The last week of the 2020 NFL Regular season is upon us, and no matter what the outcome of our game versus the Buffalo Bills is, I’m thankful for our Dolphins for giving us a great season. Whether we win or lose, make the playoffs or don’t make the playoffs, I think I’d be hard pressed to find a Dolphins fan that feels that this 2020 team didn’t exceed their expectations. This team had a bumpy start but once we got rolling, we have been an ultra competitive team. Our worst loss was the first game of the season against the Patriots losing by 10 points. Since then, our loss to the Seahawks in Week 4 was our 2nd worst losing by 8. Our seasons point differential is +96. We are the #1 scoring defense (points allowed) at 18.8 in the NFL. If I told any of you we’d be traveling to Buffalo Week 17 with a 10-5 record as the #5 seed in the AFC, there’s not one of you who wouldn’t be thrilled with those circumstances.
I’m not going to bore with you with last week’s theatrics, we won a game we had no business winning but we did win, and now we live to fight another day. Coach Brian Flores has already decided that Tua Tagovailoa is the starter. Is this decision made for this week or for the future as well? I’d say in some ways it’s probably both, but I also believe that Flores believes Tua is his best QB. I don’t think Flores is a puppet and no one is pulling his strings. He’s making the personnel decisions and he’s declared Tua is the QB. Once again, I mean absolutely no disrespect to QB Ryan Fitzpatrick but there is a fine line between Fitzmagic and Fitztragic. He’s a gambler, and as everyone knows, sometimes ya win and sometimes ya lose. I’m going to enlighten some of you here, so be prepared. Over Ryan Fitzpatrick’s career, his TD% is 4.4 and his INT% is 3.3. Tua Tagovailoa in his short career has a TD% of 4.3 and an INT% of 0.9%. This doesn’t tell the entire story, and there are many metrics to look at, but I think Flores wants a player that’s careful with the football, and Tua Tagovailoa is that guy. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t be better, he can, and hopefully Sunday he will be.
The Bills are 12-3 for a reason. The best teams in the NFL score points, and the Bills are the 4th best scoring offense at 29.7 PPG. Their passing offense is #2 in the NFL throwing for 4,398 yards. Josh Allen is having a monster year, completing 69.1 % of his passes with 4,320 yards with 34 TD’s and just 9 INT’s. The Bills defense is stingier giving up yards than our Dolphins as they are ranked at the #10 defense in the NFL but they are allowing nearly a TD more per game than our defense. Their rushing attack is on par with our own rushing attack and they have used a 1-2 punch with Devin Singletary and Zack Moss. They are 19th in the league rushing and we are 22nd. The problem is their rushing attack doesn’t stop with these 2. QB Josh Allen is a legitimate weapon with over 4oo yards rushing and 8 rushing TD’s. When they’re in the red zone, you have to account for the QB running as well.
On the injury front, we know that LB Elandon Roberts is OUT along with Jakeem Grant. Practicing on a limited basis were WR DeVante Parker, OL Solomon Kindley and S Bobby McCain. McCain is not a threat to miss the game. Both TE Mike Gesicki and G Ereck Flowers were both FULL participants. That’s good news. I think Elandon Roberts is done for the season and that’s unfortunate. He wouldn’t be getting as many snaps this week anyway because the Bills throw the ball more. Can we talk about a Dolphins defender who gets very little ink in NFL circles? #55, Jerome Baker is having a great season. He leads the Dolphins with 108 tackles, he has 11 QB hits, 7 tackles for a loss along with 7 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. This really is a no-name defense, with the exception of X who is known league wide. So many contributors including lesser known Zach Sieler, Elandon Roberts, Eric Rowe, Andrew Van Ginkel, rookie Raekwon Davis, Christian Wilkins, Nik Needham and a guy who leads the Dolphins in sacks, Emmanuel Ogbah. Hope Ogbah can be the first Dolphins defender since Cam Wake to have double digit sacks with a great game against the Bills. We need to take Josh Allen down! Hopefully Shaq Lawson can make it for this game, although AVG certainly made his presence felt.
