing an injury. And the game was totally out of hand at that point.” GOOD QUESTION,ROB.
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And the answer is: “You do it if you’re a stupid, vain, head coach who doesn’t really care for the health of his players.” NO WONDER GASE IS DESPISED by some of his players. But, hey, you didn’t expect Steve Ross to hire a competent head coach, did you? Yes, the very same STEVE ROSS who retained or hired Sparano, Bowles,Campbell, Philbin, etc. plus two of the worst GM’s in Fins history, Ireland and T-BOMB!! 10 years of FAILURE, that’s Steve Ross’s legacy!!
and he hired an inexperienced HC who didn’t have the resume and two inexperienced DC’s to work with him instead of giving him some experience at the coaching positions to help him out. and then there’s Tannenbaum. the worst decision of them all. blow it up. the team has sucked this long. what’s another two years?
One person thinks we need a crystal ball. I say you don’t need a crystal ball to tell the future of the Fins franchise. In the words of Clubber Lang, “Prediction? –PAIN!”
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But some day the football Gods will bless us with a NEW OWNER.
I don’t know if that’s going to happen anytime soon but if Ross could at least blow it up the right way and get someone strong at the top of the organization it would be a great start to things.
has everyone been fired yet?
Your fired!
Injuries have decimated an average at best team so I don’t really expect anything for the rest of the year. Good news is that we can get rid of some either oft injured or under-performing baggage this off-season and start fresh once again this spring. Guys who should be gone; Parker, our DEs, McDonald. Draft a OL, DE, and CB in the first 3 rounds. Reduce Tannehill’s price or get someone else as filler. Give Gase that last chance everyone wants while we play middling football in anticipation for our next coaching group and hopefully an early spot in the draft for a better QB in 2020.
What a great Tundra Fest with Er, his wife and gang, and of course Toba and his awesome wife!
I am still amazed at the character and personality of the people on this blog.
Safe travels to Toba and his wife
Speaking of people who’ve been fired, I hear that Alfred E. Newman’s look-alike, AKA “Jeff Sessions,” is looking for work. He is as well qualified as many of Ross’s other hires.—HEY ‘TOBA, could the Blue Bombers have beaten the Fins today?
We may be the 1st team in the history of the league to finish the season with a 53 man roster 100% different than the one we started with. SMH
No… if only we did what the psychic experts said we should have done.
I would love to see how all of you experts would make this team awesome. Forget not seeing the forest for the trees, most of the trees have been burned down. But I’m sure if we did this or that according to some of you it would be just perfect. This blog has become like that pathetic show The View. Yentaville when things don’t go according to plan.
Go ahead, blow it all up, start again and say the same thing for the next 3-4 years. Good times ahead. If only some of you here were in control of the team. Then everything would be peachy keen. Unreal!
thanks for reading my tweets.
Yeah! Blow it up!! If Ross can get a guy like Harbaugh to take over Tannenbaum’s positions we’re a better team right from the start. How in the hell do you hire an inexperienced HC and give him and inexperienced DC and then when he leaves you give him another inexperienced DC?
That’s piss poor management. Tannenbaum is a huge part of the problem and whether Gase wanted to hitch his wagon to Tannehill or not someone should have stood up and said “we need to draft a qb to groom behind Tannehill just in case” after the ’16 season and NOBODY did.
You can see exactly why things have gone to shit with this team. Piss poor management from the top down.
Yeah okay, don’t give yourself that kind of respect because you have none.
forest for the trees
AHH the old fallacy fall-back: “If you blow it up, you’ll suck for 3-4 years!” Joe Robbie fired
head coach George Wilson after a 3-win season in 1969 and replaced him with Don Shula. NEXT SEASON, Miami went 10-4 and narrowly lost a road playoff game at Oakland. THEN the Fins went to THREE STRAIGHT SUPER BOWLS, WINNING TWO OF THEM! Far from sucking for 3-4 years, the Dolphins excelled for 3-4 years. But, to be fair, the Fins didn’t have Steve Ross and his merry band of incompetents in control. They had owner Joe Robbie who hired the best coach in NFL history, the great Don Shula. NO ONE will ever accuse Steve Ross of doing that!
