So the schedule is out, and as per usghe, speculation and wild predictions ensue. I’ll be perfectly honest, I have no idea what in the heck to expect from this season, and not just from a Dolphins perspective. Rookies are learning from video chats rather than person to person instruction. As far as that’s concerned, I believe these kids should be fine in that regard, this is how they live their lives, this will not be shocking or difficult for them, they will learn just fine this way. The difficult part will be not physically practicing, because camps won’t open until it’s deemed safe enough for ALL of the 32 teams to be able to open, which is completely fair. This is a league built on parity after all.
This year one of the schedule highlights is playing against the NFC West. That is a rough division, headlined by the SB runner-ups, the SF 49ers. Every team in that division brings a different but similar challenge. The 49ers and Rams are built very much alike, strong defense, and run the ball effectively, don’t ask to much from your QB. The Seahawks have Russell Wilson and despite what plan they have, they always seem to lean on Wilson too much, even with their multi-headed RB attack, which by the way is again similar to the 49ers. The Arizona Cardinals bring a unique challenge with QB Kyler Murray, who is a true dual threat QB. The Cardinals acquired All Pro WR DeAndre Hopkins from the Texans and in the draft, snagged LB Isaiah Simmons, two players who should have a huge impact on their team.
Of course we play our division twice each, and while the Patriots look ready to fall off, you can never count out Bill Belichick, even without Tom Brady. Who knows, maybe Stidham is ready to run that offense more effectively than the nearly 43 YO Brady. The Jets and Bills are both improving and will be looked at to challenge for the AFC East crown. Will we be there with them or they will they be chasing us, or will we once again fail to even hit the .500 mark? I love what we accomplished in free agency with Van Noy, Ogbah, Lawson, Roberts, and our entire draft haul, which was quite good, that’s a whole lot of new pieces moving together. We did what we had to do to fill spots but unfortunately COVID-19 is going to hamper us because we do have so many new people, far more than any other team in our division and likely the entire NFL. We just Chip Foose’d our roster, Overhauled it! With a minimal amount of practice that our players will probably have, that’s unfortunately a huge disadvantage compared to a team that possibly added 3-4 new starters. We could have potentially 10 new starters (Jackson, Flowers, Karras, Hunt, Howard, Lawson, Van Noy, Ogbah, Jones, Igbinoghene, Ferguson), plus add in a big mix of rotation guys that are new as well. If you compare that to a team that has the same moving parts except for a very small few, you have to give them a leg up at least early on in the season due to familiarity.
All I know is, whatever form and whatever length, whether it’s a shortened 14 game season or a full 16 game season, I have never looked forward to watching this team as much as I do this season. I think there might be some growing pains, but I expect a steady improvement as the season moves on. It’s going to be exciting folks, whether Tua starts or not. You all know I don’t think we should rush Tua in, but whatever they decide I’m in 100%. I’m just being cautious, and we have a good situation with Fitzpatrick to be cautious. On the other hand, if there’s not one medical reason to keep Tua off the field and he shows he’s better than Fitz for our team from the get-go, than I’m down! No matter what, there’s a whole lotta guys I’m aching to see in action this season!
GO DOLPHINS!!
#staythecourse
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He gets a signing bonus of $19.6M, and it’s all guaranteed.
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damn. so close. How do I go from a link to the actual image. 🙂
click the copy image address
The paste it in the post
Or you could just unlock your tweets and post it
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The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
It was a chart showing the extreme difference of the death rate between the normal flu and pneumonia and the combination of flu and COVID-19. it was 7.6% last year but rose all the way to 24.8% 4/11/20, but dropped to 14.6% 4/25/20
Rhino – Your twitter account is locked. if you want to have everyone see it you have to follow them on twitter or unlock your account. 🙂
I could see it because we follow each other.
hadn’t touched twitter in a really long time 🙂
thanks for y’alls patience. I figured I’d spend some time today on this. I also used google library and dropbox.
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MikeE
I posted that chart because it shows this year’s flu season versus the previous three flu seasons.
The SPIKE in pnuemonia and flu “deaths” are because these are people not tested for Covid-19. The admin for hospital down the street brings her kids to our clinic, and she has been telling us that for months there have been deaths that they had no verifiable cause … and thus had to list cause as something with “similar” symptoms.
The point is, the Covid-19 death rate is very likely much HIGHER than numbers reported simply because of the cases without ‘verified cause’ that did not get tested for Covid-19.
So, for all those wanting to “get out there”… just be careful.
That’s odd because I’ve heard the opposite. I’ve that hospitals are reporting nearly all deaths as COVID-19 because then they get more funding. In other words a person gets struck by lightning and dies, he died of COVID-19. I don’t even know where to check a reliable source, because I’m not really sure if there is one.
I’m with you Mike, it’s hard to know the correct stats, and partly why I stopped following the numbers.
As with anything the numbers are only going to show what they want you to see.
Enough of the games already, just open everything back up, including sporting events with fans.
Tua signed, so 1/4 of his signing bonus or 4.9M + rookie salary of 610K = 5.5M cap hit. That’s slightly higher than what I figured, but QBs usually make a little more.
RIP Jerry Stiller, a very funny man for many years.
Grugier-Hill drafted by the cheats in 2016. Wonder what Flores sees to give him a 3M contract.
That’s not really a lot. He’s known to be a top STs guy and quality backup LB.
If you notice our offseason was about upgrading all 3 phases of the game with a heavy focus on STs.