In summation, I think it’s important to have the right perspective. The Dolphins are a team on the rise, no question about it. We have built a team so quickly it’s shocking. We are set up to have another strong draft and a top 5 draft pick which currently stands at #3. Once again we have TWO 1st RD picks and TWO 2nd RD picks, most likely 4 in the top 60. We also have a fair amount of cap space ($32M) as well to fill in Free Agency. The future looks so much brighter than we could have imagined. I didn’t expect us to be at 10-5 going into the last week of the NFL season. I didn’t expect our team to be this good, this fast. Whatever happens this weekend, the future is bright my friends, enjoy it!
GO DOLPHINS!!!!
Happy New Year!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
It was a good season
It still is
TD Ravens
But hey don’t call the holding on Ogbah
THAT IS A FUCKING BULLSHIT CALL MAN!! HE DID NOT ENCROACH! HE JUMPED BUT DID NOT ENCROACH! IT IS FUCKING ALLOWED YOU FUCKING MORON REFS!
AND NEEDHAM GIVING UP ON THE PLAY BECAUSE OF THE FLAG IS INEXCUSABLE BONEHEADEDNESS
Needham has been scorched so far today. The NFL decided this year not to call offensive holding. That’s why there’s been a huge jump for guys like Allen this year.
Dink
Stationary receivers.
Dunk
Throw past the line of scrimmage FFS
Finally….
TD Giants
Bullshit
Yeah they were just fighting, no interference…WTMFF?!!!
That’s usually defensive interference but okay
Don’t wait until 3rd down to let the QB scan the field
It’s ridiculous
They tackled van gunkle
Horrible way to end the season
jI quit fuck this team and this game Fuck these refs fuck this whole league and sport Fuck you fuck you fuck you
I AM FUCKING DONE!
I don’t care who’s wrong or who’s right but Tua is going to have to make some plays if we’re going to win. Can’t throw the ball 2-3 yards and win
can walk the field and watch guys score long TDs on punt returns either
cant *
He’s not going to learn how to QB with this kind of offense. Either he starts to throw downfield or we either need a new system or QB.
no need for slow motion replay, fins were in slow motion real time, SMH
Wow, such anger and depression. First, this game is not over, second, there are other games that could get us in, 3rd, it has still been an excellent season.
have to agree with that
Gotta get the ground game established? Is that it?
the footing must be bad, or the players are sleeping, i have never seen such slow running before
we look like granmas running to bingo tables
Tua just needs to turn his earphones off and take over the playcalling
That’s a great idea 👍👍
yea, the playcalling is horrific
Steelers looking like they waking up 🤔👍
Every other play is a screen
3 out of 4 more like it, smh
It’s like we have ONE pass play in the playbook
Nicely played gimmick play
That’s a nice looking play.
Bowden laid it out nicely in front
It’s actually good for us to let our AB try to come back down big
now that was a different play call, lol
They ain’t scared with their play calling.
Steelers FG 10-6 browns
Bookman, I’m not angry. I’m just stating what I believe to be the truth
My boy Alladin wants a TD and puperoni. 🙂
Terrible goal to go offense.
That might be the worst play call
Just wow
Fuck
we need to draft Najee Harris, Bowden is not a good RB
Just terrible play calling
I am liking that Sermon at RB for us in the 2nd.
What in the actual hell am I watching lol
Watching Brown catch that shows how bad we are at WR.
Jones beaten again
This is downright UGLY
Ok, that’s embarrassing
No chance now
Do we seem a little tight?
They all look defeated , not ANGRY
Last couple scores looked like they packed it in
Ok, either they open it up next half or I start wondering if they don’t think Tua is the guy. I see no improvement with our offense at all.
I think this sort of handcuffing him is just they wait Gailey thinks a game should be callled for young QBs
I don’t think it’s a reflection of what they think of Tua
Then no wonder he was retired.
1st game they haven’t shown up all year. It’s ok.
Good season to build on.
We’re going to get to see how well Tua throws the deeper routes now.
Ken, no chance is silly. We have a big hole but we have a chance. If we stay with this conservative offense then yes, no chance
Gotta start scoring
We are getting embarrassed by a Brian Daboll led offense.
I think he’s gotten much better. Daboll has done a good job in Buff.
