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!!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
nice catch Stills
CavalierKong says:
December 2, 2018 at 3:41 pm
Parker and Drake. 2
One didn’t count
lol
Branch does seem to keep drive going for other teams doesn’t he?
Go Branch! Just 10 more!
Alright, this is the D’s chance. 2nd and 20, have to get a stop.
smh
Allen has made Alonzo his bitch
COME ON MOTHER FUCKERS! FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCK! KILL HIM! HIT HIM!
i give up. alonso with the whiff
The Bills should just drop back to pass every time ad let Allen run. We still haven’t even hit him
I DON’T CARE IF IT’S 15 YARDS LEVEL THAT FUCKER
Fuck with Allen running. Change it up Burke!!!!
lol, should have been a penalty
Not at all, it was on his pads. If they start calling that might as well make it touch football. LOL
TAKE HIS HEAD OFF
I’m happy they didn’t cal it, but these rules are ridiculous. You call the one on alonso, and not that?!
QUINN! NICE
t/g no penalty on mccain
YES!!!
Some timely defense
Can we run the ball for 3:34 now?
My bet is no……
Way to go Burke and defense!!!!
It would be real nice if our offense can just seal this game for us right now.
We deserved that sequence.
we’re losing in every stat but score and turnovers. lol. they have twice as many yards as we do.
Tim, I was about to call you a ridiculously unabashed homer, but I figured I’d rewatch the replay to be sure of myself. I changed my mind. You’re right, he whipped him around, but it was around the shoulder, not the neck.
dumb use of a final time out by bills
lol. way to convert the 3rd and 1.
Oh, here comes the inept melt down
bad place for a wild cat as they know exactly what we would do…should’ve passed off that formation
need a defensive stop here for a change
3rd and 1….game on the line….and your QB is lined up at WR.
2 plays and already at midfield
has any DB knocked down anything?
Oh we are set up for a big finish hear in Miami!
STFU!
no DBs guarding anybody again
Well at least it looks like our defensive collapse is happening nearly instantaneously so we’ll still have plenty of time and T/Os to keep our hope alive we that we can get a FG to tie it after they score, lol.
Well we should get the ball back with time
I owe Kong a beer 🍺
61 yards in 31 seconds. Way to make a stand.
X factor time
Turn over
Turn over
Turn over!!
Let’s go Dolphins!!
LET’S GO PICK IT!
this call might be the game
The mighty Colts were shut out today.
Woohoo! Just get one more play D!
NICE pass interference by Fitz
Minkah got away with PI on that play.
Don’t let Allen run for a damn first down
They should Run Allen, he could get the first
Holy shit!! unbelievable
Wow
THANK YOU CHARLES!
How is Quinn so stupid to take that angle and let Allen get back around him, smh. Thank god the Bills are more inept than we are.
Should have lost. Deserved to lose.
^^THIS
This game was so ugly I can’t even brag to the loser Bills fans at work. SHM
GASE GOTTA GO!
GGG
Wow it’s never easy for us. LOL
Not pretty but a divisional win. I will take it
Josh Allen is PASSIONATE
He is crying like a girl on the side line
Clay wins one for Miami!
Thank you Jesus.
The juggernaut that is 21 points a game is enough- against Buffalo. Yay dolphins
D played well for sure.
Tanny’s QB rating today was 103.6.
Allen’s was 71.7, but then he was their leading rusher too.
Here comes we won but looked like shit! Just like the Jests game?????
Exciting game to watch for sure. And what else was needed?
And who the hell dropped off coverage to let Clay be that wide open. There wasn’t a Dolphin within 10-15 yds of him.
I would imagine everyone was running around like crazy, that play was about 10 seconds long. I can kinda understand how that can happen.
Clay with a game winning non-catch for the Dolphins. Thanks Charles!
And Phillips helped too.
LMAO! Since week 7 the Jest have only led for 2 minutes and 31 seconds of game time compared to 228 minutes and 38 seconds of trailing. Wow!
We gave the ball away once they gave it over 3 times. Turn overs matter.
BTW – If we went to Slattery’s, Charles Clay catches that ball for the game winning TD. The next play would be Tannehill getting sacked and his left leg removed. lol
Or we would have broken the curse
No way, I swear Clay would have caught it, I’m sure of that. Slattery’s is a place for heartbreaks. 🙂
Man some of you guys are never happy. LOL
A WHOPPING 138 yards passing!!
GGG
Yep, I couldn’t be prouder.
We can’t run the ball when we need to at all.
it is our turrible guards. Gore back to his 2.8 yards per carry.
The dolphins did not win- Buffalo lost.
I thought the D played pretty well. And Tanny threw for 3 TDs. You just going off the last play?
We TRIED to lose that one but Clay forgot which team he was playing for at the very end.
