Many of you here didn’t really value the services of one Allen Hurns, and maybe I’m on the side of overrating him, but Hurns was on target to be the starter opposite DeVante Parker at least into training camp. If Preston Williams proved he was healthy and battle ready then it’s possible Hurns slipped down the depth chart as he was replaced by the younger, more explosive Williams. IN any case, Hurns was a veteran receiver with AFC experience and one that thrived playing opposite a very talented receiver in Allen Robinson in Jacksonville. Never as much of a big play threat as Robinson, Hurns was a steady, reliable , professional possession receiver. Albert Wilson looked like he was almost all the way back last season, especially towards the end of the season. The last 3 games he caught 17 passes which is nearly half of his season’s production of 41 receptions. He had the lowest YPC average of his career at 8.1 and only one TD but the hip injury that cut his 2019 season short really took its toll on the receiver as he finally worked his way back. I do recall seeing a couple of plays at the end of the year where his explosiveness resembled the player of 2019 where he was turning nothing into something big routinely.
Before the opt outs, I felt like we had a very strong WR room with serious depth and a nice mix of youth and veterans. Parker is 27, Wilson 28 and Allen Hurns 28, along with young up and comers like Preston Williams (23), Gary Jennings (23), Isaiah Ford (24), Malcolm Perry (23) and Jakeem Grant who is now 27. If Preston Williams is ready he takes Hurns spot on the outside opposite Parker. Which receiver or receivers get to thrive in the slot? Jakeem Grant will be in the running as will Gary Jennings and 7th RD draftee Malcolm Perry. Grant has the speed and explosiveness Wilson had but not the size, Grant (5’6 171) is about 25 lbs lighter and doesn’t have the run power to break tackles like Wilson did. Gary Jennings is a little less speedy and explosive but has good size at 6’1 216. Jennings ran a 4.42 at the combine and put up 20 reps so he has some upper body strength. Malcolm Perry is closest size wise and elusiveness to Wilson but doesn’t have the top speed that Wilson had. Perry ran 4.63 40 at the combine. If you watch Perry play though, he always looks fast enough and is a very slippery runner. The Dolphins signed Colts WR Chester Rogers to a 1YR deal which deepens the depth a little. Rogers caught 53 passes in 2018, just 16 last year playing behind WR Zach Pascal.
The biggest concern I have about our WR’s, or really any unit on our team is the depth. If we’ve learned anything by watching MLB, NBA or NHL in 2020 in the year of COVID-19 is that players drop like flies. One second they’re on the team and the next they’re on COVID-19 protocol. Add in the usual NFL injuries, especially considering this year with a huge lack of practices and no preseason games and you will likely see how important good depth will be. I’d even question whether the league will be able to play a full season. We’re going to have to count on a bunch of our deeper depth players this season and I hope we get them all ready for action. When Chan Gailey was with the Jets in 2015-2016, he utilized Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker mostly, with a decent amount of passing to the RB’s Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell. In 2016 Decker was gone after 3 games and replaced by Quincy Enunwa and the offense didn’t really feature a slot WR much. Robby Anderson provided the deep threat on the outside and again, the RB’s, now Matt Forte and Bilal Powell caught a bunch of passes. Jordan Howard isn’t much of a pass catcher but Matt Breida is a good receiver out of the backfield who was stifled by playing time in a 3 headed attack in SF with Raheem Mostert and Tevin Coleman and also CJ Beathard. Malcolm Perry may also get some use out of the backfield and Kalen Ballage was thought to be a good receiver although he didn’t get to show any of those skills here in MIA. Patrick Laird and Kenyan Drake caught the most passes at RB. In any case, one thing we’ll probably have to get used to in 2020 is NEXT MAN UP . . .
Finsmob Unleashed 
Was Albert Wilson still on the roster? I don’t see either of them as a major loss
Finally got power back today
Ain’t that a good feeling. You hear something turn on and it’s like Christmas.
Glad to hear Ken! Yes, Wilson was in line to be our starting 3rd WR or slot WR. He finally started to look healthy at the end of last season. We’ll see if it’s a loss or not, someone or someone(s) need to step up!
I was being a wise ass 😁
Mike E — how different that would have read if your wrote it two weeks ago. Herns and Wilson were 2 of our top 5 WRs.
Q for you — is Grant really better suited to slot? With his size you’d think so but the coaches have put him out wide maybe even more so in the past. And while the speed is blazing, not as sure about the hands. Like him on the outside when it was either run deep or do the slant in front of the CB who was worried about the deep.
It depends on the coverage but if a LB or S tries to cover him they will have a hard time keeping up if he can get off the jam. He’s so damned quick and gets up to speed in a hurry. I mean that’s how we used Wilson, although in Gase’s offense it a 1000 different screens. Still, the idea of getting the ball to him closer to the LOS suits him best because I think his hands and tracking are below average and he’s not going to beat anyone on a 50/50 ball like Parker or Williams.
For sure he might not be better than Parker or Williams given the height/hands thing. But actually thinking a guy like Perry is a more pure slot guy. Yet maybe Grant with his speed is better over all, but also thinking on a great team he’d be the guy you trot out when you go 3 wide. His speed scares folks.
Ah Ken get a little AC!!!!!!!!!!
More than that. Poop shower and shave. Hulk like his creature comforts
How was the Hulk taking care of the more basic bodily functions before? Gym?