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OTHER FRANCHISES have made major changes and lived to enjoy it. After finishing last in their division the year before, the St. Louis Rams, led by Dick Vermeil and Mike Martz, went to back-to-back Super Bowls with primo help from ex-Arena league player Kurt Warner, who is now in the Hall of Fame. I COULD quote other successes but why bother?
However, I WILL ADMIT that any team that has Steve Ross as owner probably will suck whether or not they “blow the team up!”
Most of the HC’s in the league today were inexperienced when hired but let’s keep acting like that’s not the case.
Hey Wyo, this loss isn’t about Gase? He could have an all 3rd string team and we’re close and they’d still say it’s about his play calling. LOL
you keep defending everything that is wrong with this team, yet, the team keeps losing. interesting.
You don’t see what’s going on with this team? No you’re Lou who calls everyone douche bags, leaves the blog and only returns during losses. What a guy! Please, the team is 5-5 with half of the team left. You lost respect along time ago. I’m not defending anything other than what is going on. Keep on with your BS. You don’t read anything anyone else says besides what you think anyway. Like many other hindsight experts. LOL LOL LOL
LOSING is all Tim knows, Lou! Don’t know how many playoff games he’s attended when the Dolphins actually were legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Don’t know how many Dolphins’ Super Bowls he’s been to.
Tim,
I’m not trying to start an argument with you. All I’m saying is how can you sit there and think things are going to be any different after watching what has been going on for the past 10 years?
When you have a guy at the top like Tannenbaum who is incompetent, a guy like Grier who was in the scouting department before becoming a GM knowing how bad our scouting department was and a HC in Gase who didn’t have the resume to be a head coach how can you sit there and think things will change?
Sure, there’s been inexperienced head coaches hired by other teams but the successful ones had success doing what they were doing on the other teams they coached with. Gase had none of that. He had no success anywhere that would have said he was a guy you should hire. None.
So, I can see very well what’s going on. It’s called incompetence and until the incompetent people are shown the door things will not change.
82-104 over the past 10 years and nothing is getting any better but keep defending a mediocre qb and head coach just because you like them and want like hell to be proven right rather than root for a winning football team.
I’m tired of sucking and mediocrity. Have been for a long time. You can talk all you want about experts and crystal balls but when a team keeps going along like this it’s because they aren’t doing things right. You don’t do things right and keep losing for 10 years. You just don’t. When you do things right you see the results.
So, you can defend this shit all you want if you wish. Let them continue doing what they’re doing. I guarantee you things won’t get any better.
Gase can’t find great coaches to work under him and is too stubborn to give up playcalling duties even when that hasn’t worked well for three straight years. He’s no Andy Reid and those aren’t minor problems. My biggest problem is that few of the players have been coached into fantastic players. The DTs with Kocurek. The STs with Rizzi. Who else has players that have significantly improved the past three years? OL, meh, still need first rounders everywhere. . WRs, look at Parker. Same dude we drafted. No improvement. QBs-meh. Tannehill is the same guy, same issues except now he’s injury prone. Our run D still terrible. Our CBs seem to get worse the longer they play. Our MLB isn’t getting it.
Where is the coaching?
we always hear that the game is won in the trenches and we have two mid-round DT’s staring for us and wonder why we can’t stop the run.
Who would they be?
They’re with OTHER franchises. I wonder why that’s so??
I’m not really for either one or not!
But to Tell Tim that if you don’t blow it up we’ll continue to loose!
Or to blow it up helps you win!
I can tell you I don’t know what the answer is!
We have continually tried one though! Haven’t we?????
so you are all right!
Bring up a strategy for christ sakes for your “opinion”!!!
I’m not into unconditional bitching!!!!
Wow! Just wow!
Wyo, there are a few peeps on this blog who think they could win with 2nd and 3rd stringers along with a lot of young players who were supposed to develop along the way. Gase is clueless but they have all the answers. This blog has lost its football acumen due to emotions. Losing talent means nothing so discussing the draft or FA means nothing. They could win with anyone. They’re experts and psychics. You can’t compete with that.
Maybe Steve Ross will try to lull Peyton Manning out of retirement to play QB, in order to make Adam Gase look great again… only to get spurned by Peyton for a second time.
