The halfway point of the season, the Miami Dolphins 3-3 host the 5-2 LA Rams. It’s going to be very different for the 3-3 Dolphins because their veteran fun loving QB is no longer at the helm as he is replaced by rookie Tua Tagovailoa. There aren’t many parallels to find in the history of the NFL but I do recall Eli Manning replacing Kurt Warner in NY for the Giants in 2004. The NY Giants were 5-4 and after replacing Kurt Warner who had thrown for 2054 yards with 6 TD’s and 4 INT’s ended up finishing the season 1-6 with Eli Manning at QB. Ryan Fitzpatrick after 6 games has 1535 yards with 10 TD’s and 7 INT’s. There are similarities, but to me the biggest disparity is that the Dolphins at 3-3 are only a game and half behind the Bills (5-2) while in 2004, the Giants at 5-4 were pretty far behind the division leading Philadelphia Eagles who were 8-1 and comfortably in first place as they cruised to a 13-3 record. After watching the play of the Bills against the NY Jets last week, those Bills are fortunate to have won that game.
So even though it’s technically game #8 for us and not the start of the second half of the season, this season will be forever divided from this point on. Did the Dolphins make the right move inserting their rookie QB with a chance to win the division? We’ll find out, and this Sunday’s matchup against the LA Rams will give us an idea. The Rams boast a +52 point differential after 7 games, the Dolphins +47. The Dolphins are 12th in the league in scoring (26.7PPG) while the Rams are 18th (25.1PPG). Defensively, the Rams are 2rd in the NFL allowing 17.7PPG and the Dolphins are right behind them at 3rd allowing 18.8PPG. The teams are pretty even but definitely take a different approach getting there. On offense the Rams truly have had a RB by committee approach with Darrell Henderson leading the team with 87 carries for 411 yards followed closely by Malcolm Brown with 65 carries for 274 yards. Cam Akers was drafted early (RD 2 pick #52) by the Rams but minor injuries have stifled his season. In contrast, the Dolphins have relied almost singularly on RB Myles Gaskin with 82 carries and 340 yards and then Matt Brieda has had a few carries sprinkled in some games for 33 carries and 115 yards. The disparity is even wider in the passing game where Gaskin has 27 receptions to Breida’s 7. For the Rams, they seldom throw to the backs, Goff loves the WR combo of Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp who have 30 and 37 receptions respectively. The Rams offense relies much more heavily on its run game than do the Dolphins, the Dolphins have about half the rushing yards.
On defense I think we match up well against the Rams passing game. The pass rush which has come alive can make things difficult for Goff. The Dolphins secondary, now at full strength with Byron Jones healthy opposite Xavien Howard. Nik Needham has been handling the slot and safeties Bobby McCain and Eric Rowe, along with Brandon Jones, Kavon Frazier and Noah Igbinoghene will probably once again leave the Rams to focus on the run game. At the time of this writing, I don’t believe the Dolphins have made a roster move to replace Davon Godchaux at DT. Raekwon Davis will start there but until they bring someone for the PS or acquire a DT DE’s Zach Sieler and Jason Strowbridge will likely fill in. This is important, because I think the Rams are going to try and control the game with their run game so our depth and strength on the front 7 will be imperative to success at stopping the run. The Dolphins are midpack allowing 745 yards rushing (124 YPG)) while the Rams are #12 with 702 yards allowed (100 YPG).
On offense, all I can do is guess as to how we attack the Rams. LOgic would dictate that we’re not going to be doing a lot of prototypical NFL dropbacks with Tua, that we will have him moving around to keep him away from Aaron Donald who as 8 sacks in 7 games, along with 15 QB hits. The good news is that no one else on this Rams defense is close to that, so the task will be neutralize Donald and take your chances with everyone else. My hope is that we get TE Mike Gesicki more involved in the offense. Only twice has Gesicki been targeted more than 5 times and in 2 games he’s had only 1 reception. I want that to change. He’s a big time weapon and should be better utilized. The Rams won’t be easy to run against but they have very little to go on with Tua except 3 plays in the Jets and his college film, so Tua is the “X” factor. In some ways I’d be surprised if they lean heavily on Tua in this game but sometimes great players make it so, and if that happens, I’m willing to let Tua be Tua.
