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 
I wouldn’t be shocked, if the Caps came back from 0-3.
Wat he’d the last game and seriously only ever heard of 1 player on Isles… Clutterbuck, and pretty sure I remember him from a different team
Watched ^^
And he’s now injured and not playing lol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-dolphins-lb-vince-biegel-tears-achilles-out-for-season/vi-BB187t7a
Confirmed done for the season
Shitty
That sucks!
I thought Parker had a pretty good season in 2016…not necessarily the stats…..I don’t remember them anyway…but how he played. I was encouraged. He played physical and used his athleticism and size to make plays. He started playing more like that again last year on a consistent basis. If he can stay away from injury and keep playing that way, I think he can be a pretty good WR. When you play physical, injuries can happen. It’s good to hear that he’s fit and ready to bang.
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The impact of he and, say, Preston backing the defense off would be an awesome asset to our running game with a bunch of big slobber knockers up front. It’s been a decade or more since we’ve seen that.
Andrew Van Ginkle and Curtis Weaver step on up!
People always overreact when players aren’t on the practice field, but the handling of Preston is pretty standard for returning injured players.
Sometimes a new offense can make the QB think while on the field, making him look a little sluggish or off, but the media will always let you know, like yesterday🤔
Sometimes I think either the Fansided guys just don’t think or are retarded. Their main guy is so arrogant I want to punch him.
On safeties being former CBs and smaller:
Gone are the players that can help support the run. Just ask Bobby McCain, who busted his shoulder, trying to assist in the run game. The lack of size could be a problem if or when the team is trailing and the opposing team runs the ball to drain the clock.
When trailing at the end of a game we’ve got guys like Fejedelem 6′ 205 or Frazier 6′ 223 or just use a hybrid LB, it really isn’t an issue.
I think when it comes to game planning, the idea is to kill their pass game with the coverage guys, but they have options they can use if they start to hammer us on run plays, as you indicated. I dont necessarily think its linked to game time scenarios, like down and they are running out the clock, but more so, what they are being successful with, if its the run game, we bring in a hammer to one of the safety spots, if they are beatng us with passing we bring in another coverage guy. We have a lot of hybrid guys so that our D can transition fluidly as gameplan and strategies change mid game.
When you hear about the injury
I know nfl experts don’t like to questions the patriots
But wtf is going on there
Without Billycheats “well earned” reputation it would be called a shambles!
I think this is to throw off the game planning. Have to prep for both QB’s, maybe he is playing off the fact that there has been little to no prep for the season, little to no chance for media availability and he is throwing confusion in the mix.
Maybe the first few games are like that but before game 4 i bet they have settled into one guy at least most the time. This sort of confusion wont really help much after a few games so they will abandon it.
Beli-BS at its finest for U75s. Cam isn’t going to allow this, he didn’t go there to platoon.
He isn’t the sharpest tool…but he can handle the playbook to be on the field the entire game.
I agree its misdirection, but i think its also for opponents to have to consider what they might have to game plan for. Coaches do this shit all the time to make opponents have to work harder to plan for them or consider a larger playbook than they will actually use. Small advantages that especially in a short prep year, will actually help them have a small advantage.
It would be no different than not practicing for any opponents backup QB.
Why would belicheat of all people give away that he may platoon his QBs, if he really was going to?
Not a chance in hell.
With belicheat, if you figure something out on your own, then gameplan for it, otherwise…nice try.
During the season he likes to throw wrinkles into a game, just so his next opponent has to spend time on it.
Anything I saw the previous week I would ignore, unless it made a big impact.
Flores isn’t going to panic about anything belicheat does, especially this year.
I think thas is why he was dismissed.
That’s the first I’ve heard the details
Some of these guys are real assholes, and some are just used to women falling all over them, so what do they do when she comes on to you, then says no in a not so serious way?
I don’t know his situation, but just being accused doesn’t equal he’s guilty, but I’d bet most are. To those looking to cash out, these guys are easy pickins.
Its a tough call, you dont wanna ever turn a blind eye to something like that, but yeah they are targets for women to take advantage of a situation like that. Hard call, and as them id be scared to death about shit like that. In the moment, they want to have sex with them, take advantage of that, but they need to be thinking is this worth my career. career. They should really be careful who they sleep with because that shit can end their future even before it starts.
The Pats are afraid to play us with a crowd
Fewer witnesses to the slaughter
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For Piggy:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DirkManning/permalink/1501107553433733/
This may not make ORob happy about his new pounder.
“Since Jordan Howard came into the league in 2016, he is sixth among RBs (minimum 100 carries) in percentage of rushes that went for at least 10 yards.”
Just means there will be a bunch we cant count when evaluating him. 🙂
Do we hate Brady anymore? I’m hoping he has a real strong year. Will show the Pats dynasty was more about him than the Evil One. Also that the Pats made a mistake in letting him go.
As long as he doesn’t get ring 7, but even though I usually root for TB as a secondary team not sure I can this year.
