Our Miami Dolphins (6-3) travel across the country to play the Denver Broncos (3-6). This Dolphins team has had one consistent thing going all year long, whether we won or lost on game day, it’s that’s the fact that this has been a well coached, well prepared team. The Dolphins are the 4th least penalized teams at 4.3 penalties per game and are 5th at penalty yards per game at 37.8 yards per game. It’s much more than the penalties though, it’s about getting the players to buy in to the program, and in that regard, Brian Flores has been excellent. The contract extension of DL Zach Sieler is an example. Sieler came from the Baltimore Ravens, a winning program and a perennially well run organization with excellent coaching provided by John Harbaugh. Sieler was originally a 7th RD pick that was discarded by the Ravens in 2019 after Week 4 and the Dolphins picked him up quickly. This year, Sieler got more playing time due to a season ending injury to DL Davon Godchaux and Sieler never looked back. Cultivating players like Sieler is just as important as grooming our young QB Tua Tagovailoa as after all, this is a team game.
The Dolphins remain in the top 10 on both offensive scoring (9th at 27.9 PPG) and defensive scoring (5th at 20.2 PPG). The win streak is now up to 5 games in a row as we take on yet another young QB, which will either be 1 year vet Drew Lock if he’s healthy enough to suit up, or rookie Brett Rypien. Which QB starts has yet to be determined at this writing. The Broncos are 28th in offensive scoring at 20.7 PPG and 27th in defensive scoring at 28.2 PPG. QB Tua Tagovailoa gets his 4th start after winning his first 3 contests. The Dolphins will likely get RB Matt Breida back this week but after a strong showing last week, RB Salvon Ahmed will most likely get the majority of the carries with Breida filling in as he had been doing for Myles Gaskin most of the season.
The Broncos bring a good RB tandem of Melvin Gordon and now healthy Phillip Lindsay, as well as a sprinkling from Royce Freeman. The ball has been spread around pretty evenly among the receivers, the leader is TE Noah Fant (35 receptions, 367 yards 2 TD’s), second is rookie WR Jerry Jeudy with 34 receptions for 552 yards and 2 TD’s and a heady 16.2 YPR, followed by WR Tim Patrick with 31 receptions for 444 yards and 3 TD’s. RB Melvin Gordon is the rushing leader with 439 yards and 4 TD’s but the more explosive and more dangerous back is Phillip Lindsay who has an impressive 5.5 YPC. On defense, the Broncos haven’t been effective stopping the run or any passing attack and are in the bottom 5 statistically in both. On the flip side, the Dolphins are just about mid pack in both categories but more importantly, as previously stated, are stingy when it comes to giving up points.
On the offensive line, it looks like Jesse Davis will be back at his usual RT position next to RG Solomon Kindley. Ted Karras remains the center next to LG Ereck Flowers and rookie LT Austin Jackson is back as well, returning a couple of weeks ago against the Cards. On the defensive line, I’m not sure whether DL Christian Wilkins will be able to return, if not the Dolphins will run with Zach Sieler, Raekwon Davis and Emmanuel Ogbah along with depth guys rookies Jason Strowbridge and Benito Jones. At LB, Shaq Lawson, Jerome Baker, Elandon Roberts, Andrew van Ginkel and thumbs up Kyle Van Noy round out the corps. Xavien Howard and Byron Jones make up one of the NFL’s best CB tandems along with slot CB Nik Needham. Rookie Noah Igbinoghene has been pulled back some and is usually in when the Dolphins employ multiple DB’s. The safeties are Eric Rowe and good ole Bobby McCain. I say keep Going with the Flo!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
We get what we deserve
Page turn to boot
Yeah, this is who they really are. SMH
Reality check
I blame Kong. He was counting the W before the whistle blew last week. You can’t mess with the karma
Tough game. Not over. Its only one game on the road. Dont burn your fan card yet
Oh relax. We’re not going to dominate every week. We’re being physically handled today, it happens.
By a bad team
Hulk gets angry
Two page turns to keep up with the chatter.