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
BBM – People are going to have to realize that no matter who is President, life goes on, and pretty much the same as it did before. No one President is changing the country radically in a 4 year term, it just doesn’t work that way.
I hear ya
I like Seiler!
100% effort guy!!!!!!!!!
I like Seiler too but I’m very surprised we haven’t brought up another body for the DL.
Boom – Page turn! Let the conspiracy talk begin! lol
I liked Benito coming out of College.
Maybe he’ll get a shot????
Lot more than just Bond.
Piggy, Flipping around the games on now but LB/Edge Joseph Ossai is playing posessed. Already has 3 tackles, 3 TFL including 1 sack in the 1st qtr.
What channel is that game on?
I found it
I would love us to draft him over any of the Edge guys rated in the 1st round. He can do it all.
I don’t k ow where guys are rated right now, but he’s the guy of talent that finds his way going in the first round
Stanger. Had issues a while back and had to switch browsers , which worked , but in the process I changed WordPress password .. phone stored it , but PC and work comp did not .. now PC has it.
Had to switch to Firefox some months back….. so been there. Glad you got you stuff corrected, even if doesn’t sound the same as why this place is so darn slow for me today. Must be my provider.
Pretty sure Steve could answer that for ya 🤡. 🎼🎸🎺
Piggy, FOX. Here anyway.
He annnouncers we’re just talking about him
I don’t k ow where guys are rated right now
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It’s hard to project this early anyway and I think even the experts are having difficulty with a bunch of top players who opted out. It’s hindsight, but it believe those who opted out are hurting their draft stock by letting the scouts see these other players rise to the top.
There’s usually so much movement up and down boards within the season
I can’t imagine opting out not hurting some one’s stock
Damn 2020, Sean Connery too? wtf?
What streams are you guys using for the games that have been working well? I don’t want any nonsense with Tua’s first start.
Do you mean which streams on the websites we use?
If so, I use two streams and they give me the same results every Sunday.
Top Streamer – this one is very consistent. The only negative, is 3 or 4 times a game, it’ll pop up a box ad you have to just click close on.
Givemeredditstreams – this one is also consistent. The only negative is usually once a half, it’ll freeze and I have just hit refresh and it’s back up. It’s pretty consistent in that it only does it once a half.
Okay cool. I’m used to dealing with the pop ups and how to get around them. Thanks!
I don’t see anything come up with top streamer?
To bad the rest of the Texas D sucks. Joseph Ossai now has 6 tackles, 5 TFL including 2 sacks and a FF.
Is he a top prospect?
A lefty QB to keep an eye on for 2022 draft to backup Tua is sophomore Michael Penix Jr. of IU. He still has a good deal to improve on but he is a playmaker.
https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/news/miami-dolphins-hoping-to-make-a-run-in-second-half-of-season
Another speedy (not blazing fast though) WR who will be there in mid rounds is Whop Philyor of IU.
Many of the passes in the video are from freshman QB Michael Penix, Jr. I mentioned above.
Is he a top prospect?
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Tim, Prior to season he was projecting bottom second to mid 3rd, but we are probably looking at top 40 now. Reason I am so high on him is he has that versatility our team likes. He’s 6’4 250 but not just an edge guy. He drops back in coverage also.
Cool that’s what I was wondering. I think we want to find more versatile edge LBs who can do everything.
The way the announcers were talking him up all game, I think the secret is out
Tim, the same streams won’t come up for all events, so you may not see them if you’re checking on college games. Those two are always available for the NFL games on NFLbite though.
Okay NFLbite is still active? A friend of mine said they got shutdown. He might be wrong though. LOL
It’s still active. Both of these sites work, but they link the same streams, so it doesn’t matter which one you use. You can get Top Streamer or Givemeredditstreams through either one.
https://nflbite.com/
https://sportsurge.net/#/groups/0
This is like Christmas Eve when we were kids!
