From memory, this is the spot where we’re usually facing playoff elimination. Sometimes it’s the Bills, sometimes it’s the Ravens, but either way, we come out on the wrong side. Adam Gase made sure that wasn’t an issue, so thank you Adam for leaving your balls in Davie, and thus sparing us all the usual heartbreak of a major clunker against the Bills. Despite the records, the Bills are the team on the rise, while we slowly decay from mediocre to possibly sub-mediocre.
There has been much debate about Adam Gase, Ryan Tannehill, and the dynamic duo together as a pair, and while there are two sides to the debate, there’s not a soul on this blog that believes Ryan Tannehill is now, or can ever be on the same level as the best QB’s in the NFL, such as Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson, Phillip Rivers, or even newcomers to this group such as Patrick Mahomes and Jared Goff. He’s not even close to those guys. As far as Adam Gase is concerned, his ledger is incomplete, but he’s nearing the point of no return. I’ll explain.
So much was made about the wonderful job Gase did in Chicago with QB Jay Cutler, and I think I’ve found something about his style. I don’t think Gase should be known as “The QB Whisperer”. That’s way too sexy for what Adam Gase does to his QB’s. I’d call him “The QB Programmer”. The program is “BE CAREFUL!”
In 2014 w/o “The QB Programmer”, Jay Cutler threw for 3812 yards, 28 TD’s and 18 INT’s, a QBR of 88.6. Gase became the Bears OC in 2015, and “The QB Programmer” was born! No more pesky Peyton Manning telling him to STFU and let me do what I do, now I’m in charge here! Let’s look at this amazing successful transformation of QB Jay Cutler in 2015. Cutler threw for 3659 yards, 21 TD’s and 11 INT’s, a QBR of 92.3.
Seems to me that Adam Gase puts completion percentage and less turnovers as the hallmark of his programming algorithm. Never mind scoring TD’s, in fact, safety first Mr. Quarterback, if you need to throw past 10 yards, you better damn well have a good reason for doing so! I mean look at the stats of Jay Cutler here in Miami last year, in what looked liked a hideous, grotesque year for him. He completed 62% of his passes, threw for 2666 yards, 19 TD’s and 14 INT’s in 14 games. It’s all pretty similar. Thinking of how many times Cutler threw off his back foot or just chucked it to the turf to avoid a sack, 62% isn’t all that bad.
This past week in Indy was death knell for me for Gase. He’s more interested in the appearance of the game, “Gee fellas, that was a close game against Andrew Luck on the road, we almost pulled it out” What really happened was “Gee fellas, I’m sorry, we had a shot to upset Andrew Luck and the high flying Colts, but I went into a shell, my QB Programmer algorithm told me not to throw the ball past the sticks because, well, it’s dangerous you know, there are men on the other team just dying to take that ball away, and so you see, I took the safe route, and left it in the capable hands of our defense instead”.
Soooooooooo, we play the Bills in what has now become basically a meaningless game. The Bills threw up 41 points against the Jets, we just threw up against the Jets, hanging on for dear life with a 13-6 victory in a very painful game to watch. The Bills defeated a demoralized Jaguars team, but still, a formidable defense for sure, but a team with about as much teeth in their offense as ours. It’s a damn shame, SB7 wants to get together this weekend, but dammit, I don’t have it in me to travel to NYC to watch this team play, not anymore. I’d sooner meet up and go to McSorley’s Old Ale House, and see if we can deplete them of all of their delicious dark ale, rather than languish at Slattery’s, “The House of Horrors” for Dolphins fans hoping for a crucial win to make the playoffs.
Tis a sad state friends, and I believe as long as Adam Gase is here (The QB Programmer), and good ole #17, Ryan Tannehill is here, there will be more of the same. Hell, if I was Ryan Tannehill, I’d welcome the opportunity to compete for a starting job elsewhere, maybe he can have that Rich Gannon type of resurrection.