Rhino, thanks for trying to put that out. I was trying to figure that out this past weekend. I was running in circles a bit and the numbers I came up with left me feeling that COVID-19 was nastier than flu but might not have a much higher morbidity and that we should get back to normal. If those numbers are higher, which I can believe, then the research I did was kind of a waste of time. I was using #’s by the FL Dept. of Health and if the reporting is off, well… Doesn’t matter cause I was bored at work. LOL I just want to be safe cause when we are arresting someone, we don’t have time to take their temperature.
BBM — what you should be worried about is that Covid is highly communicable , much more so than the regular flu. So that goes into your job. What happens when you get it is all over the spectrum from don’t know it to you die. Overall morbidity is higher than flu, but mainly cause hits the real older folks bad.
In honor of Frank Costanza passing his son and I have made a Festivus gift in each of your name to honor his most special dad.
The extra money hospitals might receive from treating COVID or COVID related deaths is a small drop in the bucket of the money these hospitals are losing right now on elective surgeries and minor procedures. When weighed against the liability the hospitals could incur for falsifying mortality coding in large numbers, it is likely this is not happening on any kind of scale to skew the numbers.
It is possible this might be happening, but there is nothing to back up the speculation it is rampant, i.e. the occasional hospital may upcode on a large scale or some unknown cause deaths may get coded as COVID, but the idea it is a systemic, large scale problem is currently baseless.
That doesn’t stop the media from reporting it in such a way that a lot of people just think this is the truth now (especially when confirmation bias is at play). It’s a case of shoddy reporting getting blown up to truth without evidence. Like pretty much all reporting nowadays, it’s sensationalism fueling speculation over just reporting the damned facts.
You come in with serious Covid-like symptoms…. you get tested. And that goes in the medical files. If death reports get popped up will be by deaths at home.
I’ll tell you where I think hospitals are making money back as best they can. My mother was diagnosed with cancer 2 weeks ago and had to have emergency surgery to remove a tumor. She was just released yesterday. She received the best care possible (Kaiser system), they attended to her every need, she had her own room the entire time, nurses waited on her hand and foot. They can upcharge on all this stuff, and it isn’t fraud.
It was frustrating not to be able to see her while she was there, but to hear she felt like she was treated to the best care possible mitigated that frustration somewhat. We felt they kept here a few days longer than may have been necessary, but all things considered it’s worth it.
The American Cancer Society regulates itself, that’s all you need to know.
My ex wife was a nurse at county USC in L.A., then went to Kaiser for a year and hated it, because the doctors didn’t give a crap about the patients, and she couldn’t tell them off with them being part owners, so she went back to county, where the nurses and doctors didn’t care. She did mention the nurses provided better care at Kaiser.
I’m not big on Kaiser. A couple of years ago, I lost an uncle who was treated by Kaiser. We all felt his care was pretty awful. Hearing my mom talk about her care, it was night and day.
Hospitals dont make money off us, they make money off insurance and medicaid re-reimbursements. I’m sure right now there is very little denial going on by insurance companies due to the stigma that would be seen if it came to ligth they were doing that.
A few years ago I moved into this industry. Part of my job entails dealing with claims by companies that advocate for patients so hospitals get paid (such as MedData). It comes down to patient treatment and insurance. Without the patient, the hospital doesn’t get paid. Sometimes, even with the patient, the hospital doesn’t get paid, lol.
And keeping a patient even a couple extra days gets the hospital paid.
We have now spent a week under the 30k mark, i think like 28k was aour highest, that thats good, but im scared that we are gonna psike back up if people go buck wild after the opening. I think 2-3 more weeks under quarantine would be best, because we seem to finally be making progress.
Best as far as infections and deaths, but not going to happen. We’ll see what happens.
Maybe Tua will buy her some sod next. Did you see the video of him giving his mom the Escalade?
Rhino
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Ah, such a wlid and crazeh guy!
LMAO
2 main money makes in a hospital is Lab and Radiology, being attached to radiology i can tell you the number of radiological studies are at an all time low, though lab is up a little. So hospital are making it, but they had to cut some staff and make adjustments too.
The rest of the hospital loses money for the most part, or maybe breaks even, so without Radiology to prop them up its thin
What im wondering about is lawsuits after things settle down some, i bet that will the next wave of finacial impact coming from all this.
I recently heard some talk on a local radio show about this subject and how our courts will be flooded with cases. Even if we get COVID under control, the social and economic effects will be felt for years.
It’s incredibly hard on hospitals right now especially in rural areas where Covid didn’t do much but they had to prepare anyway. Instead of giving people extra money to sit at home, they probably should have ensured the people that still have to deal with this are getting some extra funding. That doesn’t bring in extra welfare votes though.
Stang,
You mentioned up the page about the possibility of home deaths being mis-coded as COVID. My son does body removal in the Nor Cal area. His company is contracted by hundreds of assisted living communities, LTC facilities, hospitals, and mortuaries. If there is even the possibility of COVID he has to wear a full hazmat suit for removal or transport and the body is tested.
I’m not sure how they could code it COVID death when a test comes back negative unless it is flat out fraud. And for home deaths, nobody benefits (that I know of) so I’m not sure why that would happen. Of course this is just one small area of the country. I have no idea how things work in your neck of the woods.
That’s not the issue, the issue is counting deaths as covid-19, for those that tested positive and might even be asymptomatic, whether the cause of death was related to it or not.
So an elderly person dies of a heart attack and happens to have COVID, but also is asymptomatic, and then the cause of death is reported as COVID. You think it is possible that happens a lot? Wouldn’t logic dictate that is much more likely to be the occasional outlier instead of commonplace?