For sure the down side of the plan is he might end up proving he is the best QB of all time…. wouldn’t even have to get the ring.
Or we can hate them both and hope they both suck without the other
That is the other option, but actually never hated him…. even if wished he took a massive and potentially season ending hit on each play against us.
I fucking hate Brady. I hope they take out his knees and he has to spend the rest of his days in a wheelchair. Yes I am a bad man
I hope Brady really sucks this season. I could never root for him. On that same token, I hope the Patriots go 7-9. I don’t want them to get too good a draft pick. lol
Fuck-it I’m done with the NFL!!!!! 😉
I wondered what you were going to do without the cheer squad.
What no cheerleaders? If only FFR still posted here
Big rallies in NJ protesting against limiting mail in voting. 🤔
Yeah, that makes sense
What makes sense is it’s all staged protests from the left. You do something they don’t like and they bring out their paid protesters to act like the entire country is outraged.
Fake moral outrage and their followers eat it up.
Besides the fact that if you can go out and protest you can you can go out and vote
Doubt the protestors are paid but not a doubt in my mind that the people who organize the protests might be. Most protests start with someone saying they should happen and many of the people who say they should are people who work for non-profits that get their money from wherever…. even say Soros. Used to do similar myself even if the method was letters and e-mails and such….. and I got paid.
Stanger, have you been under a rock the last 4 years. It’s been proven/admitted the left, Soros, pays protesters and agitators. Maybe these particular ones weren’t paid, but logic suggests they were.
I was agreeing with you steve. Not sure what the problem was. My only point was all protesters are not paid. Do you think each and every one in all the various protests is? Keep in mind I was head of advocacy for a national non-profit. So even if not exactly the same sorta of my field.
Your first line was Doubt the protestors are paid, that doesn’t sound like you’re agreeing🤔
If you want to say all the protestors out there are getting a paycheck then you are right was not agreeing. Setting it up that way makes makes no sense to me, cause much better to set up a system where you bring them in for free like I used too. But fair enough. What you think.
Watched the Colts game again recently, McCain with an Int playing center field. I could see that happening a lot this year with pressure upfront and tighter coverage. He can be pretty good with good players around him and the opposite, when not.
MIRACULOUS COMEBACK brings Lightning a 5-4 overtime victory over the Columbus Bluejackets in Toronto!!
OUTSHOT by about 2-1, and giving up 6 power plays (to NONE for Columbus), Tampa Bay, somehow, clawed their way back from a 2-goal deficit, scoring the tying goal in the final minute of regulation to force OVERTIME!! Then Braydon Point, the Bolts’ best player in this series, appropriately ENDED THE SERIES with a quick overtime goal. Yes, the final tally was 4 wins for Tampa Bay and just 1 for Columbus. But this was an iron-tight close series with two games won in OT!! The Bolts now have a few days to grab some much needed rest and prepare for the next round of the playoffs. Will team captain and top scorer Steven Stamkos rejoin the Lightning during the next round?? – – Time will tell.
Tampa Bay certainly will need Stamkos playing at a high level if they are to compete with Philly and Vegas, the two best teams I’ve seen so far in these NHL playoffs.
Saw 2 minutes of that game, the last 2.
Lol, Hilllary says she would take a position if Biden wins. Get the corrupt foundation going again.
KEN: I SHARE YOUR SENTIMENTS on Tom Brady. It’s Tom Brady 24-7-365 on Tampa area sports broadcasts. I’M SICK OF IT!!!! IN my “Dream of Dreams,” the Dolphins blow-out the Buccaneers 55-0 right here in Tampa at the upcoming Super Bowl!!
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I’m home still recuperating from abdominal surgery. Looks like I stood in front of a Gattling Gun and took three shots through my belly just as Vito Corleone did!! But I’m healing very well and I should return to work next Monday.
HOPE everything is fine with you, Ken!
The NFLN is the same. They cover Brady and like 5 other teams most of the time. It’s so annoying.
Stanger – Sorry pal, you seem to be getting a lot of unnecessary flack lately. I knew you were agreeing with Steve there. Hang in there tough guy! 🙂
Of all the peeps on this board, Stanger is the least likely to engage in baiting, trolling, antagonistic or controversial posts. He usually plays the voice of reason. Other than saying he was a Never Trumper voting for Biden…that’s baiting, trolling, antagonistic, controversial and generally unacceptable, the rotten bastard.
LOL — I’m touched Phelon. Never knew you cared. And I voted for Hillary last time around too. 🙂 3 of the 10 people respected most in my life had met/dealt with Trump.
Thanks Mike E — but not real worried about it. I survived Walker. 🙂
It never occurred to me that a bigger mask was the answer?
https://twitter.com/DavidJHarrisJr/status/1296174913313800197?s=20
Wyo – I feel bad for you too bud, no cheerleaders????? WTF!!!
NO Wyoming U football!
No Cheerleaders!
Politics 24 / 7!
I think it’s time to fish!!!!!!!!
