This is easily the strangest opening to a season that I can remember. I don’t recall knowing this little about our team at this point of the season, just 3 days before our season opener. What I do know is our team is a very young team, 2 of the young ones pictured will likely determine our success or demise this Sunday. Rookie starting LT Austin Jackson is getting his first start of hopefully a very long successful career but it will be difficult task going up against a Bill Belichick team. It doesn’t matter what the names are on the New England defense, he will disguise and confuse even the savviest OL, so both Austin Jackson (LT) and big Solomon Kindley (RG) will have to be on point. If you were to subtract the age of our starting QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, we’re trotting out a very young team. Jackson (21), Flowers (26), Karras (27), Kindley (23) and Davis, the elder statesman at 29. Devante Parker (27), Preston Williams (23), Jakeem Grant (27), Mike Gesicki (24), Durham Smythe (25), Jordan Howard (25) and Chandler Cox (24). The average of the 12 listed (including both TE Durham Smythe and FB Chandler Cox) is 25 years old. Throw in these important factors, very little practice time, no preseason games, a lot of new faces put together, facing a seasoned master in Bill Belichick and there is a chance that many things can go wrong. On the other hand, I think Flores will have our team prepared and I do believe we can see success against the Patriots this Sunday.
That was just our offense, our defense is quite young as well. I’ll spare you the lists with ages but the average age is 25.5 years old. LB Kyle Van Noy is the elder at 30 on the defense. The depth is really young as well, on both sides. It’s a great start in year 1 of the rebuild, it really is. Yes, it was disappointing to jettison Raekwon McMillan who no longer fit our needs because we’ve been doing this for a long time, drafting talent, changing schemes and then purging the talent that doesn’t fit. Hopefully with Flores and Grier we’re done with that cycle. Picking up WR/RB/QB Lynn Bowden from the Raiders make me think we’re not going to be the 1 WR, 2 TE rushing attack a lot of the time. I think we’re looking for playmakers all over the place and in today’s NFL, that’s wise. You have to score to keep up. Nothing like being able to run a game out but you have to be up in order to do that. You can’t stop the best teams from scoring, that’s a fact. You have to be able to keep up. I don’t really know what to expect from our defense. I know we have really shored up the back end with a quality secondary by adding Byron Jones to Xavien Howard for s shutdown duo of CB’s and a fine young rookie NB in Noah Igbinoghene. Bobby McCain will be the centerfielder while Eric Rowe will likely be closer to the LOS. What will be interesting to see how we use the LB’s and DL and in what combinations. Baker and Roberts will patrol the middle with Ogbah and Van Noy on the outside. Of course there will be various formations and Lawson and Strowbridge and Van Ginkel will be a part of. Looking forward to seeing all the pieces in play and even if we’re not successful this Sunday, at least hoping we see signs that things are going to be better.
I look forward to seeing DeVante Parker starting strong and seeing Preston Williams all the way back from injury. Can Jakeem Grant hold off the competition for slot play from Mack Hollins, Malcolm Perry and Lynn Bowden? Will we actually be able to run the ball effectively? Will our young OL be able to pass protect for Ryan Fitzpatrick or will he be running for his life as he did last season. Will our front 7 be able to generate a pass rush for a change? Will the three headed CB combo of Howard, Jones and Iggy be one of the NFL’s best? Can Rowe make the switch to safety and is Bobby Mac ready to resume his role of safety and stay healthy? A lot of questions loom, as the even bigger question that is silent at the moment, but you know when does Tua play is lurking not so stealthily in the shadows. It’s there, because as soon as Fitz has his bad day, it will rear it’s ugly head and be right there in the forefront. For now at least, it hides.
Keep in mind that Bill Belichick desperately wants to answer the question “Was it Belichick or Brady” with a resounding Belichick! Tom Brady, sickeningly so has been anointed NFC MVP and is already in the fucking Superbowl against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. It’s disgusting! I guess the NFL needs a storyline and now instead of seeing New England Patriots 24/7 it’s the freaking Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Brady every second. I think Brady has the better chance to succeed with all that talent on the roster but never count the master Belichick out. True, he won’t have his stalwart QB Brady running the offense anymore and I’m not much of a Cam fan, I think he’s been one of the most overrated QB’s in the game. I don’t think he deserves a marquis, he’s a JAG. If he’s healthy, he’s a threat to run and I think that’s where he’s most dangerous to the opposition. If he’s back there slinging it, I think he’s more dangerous to his own team. It’s going to be fun watching this game, so many angles to come together to make this game a must watch.
GO DOLPHINS!!
#staythecourse
Finsmob Unleashed 
Another read option QB to deal with next week. We better have a better scheme in place
I dont think the long term prognosis is that we are going to struggle with read option QBs
I think we struggled with fundamentals
Bc we are a young team that didn’t have the benefit of preseason or anything resembling an nfl game
Did you see the snap count I posted
It wasn’t exCely like we had Savy veterans out there
I dont think the long term prognosis is that we are going to struggle with read option QBs
I think we struggled with fundamentals
Bc we are a young team that didn’t have the benefit of preseason or anything resembling an nfl team
Did you see the snap count I posted
It wasn’t exCellent like we had Savy veterans out there
Get the papers
Get the papers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-newton-explains-importance-of-chain-dolphins-tried-to-rip-off-and-why-he-took-issue-with-it/
Cam, we don’t care. You are a punk and were over acting just like a punk. Your team mates should have let go of you so you could get your ass beat down for your over acting. End of story.
