You can’t write this stuff! It matters not what I think about Adam Gase during his tenure as Miami Dolphins Head Coach, but one thing that was clear to just about everyone was that Gase definitely has personality issues that prevent him from coexisting with others. That was a huge weakness for him, as he shipped out players who didn’t try hard enough to learn his way of doing things. I defended him during those times too, hoping it really was on the player, but it became a pattern. It’s one thing if you have a long resume of success like say Bill Belichick up in New England. He won’t get second guessed for his decisions because his track record speaks for itself. Bill Belichick has a winning percentage of .680 and a record of 261-123, while Adam Gase’s currently stands at 23-25 and .479. Not much cachet comes with that.
Try and put this in perspective. The Jets allowed Mike Maccagnan to choose the players to add to their roster during free agency, a very active free agency for the cap flush NY Jets. The Jets added RB Le’Veon Bell, LB C.J. Mosely and OL Kelechi Osemele to the tune of $225.5M, all in this recent FA period. Then they let Maccagnan choose the future of the team by running the draft. Also keep in mind the Jets made it clear that Gase would NOT have control over the 53 man roster and had no say in that regard. They said that. Now, they not only give him that as interim GM, but he’s running the entire show. Can you comprehend this? How can they possibly spin this as a positive thing?
I like the direction our team is headed. We seem to be doing everything right, with careful measured steps. Our rivals in NY seem to tripping over their tongues and making unstable decisions. Unless Adam Gase has really learned from his mistakes in Miami, the New York Jets franchise is in for some serious turbulence.
Keep doing things slow, steady and careful, and most of all . . .
#staythecourse
Finsmob Unleashed 
(Piggy Thanos snaps his involvement in the political discussion)
PAGE TURN PIG!
See how well the thanos snaps works
Thanos Pig snaps his hooves and we have a new reality or at least a new page
Look…a Miami Dolphin’s football blog! I think I’ll hang out here!
Now all we need is Iron Pig to show up
Can Thanos Pig do that snap thing and make the Dolphins a winning team?
For me it’s about respect!
If you want to have a conversation it can’t start out with all the Buzz words that are used for Trump, or any one who voted for him!
To this day I can’t stand to hear people talk about a sitting President the way they do!
I don’t think there was 1 thing I liked about Former President Obama!
But I damn sure respected the office he held!I can’t even stand the abbreviation!
POTUS? Sounds like an insult I’d throw at someone?
Not a fan of POTUS either, and it’s used constantly now
Whoops wrong blog! 😉
wyoming — you want to find idiots out there….. then you will. But POTUS is not an insult.
Hate POTUS
and SCOTUS is probably worse
That’s almost scrotum
That’s about right
Love those unis
Awesome
That one is better than what we wear now.
Anyone know what year that’s from?
According to the article they are being worn in honor of Dan Marino ‘ s first start s that would place it at 1983
I need a new jersey this year. My only Dolphins jesrsies are Tannehill, Reggie Bush and Ronnie Brown . Who should I get?
Jake Long!
It’s my favorite!
Safest bet is Minkah.
Here you go Ken
Yes!
That’s IronHam
And don’t forget about the Meaty Boar
Unbelievable… 😊
Alas but there is one worthy enough to wield Boar’d Ham-mer
Pig avengers
I am not worthy enough to wield Boar’s Ham-mer
Groan🥴
I am not worthy enough to wield Boar’s Ham-mer
Groan 🥴
Apparently their will be another Avengers flick 🙂
Avengers Squiggly Game
Stanger won’t be happy . . .
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rumors-reportedly-circling-that-jets-could-make-a-run-at-peyton-manning-for-front-office-role/
Gumby would be good…. maybe he can make Gase great again.
Jarvis Landry
I feel lijke I need that robot on Lost in Space the last few days on this blog.
Danger! Danger!
Religion!
Danger! Danger!
Politics!
Danger! Danger!
the adorable C*nt word!
Danger! Danger!
GoT minutiae.
Danger! Danger!
Landry Love!
Danger! Danger!
Comic Book Movies.
Danger! Danger!
Can Contrails be far off the screen?
Go Home.
Go Dolphins!
jonesin’ for some football
OHHH…NO!
Danger! Danger!
Reshad debate! Reshad Debate!
Argument #129!
Danger! Danger!
lol @ ‘adorable C*nt word!’
What you gonna do — it’s the open internet.
“…The anti-trumpers are as bad as the birthers during Obama’s first term…”
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The irony…
“Can Thanos Pig do that snap thing and make the Dolphins a winning team?”
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I’m sure the Thanos Pig snap is the most powerful thing in the universe, but what you’re asking is impossible.
Maybe start with something slightly more reachable like curing cancer, faster than light travel, repubs and dems working together. Something like that.