Reason brought up was cause in some places they have gone back and reclassifying past deaths as Covid based on symptoms. But my main point was not gonna happen in a hospital.
Only partially related, but back in the day in my own small neck of the woods was involved in a lawsuit brought by a woman who before had the body removal contract for our county. She had no case, but since we knew that brought a real harsh countersuit based on how much more we paid cause she backed out. That was my side of it — and I had her nailed with data and charts and such.
Judge couldn’t have cared less, dismissing the countersuit as “unspecified.” Month later I’m in the judge’s office with my lead attorney and he goes “did you guys really think I was gonna let you take all that money from that sweet little old black woman?” Justice ain’t always blind.
I understand where you’re coming from and we’re in agreement about hospitals. In regards to home deaths, I hadn’t even really considered the issue until you brought it up. So I’m just kind of talking it out logically. I don’t have a hard opinion on it.
Love the judge story, lol. If I ever do come out to a fest, I think we’ll have fun swapping stories. I hope it happens one of these seasons. 🙂
Speaking of North Cal and hospitals, we have a new install going into a small hospital in a town called Weaverville ever heard of it?
Of course, I know a guy named Curtis, who is from there.
Ugh, Weaverville. At 19 I got stuck in a cabin there with food poisoning for 4 days. Went with a friend to visit his parents, got some bad porkchops, AND my buddies car broke down. After a few days of puking my guts out, I called another buddy to drive up from Sac and pick me up. Never been back, lol.
You can tell that town is a old gold rush town, the main street in the town look like all the old west towns through Kansas and Oklahoma, etc. One of the pluses of working in the industry i am in is you get to see these little Americana town and really start to piece together how this nation is/was formed. I almost always take a little bit of time to soak in the towns history and different things that make them unique when i travel. Dunno if im going on this one though, i dont travel as much as i use to and i kind of miss that a little.
Well after reading your post Kong, i dont wanna soak in that part of your history with it lol.
Don’t get me wrong, D. It’s a nice little mountain town and, I think, very representative of rural NorCal. That trip was just literally one of the most miserable times of my life, lol.
Wyoming, Darlington is one of my favorite tracks to go to. Stay the whole weekend at the track in campers. It’s a blast there! Haven’t done Darlington in about 4 years though. Look forward to going back some time.
My favorite Chinese place in town is finally no longer scared to be open for business, thats a plus lol. I have been really wanting some of their Kung Pao Beef, but from very early on until just recently they were fully shut down.
Steve,
As we’re talking about it, I still personally don’t think COVID deaths are being mis-coded on a large scale in any of the scenarios we’ve discussed so far today. But I do agree with you about not knowing what the stats are, and I also agree that the mortality percentage is almost certainly skewed.
It’s a fact that a number of people that get COVID show little or no symptoms. Without testing on a massive scale of general populace, we don’t know what that percentage is. The number of cases is probably much higher than we have recorded which of course would lower the mortality rate.
These stats are all BS. We’ll never know the real numbers. I believe the mortality rate is very similar to the flu. What difference does it make, if its .5% or 5%? I dont think that distinction changes how its handled or people feel about it.
If you told someone that believes the 5% number, that it’s really .5%, I’m pretty sure their opinion wouldn’t change.
The main differences from the flu are the rate its spread and the damage it does to the vulnerable, but to the 90%+ it might as well be the flu, a little more brutal to some, but…
Speaking of mortality, we just crossed the 80k death mark. As a point of reference most the parks at Disney World shut down significantly before 80K people, so imagine the busiest day you have ever seen at Disney World, and then imagines all of them dead and its still more than that.
MikeE and Steve,
the deaths that could not be confirmed are from January and February here in Texas. Chinese pipe company in town with dozens of executives traveling back and forth every two weeks as late as early March. So these unconfirmed deaths for “flu season” are actually before there was an economic incentive.
One last item on Covid19 … which will clarify my point.
At least here in Corpus Christi, medical field is convinced it was rampant from late January to end of February! Weekly, 100’s of patients with flu symptoms with negative flu tests that caused most clinics to contact vendors about possible flu test recalls we hadn’t heard about.
We had an M.A. (who has severe asthma) who “got the flu” the first week of February. She ended up in the hospital. She was tested 4 times for flu (all negative), was give a virus panel testing for 40 known viruses (all negative). When they released her the diagnosis was “unknown respiratory infection”. It wasn’t until almost 3 weeks later that the patterns started to make sense.
Another symptom showing up in kids is ‘pink eye’. We went from roughly 5 cases a day (Dec) to 25+ cases a day starting in early Feb.
Our county as one of the lowest tests per capita in the country. Even today we have to refer persons of interest to the health department and despite symptoms they are told to come back to our clinic. First week of March our county had the capacity to test 8 people a day. That’s it.
Not sure what to do with this information. But by the end of February when people started paying attention, there were probably thousands of cases in our city. Weird thing is, our city never really “shut down”. It was basically a ‘volunteer’ thing for each business.
Conclusion: I’m keeping my ass out of public places as long as I can. 🙂
I’m with you one that Rhino. Friends of ours wanted us over for Cinco dey Mayo and I was the debbie downer. Told my wife was at least a week too early.
This blog is depressing with all this Covid stuff. We’re all living it and now the blog is all about it. 😦
Me adding to the conversation
Only today Tim. But seems like Covid is something hard to ignore. Am sure back in the 1400s people were going “how about that bubonic plague…. lots of bodies in the streets.”