Lou, I guess you haven’t read anything I’ve said recently including today. I’m not willing to repeats it. Go find it if you need to know. But you’re accusing me of saying stuff I have not other than knowing we’re an undermanned team. Go read my earlier posts today to get a feel. I’m tired of repeating myself and defending myself against BS accusations. How many times do I have to say we’re not a good team and we keep losing the good ones we do have? Be honest about the roster. We’ve been decimated. Mike and I know what that feels like with the Mets. Happens all the time. We had that nice run in 2015 and kind of in 2016. Then it all fell apart. Much like this team. It sucks. But losing talent matters.
Wyoming,
My strategy is to give Gase one more year and tie Tannenbaum to him. Tannenbaum considers draft picks to be trading pieces and I think they need to be building blocks. We will never get rid of talent like Gruden has or pile up picks like Belichoick used to with Tannebaum in our FO. Therefore, we will always have limited draft picks to balance out expenses and provide top talent for our backups, starters, etc.
If I had to get another coach, I’d look for an experienced coordinator who had a lot of contacts and references so that he’d have a lot of options to build his coaching staff. My GM would have to draft a QB every year until we found a starter but I really like Grier so I’d keep him if the picks continue to look solid. I consider coaches to be like Parcells rated players. If they don’t bite as pups, they won’t bite later. The best coaches show their stuff very, very quickly. They also continue to show their stuff past one year. I can assure you Cleveland is very happy Hue isn’t there doing the same stuff. Same with KC and Romeo Crennel. Same with Philly and Chip Kelly, or the Rams and Fisher.
Fair enough!
Now who’s your coach????
You keeping Grier as the GM or are you getting a new one?
I’d keep Gase next year so I’m not sure on coach yet. I’d keep Grier.
I can give an imaginary answer based on this year’s options after the season is over if you want to know the guys I like best.
New age
Now we can have productive discussions in the off season and next year on which coaches have the best traits!
Oz is as athletic as a pencil. Why is it when he is pressured he always seems to move to his right or straight back even if it is where the pressure is coming from? He needs to go. They really need to start Fales after the bye.
Osweiler is Gase’s preferred QB, over Fales.
Well there really is no difference in him and Tannehill. LOL
I forgot how many yards does Oz ever run for? Oh right, he doesn’t have that in his tool box. How many deep throws? Right he can’t do that either. Yet they are one in the same. I forgot.
We might as well play anyone at QB, it doesn’t matter. Gase should win with any of them.
QB is a huge issue as everyone has already started to discuss for the future. But in recent games it doesn’t seem to matter. Gase has to be William Wallace and consume his opponents with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse. LOL
LOL, you could put Johnny Unitas back there and it wouldn’t make a difference, need to get healthy on the OL
Mondo the new Coconut!
I guess this was the discipline??????
public shame is the best kind of discipline
professorloumiamidolphinsblog says:
November 11, 2018 at 9:11 pm
how can you sit there and think things are going to be any different after watching what has been going on for the past 10 years?
When you have a guy at the top like Tannenbaum who is incompetent
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Lou, Tannenbaum has only been with the team since 2015, we made the playoffs with him in 2016. they’re 31 teams every year that lose and 1 team wins.
i’m not ready to dump this FO yet, they get a pass this year for a couple of reasons.
#1 Gase hasn’t had the time to fully man his roster.
#2 we’ve been decimated by injuries this year.
and the real truth is we haven’t lost this season yet, we are 1 game out of the WC picture and 2 games out of the east lead with 6 games left.
still a lot of football left, let’s hope we get healthy after the bye.
Nice post ORob
Well there went Chase Elliot’s Championship hopes!
Thanks Kurt and Denny you pukes!
i’ll catch you guys in Indy 2 weeks from now
Go Fins!
I guess we get to see Lou around the next few weeks since the Dolphins are struggling…..much respect to you Lou……not!
Was great watching game with Bookman today .. lots of laffs , lots of Fistpumps lol.. we were in the game up to the kick out of bounds followed by the pick…
ER was great to meet ya, sorry we couldn’t hang out longer today , ya seem like a great family bunch and an all round good shit 👍🐬 look forward to meeting up again
The daughter was an ice cube, rest of us wernt far behind, and a nice brisk walk back to the car. LOL
Safe travels to you good peeps.