A punk is a good way to explain this guy. I never liked him and he always seems to validate my opinion of him.
Didn’t seem the Panther’s front office cared al that much about keeping him either. Attitude he does have. Might be part of why the Pats got him so cheap.
Stanger – I have no recollection of that FF game. I’m usually in 3 leagues at a minimum each year so everything just blends together
Well it was the best result in the league by far in it’s five years. Like some record people say will never be broken cause was done in high altitude at the Mexico City Olympics. 🙂
Don’t worry about remembering the beat down I just gave Toba this week
He’s already announced his willingness to get a tattoo to commemorate the score
You crushed man. They only give the top scores each year, but looking like you are #3.
What do you mean #3?
Third highest scoring game in the history of the league, but they only show the highest each season in the history. So when Mike E crushed it might have been one that pushes you to #4.
stangerx says:
September 14, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Especially given it was the Pats, they looked presentable. Rush D bugged the heck out of me, but understand was a most unusual situation. Waiting to see what we do against a passing team. Sorta of what we are built for.
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You are just better off with the mobile QB’s not to over pursue so the all our rush is damaging, Its better to flush them out and make him scramble out to where you are kinda waiting. If you have good seasoned DE’s, they can pull off both, because the recognize and fall out of the rush and into contain, but being its game 1 and they wanted to contain, they probably told them not to sell out on the rush
stangerx says:
September 14, 2020 at 2:47 pm
Just one game but it is starting already. Whole lot of make a headline that will be clicked on guys are calling for Tua to start. Not talking about our beat reporters at this point at least, more the same people who were saying “Tanking for Tua.” Don’t think they need to know much about the team, just a way to get clicks.
But Fitz has been in the league a good while and went to Harvard….. am sure he knew what he was in for.
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You knew it ws only a matter of time before they started that. Its a new shiny toy and they wants to plays withs itsssss my precious!
My guess is the same guys put out similar “hooks” for half the teams and didn’t even watch our game on Sunday.
Allen isnt as much of a threat in RPO as CAM and the CAM game tape will help them be better prepared. I think this is great to have a back to back chance for the team to grow.
WTF, why did i cpas cam not one but twice lol
Cam has always had a shitty attitude. He left UF because he didnt wanna wait behind Tebow, and he literally left right before he was going to be the starter. He was getting in trouble stealing things back then even though he comes from a fairly wealthy home, so that tells you he just wants the attention,he will get it however he can, like calling out players trying to rip off his chain. I Never wore my chain when i played, thats just dumb to start with in a game where grabbing you and pullingis part of the action.
So I think, with my new fantasy success I should do a solid for the community and give some fantasy pointers
1. Complete lack of preparation. I didn’t read anything about any player rankings for the 2020 year. I wasn’t even sure we were going to play football in 2020.
2. Autodraft. As I was requesting links yesterday to watch the game I thought about asking when our draft was.
3. I forgot my password. That’s right: I only logged on after hearing you guys talk about my score. My last log in was probably November 2019.
If you follow these steps, you too can be a fantasy football colossus!
Some of my best weeks followed similar steps.
Oink vey
That strategy won’t work through the bye weeks, but it sure did this weekend.
We are slowly but surely losing standard QB technique to RPO, so this test was a good one and next week is a good next one and not just for the players but the coaches, the change to the NFL had already started but its quickly getting there to where soon thats the way all team we will be. We will be too once Tua takes over.
If that is the way all teams will be then we are building the wrong D. Could have used McMillan on Sunday.
No we are building the right D, we just need the players to get use to those schemes and learn their jobs. Our D is made for the assignment football thats needed sometimes to shut down RPO, we did a decent job once we switched to that scheme, but early on we weren’t doing that, there was no spy there was no shallow LB. We will get there, we have the right players and the right D, we just didnt start the game calling it that way. Coach’s probably knew we might have to swap to it but you try to do it and maintin your game plan, and just switch to assigment once its start breaking down. Eventually we will be able to do the fluid style he wants to run, without the assignment but its baby steps at this point.
Ill agree with you that McMillan wouldhave helped some, he would have helped the up the gut stuff when the RB’s were sliping through the center, but like i was saying, you need your DL to shut that down and while they did ok in some aspects, they really werent clogging the running lanes in the middle well, at least Wilkins wasnt. McMillan is a liability against RPO as far as stopping the guys once they bounce it outside, he wouldnt have helped with Cam at all. Baker is the type of guy you want going against a Cam Newton, he will get there and he did a great job considering he was doing most of all the sideline to sideline stuff on his own.
I was just in a shitty mood yesterday with the way we played and then I lost the feed and couldn’t watch the entire game. No it wasn’t the worst game ever or anything and yes we have a lot of new players and young players with no PS. Hopefully we clean it up.
I get it. Yesterday was a bad week of football. Both of my FF teams in pay leagues totally underperformed leading to 2 losses and our team didn’t play well either. Plus the Mets tease ya and make you think they’re ready to compete and then take 2 steps back. Very frustrating
Its a domino effect, so we are having trouible keeping the RB’s from slipping out, so Baker has to help there, which means he is out of position when he needs to track down Cam, starts with the DL not clogging the center, is fed off of missed assignments on the containment, so now ya lose the middle and the coverage there. This is why Belichick gets so bent over a player freelancing or not doing their assigned job stat hunting. Everyone has to do their job our it just unravels and your scheme is a bunch of individuals running around acting like clowns.
