Ah, how nice is it to ponder our team in Week #9 of an NFL season and not only be in contention for a playoff spot and the division crown, but to do so with a top rated defense and a promising young QB? C’mon, think about that and let it sink in. Forget about Tua throwing for only 102 yards, but think about this defense just 7 games into rebuild YEAR ONE and our defense, yes, the Miami Dolphins defense has given up the least points per game at 18.6 PPG. Incredible! I know some of you are worried about Tua but let it go man. NO matter who we drafted at QB you’d be feeling and thinking we made a mistake. If we took Herbert (who is playing well and looks good) you’d be thinking we screwed up. If we traded up and got Joe Burrow we’d be saying we mortgaged the future and gave up too much. If we waited to select Jordan Love we’d be saying we half-assed and should have gone all in on one of the upper echelon QB’s. Forget about that, we have Tua, and he’s got the talent to be great for us. Let it happen, and enjoy it!
Speaking of that defense, oh that defense. What a clinic they put on against the 5-2 LA Rams. Maybe Garoppolo wasn’t 100% but Goff was and that’s twice within a few weeks that we have flummoxed two NFC QB’s. Goff was pressured and harassed and hit all day long. Dolphins D forced 4 turnovers in all, 2 INT’s and 2 forced fumbles and recoveries, one for a TD on the strip sack of Goff by DE Emmanuel Ogbah (pictured above) and the TD return by LB Andrew Van Ginkel (also pictured above). Opportunistic they were, but there are some concerns. The Rams ran 90 offensive plays and had the ball for 36 and half minutes. 61 pass attempts and and 39 rush attempts. I comprehend that the score is all that matters at the end of the day, but I think we all understand this can’t happen week after week. The guys were exhausted, I saw several Dolphins barely able to get back to the LOS and get set in the 4th quarter, so this can’t continue. We need to get off the field sometimes, and the run defense is a concern. Teams look at film and find weaknesses and if the score is close enough, they will try and exploit our weak rushing defense.
The Arizona Cardinals are also 5-2, like the Rams were last week. They are coming off their BYE week and will be well rested and ready to go. We may catch a bit of a break because it appears as if Kenyan Drake may miss thye game which leaves the rushing in the capable hands of Chase Edmonds. The problem is, #29 doesn’t scare me as much as #1 on the opposing team does. We had tons of trouble with Cam Newton and the RPO but to be fair, that was game #1. This defense has come a long way since then. Still, Kyler Murray is a dangerous man when he’s running with the football, and in my opinion, much like Cam Newton, he scares me more running than passing. We have to be disciplined and we have to play better against that type of attack. We guessed wrong too often with Cam and the RPO, I hope we can do better with Murray. I’m also worried about sending too much pressure and having him find a hole to run upfield so we have to be cognizant of that as well. Oh yeah, and the Cards have DeAndre Hopkins, Larry Fitzgerald, Christian Kirk and Andy Isabella. The Cards are top 10 in points scored (8th at 29 PPG) and in points allowed (9th at 20.9) and have a +57 point differential. The Dolphins are 11th in PPG at 26.9PPG and as previously mentioned, #1 in points allowed (I like saying that!) at 18.6PPG, with a +58 point differential. Good news for Miami, rookie LT Austin Jackson has returned to practice. In his stead, veteran Jesse Davis has performed admirably.
The Dolphins offense will be somewhat of a mess due to the fact that their leading rusher Myles Gaskin is OUT and 3 week IR and it looks likely that backup Matt Breida (hamstring) may also be out or limited. That leaves only Jordan Howard (break in case of emergency), Patrick Laird and Savon Ahmed. I haven’t seen an injury report regarding FB Chandler Cox yet, and there’s always a chance both Malcolm Perry and Lynn Bowden get some touches in the backfield. We’re going to have to see more of Tua in this game, and I hope he’s up for the task. I know he has the talent and the confidence so let’s see some more of him please. I was perfectly fine with how things played out last week, there was no need to put any burden on Tua, the defense and ST’s like the wonderful 88 yard return for a TD last week, along with the Van Ginkel fumble recovery for a TD, but that won’t happen every week, and with the run game being at a huge deficit, it may be Tua time this week. Will #88 ever be a big part of the gameplan? I surely hope so, like Sonny said in “A Bronx Tale”, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever” Let’s make the right choice and get #88 the damn football!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
All that running is gonna catch up to Murray one day. It only takes one massive hit.
YESSSS just as I “drew it up” lol
MISSED IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i knew that kicker would blow it!
Oh my
Woop woop
Now we can use a running game though
Good call orob
Is he near sighted?
Gods are smiling on us
Howard’s best run of the game
Let’s ICE this thing.
Well Howard is fresh???????
Wow!!