And there you have it! LMAO!!!
olddolphan says:
November 11, 2018 at 9:05 pm
LOSING is all Tim knows, Lou! Don’t know how many playoff games he’s attended when the Dolphins actually were legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Don’t know how many Dolphins’ Super Bowls he’s been to.
Let’s take this one point at a time and Super Bowls are played on neutral ground.
I was born in 1965 in NJ and have lived here until the present. So how many of these games could I have attended? Hmmm… let’s see all the winning I was missing.
Based on the below records I posted, other than some playoff wins, and two bad Super Bowl losses, we did a whole lot of losing in big games since I was 9 years old and before that. Shula won a lot of games and made it to the playoffs often, but lost more big games than anyone in history. His legacy is like Marv Levy’s only over a longer span of time but at least he won twice. If not for those two SB wins, Shula would be viewed like Andy Reid, great coach but can’t finish.
Yes being in the mix is great, I say it all the time. Just get there. But let’s not act like this team won more than they did. Some of these teams were also embarrassed during the Shula era.
I think Shula was a great coach over a long stretch of time, but he’s not the greatest of all time. His teams showed flaws way too often.
Shula’s record in big games, playoffs etc. is not good. Look at all of that pink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula
Tundra Fest:
Pros: Meeting the Tobas and seeing Bookman again.
Cons: The Phins
When game starts and I see the numbers on the OL, it was pretty obvious how the outcome was going to be. They hung for a bit despite that. Adding a few more injuries and it was over.
I’ll agree with you Tim. If FA and draft matter, then so do the injuries.
It all matters and we haven’t had a lot of good fortune. All I ask is what would you do if you’re Gase? The guy took over a 6-10 team, went 10-6 and made the playoffs his first year only to watch his team fall apart with injuries two years in a row. If you don’t think that has happened you’re not watching. What we need are the glorious experts to fix this but that won’t happen because they don’t exist. LOL
I don’t want to hear about bad luck, more excuses from the cheerleading squad, or about crystal balls… those are the words of a mad man, truly.
Because you have no answers. Maybe Amerson will save our season.
Tony Sparano won the division in his first season as HC but nobody is going to say he was a great coach for the team or offer up excuses for him. All teams have injuries and at this time of the year you take a look at the amount of injuries each team has and it’s quite a bit.
The fact of the matter is they did nothing to make the team better. They drafted a few guys, some of whom have contributed a bit and others who haven’t done anything and they plugged holes on the offensive line with the same guys that keep doing the same terrible job year after year but, again, defend their piss poor management of the team.
Don’t kid yourself about Gase. Look at his resume. Just like Tannehill, I said it before, and I’ll say it again for Gase. He wasn’t ready. He was lucky to be with Manning in Denver. Manning is like having another coach on the field. What exactly did Gase do to make him any better? Nothing.
What exactly did he do with Cutler? Seriously. Take a look. He brought him to the level of mediocrity. And then there’s the Chicago offense. It wasn’t even good when Gase was there but people talk like he’s an offensive genius.
The fact of the matter is the guy should have never been hired. He was the “hot name” at the time and Ross fell for it just like he always does because he doesn’t know any better. He just had to have him. And he wasn’t ready. His resume shouted that he wasn’t ready but Ross hired him anyway.
no excuses it’s just that we don’t play a 10 game season, there’s 16 games then we evaluate.
Just to keep things in persepective, a team that none of us have any control over lost a children’s game. The world is a piss clam. At least try to enjoy it. Meanwhile, in California…
Is your avi Blackbolt?
Yup
I didn’t watch the game yesterday
I’m happier today bc of it
Same here. My kids probably aren’t though. I spent the afternoon culling their toy collection.
^ Scrooge!
I went to steal one of your Sandy tweet’s and they weren’t there!
You let me down! 😉
The only thing we achieve each week is an injury
I’m glad I didn’t watch
I don’t need any new reasons to be upset with the team
Tough Sunday for the Phins and me (2 FF losses), but there is a silver lining to everything. The loss to the Packers brought Prof Lou back….. welcome home my friend. Real good to see you.