Hulk demonstrated amazing fortitude. Check out Hulks glutes next time
In FLA we fill the bath tubs….. real trouble when those are dry. Maybe wife and I should get Gamma-ed. 🙂
Gym had no power either
We did not expect it to be so bad so we didn’t do much prep. Fortunately my in laws had power so I was able to go there a couple of times
One time you really appreciated the in-laws. 🙂
Ken – I figured you guys would have been staying in a hotel with wifi for work.
No hotels available they either lost power or were completely filled up
Watching the Blues vs Stars and I’ve seen this game before. Blues start off slow in the 1st period take the lead on their 1st shot.
Stanger – If he could be a lesser version of Tyreek Hill that would be great. They throw the ball to him all over the field, especially when a play breaks down he gets open, but I’m not sure Grant has that kind of savvy. My thought was just try to get this kid the ball in space and it’s easier to get a little separation close to the LOS and then if he’s only single covered he may be able to quickly find some room to move. Tyreel is so much better at than Grant getting to the ball deep because his tracking skills are far superior. Hill is also 4″ taller than Grant, he just seems small.
He’s a always a move away from a TD, but not sure he is the 3rd and 5 guy. But maybe they scheme for his skills.
No, right about that. I’d sooner see Gesicki in the slot on 3rd and 5 and have either Durham Smythe inline TE or Adam Shaheen, whomever proves better.
And with that TE on the line you can have Breida in the the backfield to either take the rush or catch the dump off. He’s got serious jets as well. Not sure how good his blocking is though.
LOL…that name…
So this week is the ramp up period of practice, and teams actually start full practice next week. We’ll have only 14 padded practices by the time we play our first game. I really wish they had approved at least 1 preseason game.
“The August 12-16 period will be the “gradual ramp-up period,” with players limited to a maximum of 3.5 hours on the field each day. The first practice will be a 90-minute session, then 15 minutes will be added each day, up to 120 minutes. The remaining time for each 3.5 hour limit will be conducted during a walk-through. Players can wear helmets and approved protective shirts on August 12 and 13, then helmets and shells in non-contact work on August 14 and 16. August 15th will be an off day.
Veterans and rookies will moves into the “contact integration period” on August 17, running through September 6. Padded practices area allowed to begin, and the CBA’s limits on contact work still apply. During this period, padded practices will begin at 90 minutes, with 15 minute increases each day, though no increase or decrease will follow an off day. Teams can have a maximum of 14 padded practices in the 21 days of the period.”
https://www.thephinsider.com/2020/7/25/21338345/miami-dolphisn-2020-training-camp-schedule-testing-practices
There’s probably going to be sloppy play from a bunch of teams, but I bet you can count on the teams who have continuity to be much better prepared. Flores and the coaches will have to do a masterful job to get all these new faces working together well with so little time.
Yep, first couple of weeks should be interesting.
Sheesh, Blues with 6 penalty kills in 2 periods. Way too many mistakes. Even with that, we actually look like the better team for the first time in 3 games, more because Dallas looks terrible though. 3rd period, 1 goal lead, I’m not confident.
I’m so out of shape bc of quarantine
I rode 50 miles today and I almost died
It fell like 200 miles
If you rode 50 miles you can’t be all that bad . . .
I was basically collapsing on my bike for the last 30 miles or so
Is this a stationary bike or did you ride all the way to Long Island? lol
Going round and round on a rotisserie is not ‘riding 50 miles’…
Well it does cause the fat to burn off
Stanger – I can’t recall where I read it, but I believe Breida is pretty stout at pass blocking out of the backfield. I’m trying to think where I saw it but I got nuthin’
Mike it’s not stationary
I rode from my neighborhood in Astoria queens, into Brooklyn (Williamsburgh) then headed to Brighton beach
Hung out at the beach for an hour
Then rode from there in queens and back to Astoria
Wow, my old neighborhood! Where in BB were you? I lived on Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach Ave, we walked right across the street to the beach.
I took Bedford Ave all the way down from Williamsburgh
And then when you get to the water you have to go a short distance on emmons to one of the streets right before Coney Island Avenue
That area by emmons is beautiful
It’s a boating community
Doesn’t really look like what you expect to see in Brooklyn
That’s Sheepshead Bay Piggy. I always liked it there, there are some landmark restaurants there. My moms travel business was on Coney Island Ave a few stores away from Brighton Beach Avenue.
It’s basically very Russian now
F%^ing Dallas scores with 30 seconds left in the game, smh. 2 of 3 games with a score at the end of the very end.
LOL – I was just scrolling through twitter and I came across this . . .
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfAjMGwXkAY2WFn?format=jpg&name=900×900
I’ve got that saved for later! 😉
LOL – I thought that was pretty funny
Piggy – Oh yeah. I remember walking down Brighton Beach Ave when I was probably like 6-8 years old and I noticed all these signs on stores were now in Russian and it was so strange to me. By the time I left Brooklyn in 1991 it was almost entirely Russian, and that spread to Sheepshead Bay too and elsewhere. They called it Odessa By the Sea while I was there. You should have gone to Roll-N-Roaster in Sheepshead bay, got a turkey sandwich with french fries and cheese. Mmm mmm!
