24 years now Dolphins fans, T-W-E-N-T-Y * F-O-U-R * Y-E-A-R-S !! That’s how long it will shortly be that the Miami Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game. This year, the touted Super Bowl bound Miami Dolphins will fail to make the playoffs altogether. I know I’m guilty of doing this all to often, and I apologize in advance for telling people how to “fan”, or how to root for their team. It’s wrong, and many times I can only value my own wretched point of view while castigating others for theirs. Again, I’m sorry. You know who you are, but you also know who I am, so today I’m as per usghe, just presenting my view, so you can just skip it if offends you in any way.
I don’t like the NY Jets, although I don’t despise them as much as many people on this forum do. When the Jets are playing even worse than us, which is really saying something, I hate them even less. Do you know what I hate more? I hate our own team and organization’s ineptitude and failures 100X more than any hate I can muster against the NY Jets, it’s not even close. Not a political statement, but in this past election on November 5, America voted for change. That’s exactly where I’m at right now. I’m voting for change, despite the fact that I hold no vote to do so, so I use my proxy here on this blog. In order to enact change, or at least have the hope to do so, we need failure here in Miami. This season is toast, we’re not a playoff team and our record will say so at the end of the season as well. I’m not talking “tanking” here, we’re more than capable of losing without trying to.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I want the Dolphins to lose this Sunday. Not just lose, I want embarrassment. I want this grounded NY Jets offense to fly high and I want this Dolphins offense to make believe it’s 30 degrees or colder or that we’re actually playing a playoff caliber NFL team and this game actually matters. Tua can throw for 400 yards and have a completion percentage of 80% as long as he doesn’t throw a TD, because some people enjoy that. Again, my remorse for telling you how to “fan”. I feel like a good old fashioned ass whooping by the visiting NY Jets would be a good wake up call to Steve Ross that this team simply cannot stay on the same path next season and beyond. The Aaron Rodgers led Jets just can’t take flight, and are averaging a paltry 18.8 PPG, good for 26th in the NFL. This, in lieu of having what is a top 3 NFL running back in Breece Hall. Hey, guess what team is remarkably close in both categories, points scored and points allowed? Right! Good guess! Yes, our Dolphins are scoring 19.2 PPG, good for 24th, and the Jets are 15th in the NFL on defense allowing 268 points or 22.3 PPG, while our Dolphins have allowed 266 points good for 14th in the NFL.
My plan is not about improving our draft position, no it’s far more than that. That would be a nice by product of losing, but again, this is about change. There are quite a few of us here on FMU who believe that Chris Grier can’t be the one shopping for the groceries any longer, and probably an equal amount of us feel HC Mike McDaniel is out of his league as an NFL Head Coach. His novel approach of befriending all the players has worn thin, and when it comes down to X’s and O’s, he’s failed miserably there too, especially when playing against better teams. We look woefully unprepared, and this roster is not physical enough anywhere, not anywhere on offense or defense are we able to match up against a physical team. Like I said, getting walloped by our division rival who come in at 3-9 would be a real good start to have the word change floating around in Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’s head. He’s been patient, but if this team finished under .500, after assembling a roster he was sold as being a team built to go to the Super Bowl, his patience may diminish enough to go ahead and enact said change.
I literally sit at my computer right now and cringe at the thought that Chris Grier and Mike McDaniel might be the duo crafting our 2025 draft, with10 picks, our own 1st and 2nd RD picks, potentially two 3rd RD compensatory picks, (we traded our own 3rd RD pick to draft RB Jaylen Wright to PHI), our own 4th RD pick, two 5th RD picks, our own, and a pick from DEN in the Bradley Chubb trade, Zero 6th RD pick (Traded to CHI for WR Chase Claypool), and finally, three 7th RD picks, our own, a compensatory pick for S DeShon Elliot and then (7th RD pick from the Chase Claypool trade). 10 very, very important picks, especially considering how many expired 1 year contracts we’ll have, and how awful this roster was constructed in general.
Let’s start with this mind numbing fact. Over $90M of our cap space for next season will be used by QB Tua Tagovailoa, WR Tyreek Hill, and WR Jaylen Waddle. Our amazing WR duo has contributed in this 2024 season 100 combined receptions for 1255 yards and 6 TD’s, and that’s with QB Tua Tagovailoa playing in 8 games. We’re paying in insane amount of money on 3 players which precludes us from spending on talent elsewhere on the roster. I don’t care how you “fan”, you can see that our QB needs a significant amount of talent to be successful, meaning we need a better O-line, and we’re going to need a much better defense as well, but how on earth can we accomplish this with the same two knuckleheads in charge of buying and scouting the groceries. Quick example before my next point. We trade our 2025 3rd RD pick to move into the 4th RD to get RB Jaylen Wright. In 12 games, Wright has 59 carries for 243 yards, zero TD’s. This reeks of “Mikey Tradey Pants Tannenbaum”. It’s not like we haven’t had injuries either. RB Raheem Mostert has been banged up and missed a couple of games and only has 7 more carries than Wright. De’Von Achane is logging in some workhorse RB numbers, while Wright and his 4th RD pick as well as next year’s 3rd RD pick languish on the bench. Achane has been overused, and Wright has been utterly under utilized.