While watching the game yesterday told my wife — “there’s a bunch of folks freezing there asses off together there right now cause of our little board….. how awesome is that” 🙂 Hope you all had an awesome time despite the 2nd half.
I felt bad for our Tundra Festers. When I watch our team, it’s like at any given time during the game, you start to think something like “How can this team win this offense playing like this?”. 10 minutes later it’s “How can this team win the defense playing like this?” Aaron Jones set the tone early on. We have too many breakdowns on both sides of the ball. Oz played his worst game, and in general, our offense just can’t get it going. Maybe Carroo has a future here after all. One good thing, we threw down the field a little more, and I was telling my wife how happy I was on a 3rd and 10, we threw the ball about 15 yards and converted a 3rd down. That may have been the first one like that I saw all year.
Stanger – I lost in 3 FF leagues. My secondary players didn’t show up this week.
LOL — that’s the thing about FF….. no control over your D (and not talking if you play the Vikes or the Bears). My scores, however, were low…… so only way to take blame off myself is to do a lot of yelling and at next practice make the guys on my two teams run suicides. 🙂
We had a great time at the game yesterday. I feel the worst for ER and his family as they had to endure the loss AND the cold. It was fun hanging out and enjoying the atmosphere of a unique and historic stadium.
I kept mentioning to Toba…we cant keep trading FGs for TDs. Opportunities missed cost them dearly.
Ditto…
I called GB’s fake punt too…..unfortunately. LOL
Don’t feel bad for me Mike E. Had a nice time even though I was too numb to feel it. 🙂
I see every team in the league is undefeated while playing their backups backups……Fins are the worst….
Come to a Fest and you might end up feeling numb……. but only cause you chose to drink too muck of Rock’s homeraide.
That’s good to hear. I figured in general it must have been fun regardless. Our Fest game was the worst part of the whole vacation, everything else including the tailgate leading up to the game was great.
Can any of you guys remember a season with this many key injuries? Almost our entire offense is gone. Just brutal.
A lot of teams have tons of injuries. Go to pro-football-reference.com, and pick a team, scroll down a bit, and count how many players they have on IR. We do have more than most though, but I don’t even think that’s why we’re bad.
It’s not a # of players on IR, its which players. Missing 4 OL and playing the backups backups is not a good recipe. Key D pieces also gone. QB gone(whether you like him or not, hes still the best on the roster). Now the WRs are dropping like flies.
True Mike, but none of them can match the key players we have lost. Also, I am 100% sure we are the only team in the league who has had to start and play 4 backups on the OL.
sb7mvp says:
November 12, 2018 at 9:06 am
Just to keep things in persepective, a team that none of us have any control over lost a children’s game. The world is a piss clam. At least try to enjoy it, before it sprays you in the face. Meanwhile, in California…
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There i fixed it for ya 🙂
Mike,
I don’t think the number of key injuries we’ve had is normal. 4 out of 5 OL gone for all or part of the season, pretty much the entire receiving corps for part or all of the season. Top 2 TEs for season. And the most key one, starting QB gone for majority of season.
No coach wins with that kind of disruption. I’m not sold on Gase being THE guy yet, but how do you evaluate a HC with that? We are at .500 so that has to be something.
The defensive ineptitude is probably my biggest concern. We’ve invested in the defense quite a bit over the last few years and not getting returns. They are awful in all phases, but run defense is the worst in the league. Been that way for three years now.
So I’m feeling a little slow this morning! I have a question?
Who on this board thinks that at a full strength Dolphins team would not have it’s rookie LB’s and DB’s exploited by Rogers????????
That’s in the Run and Pass game!
Not me. Going into the season thought this team would be 8-8. And with that comes an elite QB will beat you much more often than not. But ain’t that true of almost any team like that?
ER
Saying Tannehill is the best QB on our roster is like picking the least burnt hot dog from this grill . . .
LMAO
Look like my grill…that’s why I make sushi. LOL
Tannehill is the best QB on our roster. Unfortunately.
Look up ^
Ah, yeah, he the half broken one at the top of the picture. Got it! LOL
Drg, not to mention the loss of Taylor on the DL who was balling this year. Also, people underestimate how valuable Hayes was on the DL as well.