No I get it but it seems that’s the main topic currently all of a sudden. I’m not saying don’t post what you want, just saying it’s depressing.
Global pandemics with a lot of people losing there lives do tend to be a downer. 🙂 But not the end of the world either.
Stanger, my comment was about today specifically. I get the scope of it. LOL
Rhino – That’s pretty surprising that the M.A. you mentioned had asthma and didn’t end up on a respirator. Seems like at least half of the people who end up in the hospital do, so you would think someone with asthma must have been having sever respiratory issues is they had COVID-19
She’s also 27 yrs old. So who knows. She was in the hospital for 8 days.
Ok Tim I’ll change the subject.
On Saturday morning I went down to the nursery to get a tree, when I started my car to leave I got a message saying immobility see owners manual. Didn’t think much of it, but got in the right lane anyways. Didn’t make it thru the initial traffic light and the car stopped. We pushed it into the gas station and got out the manual. The manual said, this happens when you don’t use the right key, but its the same key I’ve always used (bought it new). Started the car back up and left with no further issues🤔
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Tim,
I hear ya. It’s a bummer, especially if this blog is an outlet for you to get away from all that. Unfortunately for now it’s a topic we have to circle back around to occasionally.
So, which of our draft picks do you anticipate starting day 1 and making the most immediate impact? 🙂
Like I said I’m not trying to be a blog dictator. LOL
Start eh? Well defensive players rotate a lot so I’ll have to look at the OL. I feel like we really want Jackson and Hunt to start at tackle. Get it going because at some point it will be Tua time. Get the running game going and the reps in pass pro for the future. Oh I also think Blake Ferguson will start at LS. LOL
LOL at Blake Ferguson starting. I’ll go out the limb with you on that one.
🙂
Kong,
According to the CDC, there has been a lot of misrepresentation of Covid deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
That shows about 47% of the attributed deaths died from other causes while having Covid.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/10/hhs-to-begin-immediate-delivery-of-initial-30-billion-of-cares-act-provider-relief-funding.html
The CARES Act will eventually provide extra funding specifically to the hardest hit areas. It’s just like the census or any other federal funding package. The more people, cases, etc you have…the more money you get.
I still don’t understand the testing lapse?
they had free testing at the civic center in Alvin today?
Were is the disconnect????
by the way… people don’t “die of influenza” either, but from other complications that having the flu triggered. The cardiovascular deaths is actually a big concern for those on respirators… it doesn’t just stay in the lungs.
These “causes of death” when attributed to Covid19 means that the condition wasn’t life threatening until contracting Covid19.
There is still far more that we don’t know about the virus than what we do know. But we can’t shut down our economy and our way of life while we figure it out. The virus can kill you. So can many other things. Or you can let fear (not caution) prevail and stop living. Just a different kind of dead.
I completely agree and have said that from the beginning. What we are doing right now is not sustainable. I think high risk communities such as LTC or assisted living should be on lockdown, high risk individuals should take extra steps to protect themselves, and precautions such as social distancing should be kept in effect.
Of course, I’m not in a high risk category, and with the exception of my mom, most of my immediate family aren’t either, so it’s easy for me to feel that way, lol.
I meant to add “but we should reopen our business and economy” after ‘effect’
Newage,
Most COVID deaths are from complications such as pneumonia, so of course you’re going to see a high percentage of cases with other causes as a factor. As for excess deaths, that is just observed deaths vs projected deaths, so a non-starter since this is all virgin territory.
I didn’t want to take the time to truly get into the minutiae of that chart, so I’ll take your word that 47% of COVID cases died from other complications like pneumonia, but if we’re being honest, I would expect that number to be a hell of lot higher actually. Most people die from the complications.
The majority of the data used in the provisional death count is collected from NVSS which gets the majority of their data from hospitals. That isn’t misrepresentation. It’s coming directly from the source. Now how those numbers stack up in comparison to the media numbers etc, I won’t argue that there isn’t misrepresentation there.
Your second link briefly outlines the CARES Act. According to your link it is used for healthcare expenses and lost revenue (not COVID deaths) and the payments are based on 2019 FFS numbers.
From the article:
“The $100 billion of funding will be used to support healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to coronavirus and to ensure uninsured Americans can get the testing and treatment they need without receiving a surprise bill from a provider. The initial $30 billion in immediate relief funds will begin being delivered to providers today.”
“Facilities and providers are allotted a portion of the $30 billion based on their share of 2019 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursements. These are payments, not loans, to healthcare providers, and will not need to be repaid.”
Kong,
Medicare FFS is the primary form of payment for the people most affected, the elderly. These payments will directly be attributed to the areas most hit by Covid.
I’m just going by what you had linked. I haven’t studied this act beyond that. The article states they are allotting payment amount using Medicare FFS numbers from 2019.
I would assume that means they are using a formula that grants an amount based strictly on that 2019 number or they are comparing 2019 revenue to the 2020 and calculating the losses incurred. So number of COVID deaths in’t a factor in the amount of the payment.
How they determine which hospitals will receive payments, the article reports “…healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to coronavirus…”. I don’t see anything in that statement that says COVID deaths are a big factor in qualifying. I see that as hospitals economically impacted due to us shutting the whole dang country down.