I think the luster of Head Coach Mike McDaniel has worn off. I know this going to irk some here, apologies once again. He’s a Tua cheerleader. The problem is, he’s not a Miami Dolphins cheerleader. He’s done whatever he could to make Tua the best QB he can be. This dink and dunk offense we’re running now is a stark contrast to the high flying offense we ran last season. To be fair, that high flying offense didn’t play well against the better teams, and I think the dink and offense travels better and also keeps the QB out of harms way better too. We have struggled immensely though scoring TD’s, and part of that, no doubt, is the absence of those deep plays. Long drives keep the defense off the field and eat clock, but you have to get into the endzone. Offensive guard play has been an issue here with essentially 2 backups starting, Robert Jones at LG and Liam Eichenberg at RG. Losing RT Austin Jackson hurt as well, especially in the run game. RT Kendall Lamm may actually be equal or better in pass protection, but Jackson was a better run blocker, and we’ve struggled with him out. LG Isaiah Wynn is off IR and has been practicing, but word from MM is Robert Jones will remain the starter. OLB Bradley Chubb is off the PUP and his 21 day practice window is open. Whether either of these players will see any playing time remains to be seen.
I count 35 players under contract for ’25, but there are at least 8 that probably won’t play a game for us next season. LT Terron Armstead, CB Cam Smith, LB Channing Tindall, QB Skylar Thompson, TE Tanner Conner, TE Julian Hill, WR Tahj Washington, DE Grayson Murphy and WR Odell Beckham. Then there are the players who you simply can’t count on making it through any number of games, like OLB Jaelan Phillips, OLB Bradley Chubb, 33 year old RB Raheem Mostert, and of course, QB Tua Tagovailoa. So we lets say we have about 27-30 players assuming I’m wrong about a few, and then you have 3 players who are consistently injured, that means the majority of the roster will be new and counted on heavily next season. I feel it’s unacceptable to go forward with Grier and McDaniel and allow them to shape the majority of this roster, unconscionable actually. Drafting has not been Grier’s strong suit, and he’s overpaid heavily in the wrong areas of the roster. Find me one team that’s legitimately competing to get into the Superbowl that has two WR’s eating the 2 of the top 5 spots against the cap? What I can find very easily for you though is teams that doled out mega money contracts to their QB’s and regret it. NY Jets (Aaron Rodgers), Cleveland Browns (Deshaun Watson), Jacksonville Jaguars (Trevor Lawrence), Denver Broncos (Russell Wilson), Dallas Cowboys (Dak Prescott), NY Giants (Daniel Jones), and Atlanta Falcons (Kirk Cousins).
Again, not telling you how to “fan”, but I don’t want to root for a QB who accumulates wonderful statistics such as completion percentage and yardage totals. Those statistics on their own merit don’t win you football games. You have to score points, and we did score over 30 points per game against the weaker competition just like we did last year as well, but turn up the level of competition, and precisely like last season, same result. You look solely at the stat line, you’d think Tua had a magnificent game. 37-46, 365 yards, 2 TD’s. In reality though, we had 3 points through 13 minutes into the 3rd Quarter, and we when we scored our first TD, the score was already 27-3 with about 2 minutes left in the 3rd quarter. On the long drive where we settled for 3 down 14-0, that was the time to score a TD and keep the team in the game. Tua actually played his best with the game out of reach at 30-8, and the TD we cored there was a very lucky tipped pass that ended up in the hands of WR Tyreek Hill in the endzone. The stats are so extremely misleading, and I take no solace, zero, in the fact that Tua may finish with the highest completion percentage ever by a QB in the NFL if he qualifies after missing 4 games. IDGAF!!!!! Just get me wins! Dak Prescott, the NFC’s version of Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa has some wonderful stats on his resume, over 31,000 yards passing, nearly a 3:1 TD:INT ratio (213-82), a career 66.8% completion percentage. (Tua is at 68%), but Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys can’t win big games either. In playoff games, Dak is 2-5, and his TD:INT ratio drops to a still pretty good 2:1. Tua just hasn’t won big games later in the season and mostly against better competition. These are facts, and are not debatable, his record is abysmal.
