This game is much more than Tua vs Herbert, I’ve just become fond of the mirror image bookend windups of both righty and lefty QB’s together. Don’t get me wrong, both of these players will play a large role in the game, but right now the Dolphins defense is an equal shareholder in the outcome of this team. I mentioned this the other day and I think this information is still sinking in. Half the season is completed and our Miami Dolphins are in the top 10 in offensive scoring (10th) at 27.8 PPG and 4th in defensive scoring at 20.1 PPG. We’re plus 61 in point differential. We knew this was year 1 of the rebuild after the tear down and I can’t imagine that any of us expected this type of result so quickly.
Emmanuel Ogbah has been so impressive this season. He has more sacks at the halfway point of the season (7) than he has had in any full season. His 13 QB hits are 3 away from topping his season best in which he started all 16 games. He’s playing 76% of the defensive snaps and is on pace to equal his rookie year of playing over 800 snaps. The thing is, it’s not just Ogbah, everyone is making plays. Ogbah has started them with the strip sacks in back to back games but Andrew Van Ginkel scooped up one fumble and ran it back for a TD and then the next week it was Shaq Lawson with the scoop and the fumble recovery TD return. Elandon Roberts has made some big defensive stops. Byron Jones and Xavien Howard have been balling although last week Howard struggled all day. Eric Rowe has been playing very well along with Bobby McCain. Big Raekwon Davis, Zach Sieler and Christian Wilkins have been money on the defensive line. If I asked you which Dolphins DB has the most passes defensed I’d be willing to bet nearly all of you would guess wrong. It’s Eric Rowe with 9. BTW, Shaq Lawson is just one shy of Ogbah with 12 QB hits. You don’t hear his name as much but he’s getting it done.
The 2-6 Chargers come in 17th in offensive scoring at 25.6 PPG and 21st in defensive scoring at 27 PPG and they have a -11 point differential. This Chargers defense was supposed to be better with Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram, Denzel Perryman, Kenneth Murray etc. The Chargers recently traded away safety Desmond King and now have the duo of Rayshawn Jenkins and Nasir Adderly. The Chargers defense hasn’t been what they expected but their offense has been humming despite the running back carousel of Austin Ekeler (IR), Joshua Kelley and Justin Jackson. Ekeler is the most explosive of the crew and he’s been on IR for weeks. The Chargers are now featuring RB’s Kalen Ballage and Troymaine Pope due to injuries to Justin Jackson and Joshua Kelley. WR Keenan Allen leads the team in receptions followed by WR Mike Williams. No longer does that dominant TE control the middle of the field (Antonio Gates). Still, QB Justin Herbert is having a fantastic rookie season completing 67% of his passes with 17 TD’s and only 5 INT’s and 2146 yards passing.
For our Dolphins, the hope is that Matt Breida will be healthy or we’ll see the committee of Jordan Howard, Salvon Ahmed and Patrick Laird. Ahmed looked to have some giddyup while Jordan Howard ran like he had a blocking sled tied to his waist. Ahmed had 38 yards on 7 carries and a long carry of 19 yards. Breida is questionable with a hamstring injury. WR Preston Williams is on IR with a foot injury sustained on his TD catch against the Cards. There’s a chance we will see WR Antonio Callaway this week as he makes his long journey back to an NFL gameday roster, his last NFL action was 11/3/19. Jakeem Grant was more involved in the passing game than usual and he stepped up. Tua now makes his third NFL start, his 2nd at home. I would think the small crowd will be in a frenzy. I just hope we can keep up the good work we’ve done the last 4 games.
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
pheloniusphish says:
November 16, 2020 at 5:45 pm (Edit)
Why is Hulk beating up Harambe?
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Because Hulk angry
Long, sorry to side with he Hulk over ya but, it wouldn’t be much of a fight. Hulk destroyed a planet with his bare hands once, he ripped the fabric of reality with hit hulk clap, and he stopped a celestial from stomping on a planet by lifting them. I mean hard to argue with all that.
