This 2024 NFL Season was supposed to be a Super Bowl run for our Miami Dolphins, at least that was the hype. Here at FMU, we looked at weaknesses on this team, more specifically, the trenches. We were very skeptical of the offensive line, and why shouldn’t we have been? We didn’t upgrade, we lost 2 of our best linemen in OC Connor Williams and RG Robert Hunt. Our starting LG is last year’s backup who wasn’t even on the roster to start to the 2023 season. Our starting OC, Aaron Brewer was jettisoned by the Titans, and although our previous OC Connor Williams had some snapping issues, his pass and run blocking were both excellent. Our starting RG was last year’s backup OC, Liam Eichenberg. RT Austin Jackson is basically a constant. Our starting LT, now fighting off a shoulder injury has been playing for 13 years in the NFL and has never completed a full season. Don’t expect 2024 to be the first. He’s already come out of the game with injuries, and although he’s our best, he’s also fragile. While we’re speaking of fragile, did I mention our starting QB has another concussion?
If you hate to read it, scroll on by, because I’m going to remind all of you how very much I was against the Miami Dolphins handing our QB Tua Tagovailoa a huge contract. Mostly, the reason was his injury history, but a fair percentage of that was his inability to show up in big games. Well, both were on display last week in our first matchup with the Buffalo Bills. Tua did his best to prove me right on both counts, completing 25 passes for 239 yards, 1 TD and 3 INT’s. WR Grant Dubose should have got his head around, WR Robbie Chosen ran the wrong route. Please STOP! We have WR’s Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, TE Jonnu Smith, RB’s De’Von Achane and Jaylen Wright, the ball didn’t have to go to either of those guys, #1 makes that decision, he throws the ball. I don’t need to tell you that relying on 2 guys who have been here no more than 2 weeks is absurd. So now we’re left with our backup QB Skylar Thompson for a minimum of 4 games as QB Tua Tagovailoa goes on IR.
There’s starting to be a little more scrutiny of Dolphins Head Coach Mike McDaniel. Sure, he’s a likable guy, he’s funny, amusing, and supposedly an offensive genius. The problem is, when teams have figured out what type of defense to play against our offense to shut it down, Mike McDaniel has yet to find the solution to keep scoring like we scored on all the other teams. The tape is out there, teams know to have 2 safeties high and take away the long ball, keep everything in front of them, and as long as it’s executed well enough, they take both WR’s Tyreek Hll and Jaylen Waddle out of their game. I honestly have no idea if Skylar Thompson will be running the same offense Tua Tagovailoa was running, but I don’t think Skylar can have the same timing and anticipation that Tua had. We’ll see how much the offense is more tailored to Skylar, and I guess we’ll get somewhat of an idea if our season is lost or not.
I mentioned the trenches earlier, and now I’m going to touch on the defensive side. The defense was a strength for this team, at least until the injuries started coming and never stopped. The defensive line of Zach Sieler, Raekwon Davis and Christian Wilkins was a strength. Sieler is still there, but now he’s next to NT Benito Jones, and then next to him is DE Calais Campbell. Campbell is still a great player, but at 38, he can’t be expected to play high snap counts anymore, but the rotation was supposed to be the hallmark of the D-line. Tsunamis, waves of players, but that turned out to be false advertising, as we only have 6 DL, Sieler, Jones and Campbell, Emmanuel Ogbah, Brandon Pili and Da’Shawn Hand. That’s no tsunami. Now sometimes we’ll play a 4 man front, and we’ll employ speed packages with OLB’s Jaelan Phillips, Chop Robinson, Quinton Bell and probably Mo Kamara at some point, but in 2 games, I don’t think NFL teams are fearing our defensive line. Buffalo RB James Cook averaged 7 yards per carry (11-78) and managed 3 TD’s, 2 rushing, 1 receiving.