I didn’t even realize the game was on yesterday. Good thing I missed it.
Sure is 🙂
I really didnt think it was that bad. Wierd me being the Mr positive of the group lol. Maybe not Mr positive, jjust seems that way because im not also one of the Mr sad pants.
I need to find something i really hated about the game so i can feel better about how im feeling lol.
I know i hated the fake crowd noise, it wasn’t as awkward as complete silence, but it was so obviously not real it was kinda creepy. There isnt anything to be mad at our team for that though. Hrmm. Nope i got nothing.
D – It wasn’t that bad, but to simplify it, I knew and said before the game that the only way Cam would beat us was on the ground and yet we still couldn’t stop him. We looked so tentative. Maybe it’s to hi credit or maybe just a bad job by us. They kept the ball for 10 more minutes than we did. That bothers me.
Offense didnt keep the ball long enough, D, especially the first game gets gassed if they cant stay off the field a little. Im more unhappy about the O than i am the D but im not overly unhappy on either side right now. It was a decent start with a bad outcome.
He is my poopey pants things.
Not enough Brieda, especially int he passign game after Devante went down, i would have liked to see the coaches start spreading them out with some reciever screens with Brieds either the reciever on the screen or a blocker out front. I would have liked to see a little more than basic play calling on offense.
I would have liked to see a better second adjustment to the adjustment to our first adjustment lol. I would have liked to have seen a zero coverage “nickle” with 5 CB’s some playing mid deep and some playing shallow just behind the LB’s to cut out that zone and yet still be able to stack the box. We were not being threatened in the deep ball category so why not sacrifice a little there, let our all stars be man up, and take all the middle shit. Make him burn us, he gets more inconsistent the further he has to throw it.
I would have like to see a little more jumbo early on, we got maybe one jumbo package down close to the goal line but we coulda used it early in the game in the middle of the field.
Thats about all i can come up with, and thats not my call its just how i would have handled it, and im not the pro’s, they are,
I find myself watching less and less football anyway. There’s better things to do with my time that are enjoyable and withing my control.
Blasphemy!
Ya know how you stop RPO? You smack the shit out of the QB every time he runs. Oh wait, the NFL has made it illegal to touch QBs. Gee, what a surprise RPO has become popular.
That’s what I was screaming!
As a runner QB’s don’t get protected!
I hope the cops in L.A. that were shot by a coward recover!
It’s one game, this team is brand new and we were playing @ NE. tough road game.
I like the way they downplay these hurricanes, Laura was suppose to be a cat 1 and it was a cat 4. Sally was suppose to be a cat 1, it’s now a cat 2 and they keep saying it will make landfall now as a cat 2. i’d bet the farm it will be a cat 3 at landfall and be a major hurricane. they always get that wrong and what’s worse is they err in the wrong direction, if you’re going to make a mistake, make it on the stronger side not the weaker side.
The Gulf is HOT!!!!!!
another black man shot and killed by police in HLWD CALIF, oh yeah he was chasing an armed cop with a machete, maybe the cop should have tried reasoning with him……?????
LOL!
What a throw by Daniel Jones
Wyoming,
Technically they aren’t protected when they run past the LOS, but you see guys arm tackle and avoid hitting them almost every time. It’s in guys’ heads because they know they’ll get flagged, ejected and probably fined.
Take one for the team!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wyoming plays Air force every year (except this one) So I know that’s what you have to do to the RPO!
No hesitation, Just hit the QB in the mouth!!!!!
Dear Coach Tomlin : what part of I need 50 pts from James Connor did you not understand… he can’t score if he’s on the sidelines. YA DUMBASS
Oh he has an ankle injury. Bum
Wyoming,
Things have changed, and I don’t like it! It’s not tackle football. Being able to hit really hard and solid is a tool that can be used. It’s like asking a really fast guy not to run as fast as he can. Why? If I can hit somebody legally so they don’t wanna do something again or takes their mind off the play and puts it on me, that impacts the game. I miss real football.
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Old man rant over! Lol
Yep I miss the big safety hitters…
I got this mountain bike for only eleven dollars
Someone got you to pay to haul it off? 😉
It’s that stupid deal dash commercial, they all speak like [retards]
Reid Sinnett replaces Jake Rudock on the practice squad. Reid is a QB from University of San Diego State
Let’s see how PC Tanny is after he gets beat by a lesbo.
Randy they also aren’t protected after the hand off the football, after the football have been caught by the receiver, or tuck the ball down and become a ball carrier. There are times you can still tee off on them, but you gotta do it just right and don’t make it look super bad like a blind side hit, just a good pancaking followed by some dry humping.
TODAY, September 15, is exactly the halfway point of The Height of the Hurricane Season. It runs from Aug. 1 through Oct. 31 —92 days, to be exact. The vast majority of major hurricanes are spawned during this three month period. Last year, the most intense hurricane ever recorded, Hurricane Dorian, with gusts of 225 MPH, struck the Bahamas. The date was Sept. 1. DORIAN was the 4th storm of the 2019 season. NOW, on Sept. 15, 2020, we are at 21 storms for this season and counting.
I’m sure glad there’s no such thing as climate change. As Archie Bunker might have put it, “It (climate change) is a fragment of your imagination.”
Not to detract from your argument, but another fact that helps us this year is the fact we have had so many storms. Usually the deep into the season you go without getting many storm, the worse they are that year when it does get to the latter parts of the season Camile, Katrina, Dorian, Michael those aren’t deep into the alpha system as Sally or whatever comes next. Im at least hopeful, that the latter part of this season is weaker at least, because the sheer number of them and any of them being big is going to really compound things.