Blues winning the Stanley Cup 🤡
LOL, better off trying to make the Dolphins a winning team!
Only two wins away from losing to the Bruins 🙂
Anyone but Boston 😡
LOL @ Naples
Ditto! LOL
Come on Stanger!
I could introduce you as the POTUS of SCROTUS!
Exporter of VERY small medicine bags??????????? 😉
LOL — it’s just that both of those ( take the “R” out of the 2nd one) have been used to for a good long while. But would be glad to have the big balls title as well. 🙂
That’s grotus.
It’s almost like speaking Latin.
This from when Rosen was with the Cards, but I like it. He at least knows what he can’t do.
“I will not run a play on a football field unless I know why we’re running it and what we’re trying to accomplish. That’s just how I function. I don’t run a 4.5, so if things go bad, I can’t just hit the exit button. So I like to understand a playbook in its entirety.”
Makes sense.
Excellent…..a novel concept to know why and when you see the D commit you what the answer/play is going to be called.
Lol…did that make any sense whatsoever?
Some idiot randomly drop kicked the Terminator and he barely felt it
What was that all about?
Some idiot randomly kicked him at an event
He’s 71
That’s very dangerous
I watched the video, but did they find out a motive?
Lot of seniors kicking ass lately
He hit the floor harder than he hit Arnold….hilarious.
I should have said Arnold’s back was like hitting a wall and the guy dropped to the floor hard. Love it.
Conan what is good in life?
To crush one’s enemies
To see them flee before you and
To hear the lamentations of their women
Lol
LOL — a pig image for everything.
Piggy,
Seriously, do you have some sort of piggy app that finds all these pig pics? Amazing how fast you come up with stuff. It would take me a couple days to find a few pics. Lol
My snout tingles and I know a pic is close
That is an orc beserker
Did you play D&D? I did until had to claim didn’t when was interested in getting women to actually go out with me.
Still do
Man did you just one up me on that. Still like my board games (Risk), but figure ruined our D&D set when smelled out that if I walk off game pretty much over. Committed suicide at one point…… poor Gimili my dwarven fighter friend, but then you were chaotic neutral. Might have been how I started in lobbying.
Axis and Allies is better than Risk.
Good game….. ever do Diplomacy? Really like how the moves are set each turn ahead of time.
They are closely related!
Only computer game I ever got addicted to was Castle Wolfenstein.
Tim, Axis and Allies is a far superior game. Different kind of game though. You can grab 3 or 4 people and sit down and play Risk at any time. Axis and Allies takes some investment, but is well worth it.
Cav — some of my buddies went into some much more complex games. Problem was that if they have played and you have not….. guaranteed you lose.
Yes it does. 4 of us usually played and we did sometimes continue it at another time.
We used to set up different long strategy war games on a ping pong table we had just for that purpose and play games that lasted multiple weekends. Fun times. Dungeons and Dragons was great too. Ah, simpler times, lol.
What was the early PC game where you ran around a maze fighting creatures and finding different weapons? I keep thinking Doom but I think there was another one like it.
I play marvel strike force nonstop now
It’s super addictive
Stanger
Chaotic Neutral? I would have pegged you playing a lawful good Paladin
You are too kind man……but difference btwn real life and a game. Chaotic neutral gave you more running room. And the way my top guy committed suicide was by me ripping up his sheet in front of the control freak DM’s face. My other guys moved up right quick after that to match up with the rest of the crew. What was he gonna do?
stangerx says:
May 18, 2019 at 2:43 pm (Edit)
This from when Rosen was with the Cards, but I like it. He at least knows what he can’t do.
“I will not run a play on a football field unless I know why we’re running it and what we’re trying to accomplish. That’s just how I function. I don’t run a 4.5, so if things go bad, I can’t just hit the exit button. So I like to understand a playbook in its entirety.”
He could never have worked with Gase. Can you imagine him trying to understand some of that crap Gase was coming up with last season?
Don’t know about Flores….. but yeah would have been a problem with Gase, or the Dungeon Master just wrote to Ken about. 🙂
Was M13 run off the blog?
Some flame stuff went on, but not like we haven’t been through that before.
Yeah that’s what I mean, I don’t remember seeing him since.
Whole bunch of people on the board. Not everyone is always going to get along. Which is my way of saying up to him. And does seem he is not exactly a shrinking violet who would stay away cause of one beef.
I was just wondering. It would be a shame because different opinions should not be that big of a deal. Life wouldn’t work if everything was the same.
Hey I went off on one of my anti-religious rants the other night but it wasn’t about me hoping everyone agreed with me, or anyone for that matter. It’s how I see things. It doesn’t mean I’m right either, but I try to come to conclusions based on what I see and hear, not from any kind of agenda because I don’t have one.
M13 was not run off the board. Things got heated so he may be taking a break but he was not run off or banned
Cool!