No wonder Toba hasn’t been around much…. other things to do. 🙂
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“Despite Canada’s reputation for politeness, some American drivers are seeing a different side to their northern neighbors. Vandals have begun targeting cars with US license plates in Canada, keying or otherwise damaging the vehicles and harassing the drivers.
The hostility against American drivers (or those perceived as such) has been so prevalent that John Horgan, premier of British Columbia, has advised those driving with US license plates to consider changing them or travel by public transit or bicycle instead.”
LMAO — I’d want it that way too.
My Cards have only played 5 games, the next closest is the Marlins with 10, and everyone else has played at 13-16. The series against the Pirates has been canceled, so that means no games for us until Thursday at the earliest. Assuming we pick up play then, we’ll be about 10-15 games behind everyone else. I don’t think they will be able to make all that up.
If the Cards end up missing a bunch more time, they should be disqualified from post season contention IMO. They created this mess for themselves by not following protocol and now missed games are stacking up.
It’s some crazy shit. I know they (MLB) did NOT expect to end up with a situation like this. I really don’t know how they fix this.
Yeah, I don’t know either. They can make up a few games with double headers, and if they can get their season total to within 5 or so of everyone else, then I think that can work, but I’m not sure they’ll be able to do that. I don’t think it’s fair to go by winning percentage for a team with 10-15 fewer games. That’s a quarter of this season.
This should be a valuable lesson for the NFL and their players. A chance to say ‘look what happened to them and their season because a few people were selfish and broke the rules.’
No doubt. Should be a valuable lesson, but you know these people think they’re invincible. Heck, to be honest with you, when we went on vacation a few weeks ago we were as careless and carefree as can be be. Boom! COVID-19 for everyone! Yay!
LOL @ Kong!
Can we do that at the bottom too? You want to come into our country you have to cross a moat that’s a mile wide full of crocodiles, alligators and hippos. Hippos are real human killers. Fuck the wall, build the moat!
The great island kingdom of ‘merica, lol.
Sorry, meant to only post the 2nd part.
Can they test their vision twice a week too? LOL
LOL
LOL Guys. You all can kiss my
Rock Bottom
ROFLMAO
Good write, Mike. We’ll just have to go with the flow like other teams this year. I think we should be more competitive because I think we have a better roster overall than last year. But we’re just getting started with Phase II in a very strange time. Just keep building the program and becoming a better team.
what about this guy? Miami keeps resigning him.
i don’t think Hurns will be missed as much as Wilson, let;s hope Grant can stay healthy and fill his shoes
Getting closer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hadn’t heard this (That we picked him up or that he retired)
Claimed off waivers last month, defensive tackle Ray Smith is hanging it up; he’s been placed on the reserve/retired list.
Chester Rogers and Ricardo Louis both have a salary cap figure of 750K, so they don’t affect the cap at this time, and are just a couple of guys brought in monetarily, no risk, to be given a chance to earn a job. We may see a revolving door at WR 5 and 6 the first half of the season. Surely we have one and possibly 2 on the PS.
If you haven’t seen Roger’s highlights he’s a shifty WR with some quickness and flash ability. I’d say Grant will be given every opportunity to be the first slot WR, but if he can’t cut it Rogers can pick up the slack. Likely we’ll see multiple guys lined up there, even if someone establishes themselves. Week to week it may change based on opponent.
Rogers now makes Grant less of a have to perform player, because of the depth he brings.
We’ve got plenty of WR options now to get through the season barring a run of injuries.
Maybe no momentum, but it energized the rebuild for the team and fans, and setup the appearance of a bright future for FAs, and let everyone know his system works. So it had a huge influence on the organization in general.
Its the general philosophy in competitive anything, cant live off past success, the time to suceed is now, not then.
Right now i cant see Rogers as anything but a camp body, i dont have any expectation for him or Ricardo Lewis, anymore than we can have for the young guys. I think its a lock for maybe 4 spots, i dont think 5-6 are anywhere close to decided. Id prefer it to be Kirk Merritt and Jennings, i think they are young with upside, and Matt Cole could go on the PS if he doesnt beat out Jennings. I am just not a fan if journeyman receivers.
I mostly agree on journeyman receivers, but the slot is different, I think lesser talents can excel there, or at least help contribute.
I think having a couple guys that have some experience in the NFL is important, takes a little time to acclimate, but I’m with you on the guys like Merritt that have a higher ceiling. It’s just safer to bring in Rogers and Louis in at the minimum, instead of depending on rookies. If the rookies look good in camp, you run with them, if not go with vets and let the rooks go to PS.
Basically these were insurance signings or CYA signings, something we haven’t seen before.
Rockphin says:
August 10, 2020 at 8:37 am
I hadn’t heard this (That we picked him up or that he retired)
Claimed off waivers last month, defensive tackle Ray Smith is hanging it up; he’s been placed on the reserve/retired list.
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I had heard we had a DT that the coaches tried talking out of retiring but never found the name of who it was, i guess maybe thats him.
wyoming85 says:
August 9, 2020 at 11:55 am
Alabama WR 17 Jaylen Waddle is the best run-after-catch weapon in college football. But don’t underestimate him as a vertical route runner. He gives defensive backs fits with his twitchy athleticism. Top-5 WR and 1st rd pick in 2021. pic.twitter.com/WSbWQaK0vT
— Todd McShay (@McShay13) August 9, 2020
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Thats one of the firsts i would use in the draft….He or his buddy Devonta Smith, who is a lot like Jerry Jeudy. Id rather have Waddle though.
who will gain more yards Brieda or Howard??