Very much so. It was all about excitement until you didn’t get the toy you really wanted. LOL
Ossai just made the game winning sack in overtime
Well we have plenty of premium draft picks. 🙂
The kid who won Halloween for me was the one who walked up the driveway with a Yankees uniform on. I said who are you, expecting him to say either Jeter or Judge. No he says, “I’m Babe Ruth”. He was like 8-9 years old and knew who Babe Ruth was. #3 on this kid it was great.
Well there was a cute little 3-4 year old as Captain America that was a cool little kid.
My granddaughter as Gecko (some Disney show) was pretty good too.
Lol, true story earlier today. I get out of the car at the grocery store and the car next to me had an interesting rack on the roof, for bikes I guess. So as I’m going to the back of the car to meet up with my wife to go inside a woman (good looking and shall we say we’ll endowed) comes up and starts telling me what great rack it is. My wife smacked me but I of course said, “I guess I got busted checking out your rack”. We laughed.
I love racks!!
LOL!! I snorted coffee out my nose.
Two of my highest-graded centers I studied this summer. Myers in convo for OC1. Menet my top senior OC.
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Wyoming, I have mocked OC Josh Myers to us a number of times with our first pick in round 2. Don’t know much about OC Menet from PSU. Menet would make 3 top OC’s available this next Draft. Myers, Menet and Creed Humphries.
I also like Landon Dickerson as another interior OL prospect out of Alabama.
Joseph Ossai was a beast again as Piggy said with the game winning sack in OT. He finished the game with 12 tackles, a crazy 7 TFL, 3 sacks, 1 FF and 1 FR.
Wow!!! That’s dominant stuff.
Thanks Kong!
I’m excited to the Fins next attempt at a franchise QB tomorrow.
*excited to finally see.
That was weird….or I never wrote it out. Lol
I will say this, Flores put Tua in the game 2 weeks ago up 24-0 inside the 10. Tua handles that and then gets named the starter the next week. Flores has basically said to Tua – it’s always going to be tough, no kids gloves. This is life in the NFL. Tua is being challenged out of the gate by not only a tough Rams defense, but by his head coach.
No idea what the OL will look like tomorrow, but Robert Hunt started at RT last week. Just like Flores threw Iggy into the fire early on, that’s what he’s doing now in game 7/week 8 with Tua and others.
Tua wouldn’t be starting if Flores didn’t feel it. This team is about the future of the young ones! This is the core of Phase II, folks. 🙂
^
pheloniusphish says:
October 29, 2020 at 11:45 am
Let’s hope he stays that clean on Sunday.
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i second that motion 🙂
IT’S GAME DAY BITCHES ……………..HELL YEAH!
i don’t normally do this but i’m thinking MIAMI 31-13.
bailbondmike says:
October 31, 2020 at 4:52 pm
Piggy, Flipping around the games on now but LB/Edge Joseph Ossai is playing posessed. Already has 3 tackles, 3 TFL including 1 sack in the 1st qtr.
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he looks pretty special and worth a look see. but the guy i’m watching has STUD written all over him;
MICAH PARSONS, PENN STATE
It’s Tua Time!!!!!!!!!!!
I just say the 2-4 patriots go across the ticker!
What a morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT’S GAME DAY BITCHES!!!!!
GO DOLPHINS!!
wyoming85 says:
October 31, 2020 at 10:21 am
You didn’t like the music Rock?
Reply
i loved the music Wyoming and I thought the thread woven through the titles was humorous. I was entertained. Good job. Both ways.
LOL @ Son – That was a hanging slider she threw ya
Sean Connery was one of my favorite actors. No matter the part. He nailed it. Man, I still can’t believe he was freaking 90!
100%
MICAH PARSONS, PENN STATE
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TOP, Hell yeah! I was thinking last night how awesome it would be to select Parsons with the Houston pick then Ossai with our pick in the first. That would be sick! Parsons is that stud in the middle we could really use.
