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 
Patriots still can’t tackle, smh
The patsies tackling skills make me happy for our game soon.
Patriots losing by 2 scores now
736 o go
Weeeee
Woohoo! Pets may do this. This would be huge for us!
Divisional loss and a 2 game lead would give us a massive shot at leading the division going into the bye!
Dumb play call on 2pt conversion. Jones just not athletic enough to run the sneak there
True. He had zero power and zero wiggle on that.
Brady at least had quality striking power on all those successful sneaks.
The tackling by the Pets is even worse than ours, unreal
Pats are going to choke
🍻
Pets will eff this up.
lol, Pets really do suck
Yep
I hate rooting for the Pats. Now I’ll have been rooting for them just to choke.
Tipped ball saves Jones from the INT and the fucking cough it up the very next play.
Losers find ways to lose
Here comes the choke
Got to love it
The Ref anticipated they would call the time out.
They should let them score here
The referees are getting payback for years of..oh, wait they are paying back? I’m confused by this new
Fucking hat NE
So many ways the Pets could have won this game and they just kept effing it up.
Like The Giants last week. You leave a good team in a game, this is what happens.
Knew this was going to happen
Yep
Woohoo!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮
GESICKI!!
Atta boy Gesicki!!!!!!!
Way to go Gesicki!!!
Gesicki finally helping Miami
😂
Beautiful
What a draft pick Gesicki was 😎
Lol @ Allen running on the final play…wtf
WOW
Hahahahahaha
Kinda double edge sword on that …. Bills we’re my lone remaining Survivor pick 🤔😢
Sweet!!!
If Bilks’re going to try a Miami Miracle it start with a pass. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
OMG
I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT I THOUGHT THE GAME WAS ON AT 6:20 TODAY. 8:20 IS INSUFFERABLE!
7:20 on the panhandle
It is if you live in Utah
yay patriots,
(Pardon the profanity.)
So, Mac Jones outplayed Josh Allen. Beautiful
just what I wanted.
The Patriots won but looked shitty doing it.
(baaad tackling)
Way to go Bears!!
Bills 1-2 in division and 2-3 in conference. Nice!
Pats at 2-5 have the best division record in AFCE at 2-1.
Bills at 4-3 have worst division record in AFCE at 1-2.
Damn, Indy screwing up with the penalty
And another penalty
Damn
KC/SD is a big game.
You mean LA Boomer?
Right rolls off the tongue.😂
Couple very questionable calls go against the Colts to give the Browns the game.
Go Chargers!!
I just realized I was rooting for the wrong team. LOL
Go Chargers!
Is it GAME TIME YET??
Go Chargers!!
iiigggggg Why must I watch Swift make stupid dances in the box?
Because the NFL and the Chiefs are cleaning up on that relationship
LOL They gave Tyreek a 15 yard penalty and a 10K fine, but they use the backflip every day.
He got it for the phone
Oh yeah, good fumble drill
This has been the longest day….
I know right!? Like waiting for Christmas as a kid
I gotta say I like Taylor Swift.
She’s pretty, sweet, smart, a great singer, and
more fun to watch in a VIP box than Robert Kraft.
I gotta draw the line at “great singer.” She is a good song writer, great showman, exceptional business woman…but a mediocre singer at best.
Prime time nationwide game tonight. I feel queasy
Lol…what’s with you and queasy? Oh my.
Thanks to who was calling the shots for the Pats today.
https://i.insider.com/5ea397064bca633d4a6b4a64?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp
I have a magic 8 ball on my desk. 🎱😂
I want a millions swifties to cry tonight
LOL
I’ll second that!
Oh lord the Taylor Swift shit is out of control
What I want to know is is she going to Germany,
and if so, where is she staying and what’ll she be eating?
🤣
Waiting all day for SNF
SNF = Swift Nightly Football?
https://x.com/davidfurones_/status/1716225690561896596?s=61&t=NWZ–WfgKu_dYbC-fKuB3A
so the new WR is active!
