Defense was the story last week as the Dolphins played their best game of 2020 with a total and complete dismantling of the San Francisco 49ers. QB Jimmy Garoppolo probably wished he waited one more week to come back, and I’d bet HC Kyle Shanahan wishes he didn’t put Jimmy G. in either because he clearly looked like he wasn’t ready to play. The Dolphins defense hounded Jimmy G. and his wobbly ankle yielded wobbly throws and he was unable to escape the rush which was heavy all day. 5 sacks total to boost the yearly total to 14 sacks. Don’t spit on that guys, that’s a legit improvement from last season where we managed a season’s total of 23. Our current pace for sacks put us at 45, which is unlikely, but either way puts us close to doubling last year’s output. The rush came from everywhere, inside with Elandon Roberts, Jerome Baker and Zach Sieler and outside with Van Ginkle and Ogbah. Add in 3 turnovers, 2 INT’s (Xavien Howard) and 1 fumble recovery (Christian Wilkins) and it was great day for the defense.
Now on to the offense which by the way, also came to play. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 350 yards with 3 TD’s and zero INT’s. The run game was merely a complement, Myles Gaskin rushed 16 times for 57 yards and 1 TD and they sprinkled in a little of Breida and a rush or two from Bowden and Grant. RB Jordan Howard was healthy scratch. Now there is talk of the possibility of the Dolphins signing former Steeler and Jets RB Le’Veon Bell. At the moment of this writing, Bell has narrowed it down to 3 teams, the Bills, Chiefs and Dolphins. Does adding Le’Veon Bell make us a playoff contender? I suppose it depends on how we use him. The 2 RB’s we acquired in the offseason are basically spectators to the Myles Gaskin show. Breida and Howard have 114 yards rushing combined on 35 caries while Gaskin has 64 carries and 249 yards rushing. Bell looked anything but a top tier back in NY this season and last night but i9njuries have hampered him. He has only 19 carries this season and really is quite far removed from the elite RB he was in Pittsburgh all the way back in 2017. Personally, I’d say he was more of a product of that offense, having a great run blocking O-line, also catching passes from Roethlisberger when plays broke down and having WR’s Antonio Brown (in his prime) along with Martavis Bryant . So many times Big Ben extended the play and found Bell for a hige gain because the field was cleared out by Brown and Bryant and JuJu Smith-Schuster. Is it possible he’s that same player? I wouldn’t bet on it.
The Dolphins will play a late game this week (4PM) due to COVID-19 rescheduling. The Jets come in to Miami at a low point of their season. They are 32nd in scoring at 15 PPG and 32nd in defense allowing 32.2 PPG. Just dreadful. Last week we beat a team not at their best, and we put our foot on their neck. We need to do the same this week. Yes, the Jets cut Le’Veon Bell but may be getting 2 receivers back, Breshad Perriman (ankle) and Denzel Mims (IR hamstring). Both WR’s would be a boost to an anemic Jets offense that has featured Jamison Crowder, Chris Hogan, Braxton Berrios and TE Chris Herndon. Sam darnold has had a difficult season to say the least, the O-line pass protection has been leaky and he doesn’t really have a reliable receiver to throw to. He’s been sacked 12 times and has thrown 3 TD’s against 4 INT’s. HC Adam Gase is beyond dead man walking, yet this is a game if the guy has any juice left that he would try to get his team to compete in. Right now the Jets have to be included as a favorite to land next year’s prized possession in the NFL Draft, QB Trevor Lawrence and a win could put that in jeopardy as the hapless Atlanta falcons share an 0-5 record.