Breida but it is anyone’s guess at this point
D beat me to it.
Howard! Just because he will have more carries!
Brieda will have more yards per carry average!
Second on that. Still wondering whether they split series (I’d say 2/3rd Howard) or go Thunder and lightening with Breida as the 3rd down/long yardage back.
Depends if we count more than 10 runs on first down.
^
I just hope each has more yards than all of our QB’s combined!
That would be a nice change of pace for us! 😉
Rut Row
I’m gonna bet the only conference that plays is the SEC.
In the South, college football, specifically the SEC is HUGE, they may though cancel if they start getting a lot of players opt out or if they basically have to follow the lead of all the other power confrences. You see another one out of the Power 5 drop out, they will probably all drop out.
Football is like church in the SEC. Thought it a bold guess to say would be them and them alone….. but a guess is all it was.
The Big 10 and the Pac 12 are supposed to opt out today?
But I haven’t heard anything other than “From the sources”!
I can see the Pac12 schools opting out. But I have a hard time with believing Ohio State won’t play?
Well the Big 10 , just did.
If the Pac 12 does, i think you are going to see SEC/ACC/ and big 12 go too.
https://twitter.com/MikeRotch8778/status/1292164325453463553?s=20
That’s what happens when you throw politics into sports.
Seems like politics is in everything these days, probably why everything is so fucked up
Guess when 160,000 people die it is inevitable that the national health crisis has politicians paying attention. How else could it be?
Not political like that, being used in a political war. Its not that im saying politicans shouldnt be involved but they should actually be trying to do something instead of just trying to use it to either make themselves look good or the opponent look bad. Who cares about the political gain from this when people are dying and their lives are being completely trashed.
Hard to not agree with that. Just don’t think University Presidents are thinking about political message so much when it comes to the safety of their students and college sports. But for sure some politicians may use it like masks, but neither those nor college sports are political.
I think unfortunately its all intertwined as the message we get and a lot of the data is being skewed on both sides, which leads to the universities and state governemnts basing their decisions off of the spun data. Thats what im saying about the world is that politics has become so intertwined with our culture until you have a hard tim sorting the facts from the spin.
Lol, College sports couldn’t be any more political.
Looks like Dan Patrick agrees with SEC looking to play no matter what.
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Dan Patrick Show@dpshow
DP was told an hour ago that the Big 10 and Pac 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow… The ACC and the Big 12 are on the fence.. And the SEC is trying to get teams to join them for a season.
Yeah i agree they will hold out as long as possible, they are going to try to play, but they cant stay in there by themselves and those on the fence are gonna flip wihen those other two fall, and then its SEC by itself, and even they know thats an exercise in futility.
Why can’t the SEC play against each other?
Pac12 is mostly dem states, CA dominated, so that one was a no brainer. Big10 and the whackjob Mich gov., so ditto.
They could but whats the point, i mean yeah you have football but there is no real excitement in just winning the SEC anymore. I mean there is an there isnt because whoever wins the SEC most likely wins it all, but the SEC wants to bring hime the big trophy and the SEC championship is not the big prize. I think the season would be really dull without the culmination of a BCS Championship and you cant really have that without at least most of the power 5 to make it legit.
The SEC just want those 4 cupcakes to pad their records🤔
Southeast Missouri A&I, Northwest Appalachian State, Grambling State…
Maybe more so they just get a break from haymakering each other. Notice the cupcake games are just before another brutal showdown. Most conferences schedules are cupcake schedules, we have maybe 2 games each year like that. Also those last two ya mentioned arent really cupcakes, they pack some punch even though they come from a smaller school conference, they wouldn’t be at the bottom of some of the other conferences.
OSU and the SEC. Anyone else?
“Lol, College sports couldn’t be any more political.”
steve — I played two of them in college and didn’t find any politics. What was I missing?
I’m not talking about for players, I’m talking about at the top. Was the subject about players opting out?
A lot has changed since we were college age too.
This is really the call of the college presidents. Too big an item not for them to take over from their AD on it. If your point is that the people who fund them get involved in something as big as this… then you are probably right. But then places like Stanford are private.
Yes exactly
Jim Harbaugh didn’t want to play, he’s tired of Michigan being OSU’s little bitch. lol
Michigan has been everybody’s little bitch recently, been a while since they were really relevant and the bad thing is they are second most relevant team in that conference, sorry PSU.
Michigan hasn’t been a force, since that dipshit, former Aussie rules football player lost that game for them, when he tried to Garo a bitched punt.
Half Habib says, Miami Dolphins considering option of keeping one quarterback in quarantine. So how exactly would that work? Can you just cheat and put someone that doesn’t have it in quarantine?
Maybe they just force them to get it lol. Hire them a hooker who is riddled with it, but clean of the normal hooker diseases, ui mean they dont wanna kill the poor guy, just give him covid.
You joke about that, but the country is being hijacked by those that want to use covid as a weapon.
We really are becoming New England South
LOL
If that comes with 5 rings?????????????
Damn i just noticed how imbalanced the east is from the west in the Big 10. OSU, Mich, Mich St., PSU, all in the east, and really only team of any relevance in the west is Wisconsin, and thats not saying much.