As for my bit with the flack with Stanger, i thought he was giving me flack lol, just felt like past few times there were replies to my posts from him it was aggressive, and ill admit, its likely because of his general lack of aggression that it appeared that way and i was blowing it out of proportion. Its also my fault for replying like that, since what i really wanted to know was did i shit in his cheerios at some point and not realized it. Still i know how things get and i know text doesn’t always read right so i am sorry for jumping to conclusions, and my opinion of Stanger is he is exactly like everyone is describing here, and i havent changed my opinion, i just didn’t know what was going on and turns out nothing was. Incidentally Stanger i do apologize to you for the misinterpretation.
And now they have the nerve to try to get me to work at work???????
WTF is that all about?????
Go on unemployment, it pays better.
stangerx says:
August 19, 2020 at 12:56 pm
This may not make ORob happy about his new pounder.
“Since Jordan Howard came into the league in 2016, he is sixth among RBs (minimum 100 carries) in percentage of rushes that went for at least 10 yards.”
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D says:
August 19, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Just means there will be a bunch we cant count when evaluating him.
D says:
August 19, 2020 at 4:53 pm
As for my bit with the flack with Stanger, i thought he was giving me flack lol, just felt like past few times there were replies to my posts from him it was aggressive, and ill admit, its likely because of his general lack of aggression that it appeared that way and i was blowing it out of proportion. Its also my fault for replying like that, since what i really wanted to know was did i shit in his cheerios at some point and not realized it. Still i know how things get and i know text doesn’t always read right so i am sorry for jumping to conclusions, and my opinion of Stanger is he is exactly like everyone is describing here, and i havent changed my opinion, i just didn’t know what was going on and turns out nothing was. Incidentally Stanger i do apologize to you for the misinterpretation.
We’re all cool my friend. Just might be that I’ll argue a logical point to the death , which is different than at other times. Including about football.
Oh and as far as paid protesters, they did a group of them that was being bused around from place to place “professional” protesters they were being called and they were being paid to protest. I know the first time i heard about it was when they had the violent protests in Baltimore a few years back. There were reports then of it so im sure that hasn’t changed, as there have been lots of reports of people being arrested who have no connections to the cities that they were protesting in. I have friends in Duluth MN police department, and Atlanta police departments, and both areas had arrests of people like that.
Most places going paid bus them in. Not many paychecks involved though. And think about it……. bunch of folks getting huge money to protest would hit the news big time. Might be the spark for the fire though.
Lol🤔
Like the MSM would ever report anything like that these days.
I’m still mostly agreeing with you dude. And I’ve seen it with my own eyes. But yes everyone does not get paid. They rallly wherever and get on the bus paid for by whoever organizes it. Some times a box lunch is provided. Paychecks are only for the organizers though.
Certainly wasnt all of them, probably majority showed up from local areas, but there was a group that were there after being brought in. They were paid too, i mean i dont think it was like a full salary or anything but they got something in the way of like a per diem.
D- can absolutely guarantee that was not the case in the situations I saw. But that doesn’t mean it is not in whatever protest you want to name now. How could I possibly know?
JUST COMPLETED A DOLPHINS’ CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY. YOU’ll be stunned to know that I raked the ticket department over the coals for shipping either my game tix or parking passes after some games had already been played 3 of the last 3 years!
Make that 3 of the last FOUR years!
LOL Stanger – We ALL survived Walker. Heck, I miss him, he could come here anytime.
And Gigi, i was not a fan of her either. I might be alone in that feeling but im gonna guess probably not. Another kinda polarizing personality.
Break out player Ford.
They say he can play the slot, so that’s my projected 1st teamer there. At 6’2″ and 200 lbs we’ll be tall at WR with 3 possession receivers. Sprinkle Grant in to change it up…
I had a lot of hope for him when we drafted him, he was what i thought was a very high value pick getting him that late, BUT then nothing has ever happened, he has never taken his place. There have been players he surely should have beaten out and he just didnt. Maybe he needed time to get there, but after being pretty excited to get him on draft day, im kinda meh about him now. I wouldn’t be surprised that Jennings and Merritt beat him out.
If we keep 6, and i think we Do, i think Ford is in, but i think Ford is a better outside receiver than slot, im sure he can be moved in and out of the slot position so he probably splits snaps with someone if he makes it, But outside starters, Parker and Williams, rotating on the outside Ford and Jennings. Slot, i think ya have a rotation there between Grant, Merritt, and Cole.We could see a guy like Cole stashed on the PS, and keep Rogers instead and he would rotate in the slot. Depending on the game, and the game plan i think Rogers/Cole, Ford, or Jennings, might be inactive. I think the rest of them will be active most games.
Robert Hunt had a day. He was moving people off the football and scored a pass-blocking win on Ogbah in a one-on-one situation during the team period.
Curtis Weaver had a would-be sack in the team period. Weaver’s crafty arsenal of rush moves set the record for all-time career sacks in the Mountain West Conference and he used a swipe to free himself from a block to get home on the quarterback.