Love all of the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Did not like Steve Martin playing Inspector Clouseau at all. Steve Martin is a funny guy but he did not capture Peter Sellers’ version of the character at all. I felt like I was watching someone’s cousin who claims he does a great Peter Sellers Clouseau impression but he doesn’t. LOL
One of my favorite Pink Panther scenes, if not my favorite
Tim – Then the Braves owned the division for about 13 years or so. Ugh!
Being bluntly honest, I sometimes think MF13 is a wacko conspiracy theorist, but IMO he is the balance to David, lol. They both get a little out there, but we are better off as a community with both of them as members.
Even with our differences, or perhaps because of them, I enjoy interacting with MF13 (and since I correlated them, I enjoy interacting with David as well). Hell, there literally isn’t a single person on this board I don’t appreciate in one way or another.
The blog would be boring if we all agreed on everything all the time. We have people across a broad spectrum of demographics, and that is a good thing. It’s bound to happen that some people may not particularly care for others, but it shouldn’t resort to anyone being made to feel they are no longer welcome.
And when it comes to football on this blog, MF13 easily contributes as much as any other person.
Well said Cav. Only place where will go a bit different is the “no longer welcome” part. Like 50 people come to this board. I’m long past caring about the “so and so doesn’t like me so am leaving” stuff. We are grown men plus Herd.
Yeah, I don’t come running to people’s defense when the petty stuff happens. We’re grown. Figure it out between yourselves is my motto, lol. But Piggy is one of the founders, and he went nuclear, so it might have carried more weight. That is all I meant.
Cav — I lived through the Walker and Gigi Wars (and they ran the place) 🙂
^Totally agreed. If someone doesn’t agree with what you just said, those are the ones who are the problem in this country and the divide we’re seeing today. No tolerance for different opinions. That’s when the hardcore name calling and slander begins. It’s back to the sandbox; you’re a poo poo head, oh yeah… well your mommy and daddy hate you… and it gets uglier and uglier.
It’s great how often on this board you’ll be in agreement with a person one day, then the next day find yourselves at odds with them. Even those of us that think more alike than others still have vast gulfs of difference between viewpoints on certain subjects. I learn and grow from the things I read on this blog all the time.
There is a reason I’ve kept coming back to talk with all you fucks for like 12 years. lol
M13 last posted 2days ago. Said something to the effect of “I came prepared this time. Someone is going to get served.” apropos of nothing. No clue what it meant.
He bought a better tennis racket?
I think we should bring back dueling.
LOL
Just not swords, everyone gets confused about which ones. LOL
Stang,
That was some quality fighting. But in my book nothing tops the Gigi/NJ drama for sheer entertainment value. I cancelled my cable service for like 3 months while that was going on.
You’re a dick, I almost spit beer on my screen with that one fuckface!!! LOL
LOL
Where you there for before that with the “I love you”…. “No I love you more” cage match on the open board? They”’d never even freaking met.
Yeah, it was goofy, like grade school stuff. I’d been on the board years before Gigi started posting. When she first showed up, she was married to a Jets fan, lol.
Think I came on while she was in a divorce with him….. but man was she hot as anything. For a while at least.
I remember when you started posting. I took about a 3 month break from the Sentinel and went and joined the circus at the Herald. When I came back, you and Mike had already become regular posters. Like a number of other people, it was some time before I realized your name wasn’t ‘stranger’, lol.
Can tell you when that was — 2008. Was the Jake Long draft. First two people to even say I was there (SS board was real busy) were Mike E and M13.
Hard for me to assess when I joined because I was a lurker for a while before I was a poster. I’d read y’all’s comments and I remember some of the drama back then but I never got into it. Don’t remember just what topic it was that drew me in but I remember a lot if the stuff y’all are bringing up just don’t remember getting involved
LOL… the golden years, when times were more simple.
I was just starting to post when Gigi and NJ were falling apart.
Everything was lovey dovey until he couldn’t pay the rent. 😉
You might have missed some of the fun on that one….. but least you got the Walker and Gigi entertainment.
Walker and Gigi drama didn’t get going until just before FU started most of us here got to experience all of that. I mean so e of it was going on most of the FME days but really didn’t hit a peak until right at the end
Gigi was a typical internet woman. Maybe a little worse than average. Herd has class she is more like a blog Mom. It’s sounds a little insulting said that way but it’s not the way it’s meant lol. I was not a fan of Gigi and I’m pretty sure I was not someone she cared much for either
Like many of us she had a light and a dark side.
Doom and Wolfenstein were identical games.
And not that anyone cares, but I started paying about the time between Wandstedt and Saban.
*posting
Those throwbacks are straight fire!
That’s all I’ll ever buy!
Have no clue what jersey i would buy now tho….