LB Kyle Van Noy is questionable to play this week with a groin injury. He played last week against the Niners but that’s a tough injury to play through. Sam Eguavoen would replace Van Noy if he can’t go. We also lost DT Davon Godchaux with a torn biceps and this should give DT Raekwon Davis a lot more snaps along with Brandon Sieler who has been fantastic in a Dolphins uniform. Sieler has played 38% of the snaps this season already and I expect that will increase significantly this week with Godchaux out. Mike Gesicki finally was more involved in the offense and I hope that continues. He averaged over 18 YPC last week on 5 receptions so we need to keep feeding him the ball. I honestly don’t expect Bell to be a Miami Dolphins, my guess is the Bills. Either way, hope we make the right decision.
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Ogbah is worthy of #91
I’d start discussing how to sign him long-term. He’s a really good DE.
^
https://twitter.com/naefan3/status/1317955083867475969?s=21
Lol
F’n page turn
It’s Fitztragic today and Miami is still winning 24-0.
Hes been horrible and it will probably go unnoticed
2nd half has been tough to watch. Best part has been the defense, but that could just be the Jets Offense lol
I think it is freakin awesome that they sit side by side like that.
MENTORING
The Motumbo finger!
That was groundin again
Igy with good coverage!
Peeee- rind
Rookie is going to get this one//1
Mike E
It was Pee-rhine in collage too!
Tua time
Tua in
TUA !!!!
2nd place, by ourself😏
After tomorrow hopefully only 1 game out
will he get a pass attempt though? Love Fitzpatrick’s sideline cheering for Tua lol
Yes
I saw Tua’s first handoff 😁
When you see Tua get a snap
Air humping pig 😆
Let him throw it
I was freaked a bit seeing the ball come out of his hand, quickly had to remember he was a lefty. smh lol
I owe ya 1/2 a beer 🤡
I’ll take it, even half a beer. 🙂
That looked horribly wrong, then he threw with his left , and I went OH YEAH.
Tua with our only 3rd down conversion
LOL
For a second I thought he was going to take a safety for his first drop back
What’s greenie and goes backwards😏
K Flores go shower and get the Loser Stank off from that Gase hug
I love enjoying watching the Dolphins again.
Really impressive win when it wasn’t perfect at all. The Jets are really bad and if Fitz was on his game it could have been 48-0 easy.
Another team win in spite of Fitzpatrick.
Tua just achieved the first 9 yards of his hall of fame career
😃
It was kind of like kicking a wounded puppy today
Agree with Rhino, Fitz was hilarious trying to get the fans to stand and cheer for Tua.
Class act
👍
Glorious Sunday.
So far, just need a Dodger win tonight.
Peaknuckle?
Two rookies pitching game 7 of the NL championship series, should be fun. I’ll probably have that game on the big screen instead of the Rams/Niners.
Both of Shaheen’s TDs this year were on the same play.
That Jest team is awful. I don’t think they will have much challenge for the 1st pick in the draft. We’ll see what happens when they fire Gase, but they may keep him a few more weeks just for that purpose.
Ok, fire Gase now.
The unfortunate aspect of that is they will fire Gase, trade Darnold and draft Lawrence
Fire Gase now, so they actually win a game or 2. I doubt Gase wins one.
It wasn’t pretty!
But it was decisive!
I missed the second half. What happened with our offense?
They were pretty bad
Gaskin Fran for over 100 yards
Other than that the only notable thing was Tua playing in the last 2 minutes
Dumb play calling and dumb throws by Fitz
Yeah, agreed on playcalling. There were a couple of times where a QB sneak gets us a 1st down, and instead we call a run that takes 2 seconds to develop and we take a loss.
Fitz was terrible (could have had 3 INTs) and we couldn’t run on run downs. Defense was lights out though.
I wouldn’t say we couldn’t run on 3rd down it was more like we didn’t try to run on 3rd down. Some really bad play calling in 2nd half on offense
Every single short yardage run we attempted got stuffed. We were decent on 1st down runs.
Tua played last series.
Still on pace for 45 sacks Mike😁
It goes to show something about his love and appreciation of the game
likely reflecting on his first time playing actual game since the injury. It’s gotta be a pretty intense emotional experience for him.
