The Dolphins defensive line is definitely an underrated unit in the NFL, by fans (including myself), by NFL talking heads, and of course by own local beat writers. It’s more than just the 3 guys pictured above, it’s the depth of the unit. Add in one of the best rotational DL in the NFL in Brandon Sieler, and backup NT John Jenkins and backup DE Adam Butler and it truly is a complete unit. It’s not the flashiest unit, and more than likely most NFL fans don’t know the front 3 pictured above by name. Emmanuel Ogbah has been about as steady as they come. He gets pressure so often, including 2 seasons ago when he had inadequate pressure coming from anywhere else. In 2020, Ogbah had 9 sacks and 21 QB hits, the team totaled 41 sacks. In 2021, Ogbah once again totaled 9 sacks and added 24 QB hits, the team though totaled 48 sacks. Christian Wilkins is an invisible elite player. Wilkins last season finished with 89 tackles (2nd on the team behind #55), 4.5 sacks and 13 QB hits. Raekwon Davis played injured most of last season but I have so much optimism that he will have a really nice season provided he stays healthy.
It’s not just the DL that’s underrated, it’s the entire defense. I’ll be the first to admit that I feel and have said so many times that for once I would like the defense to play like a championship defense and just shut down the other team, like our team gets shut down so often, especially when playing our own division rival Buffalo Bills. The problem is, the Bills just have a great offense, and Josh Allen gives them that running threat that we so often struggle with, while our own offense has been far from a juggernaut. The Bills averaged 28.5 PPG last season, good for 3rd in the NFL. No easy task to stop them, but 2 teams in particular shut them down, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Bills were somewhat flat on opening day in Pittsburgh, only scoring 16 points. They won the TOP battle 33:17 – 26:43 and only lost the turnover battle 1-0. They had more yardage on the ground and especially in the air but couldn’t out the ball in the endzone. The 9-6 loss to the Jaguars was an aberration. Or was it? The jaguars stifled the run game, held both Singletary and Allen in check, sacked Allen 4 times and ran the ball themselves 27 times, for only 70 yards. They turned the Bills over 3 times. This is the kind of effort I’d love to see just once (or twice?) from our defense against the Bills.
OK, here’s the good news. I think there’s every reason to expect more from this defensive unit. This is a defense on the rise. Rookie OLB/DE Jaelan Phillips exploded toward the end of the season. He should be as good or better than that player was last season. We added an athletic inside LB in the draft, Channing Tindall who should help not only with Bills QB Josh Allen, but he can cover and will free up #55 Jerome Baker to create more havoc. AVG is still a player on the rise and I expect better things from as well this season. Did I mention we signed Melvin Ingram? Depth is better, Elandon Roberts is still a nice 1 or 2 down thumper in the middle, but Tindall gives them the speed and athleticism we’ve needed. We have the 2 veteran cover corners in Xavien Howard and Byron Jones. Both are excellent cover guys but X is clearly the playmaker, imposing his will on games so often. It’s not just INT’s, he creates forced fumbles and just has a knack for finding that football. The safeties are quite the trio, and underrated once again comes to mind. Jevon Holland had an excellent rookie season, and SS Brandon Jones seems to be becoming a full time starter and combines great tackling with strong blitzing abilities. Jones had 5 sacks last season and had the 3rd most tackles on the team, behind Wilkins and Baker.
Depth, depth, depth. Sieler, Jenkins, Butler. Ingram, Tindall, Eguavoen and Riley. Needham, Rowe, Igbinoghene. Is it possible we actually see the emergence of former 1st RD pick Noah Igbinoghene? He’s been showing up in camp, and it would be great for the talented young player to finally make it in the NFL. Nik Needham is one of my favorite Dolphins players, a guy who plays above his head all the time, max effort guy who does whatever the coaches ask. We basically brought last year’s defense back intact. We added a nice rookie LB (Channing Tindall) and a nice veteran LB/DE (Melvin Ingram). Once again, this is an ascending unit. If the offense can hold up their end of the bargain, be more balanced and be able to keep opposing defenses on the field longer, just imagine how much better our defense can be? All this remains to be seen, but it’s hard not to be optimistic that it can be so.
#stangerstrong
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Nice Mike E. and thanks again.
I am very hopeful we will/should be better on D this year.
Raekwon Davis was coming on as a beast after he came back from his injury. Definite improvement in overall line play in the later part of the season.
Ogbah also knocks down a ridiculous number of passes. He had something like 11 or 12 last year, including a run of 6-8 games in a row. (I don’t remember the exact numbers, but he led the league in # and number of games in a row)
And good write, Mike. I probably don’t say that as much as I should. You consistently put out quality articles. 🙂
Go Dolphins.
Go D.
Great survey of our defensive personnel, Mike E.
I think this is truly one of those examples of the whole is a better than the sum of its parts.
I think this means that we have so many guys who can step up and make a play at any given moment that the offense never knows where the pain is coming from next.
No guy on offense can relax and coast or assume he’ll win one on one.
Plus we have tons of speed in the front 7 and at least 4 ball hawks on the back end.
Thanks guys!