I’m neither happy nor unhappy, I’m neutral. This win didn’t inspire to me think we can compete for a playoff spot, but we didn’t crumble at the end of the game (almost), which is good. That pass to Stills looked like it could have been picked, but it reinforces to me why it’s necessary to take those shots that we very rarely take. You can’t throw every freaking pass within 5 yards, so I like seeing that a lot
Agree with your assessment about taking shots
Bad win, but a win is a WIN!
Exactly
I have seen worse wins
Nothing to brag about, but at least my Bills fan coworker has to buy me the bag of chips this time.
OK, do tell, what kind of chips do you like?
LOL, I have to get a bag of those.
Make sure they are plantain chips you ape
LOL, no plantains for this ape. I like the hot chips, hot cheetos, tapitio doritos, hot fries. Anything like that.
Josh Allen has some real good legs and one heck of an arm, but his accuracy is not good. But end of the day….. have no doubt he’ll be playing for a good long while.
That kid is going to be a hell of a player in a year or two
Mike, I feel the same, neither happy nor unhappy, just jaded.
I have to disagree about not collapsing at the end of the game though. To me that was a defensive collapse. Clay should have made that catch. Lucky for us he didn’t, so we get the win.
Yes but the pass rush made Allen throw the ball short
It was short, but Clay seemed to stumble coming back for the football. He should have been able to catch that, and once he caught it, he would have plenty of time to get in the endzone. He didn’t, so who it doesn’t matter.
That’s valid, I still feel it was more that they failed to make that play more than it was we stopped them. But these things happen, and we’ve had our fair share of bad luck over the years, so I’ll take it! 🙂
Sorry for being a negative dick. Truth is I didn’t watch any but the last 54 seconds, since that seems to be more or less when Dolphin’s games are decided. Apologies for coming here and pissing on the victory parade.
Ah, if it wasn’t you, someone else would have been happy to take your place. Don’t sweat it
You weren’t the only one don’t worry about it. LOL
No problem at all — we miss you though bro. Hope you stop in other than on game day.
No apologies it wasn’t a pretty win but it was a win and we actually made plays when we had too.
You shouldn’t have to apologize. This wasn’t inspiring football. Some people always have to make a big deal about it that people don’t feel or think the same things they do. Just ignore it.
We all have differing degrees of feeling about this game, lol.
Effing TryPod ruined my entire Dolphins experience today. WTF! I was jumping around the house for joy, and I then I have to read TryPod’s (WOMP, WOMP) commentary. Unbelievable!
If we had a couple of legitimate guards playing today, our offense might have performed quite a bit better. The Bills defense is no slouch, and our guards were turnstiles.
^^
I didn’t watch the game
Am I reading that right
We were outgained 415 yards to 175 yards?
Woah, I didn’t realize there was that big a disparity. TOs made the difference.
Yes but it doesn’t really tell the whole story of the game. Josh Allen was flushed out of the pocket all day and rushed for 135 yards. Field position and penalties also played a role in how the game played out. That and BUF getting yards at the end of the half and game, but not points.
My coworker still has a bag of chips hanging in his office from their week 17 win last year. I can belittle him into taking those down now.
HA! If our bet didn’t include the winner getting to choose the chips, I’d get him those. I think I’ll see if I can sneak an amendment into the bet before our week 17 game, lol.
Hey at the end of the day it was a fun football game. Rather than knowing we lost before it was even over. There were a lot of penalties and questionable ones for both teams all day as usual. That’s the game we have now.
I said yesterday I’m okay with Jesse Davis at RG. Not so sure about that anymore. We need better guards if we want to run the ball consistently. We also still allow stunts and blitzes inside like we’re not even there. That’s getting old.
If Josh Allen wasn’t such a huge, good athlete and runner we might have had 5+ sacks today. If he ever improves as a rhythm passer look out.
Yeah, agreed about Davis. I thought he’d been ok, not good but serviceable, till today. He was a drive killer today.
What we do on defense without Xavien Howard?
When is his rookie contract up? The announcer mentioned it, and it’s true, he is going to get paid, and we’d better be the ones paying him.
FA in 2020. We have to sign him, and we will
I wouldn’t even worry about that now.
Thanks, Mike. Good to know we have another year before it comes up, unless we decide to try and sign him long term incentivising money now vs rookie contract.
Miami’s pass rush is pitiful.
Actually it was good plenty today but Allen is no easy target and he’s a lot faster than I thought he was. A less mobile QB would have been crushed today.
Charles Harris is one disappointing mofo . . . What is our major malfunction with identifying a pass rusher in the draft?
A typical Dolphins-Bills game.
I think Dan Patrick summed it up best with the Dolphins when he said the franchise really has no sense of direction. It’s the same thing every year. …they’re not necessarily horrible, just meh.
That is part of the problem. It’s almost like one really shitty season where we go 3-13, or 4-12 would be better than going 7-9, 8-8, or heaven forbid even 9-7. lol
Yep, I think at the end of the season we’ll be looking at a 7-9 team.