Talent is covering up for him. His team is loaded.
When your QBs can’t throw the ball more than 5 yes, you can’t win.
I agree, but I’m thinking we’re playing without a quality WR. Maybe we should just line up 3 TE’s
Yup, Parker isn’t quality (well today certainly)> Maybe he wasn’t ready yet.
I think tua has attempted 2 passes over 9 yards. It doesn’t matter who we put in there.
I have no idea why this offense isnt going through Gaskins. He should be carrying or catching the ball nearly every other play.
They look defeated perhaps because they know there’s no Fitzmagic available in their back pocket….
It’s the D giving up those TDs.
Go Tuamarinovaloa!
He’ll at least be throwing long in the 2nd half. No other choice.
Didnt go for it on fourth. Smh
Guess at this point you go to the Steelers are down 10- 6 to the Browns at half. But then with our score they have nothing to play for.
I’m not really enthusiastic about getting in to the playoffs on another teams win
Looking only way it will happen.
Yeah, losing 49-12 and getting in doesn’t quite do it for me.
Twice – I’d say Parker is just on the field. He can’t play. Hard to come back now with Bowden, Ford and Hollins
Yeah he looks 50%
At least take the training wheels off and see what Tua can do downfield.. call something other than the Gase looking swing pass for -3 yds
^^^^ squared
Least Gase knows how to blame other players if it goes wrong. 🙂
You can t throw downfield on screen passes
Just let Tua set his feet and scan the field
If he takes some lumps now in the final
Game of the season, so what
This is an opportunity to see him do that in a real game
Piggy, we’d be getting in because we had a nice 10-6 season. No shame in that. Two NFC teams will be getting in with worse records
It’s been a good season no matter what happens today
We just don’t seem to have the weapons, and the play calling is suspect, which also may have something to do with the personnel, but Buffalo has an excellent team and Allen is playing great. we seemed to be just a tick late getting pressure on him in the first half.
I don’t think that playcalling inside the 10 is really about personal
We certainly have issues with separation
But inside the 10 that’s not a huge issue
That just a OC being overly cautious with a rookie
Exactly
I’ve never seen that before
Why wouldn’t you want to let you QB take two shots at the end zone
After the loss, it ended up just being a prayer on 3rd down
We might ‘ve run out of gas.
Or we are playing one of the 2 best teams in the AFC….. and we aren’t quite at that level yet. I’ve wrestled guys that I knew couldn’t beat unless got lucky.
We’re just playing a much better team. They’re really well built and on Year 4 of their overhaul.
You know they should have been doing that all game WTF
WTF, Parker take a shot during the half?
See if we just had another real NFL WR …
WTF? I’m kind of pissed off they didn’t do this first half.
I know I’m being critical but I do think Parker should have caught that PI play even though he was being interfered – fight for the ball
Dolphins Bobbitt Cox?
Nice not sure it matters but still nice
Ken, let me help you here. Scoring points help us. 😉
Rudolph not playing for Steelers
A defensive score would have us back in it.
Terrible tackling
Good ole Bobby McSplatt
I want to know how our coaches thought playing the shitty kind of offense we’ve used the past month was going to help Tua grow? We saw this in the Cards game…and we haven’t seen much since.
Steelers within 1
Isaiah McKenzie a one man wrecking crew on us today
Ravens pouring it on , no help coming there
Ken Rudolph has been in and out, # 5 ?? Has been playing some , not sure who or why
New Age, not sure if we’ll ever know whether it was just Tua or the game plan. I tend to think it was Tua just being too careful. Now he has no choice so fasten your seat belt!
Parker fell down
TD Browns
Oh well
🤬
Ugh
New Age, did your air bags go off?
I wish we had seen some of this earlier honestly. You can’t grow if you don;t make mistakes. Parker is a WR 2 at best.
LOL
SOFT
Was about to post comeback pig
Fuck, I called that right before it happened smh
This is what I was referring to as not wanting to back into the playoffs. LOL.
Enough of the 3 yard out patterns!!
Was that Grant ?
Seriously Ford
We need weapons
It was tipped but ….
That’s a perfect throw to Ford
Browns run an INT back inside 10
Sorry to 20