The Seattle Seahawks are 2-0, and they are always a tough get at home. We’ll be facing 2 former Dolphins players on Sunday, OC Connor Williams, and the always under appreciated ILB Jerome Baker (#55). There will be no hype from me about what I expect from this team right now. I have no idea and little expectation of what QB Skylar Thompson can do with this offense. We picked up QB Tyler Huntley from the Baltimore Ravens PS, and even though Sonny loves him, I’m not any more optimistic about Huntley leading us to victories in Tua’s absence. Our mighty WR corps is anything but, once you get past Hill and Waddle. Grant Dubose, Malik Washington (who is banged up) and Braxton Berrios, who has yet to record a reception. I hope our defense with all its tsunamis carries the day, because that offense could be downright ugly!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Is this preseason Seattle 1’s vs Dolphins 3’s?
That is what we needed. The comeback begins…
Lol…oh yeah
As long as we can clean up the penalties on STs, get better blocking up front, Thompson starts seeing the field instead of the rush, MM gets the plays in on time, we start getting better coverage on D, get more pressure on D, make our fgs, start finding Hill, don’t take any more penalties, start running better, and converting 3rd downs…we have a chance.
is that all
Kong – I’m confident you’re on to something
It’s just about 4:20…lol
on to or just on?
LOL
THIS once great franchise has struck rock bottom!!! The people Steve Ross has hired to run his franchise have, not to my surprise, FAILED MISERABLY!!
MIAMI’s SINGLE BIGGEST NEED IS A NEW OWNER!!
A new head coach or general manager if chosen by Ross will fail miserably. A new director of player development will, instead, be developing a chaotic MESS! Ross needs to sell the franchise for a gigantic profit and get out of the NFL before old age renders him to oblivion. In fact, he may be closer to that stage than we think he is.
EVEN IF we come back and WIN THIS GAME, it will NOT change the bottom line, which is, this franchise is incapable of seriously competing for the Super Bowl!! ONLY a change of ownership can provide us with any hope for a glorious future.
Hey, run the ball!
Lol…with our rookie
Wright?!
Kamala just seems so genuine
😜🤪😁😆😅🤣😂
Has our DC sent one blitz yet?
How did Skylar not see him?
lol, it’s just too good
Fuckity-Fuck!!!!
Run the damn ball
hill checked out
yep
Yet another fail on STs- 19 yd punt
‘Skylar has won the confidence of his teammates’ …….. that’s about the only thing he’ll win on the strength of this showing.
Way to step up Tyreek
screen to Tyreek was setup
Did Skylar take first team reps in practice? Has Tyreek Hill mailed it in?
yes
HAS ROSS SOLD THE TEAM YET??
Should have tried another long ass FG.
How far off is the draft?
lol, I know that answer, lol
Oh, thank God! I just lost my live stream feed
Sieler and Achane. You can have the rest
Bout fucking time berrios
Thinking the very same thing
Were you expecting him to fair catch as I was 😎
Credit where it’s due. Really needed that. If our offense was even remotely effective, we’d be in this game
Finally a blitz of some sort
how is there no flag on tge PR, didn’t know we were allowed to make plays there
sigh, just garbage
can’t stand when they use the whole play clock
Screw Jannu, we need Tyler Warren
Not convinced we’d score if they spotted it @ Seahawks 1
“He’s got his receiver but the throw is nowhere un the vicinity of the receiver “
What kind of a pass was that?
Steve, was that one of those you saw in TC?
they need to play that dead – these refs are horrible today
This offensive showing is just unacceptable. That is twice our offensive players just stopped in the middle of the play!
ANOTHER FUCKING ILLEGAL FORMATION ON SPECIAL TEAMS.
FIRE CROSSMAN
Like a well oiled machine
another penalty by J Hill
How many plays Armstead make this week? He almost made a full half!
So it’s your fault 😎
Going to turn the sound all the way off and just play the Benny Hill theme song the rest of the way.
Brilliant. I am literally going to do that
It looks like the entire Dolphins game day roster is concussed, including all the coaches
Another ST penalty. Can a coach be fired in the middle of the game?
we can’t do anything right
I’d say you need to hold the STs coordinator accountable, but then you’d have to hold everyone accountable
Danny, come into my office …….
