Xavien Howard at Left Cornerback, Byron Jones at Right Cornerback. Bobby McCain at Free Safety and Eric Rowe at Strong Safety. I believe this is our best secondary in a long time. Both Howard and Jones can be lockdown corners. Howard has the INT’s but Jones is regarded as one of the top cover corners in the NFL and shuts down the receivers he’s on. A healthy Bobby McCain this season will be better than he was last year struggling with a shoulder injury. Eric Rowe who has played a lot of different positions much like McCain, really seemed to find himself at Strong Safety. I thought he played his best ball there and his elite athleticism is a big plus at safety.
We drafted another CB who will likely be our slot and nickel corner in RD1 pick #30, Noah Igbinoghene (Iggy Mahogany). Those 5 guys in addition to up and comers like Nik Needham, Stevie Parker, Ken Webster and Ryan Lewis makes our depth legitimate. At safety we have 3 young vets who provide nice depth in Clay Fejedelem, Adrian Colbert and Kavon Frazier and a very promising rookie who may end up rising to the top of the depth chart before long in Brandon Jones. Add in a CB who at one time seemed like a potential starter in Cordrea Tankersley. Tank started 11 games in 2017 replacing Byron Maxwell who we picked up from Philly. Tank definitely showed promise in 2017 but suffered a season ending ACL injury in 2018. He was placed on the PUP in 2019 while recovering but couldn’t make it back last year. This is Tank’s final year on his contract so I expect he will be looking to crack the lineup to get himself another contract next year either here or elsewhere.
Having two shutdown corners should make a huge difference for our defense. We all know we’ve struggled to get to the QB the last few years but the additions we made this offseason in both free agency (Kyle Van Noy, ShaqLawson, Emmanuel Ogbah) as well as in the draft (Raekwon Davis, Curtis Weaver, Jason Strowbridge) will give us a lot more juice in the pass rush department. Pairing that potentially dominant secondary with an upgraded pass rush could yield excellent results from our defense. I don’t about all of you people here, I’m really looking forward to seeing this defense grow this year!
GO DOLPHINS!!
#staythecourse
Finsmob Unleashed 
D – I just asked him about 1/2 hour ago, he said he’s starting to feel better. He said he’s going to start work again (from home). I guess that’s a good sign. My place of work wants me to wait 10m days from my testing so I don’t go back until 8/3. They have to be careful, so I totally get it.
Yeah, i know a positive test pretty much gets ya a month at home, i think its min of 21 days though that might be different state to state. Good thats he is feeling better though.
KV – It’s pretty surprising that he was able to tell the difference between having COVID-19 and just burning himself out. He parties really hard on our vacation. They start drinking after lunch which is about 1PM and he drinks all the way thru to 3-4AM. Then we’re also running around playing sports all day so it’s not like he’s just sitting by a pool chilling out. Then he gets up at 8AM for breakfast and starts the whole thing all over again. 6 days of that would burn me to the ground man, but he’s 25, and I’m sure we did stuff like that back then.
He felt like he was especially run down and that’s why he felt like he might have it.
I have done worse lol, but yeah, no friggin way i could pull that shit off these days, it would take me two days to recover for every one day of that shit.
LOL – Yeah, I went into his room every morning and woke him to ask him if he was going to breakfast and he would set his alarm for 10 minutes and then get up and every day he came into the dining room I’d be more and more impressed. The cumulative crush of that has to wreak havoc on your body.
Ahh to be in my 20’s again. I’m not that old, but I still think it’s going to take me 2 or 3 days to recover just from reading about partying that hard, lol.
They should have mandated that all players contract covid by mid June. That way they would have recovered by now and have antibodies to support their immunity until end of the year when we have the vaccine.
Don’t worry, they may have it soon enough
Things are still uncertain, but for sure is Dolphins won’t allow tailgates this year and will at most have limited capacity.
Given that what’s the better choice for a Fest…… into the stadium to distanced seats or all hanging out at a sports bar like Bokamper’s as Mike E was thinking? And get at this point we don’t know that either one is possible. Just thinking.
Mike
How are you feeling? Like a million fingers is the correct answer BtW.
My stomach issue is lingering still, but now that I know I don’t have COVID I’m a lot more optimistic. It’s improved slightly but eating isn’t as much fun as should be. lol
I miss sports
B-Ball is coming. Hopefully at least.
That will get me by for a time
Textbook example of using the word “adapting” sarcastically
I’m no Covid expert
But can’t they completely cover themselves or something for an nfl season
Maybe play inside a potato sack
I’m just spitballing here
Full body condom
I don’t think the gimp costumes are going to go over well
Mike, good to hear you’re negative and that your son already feels better. Hope that continues.
👍
Stang,
Pitt at St. Louis – Friday at 5:15 (PST)
Woohoo!!
SMH
Don’t care about that sort of stuff.
I didn’t know he was a vegan. Thats incredible for a guy with his build. I wonder if he trimmed down.
His diet is his business. I personally enjoy meat and a carnivore diet. That’s my business.
I don’t get being upset about some one dietary choices
There’s been a few nfl players who have been outspoken about vegan diets, so he’s not the first
Not a thing wrong with Vegans!
But that other Org.???????