Jesse Davis had a tall order when he had to seal the edge on the lengthy, consistent run-defending Kyle Van Noy. Davis got outside, got the seal and created a big lane for Breida.
Nik Needham brought down Mack Hollins with an impressive open-field tackle. We haven’t covered Needham much through three days, but that’s because he’s not seeing many targets – always a good thing for a cornerback.
Kavon Frazier closed down on a run play for a tackle for loss in the team period. He has an impressive combination of athleticism and size and uses it to make plays around the line of scrimmage.
WHAT!
The Flyers/Canadians game is getting wild. The Habs are playing for their playoff lives and the Flyers are playing to end it. The tempo is insane.
It has been a surprisingly competitive series, even if it ends 4-1.
The Habs are a good team. They just had a 4-2 lead waived off for offsides which it was. So back to Habs up 3-2.
Colorado scored 14 goals in the last two against Arizona? geez Coyotes, why even bother showing up just to lay down like that?
The Flyers/Canadians game has everything you want in a hockey game. It’s so entertaining. The intensity is off the charts.
Canucks have started with a lot of intensity. Blues defense has been strong though and we’re putting some big hits on them. Hopefully we’ll wear them down and they’ll get frustrated and lose composure like they did last game.
Unbelievable. I say that, and our guy whiffs on a shot, breaks his stick, and gives up a shorty.
Boom, got it right back.
Isn’t Flowers big #75 watching whomever?
Can’t tell?
But it doesn’t look like an Oline demonstrating!
That might be Austin Jackson doing a drill.
Can’t tell?
But it doesn’t look like an Oline demonstrating!
Maybe I can get a date with
Hmmm… yes!
They are obviously into 🐷
Look behind them
He has a point.
Tua and Rosen might be #1 and #2 in 2021. We’re still in Phase II this year. New offense with Fitz leading the way early on under Gailey.
If Rosen speed’s up his game, he could be major draft / trade bait!
Or if his attitude is as good as advertised, He’d at least make a great back-up!
FIRST, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE for putting on a most entertaining and successful series of playoff games during these difficult times. THE NFL can only dream of being as successful; and MLB has not come even close to equalling what the NHL has achieved!
SECOND, PET PEEVE TIME. MY WIFE AND I own a house in West Palm Beach. Naturally I follow the hurricane season forecasts pretty closely. Over the last few years, The Weather Channel has changed its’ philosophy from just reporting the facts to emphasizing the worst case scenarios in a misguided attempt to draw more advertisements and, in theory, higher profits.
CASE IN POINT: currently there are two depressions in the Atlantic basin. One is headed for landfall somewhere in the the Mexican peninsula before moving on to the Gulf of Mexico and, possibly, the Texas coast. It is NOT forecast by the computers to be a major hurricane, and may be only a minimal hurricane. The other depression is forecast by the computers to only attain tropical storm winds or, at worst, a minimal hurricane. Right now, Florida is in the cone of probability. So what does TWC forecaster Jim Cantore say?? He reminds viewers of catastrophic Cat 5 canes of the past and suggests that this storm could ramp-up to major hurricane status just off south Florida before devastating the Sunshine State!! He cautions viewers to “stay tuned to the Weather Channel for the latest updates on this potential calamity!”
THIS IS BULLSHIT!!! NO RESPONSIBLE FORECAST EXISTS that predicts anything like a major calamity from either of these depressions. PERIOD!! A local weather man on channel 28 here in Tampa (Denis Philipps) is saying that these storms need to be watched. BUT he’s also telling THE TRUTH; to wit—-NEITHER of these depressions are forecast to cause major damage and, in fact, at least one of them may only be a tropical storm when and if it hits the U.S.
I’M CALLING “FAKE NEWS” ON THE WEATHER CHANNEL!!!
That’s the world we live in. A precedent sent by MSM, and that’s why you keep hearing things like be careful what you wish for…same thing with the fake impeachment, now they’ve set up every future president, with a House from the other party, to be impeached in the House.
ON ANOTHER TOPIC, Walker and Miss GIGI can come back to this site any time and I won’t be the least bit upset. I’ll be happy. I ONCE took Walker to a Dolphins game at my expense just so he could experience “MY POSSE” and all that went with it in the tailgating area. WE HAD A BLAST!
And, as for Miss Gigi, there’d be NO “Absolute Perfection” series had she NOT stepped-up and helped this computer illiterate author put that series together. I’ll always be indebted to her.
I get that and it’s true of all people, there is good to be had with all and bad ya have to deal with. Still there is no denying the strife either of them brought, I’d be good with either coming back too as long as things have settled bout in their life well enough that it could be civil
Ditto on them coming back, never understood the squabbles they had or who they were with.
The dreads guy in the picture up there is Kinsley. The only person bigger than him is Flowers so 75 is him, Hunt is the ponytail beside him, Jackson is doing the drill and I think that’s Shaq Calhoun in the middle.
Thanks D
Good to see things like this, you think Miami dolphins you think football but they are also part of a community and they are constantly doing good things there. Can’t see how Ross and his motives are ever in question.