I think what they meant was not around the rest of the players lol. Someone who couldnt catch it with the rest if they had a team outbreak.
Guess the key reason would be if one of the QBs got it and gave it to the others at QB meetings. Then you’d still have one. Whole team gets it no point.
They could put Dr. Rosen Rosen, in a bubble. He doesnt seem like the type to really do anything exciting in his personal life anyways.
Rosen would be the only one they’d bubble.
Here’s a different approach to white privilege, that I haven’t heard before:
Makes sense that black disadvantage doesn’t equal white privilege, because whites don’t have that disadvantage.
Miss O’Reilly…. but then he brought about his own exit from Fox News. There is some “black disadvantage” with some folks at least. But think more about a culture and socio-economic status a lot of them are born in. And if they do well tend to move out…. can’t blame them.
Taken in that context it actually makes sense. If the league will allow that, then every teams should have some back up on the COVID list at a few key positions. It’s just smart.
Smart for the team, but the players union has to agree to it. If the choice is we’re going to cut you, but if you’d like we can designate you to this list, that might work. Also 3rd strings QBs don’t have much pull, so…
Yeah, it definitely might be seen as detrimental to the player. A guy could argue he could be playing on another team instead of stuck in limbo on the COVID list, so there are some politics to be worked out.
Hopefully this possibility has already been addressed and accounted for in the 2020 CBA amendment, but with the lack of foresight we’ve seen time and again from these people maybe not.
Wyo, don’t get me wrong, I’ll take the rings if that’s the cost, lol.
actually it will be interesting to see how Howard does on 1st down, 10 yards or less?
if he avgs over 4yards per carry in that situation i guarantee we make the post season.
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D says:
August 10, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Depends if we count more than 10 runs on first down.
CavalierKong says:
August 10, 2020 at 1:21 pm
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pheloniusphish says:
August 10, 2020 at 2:49 pm
D beat me to it.
LOL, I can see why you thought I was agreeing with D because my comment followed his, but I was actually agreeing with Wyo’s post.
wyoming85 says:
August 10, 2020 at 12:08 pm
Howard! Just because he will have more carries!
Brieda will have more yards per carry average!
This should have been a reply to Rob.
I’m obviously on my game today, lmao.
I also agree with Wyoming so its ok if ya agree with me, i was just poking fun at the thing we have poked fun about for a while. Breida is just our version of Drake, so it holds to the same reason that we had when we argues about Drake. Drake though to me is more capable between the tackles than Breida, though hat is not necessarily fact but my opinion.
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LOL
It all good
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steveccnv says:
August 10, 2020 at 2:41 pm
You joke about that, but the country is being hijacked by those that want to use covid as a weapon.
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I was joking, i definitely dont think they would do that but yeah probably isn’t a joking matter. Way i look at it though its out of our control so its joke about it or stew and im a sarcastic ass who likes to poke fun lol.
Covid is not out of our control though, least collectively. Other countries have tamed it…. heck as of now NY has. They are opening their schools.
No its outside our control how they use the covid invormation, i have said all along its not a politics thing its an us thing, we have to do our part to get this under control. No president, HoR or Senate can fix this problem, they can only assist us in getting it under control.
This chicago mayor lightfoot is a joke. First she agrees with the rioting and looters now shes outraged by them.
That’s what they do, especially if it hits close to home.
Was she for the Miracle Mile looting yesterday? Missed that if so (even if caught scathing remarks). Or are you talking about Floyd protests before that?
I think breida may be a step up from drake. He runs with more power and is faster than drake
It’s hard to tell, until we see him run in Miami. I wouldn’t be surprised, if he’s better all around though.
I’m a big fan of Breida’s, so I think he’ll be an upgrade over Drake as well. I think he’ll be our change of pace guy, and Howard will get more carries. The big thing with both of these guys is whether or not they can stay healthy. If they can, I think both will produce for us.
It might be splitting hairs but i think Drake was a cut runner and he could accelerate incredibly through the cuts. As far as speed maybe slightly faster, but you dont have to watch many plays with Drake getting loose to know his speed was elite as well. Again, we will see but Drake was a very capable back and with better OL, he could have and was very good with us. Through that last half of the season, without much of an OL, he was the best back in football, more yards and YPC than any other guy. I hope your right because Drake isnt our back any more and Breida is, but like Kong said, its a wait an see thing.
I like Howard a lot better than Ajayi as far as a power back though. I think he will get ya a good 4YPC punching it up the gut.
Think Stanger posted something about this already
But I reposting
Never though I would see this in my lifetime
Half the countries in the world won’t let Americans in. I get why.
Half is generous
Lamar Miller expected to sign one-year deal with Patriots
I would be good with this 2021 first round mock:
6. Dolphins
Micah Parsons
LB, Penn State
Making it official and throwing his name in the hat of players who have opted out in order to train early for the draft, Parsons is arguably the cleanest defensive prospect in this class. A prototypical MIKE linebacker at 6-foot-3 and 245 pounds, he plays violent and displays plenty of athleticism and awareness.
While this isn’t an immediate need on the Dolphins roster, the right method should be to continue to take the best players on the board in order to stack talent. Raekwon McMillan has progressed every season to date, but he doesn’t possess the upside of Parsons. Pairing the former All-American alongside Jerome Baker gives the franchise one of the more athletic young duos across the league on the second level.