Okay I get it
I’ve had issues with peta before too
But personally, I’m okay with working with a group to advocate for what you do, even if you don’t agree with everything they do
There’s a sliding scale on that
There are some organizations in would never associate with. But generally speaking I think minor disagreements shouldn’t keep some one like him from finding common ground on an issue
Mike E. says:
July 22, 2020 at 4:58 pm
He felt like he was especially run down and that’s why he felt like he might have it
Ok Thanks Mike!!!
So I’ve had it for like 10-plus years
Yea, 25 was FUNNNNNNNNN
Get Well Soon to him !!!!
wyoming85 says:
July 23, 2020 at 8:49 am
Not a thing wrong with Vegans!
But that other Org.???????
There is nothing wrong with being Vegan, as long as they keep their noses out of my diet. I am a carnivore and enjoy my animal products. Militant Vegans can just go mind their own businesses and stop worrying about the suffering of my fucking food.
I hope you are talking about beef and not the p word
The Flying Pig says:
July 23, 2020 at 7:55 am
I didn’t know he was a vegan. Thats incredible for a guy with his build. I wonder if he trimmed down.
His diet is his business. I personally enjoy meat and a carnivore diet. That’s my business.
I don’t get being upset about some one dietary choices
There’s been a few nfl players who have been outspoken about vegan diets, so he’s not the first
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I think that the primary problem with the world today, too many people caring about what others do that is their choice in life to do. When it violates the rights of another is really the only time that the argument should happen.
Would be a lot better world if people practiced a little tolerance every once an a while.
Too that point, being vegan is a stupid choice lol jk, i like veggies, i like meats, i cant really see cutting out either for the sake of fully having a diet of the other. Seems balance is almost always the best choice, but seriously, who cares let them fart more but have a cleaner colon, their right.
Do you fart more with a vegan diet?
100% more. I worked with a large, not fat, Croatian guy that ate mostly veggies and he’d fart a LOT and would talk about how it smelled like veggies. Fortunately the smell didn’t travel over the cubicle.
Hunt now shows up on overTheCap, and we’re 18.7M over, after signing all rookies. Unless some vet gets cut we’ll be taking this figure +- 2M into the season, with the + adjustments coming from rookies making the final 53 over someone with a larger contract and the – adjustments coming from signing the practice squad guys and adding 2 players to the start of season rule of 53, instead of top 51.
The media is so FN stupid. CBS reports Chauvin/wife to face felony tax fraud charges. Yeah, that’s what he’s worried about.
The Flying Pig says:
July 23, 2020 at 9:20 am
I hope you are talking about beef and not the p word
Reply
Meat is Meat. Pork is one of my favorites. I will not apologize for it either. Especially your young. Mmmmmmmmmm
Well I BBQd chicken last night, so the pigs here are safe for the next few days.
Man! It’s a tough crowd today!
The whole point of the post was to aggravate Son! 😉
Yeah, my first response was why should we care what at mediocre running back who hucks the ball downfield eats.! ?
Just talked to my mother in FL, she said the covid numbers there are heavily skewed. People tested positive, then tested again a couple of weeks later to see if cured, and if still positive they’d count them again. Some people signed up for testing, but left, because of long lines, got letters saying they were positive, but were never tested…when you incentivize the numbers people will cheat.
Its possible, i wouldn’t put it past state governments embellishing the numbers if it got them more funding. Still i would much rather walk out into this public prepared as if the numbers aren’t skewed and be wrong than the other way around.
I have kinda put the argument aside about whether this is real or not, whether its financial or not, whether its political or not and just thought to myself how would i approach this without all the numbers for the sake of my self and my kids. My choice your choice, whatever, but i think simplifying it to thoughts about your own safety and those around you, that you love’s safety, probably gets you to make the right decision, whatever that might be.
I agree, sadly we have to read between the lines/numbers and do what we think is best for us and ours, but shouldn’t we do that with everything? Why should we trust the govt to know what’s best for us? Why would we want them to?
I guess thats what im saying. Treat it like you would for everything. I mean i despise the seat belt law but my kids are buckled up every time i put the car in gear. I dont do it because of the law the government forced on me but because i love my kids.
steve — you been following what FL Gov DeSantis has done in the Covid era. Can believe in a second his folks would screw up….but if anything the guy has been depressing the numbers. Been a big old scandal.
steveccnv says:
July 23, 2020 at 9:39 am
The media is so FN stupid. CBS reports Chauvin/wife to face felony tax fraud charges. Yeah, that’s what he’s worried about.
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Im sure he is he is more worried about the new rules for cornhole they have in prison, and how they have a game scheduled every night just after lights out.
Ouch!!
Opening day MLB.
Sports!!!!
yeah, Even with nothing else going on I just cant get myself to care about baseball at all. I would rather watch competitive paint drying competitions.
I would watch flies f%^&ing right now if it was competitive.
I tend to agree. I’m a Dogers fan and follow them throughout the year, but I can’t seem to watch more than a few innings, even for WS games. I’m more interested in the current score, than watching. Going to a game is different.
We have triple A here in a beautiful new stadium, that helps a lot for the minors, but even so live events are so much better than tv.
I probably would too, i mean the camera work to capture and display flies fucking has to be incredible. Probably would win an Oscar.