Yeah, Stills really pissed me off by his comments. It’s never enough. That was low of Stills to belittle what Ross is doing. I used to like Stills, thought he was doing some good things for the black community, and he did, but making little of someone making an effort for the cause is wrong.
People like Stills are never satisfied, so why bother trying to help them, the more you give the more they want/demand.
We had a family business in LA, some homeless people around, because the recycling center was down the street. My dad and I would put the cardboard boxes in the alley for them to take to recycle. One day a homeless lady asks my sister for some money, and she gives her a couple of bucks. Every day that week she hit her up and every day she gave her a couple of bucks. On the Friday the lady said, if you give me $20 I won’t ask you again for a month.
A guy here comes up to my car and asks for money, I gave him $3, he then tells me some story about his mother and wants me to put them up for the night. Getting rid of them would’ve been fun.
Think the picture was more about Flowers being out there as the vet with all the rookies and second year guys than who was instructing whom
Mikey I’m smoking a 601 this morning it’s from the Don Pepin Garcia family. Maybe not as immaculately crafted as a Don Pepin or a my father but it’s pretty good.
I can honestly say I never smoked a cigar in the morning. I don’t think I could do it, it would be like drinking hard liquor in the morning. How was the 601?
Got to where I really enjoy one with coffee. The 601 was really good. It was a madero so it’s a bolder smoke but it was smooth and with the coffee really gave off a lot of cocoa notes.
Kindley is the one holding the other end of the bungee rope…
Are ya sure? I know Kindley has dreads and is about that size. Face looks like Kindley too.
I have no doubt you’re right about which one he is. 🙂 I was just making a joke about Kindley’s size, lol. (Look at the angle of the rope)
I’ve got a reoccurring joke with Kindley being the size of a building.
Oh ok. Yeah I’m pretty sure about Kindley, he was one of my favorite OL for us through the whole process. He is the size of a building though. Shocked that Flowers is bigger to be honest but from that picture he seems significantly bigger.
Almost 700 lbs between them. Get those big boys moving forward on some run plays!
Karras between the 2 skyscrapers would look like a house owned by the little old lady that won’t sell😉
He’s going to look tiny between those guys.
Here you see Kindley standing behind Ted Karras
https://www.miamidolphins.com/video/ted-karras-training-camp-press-conference
LOL
Rosen should stay and be the backup in 2021. I mean what other job in America can you make millions at by doing nothing?
I wouldn’t exactly call what football players have to endure during practice as nothing, but as far as contact and not being able to walk or have Elway fingers after you retire he wouldn’t be subject to that.
If true that he has little desire to play (I know that statement was originally take out of context, but what the hell it fits here, so…), then it’s perfect for him😁
Well there’s this????? 😉
Flowers is a huge man. He was a monster 1st rd tackle prospect but he doesn’t have the feet for the edge. Inside he can move people though.
Only negative, and its not that big of a deal with a QB who knows how to shift around, is he’s really tall for an OG, so he will hurt throwing lanes for a shortish QB. That said, Tua moves around and finds his lanes really well, so long term i dont see it as an issue.
I don’t worry about that. There are lots of guards in the league at 6-5 and 6-6. It’s not like they stand upright and wave their arms around. LOL
Yeah but not a ton of 6ft only QB’s, though there been a increasing number of them.
Dolphins DB’s
https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1296239021052571652?s=20
So should the new slogan for football players be: Pound the pud, to avoid the crud? Stay away from Mona so ya dont catch the corona? Dump it in a sock so you can be a healthy jock?
They have Michael Deiter learning Center. Makes a lot of sense to me. Would be nice to have him as Karras’ replacement, especially if our rookies settle in long-term. And even if he doesn’t excel at it……. he becomes a more valuable back-up.
At this point thats what i think he is bound for, backup at the interior positions, i want him to become a starter, but he’s running out of time to establish himself as one. Unless Karras sucks, and i dont think he will, im thinking more of a muti=position backup for Dieter.
And doesn’t have to be this year. Karras is on a one-year contract.
Needs to be soon, his 4 years is up in 2022, so time is ticking by. I think Karras could extend with us, they signed him to a one year because last year was his only real year as a starter and it wasnt even a full year, so Karras is a little bit of an unknown as far as a potential long term starter. Dieter being good gives us negotiation leverage with Karras, but i think Karras if playing well is more likely to get resigned than letting him walk in favor of Dieter.
Maybe it is Karras, maybe Deiter or maybe some center comes our way in the offseason. We have lots of leverage on both of them. I’m just hoping the rooks look good.
Play to their strengths, work on their weaknesses until you can call those strengths as well. Basic philosophy in any leadership position with a crew under you that requires development.
Most things in the world revolve around very simple and universal concepts, and you have to get pretty deep in the subject to ever find the parts where those things deviate from those universal concepts. I teach this to my employees when teaching them good troubleshooting techniques.