That would be a heck of a combo and maybe a Nt in the 2nd like that 350 NT from UF
The. Work in a WR and a RB early
Woop woop
just hoping for a solid 2020 season first, then maybe a couple FA signings,
Miami is loaded again for the 2021 draft. we’ll just have to TRUST IN THE PROGRAM and continue to build appropriately.
GO MIAMI……GO COACH FLO………kick some ass!
Who I am rooting for today;
Go Balt, pop that cork
Go Jets (LOL as if they can beat the Chiefs)
Go Detroit. (that just sounds funny)
Go Las Vegas
Go Bengals
Go Bye Week! (against the Texans)
GO DOLPHINS!!! GO TUA!!!!! NEVER LOOK BACK!
Go Patriots. For some reason I thought I had typed that but had not………..hmmm
Tua #1 making his debut start on 11/1 – Coincidence or destiny?
Binary😏
Can’t root for the Ravens, hope Pittsburgh shreds them.
Some talk about both Kenny Stills and Will Fuller being available at the trade deadline. The more guys they ship off the better that 1st RD pick is going to get
no thanks
I just almost posted before I scrolled up
🍻
finally a fins game on TV in my area, first one of the year,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neeGbsal6TA
Top – No thanks? I think you misread my comment. I wasn’t looking to pick them up, I was saying that if the Texans trade away more talent it might help keep the value of the first RD pick we have for Tunsil
If there’s a fire sale in Texas, it will be amazing for us
But I doubt they do that this offseason given they already gave up their first
They’re saying they will trade away talent to get more picks to make up for that
It’s Tua’s first start
Say it again
IT’S TUA’S FIRST START!!!
This calls for Piggy’s special supreme nachos…
Gonna 🐖💨💨💨💨
All evening
I used Tua enjoy football games on Sundays
Now I look forward Tua Tuasday
Me Tua
Howie’s List
🇨🇦24-20 🐬
🐷 20-14 🐬
🦍 22-19 🐬
🐟 35-14 🐬
🤠 21-20 🐬
🐃🐃 27-24🐬
🎲 27-21 🐬
🦏 23-2o 🐬
🌞 21-13 🐬
💰 26-20 🐬
🎙E 27-26 🐬
Rockphin 23-21🐬
💩51-7 🐬
M13 31-30🐬
🎩 31-13
I don’t know if I can root for Tua!!!!!!
15 years of BAD Tua jokes ???????????????? 😉
Better our QBs Name a Joke than our QB 🤔🤡
True, if still horrid! 😉
Don’t you mean🤡 Trua??
TIm, I know you are already waiting on it so here is my November mock draft. lol
5 MLB Micah Parsons, 6’2 245, Penn State, Best LB in the draft hands down. Very instinctive.
14 Edge/OLB Joseph Assai, 6’4 253, Texas, (Jalen Waddle was gone) Dude is playing possessed.
37 OC/IOL Josh Myers, 6’5 312, Ohio State, beast in the middle. Stout and athletic.
46 WR Terrance Marshall Jr. 6’3 200, LSU, I was looking at safety but could not pass. With JaMarr Chase opting out, this guy has rose to the challenge and then some. He is a red zone nightmare and faster than Williams and maybe even Parker. Has 9 TD’s already this season. Think about Parker, Williams, Marshall and Gesicki in the red zone!
77 NT/DT Tedarrell Slaton, 6’5 358, UF, massive immovable man in the middle. Not fat either. For a tall DT he stays low and plays very disciplined.
115 WR/KR Anthony Schwartz 6’0 180, Auburn, didn’t mean to double down on WR but couldn’t pass again. Wasn’t liking what I saw at safety right here and RB Kylin Hill was gone. Schwartz is the fastest player in college football. Love Grantman but the production is not there for some reason almost to point of frustration.
193 S Quentin Lake, 6’1 195, UCLA, very versatile and very good in man coverage. “He plays in the slot, off the edge, in the box, and at single-high. What sets him apart is not his ability to line up in these spots, but he plays them all very well.” Father was All-Pro/Pro bowl safety Carnell Lake. Only knock is he is not a hitter for a safety more of a arm tackler.