WOOOO HOOOO! GO MAN GO!
I’m excited to be able to watch baseball. The sport of summer!
By watch baseball, I solely mean watch Mets games. You couldn’t pay me enough to make me watch the Texas Rangers take on the Minnesota Twins etc etc.
They should make beaning the batter legal so it could be use strategically. Just make hitting them in the head a auto ejection and let the good times roll. Let the brawls happen too, but it cant be just one person fighting the other, it has to be a full bench dump. Coaches, bat boys, mascots, fuck i dont even care if they let the fans get involved. Talk about tuning in, the revenues would skyrocket.
Nah, I mean I wouldn’t watch just to see a few hay makers fly, from guys that can’t fight. I watch UFC for that. In comparison I get UFC 1-10 on ESPN+ and those fights are closer to watching a baseball brawl, than current UFC fights.
Rookies report today and we’re talking about baseball. In baseball they wear caps…
So talk rookies reporting today. Whatchya got?
Wyoming beat me to it, that’s all I got🤙
🤘
Go#1FINS, TUA’DA’🏚
I hope his attitude isn’t “just for the camera”!!!
I can’t wait to see this guy under center
Way to give the finger!
WFT? WTF?
LOL
I still say they should call themselves The Hogs. Their fans and our Pig would like that.
This would look really good on a burgundy helmet???
Up to me would be the below….. and even the South Park guys knew Snyder had to get their special treatment.
Blue Jays are a team without a home. First Canada said you can’t bring American teams into your own stadium. Then the Jays set up a stadium share with the Pirates….. but Pennsylvania just nixed that one cause of Covid concerns (even though no fans in the stands).
The Blue Jays’ first “home game” is six days away and they have no clue where it will be played. Top idea right now is they just hang out and play the games in each city they visit. What they go with and the Blue Jays are about to start the longest road trip in the history of baseball.
I think “Blue” jays is a very offensive way to refer to them, i mean think of all the Doctor Manhattan’s out there. Dont they matter?
Gotta admit D — I missed that one.
Watchmen reference.
Thanks –now don’t feel stupid on the miss. And glad admitted instead of nodding my head and laughing like I did. 🙂
The:
Washington Mob
Washington Corruptors
Washington Traitors
Washington Deep Stater’s
Washington Quid Pro Quoer’s
Washington Lobbyists
Washington Rioters
Washington Looters
Washington ANTIFA’s
Washington Illegal Alien’s
Washington Socialists
Washington Impeacher’s
Washington Kiss China’s Asser’s
Washington Agenda’s
LOL — Washington Lobbyists is a team I played for though. 🙂
I played on a softball team back in 90′ and 91′ called the Charleston Mob.
Lol they should have said they will call them selves the The Washington Football Skins if they wanted to really get that middle finger out there.
I mean it could refer to pig skins, who knows. Its appropraaitely a color non-specific term right, i mean its color fluid, that would be the more appropriate way to call it today.
ROFLOL
D,
I loved Watchmen, both the graphic novel and the movie. It’s an amazing story. I haven’t checked out the series, but that’s a new adaptation in the world, not the original story, so it’s something different anyway.
Most the stuff is a 180 of concepts on everything that you think you know about good an evil, right and wrong, character you probably loved one minute and hated the next. Really complex story and yet not really.
Yep, that is what makes it so good. The concepts of right or wrong, lesser evil for greater good vs sacrifice and no compromise. Moral ambiguity vs apathy. A fantastic study in the psychology of ‘heroes’.
The Comedian and Rorschach are still two of my favorite characters in any form of literature.
The Washington Football Team? LMAO that is the lamest name I have ever heard
Is it ok for them to name themselves the Washington formerly known as Resdskins’ or just go prince and replce the name with a symbol.
Did you catch that some dude trademarked every possible name for the team he could think of? Snyder said well “maybe this” and two days later he filed papers on it.
Yeah i saw that. Smart move on that guys part.
A little slimy — but smart it was. Guessing this move by Snyder was not going to pay the dude’s price now. And brings up he can fight in court. It’s a hostage situation.
I don’t know much about trademarking, but if this guy can really do this to try and force a payout, then Snyder and his team are idiots for not anticipating it.
Cav — guy started reserving the names like ten years ago thinking would happen. But yeah Snyder is an idiot, including he probably though would never happen. And in his defense (which hurts), would have hit the press if he started buying the names.
Stang, ah the guy has been playing the long game. Yeah, that changes things.
I’m thinking Washington Swamp Rats should be the winner
Not making this up — biggest rat I ever saw was walking back to my car in DC. Thing was the size of one of my 20-pound dogs. Or at at least seemed to be after a night of drinking. Wife agrees though.
LOL – Saw a few like that back in my hometown of Brooklyn
The Washington Georges
The Washington FUPC’s
Ding ding
WASHINGTON MACHINES, with fabric softener
I like it!
I like the Washington Football Team name, then once the election is over and all the assholes settle down, they can do what the NY Knickerbockers did and just shorten it, to Skins.