9. Dolphins
Jaylen Waddle
WR, Alabama
Miami is once again in a position to continue to add talent to the roster. With there not being much value at their biggest positions of need, the team instead makes a luxury pick with the selection of Waddle. Providing Tua Tagovailoa with a familiar weapon, the Crimson Tide junior receiver provides lots of value to a team that enters the second season of their roster overhaul.
Essentially the fourth man on the totem pole as a sophomore, he now steps into a bigger role. Despite being down on the chain of command, he managed to shine when he was afforded opportunities. Waddle is a near-perfect complementary piece to a No. 1 receiver like DeVante Parker. Possessing unique run after catch ability, 401 of Waddle’s 552 receiving yards from a year ago came after the catch. He also already has three career touchdowns as a return specialist on his resume.
How are we picking at #6 and #9?
Funny how all these countries don’t want Americans but SO MANY OF THEIR FUCKING CITIZENS ARE DYING TO COME HERE!!!! Illegally, I might add, and the Democrats are there to welcome them with open arms and a bounty of cash to help them out.
Do you think Canada has citizens lining up to come here?
Probably not now, but I’d bet a lot of them come here when they have to wait a year or so to be approved for a surgery and use our healthcare system.
Canada only sends their troubled citizens here like Rockphin and Bryan Adams.
The answer is NO
The only people lining up for surgery are people who have resources to pay for it out of their own pocket
That’s not cheap
This is from a 2002 study but the rest of the world, doesn’t view our health care system as preferable including Canadians
I stepped upon the platform
The man gave me the news
He said you must be joking son
Where did you get those shoooes
……where did you get those shoes…
Name that tunr
LOL @ Kong. Especially Rock!
Mike E., They are predicting us to be about the same I guess and Houston to be a little worse than last year. I feel like our pick will be later. I think our pick will actually come after the Texans pick.
I think they’re probably wrong on both counts
Bryan Adams is not troubled
Don’t speak like that about him
Everything he does – he does it for you!
Lady ‘Piggy’ Marian?
Piggy – I never said it was cheap, but expensive is better than DEAD, right?
Another TE . . .
https://www.miamidolphins.com/news/dolphins-awarded-tight-end-nate-wieting
Pretzel Logic
Steeley Dan
Who Saw Morikawa’s tee shot on 16 yesterday?
One of the best shots ever 🏌️♀️
I did
Luckiest guy in the NFL is Breida. Getting outta Pelosi’s district and down to SOBE.
Frankly, I’m shocked that colleges and conferences would even consider having sports with the current overall situation. But, I would not be surprised that a part of their thought process was being sued by students if they aren’t allowed to opt out without any penalties. This isn’t a privately owned professional league who can do as they like. Our educational institutions should always…always….put student health and safety first. Whether you believe the pandemic is overblown or not, there’s no way colleges should feel comfortable making student athletes comply but are telling other students to stay away.
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I do believe the situation is overblown somewhat….it’s what we do nowadays….nothing new. But, 170K+ dead and still climbing is the harsh reality. Overblown or not…that’s serious….and has to be taken that way by the people in charge. Most of the athletes will be unaffected…we think. They are young, healthy and low risk. But, all those people connected with sports and the many more they come into contact with either doing it or covering it or watching it, they may not be so lucky. Major financial hit for folks…but how do you expect to stem it if you do stuff like this?
College football is big business for the schools. Hard to get around that factor. They play football and not say women’s soccer and cross country…… no excuse other than the business side.
That is the thing, it MAY be overblown, the young MAY recover with no lasting issues but we don’t know. It is a novel virus. Chicken Pox isn’t so bad, but it comes back as shingles. Will Covid come back as complications years later? Hopefully not, but they say prepare for the worse and hope for the best and you will never be disappointed.
As a fan i want to watch football, but as a human, especially as a parent i wouldn’t want to risk anything with my kids.
They could bubble them, i mean have ya seen the facilities at colleges these days, especially the ones for the athletes, they are frigging sick decked out. Yeah, no parties, etc, but thats no different than you would have if they weren’t athletes. Classes are no different from being a regular student either, so i mean if they arent shutting down the schools completely, they wouldnt have to worry about anything else a normal student wouldnt, and if the other students can distance learn or whatever, so could the players at their facilities. If all schools do this, and all players are tested regularly, i dont think there would be a significant increase in risk.
The only thing you have to ask yourself is, is it all worth it? Thats a lot of protocols that have to be obeyed, a lot of constant monitoring, a lot of sacrifice. So, is it possible to play and have little to no additional risk. Certainly, is it feasible, maybe, is it worth it, i just dunno about that one. Like you said, its about money in the end, and if they want to spend a bunch to make even more, they can come up with a safe way to go about this, time to get it done is the only factor in question.
So as for the discussion about Canadians coming here for healthcare, i see your pie graph, but at least one hospital i know of on the border between Canada and Maine, it is the case that the hospital is flooded with Canadians who are coming here for healthcare. It could be that this hospital has some deal with them on the rates or it could be that they buy insurance, i dunno, but i have have been there and i have seen it, and before you ask you can tell the Canadians because their heads bobble.Seriously though, while i was up there the hospital admins actually spoke about it quite a bit.