Gailey has a lot of really awesome ways of explaining things, like he explained that a QB learning a new system isnt as much about learning plays but learning a new language, and the difference between learning a new language but still having to translate from the one ya know to the other basically clogs things up, and when you become fluent and think in that new language is when you will start to excel. That and the bigger is better only when its better statement, which is true, and why so many great players in college dont make it, they rely so much on their athletic and physical gifts they dont always learn to actually play the game well, so yeah thats always been my feelings and why i dont always put a lot of stock on the numbers at the combine, because you can ooooh and aaaaah all you want over those numbers, but you really dont know what ya got to work with because they might be football tarded or too arrogant to learn.
Big, strong, or fast guys get by in college without being technical, because their talent is so much better, then they get to the pros and it’s not as pronounced, and they have issues. Some learn to be technical, but those that don’t usually are out of the league quick.
Weaver is the opposite, he’s technical, but doesn’t have the God given talent. He’s the type of guy that has always had to be smarter and more technical to accomplish what he has, and will succeed in the NFL.
Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman is in a heap of trouble. He was caught on a “hot mike” right before coverage continued saying “it is the fag capital of the world.” Have no idea what city he was talking about.
He was yanked before the end of the doubleheader. Part that got me is that after first hearing about the “gay slur” had to work fairly hard to find out what it was. Papers just wouldn’t publish it. We are in the PC age.
My guess is he was talking about SF, because of its large LGBTQ(whatever other letters are after this now) community. Still nice slip that will cost him a career.
Weird though that he would say SF, because it’s really not new to anyone.
If I said that to you, I’d expect the response no shit Sherlock.
SF comes to mind, but they don’t play the Giants. You didn’t really give much context though, so I may not be the team they were playing.
Surprised more of these old codger announcers havennt been busted like this. Between being not as technically astute as younger people and most of them very stuck in their time, seems like a recipe for shit like this happening.
It’s amazing to me anyone would be stupid enough to say anything controversial while wearing a mic whether they think it’s hot or not. How many of these things have to happen? doh!
The goofiest part of the story to me is once it was brought to his attention that what he said went out, he started to apologize on the air right as a guy hit a homer. So he’s apologizing and in the middle of it goes back to the game call, lol.
It goes back to you Can’t teach an old dog new tricks. It’s just not natural for some of them, usually type A personalities, to think about what they’re saying, before they say it.
The early baby boomers have gone from the last of the tough guys, to can’t operate a computer and speak anything close to politically correct.
Yep, a dying breed incapable of adaptation.
Stang, in regards to having to look to find what the slur was, did you read about the BBC network that used the ‘N’ word on air while reporting on a story about some racist attack or something along those lines? They got destroyed for it.
The station tried to explain they used it in the context of reporting about it and the word specifically in the case they were reporting on. Nobody cared. All they cared about was that the station used the word. Context just didn’t matter to the general public.
I don’t use the word, and don’t like to hear it, unless used in a comical way black on black comedy. I know some say its hypocritical for blacks to use it, then tell white people not to say it, but… white on black in any way shouldn’t be used even in comedy.
I never use the word either. It makes me uncomfortable to hear it as well. I think it is the single most negative word in the English language. And I don’t feel I have any right to tell the black community they can or can’t use it. That is entirely up to that community as far as I care. And even their own community isn’t on the same page about it, but again, as a white guy I don’t feel I get a say in that conversation.
I found the BBC thing interesting though. When it comes to reporting, I don’t want things sanitized. I want clear, raw unbiased reporting, but I think this is a perfect example of how the issues we have with reporting in general are just as much us, the consumer, pushing our reporting agencies in a direction as much as it is the other way around.
And don’t mistake that to mean that I think that news agencies should be able to use the ‘N’ word. it could have been any other word. I’m saying it’s an example of the public impacting and directing how something is reported.
It’s not the public that’s pushing that, at least it didn’t start that way.
I agree mostly with your take, except your identity politics view.
Are you saying it wasn’t the BBC public that was in an uproar? Was it really the dems and the left? lol
Cav — I think overly PC way silly at times, but same time remember what my older relatives said that made me cringe when was growing up (including the N word). If I’d confronted them my guess is they would have thought I was silly PC.
It’s definitely a matter of perspective. I’ve had numerous conversations with my kids about PC culture, and it’s hard for me to wrap my head around their viewpoints at times.
Got in boaters in the crowd? Bought a house in the Keys and now Ima need a fishing boat.
Awesome for you Phelon. Can’t help with the boat but what key?
You need a yard guy?
Lol
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-the-nfl-teams-most-likely-to-go-from-worst-to-first-during-the-2020-season/
A big LOL out to Goodyear stock dropping.
Right?
Steve, I do disagree with you on the idea of how it can be used in comedy though. I do respect your position, as we all have our own lines. And if that is how you feel, more power to ya. But I am a firm believer in the Parker and Stone (and really most comics) view on comedy. Either everything is ok, or nothing is. Once you start drawing those lines of compromise, then where does it stop?