I hope you guys are singing the article title to the Peaches and Herb hit “Reunited”. It completes the essence of the article. Try it! 😛
No but let me go get my rainbow unitard and I’ll join you🤡
Hey, whatever it takes!
poetry in motion
Justin Hier
@HierJustin
· Jun 6
Tyreek Hill on @gmfb on the idea that Tua doesn’t have the arm to excel with Hill 🗣️
“I just want people to understand that I went for 150 [yards] with Matt Moore as my QB versus the Minnesota Vikings… I love Matt Moore, but Tua T[agovailoa] is 10 Matt Moores”
Fest Game preview?
We’ve mentioned he didn’t start out with Mahomes and he’s looked about the same with every QB
I did however see a video yesterday with Mahomes hitting him inscribe 69 air yards down the field
Part of Tua’s problem with the media is how he looks throwing, it doesn’t exactly look effortless, like some others, so it appears he puts everything into a 45-50 yard throw
Rivers also had a funny throwing motion, that used his shoulder to get power, much like a boxer, he also looked uncomfortable throwing
For every QB, that can flick the ball 50-60 yards, there’s a QB that can use his feet to buy a little time, then make the same throw, sure the guy flicking gets in there quicker, but…splitting hairs
Tua isn’t going to be the reason we win the division or if we don’t, not the guy, that causes us to not win it, just another link in the chain
In honor of Mike E an early start to Friday night tunes:
beautiful
Already got that FN song in my head I ain’t listening to it 🤔
😡
I have no questions about watsons abilities
I don’t get people that question his talent
He’s just got huge legal issues that supersede that talent
ravis Wingfield
@WingfieldNFL
I think the nicest throw from Tua was a ball to Ahmed up the sideline just beyond the outstretched arm of the coverage… looked like a 50-yard TD depending on the closing speed of the safety. Later, he threaded one into a tight window settling Waddle into the zone with location
@OmarKelly
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Jun 2
Average day for the Dolphins offense. But defense got roasted by Tua and Waddle. Two deep bombs and two touchdowns (one on the deep bomb).
@WingfieldNFL
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Jun 2
Tua had another really nice throw to Waddle when he recognized immediate pressure from Baker, ran away from it, threw it right on the money on the move to Waddle. Tua’s pocket management was on display a couple of times. Light feet, bounce around the pocket, find the target.
Since we’re 87 Days till Alabama Football is back
Here’s Jaylen Waddle going 87-Yards vs Texas A&M 😤
can we put this play in OUR playbook?
Reunited…and it doesn’t feel so good?
After going to the funeral of an old friend, the wife and I went out for Chinese food. My fortune cookie read “You will soon be reunited with an old friend”.
Ain’t life a b!tch?
Oh NO!!!! Look at the bright side ya big ape, I’m sure you have a lot more old friends you haven’t seen in a while.
You didn’t eat oysters did you?
Hopefully no food poisoning
wo
dude
it meant he would be reincarnated as a Dolphins fan and move in nearby or work with you.
Both of the lawyers went with food poisoning… 🤔
Hulk & Pork, LLP: “If you puke it, we’ll sue it”
It’s our bread and butter 😂
LOL, I see what you did there, Ken. Well played
Hulk & Pork has a nice ring to it
Kong – Just to clarify, I meant LIVING friends. lol
LOL
In case it wasn’t clear, it was a joke. I don’t have any friends, but even if I did I certainly wouldn’t go to their funerals…😆
I think the fortune cookie meant the Fest. Meeting up with old blog friends.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ron-rivera-fines-jack-del-rio-100-000-for-his-comments-on-the-january-6th-capital-attack-and-george-floyd-protests/ar-AAYjRp2?cvid=31ce977f06ff4455952b970a011856ba
Huh, I didn’t know head coaches could fine their coordinators…
True, but he definitely deserved a fine for crass remarks like that.
Me either. However, Del-Rio did should a bit of a weak spine and apologize. Why should he have to apologize or be fined for saying his opinion that happens to be true.
I have been to Germany many times. The people there are so warm, intelligent. And yet, they fell sway to a Madman. Read their words, pay attention. It matters.
I have no questions about watsons abilities
I don’t get people that question his talent
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Yeah, but if Tua threw 2 lazy/sloppy picks like that in OTA’s, it would be bigger news than this bias Jan 6 hearing.
Exactly
I don’t think he deserved a fine. What happened to freedom of speech? How many more people were killed during the riots? How much more damage was caused during the riots?
Freedom of speech only applies to governmental efforts to control speech. Private employers are free to regulate the speech of their employees. I work for a Fortune 100 company. I am not allowed to make any public statements. Any requests for one I have to direct to a specific office. Likewise if I make a public statement that could possibly reflect negatively on the company I would be subject to discipline
same for me on my job, and I bet your boss would hold you accountable for public statements he felt brought bad publicity to your company.
My immediate boss would have a conyption but Home office would be 5 times worse. They are very very conscious about their public image
Removing the politics, and not agreeing or disagreeing with whether the comments should have resulted in a fine, I hate the freedom of speech thing in regards to businesses and employees. I get disagreeing with it, but freedom of speech just has no bearing. Now if Congress somehow fined him, I’d be right there with you, lol.
What happened on 1/6 was a direct assault on democracy.
If a president can refuse to transfer power after losing an election,
then this country is done, and we will be just powerless subjects to a dictatorship.
… …
Police officers should not be allowed to kill a man in the street just because they want to.