200 RB Javian Hawkins, 5’9 197, Louisville, think of a faster and slippery Myles Gaskin. I was thinking big power back but why not a play maker. There will be some power backs who probably go undrafted like Trey Sermon 6’0 216, Ohio State and Brian Robinson Jr. 6’1 226, Alabama who has been stuck behind Najee Harris.
205 TE Peyton Hendershot, 6’4 250, IU, He is a really good TE but some off field domestic issues has him falling otherwise he’d be gone by the 4th round. Almost drafted QB Shane Buechele here.
Perfect other than waiting so long on the RB
A Texan fire sale is not out of the question. They could try to recoup some of next year’s draft picks they gave away.
Howie’s List
Forgot the 🐬for Top
🇨🇦24-20 🐬
🐷 20-14 🐬
🦍 22-19 🐬
🐟 35-14 🐬
🤠 21-20 🐬
🐃🐃 27-24🐬
🎲 27-21 🐬
🦏 23-2o 🐬
🌞 21-13 🐬
💰 26-20 🐬
🎙E 27-26 🐬
Rockphin 23-21🐬
💩51-7 🐬
M13 31-30🐬
🎩 31-13 🐬
Naples 20-17 Miami
Who’s poop
And who picked us to score 51?
David I believe.
u need help to get past your jealousy, , but there is no hope for Your stupidity
Think about it 🤔
Just saw a guy in my neighborhood with a Dolphins jersey
The excitement is in the air
can we post political shit during the game?
Perfect other than waiting so long on the RB
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Thanks Piggy! I could have passed on WR Marshall, took DT Slaton there and a RB at 77. Kylin Hill would have been available as well as Zamir White of UGA and some other decent ones.
I think, in reality, OC Myers and DT Slaton may go a little earlier.
Trump back to pass TD!
Trump back to pass SACKED
There I fixed it for ya 😊
FUMBLE!!
No Cox for the FMU today! 😉
No fullback, i guess that would mean a shootout is expected
Wilkins for FB.
Start of new era day bitches
No Howard (again), no Cox?
I guess we aren’t going to line up in the “I” and pound it!
The Flying Pig says:
November 1, 2020 at 11:23 am (Edit)
Just saw a guy in my neighborhood with a Dolphins jersey
The excitement is in the air
Reply
That better not be you looking in a mirror. You are banned from jersey buying….
It was a Rosen Jersey…..
I hope we have some trickeration planned with Malcolm Perry today!
Tua tua Perry, Perry tua Tua
For the Tua point conversion
manitobafinfan says:
November 1, 2020 at 11:44 am
Wilkins for FB.
oooooooooooooooooooouh
He does say he likes to play fullback.
Since there’s no game any of us have an interest in watching this week, here’s something to do
https://www.twitch.tv/bobross
So Cox out and Perry in. Might mean more spread formations.
There wasn’t a mirror to be found Herd
It was a real person who lives in my neighborhood. We even mocked the jests together
T minus 1 hour
No Cox today
The offense has been castrated
Nice
Malcolm Perry is active
What happened to Chandler Cox? I hate that we have no FB in this game
Can you imagine the energy today at the Stadium? It’s gonna be electric!
Least as electric as 15k fans can make it. Rams fans shouldn’t be much of an issue though.
So about usual
Starting QB for Fields Forever today…….. Tua Tagovailoa.
Good luck to ya sir !! 👍👍
Might not do it next week……. but had too today. 🙂
mike, you and i have to stick together bud, we are surrounded by the hard left radicals!
I wouldn’t say that!
i forgot about you, sorry
Mike
I think Perry is taking Cox spot today
Its not a gangbang, we can’t have everyone involved
I don’t think we’ve given up on the FB in this offense
It just might be part of the game plan to have players like Perry, Bowden and Grant out there for those quick slants we need
David – I was just telling Piggy who I thought the emoji belonged to. I didn’t put it there. Believe it or not I don’t waste thought on you. Not worth my time.
Put Bowden and Perry on the field at the same time and we could come up with some real crazy passing plays. And both can run as well.