Why do people sarcastically say there’s no such thing as climate change, when nobody is arguing otherwise? We all know the temp is always changing.
There is a natural climate change, the earth will change temperature in cycles, those those cycles are generally so long that you only live in wither a heating or cooling cycle and do not see both. There definitely is a relation to pollution, climate change and human existence, and there is a relation to the events that are happening in correlation with those two. The more people we cram on this planet the more its not in a natural state and the more unnatural state its in the worse it will become and the more the earth will fight back to restore balance.
So really, i am a climate change believer, but i know that the only alternative to climate change at this point is to limit the number of human beings. You think a 100% switch to electric cars will do it, immediate impact sure, but these cars will break down, these cars will eventually go to junk yards and eventually those batteries are going to be a toxic mess to have to handle.
We an trade one problem for another, and im not suggesting we do nothing, but ultimately, we cant stop this from progressing without the talk of population control, and i dont think anyone else really wants to have that discussion, outside of maybe AOC who wants to eat babies lol. Im tired of the talk of eat beans not meat because cow farts are doing it. What about the extra human farts from eating the beans? No cow farts aren’t doing it the human population is doing it.
Everyone recycle, well recycling plants emit pollution, more people doing it more pollution. So trash in the water/soil or pollution in the air. Knock out 100K people and you have reduced both.
Factory dump pollution in the water and the air, ok so who are we producing things for, less people less need for stuff, less pollution. No one is going to stop wanting these items, therefore they will still be produced, so only alternative is lower the number of consumers.
This is the real conversation about climate control. Do what you can, but ultimately, you aren’t stopping this thing without getting rid of the real problem, and thats human beings not cow farts.
That’s just an opinion, and not based on any facts. There’s nothing that proves anything we’ve done is changing the climate and no one knows what to do to reverse global warming, if it’s even possible or a good thing. Plants in general thrive in a warm climate, and need CO2.
Let’s not make these talking points the discussion for the day.
Happy Birthday Dan.
I’ve tried that throw, can’t do it
steveccnv says:
September 15, 2020 at 9:57 am
That’s just an opinion, and not based on any facts. There’s nothing that proves anything we’ve done is changing the climate and no one knows what to do to reverse global warming, if it’s even possible or a good thing. Plants in general thrive in a warm climate, and need CO2.
Let’s not make these talking points the discussion for the day.
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Im cool with that. Not a conversation i am passionate enough about to care to argue anyways lol.
VGK went out of the Western Conf Finals with a whimper, unlike how they went out last year. Holding a 2-1 lead late in the 3rd, they had a tripping penalty that Dallas converted into a 2-2 tie, then another penalty in OT was their demise.
Playing the last 5 games of the last series in 7 days, then one day off after each game in this series proved to be too much, with an ailing Mark Stone and an exhausted group, they petered out in the 3rd period.
Newton posted Sunday on Instagram a video of one of his touchdown runs with the caption, “Forever tried to snatch my chain and the game, too bad I got both.”
Raekwon Davis responded — “Man ain’t nobody want your fake (expletive) chains (expletive) was weak anyway.”
Alabama VS Auburn alive in the NFL lol.
Forever a victim. He played that role in Carolina too. Why don’t I get the calls when I’m hit, like Brady does? Cause you’re hard to tackle and run the ball, but he knows why.
The more of those scarves he wears the larger his vagina gets.
Its weird, as far as the football team, id rather pull for Alabama over Auburn, but as far as the fans go, i cant really get on the side of the Alabama fans, they are really annoying. Auburn players though, there have been a lot of them like Cam.
Guess say this at the risk of saying our performance wasn’t as good…. but Patriots didn’t look like a team that will run deep into the playoffs on Sunday. And if Cam keeps running that much is he even there for them?
My thoughts too. I think I wrote that on Sunday.
“Kindley played every offensive snap for the Dolphins, allowing just one quarterback pressure on 62 snaps (38 pass blocking).”
Yeah and i saw him at the second level a few times in run pro.
What team did Marino get his first action against?
Just saying🤔
Tua may do the same.
Given that only a matter of time, it’s possible. Must be tough to be Fitz knowing he might be only one bad game or even half from getting the hook. But glad he’s an older guy looking at either retirement or holding a clipboard anyhow.
Dolphins cut Jake Rudock. Signed undrafted rookie quarterback Reid Sinnett from the Buccaneers practice squad. Wonder if he can sublease Rosen’s place.
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Beer is never a problem for you my friend. Does sound like Rudock is Grier’s booty call though.
Lol
stangerx says:
September 15, 2020 at 12:05 pm
Guess say this at the risk of saying our performance wasn’t as good…. but Patriots didn’t look like a team that will run deep into the playoffs on Sunday. And if Cam keeps running that much is he even there for them?
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Patriots looked like the better prepared team with a better strategy to hit us where it hurts. They knew we had a bunch of new guys, new coaches and new to the NFL’s, and they made a good game plan. As far as how scary the team looked, they dint look that scary. Our performance wasn’t as good, but given where we are, that wasn’t a bad performance overall. Baby steps.
The new OL with two rooks was encouraging. They looked solid as opposed to what we’ve been seeing the last few years.
Just based on one game, but Kindley and Jackson look like keepers. Could talk about Flowers or Karras….. but those are the guys who are gonna be with us for a good number of years.