If we’re going to march forward with QB Tua Tagovailoa at the helm, then we’re going to have to significantly improve the talent level here, fortify the trenches on both sides of the ball. This is going to be a nearly impossible task with us having no cap space, and far too many roster spots to fill. Beating the NY Jets this Sunday may bring joy to some, but to others like myself, misery. It will make Stephen Ross smile if we whoop on the hapless jets while it won’t mean a damn thing for our season, or the future of our team. A loss would be much preferred to get the wheels in motion that the status quo is a failure, just as country decided the very same with current regime in power from 2020-2024. They simply couldn’t tolerate 4 more years of the same, and I can’t tolerate on more extremely important year due to the current state of our roster with so few players under contract. This isn’t a roster fill in year, no, this practically an entire roster overhaul, and I don’t want to watch GM Chris Grier and HC Mike McDaniel continue to f*ck it up!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
First and well said!
“If we’re going to march forward with QB Tua Tagovailoa at the helm, then we’re going to have to significantly improve the talent level here, fortify the trenches on both sides of the ball.”
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I think this is the most important part because Tua will be our QB in 2025. If we do fortify the OL and DL, I think we will see and entirely different team.
Biggest problem is can it be done with rookies since we have no cap to sign really good players? I don’t think so unless we get 3-4 gems in the draft.
They could probably sign 1 or 2 good FA’s by pushing money down the road but that just extends our current cap problem.
The cap will not be a significant problem come the off season. We will have the ability to restructure and have room to sign players. Our cap woes are being overstated. We are in much better position this year than last year
No sir, You are wrong.
I knew a new blog was coming so I waited before posting my next 5 mock drafts. 🙂
Almost every play Ryder shows and Robert Jones is one on one, he gets beat.
He must go. I don’t even care to have him as a backup.
No matter how bad Jones is the rest of the season, I think he will close out the season starting at LG. My guess is the Dolphins don’t want teams seeing Wynn come in and dominate only to lose him in free agency.
Fix the OL and fix the D. Tua is not the problem
Great job Mike E. They went all in on an injury prone QB and 2 small WRs. That alone should lose somebody’s job!
Everyone says fix the line….well they let the best OL walk last year instead of building it. But hey, what do we know? We are just dumb fans and journalists according to the GM.
Ken says: December 6, 2024 at 2:39 pm
The cap will not be a significant problem come the off season. We will have the ability to restructure and have room to sign players. Our cap woes are being overstated. We are in much better position this year than last year
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We are in better position for 2025 then where we started this year. Problem is we have already restructured the top contracts (except Tua) several times. To continue that is not sustainable and will kill our future cap.
They will be able to clear some. That is why I said they should be able to get 1-2 good players in FA but that is about it. We will be plugging holes again with rookies and less talented FA’s.
We haven’t restructured Waddle, Jackson or Seiler yet either. So I guess I was wrong there.
Tua is part of the team, so he is part of the problem.
We will have a ton of holes to fill though. Under contract 2025:
McMorris is the only safety.
Brooks and Tindall the only ILB’s.
Seiler the only DL.
NB?
Tua and Thompson only QB’s. Need a much better backup.
LT Armstead??, LT Paul, RT Jackson, OC Brewer and OC Meyer are the only OL.
How much money will they have to actually bring in quality talent?
Exactly Mike, and the cap WILL be a problem. There’s no way around it.
Skylar Thompson won’t be here, he might get cut this season, and maybe sooner than later.
we’re fucked. That’s what happens when you build a team by trading away assets and handing out big contracts
Cap isn’t a problem? I find that an odd thing to say. It was a problem as far as keeping our two best linemen, one on defense (Christian Wilkins) and one on offense (Robert Hunt). If we’re really going to fix the O-line, we’re going to overpay for at least one guy on offense and defense, and we’re going to pay someone else’s rising star or stud, when we could have just paid for our own guys that were here. We’re actually going to feel the pinch that those teams who pay their QB mega deals feel. It won’t feel good.
Did you read my post? I said we are in better position this year than last.
I don’t see it Ken, we have a whole lot more roster spots to fill, and you want to get better. We have to nail every draft pick and UDFA and then hit on every free agent contract because we have so many spots to fill. It’s more than half the roster, that’s a ridiculous place to be.
Jets LB C.J. Mosley (neck) to be placed on injured reserve
A post 6/1 release or trade of Bradley Chubb will clear 20 million in 2025 cap, 11 million in 2026 cap and 29.6 million in 2027 cap.
I believe you can trade Chubb early and designate it as a post 6/1 trade just like a release. Don’t hold me to it though.
It would be nice if he came back and balled out to close the season. He would only cost a team about 19 million per year.
@DWAZ73
With Sauce Gardner likely not playing, Brandin Echols would start at CB for the Jets vs. Dolphins.
Echols has two career pick-6 INTs in the NFL – both against Miami QB Tua Tagovailoa.
ahem
BURN IT DOWN!! BURN IT ALL DOWN !