It’s a huge discussion right now in the world of comedy, because the gigantic PC movement, Me too, inclusion of LGBT all are changing the way we view comedy, and comics are feeling the squeeze.
Pretty soon all comedy is going to be reruns of Leave it to Beaver and an all inclusive Andy Griffin Show.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paterson-new-jersey-voter-fraud-new-election-city-council-race
That one seat on the Paterson City Council sure is getting a lot of attention. Funny how little mention that mid-term election for a congressional seat in North Carolina gets where a new election was ordered. Maybe when it comes to fraud depends on which party did it.
Steve,
I know I presented it as a joke, but I am curious as to your meaning with identity politics in regards to this instance.
What I assume you mean, in a nutshell, is the left agenda riles people up over race, they are in an uproar over the actions of a news network, the network then changes their reporting more in line with what the left wants. You label it as identity politics because ultimately you feel it’s the left pulling those sociopolitical strings to influence the media?
Is that an accurate assessment?
The only other thing I can think you meant was that being white, I don’t feel I have a voice in how the black community uses the N word or not. That would be more in line with the meaning of ‘identity politics’.
Actually both of these.
Phelon
I’ll come Captain this one for you!
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That one would work.
Yeah I think comedy should be no holds barred. One of the reasons I like Anthony Jeselink so much, subject matter, phrasing, he goes for the kill on the joke.
Oh an words are all about context. The n word exists in other languages, though in those languages it has a different meaning, like in African it means giver, so that tells you a word has no meaning until it’s given one, and that being true, how you use it and the context and intent of it’s use is completely important to whether there she be outrage over it
It’s pretty hard to say anything these days w/o offending someone. I’m thinking there are just too many subjects you can’t say these days. Here on this blog that’s not the case but I mean speaking in public.
Its easy, just dont be a dick. Live you life by the golden rule. Don’t be a dick to others, if you wouldn’t want someone to be a dick to you. Oh and never count runs of 10+ yards on first down when determining a backs effectiveness on 1st down.
LOL, I wish it was that easy. The problem is that the ‘dick’ line keeps moving around.
Yeah, but that’s just not true, I think people are pointing fingers all over the place these days, and just recently I was engaged in a discussion of BLM and I was accused of being racist because while pointing out crime statistics in inner cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Camden etc that blacks kill more blacks than police kill blacks by far. They said it was racist that I used the word “blacks”. I mean the plural of black is “blacks”, right? If I was saying whites kill more whites, would that also be racist? I don’t understand.
I offend people regularly…… just sorta how I roll. 🙂
LOL — and most folks on this board are getting closer to the time where can just be the cranky old man. There’s a freedom in that…… ask Stephen Ross about OD. 🙂
Kong – Amen! The dick is in the eye of the beholder! LOL
LOL, yep!
Talk about irony. My wife has her engine light go off. That’s serous stuff right? We go right in.
Turned out it was a bad sensor. And now her car has been in the shop for 4 days cause they are waiting for the new sensor to come in. That sensor got us twice.
BTW, my point above was the girl wasn’t offended by the stats, she didn’t like them, but felt me using the word “blacks”. Anyone got anything on this? Is that wrong to say?
Actually no. Sam Acho on his series uncomfortable conversations with a black man, said black is the correct term to use. Not my opinion, opinion of and uncomfortable black man.
I’ve seen similar things with other black people (not Acho) saying that as well. Afro American seems to have gone by the wayside because many black people aren’t from Africa and don’t have any African ancestry. I think they were really reaching for anything to make me a racist because they were losing the argument.
Oh yes she was offended stats even if couldn’t deny. Same way that even if “all lives matter” is true not something to say. Think that got her going. Someone doesn’t like how you put something ask them how you should have put it. Black is the PC acceptable these days. Sorta of funny that African-American (the old PC term) is accepted but makes you look old school now.
Mike,
I think the idea of whether or not it’s ok to describe black people as black is a good example of questioning what is being an offensive person and what isn’t. It’s called black lives matter, most black people I know use the term black as a descriptor, but I guess some people get offended by it. So can I call black people black people without being offensive or not?
In the past I’ve often used the terms black folk and white folk. I don’t remember what high profile person did that recently, but they got destroyed for it. Why? What’s wrong with appending ‘folk’ when talking about a group?
I don’t use these terms out of some stupid form of intransigence. I try to use something appropriate. Growing up there was nothing wrong with black and white. And to this day, it still seems to be used extensively. So am I being the dick because 8% of people find it offensive?
I’ve stopped using the word retarded even though it has always been one of my favorite words. I miss it a lot. I truly lament the loss of that word, lol. But it’s universally deemed inappropriate, so I adapted.
Give me a line, and I’ll decide what side of it I want to be on, but stop moving it every 10 seconds! lol
I didn’t adapt on the word retarded. I never actually use it to describe a person, when doing that I say mentally challenged or if I know their disorder, autism I label them accordingly. I’ll use the fuck out of it to describe a normals person mentally challenged actions though.
LOL, I remember you and Naples having that conversation.