Man, I missed some quality reminiscing there. Totally funny stuff. What you all would love to hear were the phone convos I had with both NJ and Walker, all about Gigi. These strutting confident men got turned into noodles when it came to a woman, LOL
Those will stay forever confidential, or released after much alcohol at a Fest or something. 😛
Yeah, I remember those days. I was “squidmd” on the SS. Then when we all moved over I was “MikeWithNoJob”. LOL
Man, that would be worth coming to a fest for!
Friday night at Toba’s pre-fest get together we will get the story out of you
That’s Singalong with the Dog…… and no pre-fest about it. That’s the Fest’s opening ceremony. 🙂
Cav says, “Hell, there literally isn’t a single person on this board I don’t appreciate in one way or another.”
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That’s good to hear,
GO CUBBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had a dream last night we were winning our first game 54-0
Did you have to change the sheets when you woke up?
why?
Because otherwise they get crusty
mmm. that would explain a lot
Great headline — “Which active Miami Dolphin would be the best jersey investment?”
Reporter’s choices:
Laremy Tunsil
Xavien Howard
Kenyan Drake
Josh Rosen
Minkah Fitzpatrick
Christian Wilkins
Full: https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/19/which-active-miami-dolphins-would-be-the-best-jersey-investment/
Rosen.
You thinking about getting one? I’d shy off cause he might be one year and gone….. says a guy who used to own an Incognito.
Rosen is going to take this team to a Super Bowl
You guys should consider the bad luck y’all put on a player buying their jersey lol.
In Flores 3rd season as HC and Rosen’s 3rd season as starting QB this team is going to be playing in the Super Bowl.
The power of 3.
Rosen wears #3
Flores will be in 3rd yr as HC
Rosen will be in 3rd yr as starting qb for Miami.
Phins will return to the Super Bowl to win their 3rd.
Well it could be worse!
but their fans are positive they made the right decision in drafting Murray #1 overall!!!
Not like our cap hit on Tanny is cheap…… but then we did pay our way into a better draft pick in exchange.
Mathew Boling is the high school track star better known as “White Lightening” these days.
Is Ted Ginn’s family that hard up for cash?
They should do a charity race with Ginn and several of the NFL’s fastest vs the high school kid.
Makes all the sense and betting they could even get televised somewhere. Also betting Ginn would back out.
My first post came the day they hired Sparano, but I lurked and read through the Bad Season and and back as far as that draft after Cam Cameron got hired, so I got to groan in disbelief at the NJ-Gigi thing the whole way through. Unbelievable at times that it went so affectionate so fast based on almost nothing.
I always thought it was fueled by rebound energy from Gigi’s divorce combined with NJ’s steroids.
Especially ironic because she was married to a Jets fan, and she reported fights over that with hubby, which I interpreted as a surrogate for deeper problems.
I think Gigi is happy in California now, right? So good for her for getting out of a bad place and finding Mr. Right.
I hate it when people are unhappy, so I condone any divorce that relieves sadness.
I don’t believe NJ did steroids. I met him and though he was in great shape he wasn’t steroid big. He’s a very opinionated person is all.
I will accept your judgement on that; I just felt Roid Rage directed at me and several others on numerous occasions, mixed with that “I can kick anybody’s ass” stuff he spewed at the blog. It seemed to infect his pitiful attempts to e-seduce Gigi as well.
I disliked the guy so much that I also disliked Mike E for a while just because I kept getting their names mixed up back then. Both NJ fin fan #1 or something.
It was not until after the split from the SS blog that i got the two of them straight.
Gigi sure was a central fixture at least. Big old fight with NJ, who then created his own board…. or at least got TNPhin too. And then she axed Walker out. Seems she sorta of won both times. And if she is happy in Cali none of us know unless haven’t got the news.
I would think that Ted Ginn has lost a step by now at his age, so he should be careful about offering cash like that. I think Wilson and Grant could both take him and maybe Stills, too. Even Drake would be hard for Ginn to beat given the age difference.
The guy who started at Center for us for the last 2/3 of a season just retired. Travis Swanson.
I don’t suppose the pundits see that as a positive for us in that we have improved that position from whom we had starting last year.
I think we have better depth all across the line, a better cadre from which to choose our 8 or 9 we keep on the 53 than at any time in the last decade.
Not sure how it all pans out, but we have 11 new OL on the roster with only 4 remaining from last year in Tunsil, Kilgore, Davis and Sterup. Maybe one or two of them we picked up last year and had them on the PS but not in the lineup at any time. So it won’t be same old same old with many of the same guys at least.
Tim – NJ most definitely did and still does steroids. He always defended the fact that “it doesn’t shrink the weenie” with Home all the time. He never once denied doing them, I remember all of that very well, it was repeated so often during their exchanges.
I thought he told me he didn’t do them but took supplements.