T minus 4 minutes to the kick-off of Game 1 of the Miami Dolphins vs. the New England Patriots at Joe Robbie Stadium on the Sunday before Labor Day. When I last saw Dan Marino, he was being taken off the clumpy grass stadium in Cleveland after tearing his achilles on their horrible playing field. Cleveland fans roared their approval, even tho’ no Browns player was near Dan when he went down.
About 9-10 months later, Dan makes his first return to live action in Miami. Pats’ head coach Bill Parcells is licking his chops, thinking Dan will be an easy target for the Patriots pass rushers. And QB Drew Bledsoe is primed for a big day against Miami’s questionable defense.
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Let’s get it on!!! The NFL Network brings back all the memories of, perhaps, Dan Marino’s greatest game!! Enjoy, Dolfans, enjoy!!
LOL…Sorry, I don’t think I have ever watched a football game twice… Yet, I have watched some movies at least 20 times.
I have watched sports movies multiple times, I think a few in double figure times.
I just watched the classic SD/MIA playoff game. Now it’s the “Marino is Back” game. 🙂
NOTE the temp at kickoff was 91 degrees! And the middle of the field already was slop because it was configured for BASEBALL!! PS: My seats were on the 20 yard line, northeast corner, exactly 8 rows up. A friend of mine thought he caught a glimpse of Mrs. OD smiling in the 3rd quarter when he watched this replay a few years ago. FOR ME, this is the first time I’ve seen a replay of this amazing game in its entirety.
Did Tim Ok this post😉
I see the closest, open things up, community is coming out now 😉
It must not be taboo any longer.
I don’t have NFL Network, ESPN is showing the cheats and the guys with the funny red/white/blue guys on their helmets vs bills.
At pp’s request, to clarify my early AM comment.
All White House personnel is tested every day, I think. At least, Pence is according to Pence. Two people in daily contact amongst WH personnel have tested positive for COVID. I believe a chauffer/driver for WH staff and a Pence aide, Steve Miller’s (white nationalist) wife.
Trump states that one day the aide didn’t have it and the next day she did. He couldn’t understand how that might happen and pointed out how dangerous and invisible it is. There is video of her amongst a crowd that are all wearing masks and she is not.
As a matter of fact and on public display, none of the WH officials, especially senior officials, have been wearing masks. Pence did not wear a mask to the Mayo Clinic and said he gets tested every day therefore he didn’t need a mask.
Trump is also on video saying that even though his staff gets tested, they still got it, so how does testing help. His reasoning/justification as why testing is NOT important and why he never deemed it important from the beginning.
Two points I was trying to make. One, why is the president surprised one day you don’t have it, then, the next day you do? Does the WH policy of not wearing masks make that more risky? I don’t know, the policy he issues to the American public contradicts WH practice/action/example. I would argue not wearing masks in the west wing is problematic. Period, not political. It’s also stupid, JMO.
Second point is about testing. Why does Trump question the efficacy and importance of testing or that it’s really not valuable? Hmmmm…..without finding out these people HAD it in the WH through TESTING, then, tracing and isolating them, how many people would have been infected after the weekend and into this week in the west wing? DUH? So why is testing not valuable?
That’s what I was trying to say without getting all wordy. LOL.
And, to be honest, I’m tired and just need to shut it down and drink.
Thanks. I haven’t seen the clips or reporting to which you are referring. I think only the President and the VP are tested daily and haven’t seen anything where they questioned the value of testing. The direction of the slant depends on the source.
THAT WAS former Dolphin DB Troy Vincent with the pick on Bledsoe, Troy is now Vice President of the NFL. I saw him play in college, too, in Columbus when his Badgers came to Ohio State and gave the Buckeyes one hell of a game in the Horse Shoe.
Marino and Mark Ingram Sr., hook-up on a 64 yard bomb just before halftime!
Raekwon Davis signed his deal making him the sixth of eleven to sign.
6-11 is a little know convenience store where you can purchase discount beer if you don’t mind that half of it is actually battery acid
So it’s good luck that we signed that many
WOW!!!!! – – TWO touchdowns and a Field Goal in the last 2 minutes of the first half!! —Boy does Bill Parcells LOOK FAT as he waddles off the field at half time. OOOPS, looks like some fan said a no-no- to Parcells as he headed for the locker!!
WHO COULD THAT BE NOW?????
What you see in this game is Parcells trying to figure out how to stop the most dangerous QB of all time.
Wish I had NFL Network so I could watch it too
Go dial it up on YouTube you silly bastard. LOL
Doh!! I forgot someone just posted that it was on youtube a few weeks ago.
BY THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER I was almost totally hoarse from yelling my brains out. It was a very hot and humid Miami day, but I was NOT tired —– just hoarse!! After Danny boy threw that 55-yard bomb to Fryar, I just KNEW we were going to win!!
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But, then, I had the SAME FEELING when the Fins scored on the “hook and lateral play” at the end of the first half of the San Diego playoff game a dozen years earlier!! “Don’t let this happen to me AGAIN I said to Mrs. OD!”
AHHHHH VICTORY, SWEET VICTORY!!!!!
TOMORROW’s gonna be a great day!!
GOOD NIGHT to Dolphin fans everywhere!!
It’s nothing new Piggy!
So Deiter was our best OL in PP, and he got benched. Message sent to the young man. Looks like Jesse Davis sucks…shocker. He should be a backup not a starter.
Randy you know better than the rest of us how hard it is to block on a bad line. Put any of our OL listed in those stats with 4 decent OL and all their rankings will go up.