Kong, It along with a few other things really challenged my thoughts on right and wrong and what perspective you looking at things from. Letters from Iwoa Jima and flags of our fathers also really helped sculpt it too. Lots of issues you have to step outside yourself and look at it at a different angle to really figure things out for yourself and even then you only have your perspective from that angle so it opens ya up to a wider viewpoint of justice etc. I like throw ordinary concepts out the window.
Good stuff. I’ve still never seen Letters from Iwo Jima, but have heard good things. I’ll have to give that a watch.
I guess I will be the only one who thinks that this is a logical interim name for them. It was too late to choose a name that could work for this year anyway, so it makes sense when I think about it.
They retired Redskins, so on TV and the radio, I often now hear them referred to as Washington, or the Washington football team because nobody wants to use Redskins anymore. Si, this buys him time to select and market the new name, whatever it is. Until he does that, Washington is going to be referred to as this name or just Washington anyway. I don’t see the big deal. It is only for this season.
I agree mostly. And actually think it will be cool for every player to have their number on the helmet like in college. I do like that it means Snyder got beat for now by whoever that trademark horder is. He would have just chosen the new name otherwise.
Yeah they have to let that play out before they can move forward with their name, so yeah getting rid of Redskins was the goal, it was accomplished and they will come up with a new one when the dust clears.
I think it’s a great name. I’m going to laugh to myself every time I refer to them as The Washington Football Team, which I will do every time I refer to them, lmao.
‘Hey, did you see that play by the Washington Football Team player? It may have been the best catch in the Washington Football Team’s history.”
Just reading that brings a smile to my face. I’m very thankful to not be a Washington Team fan, lol.
Maybe just abbreviate it to the ‘Teams’.
Oh, and you’re absolutely right of course. I’m just being juvenile for my own amusement, lol.
Washington Rooster Fish
OOOOOOOOh winner winner chicken dinner.
Well there’s this?
https://twitter.com/NHLSeattle_/status/1286334190439395330?s=20
I wonder if this will be their mascot?
LOL, the Jest are as big a mess as the Washington Football Team. A coach the players dislike in Gase, an owner who is facing allegations of racism and misogyny, and a star player wanting out and posting on twitter about the owner. With all their drama, they should be on the bottom looking up for the foreseeable future.
I should have known better, but I clicked it to see WTF he is talking about (if this was a response to someone else’s tweet) I still don’t know what is wrong or what he thinks is right.
Then I realized….I don’t even care, so why did I search to find out?
My bad, I thought the context I added in my post was enough. Woody Johnson’s been accused of racism and sexism.
Yeah i read about that yesterday or maybe was earlier today. He apparently said something about not understanding why there was a black history month. I forget the other thing he was accused of but it was insensitive and it wasn’t without some serious prejudice, but it wasn’t exactly racist, or the ones they quote were not. The sexist comments really were that damning either. I have heard WAY worse from other people in football at the top of other teams. I think a good portion of him being targeted is his association with the Trump presidency, i think he is like some sort of ambassador to one of the countries appointed to the position by Trump because of his support for his presidential campaign.
Im kinda over character assassinations without hard proof at this point. Its just too damn easy to call people a sexist or racist these days and really not have anything to back it up. I may change my mind if i see more come out about it, but the little that has come out is off color for sure, he owes people an apology, and maybe the NFL should take some action for damage done to the image of the NFL (sorry laughed little on that last comment) but i dont think what i have seen so far means anything more than that is needed.
Speaking of Iwo Jima, my father-in-law has a signed letter from John Wayne thanking him for his participation in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima as a military consultant. Really cool and a nice letter.
My grandfather was there and witnessed both flag raising…. i win! JK, man neat stuff.
FOMO
BBM — that is cool as anything. The Duke did that more than anything. He didn’t have too.
And more to come….gotta get to 80
wonder if he showed up late or something, really quick cut lol.
Wish it had of been Washington Team Football so they would be the WTF’s
Week 10 MIA vs WTF
WTF team are we playing this week……yes.
Here we go WTF here we go!
LOL D — yah going crazy man. 🙂
Babbling Bernie!
I was just watching the NFL Awards show and caught Matt Haack and Jason Sanders get the award for Mountaineer Shot
Everyone is under scrutiny right now, especially if you’re a white male in ‘Murica. Can’t support Trump because then you’re a racist, homophobic misogynist. I see what kids are posting on FB and by kids I mean young adults basically, and they seem to want some of our blood.
FOMO…. fear of missing out?
Seriously, wasn’t trying to steal his shine, i was just pimping my grandpa who i really look up to. Every time i see something about Iwo Jima it makes me think of him, same for Guadalcanal and Siapan. Again, no offense meant and i think that that was a really cool story.
I was just busting balls. Yes, Fear of missing out. My brother is relentless with me with FOMO. I think it is just natural progression in a conversation to compare and contrast experiences, but it drives him nuts. FOMO HOMO is what he rails at me. LOL
.”…when I broke my arm, the cast….” yeah, when I broke my leg, FUCK FOMO HOMO
Cant talk to him some times. LOL Sorry to have been him for a moment there.
No, its fine, i just wanted to make sure i didnt do that or wasnt perceived as me trying to do that. I get how annoying that is and i know exactly how that can feel with people doing that to you so i just wanted BBM to know i did not intend for that to be how it was taken.