Offense is woeful…Tua much for Tua?
They’re beating us at the LOS. They are the more physical team so far
That’s not all.
Ken you need to change your superstition routine
Never. Ken rubs lucky jersey
Tua pulled
Wow putting Futz in
They pulled Tua?
Tua has been twisted badly a few times
Probably nervous with the Burrow injury…lol
Apparently a foot injury
Whatever the reason looks like a good move
Maybe some Fitzmagic will help?
FG isnt end of the world , as long as D a an hold em
My stream is a minute or so behind from what I can tell.
Sanders money
Ughhhhhh.
I knew he would try to run on 3rd down
None of our running backs have any pop. They get hit, they go down. Need to upgrade
RB, WR, NT
I’m starting to narrow my draft list down
DE before NT
Colts only down 3 now
Vikes finally in front 21-16
Actually need Cowboys win to stay ahead of Houston pick.
Survivor Pool pick in play 🤷♂️
We need a pick 6 here.
In FG range and then some
Run defense looks horrible
We’ve stopped tackling in favor of “pushing”
This is over
And this is what I said the other night….them pounding us.
One is a hit to bead
Give us the ball !!
No way that’s a TD
GTFO TD!!!
He never came close to getting the ball past the goal line with possession! Just awful! Dolphins football on the one
Uh I think the ref should stop sniffing glue
Van Ginkel redeemed himself!!!!! Now we need a 99 yard drive. gulp
WHAT????
Miami ball
Call it a TD then we get review , and the ball back
If they call it a turnover, it’s an auto review too
It’s just a bad call by the refs
Pending Clear recovery of course 🤔
The weaknesses that we’ve been able to hide are all showing up today. We’re being manhandled on both sides of the ball, we can’t stop the run and we’re also having trouble getting any pressure which is allowing them to throw. Our run game has no pop and we can’t get our offense going. All that being said, we’re still alive in this one.
Good job Zebras.
Hit to head
Lets go miami
Game
Yep.
Well I guess Tua is the future
Let’s hope so
Ball game
Live and die by the Fitz…
Honestly horrible decision by Fitz throwing into that
Womp womp
We really didn’t deserve to win this game. We got beat up. It would have been amazing if we did, but we were thoroughly outplayed today, the score doesn’t show it.
Nope we shut the bed on o & d
At least no QB controversy! Lol
Bring on the jests…lol
Lol
Rockphin says:
November 22, 2020 at 11:05 am
Ok, for today;
Go Football Team
Go Jax :fail
Go NE (Yes, I care more about the draft pick in this case): fail
Go Philly: fail
Go Tenn: weeeee
Go NY (uhrp, cough) : fail
GO MIAMI: fail
Go GB: failing
Go KC: tbd
GO GO GO!!!
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Might wanna stick to just us lol
Smell that?
Smells like a qb controversy
Yeah… that’s what it is. LOL
It’s an NFL loss… oh no!!! 5 in a row wasn’t good enough for ya? LOL
Colts up 3 on GB
I’d like to thank the Dolphins for rewarding my unwavering confidence in them.
Thank you for playing a steaming hot pile of shit of a game.
Now Flushit and prepare properly for the STEJ
Good news is we have the tanking jets next week
I knew they had to lose sooner or later. Better now than a playoff game! 😉
STEJ lose
Tua looked like a weak armed can’t run for shit QB out there today.
The offensive line looked like last year’s version.
The defense gave up big plays in big moments. My favorite was after Fitz came in and gave us a jolt making it a one score game, it only took two plays for the Broncos to get into fg range.
Outplayed, outcoached. Bigtime moment, smalltime result.
fuckers
Tua did not look good
We were playing for a share of the division lead against one of the shittiest teams in the league, and they dominated us on offense and defense all game.
They ran the ball down our fucking throats. 33-189 at 5.7 per carry.