Apologies, guys, I really didn’t mean to start a political discussion. I honestly just didn’t know a HC could fine a coordinator for something like that. I figured it would be the GM.
Great write Mike E.
I hope our DL isn’t too underrated. We have a 1st and 2nd rounder plus a guy we just threw a lot of cash at as the three stacking the line up front. Then we have some nice OLBs to join them when they want 4 along the line.
I wouldn’t mind drafting one more stud next year with all those picks. We’re good with what we got, but DL is important cause the big guys get tired and a strong rotation is key.
I so detest whatabouters. Small petty people. Can’t face being in the wrong so they must deflect. As if because one person was an asshole it excuses all future assholes.
When something is wrong admit. Burning fucking buildings is not peaceful assembly. And the peaceful members of the protest should be responsible to stop the troublemakers. In the same paragraph, storming of the capital and assaulting police officers is not freedom of speech. FFS Don’t look to see what the tribe says! you know what’s right and wrong.
Could not agree more that WhatAboutism is a plague. That the Dred Scott case or the interment of Japanese during WW2 were very wrong doesn’t justify some other wrong today. It only makes you feel better about whatever misstep your “side” made today.
😉
That’s a great way to get to know these guys. They have fun. Smythe is fun and mellow and Gesicki is fun with a splash of ADD.
Kong – It reminded me of the Abe and Jake joke
2 Jewish guys who are lifetime friends who loved baseball, and one day Jake passes away at age 91. Abe mourns his friend for years until one day a few years later, his friend Jake comes to him as an apparition. Abe says “Oh my God, Jake, tell me about heaven, what’s it like?” Jake says “It’s great, better than I ever could have expected, really”. Abe asks, “Jake, do you play baseball?” Jake says, “Well, there’s good news and bad news Abey, the good news is, YES, we play baseball all the time”. “The bad news is you’re pitching tomorrow!”
LOL
LOL…. ain’t the bad news always a biotch.
LOL
Check out how this smart and badass cat saves its life against a coyote (only need to watch like first 55 seconds).
https://video-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/286075273_136528395662410_3148202275009608702_n.mp4?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=kVtXO7uSrrAAX81V3ig&_nc_oc=AQmah6VkUu1HVyQcraMH3g3bJ1YAvayDnjYSt-A6AjG62orhc9jAimnpoQ6y8eljFbY&rl=300&vabr=103&_nc_ht=video-mia3-1.xx&edm=AGo2L-IEAAAA&oh=00_AT8VGaIY9vdELP3IG9HiUWrwTjnXpEj1E7mPKFpYdvUqjg&oe=62A3BEE8
Worth a hit on the link.
That cat is a survivor. He did fall the wrong way off the post at the end for a long drop though, lol.
Looked the fall was only from a 2nd story (nothing for a cat). Does explain the houses I’ve been in where a not so big cat like that rules over some pretty big dogs.
Cats are nature’s perfect killing machines and they purr
That is why my 2 cats are indoors only
Ken says:
June 10, 2022 at 3:01 pm
Hulk & Pork has a nice ring to it
My favorite is Dewey Cheatem & Howe
Good write, Mike. I’m very excited about our defense. Like you mentioned with a better offense specifically a ball control offense, that could raise the level of the defense to another level.
I’m really excited too. Maybe too excited, hope they don’t let us down!
I’d be surprised if they let us down. There is too much talent there.
Brian Miller always the schmuck
https://phinphanatic.com/2022/06/10/100-million-five-years-miami-dolphins-offered-lot-payton/
If we win with McDaniel he’ll be safe. There was nothing wrong with showing interest in Payton who is one of the best HCs in the league.
I believe the only player on defense that played a significant amount of snaps that didn’t remain on the team this year is Justin Coleman. He played 371 snaps on defense and 141 on STs. It’s time for Iggy to step up.
Friday Night tunes
Tonight’s theme: embarrassing yourself and not even realizing it
Example
This is what I was talking about earlier about Jan 6th
Everyone knew this was coming and some used it to their benefit at the cost of an American life, Pelosi should be in prison for murder
Funny she goes after Schumer rather than Mitch McConnel. He was the leader of the Senate majority on Jan 9. So just as responsible for Congressional security as Pelosi was.
Yeah, he’s just as bad, guess she can’t step on those shoes, but it’s all on Pelosi really
She doesn’t know how to spell Senate Majority Leader much less indentify who it is …
Peach tree dish
Because you don’t agree with her doesn’t nean she’s stupid
You guys are always attacking her, she’s one of the few that stand up for the American people, unlike your corrupt Pelosi and Schumer
No, disagreeing with some one doesn’t make them stupid (or corrupt)
Stupidity makes people stupid
Yesterday she said due process rights were “fragrantly” being violated
And that follows peach tree dish and Gazpacho police
Every time she speaks it’s a win for everyone you hate
In this video, as Stanger pointed out, She is mistakenly blaming Schumer for something Mitch McConnell is responsible for. Think about how dumb that is. She prepared for this speech and blamed the wrong person….. She’s reading from notes she made as she’s doing it….
New FFDP
WTF ever!
Learning with Friday Tunes!
This one made me laugh
I think I have the sequence down now
Good song
I love David Bowie
So it’s all out there now and official… Steve Ross was orchestrating a move to bring Sean Payton (as HC) and Tom Brady (as QB) to Miami. It was pre-empted by Brian Flores’ lawsuit against our Phins and the NFL.