Kong too
Hulk smashed a God
Comic book Hulk would wipe the floor with King Kong, no contest. MCU Hulk and Kong would be a good fight, but I Kong wins that one.
*think
CavalierKong says:
November 16, 2020 at 5:16 pm
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/drew-brees-injury-qb-reportedly-suffered-collapsed-lung-multiple-rib-fractures-latest-on-recovery-timetable/
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Mike E. says:
November 16, 2020 at 5:19 pm
Sounds like he needs a thumb up his ass at a minimum . . .
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Its the new fix all, no more windex…..thumb up the ass
That and some duct tape
D , the Ahmed Achmed thing has been driving me nuts too.. as for Tua, I heard the N a long time ago and just shrugged and went whatever, as Son puts out there I guess it is 👅🎻
Maybe he just needs a nickname like Iggy has. How about A-man?
I think Phelon was putting a General in front of it …
My daughter started arguing with me about a couple of weeks ago, she even found a guy on a video saying Tag not tongue, so I played the above video for her and said are we done with this now?
Lol, yesterday Bob was over and struggling to understand the tong sound my daughter says watch it he’ll bust a video of Tua himself saying it.
Me and her say his name throughout the whole game, when we need a play we say 2️⃣🅰️ 👅🎻
I have the game recorded, if I remember when I’m home I’ll try and find that weird ass shit, or weird ass thumb shit and I’ll video it and text it to you guys. As D mentioned, it was so absolutely bizarre.
Dolphins released Jordan Howard. What was up with him? He’s only like 27.
I used to know some 27 yr olds that sucked too , but now that would be considered creepy
“The Dolphins have drafted 12 offensive linemen in the fourth or fifth rounds in the past 30 years, and Solomon Kindley is the first in 26 years to start more than six games for them in their entire career. ”
He’s already at 9.
Wow
holy hell that is bad
He’s badass, I see him pushing guys way after the play is over, he never stops, doesn’t concede, EVER . . .
LOL, we should all vote for the lineman we think is best for the team and kick the loser the eff out. 😉
But there have been later picks who have started more games than that. So it kind of balances out.
Flores said he’s implementing a new defensive scheme called the Omar Kelly package
It reminds me of that ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham with his dummy Ahmed the Terrorist, pronounced ACH-med
Ahmed
Got it. “Achmed”
The K is silent.
It’s not silent. It’s loud and also invisible!
LOL, that works too
Kindley was the fullback on our first TD yesterday, he must have filled in for Wilkins and they had Hunt on the line.
Thats when ockmed walked in the endzone
Looks like the AB rehabilitation tour is going well.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30332026/report-antonio-brown-wrecked-camera-charged-joining-tampa-bay-buccaneers
Akmed….Ahmed. say it the right way in honor of the person’s name and culture. But, don’t expect America to know that. Especially, you cajuns, hicks, hillbillies, rednecks, and old white fuckers like me.
Sorry, I always try to honor someone’s name, even if I don’t get it.
If it’s pronounced Akmed, so be it. I thought the announcers were insulting him. Guess I’m wrong.
I agree. Honor the person by saying his name right. Don’t know why people are making a deal out of it. The pronunciation is provided thru the league, team and player
http://draftcountdown.com/2020/2020-nfl-draft-pronunciation-guide/
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That is a nice trailer!
So glad we signed Zach Sieler to an extension, he earned it. He’s a player.
It’s pronounced Zak 🤡
LOL @ Toba
I knew it!
That’s cool, way to go Davis
He is a big dude who is hard to move. He’s actually pretty athletic and may get even better in time.
As it turns out the trainer just kinda grabbed inside the thigh very close to the butt hole but no thumb. Watching it live it looked weird but seeing it again a couple of times it wasn’t nearly as obscene as I thought it was
It is funnier the other way so that is what I am going with
LOL, I was about to write basically the same thing
No doubt, when D mentioned it I totally laughed out loud because I remember thinking WTF did I just see happen there?