I am tired of watching re-runs of the corn hole championship on TV. Please football come back. Please
I’m almost ashamed that I realize that is not a sexual thing! 😉
This one almost made me piss myself. I just went through this at work today.
LOL @ the middle finger
The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. and other countries in 2014, a 25 percent jump from the roughly 41,838 who sought medical care abroad the previous year.
Among wealthy nations Canada ranks last out of 11 in timeliness of care.
The problem with the US healthcare is its obamacare, if you wanna keep your dr you can…
There ya go Steve – Thanks – And agreed on Obamacare – I don’t want the government dictating to me which doctors I can see and which ones I cant. That’s trash!
How can we expect the dems to do anything for us when they can’t run one city without rioting issues? They only care about power, everything else they tell us is BS.
What health care legislation did the republican controlled house and senate pass between 2012 – 2018?
It’s cute to criticize the ACA
But it would be nice to offer an alternative
Health care in the US was dreadful before Obama care
The reason the ACA passed to begin with was bc it was so bad
People have been filing for bankruptcy bc of astronomical medical bills pushed by supply and demand costs of medical treatment, there wasn’t pre existing conditions protection before Obamacare, and prices of prescriptions drugs are much higher than the rest of the world
Not to mention nearly 20% of the us population being uninsured and causing us all to be more likely to be subject to anything contagious
The American health care system is a travesty but most of our problems are related to money and not access
American health care just isn’t affordable to the middle class. It’s nearly impossible to purchase it individually on the market (before and after the aca), the costs of prescription drugs go up and up to match demand
Relying on your employers for health care when we are an employment at Will country isn’t very reliable at all not to mention that it leaves your HR dept with the power to negotaiate.
When you compare insurance plans, for instance of unions to insurance plans of corporations, most of the time the insurance plan of the union is far superior to that of the Corp., although the biggest the business the more bargaining power they have. But a midsize or small business doesn’t really hold much leverage to get its employees the best coverage in our system
I don’t know if more Canadians come here than the US bc the other way around. I’ve seen data that suggest that a lot more Americans go there than than them coming here, but you guys can look it up for yourself
But if you look at the entire world, much more Americans go abroad than people aboard coming here for medical tourism – and that is driven by costs most of the time
People coming here for treatment have $ to spend
But people leaving the US for medical treatment have less $
And that’s a realistic view of it
It’s not Obama care
It’s what happens to any industry when the demand is endless and you have 3rd (Ins companies) and 4th parties (employers) negotiating the product delivered
That increases costs substantially. That’s just the way economics works.
Fact Obamacare made premiums for health insurance skyrocket.
Sure there were problems before it that need to be addressed, but Obamacare sent our healthcare system into spiral we still haven’t recovered from.
To say the Republican led Congress couldn’t fix it when Obama was president is a joke. Under the first 2 years of Trump the reps had control, but the Mccains of Congress wouldn’t allow it.
The reason Obamacare passed was, because the dems wanted universal healthcare and put Obamacare through to fail, then wanted to act like knights in shining armour and slide thru universal healthcare. Pelosi on tape said she didn’t even read it, and would read it after it passed.
We have swampy people with lots of power in this country, that are responsible for our healthcare issues, for example the American Cancer Society regulating themselves, which keeps costs high and goes after alternative treatment methods. There’s also the scam between doctors and big pharma, and big pharma in general that have contributed to the skyrocketing costs.
To say anything good about Obamacare outside of those uninsured it helped is ridiculous.
Of course they are going up now
Trump is doing everything possible To sabotage the Aca
Repealing the individual mandate through the tax bill in 2017 cost revenue that led to funding
Then Trump cut billions of CSRs
Click to access csr-payment-memo.pdf
When the administrations sets out to harm the ACA instead of looking out for the American people – costs are going to go up. If they sabotage the market place with policy that’s what happens
But that’s fine – if there’s a plan
The elderly in the US are a growing population and the ACA won’t sustain itself if it’s left untouched (but republicans shouldn’t try to sabotage it either)
But what’s the plan?
Republicans had control of both bodies of congress from 2011 through 2011 – and passed nothing as an alternative to address rising costs of health care
And none of that changed with trump – that’s not McCain’s fault, that’s bc there was no alternative plan
What is Trumps plan? You are more likely to catch a cricket singing opera than see Trump articulate an actual health care plan – his plan is nothing more than repeal the aca, which is nothing more than finger pointing
Pointing figures isn’t going to make health care better in the US – actually repealing the ACA and taking steps to hurt it, without a backup plan, just makes it worse
The swampiest persons in office is The President
In fact, in order to make his case about the ACA, he needs to set out to sabotage it – even though it costs Americans tons of money and coverage
It would be great if he criticized a policy and offered a better alternative
Instead Trump criticizes a policy, doesn’t offer an alternative and actively tries to hurt the policy he is criticizing
And btw premiums will continue to go up without the ACA
Bc the cost of medical care continues to go up And baby boomers need more and more medical care as they get elderly
The inherit problems of an employer based system won’t go away by blaming Obamacare
You can’t fix anything until UCA goes away. Trump has laid forth a plan, but I agree we aren’t going to see health care go down.
So Trump is swampier than Obama, because you say he doesn’t have a plan in place to fix the UCA, that the dems pushed through to sabatage healthcare? Brilliant, why didn’t I think of that?
“I don’t think any (momentum carries over), to be honest with you,” Flores said.
