The winless Carolina Panthers at 0-5 come to Miami to take on the 4-1 1st place Miami Dolphins this Sunday, A.K.A Fest Day! This is the best Dolphins team we’ve seen in some time. The offense is incredible, although we have lost rookie sensation RB De’Von Achane for a few weeks as he was placed on IR this week, meaning he’ll miss at least 4 games until he’s eligible to return the week of November 19th against the Raiders. Incidentally, Jeff Wilson Jr. is eligible to return from the PUP list but it has yet to be determined if Wilson will be active. RB Salvon Ahmed and Chris Brooks will most likely share reps with Mostert, with Mostert getting the majority of the touches.
I think the majority of us have a lot of positive feelings with this team. The Buffalo game was a sobering beat down, but the team came back strong against the beleaguered NY Giants. The defense especially made their presence felt last week. In place of Jaelan Phillips, backup LB Andrew Van Ginkel has been stellar. He has made his absence tolerable, although it would be great to have both og them available. Jaelan Phillps logged in a limited practice Wednesday, along with other limited participants WR Tyreek Hill, OG Robert Jones, RB Raheem Mostert, RB Jeff Wilson Jr., and nice to see the return of DB Nik Needham, one of my faves. CB Xavien Howard (veteran rest), FB Alec Ingold (foot), and OC Connor Williams (groin), did not practice. Ingold has said he’s playing Sunday, but Williams is one to keep an eye on, and maybe a late decision.
The Dolphins are the #1 passing team with 1681 yards. The Dolphins are also the #1 rushing team with 929 yards. That’s crazy! This offense, with the exception of the 2nd half of the Bills game has been nearly unstoppable. On defense however, it’s a different story. The Dolphins have allowed the 12th most passing yards, and the 15th most rushing yards. Not terrible, but not championship level either. Vic Fangio may have the Dolphins defense turning the corner, although even a strong showing against the Panthers will still leave the question as to whether this defense, and team in general, can play well against one of the better teams, like the Philadelphia Eagles. We’ll play them the following Sunday, and they will be a better gauge as to where this team is heading.
It’s a shame the Festers won’t get to see RB De’Von Achane who just eats up yardage so quickly, averaging an outrageous 12.1 yards per carry. I’m not talking 5-10 carries, it’s 38. Raheem Mostert is also having a great year rushing and is averaging a whopping 5.4 yards per carry, which is less than half of the magic man, De’Von Achane, but still impressive. We will get to see Tyreek Hill, who has also been magical this season. Hill has 651 yards receiving and is averaging 18.1 YPR, crazy considering all the extra attention he receives. Jaylen Waddle has 245 yards receiving, 14.4 YPR. Braxton Berrios has been great getting open finding soft spots in the zones or just beating coverage to get open.
The Panthers will be showing off their rookie QB Bryce Young who is having a decent rookie season. Young has been sacked 12 times so far this season. Young has 750 yards passing with 5 TD’s and 4 INT’s and a 77 QBR. In contrast, Tua has 1614 yards, with 11 TD’s and 5 INT’s and a stellar 111.9 QBR. It would be nice to have a healthy Jaelan Phillips back, but it’s still unclear as to whether he will suit up. In any case, AVG is on fire right now, so this defense is going to bring it whether Phillips is there or not. I do hope we activate Nik Needham, but I think we have until the 29th to activate him, so it’s probably not happening this week.
No matter what happens at the game itself, this is a special time getting together with a great group. It’s such a pleasure to see you all each year, and of course, we’re thankful for Stanger’s hospitality, Chef Warren, communications man Hulk, transportation man Toba, and everyone who attends and makes it such a special time. It will be great to finally meet Herd, looking forward to that! Looking forward to meeting up again and having a great time while we’re together. Cheers!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Brooks down. Ugh
omg, we are running out of RB s
Wilson back soon
This would leave Mostert and Ahmed … while we wait for Wilson
Looks
Like a knee injury
Does not look good
At least our Def hasn’t given up a score since first quarter.
Cam Smith siting
so happy for Ahmed!!!
Good job, team. So happy for our festers to get a fun game and big win. Please let the niners lose to make this another great football week
Missed the brooks injury play. It wasn’t a dirty twist by the D at the end of the tackle, was it?
no he fell on him.
Jackson great blocking on the TD!
Fins Offense sitting at 2,996 yards total on season.
WINNING!!!
5-1!!!
on to Philly
Only 3 penalties today, and I think there were none by the offense except for the Hill excessive celebration.
Eich was fine at center.
Tua with a 126 QB rating
Super fun game
It’s literally been decades since I have felt so confident with the talent and ability on our team. We’re just too good for bad and mediocre teams to beat us. We might lose one game this year to a team of that quality, but likely not.
The only question about this team is can the defense play well enough to beat the Eagles, the Bills, and/ or the Chiefs.