Maybe he did tell you that, but I’m positive about those exchanges, and I do think he is steroid size. I still see pics of him on FB, he’s larger than just a guy who lifts weights a lot.
Other reasons for it, but roid rage does fit. Same time was a nice guy at times other than that.
Mike, by the way the Mets are once again crashing and burning. They can’t even hit the Marlins. Sigh….
I have it on. I’m just hating this. This is the kind of stretch that can take them right out of this season.
Shutout two games in a row. SMH
It’s not Todd Frazier’s fault per se, but I never wanted him back on the major league club. I knew they would pretty much make him the everyday 3B, and he’s batting .164. He’s like a freaking anchor, he took the team down. I don’t remember exactly when he got back but I can almost guarantee you they have a serious losing record since his return. Nimmo is a shell of what he was last year, and Cano is fulfilling that hideous prophecy of bringing in former All Star 2B from the American League. Roberto Alomar, Carlos Baerga, and there’s another I can’t think of at the moment, but they shrivel up and die here once they get here.
You 2 could always catch the Astro’s game! 😉
BailBondMike says:
May 19, 2019 at 9:03 am
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That’s good to hear,
GO CUBBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You’re a baby carnivore fan? How did I not know this? I always keep track of the fans of teams chasing the Cards. 8 more to go sunshine 😉
A Pirates fan, a Brewers fan, and a Cubs fan all on this board. (Sounds like the start of a joke, lol)
Actually someone has mentioned the Reds on this board too, though I can’t remember who that was either. NLC is well represented.
Son is a Red’s fan.
Really an apostrophe? LOL
smh, I can’t believe I didn’t remember that. I need to start smoking more pot, lol.
Duuuude…. Son’s a Reds fan, man. LOL
Riiighteouuus, man, LOL.
I am split 50/50 between Cubs/Reds. I was a diehard Reds fan from back in the mid 70’s but never went to any of their games unless they were playing at Wriggly. I have been to 30+ Cub games at Wriggly with my uncle.
Aha! I think that is where my confusion came in. I had thought it was you that had mentioned the Reds. Glad to know it isn’t early onset of anything, lol.
Cav, Ever since they realigned the Cubs to our division I had had to watch both my teams chase the damn Cards every year. For a long time there the Cards were like the Pats in the AFCE. Now that really sucks ass!
The Mets battled with the Cubs and Cards from 83 until they finally took them over in 86.
Yeah, we’ve had a good run of it. I’m spoiled as a Cards fan. Cubs finally got that monkey off their back though. It was awesome to see the Cubs and their fans get rewarded in ’16. And this year the division is tough, but I think the Cubs are the team to beat.
Tim – Then the Braves owned the division for about 13 years or so. Ugh!
Yep! The 1988 Mets team should have been better but the party lifestyles were already in full force and then we ran into the bulldog.
Trying not to get too excited about the Blues 3-0 lead going into the 3rd. Usually that is a nearly insurmountable lead, but the Sharks have had some magic/destiny shit going on these playoffs.
Do you remember the Flyers being down 3-0 in the series against Boston and 3-0 in game 4 and coming back and winning the series? Bat lost his shit. LOL
LOL, I do remember that.
Sharks losing their shit right now. One win away from our first Stanley Cup since 1970.
1970?
Yeah, I meant appearance of course. Somehow that word vanished from my post.
They started in 1991.
I’m talking about the Blues, bro. The Blues are one win away.
Oh gotcha! For some reason you being in Cali I thought you were rooting for the Sharks. LOL
LOL, it would make sense. If they had existed when I started vaguely being interested in hockey, I would probably be a Sharks fan. As it was, I couldn’t follow the L.A. Kings, because being in Sacramento I was anti-SoCal. So I just picked up the city of my baseball team for hockey as well.
There have been times I’ve wished I could get a mulligan and pick a different team at the start, lol. The Blues have been pretty bad since I’ve followed them. It’s part of the reason, I’ve been so into this season. This is by far the most interesting Blues team, I’ve ever watched.
Guess tonight is like the Superbowl on this board. Someone on GOT will be hefting the trophy.
They killed this season. I’m going to watch, but I know I’m not going to be happy about the finale. I’ll be honest when it’s over though, if it’s good, I’ll say so. I have very low expectations.
Never watched. You suggested the books (and always like reading before seeing). But the first one just didn’t hit me. Maybe was the writing style or maybe why am more history and current events in my reading these days. Figure at some point will catch the series as big as it is though so long as can figure out how to get from the start.
Gotta watch the last episode
*appearance*
What time is GoT?
9PM EST
Thanks
I was a Braves fan before they moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee.
Because Hank Aaron was my favorite player from when I was a little kid.
I could not believe my good fortune when my favorite team moved so close to home.
I saw the very first Braves game in Atlanta. And many more.
then they went through some hard times when Dale Murphy was there.