None of any of that ever gets old
Happy Birthday Dan the Man!
wyoming — is Sally threatening you?
No its mine and BBM’s turn this time.
You gonna ride it out? Sounds like the roof won’t blow off but that water knocking at the door is a concern. Stay safe man.
Yeah im far enough inland and on higher land than a lot of the surrounding area that flooding nor storm surge should be an issue
I was listening to Carl Banks on WFAN discussing the Giants and what he was saying about them is very parallel to what the Dolphins are going through. A lot of new players that need to get on the same page more and clean some things up. But a lot of that is correctable. I definitely overreacted to the Dolphins loss. I was just pissed off. LOL
I thought the Giants looked pretty good. Engram had a bad game, but Blake Martinez was all over the place making plays. He looked great.
Oh, and of course because I drafted Saquon Barkley he’s gonna suck the entire season. lol
Amazing, I have Drew Brees, Michael Thomas and Saquon Barkley and they all scored way below their normal outputs. Bad FF week, but I eked out an ugly win in one league. An ugly win is better than an ugly loss
I had Barkley and Brees last year. You’re going to be sorry. Somehow got Watson after Brees and played him the entire year. In a 4 – 6 league you need a running QB.
Their OL was better in pass pro but they couldn’t run the ball. Similar to us. But the Steelers are a top team with a big time defense if Big Ben stays healthy, and the Pats still have Belichick who out coached us.
I kind of jumped the gun that we’re now in the next phase of rebuilding this team and this was the first game they played together. It’s going to take some time. I even said before the season started that we could go 0-2, 2-4 to start and then starting winning some games. I let my emotions get the best of me. We should get better as the season goes on.
Mike, Brees doesn’t put up big numbers as much anymore. Their offense has become more balanced. The Saints are still a top team but it’s not just about Brees anymore. Not sure he’s a great FF QB anymore.
I think it will be off an one from here out, he can still do it, he can still carry the team in the case they need it, they just dont need it as much like you mentioned. Its gonna be 40 pts one week maybe 20 another.
Right, but throwing the ball all over the lot is not what Brees has been in recent years. I’m talking about FF, not that Brees can’t lead them to a championship. There’s a difference between the two.
D — sounds like you live in a place that realtors like to brag about in Houston — “this house stayed dry during Harvey.” 🙂
Tim – They still don’t really run that much. They use Kamara a lot in the passing game so those yards and TD’s count too. Brees isn’t chucking the ball deep much anymore but he still throws the ball to Thomas when he’s healthy and gets some big plays out of Kamara
Okay but don’t be surprised if his FF numbers are middle of the road. I’m not saying he’s no longer a great QB for the Saints and their season. They didn’t have the rushing yards in week 1 but they ran it 34 times. That’s all I’m saying.
Well i just lost internet briefly so it must be starting soon. Came back up pretty quick so probably some tree just whacked a pole somewhere.
Stanger, I live a couple miles from the gulf coast and about 7 miles from the Florida/Alabama border in West Pensacola. Looks like the center of the storm is going toward Mobile bay and possibly land fall at gulf shores. That puts me right in the right quadrant of the storm. Still not to worried as it has weakened and probably continue to weaken as it nears shore. Not rally concerned about the wind. Only trees around my house are the live oaks (or spanish oaks). Those trees are like built out of iron and very rarely topple over even with saturated ground. Only concern is flooding. Much of West Pensacola is low lying area. I drove around and we have a little over 3ft of storm surge. If we get much more (5ft of surge) we will start to have problems with rain water drainage. I don’t think we will get there. I don’t have a rain gage but we have gotten a shit ton. I drained our pool down 2″ below the skimmer yesterday and now it’s above the top of the skimmer. Has to be close to 12″ of rain so far. I am really not worried though.
The damn Spanish oaks have a lot of support i have seen their limbs bend and touch the ground like a bunch of spider arms lol.
BBM is on what they consider the less preferred side of the storm where as im on the more preferred side i guess you could say. I’m far enough inland and up high, like i said, so if the tall pines dont fall on me im good. Most are on the north side of the house tso the wind coming from it would most likely push them down away from my house.
Sounds like a lot of rain BBM. Based on that have read seems biggest worry is the things just stops and sits there. Much better if Sally spreads the love if you will.
And should have said Wow to 12 inches of rain. When I was up north that would mean 12 feet of snow.
Our area is the heaviest rainfall in all the US, we dont have the most number of rainy days, thats the NW but the volume of rain per year is us. Rain, especially in the summer is a lot of times an every day thing right about the same time every day.
I liven in Pensacola before i moved to Mobile by way of Baton Rouge and Mobile and Pcola have about the same rainfall and weather patterns.
And assume that means both the ground and the drainage is prepared for a lot of rain. Comes in handy today.
Oak trees and/or massive branches go down during Nor’easter’s in the northeast and crush shit. Glad that doesn’t happen by you guys.
A lot of yards are like that, open in the south side of the yard more wooded in the north just because thats the hurricanes are goinbg to come from
Too many gigantic trees around neighborhoods up north. Yeah they’re beautiful and majestic and provide great shade, but they’re also very dangerous around homes, businesses and power lines during major storms. We get crazy rain and heavy winds up here too that aren’t during winter. Had two huge branches come down from the tropical storm from the hurricane you guys got a month ago or so, that almost hit us from the neighbor’s massive pine tree. They landed in their yard and missed both of us but it could have been much worse. They’re still contemplating whether they should take this 100 foot tree down.