100%
Hill now on pace for 2306 yards receiving. He’s averaging over 135 a game.
Brownies about to pull the upset over the 49ers???
not that way!
Our OL gave up zero sacks, even though they blitzed us almost half the time.
I feel really bad for Brooks
Browns backup QB is a fucking idiot
^
Jonathan Taylor had 8 carries for 19 yards today.
Fuck, Browns needed just one more stop
He missed!!!!!
Browns win. Wonderful
BROWNIES WIN!!!
And there is ONE undefeated team left… and we play them next week!!!
oh man!!!
Woohooo!!
GREAT FUCKING FOOTBALL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
Tua was barely pressured all day, and our running game was fire.
no high snaps?
And the Pets are getting whooped. Did we sacrifice a live chicken to Jobu today?
Glorious…Glorious…Glorious
Well, down 3, but looking shitty
Mac Jones is 0-2 with a 12 yard sack.
Zach Wilson is 1-3 for 5 yds.
CavalierKong says:
October 15, 2023 at 4:38 pm
And the Pets are getting whooped. Did we sacrifice a live chicken to Jobu today?…
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😆
Willie Mays Hayes would approve of our Offense!
BRING THAT SHIT TO ME!!!!!!!
Hell yeah football!!
We are enjoying the hell out of this season. Every week has been fun except for Bills eweek, and we see those sons’abitches again in week 18. We’re coming, MFers!@!!!
And belicheat is struggling to get wins. Qould love to see him NOT TAKE THE RECORD FROM THE COAHC WITH SUPERIOR INTEGRITY
Exactly! I was think of that during the week, they have two shit seasons and then he retires
I bet Herd was nervous being at the game and not doing laundry. I could imagine the guilt she felt when we were down 14-0.
It’s okay Herd. I’m sure you represented us well!
Eagles next 7 games:
Dolphins
Commander
Cowboys
Chiefs
Bills
Niners
Cowboys
CavalierKong says:
October 15, 2023 at 4:10 pm
It’s literally been decades since I have felt so confident with the talent and ability on our team. We’re just too good for bad and mediocre teams to beat us. We might lose one game this year to a team of that quality, but likely not.
The only question about this team is can the defense play well enough to beat the Eagles, the Bills, and/ or the Chiefs
^ what this ape said
🍻
Oh yeah, and Tua should just retire.
Right?..you POS Twitter doctors?
It was mostly fans of other AFC East teams that were afraid this is what he would become
M13,
We are going to see what Both our college and pro football teams are made of this coming weekend- contenders, or pretenders ?
YESSIR!!!
I genuinely can’t describe how happy I am the Niners lost today. It means the rest of the season my best friend can come over on Sundays and I can legit root for his team (the Niners), instead of having to secretly hope they lose 😂😂
We scored 42, won by 3 scores, and we didn’t even try to score for most of the 4th quarter.
Oh yeah, and we spotted the Panthers the whole first quarter
LOL, Mac Jones suuuucks
Hekker:
4 punts, 47.3 average
Bailey:
4 punts, 48.5 average
Dolphins had 4 sacks and 9 QB hits.
Carolina 0 sacks, 1 QB hit
Z Wilson is averaging 3.5 yards per attempt.
We ran 33 times and passed 32 times.
Brock Purdy had 55 QB rating today.
With a 126 rating today, Tua now leads the league with a 114.1 rating over #2 Purdy with 111.9.
Mac Jones with a 48 QBR.
Patsies had 108 yards of offense in the first half and 36 of that came on one pass.
It was so refreshing to not have to listen to that biased play by play guy this week.
I want the Jets to keep it close so the Philly starters have to play the whole game
Angry Runs Winner!
Dolphins #1 in the AFC East no matter what the rest of our division does.
Holy crap. The Pets are in the redzone right now. It’s their first redzone drive in their last 30 possessions. That’s nutz
Did I die this offseason? Am I in heaven? LOLOLOL
First TD drive for the Pets offense in 40 possessions.
Crossman and the ST unit had their best day of the season. Stopped a fake punt, corralled an onside kick, made all our extra points, no big returns given up. No missed points and no extra points given up.
LOL
They only need 5 points now.
Look how close some of us were predicting 40+ points
🐈⬛@🐬
🗿62-17🐬💥
🎼45-13🐬
🇨🇦 51-9
🦬 38-17 🐬
🌴 44-13🐬
🗡️ 41-20🐬
🐷 42 – 10 🐬
It would have been more unrealistic to predict a 24-21 win
Crazy when blow outs are the norm
It’s great we get the love and primetime games, but it sucks we have to wait all day for our game
If the rest of the season goes like it has so far, we’ll get 10 primetime games next year, lol.