How does everybody feel about this? I don’t like it, being I’d rather win with homegrown talent so as to build our own dynasty. I’d feel yucky if Tom Brady was our QB anyway.
All I know is this: Steve Ross has once again failed to do what he set out to do (and I’m happy this time that he failed!), but he’s still a loser.
So plan A was Deshaun Watson… if he only got all those massage therapists to drop their charges before the trade deadline: FAIL
Plan B was Sean Payton and Tom Brady: FAIL
I’d be willing to bet that Tua is no fan of Steve Ross.
And make no mistake: Ross is trying to win NOW… meaning he’s just about ready to step down.
We already know what Mike Tannenbaum thinks of Tua (not good)… and now I wonder what Ross’ old buddy King Carl might have said about Tua.
GO TUA!!!
GO PHINS!!!
Is this a new story? bc so far a lot of the reporting on this subject has been off
It came out yesterday, Pigster.
I’ve even seen many Phin fans saying, “OH, what could have been!” regarding Sean Payton and Tom Brady in Miami in 2022 rather than Mike McDaniel and Tua.
Pretty sure that even Joe Schad tweeted about it yesterday.
I missed it
But honestly I’m a little checked out of everything about these stories
Sorry, I think it was Ben Volin…
I’m happy with where the team seems to be right now. I haven’t been this excited for the season to start in a long time.
I’m glad we didn’t give up who knows what to acquire Payton and we’re not fighting amongst ourselves about how we’re supposed to feel with Brady at QB, lol.
EXACTLY!!! Right there with ya, CavKong.
+1000000000000000000000000
Can’t really blame an owner for trying to win. Even if we didn’t want Watson or Brady here as the QB Ross is trying to win.
I have only ONE concern regarding my QB, Tua: injury. If he’s well protected, then that ONE concern of mine is eliminated.
The Flying Pig says:
June 10, 2022 at 9:00 pm
No, disagreeing with some one doesn’t make them stupid (or corrupt)
Stupidity makes people stupid
In this video, as Stanger pointed out, She is mistakenly blaming Schumer for something Mitch McConnell is responsible for. Think about how dumb that is. She prepared for this speech and blamed the wrong person….. She’s reading from notes she made as she’s doing it….
Still doesn’t change the message
You do get that she is a politician?
Do you think everything (anything)said by AOC, Pelosi, Schumer… is factual? Of course not they try to manipulate
Hell they even send the lies to the media to report as fact
The message was the double standard of how the left can circumvent the law, same message Gohmert was putting out the other day, that Stanger manipulated
MTG is just the wrong one to get behind. She’s a complete idiot, and I honestly wish she had absolutely nothing to do with our party. She’s an embarrassment.
She’s got balls, the party could use some more
The party desperately needs more brains now more balls.
#GQP
MTG lost me at jewish space lasers caused forest fires in Cali.
Secret Jewish Space Laser Corps Enamel Pin
Well that didn’t work
I didn’t manipulate anything. Put out a lengthy quote from Gohmert and gave a couple of thoughts on it. If you want to say “he didn’t actually mean what he said” then fine. But don’t find some nefarious plan in someone taking his words as spoken. And wasn’t just me — were lots of stories about it.
I don’t really have any injury concerns with Tua, because of Bridgewater, they’re very similar
He’ll get better with his reads and other things as he gets more experience
The great athletic QBs get a fast pass with their legs, helps them get out of bad situations, same as a Brady type of QB gets out of bad situations with his knowledge of the game
Jimmy G got a different type of advantage from their scheme, he often was schemed wise open receivers
I hope Tua gets this advantage
and we have SKYLAR THOMPSON!
Reason says, there’s some truth to Lamar going to Fins next year.
Apparently Lamar isn’t opening contract offers from the Ravens and has said he wants to be a Fin and throw to Reek
He doesn’t want Lamar for a lot of the same reasons I’ve mentioned, body breaking down, can’t throw from pocket, doesn’t have enough good years left…
He says Tua can stop it by having a good year, but Ross is enamored by superstars
Oh lord this shit doesn’t stop
Another day, another NFL team embroiled in a lawsuit
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34064763/dean-spanos-sued-sister-accused-misogynistic-behavior-legal-battle-continues-control-los-angeles-chargers
“I know this team will go very far because I’ve had a chance to see Tua throw the ball to myself…because he’s… he’s that dude, bro. What a lot of people don’t know… I’m not just sitting here and saying this because he’s my quarterback now…I’m not trying to get more targets right now but what I’m trying to say is “Tua is that deal, bro.”…Bro, he has a heck of an arm, he’s accurate, he can throw the deep ball, and he actually goes through his reads…what people on Twitter are like, ‘he doesn’t go through his reads’…man this dude is that dude.”
https://www.thephinsider.com/2022/6/11/23163221/miami-dolphins-tyreek-hill-was-underutilized-in-kansas-city-tua-tagovailoa-accuracy-patrick-mahomes
I read a compelling argument with facts asserting that Tua is a Top 10 QB in the league.
One of the things that study did that I think is important is that it disassociated his 2020 data from his 2021. It’s really not fair to speak about “Tua’s career” numbers, since it’s only 2 years long.