D, where I live we don’t get the rain Mobile does during the summer. Pensacola does get a ton but it seems to stay right along I-10 and doesn’t dip down to the coast as often. Of course, I-10 rolls right through Mobile so there ya go.
So you are pretty close to Florabama?
Yeah! Go there a few times a year through the summer. They get some good bands in there.
Tim, we have another type oak tree down here that are real tall and similar to the kind you have up north. I just don’t have any of those near my house. I get my big spanish oak pruned about every 5 years to reduce wind resistance. Looks like a giant umbrella.
I hear ya!
Van Noy knows he’s on the Dolphins now, right?
Tim, I know what you mean, frustrated at results not necessarily performance. The first Cam TD where they zoom in on his foot out of bounds and the totally egregious PI on Gesicki on the last int stick out to me. We get the proper call on both of those and it’s a different game.
Sure they would have been within 6 inches and Cam probably puts it in but anything can happen- botched snap, fumble, loss of yds 2-3 downs in a row, penalty or even a pick (most unlikely) but who knows.
Then without PI maybe Gesicki scores or else with PI we’re at the one all set up.
It was a frustrating game. Wish we were better against the run, wish we ran it better, wish we threw it deep a couple times blah blah blah but we might be ok.
Need this win at home to avoid 0-2 in the division.
Pirty much my feelings. Definitely need the win this weekend.
Yeah man. I saw some good tackling from the defense but we also gave up to much space in both the run and pass game. Got tighten that up. The OL is going to need some time to gel but I saw some good signs from them. Then we need skill players on offense to make big plays and defenders to make more impact plays. That might happen as the season goes on. We’re still in the early stages of building this team. Last year we tore it down, and this year we’re trying to build it the way we want it. That doesn’t happen overnight, especially with this crazy offseason.
Figures we get all this draft capital and cap space and we’re in the midst of a fucked up pandemic. I know it’s just sports but still… just saying.
I hear ya. At least it’s every team and not just us specifically ie; bullygate, forgot his name linebacker goes awol right before season opener, fucked over by hurricanes and so on.
By the way, in retrospect Bullygate might be the gayest thing to ever happen in professional sports.
LOL @ Van Noy. I thought he looked disinterested
Jim Cantore has not drove over this way yet so I am not worried. LOL
So you are pretty close to Florabama?
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Also, Orange Beach on Perdido Key is the one we go to most which is just down the road from there.
Pittsburgh better fix that OL if they wanna do anything this season. Big Ben is gonna get pummeled, and he’s old and fragile. The Saints have a serious chance to win it all. If their defense can play solid, I like their chances a lot.
They always have a good shot as long as the D holds an opponent to 30 or less, That offense has been putting up 30-40 a game for years now.
The 3 and out after the first 3rd qtr TD was bad too. We needed to let the D rest and go and get some points. Baker saved our ass at least.
Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins filled up the stat sheet in his second career opening day. He had six tackles (four solo), two tackles for loss, a sack and batted down two passes at the line of scrimmage.
“I’ve just been working hard all year – all offseason, all training camp and everything to try to be in the best shape and be in the best position to help this team win,” Wilkins said. “But ultimately, I don’t care about the big plays if it doesn’t result in wins. It’s cool to make big plays but I’d rather win at the end of the day. It’s all good and fun; but I’d trade in stats and plays for a win in the win column.”
well yeah and though his stats were ok, there were a couple big runs that went right through his gap. Not saying he didnt play well but he could definitely improve his gap maintenance.
I would really like us to get a big space eater next year int he draft and one of the best is Slaton from UF. He’s solid in pass rush but he is a huge dude that moves very well for his size. I think he is like 6-5 350 ish.
Kong can bitch that someone put a building in front of Kindley and he cant see him anymore.
I think a lot of it was more scheme and not on the same page. Maybe we tried to do too much early on instead of keeping it more simple on defense. But I like Wilkins’ attitude. He’s not a me guy.
I bold predicted him to the pro bowl a week or two ago, just for the record.
Our DE’s we’re not inspiring in the least. If they don’t improve we’re screwed
No doubt, but they’re also part of the get more on the same page and clean it up narrative as well. Similar to last year except we have more talent this year. Just don’t go 0-7 for it to start looking better.
I feel like Lawson and Ogbah were non existent.
I saw them get some pressure off the edge but Cam got rid of it early and only passed 19 times. We did not deal with the RPO well at all though. That pissed me off. LOL
Or anyone on the edge. Was Van Winkle sleeping again? Did he play? Landon Roberts, Captain, was he even there?
When we played NE previously it was like the only names you heard for the whole telecast were Roberts and Van Noy on and on. Did they Captain from HQ in Davie?
D, the guy you’re looking for as a big space eater sounds like Raekwon Davis. Give hime some time and he might be that guy.
He doesn’t take shit on Twitter we know that, lol
Yeah he’s here to be exactly that, if can’t do it we should by the next draft. Long way to go. I like Davis’ chances.
Tim – That was the most frustrating thing, our ineptitude with the RPO on defense. It’s like we had no idea how to handle the concept. We also never seemed to have more than one guy there to defend it which is trouble.
We missed Rashad Jones if we’re being honest. He’s still out there.
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”
Stanger
Nope I’m Golden this time around!
Good luck to BBM and D!
Watching your generator run while no AC is not very fun!
Mount Kindley
66 like who?