We want to give you a 5 year extension
lmao 🤣
that was 37 yard personal foul
Woohoo Armstead with an eye injury
Armstead needed it to fill out his Bingo Injury card
lol
👏
He only needs one to play
LMAO @ Kong’s bingo card
It pisses me off when I see our players laughing about something on the sidelines.
How much they’re getting paid for doing sweet FA?
Maybe they’re playing Armstead bingo
We started playing benny hill on that last punt, it has us weak, LOL.
that’s our version of a Hail Mary
What a painful last 5 mins
probably the two worst Hail Mary attempts in the history of the NFL
Skyler Thompson is horrible
at least put it in the air
This has been one of the ugliest games I’ve ever seen.
Did we not have any WRs in the endzone? Why the **** didn’t he throw it?
Anyone thinking MM and offensive genius?
No.
That they don’t belong in same sentence.. yes
Done with his fan boy style of coaching. The fuck….I can draw up plays that just put people in motion and nothing else.
I don’t know if I should be laughing or crying. The fuck is happening out there?!
The fact that we’re supposed to be legitimate Super Bowl contenders makes it that much more crazy
Fact is, this team looks unprepared in every facet of the game, but none more than the absurdly inept special teams.
We lost our starting QB so you expect to see a drop off in offensive play. It shouldn’t mean the entire team falls apart. Gotta put this on coaching
…and it’s not like the offense was lighting it up even with Tua in there.
^^^
Awful football game.
LFGM!!!!!!!
No doubt Bri! We need a big win tonight!
Can they blow it up at halftime? Asking for a friend.
I have never bailed on a Fins game at HT b4 but I value my mental health too much. Nogtih all. I just hope it gets better for you – it surely cannot get any worse. We are a shambles and a laughing stock. Smdh
Oh, and the NFC Dolphins, er Cowboys are getting smoked like brisket too. Both pretenders, not contenders
Packers got 2 wins with a guy they picked up 3 weeks ago. Nobody outside here knows a WR name on the team..
Shows how coaching and building the team matters. Blow it all up Mr. Ross including yourself. It’s all been a failure. Our best shot was Flores and he was right all along.
And not bringing in a QB these last 3 years is criminal. Head in the sand GM we have.
They built a decent OL
Seattle barely beat the Broncos, 1 score. Then had to beat the Pats in OT.
Dolphins make them look like a juggernaut.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We started the 2nd half with another STs penalty
You can’t make this up
Duke’s having a bad day
Halftime ST’s talks worked
maybe put Boyle in . Can’t be any worse
Skylar seems oblivious to the rush? I don’t understand it
Lol BBMike
I dont know why everyone was so worried about the OL? Grier has it handled.
Phillips just smothered Duck
Tyler Huntley is the emergency QB. Are we not in an emergency?
This might be the worst officiated game I have ever seen.
I can’t believe this is only a 2 score game
Defense has been solid since the end of the 1st
And yet another ST penalty on us
well of course they are offsetting fouls ! We couldn’t let them one up us on STs
Fuck these officials, they need to back the fuck off calling penalties
WTF is going on with these refs
I didn’t think the hate was late or very hard at all
Must be cumulative, because that hit didn’t look like much
He must have already been hurt from one of those other hits…or he’s waving the white flag
The defense has kept us in the game all day, allowed one big play. Our offensive passing game has been awful. STs and penalties really bad.
two big plays for TDs
We have 100 yards of O…lmao
I thought he was dead
They need to have Boyle fall to the ground after the first play so they can get Huntley in there.
No play calling, just tell them to go play backyard football. Can’t be any worse.
I hope we run a lot with Boyle as the QB
Really? Running is not in MM’s concepts apparently
I bet Boyle’s first thought was “Fuck, I don’t want to go in there” lol
Oh no, it’s 3rd and 1
you have to punt this mm
Why?
Ah, the good ole fullback up the middle. They won’t expect that
These 3rd and 1 play calls…. I’m gonna kick some puppies!
Mike McDaniel is giving games away
He is making really bad decisions
That’s just fucking stupid! Lol