This means that his rookie year is almost HALF the stats.
Almost all QBs have their worst statistical year as a rookie, for obvious reasons, and those who don’t have a crummy first year as starter are usually those who sat for a year or more before taking over. Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes and many more do not have true rookie year stats weighing down their career numbers and people’s impressions of them, as well.
What if the first year for those guys was them in their very first days in the NFL?
What if they had played their first year under much less talented HCs?
What if their first year was a COVID season?
So let’s look at where Tua was ranked in 2021 only.
Data from stats don’t lie. It’s math and has proven over time to be accurate. Data from stats reveal that Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was a legitimate top ten NFL quarterback in 2021. For anyone counting,
Tagovailoa had 35 categories where he was in the top ten of all NFL starting quarterbacks.
First off, Tua’s W-L record in 2021 was an extrapolated 12-5 (rounded up),
or if you are a pessimist, round the fraction down to 11-6.
I think if we average 11-6 or 12-5 every year for the next 10-12 years,
I’ll be happy with Tua’s career.
Tua has never QB’d for a sub 500 team.
Tua ranked 1st in the NFL in 9 categories.
most RPO passing yards in 2021… 847
best completion percentage in the red zone of any starting quarterback in 2021– 65.4%
highest clean pocket completion percentage in the NFL — 76.3%
least amount of pocket time in the NFL in 2021 — 2.1 seconds
the most aggressive attempts (throws that are into tight coverage) — 19.3%
least number of passes batted away — 1
least number of sacks — 20
highest passer rating on the goal line — 118.8
highest touchdown percentage on the goal line with five or more passes — 80%
PS: He threw no INTs on the goal line, so he is tied for 1st in that as well.
OK so pocket time is an OL stat,
but still it is important to know he fought against this to win 8 games out of 12.
and OK so tight coverage attempts shows his WRs were not good at getting open
(or did not have time to get separation),
but considering his high completion percentage, this is a good reflection on Tua.
And even with only 2.1 seconds to throw, Tua took the fewest sacks.
And even though he is “short,” he only had 1 batted pass.
Wow.
Everybody must be mowing their lawns today.
It’s been raining almost all day down here.
so
3 hours alone on the blog.
This is the longest time no one’s disagreed with me in the history of the universe.
Lol — offseason weekends never been a big blog time. When first came here was always amazed that weekdays 9 to 5 had the highest traffic flow. Then when folks got home from work it slowed down. 🙂
“I’ve had a chance to see Tua throw the ball, to myself, but. . . . he’s that dude, bro. Like, what a lot of people don’t know, like, I’m not just sitting just saying this because he’s my quarterback now. . . . like, I’m not trying to get more targets right now, but what I’m trying to say is Tua is that deal, bro. . . . Bro, he has a heck of an arm, bro. He’s accurate. He can throw the deep ball, and he actually goes through his reads, where people are like on Twitter like saying, ‘Oh, he doesn’t go through his reads.’ Man, this dude is that dude.”
— Tyreek on Tua
So I went through the list of available FAs right now, and Tak McKinley caught my eye due to his young age (26). Some may characterize him as a bust of a 1st round draft pick, but he’s not exactly a bust. 53 career QB hits in 60 career games (27 games started) with 20 career sacks.
The thing with Tak is that he was projected/expected by nearly all to become an NFL LB. Instead, he’s only ever played DE in the NFL, with the Falcons for 4 years and with the Browns last year.
His 4.59 40-time shows on game tape and that should be easily utilized at either the OLB or SAM positions. He’s got an 8.3% career missed tackle percentage from the DE position. For the sake of comparison, Joey Bosa (also 26 years old and DE) has a career missed tackle percentage of 14.7%… and Bosa is 3″ taller and 20 pounds heavier.
What I’m saying is that Tak could play a hybrid role in our Defense as a pass-rusher (DE/OLB), possibly more effective from the LB position than the DE position. Don’t know how he’d fare with open-field tackling as a LB from the beginning, but his statistics and attributes show that he’d probably be pretty solid.
He shouldn’t cost a lot of $$$ at this point and I feel he’s worth kicking the tires.
Not familiar with him but never against potential talent at a cheap price. Why do you figure he is still a FA? Seems a guy like him would be wanting to meld into a new team and new team by now.
Tak was my selection for us Phins in the 1st round of the 2017 Draft. I figure he’s a FA because he’s been played out of place as a DE. He ALWAYS should have been played as a LB, IMO.
His stats don’t suck, but he’s certainly been underwhelming as a 1st round pick. Too many people want to apply the ‘bust label’ on him as a result. He’s still young with extreme talent.
“I love the deep ball, but guess what though? I done expanded my game. So now I’m doing a lot more than just the deep ball now. I’m doing intermediate routes. I’m doing short routes. So now I actually need a guy who can just get me the ball now, on a dagger route, on a corner route, on a shallow cross route. You know, right now, right in my chest. So I can do the rest. I make you look good now.”
— Tyreek on how his role has changed with the Phins.
Getting ready to go to my favorite dive bar for wings and came across this….
And, then wonder why Tua is the problem? Lol.
https://phinphanatic.com/2022/06/11/miami-dolphins-betting-farm-offensive-line-players/
There’s truth to it but new coaches/evaluators/scheme….