WTF is this about? LOL
👍
LOL Ken
I love that we’re in the conversation. But Colin, it’s Howard not Rhodes. 😉
Tim, Van Noy went down after tackling Ballage and 2 Dolphins player immediately call for the trainer. Trainer runs out and Van Noy is writhing on his side and he starts to show the trainer where it hurts and the the trainers hand is inside his thigh real close to his butthole and in live motion it looked crazy.
Oh okay I didn’t notice that. LOL
LOL @ Ken
Tim
Mike E was looking at Van Noy’s butt hole.
Nothing to see here!!!!!! 😉
He thought I was weird first time , but after multiple times it started to feel normal🤔
LOL…Freudian?
Yep lol
Mike was scouting hand technique.
^it not I. Although ….
New team doctor
Kyle Van Noy approves this message
He’s been a badass.
He had a day yesterday
https://twitter.com/pff_ryansmith/status/1328347451342942209?s=21
Godchaux who?
J/K I hope he comes back from injury and signs a friendly deal to stay but it is nice that our young guys all seem to be, what is it called again?…..oh yeah developed.
It was cool to see Perry get some action as a WR yesterday. He showed some of that slippery ability he’s known for.
MF 13,smiling somewhere.
He might be doing more than smiling. LOL
The thing abut Patterson is he’s been exactly what he was in college in the NFL – more of an explosive player you can use in different ways but not a reliable WR.
Being used more as RB tonight. But that was a sweet return.
I always cheered for him cause if his last name
Oh yeah he can make big plays for sure.
He just can’t run routes. Great field vision, no technical skills at the WR position. He’d be better as a hybrid halfback/TE.
Man Foles is the most cement shoed QB I have seen in forever. He moves worse than the late 90’s Dan Marino.
About the only NI in Dans yearly reviews
One of the worst passes a QB can make is when he throws to the back in the flat facing away from upfield and a defender right on it to blow it up. Why even throw that? You see the one on one matchup that’s going to be no gain or a loss of yardage. Just throw it as his feet and go to the next down. You put the back in a bad situation for injury, he’s getting blindsided. I see this type of thing way too often. If you can’t lead your back upfield don’t throw it.
DJ Wonnum was a guy I wanted for us. When I was watching Kinlaw I couldn’t understand why Wonnum wasn’t higher rated
Soooo you are are saying. You Wannum
I did wannum Wonnum
😊
Been good in pass Pro, Run blocking is starting to come around.
Btw ya beat me 98.26 – 97.68 this week
Minny gets another win. Good for our Houston pick.
Amoeba defense forever!
I don’t blame Herbert for being confused
Sometimes im looking at our defense and I’m like …WTF?!?
They are all moving around and I can’t figure out what they are doing
Belichick was doing that in the mid 80’s with the Giants with LT, Carson etc. It’s about personnel that can blitz, drop and play the run. We hit on Van Ginkel in the 2019 5th rd. He plays so many roles.
Gotta love how this team plays. The Tua era has begun and he/we should get better. This Phase II of the rebuild is gaining momentum quicker than people thought. Missing the playoffs at 6-3 would be a disappointment. There is now a new pressure but fuck it, live the moment. Go Phins!!!!
Love fest
I’m superstitious about reading media praise about our team. I can’t do it.
It used to be easier to avoid
Piggy – no doubt, we’re getting national recognition. I guess maybe if we’re good for a long enough period of time we’ll get used to that too.
I don’t remember even being recognized in power rankings as a contender
At best we hit top half
It feels like our offense is still finding ourselves
But on D – wow we are one of the nfls best very early
Yes…The paragraph on the run Defense in the article below is interesting. Seemed like LA was running at will, but at the end of the day they only had a 3.4 yds/carry average.
LOL! Just read Jordan Howard’s career with the Dolphins. 28 carries for 33 yards, 4 TD’s. Averaging a potent 1.2 YPC. He’ll probably do better elsewhere, but this time it’s not us because we have a bunch of guys thriving here.
https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/news/miami-dolphins-week-10-report-card
And here’s one that calls them overachievers. Faint praise.
https://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolphins/post/_/id/31675/how-the-overachieving-miami-dolphins-can-win-the-afc-east
You could say overachievers based on us being predicted to win 6 games, but I don’t think we’re close to reaching our potential. I mean we blow out the Rams and 49ers and it seems more ho hum, than a perfect game.