Anyway, wish I had more positive things to say, but alas, this past week and and frustrating loss has once again left me angry and unsatisfied with the Miami Dolphins. By the way, I shit you not, I was watching SNY this morning, looking for some positive sports news about the New York Mets, and on the scroll line, I saw the Mets hired Adam Guttridge as Assistant GM for analytics, I saw the Adam G, and I was like “WTF is that, Mets hired Adam Gase!!!!!!!??????” It got me ultra-pissed for just a millisecond, but that’s how i feel about Adam Gase right now. I want him nowhere NEAR our rookie QB that we draft next season. NOWHERE!!!!!
For those of you who still enjoy the games, I salute you! Bookman, I love ya man, I wish I could share what you feel, so please continue to bring it here so at least I could share a little of it still. Even if I get a sliver of it, it will be better than not having any of it. I admit, sports has made me bitter. Losing, disappointing seasons are the norm across the board for me now, Dolphins, Mets and Knicks. The hits keep coming, and I’m feeling like Glass Joe, ready to hit the canvas.
GO DOLPHINS!!!!
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ocalarob says:
December 2, 2018 at 6:17 am
CavalierKong says:
December 1, 2018 at 9:04 pm
I gotta be honest, I expected the video to be a lot worse. All I saw was drunken buffoonery by both parties
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can you imagine what he would have done to her if there was no one to get in the way. he showed he was willing to beat the shit out of a woman, he kicked her while she was down, typical thug pussy, i wonder if he would beat on someone who can beat back.
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Rob, from what I saw he had plenty of chances to attack her and hurt her if he was actually trying to. As for the ‘kick’, that was obviously an insult, not an attempt to hurt. He could have really hurt her if that was his intent. Anyone who thinks that kick was an attempt to hurt has never been in a fight.
Meh, I am not going to get into a lengthy debate about this. He was a douchebag, no doubt, and if it was one of my daughters (I have 17 and 21 Y/Os) he and I would definitely meet to talk about it, but I would also be having a long talk with her about her own responsibility in the thing.
I would have no problem if the league went no tolerance for this kind of thing, but like I said, the way this is being portrayed, I expected something worse. You can see this at any bar on any given night. The Ray Rice video was legitimately disturbing. This was drunken buffoonery and both parties are culpable IMO.
I agree, especially the part about the kick. He shoved here a couple of times and the kick wasn’t much of a kick.
“You can see this at any bar on any given night.” — not defending what happened, but what thought too.
Just a couple years younger than Hunt got kicked out of a bar for throwing beer bottles at a chick on an outside grass patio (so no breakage). Lobbed them up and made her do dance like with a pistol in a Western movie. And that was payback for kicking me in the balls for no reason other than politely hitting on her after she ran off laughing to her friends to brag about what she did. And yeah we were both drunk. How many games suspension was that worth if caught on vid?
Stanger, YOU were the victim: she assaulted YOU.
And I assaulted her back. She had legit fear, especially since she didn’t know was just playing with her.
BailBondMike,
That was unfair of me. Fromm looked so bad in the LSU loss that it’s still colored my opinion some but he looked really good last night and most of the year. If he continues to improve next year, I’d love to see him here.
LOL, is that Rudolph the red nosed reindeer story true? smh
Yep! They don’t even get the story. More stupid and ignorant bleeding heart sensitivity.
Wow, we should just get rid of everything negative on TV, then our protagonists will never have to overcome anything just like in real life! lol
Yup, that story is VERY true! SMH right along with ya, man.
Lol, Ohio St ended up 6th.
Hate me if you want but I want to move up a few spots when the weekend is over. Closer to top ten draft position, that is. I want Haskins. I don’t care about some meaningless, feel-good wins that put us in the middle of the pack drafting again that will make it even more costly for use to move up and get the guy we need at quarterback.
Twittering device is… OFF.
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Almost time. Go Phins!!!
LOL, Stanger. A kick to the balls for dropping a line on her?