I think Staley is gone if the Chargers don’t make the playoffs this year
He should have been gone last year
Agreed
No Connor Williams today folks
That effing sucks
Eich ugh 😣
Herbert came up small in another big game
He does seem to do that
It’s now a thing.
But Staley is a dead man walking.
Yeah, he’s done.
Only a flippin’ hour left
X is inactive
That sucks.
Ouch! I guess we see a lot of Cam Smith tonight.
Do we see Cam?
I don’t see how we can’t. He’s a second round pick if he is not playing a good deal tonight with Ramsey Howard and need them not playing then there’s a problem.
Williams inactive as well
We will have our work cut out for us tonight with those two in actives. We are gonna have to put up a lot of points.
Just got home! Wearing my lucky Herd GO FINS bracelet!
I wore it all week!!
We are going to need it!
Yay!! I have mine on too. 😂
I’ve got mine on as well
AJ Brown is going to eat our CB’s alive tonight
Eichenberg, the 39th rated center is starting against the Eagles’ interior offensive line.
Anyone else feeling queasy?
Well at least there won’t be any high snaps….
Oh no! Ely Apples says “yeah, it’s going to be an Ely night tonight” {{{SHUUDERS}}}
On top of wearing the famous Herd bracelet, my dad gave me a signed Don Shula football Friday. So other than chicken feet boiling in sage, we should be good lol
Lol love it
Can you run the store real quick?
LOL calling doordash
I have mine on too 💪🐬💥
Just got delivery for dinner, i open the door wearing my Hill jersey and he says ” Dolphins fan?”. I said “Yeah, you?”. He says Eagles fan. Good thing he didn’t know I was a Dolphins fan before delivering or there may have been some special sauce. 🤣
Yikes!😂
Take this shit and get fuck out of here 🖕
Lol
Take back his tip
Lmao!! Timing is everything
Xavien Howard being out is a real problem tonight. We’re just going to have to put up as many points on the board as we can… and we CAN DO THIS!!!
We need sacks
That’s what she said! 😉
Go Fins
Go Stro’s
Yes they put the games on at the same MF time!!!! 😦
Prediction: this is going to be the most-viewed NFL game of the season to date. It’s a potential Super Bowl preview, Tua vs Hurts (both Saban-coached), old-school Eagles unis, and two 5-1 teams going head-to-head.
I’M HYPED!!!
Oh yeah… and Waddle vs DeVonta Smith (Saban-coached WRs).
Here we go. Kick some Eagles butt!!
LFG!!!
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
The key to the game is the Linebackers.
Whichever LB corps stuffs the other team will win.
Or
Leaky LB play will allow the other team to convert 3rd and longs.
Now I can say ………… ‘Gameday bitches’
Did the Chiefs win?
They did tes
Shucks
Waaaaay too easy
Anyone else experiencing a choppy broadcast?
No sir
No. I am watching on You Tube TV
Smooth as a babies butt here Phel
FG feels like a win there
Agree 💯
I will take that start 👍. Let’s go Offence
I am not comfortable with it. They moved it too easily then had some crappy play calling in red zone
Did Fangio learn what they are doing to get Goeddert so open?
(Can Baker actually cover him in space?)
No
That play clock on the broadcast is tiny. No wonder Tua missed it
Their DL is too good
I think this is where our OL gets found out 🤔
Slow start again ..
WTF! Where’s Brandon Fields???
Our ST is a disaster
Bailey kind of sucks
Let’s agree we need Both pressures and sacks in abundance tonight👍👍
Now is a good time to start
That’s wit um talkin bout
Talk more Toba
Awesome!!!!
JUST LIKE IN MY MADDEN PREVIEW!
Yessssssss
Is anyone blocking Reddick?
Hey Miami #7 You might want to block him?????????
🐧
Fricken Hold!