Guys like Raekwon and Seiler stepping up, when Wilkins was out is just a microcosm of this season. We also saw Grant step up without Preston, the entire DL, when Godchaux went down, Achmed, when Gaskin went down…
Anyone remember the start of brady’s career? The cheats D was top notch and got him an SB his first year. He was known as Mr dink and dunk.
Doesn’t our situation now look a lot like that, sans the dink and dunk? Both teams play 60 minutes and get contributions all over the field from all 3 units.
One thing about our O playing the take few chances is it makes the other teams O less potent, because they get less possessions and when they do get them they have to go the length of the field. More in the line of total team win with complimentary football from all 3 units.
Keenan Allen on #Chargers offense’s performance vs. Dolphins: “I would say we were pretty confused out there.”
NICE! I love it!!!
The amoeba defense
I wish I was still photoshopping
I would give each of those guys googlly eyes 👀 and a 🐬 Helmet
He would be shouted down on this board! 😉
LOL
Huh…Game planning according to your opponent. What a concept.
Mike E. says:
November 16, 2020 at 6:10 pm
I have the game recorded, if I remember when I’m home I’ll try and find that weird ass shit, or weird ass thumb shit and I’ll video it and text it to you guys. As D mentioned, it was so absolutely bizarre.
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Yeah it wasn’t like a oh ooops i thought that was your belly button, he jammed that thing in there and rooted around some.
Also, im like Krishna on the name thing. If thats the way its pronounced, ill just deal with how it hits me and maybe it wont if i can ever settle into that being right, id love to heard Salvon say it just to be sure, but going off what Ken says, ill try to accept its Ack not Ah, the reason it bothered me wasn’t my own desired for it to be Ahmed, i just wanted it said right for his sake, and maybe it was, and i just didn’t trust Gumble’s old senile ass for getting it right.
Still Ken i know i have heard the announcers butcher names in the past, so even if they do get the releases on the name pronunciations, i dont know if all of them study that shit.
We had this little dude on our team in HS that was like Grant, except he was probably 5’2 and 110, maybe 120. He was a spunky little fucker too, and was kinda hard to get your hands on, but i remember tackling him once full out and i thought i had killed him. He wasnt scared to put it on ya though, we used to call him the Kneebiter because he had a tendency of hitting you int he knees if he were blocking or tackling.
In regards to Salvon Ahmed’s name, this is from a Palm Beach Post article, and I would assume the writer confirmed it with the kid.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/nfl/2020/11/12/miami-dolphins-rookie-rb-ahmed-has-got-some-juice/6272789002/
“We had raced a couple of times,” said Ahmed, whose name is pronounced suh-VON OCK-med. “I had got him on the first two and then he got me on the last three. I think it came down to a conditioning thing.”
Perhaps there are regional dialects and pronunciations or perhaps it is pronounced ockmed here even if it’s not technically correct, because it is our closest English approximation phonetically and in writing.
We don’t have rolled ‘r’s like in Spanish so we pronounce it floor instead of flo(r) with a rolled ‘r’. And we don’t have guttural ‘ch’s, so we pronounce it ockmed instead of the exact Arabic pronunciation.
At the 2:30 mark
“Floor? Like what I walk on?”
The exciting thing about Tua and this offense (and Steve touched on it above) is we haven’t seen them open it up much, only the 4th quarter of the Cards game. Our defense and ST are playing so well, the offense only has to make a few plays and not make mistakes.
STs keeps giving us short fields, and defense is keeping scores low. We play a very vanilla, conservative offense right now because that is all the team needs, and it’s perfect for Tua’s progression as our QB.