(Talking about having to wait next Sunday…)
Did you know that Tua has passed for the same amount of yards as the publication year of Tom Sawyer?
I said I wanted the Jets to keep it close, not win.
Don’t want to travel to Philly when they need a bounce back game.
Giving Philly all they can handle
No shit
If the Jets only had a QB
Philly has only tried to run the ball 8 times for 7 yards (not counting Hurts scrambles)
Pets have life due to a dumb late hit penalty.
Detroit just keeps on rollin’
Jest with the INT, can take the lead on this drive.
Pets down 2. Raiders doing everything they can to lose
Parker with the big drop
Safety. Pets lose
🙄
I see sack master Haasan Reddick has 2 sacks this game for Philly so far. That’s 5 in 6 games.
Puka Nacua with only 4 rec for 26 yards. Yes, Kupp is back and had a huge game.
Missed FG, Jest still only down 2
Eagles trying to do what Raiders almost did.
Z. Wilson still at QB for the Jest though, lol.
Reddick with another half sack
Holy shit!!
Jest take the lead after the pick
NO
Hurts sucks!!!
That’s 3 INT’s this game for Hurts vs the Jets who were missing 3 CB’s including Gardner their best CB.
Let’s go eagles
I’m ok with the Eagles getting a loss here.
I have a feeling they have to come back with rebound game against us.
They’re one of the best teams in the league and we’re on the road. Next week is a tough game for us no matter how it goes down. I don’t really think they need any extra motivation to bring it against us.
After that weak ass showing against the Bills, we’d better bring our best game against them.
Kinda crazy this is the 1st time the Jest have ever beat the eagles
wow
Was this a trap game for them?
Jets defense played their ass off.
It was a trap game.
But it was an even worse loss, because Hurts will have his confidence shaken, and his team’s and HC’s confidence in him should be shaken.
The Stej for the win????????????????
Light those cigars, boys.
Friggin Jets
Eagles are going to be pissed
🥂
Ken, did you say earlier you guys are thinking of doing a Jest fest?
I’m going to look into possibly flying in for that. What airport would I fly into?
Newark?
If I can make it happen, I’ll do what Boulder did last fest. I’ll fly in late Thursday night or early Friday morning, go to the game, then fly out Friday night or Saturday morning.
Newark is close. It’s only like 15 minutes from the stadium
👍
$1400 for round trip 1st class, not bad at all. I’ll have to figure out if I can do a full Thanksgiving meal, fly out late that night, do a game and fly back 12 hours later.
We’ll see if I’m gung ho about that once the glow of victory Sunday wears off, lol.
Might depend on who says they’ll go. I’d love to meet Bri, Tim, and Piggy.
I will start trying to see who is in and try to keep everyone posted
awesome
IMPRESSIVE performance today by the Dolphins!! Matched with FAU’s blowout win in Tampa yesterday (56-14 over a favored USF squad) and it was a pretty good weekend for Me and Mrs. OD.
So sorry to read about the Captain’s Diagnosis. He is one of the most beloved and admired members on this board! A thousand rays of good light for you, Sir!!
The movers get here tomorrow at about 8:00 AM. We’re moving to a better location.
NOTHING but the best wishes to all of you!
Wow I was of by a point each side 41-20 and final 42-21.🙂
You win. You can claim your prize at the Sun Sentinel 😉
😂
Piggy chime in on Metlife take over and mini NE fest?
Tim:
Mike E and I decided you are coming to Black Friday Jets game
My long time friend and also a Dolphins fan already booked a hotel room for that game but I can’t commit because of family issues at this time.
We will be in touch. We want you to be there. Also I hope everything is okay
Now if I can get a Stros win? It will be 2/3’ds of a great weekend!
https://twitter.com/astros/status/1712879353615298589/photo/1
fucking awesome to see all you guys again this year. I missed you guys who didn’t make it. Thanks for everyone being so cool!
Did you guys see who the best pass game in the NFL is?
How about the most rush yards? Rush TD? First downs, you name it we are pretty much number one. Yard per carry. Yard per pass. Yard per play. Point per game.
The dolphins have scored almost 4o points more than the next teem who is 20 points above #3.
Isn’t it cool? 😎
Achane is still #2 in rushing yards after today. LOL
OK next week we play Philly. I hope we put up 50 on them too so people will finally stop saying “but all the teams the have played have sucked” NO we just have beaten almost every team.
Giants came to play
I did see from the stands today Eichenberg played center. We won, good enough I guess
Bills offense looking extremely average again
Wow, Eagles open as 2.5 point favorites against us.
Considering home field advantage is generally considered 3 points, that is giving us some RESPECT
This ref crew has made some really bad calls against the Giants.
Wasn’t Daoll the OC for Bills? Maybe he knows stuff about Jish Allen. Like a tell or a fave.
NY should’ve kicked a FG at the end of the half.