Tua roll out and find an angle to get first down. Can’t give them the ball back
1 YD for the win
Wilkins time
Tua got it !!!!
1st down game over!
I called my oldest daughter in from the other room just before the field goal so we could wave our bad juju fingers at the screen chanting miss! Miss! miss! So I’m going to take credit for that
Well done 👍👍
Ballgame. Dolphins win, Dolphins win.
5-3
Like a Brady quicksnap
What the fuck was that?
A unicorn?????
44 wants Cox
And that’s another Dolphins Win!!!
YES! We have our Brady!
Murray in the locker room after this game: “y’all suck. Guess I gotta kick FGs too!” lol
Wow! Just wow!
We got ourselves a football team!
we finally called a sneak
And made it! Duh!
big win
What a great game
Dang straight
Yeeesss!!!!
I am proud of them boys!
Well looky there!
We might just have ourselves a football team!
Wow
i can’t wait to hear the media the next few days
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QB SNEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too early to talk playoffs….too early to talks playoffs lol?
Now you can at 5-3. 😉
Well looky there!
We might just have ourselves a football team!
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and an HC
Kingsberry fooled us into calling 2 time outs today!
the hell with politics … this is an AQUA and Orange Nation now!!
Murray walks off the field without shaking anyone’s hand.
What a pissant.
We beat the little darling team.
122.3
Not bad Tua!
71.4% completion 35 yards rushing
Go LAD!
Fuck Steelers won
QB SNEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right!?!
He probably heard me all the way from Sacramento, lol.
Jordan Howard was 10 for 19 yards.
Do t forget his TD lol
I won’t
Enjoy my fellow Phins fans… we’re for real. 🙂
4 game winning streak. We just beat two playoff caliber teams. I think we’re finally on the radar. Time to stay there.
4 very winnable games on schedule before the Chiefs.
You could see Fitzmagic on the field in spirit in that second half with Tua on those escapes
Way to win that 4th qtr!!! 10-0 to secure the win!
We overcame pregame injuries, missing a ton of assistant coaches, in game injuries, and the fucking refs!
That 4th and 1 PI call on Howard was bullshit, that face mask penalty against Wilkins was bullshit, there were at least on or two other calls that were bullshit.
And Gailey finally found a playsheet with the header “QB SNEAK”.
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah there were several back calls. At least 2 of the PIs seemed weak, especially that last one, he had position and was facing the play. He played the ball not the receiver, that was a text book great play. That TD over Jones was bs too, the guy didn’t have possession of the ball, he just had his hands on it while Jones had possession. He didn’t complete possession until they were on the ground and he was out of bounds.
I’ll take the win but our defense fell to 4th from 1st today!
Time for.a Chiba and a really good bourbon. Technically a Tennessee whiskey.
Cohiba
Enjoy.
naplesfan2010 says:
November 8, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Jordan Howard was 10 for 19 yards.
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But none of them were from runs over 10 yards so they all count!
Remember All those times Brady would walk forward right into a snap and a sneak before the DL could dig in. You can’t do that off a long snap count.
We are currently sitting at #7 in the playoff rankings ahead of the Browns and Colts. We have same record but but less conference losses than them.
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According to ESPN, we jump the Browns and the Colts, and are currently sitting in 7th and a playoff spot.
Hulk Smash Toba
🤢
I beginning to think there’s a plot to buy each other beers
I thought ya meant Cohiba Phel but I wasn’t sure. It’s usually just me and Mike talking smokes.
Remember losing games we could have won? 5-1 in the last 6. Thank you Brian Flores.
We showed so much f^cking poise today. It seemed like nothing went our way the entire 3rd quarter and more than half of the 4th. We didn’t whine, we didn’t bitch. We just went out and won the damned game!
🙂
Hope Williams’ foot injury is nothing bad.
When Williams went down, all I could thin was we ere going to miss Isaiah Ford, but we handled it really well. Fingers crossed Williams doesn’t miss time.
our next 4 games are against
Chargers 2-6
@Broncos 3-5
@Jets 0-8
Cincy 2-5-1
all afc teams,
how does 9-3 sound?
Chargers and Cincinnati are no gimmies
they are losing teams and we play them in Miami,
It’s the NFL. none of those games are gimmies, but we should be able to win them all or at least go 3-1
One game at a time!
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Bills play @ Cards next week,
I looked at this 6 game stretch when we were 3-3, the toughest games i thought were the Rams & Cards, i thought we may win 1 but no way we get both, then we have an easy 4 game stretch.
we went 2-0 in the tough games!
the fumble return for a TD was the #1 play of the day on Red Zone
I noticed no one was willing to say the jests game isn’t a gimmie
😆👍
I guess I’ll take the plunge. I ultimately have massive faith in Adam Gase to help us win.