I’m starting to wonder if by November we have 3 rookies on the OL starting
Absolutely
^ could happen. Flores plays the best players regardless of status. We’re seeing that.
Great timing on the bye week. We lost 4 players today to injury. Let’s get healthy and bring on the Rams!
Who got hurt and what’s the initial status?
Van Geinkel – concussion, Davis – shoulder, Parker – groin, trying to remember the 4th
Parker, Van Ginkel, Raekwon Davis not sure who is #4
Grugier-Hill – hand
Currently we’re #4 in pt differential.
Chargers in two weeks (I hope)
Rams in 2 weeks, Chargers was pushed back to week 10, week 11 Donkeys.
Did anyone notice on the Byron Jones (?) 39 sack celebration Wilkins jumped over his head?
Oh my!
29
Ha! I’m glad you noticed that. I saw the end of it, but wasn’t sure if he’d jumped over him or not. Big man has hops, lol.
I was shocked, impressive hops.
Yes! Wilkins is a core franchise player.
Well I can’t ask for a better birthday present today than being able to watch the Pats lose then Texans lose then watch the Dolphins win!!! Icing on my cake was a Tua sighting. lol
Happy Birthday BBM!
Happy Birthday BBM!
Happy B-day!
Happy birthday
Thanks y’all !!
I caught something that I thought perfectly illustrates attention to detail from our HC. When the 2 minute warning hit in the 4th, Flores handed the red challenge flag to an assistant. You can’t accidently throw it and get a penalty if you don’t have it.
It’s a little thing, but in NFL games, little things add up to wins.
Discipline and paying attention to detail.
Winning culture is developing!
Happy Birthday BBM!
Flores coaches people, then football players. You’re starting to see it happen.
I love that!
TBH, that had to be the most frustrating 24-0 win ever. Referring to offense that is.
Agree
starting with the INT at the end of first half …. nothing really got going after that.
Really loving what I am seeing on D the last few weeks. Ogbah is a beast, Howard is awesome, Wilkins is emerging we are just seeing this whole unit come together
Agreed and I think Wilkins is doing just fine eating up two blockers on almost every play.
Lol….nice to be able to say a 24-0 shut out was a frustrating win!
We had trouble on 3rd and short all game long. Isn’t that what you want on O?
My desire for a 37 jersey continues to grow
Me too
….just kidding….
Nooooooo!!!!
+47 point differential
I can’t remember when we had a + point differential in s season.
I know
Glad we have a bye next week. Some valuable “D” players got banged up and did not return.
Niners pick up a 1st on 3rd and short with a QB sneak. Brilliant playcall…
Lol….yes it is!
Some other observations from around the league:
Ryan Tannehill is now one of the most clutch QBs in the game.
How bad is Kirk Cousins?
Baker Mayfield benched.
Carson Wentz deserves better
Brandon Jones is what Flores wanted from Minkah. Jones looks like a good value pick in the 3rd round playing that role. He also wears Minkah’s jersey #29. LOL
I think we both predicted that of all the rookies he seems most likely to make an impact early
So far the OL is doing that
But he’s proving himself to be what our defense wants
Yep!
Jimmy G cutting up the Rams D tonight
I’m watching all the post game wrap up shows lately
It feels so weird after avoiding them all last year….lol
We are still not getting that much love
There are 10 teams with no more than 1 win this year
If we were in the NFC East…
Getting back a player like Byron Jones makes a big difference. We’re seeing that now. 🙂
He played really well today
Hopefully we get Van Noy back after the BYE
Of the teams who have played 6 games, only the Ravens defense (104 points) has given up fewer points than the Dolphins defense (113 points). Only team that can realistically top us is the Steelers if they give up less than 19 points next week playing at the Titans. Next is the Cardinals who will have to hold the Seahawks to less than 11 points next week. The rest will have to throw shutouts like we just did.
Awe shit, forgot about the Rams. If the Rams hold the 49er’s to 21 points they will drop us to #3 scoring defense by 2 points.