Except for the fact that we are a shell of the team we started the season with.
Seems 6-6 is the definition of Meh. But then am surprised we are even at that after all the injuries.
Allen actually looked faster than any QB I’ve watched since Kaep, Deceptively fast. He made Alonso his bitch all day. Next game maybe we can spy with Baker. Baker is a bit faster and more fluid than Alonso, might have better results.
We should have had Baker shadowing Allen. He’s fast enough to mirror him. Kiko got his jock handed to him often.
Kiko wasn’t shadowing him, he was just the one chasing him more often than everyone else. Allen is an impressive athlete and beat all our defenders on runs all day.
Kong,
You damn dirty ape!!
LOL, beer me.
Good thing Allen is not very accurate and terrible throwing on the run. Defense is still lost out there. But Buffalo cant get out of their own way. LOL
One thing we didn’t mention today, how about our special teams? 3 blocks in 3 weeks, and I’ve lost count of the number of blocked kicks we’ve had in the last couple of years. Rizzi is the man.
STs are bad ass. They need to show the other 2 units how it’s done.
We are very good on STs. Lost our main return man in Grant but still good in all phases.
Rizzi will become a HC at some point, in the NFL or college.
Where were all the WR screens today? At least we cant bitch about that!
It’s funny, we take shots down the field and Tannehill gets pummeled all day. Then complain when Gase says we can’t do that. We also can’t run when we have to. We’re on our 3rd center, backup at LG and a questionable starter in Davis at RG. He might be a better swing G/T than starter. We really need our TEs to step up in 2019. We can except the learning curve there. But we lost too much on the OL, at QB for some games and explosiveness at WR. The DL also took hits losing Hayes and Taylor for the year. These were all players that made a difference.
But the team battled all day and I appreciate that as a fan and we won the game. Why are we still looking for dominance? From where other than a play here and there? We’re not a juggernaut team. We weren’t before all the injuries.
We were aimless and terrible in our first 3 wins too. People seem to want to ignore that.
We were not terrible.
Dolphins 5-1 at home and 1-5 on the road.
They do like playing at the Rock, except when it is the Fest of course. 🙂
Had CIN and IND right there and blew it. That’s how close it is for some teams. A few other teams are on another level but that’s about it.
No doubt we are one of those teams in the middle. Q is how to move to the next level. Won’t be happening this year.
Key players staying healthy would be a great start. 🙂
Mike E. says:
December 2, 2018 at 4:52 pm
Charles Harris is one disappointing mofo . . . What is our major malfunction with identifying a pass rusher in the draft?
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My guess? The same as with identifying TE’s, OG’s, LB’s and so on.
Mike E. says:
December 2, 2018 at 4:57 pm
That is part of the problem. It’s almost like one really shitty season where we go 3-13, or 4-12 would be better than going 7-9, 8-8, or heaven forbid even 9-7. lol
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Yeah, but then they would end up picking Ronnie Brown over Aaron Rogers…..
Aaron Rodgers’ team is now 4-7-1. They just lost to ARZ. They’ve been decimated with injuries and off all year. What’s that all about?
the team as a whole is sucking. That doesn’t change that 20+ teams missed on the best QB to come out of college in 20 years. I liked Ronnie Brown a lot too. It just turned into a suck draft. Ronnie Brown #2 overall? Aaron Rogers in the 20’s?
I get that. I love Rodgers he’s been my FFL QB since 2008. It just shows you it’s not all about the QB if other parts aren’t working. There is only so much they can do. Marino went through it from 86-89 and he’s one of the best to ever play the game. 30-33 record during that span. Our fans our asking Tannehill to be more than they even believe he’s capable of. Why? He put us in a position to win last week and we didn’t, he answered the Bills 17-14 lead 21-17 today and we held up. Let’s not act like he’s surrounded by awesomeness and he just can’t get it done. Yes he can. We’re just not good enough to overwhelm anyone.
We get a rare chance at the #1 overall and we take an OT? Ronnie Brown #2 overall? Just seems we get screwed going through the drive-through every time.
Parcells….
Saban – Aaron Rodgers who dropped to #24 in 2005. Matt Ryan is not in the same league unless everything is going well.
Who out there was pissed we took Jake?
Nobody!
So before injuries he was a beast!!!!
Ronnie is a different story! That one was out of left field! But it didn’t turn out to bad!
back then there was no rookie scale so you couldnt trade out of the #1 pick, no one wanted to pay that money that a #1 pick demanded, having pennington they just had to take long, saban drafted ronnie brown
Don’t know about the rest of you guys, but was on the edge of my seat at the end of today’s game. that last play had so many swings almost had a heart attack.
It was fun right? That’s what it is supposed to be. 🙂
For me just entertainment and was entertaining. So got all I could ask for. But for a lot of people….. well guess we each have our own way of rooting for the same team.
Tim,
Yes we were. Go back and watch them. They were pretty close to today’s game.