This formula should work for the next 3 games, but the 4 games after that, at least 3 of them, we’ll likely have to open the throttle up in order to win. Tua will have 6 games under his belt and be ready to kick some ass.
However you guys want to pronounce Ahmed’s name… I’m just happy to see him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWm5-gcVRY
I can hear the wind howling in the trees now….
Just wait until we add a samurai or 2 to this offense
Broncos game is at 4:05. Isn’t that 5 straight late starts for us? Don’t remember that before.
I’m tired of these afternoon games. It messes with my Sunday.
Not much other than football on Sunday for us EST guys, cept maybe going to dinner. Guess you are seeing why. 🙂
That would be 3 in a row, the Rams game was 1pm est.
Beer to you
Thanks Steve and bookman. 3 in a row and 4 out of 5 it will be. Still very unusual.
And after checking — looks like will be 5 out of 6 games. Jets started at 4 for whatever reason.
That’s kind of life playing both west divisions.
But how often do you get both West divisions in the same season? Only one left for the late start is the Raiders in your area. Except we might be interesting enough to get pulled up into a feature game. Hoping we are.
I think the Rams game was in the early window.
Piggy – I feel like if we take a WR early, I don’t want any potential “diva” type guys. I like that no one guy is bitching he wants the ball, everyone is in it for the team and I want it to stay that way.
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-hot-or-not-dolphins-on-fire-broncos-qb-question-looms
That was a fun read
Think we can assume that the national media is paying attention now. They’ll drop us just as quick if we lose 2 out of the next 3.
‘Sup FUers?
Will drop by again in about 2 weeks time again hopefully, but it’s budget time now so no chance to stick around and chat – it’s gonna have to be a dropped Mike(E) from me ….. if it posts correctly it has a Mic and a hand!!!
As it seems to a non-US resident you’ve spent most of the last 3 months as a board and a nation arguing about politics (😂) I couldn’t bear to see you waste any more time on how to pronounce names with too many consonants, so here goes:
https://media.miamidolphins.com/player-name-pronunciations/
There was a tweet sent out at half time on Sunday with written phonetic pronunciations too but can’t remember who sent it. Sure a bit of googling will locate it if anyone has time.
Cheers for now
Good to see ya, UK. The audio is the player themselves, so that is about as definitive as it gets.
ukfinfan — you are #1 on my list of posters who should spend more time here. Hope you’ve been having a good time.
MikeE,
I talked about this a little last season. It’s much easier to coach a team that’s rebuilding and guys are just fighting to keep a roster spot. Guys are willing to run through walls and willing to focus on team rather than individual when there’s nowhere to go but up. But, as the accolades start pouring in and thy start getting told how great they are, guys will start to focus more on “getting mine”. How does Flores handle that shift because I guarantee you we’ll start to see more divaesque behavior? I think he will do okay but we will begin to see a tougher challenge for him as coach. Can he keep guys focused on playing as a team and not as individuals?
Mike E
There’s always the 2nd round for a wr
Besides there are plenty of non diva frost rounders
I don’t think our own Parker is a diva
How about a guy like Larry Fitzgerald
I don’t remember Julio Jones ever having any issues
There’s plenty of top tier WRs who don’t have those diva issues
Some of the worst divas aren’t even first rounders – Antonio Brown was a 6th rounder
I just think there are personalities to stay away from
I don’t think it’s necessarily positional
I think this team has to add a WR early in the raft next year
But it doesn’t have to be the first round
I agree with Piggy on getting an early WR this draft. I saw an article that discussed how much having DeAndre and Diggs helped the development of Allen and Murray. We have a high paid defense and could use a top notch rusher but we have two first round picks and might as well use our Houston cornucopia on those positions if we can. I know this draft won’t be as loaded with Samurais as last year but there’s some good talent I’ve already seen this year. I’ll leave that topic to Piggy tho.
Fitz #1, Tua #3 overall on the year.
Dont know if you guys have experienced a death due to covid, but i just experienced my first. Its a family member that, to be honest, i was not close with, and i actually didn’t care for him much, but i do hate that he died from this virus.