Lol
Even though our D didn’t have its best game it made some plays especially the strip sack TD and the 2 late stops
We have a Head Coach who gets it. A win on the road across the country against an up and coming team. With a rookie QB. How cool is this? 🙂
5-3 at the midway point.
Huuuuuge
Ummm I’m really hoping the jests have 1 win when we play them … which they get Monday night.
the last 4 games are
Chiefs
Pats
@raiders
@ bills
we could very well be playing the Bills in the last game of the season for the division!
Jets are tanking For Trevor
They haven’t reckoned with bellicheat.
We have the 8th easiest remaining schedule.
They keep bringing guys up off the street that make an impact
Hollins?
Achmed?
Because it’s the scheme … and the culture.
Woop woop!
Kind of like how the Patriots did it
Glad to see Jackson back
To tell the truth…. thought we were going to lose. But could not be any more happy to be wrong.
WELL, YOUNG STANGER, I PREDICTED A DOLPHINS’ VICTORY (all be it 26-17 rather than 34-31) so I was NOT surprised. YOUNG Mr. Sanders remains PERFECT for the entire season. His 56-yard FG would have been good from over 60 YARDS!!!
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NOW, I KNOW, one game or two games does not a season make. But some of Tua’s doubters must now be pondering the following question;
“WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR CROW SERVED WELL DONE OR MEDIUM RARE??”
Many thought Flores was utterly crazy to suggest we use the over all 5th pick on an injured quarterback who had been surgically repaired.
You may remember during the Saban era the Dolphins’ FO faced the same dilemma. Take Drew Brees, who agreed to play for Miami for less than another team’s offer, or pick someone else?? Brees was deemed too big a risk, so we went in another disastrous direction. And we’ve been paying for it for about a decade and a half!!
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Barring a cruel and unexpected injury, it now appears that Tua WAS the proper decision. We NOW HAVE a quarterback who can give us a chance TO BEAT SOME OF THE BEST TEAMS IN THE NFL FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. We are now on the cusp of facing four teams who have won a combined total of, I believe, 7 games this year. Miami should be favored in all four games. The prospect of ending this run at 9-3 is BELIEVABLE!!!
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I KNOW I’m best known on this site for my negative comments on Dolphins’ ownership. I’m totally OK with that because I believe what I have said IS THE TRUTH!! — But now the TRUTH is singing a different tune. WE ARE, I BELIEVE, a LEGITIMATE PLAYOFF CONTENDER for the VERY FIRST TIME in the history of Ross’s ownership. WE CAN NOT ONLY PLAY IN THE PLAYOFFS. WE CAN WIN IN THE PLAYOFFS!! And when that actually happens, I’ll repeat another phrase that I am often linked to:
“Of all the words of woe
the worst of these
“I told you so!”
Except THIS TIME, those words will denote A POSITIVE ACHIEVEMENT!
GO FINS!!
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PS: Mrs. OD sends her kindest regards to all of you. It now appears she’s looking at 6 months, or more, of rehabilitation following her knee replacement procedure. And she’s hoping she’ll be in the stands to see at least ONE GAME NEXT SEASON!!!
I know the rehab on those knee replacements are tough from my aunt. Good news about her is she is doing just fine if not ready to go skiing.
Hey Coach Gase
Is the Jests game a”gimmie”?
I wish I had tacos. LOL
Lol, on both.
At 5-3 it looks like they are going to break my 8-8 prediction like Kong and a bar stool!
Heck yeah! 🙂
now we need too take care of business at home against an angry desperate chargers team.
A Chargers team who has lost by 5 points or less in their last 19,000 games
I have a few Chargers friends. They are hilarious guys but the Chargers are definitely a snake-bitten team.
Their last two years have been unreal, lol.
Fukin A
And my driver wins the Nascar “Winston” Cup!!!!!!!!!!!
YOUNG STANGER: REPLY for you just below your 8:14 post. ENJOY!!
Don’t care , Dolphins Win and fuck everyone else… 🐬🏈🐕🥃🥃!!
LOL
So this is what it’s like watching a team competing every week. Sure is alot of fun.
GO FINS
It’s easy to get used to….lol
🙂
We have scored 21+ points in 7 straight games. That’s cool but the sad stat is that the last time we had a longer streak was 2001-2 with 14 games. It’s been far too long since we’ve had an offense.
I’m not oppressing you! You don’t have a womb!
It’s just so strange seeing them score….I definitely can get used to this.
If the day comes when they figure out how to stop running QBs, watch out.
It’s always fun to see Brady get slapped around. Loving this Saint game so far.
Saints pounding Bucs 28-0 early in 2nd quarter
It seems like we have played with a lead a lot this season. I wonder how many total minutes we have played with a lead.
Just amazing that a kicker missed a clutch kick against us. I can’t think of the last time that happened