D,
They are talking about numerous players coming out against him, including players no longer on the Jest. It may be hogwash, but I tend to believe there are probably a number of owners who are racist, sexist bigots. Frankly, I only care that the Jest are in disarray. I don’t care about his association with Trump, although when I posted it I was careful not to mention anything about Trump because I was curious to see who would bring him up as a way of possibly excusing Johnson first, lol.
Johnson has had some issues as being a terrible owner over the years, just like Snyder, yet when stuff comes out and Snyder’s dirty laundry started to air, nobody cared to look for excuses. This is still a new story for Johnson, but if a bunch of stuff comes out, I guarantee, his Trump association will change the entire conversation.
I dont deny that its got a likelihood of being all true, there just hasnt been any proof of it yet and the publication i saw offered up a couple of examples of it and both were weak. They would have been better off saying “details are not out yet”.
Also the point about Trump was also from that article and it was a left leaning publication, so they had cited his connection with Trump almost to re-inforce the idea that he must be what they claim, because he is associated with a guy known (more believed to be) that way.
All in all it was probably a porrly written jump to the front of disclosing things article just so they could get the clicks coming, as are most things these days. Like i said, im sure a change of mind will be coming, but the Jets always have been a shit show so this to me is just a continuation of the circus that has been in town for a very long time
And it may very well may end up that Adams is the Jest source saying ‘…dudes are boiling over…’ he ends up being the only real disgruntled Jest, and the players around the league thing dries up. Maybe nothing comes of it. I know Snyder’s discrimination thing sure dried up fast. But I will always revel and gloat over the Jest being a train wreck, so right now I’m loving it.
Also to be clear, I didn’t link any article that mentioned Trump. It was a Mike Freeman tweet. I know he writes for multiple outlets including the Washington Post which is left leaning, and his tweet may have been referenced in different articles that mention him, but what he wrote (and I posted) was a tweet.
Oh, if i am reading you correctly, ‘the article’ you were referencing was calling back to your original response to me, not that it was in what I posted. nvmd
D
I think your the winner!
The WTF’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Mike,
In regards to your last post. I find it rather fascinating right now that as a white guy, when I go out I DO feel I am under scrutiny right now. I feel like I might not get a fair shake in a normal social situation. I’ve never felt this way before.
Having just a taste of that feeling makes me even more empathetic to people of color who I imagine feel this way all the time.
washington
ARISTOCRATS
LMAO, I love that. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the aristocrats joke, but it makes that name perfectly hilarious.
Anyone that doesn’t know the history of the aristocrats joke and is interested, don’t google it at work…
👍
A FEW COMMENTS: My youngest daughter’s brain surgery for grand mal seizures WAS A SUCCESS!!! – – NO SEIZURES in the 36 hours since the surgery. She’s been released to go home from Vanderbilt University Hospital, where she’s been treated for OVER 10 YEARS, off & on. –She’s had these seizures for a lot longer than that. WE ARE ELATED!!!
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My cancer test the same day of my daughter’s surgery showed no metastasis. There’s a tiny spot on my skin they want to biopsy, but I’m really not worried about it. My surgeon doesn’t need to see me again until late November!! That’s good because I’ll be having surgery for a minor problem sometime late August. But it may be delayed because corona virus cases are taking up a ton of time in the O.R.s of Florida.
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CAN SOMEONE smarter than me explain HOW our Republican President can call-off the Republican convention in August in Jacksonville while our Republican Governor still insists he wants to open the schools “a little later in August” and expose our children and our educators to rapidly rising rates of virus cases which Trump admits “will get worse before they get better???”–I guess the fact that I only graduated from a state university, whereas Trump and De Santis graduated from Ivy League schools is the cause of my failure to understand.
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WELL Baseball is back. Home plate umpire called the 3rd pitch to Howie Kendricks (an obvious strike) a BALL, then called Hendricks out on the next pitch which was 6 inches outside the strike zone!!! WE NEED TO GET THESE OLD FART UMPIRES OFF THE FIELD and replace them with younger eyes !!!!! An friend of mine who attends a few minor league ball games every year says the ball and strike calls (made by much youger umpires in the minor leagues) are more accurate than the big league umpires!
ONE OTHER POINT on the Griese-Marino debate. The ’72 Perfect Season Dolphins team went 11-0 in games started by the aged Earl Morrall. THAT’S HOW GREAT that ’72 Dolphins team was!!! NOT trying at all to downplay the incredible achievements of Bob Griese AT ALL, but, to be blunt, Dan Marino NEVER played on a team that was as good as the 1972 or 1973 Dolphins’ team. Griese benefitted from teams that, over the 2-year period, had the #1 offense in the NFL AND the #1 defense in the NFL!!! Marino NEVER played on a team that was ranked better than 10th in the NFL in total defense.
I seriously doubt that Bob Griese could have taken any of the Dolphins teams Marino played on to a Super Bowl.
Plus, as someone else said earlier, if Dan Marino is the greatest QB of all time, HE HAS TO BE THE GREATEST DOLPHIN QB OF ALL TIME!!
Krishna says:
July 15, 2020 at 11:58 pm
All this football talk and not a peep. Sorry, hockey and baseball talk, too.