He’s also just getting started. We do have to have some patience with this new and young team. I definitely jumped the gun. The team needs to get better each week and build on it.
I am a little bothered that a lot of other teams looked better in week 1 than we did
The patriots didn’t really do anything exotic on offense
But that said, we kind of go into the game not knowing what to expect
Should we have game planned to stop the offense the patriots showed up with? Based on what? I don’t even think the patriots know what they are going to do on offense yet? It’s all brand new in week 1 with a new QB after parting ways with this HOF QB.
We actually have the tape of what the bills did to the jests. I think you can prepare for that
So, if the trend continues I’m going to judge more harshly
But I’ve been dismissing week 1 performances for years now. Weird things happen in week 1
If we were a 4-3 with bigger ends they wouldn’t have been running that shit and the shit they were running only worked because it was Cam. I know y’all hate him but he’s a big fast talented individual. We needed Dick Butkus. Lol
It was just a very remedial offense
I just don’t think it was about game preparation.
I think we got beat up up front
And some of those things are just about everyone knowing their roles
And no one knows what the fuck they are doing yet
No one knew what the patriots would run
And no one knows their roles on defense yet
They didn’t – they didn’t even test our dbs
They didn’t need too. That’s what multiple is all about. Play the way it takes to win the game. Belichick beat Flores in a ho-hum game and got the W.
They’ll have Cam in the pocket in the next game, that’s what we figured on it looks like. Strowbridge might find himself available next week 🤷♂️
I also think, if we would generated a little offense to out some pressure on them and force the, to throw – that would have helped
Right. I thought we’d be able to run on them but we couldn’t. Despite everything they say about multiple when we have a fullback and 3 Te’s we’re running it. Then we go empty backfield and wonder how they know our playbook. Eh, if you’re gonna run then that’s a mindset it’s a lot more than scheme. Kindley is definitely a block in the blocking lol
I think if we had played better, we may have won.
This is exactly what I was thinking
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LOL
We can get better too Randy that’s the thing to hold on too.
Plus ahem, we have Tua
We can’t let teams run on us. And we gotta run on them. Easy game.
son,
I had no expectations for this team this year. I just want to see improvement through the year. This team is still rebuilding and learning how to play the sort of defense Flores wants to run. It isn’t going to happen overnight. If we can get to .500 this season, I think that will be a success. There’s a lot of learning to do…with lots of new pieces.
Maybe a better way to say it is that the game was incredibly boring
Was it just me? I just thought it was a horrible game to watch even it I wasn’t rooting for the Dolphins
It was super sluggish
It felt a little like a scrimmage
but it was a fast sluggish game…
This team will be much better when we starting running the ball better. It allows an attack and opportunistic defense to flourish. The offense laid an egg. The defense was meh. Better get better this week.
Heat win!
D & BBM How you all doing????????
Im fine, haven’t really gotten out and checked much but i have power and am working this morning, so fairly normal. Im more concerned with BBM he probably got it worse. I know that a few of my employees who live in Mobile (im just outside of it) they dont have power, though they didnt report any damage to their houses.
Good to hear!!!
I can’t stand Greenie for the most part but agree with this though
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Brian Flores Wednesday 9/16 media availability thread
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Flores: “We’ve made the corrections from Sunday’s game, there were a lot of issues in the game, we’ve moved on to Buffalo. There’s a lot to focus on there, they’re a good team.”
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Flores says Buffalo’s receiver’s are as good as any in the league. That, paired with a tough quarterback who can scramble, makes this offense a big challenge.
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Tackled well, showed good speed, lot of things he showed in training camp… he’s aggressive, it wasn’t perfect but I thought he played well.
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Perry has spent more time inside and Needham on the perimeter through the course of camp and into the season, Flores says about the CB depth.
The talk about Bowden, Jones, Perry and Needham is fine, but I don’t want to hear about the corrections. He was probably asked by some bearded coconut, and I get that, but we’ll judge if the corrections got fixed on Sunday.
I hope they don’t regret it
But I’m going to enjoy watching football whether it’s back for good or just for the moment
They are really going to pour it on Gase this season – you can see it coming
If he didn’t stick both feet in his mouth and wasn’t such an arrogant and insecure SOB…
He’s earned it
Be seen some underwhelming coaches over the late decade or more in Miami, but I genuinely didn’t like Gase and felt like he was a finger pointer
He’s a complete jackass. Reminds me of someone who went from mommy to the military, so was told what to do his whole life, then when he gets to be the boss he’s clueless.
On the other hand Flores seems completely comfortable in his own skin.
Jones, vowed in 2018 that Cowboys players would always stand for the anthem with a “toe on the line.” Sunday Night Dallas defensive tackle Dontari Poe took a knee during the national anthem.
Jones did not endorse nor condemn Poe’s decision.
Jones knows he”ll face mutiny, if he says too much.
TV ratings down 30%.
I hope the salary cap drops down to about 100M, so these MFers feel it in their wallet and these teams that just signed these massive contracts, after knowing the cap was going down, struggle to field a team.
Hope the cap goes down as well. Ours is low with all the young guys and Ross always does the carryover. And all the players will still be making a bunch of cash anyhow. Those guys make a lot. Not like anyone will retire to be a hedge fund CEO.
Great mews — and it’s just Wednesday. Still hating we already have to deal with another Parker injury though.
here are some great mews for you Stangerx
LOL — always have loved kittens. Only problem is they grow up to be cats.