But then they won so many games when Bobby Cox was managing.
Now i never even follow baseball.
Just lost interest when the Steroid club broke the home run records.
I hear ya Kong, Enjoy the Blues run. We don’t always get that as fans.
Cheers
Stanger – The reason I hate this season so much is because they tried to condense too much content into too few episodes. One thing the books do is go into detail about why a character might be doing something that goes against their nature. In the series now, they have a character do a total 180 w/o any explanation and you just watch it and feel disappointed because you knew that character wouldn’t do that. Hard to explain exactly what I’m saying, but some of the actions of the main characters don’t match their most recent behavior and it sucks to not know why or be bale to understand why all of a sudden they did that. HBO gave them a 10 episode budget, they chose to only do 6 episodes. They got lazy and unintentionally sabotaged their mission.
With Gase now possibly looking at trading Leonard Williams I’d take a shot at him if we could get him for something decent. Use one of those 2020 picks on a guy who’s only 25. Jets exercised their option on him at $14.2M. This is the type of player I could see us trading for.
Tough to trade within the division but I’d trade a 2020 2nd for him right now. He fits multiple. He’s a good player. I’d be surprised if it happened but I’d make that trade.
I agree. It would be tough to get him being in the same division. But, this is the type of player I really think Grier would be interested in trading for. Throw all the rebuilding bs out the window if someone like this becomes available and Grier can get him for the right compensation.
Why does Gase not want him?
they exercised the option on him at $14.2M and would need to re-sign him and they have a lot of money already invested in their d line including Q Williams who they drafted in the first rd.
I don’t know what you mean by this.
What would we need to pay him?
I’m not absolutely sure on how 5th yr options work but it appears based on what I’m looking at that if the Jets were to trade him they’d be on the hook for the amount of the entire option as of March 13.
So, I believe any team trading for him would need to negotiate something with him before the trade was made to make sure they have an agreement in place with the player.
Moving on from the old guard like new HCs and staffs always do.
Gase’s first move as GM was trading former 2016 1st rd pick LB Darron Lee to KC for a 6th rd pick.
I’m sure Gregg Williams didn’t want him so he was expendable. As far as what he got back, You would think he could have got more, but what does Gase know about wheeling and dealing? Nothing Jon Snow!
I thought the compensations was horrible. Then again what was the market for him?
Where Williams is concerned the 5th yr option was picked up by the “old guard” and they may elect to keep him around this yr since they’d be on the hook for the option contract even if traded or they could look at it as though he’s the odd man out since they need to pay Q Williams and the others they have under contract.
The Jets have a lot of money invested in their d line right now and extending L Williams may not be something they’re interested in doing because they’d be tying up additional cap in the d line they could put elsewhere.
So, it will be interesting to see what Gase does in this instance because he’s usually a very reactionary person and just runs with it once his mind is made up.
I just saw the Darren Lee move
And all I have to say is I’m glad we parted with Gase
May isn’t even o Er and he already has notched on his belt for the GM and a LB
By the trade deadline – should a dozen more
No doubt.
So the GoT ending sucked. It was like they decided they were tired of it so they slapped together some Disney-hero-does-the-right-thing-everybody-lives-happily-ever-after shit to get it over with. JRR Martin obviously lost interest. Fucktards.
I’m not really sure how much George RR had to do with this last season. He may have allowed these guys to run with it, just giving them some basic parameters. If he ever writes that last book, we’ll find out
There was no way to get that train back on the rails in one episode
I actually enjoyed the first 30 mins or so of last nights episode
Then they just had to wrap everything up
The writing this season sucked
But that’s wasn’t the biggest problem
Cutting down the season to 6 episodes really hurt the last 2 seasons
It just looks like they rushed the it to closure – that’s said about 3 of 6 episodes are completely unwatchable
It didn’t bother me to see Danerys become an antagonist – but they really could have developed that a lot better
The Biplanes are doomed. Gase and Williams are the two biggest egomaniacs in the league. By week six they should be in full meltdown trying to undermine each other.
I’d love to believe that but they still have a chance if they bring a legitimate personnel guy in
Dolfans don’t always admit it
But IMO the personnel decisions we made were far superior to the coaching
Actually the worst personnel decisions were usually put into motion by the coach IMO
Pigs – The one thing that made me think it was somewhat understandable as to why Daenerys torched the city was because Missandei’s last word was “dracarys”. As to her killing everyone else in the world, different story. They spent about 20 minutes on the convo between Jon and Tyrion, they spent about 5 minutes on Tyrion rearranging the chairs before the meeting of the council, they just wasted time on nothing. What was the final scene of Jon and Tormund and the wildings (Where the hell did they come from?) walking into the forest? Abandoning the wall? Where were they going? They made Jon such a non issue in this season, he did nothing. He almost fought the wight dragon Viserion, he killed Daenerys and he petted his Direwolf Ghost. Why they made him a non issue I didn’t get.