My wife and I started a short lived movement to bring back the word retarded. We called it ‘viva le tarde’. If I’m being honest, the viva le tarde revolution only lasted as long as it took to smoke our joint and fall asleep.
Still our hearts were in the right place…
Kong – I hear ya, I miss that word too. Never in my mind was I thinking I might be offending anyone when I used to say it, but I can certainly understand that wasn’t the case, so now it’s gone.
Viva Le Tarde!!!
Yeah, that sucks. It’s going to happen in MLB just like it happens everywhere else on this planet. Not surprising, just disappointing.
What a dick, LOL 😁
D says:
August 20, 2020 at 4:49 pm
Its easy, just dont be a dick. Live you life by the golden rule. Don’t be a dick to others, if you wouldn’t want someone to be a dick to you. Oh and never count runs of 10+ yards on first down when determining a backs effectiveness on 1st down.
Steve,
I kinda thought that might be the case. It’s a term you use, so I just wanted to make sure I understood your thought process and what it means to you. Cheers.
Stanger – Sugarloaf..
Nice. And shouldn’t be a bad ride to the airport for you.
I think Parker isn’t going to be able to slack off this year, because Jones and X will be talking so much smack to him, his diva side won’t allow it.
And yes he’s a diva, we saw that with his rant with Michael Thomas.
With 4 CBs playing as our back 4, plus Iggy, we’ve got 4 out of 5 guys that have ball hawk abilities, and the other one won’t be thrown at too often.
Guys, you should see the weather here. It’s insane and apocalyptical. We’ve got fires burning in nearby towns, so for the last two days we’ve been overcast with ridiculous hot weather. We’ve had ash falling from the sky like snow for two days. I left work and literally wiped away half an inch accumulated on the top of the car.
Jump on the highest building and swat that shit to the east.. Don’t forget to grab a few blondes… oh shit that my be racist just grab any hot chick. 😎👍🐕🥃🥃
Sounds like a plan 🙂
Fuck off😁 we’ve got enough of your polluted air here.
The other day, it got to like 110, it was still about 90 late that night (around midnight), and it started pouring hot rain for about 15 minutes, then the lightning started, then the rain stopped.
If I was a religious person, I’d be talking about end of days, lol.
So if I call someone a Cum Guzzling Gutter Slut that is a Mental Midget I might offend 3% of the population and get cancelled ? OK .. suck it up buttercup. And go fuck yourselves 🐕
Lmao!
YOUNG STANGER: If you’re implying that my criticism of Steve Ross is due to my age (“cranky old man”) you are dead wrong!! My criticisms of Ross are due to his repeated mistreatment of season ticket holders among my “posse” (all of whom DROPPED their season tix over a 3 year period), and are NOT caused by increasing age. Ross’s repeated hiring of proven losers for the GM position (Ireland, Tannenbaum, etc.) and his selection of inferior head coaches prior to the current head coach are part and parcel (or is that “Parcells?”) of my critique of his decade of failure. His W-L record is, by far, the worst of any owner in Dolphins history. That’s not “Cranky Old Man” talking. –It’s FACTS that are talking. And the fact that he upgraded the stadium (after failing to get the taxpayers to pay for most of it) does NOT give him a “bye” in my book. It simply means that Ross put a higher priority on the stadium than he did on a winning team. Hopefully, after 10 years of failure, Ross has finally righted the ship. But the bottom line is still this: the Dolphins have NEVER won a playoff game during the Steve Ross Era.
Yet he invested millions of dollars in coaches and players, including Parcels, that we all thought were great at the time. I mean at some point you have to let it go and give him credit for moving forward and improving. Does Huizinga get a pass for some reason? He and Shula pissed away Marino’s years! That will always be my worst Dolphin regret.
OD — I was just joking around. And shouldn’t have mentioned Ross cause knew it would get you going. Should have just left it at you do a good cranky old man. Part of why I love you man. 🙂
https://youtu.be/focODnV4qC8
This is why I say the left politicians are hypocrites, they talk about all this fake take from the top 1% and give to the rest for their socialist programs, yet 8 out of the 10 richest counties are around DC.
It all comes from the middle class. Anything they take is either passed on to consumers, or shipped off to another country that won’t tax it. The biggest gap between wealth is always in Dem cities. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-10/wage-inequality-is-surging-in-california-and-not-just-on-the-coast-heres-why
I have been somewhat following that weather over there Kong. It’s pretty nuts from few things I have seen. It’s like the perfect storm of problems all stacking up on one another. Stay safe.
YES, KONG, stay safe!! OK, boyz and galz, you’ve got Tampa Bay vs. Boston and, probably, Philadelphia vs. the NY Islanders in the Eastern Conference. WHO DO YOU LIKE to come out of this group?? Frankly, my heart is with the Lightning, especially if Stamkos can play this round. But Philly has the most talent and the Islanders have the best coach (Barry Trotz). Give me the team with the best coach if I have to bet on who represents the East in the Stanley Cup Finals.