Tyreek on Tua:
https://www.thephinsider.com/2022/6/11/23163221/miami-dolphins-tyreek-hill-was-underutilized-in-kansas-city-tua-tagovailoa-accuracy-patrick-mahomes
Don’t fuck with the punter!
Damn!
Tua Tua Tua!!! Can the friggin media just let this season play out rather than predicting what he is and isn’t. I don’t care what the plans may or may not be in 2023. There is a season before that. SMH
Hill thinks he was underutilized in KC and I believe he will feel that way in Miami. Hill should feel that way. He is such a RARE weapon. He is like having a Michael Jordan in football. Feed him the ball and let him score. When the double and triple teams come, kick it out to Scottie Pippen (Gesicki) or John Paxon (Waddle) for a quick 3. In between running the ball also. lol
M13, Tak McKinley’s production has gone down the last couple of seasons and it looks like injuries might have played a role in it. I’m sure we have looked at him. Every team knows who he is.
Ok!
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5) The top playoff goal scorer in the prior TWO Stanley Cup Playoffs (Point)
6) Uncle “MO” – – – Momentum during the last 10 days!!
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GO BOLTS!!!
Well done by the Lightning. They overcame an early Rangers barrage in the series. That’s what championship teams do. Congrats!
Tagovailoa had 35 categories where he was in the top ten of all NFL starting quarterbacks
Doesn’t matter they found 1, where he ranks in the bottom 2, 20+ yard passes😝
204 ypg, 16 tds, low yards per completion, and low number of 20+ yard passes are the important stats he hasn’t done good with, that they bash him for
There’s something to it, but you can’t discount the OL and lack of running game
And explosive players. Also that the new coaching staff lead by McDaniel are in Tua’s corner. There are lots of different variables this year. We’ll see. Tua has to take his game to another level. That’s part of being a franchise QB.
He was 2nd in completion % in passes over 20 yards. Yes he didn’t throw that many over 20 yards but when he did he was very efficient
This was a first. Just got a visit from a Hispanic guy who said he was from Orlando but didn’t have a valid ID and spoke broken English. He wanted to bond 2 Hispanic women out of jail who both have $30,000 bonds for human trafficking. I pulled up their arrest reports. They are here illegally and avoided border patrol about 4 months ago. They had similar stories in their reports in that they came here via the cartel and have to work for the cartel. One said she was scared for her life. These people who are brought to the border by the cartel and avoid border patrol are supposed to show up at a designated town. They are then picked up by these human trafficking mules (like these 2 women) and taken to a city designated by the cartel to work for the cartel. The guy had over $8,000 in cash on him. I told him the bond fee is only $6,000 to get both of them out, but they are not citizens so I would also need $60,000 cash put up as collateral. I told him they wouldn’t be released from jail anyway because they had a hold for ICE. He got a worried look on his face and left.
You’re in a scary business, bro.
Instead of gun violence and gun control targeting law abiding citizens because that is what it is, how about taking on crime control? Just saying!
Exactly right, Tim. I also think it is really sad that these people are fleeing their countries for a brighter future only to be sucked up into the world of the cartel and be in a much worse situation than what they left.
What happened to the “War on Drugs” in this country? Seems to be over and we lost at times.
Minkah had everything that you want in a player, but he never got along with then-head coach Brian Flores and the Dolphins basically traded him for Austin Jackson
True, but they made up for it, by selecting Holland and jury is still out on Jackson
Everything isn’t going to go your way…
It isn’t how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit
Rocky
More proof things are starting to go our way, we seemed to be stuck in that rut of bottom being top 5 pick and top being brush the playoffs and avg being 6-10, then changed to bottom being 6-10 top being brush the playoffs avg being 8-8, now it’s bottom winning record and top…
We’re definitely trending up
Yuck – Got a summons for Jury Duty, Grand Jury. 1 day a week for 18 weeks. WTF!!
It’s not like you won’t be trying to put away some mobster
Just tell them you are a homophobic, pedophile, woman hating racist who’s hobbies are stealing, carjacking, trafficking heroin and stalking women in the park and Walmart.
Of course, that could backfire on you.
I prefer to stalk my women at Target, but otherwise that’s me. lol
That sucks, Now here’s an answer they didn’t teach me the answer to in school. Does that mean you are in the pool of people to be possibly selected to a grand jury on those days or that you are on an actual grand jury that sits over that period?
That sucks! 18 weeks? I did grand jury many years back 1 day per week for like 2 months I think it was.
Frosty….
https://phinphanatic.com/2022/06/12/miami-dolphins-found-some-magic-in-jevon-holland/
Stanger – I have absolutely no idea. Nowhere does it clarify the answer to this. I believe I’ll be given a day each week to check in, either virtually or in person (believe now it will be virtually). Where it goes from there, I don’t know.
I suspect it is that you will be in a pool. Don’t see how they could throw folks on one without giving them chances to make excuses to not serve first. But never done criminal law or juries.
Tim Knight says:
June 11, 2022 at 8:59 pm
M13, Tak McKinley’s production has gone down the last couple of seasons and it looks like injuries might have played a role in it. I’m sure we have looked at him. Every team knows who he is.
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Right on, I’m just trying to turn every stone over to see if we can improve in some way — even if nominally — at this point in the offseason. It’s not as though I’m pounding the table to sign Tak, just looking for angles to take advantage of, on the cheap. Sign Tak after week 2, and that money won’t be guaranteed, for example.