He was in that range of age groups that are considered most likely to die from it, (80) and im not sure of the source of his contact, but he was around people who were in turn found to be positive which were directly in close contact with my mom. My mom tested negative and seems to be fine, but he spent a week or so under symptom. His A-Fib was really triggered, and was the symptom he went in for when they found him to be positive. So with some heart conditions stacked against him, and his age, he was a prime target to be a statistic, and unfortunately has passed.
I say this because he went from alive and doing relatively fine to dead within a couple weeks, be careful, stay away from others if possible, wear the mask, follow the protocols, and by all means love your loved ones. As i said, i wasn’t close with him, but it could be someone i am close with, it could be someone you are close with and this shit isn’t close to being done, its just ramping up.
Mike E, they wouldn’t even draft a guy that showed ANY diva so I’m not worried about that. But you can’t confuse confidence with diva, if the guy is producing and talking that’s ok, but if he’s dropping balls and cutting off routes and not blocking but talking that shit won’t fly.
I’d like to see a dynamic WR early in the draft too unless they like someone as a FA, but even still I think I would.
I’m done with Hurns and Wilson. Here’s your opt out 🖕
They can go the way of that fuckface we traded to Houston.
Great to see UK, great to see you around. Our team is good again too, can you believe it?
UK, good to see you pop in. Hope all is well. How bout them Dolphins?!!!
I’m at the point where I have so much confidence in what Grier and Flores are building that I’m on board with whoever they bring in both FA and the draft.
Yep
He reminds me of Parker
I love Ross, He was amazing in the 2019 championship.
I foresee a new Samurai list coming this off season
F’n Facebook 🤬
The new format and the way they’re doing things suck!!! They’re going to be replaced in time just like MySpace.
It looks like the Houston pick has a very good chance of being top 10, it’s at #6 right now. The way this team is setup, this is a prime situation to take the BPA, a top talent too hard to pass on. Yes I know I’m going to hear what if it’s a QB or a LT, we just used two 1st rd picks on those positions last year. I’m sure other positions will be available that are worthy and make more sense for us. 😉
I’m leaning towards trading the pick, though there are a couple of guys in that range i would consider using the pick on.
I don’t know who those prospects are yet. But you never know, we might trade that pick if we don’t feel a can’t miss prospect is there, and we load up on more picks because another team is all in on a guy. That seems like something we might do.
D says:
November 17, 2020 at 7:56 pm
Dont know if you guys have experienced a death due to covid, but i just experienced my first. Its a family member that, to be honest, i was not close with, and i actually didn’t care for him much, but i do hate that he died from this virus.
He was in that range of age groups that are considered most likely to die from it, (80) and im not sure of the source of his contact, but he was around people who were in turn found to be positive which were directly in close contact with my mom. My mom tested negative and seems to be fine, but he spent a week or so under symptom. His A-Fib was really triggered, and was the symptom he went in for when they found him to be positive. So with some heart conditions stacked against him, and his age, he was a prime target to be a statistic, and unfortunately has passed.
I say this because he went from alive and doing relatively fine to dead within a couple weeks, be careful, stay away from others if possible, wear the mask, follow the protocols, and by all means love your loved ones. As i said, i wasn’t close with him, but it could be someone i am close with, it could be someone you are close with and this shit isn’t close to being done, its just ramping up.
My wife and l go for our tests on Thursday
Well i sure hope ya’ll get a good report man.
Not to scare ya, but. I have some friends that have gone through it and recovered and they were young, healthy, etc and they are having what they are calling long-hauler effects.
Its been 3 months now and they cant smell things very well, which means they also cant taste things very well. One of them loves spicy but had to cut back on it because they cant taste the spice even though they can feel the burn so they have been over doing it with the heat and ruining their meals. They also report bouts of fatigue, out of the blue just crazy fatigue and then it will go away and pop back up again later.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/covid-19-long-hauler-patients-search-for-answers-and-help/2020/10
Looks like sometimes certain symptoms just hang around and its not always the same one for different patients that become long haulers.