These guys aren’t likely to make the team:
Davenport 2.133M
Adrian Colbert 1.150M
Tankersley 1M
Ballage 897K
Isadora 825K
Adam Pankey 825K
Mack Hollins 825K
Avery Moss 750K
Ricardo Louis 750K
Jake Ruddock 750K
Michael Robert’s 750K
James Crawfor 750K
Ryan Lewis 750K
These guys are all possibly going to make it:
Chandler Cox 698K
Strowbridge 692K
Weaver 687K
Preston 678K
Laird 678K
Needham 675K
Ferguson 658K
We still have some wiggle room with the cap. With the Tua signing yesterday 5.5M cap and about a wash with the Wilson restructure we’re at 23.862M over the cap. Once the rest of the rookies sign and the 13 contracts above are off the team (cut down day) and the 7 above not currently counting against the cap are on the 53 we should be a little over 20M over the cap. Much more than the 5-8M I’ve been hearing from Bozos like DouglieDoWrong.
With no more significant signings we’re looking pretty good for 2021 FA.
I really liked Tankersley where we drafted him in 3rd round. Thought he played quite well as a rookie. But that damn ACL. IF, and its a big IF, he is fully recovered it would be tough to let him go. He would need a full camp opportunity to show he’s healthy, though.
If kept on PUP when the season starts his 1M would count against the cap, in addition to the 53 other players. Not a big deal capwise, but they’ll need to see some improvement in his health soon I’d think.
I think Davenport will probably make it. Veteran T who could play either side. You have to have depth, and he’s not expensive for a vet.
Damn, those OL rankings! Of all the guys from last year, Dieter seemed to be the guy to keep and develop.
However, we just might see new faces starting at ALL 5 OL positions.
MikeE,
I think Davis is a better fit as a backup swing guy. He can play tackle and guard. He gives you much more flexibility.
Well, much to your dismay Randy I think Davis will be starting at either RG or RT next season. We’ll see. Steve does have a point that when everyone else on the line is garbage, you’re more apt to look like garbage as well.
Tua signs right handed.
The U57’s go nuts!!!!!!!! 😉
Lol at U57s, you must think less of them than I do.
As long as Hunt is going to start, I’d have mo problem with Davis being the backup swing.
Tua is right handed he was just taught to play football as a leftie
Left handed and taught to write right handed
I may be wrong on this!
May?🤔
D — you hear that fairly often about a baseball player. Never heard it about a football player before, but guess only one position where it matters.
His dad being the aggressor he is, made him throw left handed, then later on when Tua had a choice he preferred throwing it with the left and stuck with it. At some point in his career he’s going to be pressured on a roll out to the right and he’s going to throw it right handed and the announcer is going to lose his shit🤔
Jackson, Hunt, Igbinoghene and Perry left to sign.
He’s going to make an immediate impact this year
If I had to pick one player from our draft most likely to make an impact in 2020
It would be Jones
He’s going to do a lot of things Minkah did for us
without any of the whine
I hope this rookie class has it together and is in their playbooks. Never has it been more important for a rookie class to be mentally prepared.
The great teams can beat you with O or D, depending on the situation. I hope that’s what we’ll be able to do by years end.
Steve
Was reading conflicting information!
I should just ask Mike E, He’s the hand expert in the bunch? 😉
You’re too nice to Mike, I was expecting to take that in another direction.
Adding Davis and Jones to the cap cost us about 400K. Still at 23.4+M over with 4 to go. Jackson and Igbinoghene will cost us about 3M combined net. Total net rookie cap cost about 10M.
Looks like Jones signing is going to cost us 135K net cap cost.
MikeE,
That’s possible as Davis is a vet. But, I expect this to be a major weeding out year for the OL. I also think we don’t have our starting 5 for the future yet. I’d expect a couple more guys to be brought in yet. Depending on how all these young guys work out, we could see another 1-2 OL drafted in the top 3 rounds next year. We’ll see.
We’d like to think we were set for the future, but I think you’re right.
In the past we’ve needed 2 or 3 OK starters and we’d sign exactly that many, but mostly backups, then when they all don’t pan out we’d be stuck.
This team seems to be going the overkill version.
Next year do we resign Karras? Will we know if the rookie OL guys are part of the future?
Is this our SS against run heavy teams like the Titans (that we don’t play🙄), and another very good STer?
Caught in the flurry of draft weekend was the signing for former Cowboys safety Kavon Frazier. The four-year pro played in 44 games in Dallas, starting two during the 2018 season. In his career, Frazier has amassed 67 total tackles, a sack, forced a fumble and made four tackles for loss on 461 career defensive snaps.
The prototypically-built safety made his mark on the Cowboys special teams’ units. At six feet, 220 pounds, Frazier’s NFL.com scouting report – coming from Central Michigan University – praised the broad, muscular build of Miami’s newest defensive back.
What is U57 or U75
What is that?
Evetyime it’s mentioned I have no idea what you guys are referring to
U57 is a transposed U75. A U75 is a sportswriter with an IQ of under 75.
Or he thinks that your U75 was too generous lol.
I use 75, because that’s the bottom number allowed in the military. What happened to, you better shape up Mr. or we’re sending you to the military?
I think it was Tim that mentioned the Finsiders being just a bunch of fans doing a podcast. These guys are horrible, their knowledge of football and the Fins is too low to be doing a podcast.
Their current podcast compares Fitz to Rosen, saying well Fitz was able to get it done behind this OL, so I don’t want to hear any excuses for Rosen. Earth to dumbass, they aren’t the same type of QBs, Fitz is built to handle the pressure, Rosen has other strengths that are nullified, because of the pressure.