Piggy said it best, imo. Or was the most direct/honest.
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I presume you are referring to me. Look, it’s okay: I don’t check in here daily anymore (that’s why I’m addressing this from a week ago right now). I felt this site needed a jolt to get back into the football spirit, being football is about to begin.
If it were to serve my purposes to destroy this blog, I would have done as much already. Instead, I chose to help reinvigorate the purpose of the blog: FOOTBALL. It was never to
Some people here are painting a picture of me that is most inaccurate — and it’s politically motivated. And unlike Prof Lou, I’ve never ONCE trashed this blog online… neither subtly or otherwise.
You might not like me, but I cherish this blog, being many of my friends are still on it. We can agree to disagree, and that’s been my MO since DAY number 1.
S! B! J!
Don’t know what “S! B! J!” means, but I harbor no resentment towards you, Bookman. Live every day like it’s your last, man.
SBJ means sweet baby Jesus, and it really comes from Phelon. The reason I say it is partially because you said if it served your purpose you could destroy this blog. Look, I used to respect you, but, um, it seems as if you think more of yourself than others do. You want respect? Stand up and face the music of some of the stuff you have posted on here, including the cryptic crap. I am right, and I am Christian, but dude, you are judgmental and kind of narcissistic. Just saying.
I am right politically in my views , not I think I am right
You’re reading between the lines. Perhaps I need to spell it out: I COULD have tried to destroy this blog, but it’s clear that this blog is tight and I could never destroy it… and that is a testament to how good this blog has become, in terms of ‘tight’. And that’s not a bad thing!
If I offer advice — even as an ‘outsider’ — don’t think I’m trying to be a d!ck. I’m tired of folks thinking I’m evil. WTF is that, right?!! 🙂
And… we all came from Omar’s blog. It’s not in my character to destroy links to the past. I apologize if I’ve ever offended you, Bookman. I’m not good with change, I guess. I wish it was the same way it was on Omar’s blog, bud.
I don’t know why I engage with you. It is clear you have no clue how the things you say come across. Good luck. I am done.
Mike E,
Good to hear you didn’t test positive, not so good to hear your son tested positive(?). Your fam will be alright, though. Give a week, and all will be well… I guarantee it, bud.
Thanks M – He’s starting to turn around. I tested negative but had this stomach issue for about 5 days and I called my doctor. They think it’s very possible I got a false negative result. That just tells you where we are with testing . . .
The Washington Nationals…oh wait a minute
The Washington Capitals…oh wait a minute
The Washington Senators…no
The Washington Monuments?
They are no good sports names that can be affiliated with the City of Washington
Ken, are you feeling well, man? It’s been a while, and I hope you’re healthy as ever.
Washington War Machine
Long and short of the aristocrat joke is that it’s a joke the comedian’s tell each other and their sole purpose in telling the joke is to see who can tell the most awful version of it. Is a pure shock value joke and Bob Sagets version is putridly vile. You owe yourself a gander but as Kong said not at work
Yep, it’s akin to a secret handshake among comics and something they never tell on stage. A renowned telling of the joke was Gilbert Godfrey at a comics roast, I think after 9/11, that allegedly tore the roof down. One of the most annoying comics, but he pulled a legendary move in the world of comedians that night.
bookman11 says:
July 23, 2020 at 10:41 pm
I don’t know why I engage with you. It is clear you have no clue how the things you say come across. Good luck. I am done.
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Understood, and vice-versa… minus the “I am done”. I wish you good luck as well, yet I’m never done. I think you’re alright, Bookman, believe it or not: you’ve got a solid backbone. We need to erase our past in order to move forward… and I believe that’s possible.
I’ll check back in, in about 2 weeks, per the usual. Until then…
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Really? See that’s the issue, duck in, fire some bombs, then leave for 2 weeks. Smh
How about the Washington Bureaucrats! Or maybe the Lobbyists. Sorry, Stanger. LOL
I am feeling well M13. The biggest issue is anxiety over the fear of a recurrence but otherwise I am healthy
There is a documentary movie about the aristocrats joke that kind of takes you behind the scenes of the comedy world through the legend of this joke which goes back to vaudeville. If you dig this kind of humor, and enjoy getting in the heads of stand up comedians, I highly recommend it. It’s mostly just comedians talking about it, telling it, and telling stories about it. The movie can be watched on youtube – linked below.
Again, if you don’t like or are offended by off-color, raunchy jokes, this movie isn’t for you. My favorite versions of the joke are George Carlin’s and the mimes. LOL
M13, you have just as much a right to speak as anyone else. What’s the problem?
They are legion.
Gase may be the only coach ever to be fired before the first game of the season. He appears to have lost his team already.
So happy he’s with the Jets! Plateau at offensive coordinator, reach as a head coach has exceeded his grasp.
The Peter Principle.
I kind of like Washington Football Team
I think if you use it in a sentence and describe other nouns like this you will find it more appealing
“I’m going to watch the Washington football team play a NFL sports game on my television broadcasting device.”
Try it
It sounds better as – hey the WTF’s are on the tube! 😉
I hate to support another team but if they go by WTF, I’m buying a T-shirt
Come to think of it, I should buy a Redskins Jersey right before we okay them
I’ve been looking at Offensive Linemen for so long I can’t stop??????