Line hasn’t been the same since Hayes went down
I agree. Quinn has had to play more on early downs which I think has affected his play as well.
Quiz of the day (but this one has not real answer). Only 10 games in, but when’s the last time factoring in how many and key that the Phins have had a worse season when it comes to injuries?
My opinion is last thing this team was built to withstand is this. And even saw our depth as much better coming in (but that might be why we are 5-5 and not 3-7).
The frustrating this to me is that I always hold my breathing training camp and pre-season hoping we come out with no injuries. This year we actually started the year healthy, and I thought looked really good against Tennessee…but then…each week another injury or two, and here we are.
Let me try that first sentence again…wow: “The frustrating thing to me is that I always hold my breath during…..”
The other disappointing thing to me is that I couldn’t talk Toba into getting a brat to eat…….He said they looked inedible to him..LOL
Stand with Toba on that one….. as long as he had a Kielbasa instead.
He didn’t yesterday..not sure about his other meals..LOL
I dont like the brats either.
BBM,
It was a small sample, but Hayes seemed to make an enormous difference in our run defense. He’s the only guy that set an edge consistently. Our LBs are lost out there. They take bad angles or miss gaps all game.
Look, I had no illusions about this team. Figured even without injuries we were probably hovering around a .500 record. I have seen enough from Gase to hope that he keeps improving and can lead this team. Never been a Tannebaum fan, but he hasn’t made too many stupid trades or wasted picks recently. We just haven’t drafted very well, unfortunately. I don’t think a Tannehill led offense is capable of scoring 27+ ppg and we need to find a QB capable of doing that. I want to see a new DC or at least some major changes made in personnel and scheme. Whatever we have or are doing is clearly not working.
Blowing it all up give us a fresh start, but finding a good staff and a bright coach isn’t easy. There really aren’t any great options out there. It’s picking the next Gase and hoping he picks the right QB for a change. Then you have to pray he gets a good staff and has players that will lead the locker room. There’s so much that it rarely happens and most teams drift around like we do. We just are unfortunate enough to be in the same division as the best damn coach in the history of the league. A division title and playoff berth every few years would sure ease the pain of mediocrity.
drg — so much of that I agree with and can’t find a single thing not too. Never underestimate the evil genius, but that team — even if a whole lot better than ours — is not the same as before. Not that means they still won’t be beating us for years to come, but least see more of a chance.
Gase laughed and said didn’t know if they could suit up the 46 if game were this week.
Great time for the bye…
That is good. I felt awful for Grant if it was a torn achilles. Seems like Leonte Carroo should see more playing time now, I kinda hope he can get his career on track. It’s a little surprising he’s still on the team.
I think they know there is talent there, but they also know he isnt getting there. I think the PS move was a motivator or a last ditch effort as a motivator. I think thats the came boat that Asiata is in too.
My guess is he is going to be out 2-4 weeks. Anything else is think would be rushing things and risking worse injury. I would in no way try to suit him up for Indy. The rest of the games are at Miami or in a Dome, save the very last one against the Bills and id spare him that one too unless there is an absolute must win scenario. This kid has some really big potential that he is just getting in to and i wouldnt risk him for a season thats pretty much already in the shitter.
Isn’t anyone else here pissed that Matt Barkley can do a number against the jets, and we couldn’t even get in the end zone? Stuff like that frustrates me no end. I mean what do the Bills have on offense? I think we have far more talent than they do, even now with all our injuries.
Start with just happy swept the Jets, even if get what you mean. But same time am sure some Pats fans out there aren’t happy about losing by 3 TDs to the Titans, seeing we beat them and then how bad the Pats beat us. Any given Sunday.
When does the Sunday happen when WE score 30 or more points? Will we ever score 40, which is the new 30?
If I was going to be a Bills fan it would be because they have 3 Wyoming starters!
Not for anything about Mat fricken Barkley!
Are you so mad at Gase that your touting the Bills????????????
What choice to we have but to give Carroo playing time
It’s going to be hilarious if he lights it up
Crazy that the only healthy we we have is amendola who has a history of injury – yikes
Good point about Amendola, a few people here were freaking that we signed that injury prone WR. I’ll tell ya, some of the throws he’s had to deal with, I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten hurt yet.