So glad the Big 10 is deciding to give it a shot. By the time they start, most leagues will have had at least a month into their season so they will have an idea what is working and what is not in other conferences and areas.
You can’t fail (or succeed) if you don’t at least try
I am of two schools of thought on Parker practicing today without limitations.
1. Great! if he is healthy and can stay that way. We need him.
2. DAMNIT! Hamstrings and the soft tissue injuries he always seems to be plagued with only heal with rest. Don’t aggravate it by trying to “push through it”
I hope there are 15 weeks ahead of us without him on the injury report.
Hammies are tough. Might work out better for Parker, but drop all but elite guys from my FF team once they injure them. Still there even if they are playing.
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September 16, 2020 at 2:16 pm
LOL — always have loved kittens. Only problem is they grow up to be cats.
I have always loved babies. Only problem is they grow up to be kids…and then, even worse, adults! LOL
That’s why puppies are the way to go….. grow up to be dogs. Not as funny or as cute but still just as cool.
LOL
LOL
“He’s been here two weeks, three weeks, somewhere in there. He’s worked extremely hard. He’s been meeting one-on-one with Grizz (wide receivers coach Josh Grizzard) trying to get caught up. But it’s a rookie, you’re young, you need reps, so we’re trying to get him as many reps in practice as possible, but as far as getting caught up, there’s going to be at best for a young guy in that situation a couple of packages, a couple of things that we’ll make him feel comfortable doing and maybe get him out there. But I’m not sure we’re ready there yet. So we’ll see.”
— Flores saying don’t look for Bowden anytime soon…. and heck the Raiders were trying to make him a RB.
LOL @ Son on “By the way, in retrospect Bullygate might be the gayest thing to ever happen in professional sports.”
“Two weeks ago, we had everybody on our offensive line except two or three guys were out. We adjusted very well. You got to make adjustments. Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it, so hopefully they don’t catch it again. And hopefully they’re not out for games.”
— LSU head coach Ed Orgeron
well likely they will miss two weeks so two games.
D — you riding the storm out OK?
What a schmuck, Big Ben says yesterday I felt like I was in a trainwreck, today a car wreck. He’s just put a target on his own back.
Not Dolphins related, but I am disappointed in the casting for Amazon’s adaptation of Wheel of Time.
Not what Robert Jordan described for the Emonds field folk and Rosemary Pike is way too tall to play Moiraine.
And Rand is a head taller than any of them except Lan (who isn’t Asian and has blue eyes.) Perrin is way to skinny and though he has curly hair in the books it isn’t a fro.
Based on these pictures it looks like a show that fans of boy bands would watch. LOL
I was thinking same thing just was thinking Wheel of Time (Millennial edition)
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September 16, 2020 at 4:28 pm
D — you riding the storm out OK?
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Yeah im good. Havent heard from BBM yet though. Lots in Mobile and PCola without power.
Glad to hear. She wasn’t named yet, but Sally skirted past us. You feel lucky when that happens but also means hits somewhere else. The one that took Ken’s power out all those days….. same thing.
Rock
I don’t k ow about the show or book
But I do know rosemary (I think her name might be Rosamund) pike is a heck of an actress
Her name is Rosamund.
His name was Robert Paulson
Good one!
Yeah, her name is Rosamund. My phone incorrectly corrected my misspelled Rosamund. I like her as an actress too but I the character is a tiny woman.
I guess it doesn’t really matter to the story line, but the characters in question all come from very well defined backgrounds. The little village they are from is in an isolated part of the world where noone leaves or moves to. (for the past 1000 years and more) There is no “diversity” in the Two Rivers.
I think Peter Jackson did a fabulous job bringing the Lord of the Rings to life, the imagery in the films was spot on with what I imagined when reading. I guess I was hoping my favorite book series would have stayed truer to the books now that they have FINALLY done it for the screen.
Maybe they will just film them from really far away
LMAO!!!!
This made me laugh.
“I like her as an actress too but I the character is a tiny woman.” LOL
Rock,
I had the same thoughts on many points. When I first saw the cast for WoT I couldn’t really picture any of them as their characters. And you’re right, Jackson’s people did a great job of casting for the LotR movies. I thought the GoT cast was pretty good too given all the different characters. This cast just doesn’t, but I am hoping the acting will be good enough that I’ll believe they are those characters. I’m just glad they’re gonna try. Sorta like with the Shannara series, but I’ll still watch them all. The books are always way better anyway.
No BBM yet huh????????
I hope he’s got waders!
Lots of power outages in the area from Mobile all the way into Pcola, so its most likely he just doesn’t have power.
Most of us saw the game, the run D was horrible, but fixable. The offense was blah, but the OL seems much improved as is the overall talent. We stunk it up for 3 qtrs, but there we were down 3 in the 4th.
I still have hope for this season, but they have to do whatever it takes to get a win against Buffalo.
Nothing coming from the team or media, between games 1 and 2, means anything, except the injury report. Just gitter done.
Brian Flores Thursday 9/17 media availability thread
“I wouldn’t take one game and try to put guys in a bucket as far as snap counts, especially in this type of season.”
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Flores says Tagovailoa is doing what everyone else is doing from a strength training standpoint so they felt like they could remove him from the injury report.
“It was a serious injury. He’s done a great job getting himself back and healthy.”
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Flores on rookies and knowing when you can give them a full load
Small role and then it builds. You see that over the course of 5-6 games. You need stretches of games of consistency to really feel good that they know how to be a professional and that complacency doesn’t set it.