It’s scary stuff D. Some stuff you can’t avoid but I figure mostly wait for the vaccine. I’ve been to plenty of bars in my 50+ years
“The Dolphins have scored at least 21 points in eight consecutive games. The last time the Dolphins had an eight-game string of scoring 21-points or more in the same season was 1984 — the year Dan Marino threw 48 touchdown passes.”
The turn around this team has made is most impressive. This is only half way through Phase II and we’re already in the playoff picture with a transition to a rookie QB. You can’t ask for more than this. It’s not even a bias thing anymore. Pundits around the league are impressed. Family and friends have said to me your team is on its way to good things. Isn’t it cool? 🙂
Vegas said 6….we got 6.
I said 8….we’ll get at least that
Everything else is gravy
So sorry to hear that, D. We’re all in this together, not just half of us. Some people are just being stupid.
Sad part of the vaccine is that even once that Pfizer get the first batch done, its only going to be 50mil doses and they said could be more than a quarter of those go overseas.lets say only 10mil go over seas, it takes 2 doses and that means we would have 40mil doses, 20 mil people could get their two shot series. We have 340+ mil people so we would still have 320mil more to go. That is going to take 4 forevers to get everyone vaccinated.
In the meantime they are always finding mutations of the virus in mink, in Switzerland or Norway, and its a strain that is resistant to antibodies. The government want to do a mass extermination of the Mink but animal rights people prevented it. So by the time we have a vaccine for the current strain, there is going to be a worse one following right behind it. This situation is nuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWBFWw3XubQ
Stanger, I’m just enjoying the ride. None of our predictions matter because you can’t predict the game changing plays. This team is maturing together quicker than expected but maybe we should have seen that coming based on how we finished last year, and this is a much better team this year.
I dug them back in the 80’s. Talented dudes who could sing and play.
Great tune
Okay, I’ll bite. What is this passive aggressive shit about?
He likes to be mysterious. LOL
This tune takes me back to the early 80’s when disco and dancing was still happening. Just some different music was happening as well.
Quite honestly, I absolutely LOVE(!!!) what I’m seeing from our Phins. This year has been incredibly special, thus far. My only grievances (accompanied with solutions)…
1) Tua needs to have more zip on the ball (lots of floaters).
Solution: Tua was/is rehabbing, and didn’t have a legit offseason of strength training. This should not be a problem going forward, starting next year.
2) Our running game is terrible!
Solution: as our O-Line continues to gel, and with a bevy of picks once again in the ’21 Draft… we can draft another stud O-Lineman (or perhaps even get a stud via FA), and draft a stud RB relatively early. Our running game woes shouldn’t be a problem come next year.
3) Emmanuel Ogbah has been quite the surprise! But besides/opposite him, we don’t have a legit and constant threat to contain.
Solution: draft a stud pass-rusher early in 2021.
As you can see, I don’t have many grievances that won’t be taken care of next year. This team has a feeling that’s MUCH better than our ’08 (Sparano) and ’16 (Gase) teams.
Y’all… I firmly believe we’re finally turning the corner!
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Half way through Phase II. Patience grasshopper. 6-3 and already in the playoff mix. Your post comes off like we’re 3-6 but showing progress. We all know if we add this and that makes us better. But geez it’s just getting started and it’s already good. Enjoy it, man!
OH, I AM enjoying, my man!!! Just looking forward to building a Super Bowl contender, that’s all! 🙂
Would it be wild if it happened this year? 😉
Sorry to read that, D. Glad your mom tested negative though. Hope Hulk and the wife get good news too.
Tim Knight says:
November 17, 2020 at 8:55 pm
He likes to be mysterious. LOL
This tune takes me back to the early 80’s when disco and dancing was still happening. Just some different music was happening as well.
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I truly LOVE this music. IMO, 80s music is the best music ever made, and it influences me greatly. It takes me back, too, being I was a young buck. MANY fond memories of the past in hearing this music. Not too much of a mystery to me, LOL.