Our run D was exposed to the rest of the NFL
Dallas down 4 , 1st and goal at 4
Van Ginkel miami MVP
Fuck TD Dallas
Wow!!! Overreacting much? LOL
Have a good night peeps. We lost 20-13 on the road after winning 5 in a row and now everything is fucked up? LOL
We should be Aight
Go kiss a unicorns ass and fart rainbows as you dream of lollipop flavored hugs. I’m pissed. 😉
Lol. I’m not happy either , we sucked all game. Throw it out and see what we do next week. If it’s a trend then 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
We’ll get that win against the Jest. Jags only have 1 win, so the Jest have to keep losing, lol.
And YES, I am counting that W before we get it, Ken. lol
Lol…the only thing I think is different is that I’m not pissed.
5 games, cry games. The offense was woeful, and second time I’ve said it and Tua was not any where near what he needed to be. Exposed? Yeah.
Don’t care care about the record this year, just stop blowing smoke.
Winners win this game and hopefully they learn something. Humility is sometimes a good teacher.
Long way to go….still, imo.
We missed on Justin Herbert
Colts win
Hold that thought
Really. All they had to do is run the clock out WTF
Tua looks so small in the pocket. He was having trouble finding throwing lanes it looked like. He would get ready to throw and then stop and not pull the trigger. That and our WR’s can’t get separation.
Denver looked like the 6-3 team.
And Vikes lose. No more Survivor Pool.
LETS GO PACKERS
The longest drive on offense was the last drive.
Let’s talk about the last 5 games. Totally irrelevant.
ok, clearly not a day for Dolphins fans
Clearly…lol.
Colts – Here ya go Dolphins fans 🖕
The team sucked, too. Not a day for them either.
Thankfully I didn’t get to watch this disaster. Were there any positives? Seems like most of the negatives are the same old stuff. No separation for WRs, no running game bad run D? QB play subpar?
Not in my opinion, but what do I know?
We can count the last 5 games somehow as a positive in this game. Somehow.
Lol
Our special teams were really good. Tua was dreadful, and our offensive line was somehow worse. Oline was the worst unit on the field for either team. They beat us up on both sides of the ball all game long.
X had a nice INT on the first drive which gave us a short field for a quick TD. Tua had a nice pass to Parker to finish that drive. It was all downhill from there. It was a hard game to watch.
No Laundry being done until Second 1/2
It really wasn’t a good game. Flashbacks of the last 20 years. Let’s be real!
Fuck, Colts win. That is just fucking fantastic! LOL
Philly #4seed and leading the nfc east at 3-6-1 lol
With the Colts win, we fall to #9 in the playoff race outside looking in again. Even if Raiders lose they will still be ahead of us due to their conference record. Ravens are ahead of usdue to their strength of victory.
Good, I am so angry at how we played today, I don’t even want this team to make the playoffs, LOL.
Just reminisce on the last 5 and you’ll feel better. Lol.
Ravens at Steelers on Thanksgiving night. Who do you root for?
Man, first 2 games aren’t even worth watching
Houston at Detroit
Washington at Dallas
Well, we’re all eating “Reality Shit Sandwiches” for dinner. 😦
When we were at midfield I told my daughter that Fitz will throw an INT. I did not being right. ugh.
So the whole game was YOUR FAULT 🤡
Now we know. Dang Rhino. lol
I’ll take it, I guess. But Tua took over Because Fitz has issues in the Red Zone. I even thought… OK put Tua back in for the Red Zone. lol
A little bit of vitriol goes a long way in release of anger. I feel a lot better now. 🙂
I’m going to go dream of glitter, sunshine, and moonbeams on warm water.
LMFAO!
I’m just going to try and hallucinate….
Lol, where did those mushroom’s go? I swore I put them right beside Krishna just a minute ago.
I threw my “Reality Shit Sandwich” away. I’m ordering a pizza!
6 sacks, 56 yards rushing, … our OL was a disaster today.
The team was a disaster, too. Our only TD score was from 22 yards out. Facts.
I will stop bringing up the last 5 games, if I can. Hope others will too.