Then talking about Warford only wanting 7M, what are we waiting for, since we gave Flowers 10M. Any idiot can see the situations and timing aren’t comparable.
I wouldn’t be shocked if we signed Worford.
Steve — “Finsiders being just a bunch of fans doing a podcast” is exactly what they are. They are this place just bigger. And can’t blame them for making the most out of it.
The problem it’s just a bunch of opinions, without any input from the team, like Mondo and Omar get, so just a waste of time listening.
So it’s not so different from this place. I’m cool with reading takes on the team. Particularly like Kevin Nogle there. And if a waste of your time then just don’t do it. 🙂
So you are Tua and just inked your first contract. What do you do? His choice was to give a Cadillac Escalade to his Mom om Mother’s Day.
For whatever the Butt-Fumble it’s worth?
Almost like Sanchez is appreciating what he did not have…. and can’t figure out why someone else does.
Tua is right handed but his dad forced him to throw left handed? I didn’t know that. It likely had to be in case he followed a path into baseball, right?
Nope, I guess not. Just looked it up. It’s a much lamer reason than that, lol.
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/alabama-football/tua-tagovailoas-father-explains-alabama-quarterback-left-handed/
From the article:
However, Tagovailoa wasn’t always a southpaw, according to an AL.com report. In fact, Tua’s father, Galu — himself a left-handed thrower — turned his son into a lefty simply so he wouldn’t be the family’s only left-hander:
“I just always wanted someone to be a lefty with me. … It just became fluent and he just grew into it,” Galu Tagovailoa said. “That’s the crazy part about it. I never thought I could make him adapt to that. As we constantly kept putting the ball on his left hand, eventually he grew into throwing the ball with his left.”
In general that’s a good thing for an athlete, as long as the process didn’t damage him physically.
I’d be surprised if we pick up Warford. We just drafted 3 guys for the O-line in addition to signing Ereck Flowers and Ted Harris. Honestly, I think there’s probably a very low chance we would sign him.
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Why waste cap space unless we’re all in this year, and the moves don’t show we are.
That and there’s just too many bodies. You want to try and give the guys a chance to show something, and with less time to do that, adding more bodies to me seems counterproductive to that end.
I’d be surprised too, but would not be disappointed. Warford is a stud and has 3-4 good years left in him. Plus a lot of our draft picks are a bit raw. Some might come out like gangbusters, but others may need to season some. Also don’t know what Warford will cost. Someone threw out $7 mil…. but that was the Saints cap savings. Big difference.
An option they could have is a one year show me contract. These are all the rage now where players take a whatever keeps me paid contract, so they can take a shot at really getting paid next year. In that case its low to no risk, so i could see it, it basically gets us through a shaky time, because we do have a lot of nubile on the OL. Might be nice to have a vet for a rental.
steveccnv says:
May 11, 2020 at 6:25 pm
Ok Tim I’ll change the subject.
On Saturday morning I went down to the nursery to get a tree, when I started my car to leave I got a message saying immobility see owners manual….. Started the car back up and left with no further issues🤔
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Steve, I have had similar happen to me. It turned out that the battery in the fob “was going dead” but wasn’t dead yet.
Based on this SI article about why the Saints cut ties with Warford….. willing to change to only at the right price. But then he was on the books for $12 mil and is asking a whole lot less now.
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“Warford was repeatedly beaten in pass protection, especially by more athletic defensive linemen.”
“Warford’s pass blocking deteriorated down the stretch of the year but his run blocking remained stellar at the point of attack. One area he struggled with however was getting outside when asked to pull around the edge or getting to the spot in a timely manner on screen passes, an enormous part of the Saints offense. Warford has never been a top of the line athlete, but his weight and conditioning were both issues with the coaching staff last year.”
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https://www.si.com/nfl/saints/news/three-reason-for-larry-warford-release
wyoming85 says:
May 12, 2020 at 11:33 am
Tua signs right handed.
The U57’s go nuts!!!!!!!! 😉
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steveccnv says:
May 12, 2020 at 12:04 pm
Lol at U57s, you must think less of them than I do.
You also don’t sign the top middle of the page…signature typically at the bottom and I doubt it was a form contract where he had to fill in “Players name here”
PURELY a photo op.
When your number 1 you sign wherever the fuck you want to!
LOL
Piggy, when Kong asked me who do I think has a chance to start from our draft class I was going to mention Brandon Jones but thought he might not start but I do believe he will get plenty of snaps for the reasons you stated. He can line up at multiple positions which is what Flores looks for.
I think you do your due diligence on Warford just like any guy. He’s always been a heavy-footed, bigger guy who can’t move much. We want our guards to be like Saint’s guards, so you never know. Do they see an added benefit in that he can show the youngsters what to do? It’s not as if we signed or drafted a surefire day one starter at guard. Warford is probably an upgrade in talent even with his limitations. May just be a matter of money.
Tua signing with right hand!? My wife and I are both lefties. Our right arms and hands only exist to fill out the other side of a shirt/jacket.
I know lefties who bat or golf right handed … but NEVER one who writes right handed. what a trip.
my wife just told me her mom is a lefty but writes right handed. Said it was because she was forced to do so in early years of school. So… was Tua’s dad or the school system to blame. lol
That was common back in the day. Lefty was almost considered heretic. LOL
I knew Tua was a natural righty and his Dad made him switch for bizarre reasons.