Conversely, there’s still a big fish out there… his name is JC Tretter and we can easily afford him being $17M under the salary cap. I think we’re waiting to see if Connor Williams (or Michael Deiter) would be better than signing Tretter to the Center position. We shall see!
I think our roster is in pretty good shape as of now but nothing wrong with looking into available talent that could help our team.
And that’s exactly what I’m talking about, Bro! 🙂
Next year Andrew Barnwell plans to cross the Atlantic in the smallest boat ever. Think we can assume both he doesn’t have claustrophobia and is a tad crazy.
How long is Barnwell’s voyage expected to take? I assume approximately 3 months, but I don’t assume anything these days… especially with modern tech.
Didn’t catch how long, but he estimated his average speed would be 2.5 mph. So sounds like about 3 months.
That’s crazy!
Always thought a ball hawk was a D player, that has a knack for ints.
The reference was just used in a USFL game after NOs 2nd forced fumble and fumble recovery
IMO, BALL HAWK(!!!) is always a reference to a Defensive player who can intercept the football.
The USFL game you’re watching should have used the term ‘heat-seeker’ for a Defensive player who finds the ball carrier and strips it.
LOL, these are just MY terms! 😉
I’ve heard commentators refer to players who are always around the ball or find the ball as ball hawks. The knack for INTs is definitely the one most refer to though.
I never thought I had claustrophobia either until I opened my eyes during an MRI and the ceiling was about 2″ from my eyes. Almost tapped out
It’s different in CA, or at least my experience was. I got selected for a grand jury around 15 years ago. Letter said I was selected, but since it was a guaranteed 12 weeks (or something in that range) I could opt out. All I had to do was send the letter back opting out, which was nice.
I did jury duty a few years ago, I just showed for a week every day, never got selected, and was done. I Imagine much like it was last time, it’s random how you get selected to be in a jury pool, and if you get a case and are selected, you’re on the hook. I think I have to do this once a week for 18 weeks. I just have to hope I don’t get selected.
You went in with your eyes closed? Why?
I was nervous about the test in the first place, it was when I was in the hospital with a stroke about 9 years ago. I figured I’d be more relaxed with my eyes closed, they gave me headphones, the music was calming me somewhat, but then the noise overcame the music and for some reason I decided to open my eyes. When I saw how close the ceiling was I started panicking, my heart rate went crazy high, almost pressed the panic button after a couple of minutes, then the music came back on and somehow I calmed down.
I get it…thank you for sharing….
I’ve got claustrophobia too. Never did for 40 years but then hit me in a middle seat on a plane when the guy in front of me put his seat back way back and learned mine couldn’t recline. I ran over the person in the aisle like my seat was on fire. Have had it off and on ever since. You know it makes no sense, but that doesn’t really help.
Everyone’s different and triggers come out of nowhere….
Maybe…knowwhere
I never had a fear of heights growing up but now I find myself getting vertigo when on certain bridges or from high points. It’s not severe or anything just some form of anxiety. I have dreams where I’m driving on a bridge and it just keeps going higher and higher and I don’t know when it will end. LOL
My Dad had a fear of heights. We’d go to say the Sears Tower and have to stand like 2 yards back from the windows to enjoy the view cause otherwise he’d freak out about us (talk about phobia transference). They aren’t rational fears, but they are real to you.
Weird…never had any phobias except roaches…I crush them…lol…can’t stand them!
No fucking mercy…lmao
You are lucky. Hoping you don’t have too many roaches in your place though. 🙂
Lol…grew up in FL…they called them Palmetto bugs….I killed them if they came near me….
Flying mother fuckers, too…..lol
Tim – That’s interesting. I lived on the 15th floor of an apartment building and we had a terrace. I used to look straight down over the railing, never bothered me. On the other hand, every now and again I have a dream that I’m hanging from that terrace and sometimes I fall. I started getting vertigo after my booster shot. Never had it, but I know a lot more people who also have the same after their booster, I work with 3 of them.
Wow after the booster shot. That’s interesting.
It’s pretty disturbing. One of the Optometrists I work with has really been suffering the vertigo since the booster. She’s had to miss a few days it was so bad for her. I found that if I sleep more upright rather than flat, it helps keep it away. I would wake up and the room would be spinning, I’d get out of bed and start walking sideways but I was trying to walk straight. Like if you ever played that drinking game where you take a baseball bat, you lean over and put your head on it while it’s upright touching the ground, and then run around it a few times, and then try to go the table where you have to drink your drink, it’s a relay race, but you’re so dizzy, you run sideways instead of to your target area.
Wow that is disturbing. I was driving over one the bridges from the NJ Turnpike into Jersey City one time and I felt like my vehicle was going to just float up off the road and into the water. I have to keep my eyes straight on the road and not look to the water. It’s weird never had that decades ago.
Sorry Krishna – lol
Lmfao…can’t watch it!
Krishna — here is a way to make some spare cash for the Fest. 🙂
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Lol….ok, out of hand…fucking stop it.
Maybe, it’s a phobia!
Only difference I see as I go to war and others panic….not sure what that means…lol
Tim – Did you get the booster shot?
I’ve only done the first two. I’m do this month for the booster. Now I’m a little concerned.