It’s not a bad thing for the team to get bitchslapped to reality. That happened today. It doesn’t mean we suck but the way we won the previous games were by jumping out front and playing opportunistically on defense. We didn’t get that chance, because we just didn’t move the ball, and then on defense, the bend but don’t break defense broke. Our running has been masked by the success we’ve had of being up. You can see that as soon as any of our backs get hit, they look too small to get through first contact. The big back we had wasn’t getting it done here so we cut him so we’re going to have to run with what we got. Hopefully that’s good enough. The O-line was also overmatched today, too many guys were getting beat, it wasn’t just one place.
Well, we did jump out front with 7 from 22 yards out. I say that’s D, but O needs all the kudos it can get..
We did but we couldn’t get anything going on offense besides that, plus the guy I was worried about was gashing us for big runs, Phillip Lindsay. Gordon was killing us too. The amoeba and zero pressure only worked early on, then whatever adjustments Denver made kept it at bay
Agree…you just put it in football lingo. And so much more.
It was gross.
The team needs to rebound….now.
And, we were dominated. Looked puny in all derivations of that word, in my opinion. Sure hope that’s not reality.
Can we all agree this is Piggy’s fault? Just the thought of the jersey and he goes to shit….I really don’t know how he’s going to win this case now.
What’s going on with cristian wilkins?
COVID list
Win win in all phases in the past games, we lost in 2 of 3 of them this game and lost. We just didn’t have an answer on O or D for what they were doing.
I think pulling Tua was more about his health. He wasn’t right most the game, looks like his foot tampered him a good bit and I’ll be honest I cringed on that last sack. That was one of those bent in a funky way hit and I’m kinda glad they pulled him. I think he was having mobility issues.
People wanna stir up shit calling it a QB controversy. It’s already being spun by Mando and other writers but Tua will be starting if he is healthy for the next game.
We got worked, actually we lost in the fourth phase as well. Completely out coached. Flores made a couple bad moves/calls both going in to half and to finish out the game.
How in fuck did we let Carrot Top run on us like that. How did we not get to Ellen more often.
I feel good about blaming Rock for this one.
CavalierKong says:
November 22, 2020 at 8:09 pm
A little bit of vitriol goes a long way in release of anger. I feel a lot better now. 🙂
I’m going to go dream of glitter, sunshine, and moonbeams on warm water.
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Just don’t dip you hand in the warm water or your going to have a different dream and your wife us gonna be pissed and pissed on.
Supposedly Tua was playing through a foot injury.
They’re was an earlier sack where he also got bent weirdly , I was happy to see him get up both times , I agree he starts if healthy
It wasn’t an injury.
https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-replace-qb-tua-tagovailoa-with-ryan-fitzpatrick-in-fourth-quarter-vs-br
Bad game. It happens. Amazing how some weed can make it all better. 😎
Lol.. did ya find how to move Mixon to res ??
Yes but didn’t matter. Hulk is kicking my ass. Bad week….lol
Yep I think I lost all 4 leagues and Eliminated from survivor pool
Tua was off from the first whistle. He missed easy throws all day. Cant run the ball and they were doomed.
The D couldn’t stop them pounding the ball like I feared and Denver never had to throw to score.
They get beat down and should be pissed.
I’m cool. It’s just 1 game. 6-4. I’ll take it!
I prefer to look at this game as we got beat down, and were still a good throw from tying it up and possibly winning it. We’re an exciting young team, we got tripped up yesterday. We’re not a juggernaut, we have just been doing things each week to find ways to win. Yesterday we didn’t find those things.
Wahoooooo!
Got our ass-kicked Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
I don’t see a QB controversy, although based on Tua and the offensive (both team and effect) performance, he believed Fitz might be able to pull out the game/win.
And, Fitz almost tied it. Based on Tua’s performance yesterday, he should have been pulled. He had a bad game. Move on.
I think I was the only one who said I was worried the Dolphins would play down to their opponent’s record. They did….again.
Weed helped watch the shit show.
🐷 31-0 🐬