It’s funny about being a righty/lefty. I’m a natural righty but I can also hit lefty very comfortably and throw lefty decently. But playing hockey I’m a righty and feel totally uncomfortable lefty. I have a friend who’s a dominant lefty in everything except he plays guitar righty. That explains why his left hand on the fret board was so good.
I write left handed and hold my fork in the left hand and shoot pool left handed. I golf, throw and everything else right handed. I’ve always batted switch depending on the pitcher. I’m just weird like that. 🐕
A lot of people are ambidextrous and don’t realize it.
I can’t even approach playing guitar left handed. But I can do other things no problem. It’s weird.
Curtis Weaver and other tidbits.
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article242155156.html
Both my parents are left handed, so are my older brother and sister. I am right handed but know how to do just about everything left handed. I even write terribly with both hands.
You are also the milk man’s baby.
Tim Knight says:
May 12, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Piggy, when Kong asked me who do I think has a chance to start from our draft class I was going to mention Brandon Jones but thought he might not start but I do believe he will get plenty of snaps for the reasons you stated. He can line up at multiple positions which is what Flores looks for.
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It just makes sense for him to have the biggest impact early
Everyone else might need a little more time to develop. I’m not ruling out any rooks having an impact now, I bet the long snapper gets plenty of snaps…lol
But I remember seeing RBs get to the edge against our D a lot and I think we missed what both Minkah did and what reshad Jones did, and I think Jones might be able to do that right away for us
The other one that might have an immediate impact is your guy Davis
Agreed!
Davis will play NT, DT and 3-4 DE. He’s an interior player that is hard to handle. 6-6 310+ with pretty good athletic ability. I think Davis, Igbinoghene and Jones will all play 20+ snaps per game on defense. Weaver and Strowbridge will probably have to work their way up. We’ll see.
“But I remember seeing RBs get to the edge against our D a lot”
Piggy, that’s why we signed Lawson and Ogbah as Edge guys and a vet like Van Noy at LB. I really feel Flores believes if we can stop them from scoring we can win games regardless of where the offense is at.
I’m more a defense guy then offense so I’m psyched!!! I think our defense is on the verge of becoming badass. 🙂
This offseason we made Needham who played well down the stretch a 5th or 6th DB as opposed to a starter. Upgrade and depth.
It sucks to be an old beagle
Just dropping by for a moment to tell y’all that one of my newest colleagues is very close friends with Julie’n Davenport (he showed me photos with both of them together — in Miami– for proof). We’ll probably know Julie’n’s fate via the media even before he knows, but I’ll try to keep everyone apprised of what his bud has to say.
I’m rooting for Julie’n, but he’s clearly (at least not YET) ‘grade-A’ material. But I can tell y’all that he’s one very intelligent and hard-working man. He may be a diamond in the rough, coming from Bucknell University (PA). He may truly surprise many this year.
Be safe, y’all.
I hope you’re right my friend. We need someone to step up 😎👍
Thank you, my friend. I hope all is well with both you and PhinPup! Stay safe.
I’m ambidextrous when I play pocket pool.
M13, what’s going on with Julie’n Davenport?
As for the schedule..the first 5 weeks are crucial. Its a tough road to hoe.
Ne..buff..jags..sea..sf…weeks 6 thru 13 is the easy part with den..chargers..rams..cards…jets…jets..bengals…then we finish hard again with kc..ne..lv..buff..
If we can get 4 wins thru the tough games and get 5 out of 7 in the weaker stretch we go 9-7 and make the post season.
Chargers and rams have to travel across the country to play us. Thats always a tough deal for them
Watched all of Tua’s TDs last night, and a breakdown of some of the things he does at a high level. During live games they always talked about the way he uses his eyes to move the D, its the difference between Tannehill and a great QB. His pocket presence and accuracy are also top notch.
This isn’t anything new, just wanted to point out some of the reasons our O was stagnant at times in the last 10 years and had trouble converting on 3rd and long (sans last year).
I haven’t paid attention close enough to Fitz playing the eye games, but his pocket presence is really good too. His accuracy is good enough, his problem is the ints.
I always felt Tannehill’s tendencies were too easy to read and defenses could confuse him more than some other QBs. Tua will be the one controlling defenses instead of defenses controlling him hopefully.
I want to see how Fitz does with better protection. I’m not sure if the ints were trying to do too much with too little (Im sure some of it was), or just bad decisions that led to frustration and more bad decisions. He’s talented and smart but we’ll see how he does.
Fitz has had those issues his entire career. He just doesn’t take care of the ball enough at times.
On who might start from the draft class Jackson and Hunt are the obvious ones and I would say the important ones, since you either start or sit on OL.
For the rest Jones would be the next important one to start, the rest should be brought in, in packages. Kindley would be the one least likely to see scrimmage snaps, but the rest should see the field, with snap counts depending on performance.
I expect Davis to see the field a lot, and even more depending on how the game flows and opponent.
Rookie RBs, WRs, LBs, QBs and OL that aren’t the man seem to have the most trouble trying to get on the field. Secondary can come in, in Nickel or Dime, DL is always subbing guys in.
Yeah but Jackson and Hunt are really getting a chance to start bc or lack of competition
If they do start, I don’t expect it to be smooth
Im not trying to 💩 on them but Jackson spefically needs a little work
Jones and Davis might appear productive out of the gate
I actually wouldn’t mind if they sit the OL draftees for a little while even if that means playing guys from last year
We will probably see a big impact from Baeda too of you want to count him as a newcomer
The question wasn’t production, it was just who you think will start.
My boy Mike! Funny stuff