Lol @ re-arranging the chairs
There was a lot of wasted screen time like that this season
Last season we saw the big secret get told to Jon from Sam and Bran
Which is fine
But this season they spent tons of screen time on the same thing being told
Jon to Dany
Jon to Aria/Sansa
Sansa to Tyrion
Tyrion to Varys
I think Varys told some one but I’m still not sure
It’s the same fucking event that was explained to each character
We had to sit through every characters reaction to something we all found out
Last season – that’s probably like an hour of screen time
The whole point of seeing a secret revealed to one character is for it to be revealed to the audience too
But it’s not going to be a surprise to the audience the 6th time around
Almost surprised the 🐺 didn’t bark it to the 🐉
LMAO!!! A little private convo between Ghost and Drogon. Did you think Drogon was going to kill Jon?
I kind of thought he would
But I thought he might do a 180 too and now to him and let Jon ride him
Never watched a minute of GoT, but did watch a NY Times critic on CNN this morning. While he still gushed about production magnificence, said the writing fell off when they ran out of books to base the script on. Lost texture and nuance as he put it. Seems that matches up with what Mike E and Pig are going at.
I think it’s amazing the George RR can even remember all the places he created, and even more so, all the characters. I mean it really is an epic production. There was supposed to be 5 spinoffs from GoT, but it looks like only 3 will make it to production. Reading the books, there’s literally a cast of thousands. I really hope he finished book 6 because while it won’t make the TV series any better, it may make sense of what happened because he can go into as much depth as he wants giving us background as to why these things happened. What would be even better IMO is if he changes the whole ending entirely, that would rock!
Have a feeling his universe will be visited a bunch of times like the Star Wars one. Wouldn’t be surprised if a feature movie is being considered…. and would play real well in 3D.
I don’t see how he can follow that clusterfuck ending
I’m most upset about what they did to Bran this season
Dude had godlike powers by the time this season rolled around – warging, visions and time travel
this season we got to watch him sit and a chair and stare blankly
Bad writing, a forced ending but also just a complete lack of creativity when it came to the supernatural/magic aspects of the story
You know a show isn’t very good when the next day everyone wishes it was different. LOL
The show was great
The best ever IMO
But the first 6 seasons only
Season 7 was okay
Season 8 was pukeworthy
Yeah I liked it a lot early on too. My point was how this last season finished. Everyone is saying I wish they did this instead of that which means it was bad.
Piggy – I didn’t think the entire season 8 sucked. I think what bothered me a bunch was how they established where characters were at, where they stood and how they felt in that Winterfell episode. Then all of a sudden, a few them just woke up the next episode and totally flip-flopped. I hate that. Why bother spending an entire episode establishing character references and relationships only to do a 180 the very next episode?
I thought given the source material
Season 8 was a big F for me
But I also thought the prior seasons were A+
So season 8 may suffer from the success of prior season
Dolphin’s Wire by USA Today has been putting out some solid pieces. This one is a comparison of our O last season versus what’s projected in this one. Even if we are rebuilding….. hard to say the offense is worse.
I read that today there were more OTAs but have read no updates from the local beat reporters.
Might be a closed session. Only some of them are open to reporters.
You’re probably right.
Seemed to me that the GOT directors/writers were given the final structure by GRRM, but lacked a clear vision how to achieve it. Agree with the idea that more seasons or episodes would have been a better way to achieve a satisfying end. The Bran, Jon, Dany, Jaime storylines just felt rushed and undeveloped. Jon killing Dany should have been such a bigger event and there just wasn’t much emotion to that scene.
Loved the shows, enjoyed them all, even this last season. Hopefully the books come through.
That’s pretty fair drg – I do agree with you on the Jon-Daenerys kill. They just made Jon such a non interesting character in season 8, he was so wishy washy and weak, which I thought abandoned his true personality. They should have made him more tormented with the fact that he knew she was wrong and had to be killed, instead they made him seem like a melancholy hit man just doing the bidding of someone else. They really could have done better in that regard. Jon always did the right thing, that was pounded into him by Ned, and he did that for 7 seasons. It shouldn’t have taken Tyrion 20 minutes to convince him, he should have been wrestling with it as soon as she torched Kings Landing, and it would have been great if they showed his anguish over it, anger and frustration rather than a little kid who looked sad because someone stole his lollipop.
I got to be at least partially right at the end I had Bran or Tyrion being the winner with a possibility of Arya. I think though they seemed really badly want to close up shop because everything ended with out much attention to a good storyline. Probably not as into it as some of you but I can see why everyone is so upset, especially the ones who were really into the story.