Has there been any insight anywhere on whether the college season will be player or when?
Last I heard it’s very doubtful there will be a season.
All the news here has a few of the smaller colleges shutting down sports.
But UT has said they will play on schedule with 50% capacity.
Piggy – Most schools are planning to have the next semester online, so how can they possibly have a football season?
School starts here 8/3!
HS football is going forward also!
HS Baseball is being played now!
State by state it won’t be like that. I mean some of the best CFB schools are in FLA and I can’t imagine that they are going back to school anytime soon.
It’s looking like most of our community colleges out here will have a 90% online semester. Not sure about the UC’s yet.
Mike E. says:
July 24, 2020 at 10:53 am
State by state it won’t be like that. I mean some of the best CFB schools are in FLA and I can’t imagine that they are going back to school anytime soon.
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Why?
I’m sure there are counties in FL that have little or no cases?
Ours have died down in our area after the protest bloom!
You think Miami U will be having regular classes? Maybe U of F will but can’t imagine Miami . . .
Do they have to have regular classes to have a football season????
Wyo – I can’t imagine that they will tell students it’s not safe enough to attend classes but it’s safe enough to play football. I mean I know there’s a shit-ton of money in college sports, so maybe you’re right. It would seem a little strange though, at least to me.
In this bizzaro world we live in today?
I’m not sure you could even surprise me with anything anymore! 😉
Mike
I guess the idea is NCAA football and classes are just two different things
Student athletes don’t make up a huge % of the student body
So with a lot of things in covid19 you can return to normalcy with limitations
Not saying I know the answer
But the thought of online classes and closing the school but schools having student atheletes report to outdoor practices and otherwise normal functions did cross my mind
I’m just curious to know the rumors or talk or if playing any games is even in the NCAA mindset right now
Not having a season might be the smart thing to do 🤷♂️
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ncaa-board-of-governors-vote-could-strike-significant-blow-to-fbs-college-football-being-played-this-fall/amp/
I guess I’m looking at it from the standpoint of a University telling their students it’s not safe to attend classes, but then telling a bunch of young men that’s it OK to push each other around without wearing masks. It’s not like NFL players or MLB players who are adults, you’re talking about kids who mostly are under 21. I think the school would have to be held responsible if anyone were to get sick. I just don’t see how they can get that going.
You mean like shutting down churches but encouraging you and 60,000 of your friends to take a walk downtown?
Ya never see mixed messages these days! 🙄
if you take away college football, what happens to the NFL draft?
It’s going to be a helluva lot different. Maybe you have to go by 2019 film?
We are all guessing basically
Wyo – This is different from government regulating shit as they see fit. Universities are private companies and can be sued like fuck. Can you imagine all the litigation they would face? I agree about the flip-flopping and double standard crap that’s been thrown around more than you could ever know. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.
This is supposed to be your role model!
https://twitter.com/realDerekUtley/status/1286689933542010880?s=20
Ouch
I was thinking what the next draft might be like if there wasn’t a college football season. Maybe they reduce the draft to only 3 or 4 rounds and let the large majority of the kids sign as free agents. 🤷♂️
Wyo, put up the vid of Trump throwing a baseball on the White House lawn yesterday. Nice arm.
Trump played baseball in high school.
OD — awesome to hear about your daughter’s surgery looking like a success. Know it’s been a tough road for her.
Mike E — only might have been a false negative. Hope your just regular sick. People got sick from plenty of stuff before Covid came around.
Yes, but stomach viruses don’t usually last more than a couple of days. I’m on day 5, it started Saturday evening. Hey, I hope it’s not COVID but whatever it is, it’s fucking with my belly pretty good.
I get why you are worried. Thing that got me about M.A. was she learned she had been exposed (even if like 10 days earlier) and took the test and then next day got sick for 4-5 days, which was a WTF. She tested negative, but guess could have been a false one….. yet key thing for me is I haven’t had symptoms. I would have it if she did. Has your better half been OK?
Hence; The Washington ARISTOCRATS
LOL – That is pretty funny
The Washington Rebels
The Washington Hypocrites
The Washington Corruptors
The Washington Scoundrels
steve — lived in Washington for a good long while…….. do people really see people who live their like that?
we are treading on new ground, looking forward what happens if the bubble is pierced by covid and multiple teams are infected? it may have already happened in baseball.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseballs-opening-day-rocked-by-positive-covid-19-test-for-nationals-star-juan-soto-11595541373
Only way I can see no covid is in one-spot or multiple-spot isolation like basketball and hockey are having. And even then probably talking just a little covid.
Stanger, she was fine up until a couple of days ago and now has the same issues I have. We’re gonna deal with it. I think we’ll be both be fine, it could certainly be much, much worse.
Mike, if your symptoms continue, it may be worth it to get tested again.
A coworker just told me this yesterday. She’s Slavic, and here in Sacramento, their community is in the group of people that are pretty much dismissing this whole thing as nothing to worry about, so for me at least, it lent her story some gravity.