But speaking of “a mystery to me”… I LOVE this one…
Quarantine day 2: all work and no play makes Ken a dull boy
You’ll be good, Hulkster. I went through a 15-day quarantine back in May. All good. Catch up on “The Mandalorian”, dude!
JUST SAW that Miami’s only favored by 3 at Denver. This after it was revealed that Drew Lock, Denver’s starting QB, has bruised and battered ribs and may NOT PLAY!! So the Miami Dangerfields STILL DON’T GET NO RESPECT from some observers in Vegas, eh??? Well we’ll see what they say when FLORES’ BOYS rip the ponies a new one in Denver on Sunday!! — For HOWIE’s list – –
30-17 MIA
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HEY MF-13: –You DO remember BEFORE the season started I predicted that the Dolphins would make the playoffs, right?? For the first time this century, the Dolphins have a team THAT CAN WIN A PLAYOFF GAME!!
I’m digging your Dolphins fandom fire in recents weeks. 🙂
TIM: LET ME SAY what others have feared to say:
THE SUPER BOWL IS IN TAMPA EARLY FEBRUARY.
LOCALS here in Tampa predict a Florida team will be in it.
Little do they know
THEY’VE GOT THE WRONG FLORIDA TEAM!!!
OD, did Ross promoting Grier that lead to hiring Flores sell you? That’s where we are. I’m friggin enjoying it. It’s fun! 🙂
And I agree, let’s go back to the classic uniforms.
A couple of Patriots fans here in Tampa sang Flores praises when the Pats (FLORES) stopped the Rams high powered offense, holding them to 3 points in the Super Bowl. They were stunned when Kraft “Let Flores get away to a division rival!” So, neither Ross nor Grier figured strongly in my analysis of Flores. That said, I’ll give Ross a little credit for finally picking the RIGHT GUY after 6-7 prior failures and over a decade of frustration.
GOTTA WALK THE GREYHOUND and get my ugly rest.
OUT for tonight.
Ken
Have you been going back to the office yet? (With the exception of your current quarantine)
Old Dolfan,
Your prediction seems to be coming to fruition! So far, so good!
Tim Knight says:
November 17, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Would it be wild if it happened this year? 😉
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LOL, I said that to a friend (55 years old) at work just yesterday… that we just might be Super Bowl contenders this year. He told me, “WOAH! Hold on, now! Don’t jinx us, man!”.
We’ll see what happens, but I am absolutely ENJOYING this ride we’re on, called the 2020 Miami Dolphins!!!
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
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To me this game is huge. Win 6 in a row and another road game in Denver, now you’re really a serious team. 7-3 is good stuff!
Tua knows it’s his time. Just keep limiting mistakes and when it’s time for playmakers to make plays, get them the ball. Tom Brady’s career is all about that. Do your job.
He’s never been an amazing physical QB, but he didn’t make a lot of mistakes.
I think that’s what Tua will be. The team plays well in all three phases and he’ll make the plays he has to make. When he has a great game that’s gravy.
You’ve got to have higher expectations for Tua. All I heard for a year was tank for Tua. You dont hear that and not expect this guy to make you great. I want to see him in the upper echelon of QBs. Its go time.
ER – I think Tim is specifically talking about Tua in the now, not the future. I mean he’s already 3-0 and has 5 TD’s with zero INT’s. I think Tim is just saying when the opportunity presents itself where Tua has to do more he’ll do it but he’s not just sling the football all over when it’s not necessary. He’s already showed he has the mettle in the comeback against ARZ.
Not only what Mike said but Tim compared him to the most successful QB of all time. I can’t think of higher expectations than comparing him to the guy at the top the past twenty years. If Tua is half as successful as Brady, then I’ll be the happiest fan ever.
Piggy – I can’t even comprehend the amount of people I deal with in close contact every day. I would say it has to be at least 20 a day and sometimes a lot more. Fuck it, call me a front line worker. lol
I can easily go a week without dealing with 20 people when I work from home
It’s odd in nyc
It seemed like that was about to change but….Womp Womp