Can’t say I blame you. Pretty sure that 3rd shot was my last booster. I don’t feel like playing around with this stuff anymore
My feeling about COVID these days is it’s just a flu that we’ve all been getting since we’ve been alive. Now if you feel sick or sense you have some type of bug people test for COVID and if they’re positive everyone freaks out. Any time you have some type of bug it’s best to stay away from others. We stayed home from school or were told to go home at work. It seems some people want to keep COVID as some type of fear factor when even the media barely covers it anymore. They’ve moved onto other issues.
All the symptoms people claim to have when they test positive for COVID are the same illnesses we’ve all had from time to time. Headaches, upset stomach, tired, chills, body aches, cough and congestion. Maybe throw in some sneezes. LOL
Tyreek Hill took over the Miami Dolphins news by saying Tua is more accurate than Mahomes. I think he says things like this to have his QB’s back and to squash the nonsense.
“Obviously, like I’m gonna go with 15 as the strongest arm, but, as far as accuracy-wise, I’m going with Tua all day,” Hill said, adding he prefers passes to the numbers rather than trying to track deep balls.
If the Cheetah is who he says he is, give him the damn ball. WTF?
Then, go from there….
He is who he says he is because he’s done it from day one.
What are you worried about TK?
Mike saying he and some of the people he works with all got vertigo after getting their booster shot.
So why are you still shooting it up….I don’t get it…sorry
Shooting what up?
Boosters?
I’m not. I got the first two shots because I wanted to go to my nieces wedding. That was considered fully vaccinated and they required it. I was already on the fence with the 3rd shot/booster and now what Mike said is making me come off the fence and not get it. I really don’t feel I need it and I don’t have any fear not doing so. The only flu type symptoms I’ve had in recent times was after the first shot but it only lasted maybe 12 hours.
People on this blog think MJ is leads to a downhill rabbit hole and useless life….
Then, they wrap themselves in modern medicine while calling it out..ahem Fauci.
I don’t get it…
Get Covid and move the fuck on or not….body is the best/smartest tool you have.
Just give it what it needs….
…the body….I will give Orob that.
Give him the damn ball…scheme his ass, find his ass, Waddle his ass…
I think both Hill and Waddle will have over 70 catches but maybe neither of them reach 100. That’s okay as other guys will get theirs too. I think Hill is going to draw a lot of attention and open it up for others especially Waddle. He was the one that teams focused on with us last year and now they can’t do that. I see our Clayton/Duper 2.0 on the way.
I’ve had all 4, but then I’m elderly.
None of them felt like anything at all, except the second one, I was a bit short tempered the next day, only because I had to be so “on-stage” at work the next day and couldn’t just stay at a desk quietly working. I wasn’t in the mood to be stared at and messed with by random dickheads. Otherwise nada zip zilch. Eating doughnuts is way worse
A million people have died of COVID in the US alone.
It is NOT nothing
or just another flu,
although the flu killed 40,000 Americans last year,
so I would not call the flu nothing either.
Not calling it nothing just don’t see it as anything different than what humans/animals have gotten sick or died from forever. COVID got out of hand no doubt, but now all illness has the name COVID attached to it. Not all those people died from COVID, they just tested positive and they died of other causes that have existed since the beginning of time. There are so many obstacles in this life we live.
Why is COVID only a secondary story now? Most people don’t wear masks anymore and don’t fear it. Others are petrified by it.
Yeah…
This is getting so dumb.
AGREED! And check out the next post on his thread…
Not sure what the point is here but he sounds like a dork. LOL
I too wanted to travel and had to be double vaxed to do so … have not had third or fourth, and no plans to ….
US just repealed the Preflight Negative test requirement , so now we can either drive or fly with no Pretests, and don’t require coming home anymore either .. so that 600.00 less each , and no running around worrying we won’t get results in time
As for Vertigo, I’ve been dealing with it in various levels in the past 10🤔? Years..I had the room spinning getting out of bed scenario for about a year , it has since gone away.. I still need to be against something solid when near any edges .. we have a mechanic pit at work , that at times I was not able to walk over the grate without swooning .. mountain and night driving on roads I am not familiar with also cause me to swerve when something unforeseen pops up .. IE: a lake opens up when we’ve been beside a solid side shoulder.. I used to also get the “swerves” looking from radio back to the road , that went away for the most part after getting Progressive lenses … and if the wife is looking over an edge that I am staying away from I also have to grab hold of something solid to ensure I am anchored.. some I guess could be considered anxiety as opposed to Vertigo.. oh yeah , hand rails over even golf bridges are a must use …
I never took the vax, and we (the unvaxed) were supposed to die for not having taken it, according to the federal government/WHO. I even got diagnosed with COVID at one point, and it was no worse than the common cold.
I’m still here! LOL
Didn’t think you had it in you….lol…ok
I caught both Covid and Bronchitis this spring .. Bronchitis was way worse. But it does hit different people in different ways
It does, but it’s part of the human condition…for sure it could be managed better….helter, skelter.
Phobias are foreign to me so I just watch and listen….seen it first-hand.
….understand, learn
To be fair, it would seem you have conservative-phobia… just sayin’! 😉
Lol….you have no clue…oh my
‘Twas nothing more than a joke, man. Hence the ‘winky-eyed’ emoji. 🙂