I don’t hate the ending so much as how they got to that ending
Echoing some of the things we mentioned
https://apple.news/AzwwhfSJAQ4Gr9dp9VSnAdA
I keep thinking of more things that bothered me . . . Why the hell did Grey Worm just take Jon Snow prisoner, and why did he wait around to see who was elected king? You would think Grey Worm would have slaughtered Jon himself, they could have had an epic battle of the angry soldier and the distraught man who killed his love. It would have been significantly better than them sending him to the wall. That was like “Oh shit, what we do with Jon?” “Uhhhh, I don’t got anything, but maybe we just send him to the wall”. Jon Snow deserved a lot more consideration than to just casually send him away. He was like the one of the main characters, he deserved a more powerful ending than that. Grey Worm would have wanted to tear Jon apart for killing his Queen, he was slaughtering unarmed men a day before because he was still furious over Missandei’s death. Give me a few more minutes, I’ll probably have more stuff. lol
Mike,
Yeah, plenty of holes and missed opportunities. The series was a huge hit for HBO. Why not do three seasons and take your time to wind things down properly? It’s like the writers wanted to force themselves to get it over with.
stangerx says:
May 20, 2019 at 12:55 pm
Dolphin’s Wire by USA Today has been putting out some solid pieces. This one is a comparison of our O last season versus what’s projected in this one. Even if we are rebuilding….. hard to say the offense is worse.
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I agree with just about everything except for the RT position. Mills is a definite upgrade from a pass blocking perspective and that’s the area we needed help the most. James wasn’t very good as a pass blocker and we all know that.
If we project what a 2nd year Ballage could do for us and possibly our rookie 7th rd rb out of WASH plus Jakeem Grant at wr and Michael Dunn at G we are definitely in better shape on offense than we were last year.
Still may not be perfect and there’s always room for improvement but scheme, play calling and quarterback play can make a big difference this year over last.
I never got why people were so high on James. Saw him as solid and serviceable. But then he got the big money. So some folks that know a whole lot more than me saw something.
Bleacher report ranks our QB room 28th in the NFL.
Some other guy who does a metric every year has us not winning any games this coming year.
good.
Oh now we won’t any games? LOL
Mike Clay posted these projections for all 16 games and they have us going 0-16:
Okay whatever you say Mike Clay. LOL
No matter who is the starter…. we will have one of the top back-ups.
Ted Ginn is longest tenured Miami Dolphins draft pick left in the NFL.
(thnx Wyo)
I never understood why people made fun of him.
I know he steers clear of hard hits, but he has lasted because of that.
To be fair, most of what people hated about Ginn Jr. had nothing to do with him. He was overdrafted at #9, so people always held that against, myself included. That wasn’t his fault, but it hung over him the entire time he was here.
well, he’s not good for one thing.
Is anything going to happen during the spring practices that will show that Rosen is gaining control of the starting position? Seems to me we used to get more daily feedback and i could better judge players earlier.
My guess is they will conduct business much like the Patriots, which means no talking.
I really don’t think the team is interested, especially the coaching staff, of giving any indication of what’s going on with the players and who is doing what and I’m great with that.
As far as I’m concerned I hope they keep up the good work. Give those beat writers NOTHING
We won 7 games last year.
We beat Chicago and NE, both playoff teams.
If we just split with our 2 off divisions this year, we are 2 games ahead of last year when we went 2-6 against the two chosen divisions.
That would be 9-7.
if we fall back to 3-3 in our own division, then that is 8-8.
But we will probably lose to both Pitt and Indy, so then we are at 6-10.
Or we could get swept in our division and our 2 off divisions and our 2 off teams and go 0-16.
We went 6-2 at home last year, but we could easily go 0-8 this year, since we play at home so much early when we will still be trying to figure out our new schemes and personnel.
We better not be still trying to figure out schemes and personnel when the season starts. That would mean the coaches did a bad job and the players are clueless. I understand it takes some time to build chemistry and clean up some things but we should already be fundamentally sound after all the OTAs, minicamps, TC and the PS.
Cespedes!!!
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/05/mets-yoenis-cespedes-ankle-fractures-ranch.html
Unfuckingbelievable!!!
Of course he did. It’s ground hog’s day one again.
Two things with Ginn that immediately brought him infamy with us, and our fanbase. 1) The family, i mean that made him an internet meme, not just with the dolphins fans but the entire internet. 2) Big time overdraft and overall bust at his draft position. He has had a decent career but an alpha receiver drafted number 9 and hasn’t had 1 year where he has broken the 800 yard mark? Never has stayed more than 3 years for any one team his three years with the panther, his best stretch, isnt even as good as two years for Landry (should see David pop up pretty soon). Just another example of us over evaluating a player, which i hope is a thing of the past.
I was hoping we would pick him up.
We had the chance and Flores knows him so I view it as he’s not the player we’re looking for. Shelton is very limited to being just a big body inside.