Her nephew is 33 and is very fit, he got sick and started showing covid symptoms very quickly, went and got tested, came back negative. He started getting water in the lungs, hospital admitted him, tested him, came back negative. Over a couple of days, his symptoms progressed, the hospital did an invasive procedure and took water directly from his lungs, and it came back positive for COVID. They changed his treatment up, gave him plasma, and he immediately started getting better.
I’m not relating this to be an alarmist. I believe this virus is little threat to people that are healthy with no underlying conditions, but there are always outliers.
I actually think I’m probably positive, but if my symptoms don’t get any worse I’m just going to stay put as I have been. I’m not supposed to go back to work now until 8/3 and that’s only if I’m better at that time. I’m not going to a hospital unless I get much worse and I hope that doesn’t occur.
If it helps in your calculations — told a psychiatrist I work with about what was going on with my wife. When wrote came back negative he said from what he’d read in the literature…..that’s with 80% surety . And no he’s not a regular Med Doc….. but he did go to medical school. And I agree with Cav — why not get tested again?
Yeah, even if positive, the worst will likely be some flu like symptoms that don’t need treatment. I’ve had 6 coworkers test positive, and only one of them had severe symptoms. The rest said they either felt mildly uncomfortable or felt shitty for a few days, and a few are back at work.
ocalarob says:
July 24, 2020 at 11:51 am
if you take away college football, what happens to the NFL draft?
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I thought about this a few days ago as it relates to college players and their eligibility. For college eligibility, I would assume it won’t count against players as a year of eligibility.
And the NFL can choose to waive eligibility requirements for underclassmen, so anybody that would have been eligible for the draft that wants to declare will probably be given that choice.
When it comes to teams evaluating players, it gets a little bit dicier of course. It’ll probably be pretty interesting no matter how it shakes out.
According the ESPN staff the most improved team in the league is……
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1. Miami Dolphins
Big additions: CB Byron Jones, QB Tua Tagovailoa, OT Austin Jackson, DE Kyle Van Noy, DE Shaq Lawson, RB Jordan Howard, RB Matt Breida, DE Emmanuel Ogbah
Key losses: S Reshad Jones
When you have three first-round draft picks and spend close to $200 million in free agency, you’d better be at or near the top of this list. There were some big spends on defense, including the top prize on the cornerback market in Byron Jones and a former Patriot in Van Noy to help lead former Patriots defensive coordinator Brian Flores’ defense. But all of that pales in comparison to Tua mania, which gives Dolphins fans hope for the future as the team builds a roster around the former Alabama superstar QB. — Graziano
When I read stories like this, my though is always the same. Don’t jail them in our country. Seize all their assets, revoke their citizenship, let them board their plane to Afghanistan, Turkey, or Syria with a couple of air marshals, drop them off, and wash our hands of them.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2020/07/24/jill-marie-jones-arrested-sky-harbor-after-attempting-send-money-al-qaeda-rifle-scopes/5501684002/
*thought
Yep…always thought the same.
The b$tch was set to board a plane and go over there already. So we give her an option to get around due process, she gets her day in court or she signs a document foregoing due process and renouncing her citizenship. Then we don’t pay for her worthless existence in jail.
Then when she gets to Afghanistan, she can enjoy her new life where Al Qaeda strisp her of all her freedoms, makes her a sex-slave, and gives her a day to day existence where her life is worth less than a goat’s. Everybody wins!
I’m sure some of our lawyers on the board can find all sorts of reasons that is an unconstitutional solution, but it seems like a good solution to me. LOL
Sounds legal to me…lol
Seriously I think the reason they try to catch her here And keep her here is for intel
If we just shipped out people who aimed to do harm, some fall through the cracks, and we never catch them
This is how you catch other potential suspects
Lol, yeah, you’re probably right. If she really has already made contact it makes sense to get as much as you can while that avenue is open. I honestly have no idea how our anti-terrorist agencies work when in the weeds.
You are also basically financing the getaway car by deporting them
I’m kinda a supporter of prosecuting crimes in the US with punishment in the US – but I get the sentiment
Let’s go Braves!!!
Kong – Did you mean to say LET’S GO METS??? 😉
There are too dang many of you NY Metrosexuals are on this board. We need to balance it out. lol j/bb
It’s time to start bringing out the sports smack talk again. Let’s go Braves!!!! 😉
Hey blog. As far as college ball, I’ve heard that some are moving it to spring. The son of a friend, not sure where he is, he was at VMI last fall but transferred somewhere in NY. Anyway, I believe she said they were told they are moving football to spring next year. Could be just small schools that are doing that. 🤷♀️
That might be interesting
Would be fun to watch college football after January
But that’s gonna be hard if the draft is late April
Only thing i have heard about CFB is that they are thinking of limiting the exposure by playing only in conference schedules. I havent heard of them closing it down, at least not for the power 5.
This is exactly what our small schools are doing out here, moving all sports to spring. Not sure about the Universities.
Just put players in helmets like these….
Hat would actually be really cool in team colors with logos and all
what’s wrong with your helmet? You like this one better than yours?
Mine has too much ventilation, not as effective. Theirs is a closed air system.
Also, i have to admit their helmet is much cooler. Guess i should have spent a few more years in college…..
Let’s go green! you can dry faster than that yellow paint! GO GREEN!
So much more exciting watching paint dry than baseball…..
Damnit! Pig beat me to it.