Ok, we only have antenna here at the office. The hurricane jacked it up and can’t get FOX. When the game is not on my local TV stations I always stream the game through my COX cable provider. When I try to do it now, it says due to licensing agreement I have to connect though my home WIFI. Well, I am at fucking work and can’t do that. I guess the reason is the game is on in my local area, I don’t know.
Long story short, what are the good streaming sites? and lets pretend that I am real stupid when it comes to this stuff and give me a play by play. lol Last time I tried using a streaming site I got frustrated. It was wanting me to download this and that. I don’t want to jack up a work computer so I didn’t do it and just followed the gamecast on ESPN site and the blog.
I really don’t want to miss this game. Please help an old technology challenged idiot.
HELP a BBM out….. what are this week’s best streaming links?
Can’t just bury that in the middle BBM. 🙂
Cav Kongsays:
October 31, 2020 at 8:14 pm
It’s still active. Both of these sites work, but they link the same streams, so it doesn’t matter which one you use. You can get Top Streamer or Givemeredditstreams through either one.
https://nflbite.com/
https://sportsurge.net/#/groups/0
Their DBs scare me with a rookie QB and a young receiving corps.
Hey Naples, Clemson dodged one, huh!
Whew, that was scary.
The Tigers made every mistake in the book.
Certainly not the defense you would choose for his first game….. but we really don’t know what he’s going to do.
I think better to have Tua against this D than Fitz…
Thank you Ryan Fitzpatrick for all you have done this year 👍👍
I hope he sticks. Pay him the Matt Moore money to hold a clipboard and be the Tua whisperer.
🇨🇦24-20 🐬
🐷 20-14 🐬
🦍 22-19 🐬
🐟 35-14 🐬
🤠 21-20 🐬
🐃🐃 27-24🐬
🎲 27-21 🐬
🦏 23-2o 🐬
🌞 21-13 🐬
💰 26-20 🐬
🎙E 27-26 🐬
Rockphin 23-21🐬
🍑51-7 🐬
M13 31-30🐬
🎩 31-13 🐬
I gave David the peach. Let’s try to be nice to each other (me included p) for a few days at least. We have time to be at each other throats after a Tuesday….lol
If you are mean, I’ll give you you the 🥦
I love broccoli 😋😋
A highly underrated vegetable
Bowden is inactive today ^^
Thanks — so then it wasn’t Perry instead of Cox….it was Bowden.
I remember reading during TC that Tua was working a lot with Perry which I suppose may be one reason he is active today at
Wouldn’t be the first 2nd string receiver who moved up with his QB. Thinking what happened with Duper as well.
Ford is an option as well to break out
Perry is a designated safety valve. I was proud of Patrick laird in that role on Tua’s first pass.
Nice ya see ya Naples
Thank Toba, great to hang out with you again, best to your lovely wife as well.
BBM
Click go to this site: https://nflbite.com/
Click on the dolphins game
Scroll down to the list of streaming sites
Click on the site ‘top streamer’
The site will have a pop up box in the middle of the screen that say 3 ads remaining. Close that box
That box will then say 2 ads remaining. Close that box
After closing that box twice it should allow you to press the play button, an d there is your game
That ad box will show up a couple times during the game, and you’ll have to reclose it.
Things like your internet speed will affect the way the site works, but I’ve always had good success with this one.
I have a feeling we will see lots of 2-Tightend sets today… extra blocking or slips through for short pass. Good way to deal with a defense like Rams.
Notre Dame has been experimenting with 3 TEs LOL getting ready for Clemson.
I think there will be some “eligible receivers” over 300 lbs in there today as well. LOL
Hey Naples, welcome back!
Hey Mike E. Great write today.
I agree on Gesicki needing to be a big factor. Their DL has a monster and their DBs are so drip, but in between ….
I never expected a 🥦 support group here
Broccoli is my fave veggie.
I love a broccoli and cheese risotto
Well that sounds good
crackstreams.com is a good live stream with no ads
But did you know!!?? that Broccoli is the same plant as Brussel spouts? Wait, there is more. It is the same plant as Cauliflower and Kale as well.
Tua time