Typical coach talk, take the cheats all those years, so nothing carried over, and every year brady started from scratch? We won’t know going in Fitz and Parker have something special?
If there’s no college football the NFL may change some games to Saturday, giving us more primetime games.
I assume they would do it like after college is done…. unless the contract gets in the way.
They definitely will wanna do that to get more ad dollars to compensate for loss of stadium revenues, but its a balancing act, they cant give away too many games or the Sunday Ticket sales will fall off.
I don’t know the specifics of it, but I can’t imagine they make more money from Sunday Ticket, than they do from a primetime game. I know what you’re saying about balancing it to get the best of both worlds, but Sunday Ticket makes their money from fans that don’t live in the area their team is from (out if touch out of towners).
MikeE.,
(re: 2021 draft order). I think they’re probably wrong on both counts.
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I believe they are going by where the teams are with their current roster and 2020 schedule. They may not be far off on Houston picking in top 10. Six of their first 7 games are tough.
at Chiefs
Ravens
at Steelers
Vikings
at Titans
Packers
Also, at Browns and home vs Pats.
They have to face Titans again and Indy twice. I think people are underestimating Indy this year. They are going to be tough. Not because of Rivers but their D. They loaded up like we did and should have a good defense.
I think Houston’s pick will be lower than ours.
If they delay College football till the Spring is that a huge negative? If I was a college fan seems I’d like it that way every year. Would have football in two seasons.
Then how do you transition from college to NFL? You can’t play back to back seasons.
They practice to prepare in the fall. College seasons goes Jan-Apr. Hold the draft in May. The kids get May and June to recover before camp. 4 months before first game. It’s not perfect, but the upcoming classes on all teams would face the same.
Recovering from Feb to Aug isn’t enough time, how is only 2 months going to work? Its not.
It’s amazing what a young body can do. Obviously nothing like an NFL player, but I did contact sports pretty much every second I was in college. Rugby ran Spring and Fall and wrestling was in btwn. Gotta think these far better athletes than me could deal with just 2 months off. And if more is needed they could change the rules — say rookies can’t start till game whatever.
My guess is more will opt out if thats the case, because they really cant risk injury if the season is played right before they would be drafted. People were already opting out of bowl games and those are over in January to avoid a career threatening injury.
Haven’t you ever heard of the rookie wall? What do yo think that would look like, after playing spring then fall?
D — my guess is you are right, but remember what a small percentage of payers actually have hopes of being drafted. The games would still be played.
steve — so then the rookie wall would be higher. If they don’t play in the Fall would you prefer for them to play in the Spring or not at all?
Is it just me or are the NFL interviews and programs like NFL Live really boring right now?
Some of that has to do with the awful beat writers questions, but it just seem lame what they’re talking about.
Let’s not forget Ronnie Brown
Glad he switched 46 on a db looks stupid
“previously worn by Cordrea Tankersley and Michael Jordan’ — only way those 2 ever get in the same sentence.
Not sure why Scad thought they should be in this sentence. He must’ve thought it was Haha funny.
Fuck Ronnie Brown! Patrick Surtain!!! #23
https://youtu.be/-X5XKQIiQh8
Mike E — made a fool of myself at the stadium bar while waiting for OD before a game (so wasn’t even drunk). The Phinsiders do their pre-game there and hear from the audio that Sam Madison is one of the broadcasters. Go up to him during a break and say “Sam you are about the smartest player I ever had the privilege of watching…thanks for the desire.” The 4 broadcasters bust out laughing.
Break is over right then and I retreat. Becomes clear after that I’d gone up to Surtain. Guess they are interchangeable. 🙂
Doh!!! That’s pretty funny Jon, but truth is that was one excellent CB tandem, most likely the teams best ever.
The best ever in Phins history at least. Just didn’t know Surtain was there….so went to the first guy who looked like a CB. Never saw those guys without helmets on when was watching.
Wow! Madison has a pretty distinct look.
steve — what more than “made a fool of myself” did you need? Sam and Pat at least got a better kick out of it than if had gone up to Madison though.
Minkah FitzFuckFace exposed!!!! He’s a clown and all I hope is that he has the shittiest career from here on.
Ok so my interpertation of that whole thing. Minkah did not want to wait, be patient, learn to do his job first and let them expand his role on their tiomeline, so he made a little bitch out of himself which alienated the coaches, specifically the HC which comes from a system where the HC doesn’t mind silencing a player like that and making an example of them, see Jamie Collins as an example.
Looks like he got there to Pittsburgh and probably got a little better reception, they have to make it work because they gave up a lot to get him, he probably also grew up a little because he realized the Phins aren’t the only team to require him to do his job, so as not to seem like a twice failed loser he complies this time.
I can tell already, re-signing him is going to be tough what they have is a player thats going to likely either make them set the ceiling at his position in a couple years or will walk in FA.
Minkah played great last year in his safety role in Pitt, not so much for us.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/new-york-citys-downward-spiral/?fbclid=IwAR3mkZTAZcAnPLdvqWZTpB34XR36MrznTuxLPy4fYNUHCIz9H64aAOKw_ng
I say we blow the bridges and tunnels, stop shipping in food and call in Snake Pliskin.
From the National Review (used to be a subscriber). And that might be the down side of getting Covid under control. Same time NY does have Covid under control. Opening schools now.