What was the line? “Hey is it ok that I just grabbed your breast?” lol
“hey, I wasn’t going to ask you for a date, but the more I drank the better looking you got”
The world is a different place. I had a friend who used to use terrible one-liners just to get the conversation started. Things like, “Are you from Tennessee? No, well you are the only ten I see!” He wasn’t super successful but sometimes women would look past it. Now, there’s a lot more to worry about than the original pick up line.
She was actually talking to me for a while and then hauled off and whop. Almost dropped me to the ground. But even drunk….am always polite. And wasn’t even that drunk. But man that running off laughing to her friends got me going even more whatever mad her pull the trigger.
I’m starting the game late, so have to sign off the board for awhile to avoid spoilers.
Go FINS!!!
Of all the top QBs in this draft the only one I really like is Grier and even he has worts. Not sure if there is any real upgrade in this draft
I was really high on him early this season but he looked terrible a few too many times. Guy would be serviceable but I couldn’t see taking him in the first. The upside is too low.
Nobody really excites me in this class. I think 2020 will be a much better class.
Omg, the helmets looks so much better today.
Nice drive nice play
Tanny showed a lot of toughness on that drive
That has always been a strength of his he is one tough dude
Rgs – These uni’s rock, can’t figure out for the life of me why these aren’t our every day uniforms
I’m back to wanting the old uniforms too. I really like them. 🙂
What, who is this team!
New Age, I agree with you. Fromm was terrible in that LSU game. Didn’t see the game but would like to just to see what the issue was. What LSU threw at him.
Starters running back kicks? Drake, Stills, ….
That was a great throw to Drake but he did take a big hit
Field position has sucked so far
He overthrew Drake but that is a tough touch throw. But, God forbid we run the damn ball twice in a row.
That was in stride it was a perfect throw just a big hit stopped it
Clay owned Harris on that play. There is a full cast of former Dolphins playing against us today huh?
DAMN tackle him!
Ken,
No, but I am tired if arguing about the guy. Lol
When you can’t even give him what was a perfect throw you will never give up arguing about the guy
I thought it was too and Drake had it but the hit knocked it out.
Was that really roughing or tackling a guy’ll score if you don’t hit him hard.
Our OL is just horrible
Ken,
When you can’t see that he had a window to get the completion but led Drake too far….and Drake would have been destroyed if he actually caught the ball…I give up. An incompletion is a “great throw”? Ok. If the throw had been a couple yards shorter, it was a completion because Drake was open.
The play is designed to put the ball out in front of the receiver. You try to hit him in stride so he can take it to the house. He did that perfectly.
77 whiffed . Pitiful.
Davos sucks
Davis is not good.
drake should have caught that he was too worried about getting hit
I saw some alligator arms too. I think he heard foot steps
The worst ranked guard in the league
go ball-age
Our line is beyond redemption
Ken,
No, on a fade throw like that, you are gonna have a window between defenders. You have to put it between the defender on the receiver and the safety who will be coming over the top. You don’t lead the reciever. You drop it in that open window. Drake had beaten the under coverage. He had several yards of separation. Tannehill threw it too far and led Drake right into the over coverage. He put a little too much air under it…just as he almost always does on the fade route…and Drake would have gotten blown up. As I said, it’s a tough touch pass, and Tanny just missed it. Drake was open.
It was a go route
Please draft OL
We are watching 2 pathetic teams
Fucking OL
Nice pla
uh oh gore seems hurt
Our guards have been killing it today…for the Bills.
you should know when you are about to get lit up and move to protect yourself and make the catch. drake sucks……oh wait a minute….touchdown drake is great
LOL
It’s the uniforms
They are so much better
Ok I actually like that play call.
(only because it worked 😉
Nice designed play on the TD
Was that a 200 yard drive from the Buf 40???????????
lol
On the disputed throw, I thought Drake alligator-armed it, but on the replay from the reverse angle it looked like he was only able to get one hand on it.
He just shouldn’t be a RB right Rob? He should be a WR.
he’s a scat back
Our old uniforms are so much better. Can we please just keep them.
unfucking believable
WTF LOL Why?