LOL, I almost posted a very similar comment and thought, nah too much stuff. But even though it seems like a lot, it is all stuff that should and likely will happen.
We legitimately might have the #2 or #3 scoring D in the league once all the teams have played 6.
He’s one of those types of guys.
Braves and Dodgers 7th inning stretch tied 3-3. Good game
Tua sitting on the field after the games was just a call to his parents.
Dodgers win to finish off a great victory Sunday.
Tannehill is the same QB he was with us, the difference is the team around him. He was pretty good the year he got hurt for us, but his pocket presence still sucks and in no way can he carry a team.
I didn’t realize Imnotgoinatryandspellhisname is the youngest player in the NFL at 20.
Now we know!!!
On Tannehill – He’s very confident now though, and he’s hitting on passes he would miss here. Give the guy credit. He’s definitely in an ideal situation with Henry and that O-line as well as A.J. Brown and Jonnu Smith but he’s elevated his play and confidence. He’s not the same exact player he was here, he’s better now. I can admit it, not sure why others can’t. Sure, put him on the Jets and he’s a mess, or even put him back on the Dolphins and he’s not the same but he’s playing really well.
Our run defense is still very suspect. I’m happy the way the defense, especially the pass rush and pass coverage has looked but we’re not a great defense. If we play a team that decides to run the ball on us they will be successful.
I thought the run defense looked pretty good but for a few plays yesterday
But then again, the jests were fumbling all over themselves
I see we are in full curmudgeon mode this morning! 😉
we’ve moved into 2nd place in the division passing up the pats!
Gaskin had 91 yards rushing, almost broke 100
that was a hell of a catch by the jets defender!
Wyo – Not at all. I think our run defense is pretty porous. I see far too many big gash runs of 10 yards or more.
Don’t count
Again teamwork. Rowe made this huge yard list sack possible for Ogbah, and I’d bet he was glad to do it.
Gone are the days of Wanny’s vanilla D. I miss him, not😏
Our defense is a work in progress and it’s been better than I expected or almost as good as I hoped. I bet Derrick Henry would be licking his chops tom play us though.
Mike, maybe he will get his chance to face us in the playoffs!!
Is Parker having an off year (as the announcer says) this year?
I think Lofton might have been talking about when he talked him during another season, like in 2018, If I remember the whole conversation correctly. I think he goes on to say his stats from last year, and so far this year, and that he is finally living up to his first round status.
What Bookman said
Wilkins and Fitz get it, it’s about playing for the guys and not your own stats.
With 3 of our last 4 games being blowouts Parker has mostly been unused after the big leads.
What kind of sadistic fuck would keep throwing to him in garbage time with his injury? He’s manning up and playing hurt, because we need him.
Don’t get so caught up in stats, it’s about wins and spreading the ball around. Inflated stats breed salary cap hell.
Fitz had about 150 yards against the Jags, but we won comfortably. Dak had been getting mega yards passing, but they can’t seem to win, just like Burrow and Herbert. Play the situation and not fantasy football.
The comment wasn’t that Parker was not that Parker was having an off year. It was that he had an off year 2 years ago and has been a stud ever since
I’ve heard rumblings of his stats being subpar. 971 yards, 77 catches and 5 tds at current pace.
I agree with Mike on the run D. We seem to be using smoke and mirrors, when we stop the run, but straight up 7 in the box it’s a struggle.
We just need to accept that’s the way it’s going to be this year. Next year I expect a DT with run stuffing ability to be added.
I thought run D looked pretty good. A couple of the big runs we’re pad the stats garbage time runs when the Jets were hopelessly out the game. Look at all the 3 & outs early on in the game
I agree it was mostly good yesterday, and when you have a lead and play the pass and they slip Gore underneath, you give them that, especially when you tighten it up deep in our territory.
Total overall play was excellent yesterday, any better would’ve just been overkill.