Not a pretty half but we are leading
whew
We scored early, didn’t give up points in the last two minutes, scored TDs in the redzone, and had multiple defensive stops on a short field. I didn’t know this was allowed. We should just do this every week.
HA! I still feel like we can lose this game at any second.
Feel? I would bet on it, lol.
J/K, long way from being over, but it was a nice half. Take the guard play out and we had a good half.
I’m glad that went the way it did. I still question calling the time outs (other than the one to give the crew time to check on the turn over that wasn’t called. Should have been a fumble recovered by Miami
Have a bunch of concerns about the O, even if know about the injuries. Like the trend of the D though.
Baker Mayfield playing like a rookie? You don’t say?
Did I hear that right the great Mayfield has 3 INT’s?????
Cleveland down 23-0, they should cut Landry.
They need to spend some draft capital on Guards. How many years do we have to play with terrible guards?
Gase doesn’t believe in them
They need to fucking hammer that mother fucker next time he runs outside the numbers. PUT HIM FUCKING DOWN LIKE ANY OTHER RUNNER
Ah man my anxiety just spiked. Our offense has the ball.
You guys see Gase sitting by himself on the bench again with his pictures? Hopefully he can figure something out THIS time.
He is getting on it with thinking
He’s looking at formations to get some intel on what to call.
Quick note: Tannehill just went past 100 yards passing for the game here, midway through the 3rd quarter.
with a very deceptive 118.5 team passer rating.
He’s lucky he’s still playing. He’s been pressured and hit a ton.
Beautiful punt. D has all the opportunity here to get a big stop and help the offense out with a short field.
Turn over
Turn over
Turn over
Let’s run this ball
seconded!
Maybe we could if we stop holding.
that was a shit call
I’m hoping for 225 yards of total offense by the end of the game. How in the world are we this bad??!
that was a textbook fucking tackle His face was up. He didn’t hit with the crown of his helmet
Woohoo, short field. We need to get a score out of this.
Xman going to the pro bowl
pussy call
against Kiko
That was an awesome 2nd round pick Howard is turning into a stud
That was horrible
Woohoo, we have them pinned inside the 20. Let’s get a stop.
FUCK
Alonzo is fucking afraid of Josh Allen! He just won’t tackle him. PUSSY
Woohoo, Allen should be tired after all that running. Let’s get the ball back.
here we go. Gonna give them the lead and the game right here.
I think we held the ball for about 30 seconds in that quarter.
Someone needs to get a good solid hit on Josh Allen.
With how the rules are now it’s really hard to try to tackle a quarterback who’s scrambling. Even if you make a good tackle there’s a good chance you’re going to get flag
I’ve seen this story before.
We all know how this game is going to end
And there it is
Thankfully I am filled with confidence our offense will get this lead right back.
eye roll
Haven’t seen Jones today, except his back, chasing plays.
Reshad not the one who has 16 points against us
Fuck that announcer he was way too happy about Mr. Jone’s TD
He’s been doing that for both teams all day. It’s his job to make the game seem exciting.
Allen is what I thought he was going to be. He is raw and will make mistakes but his physical talent is off the charts and he will make plays that others are just physically incapable of
Hopefully this kind of game gives Ross some second thoughts about current leadership. Team is terrible.
If Allen ever really gets his passing going he’s going to be a tough QB to defend. We need to knock that fucking guy out when running. We’re over pursuing and he just runs it every time.
Here comes Tannehill’s second TD of the game
3rd
he only has one now
Parker and Drake. 2
that is a huge call for us
lol, Phillips, you jack ass
WHAT A CATCH
woohoo! I though that was a sure INT
TEAM passer rating
Now let’s play some defense l
Confidence…rewarded…lol
Can we all admit that Phillips is a bit of an idiot? LOL
it reminded me of Duhtay Culpepper dancing around pointing to his knee after we had cut him and he came back against us.
YES
Not really missing Phillips anymore
Owe Tim a beer 🍺