We’ve seen enough seasons where our passing D or run D stats have looked good on one side of the ball and we thought that unit was pretty good, only to get gashed some weeks.
When you suck like the jets do the opponent picks where they want to attack, and may spare the other.
Stats smats
We thought Seattle’s pass D was bad, then couldn’t score on them. Those stats were inflated, because of teams like Dallas and Atlanta passing against soft coverage trying to come back.
Someone should keep stats for close games while within 1 score to show a more competitive stat, but even that isn’t always accurate.
I think the D is trying to keep everything in front of them and not give up the big plays, since we started this in Jax we are 3-1
the next 6 games are very winnable we could be 9-3 at that point, the tough games out of those are LA @ home and @ the cards
chargers,,denver..NY and Cincy are all winnable games
I don’t have any “Pom Poms” out by any means!
But that’s not a bad day at the office!
RUSHING ATT YDS TD LG
F. Gore 11 46 0 14
T. Johnson 3 42 0 34
L. Perine 6 26 0 13
It’s over 100 yards and Johnson was just ripping off big runs every time he got the ball.
He had 1 run for 34!
2 runs for a total of 8?
So he had a big run
That’s not what I call ripping off “big” runs!
Now if he would have had 20 carries with an average of 4+ I could agree with you
The toughest will be LA, it’s great we are at home and coming off a bye when we face them.
Here’s a Fansided article written by Brian Miller.
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Miami Dolphins have a lot of work to do even in victory
by Brian Miller1 h ago
On Sunday, the Miami Dolphins got an important division win but there is work to be done.
Beating the New York Jets on Sunday put the Miami Dolphins in second place in the AFC East but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done.
Although the Dolphins won convincingly on Sunday, there is still work to do after they saw a second half collapse offensively. The 24-0 victory over the Jets is the team’s second win in a row but now, it’s time to get back to the training facility and figure out what went wrong in quarters three and four.
When you’re leading by 3 TDs against a team you’re far superior to why try to take chances that may allow a team to get back into the game? We saw what happened in SF when the officiating crew gift wrapped a TD to the 49ers, our O got back to business, it’s not like we couldn’t have done the same yesterday had that situation come up.
We aren’t the Patriots, when Moss was there, we’re still trying to find our way and wanted to work on the run game. Jets were probably stacking the box too.
I watched a recap of last night and some of the plays that I missed in the second half and didnt really see much in the way of poor playcalling, just really poor decision making on the part of Fitz. It was like he decided where he was going to throw the ball pre-snap and coverage be damned. He had several wide open receivers in front of him on several of those 3rd downs and redzone plays but blew it.
On a different note, what’s the point of having backfield refs if none of them is going to call holding that is happening right in front of their faces? It happens game in and game out and not just to our team although there were some egregious non calls yesterday.
It’s why Fitz is a journeyman QB, he seems to want to have fun more than he wants to focus like Brady or Marino.
Chan Gailey still calls too many screens though, that is one complaint I have about the play calling.
We did have 1 successful screen though!
That is encouraging!
It’s really hard to critique a game like yesterday’s, because of opponent and lead. I try to stay away from getting too critical afterwards, when it’s a blowout. During the game is different, I’m probably bitching at every dumb call I don’t like.
We also don’t know what’s in the coaches head, are they trying to protect an injured player, are they trying to reduce injuries in general…
See Mike E! That’s faith in your defense????? 😉
https://twitter.com/PoliticalLM/status/1318181037944483840?s=20
LOL, “awe crap we just lost!”
Mike
You may be confused about our run defense bc you are consumed with the appropriate pronounciation of “pee-rind”
😛
If I knew Perrine’s name was pronounced like that I would have pushed harder to draft him
I also noticed Steve levy on MNF a few weeks back emphasizing the “e” on Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Like he wanted to show that he knows that the “H’ is silent. “Clyde Edwards EEEEEElaire!
That was annoying
Yes annoying as fuck. I mean once or twice, but come on man every time he touched the ball.