Nice article Mike. we’re on the same page again at last
UNLV vs Boise State Mountain West Championship should be a good one to watch tonight at 7pm.
Saturday’s best conference championship matchups:
11am ABC, Big 12, Iowa State vs Arizona State
3pm ABC, SEC, Georgia at Texas
6:30pm ESPN, Sun Belt, MARSHALL vs Louisiana
7pm CBS, Big Ten, Penn State vs Oregon
7pm ABC, ACC, Clemson vs SMU
Mike, I have to admit I didn’t read your write. We all know it’s a sub par season and it sucks. Lots of factors. I just don’t have it in me anymore to be overly emotional about it. I’ll just root them on and do the same thing with every other fucking sports team I root for. 😂
If we can’t beat the Jets with Mosley, Hall, and Sauce out, we probably aren’t going to win much moving forward. Fortunately, I expect us to put them out of the playoff discussion officially this weekend. It will feel just as good as it usually does.
Mike,
Great article as usgh. I agree that we’re not going anywhere with this regime. I can’t help but look at ‘tough as nails’ Campbell in Detroit and hope we find something like that before I die (not 50 yet). They have 13 players on D out on IR and beat the team that dismantled us last week in a great game. Their D full of backups made Love look pedestrian as ours made them look SB bound. Not even going to compare QBs and offenses because one can get things done and the other is the Miami offense. When I think that Jonnu is almost our receptions (and yards) leader as we have two grossly overpaid WRs just makes my blood boil, so I try not to think about Grier’s idiocy too often. Just get rid of them Ross!!!
CAP Clearing Mock Draft.
Traded Bradley Chubb and Tyreek Hill. It would clear about 40 million in 2025 cap and spread their dead money over 2025 and 2026.
PICK: 9 RND: 1 Mason Graham DT Michigan
PICK: 12 RND: 1 Nick Emmanwori S South Carolina
PICK: 46 RND: 2 Tyler Booker LG Alabama
PICK: 74 RND: 3 James Pearce Jr. DE Tennessee
PICK: 98 RND: 3 Xavier Watts S Notre Dame
PICK: 99 RND: 3 Luke Kandra RG Cincinnati
PICK: 110 RND: 4 Danny Stutsman ILB Oklahoma
PICK: 113 RND: 4 Dont’e Thornton Jr. WR Tennessee
PICK: 151 RND: 5 Theo Wease Jr. WR Missouri
PICK: 156 RND: 5 Jordan James RB Oregon
PICK: 227 RND: 7 Thor Griffith DL Louisville
PICK: 228 RND: 7 Trey Wedig OT Indiana
PICK: 251 RND: 7 Seth Henigan QB Memphis
Dont’e Thornton is 6’5, 214 and runs a projected 4.42. Transferred to Tennessee from Oregon.
Ken
says:
December 6, 2024 at 2:36 pm
Fix the OL and fix the D. Tua is not the problem
But he is. Look at it this way, He’s the reason he was out for so many games this season. Everyone says, we need him, team can’t function without him, we play so much better with him – but he’s the reason he was out. Honestly, he strikes me as not that smart. There, I said it.
To me, that IS a problem.
Theo Wease is 6’2 192 and also runs a projected 4.42.
Thanks Mike E! I’m doing my Rock impression here, i think you left ‘ass whooping’ out of this sentence:
I feel like a good old fashioned by the visiting NY Jets would be a good wake up call to Steve Ross that this team simply cannot stay on the same path next season and beyond.
😂
Yes, I absolutely did leave ass whooping out. Thanks Herd!
Mike E,
I sense much ANGER in you… it gives you FOCUS. Good… GOOD!
I can’t lie, this team of ours is hanging me by my nerve-endings to the tune that I haven’t much feeling left in my never-endings. I think the vast frustration you are feeling is being similarly felt by most die-hards… I know I’m feeling it.
Some here on this blog actually witnessed our last Super Bowl win during the ’73 season… at least y’all have that. As for me? I chose to become a Dolphins fan in ’83 at the tender age of 7 years old. No, this isn’t my fan origin story (which I’ve told many times in the past)… it’s the story of me being frustrated with this team for 41 years, aside from our Super Bowl appearance against the 49ers in the ’84 season.
Look… I feel ya, Brother. And for whatever reason, this season has hit me differently than in the past. I feel absolutely deflated (like a Tom Brady football!!! *in my Humpty Hump voice*), but not depressed… it’s like watching a re-run for the hundredth time, already knowing the outcome. It’s like… why am I even watching this very sad movie again (the movie “Deep Impact” used to get me bad)? Maybe I cried the first couple times I watched the movie, but after watching it again and again and again, I’ve become desensitized to the outcome.
That’s how I’m feeling right now about our Phins… like, here we go again! SMH
I mean, the answers are so CLEAR to some of us here! Why doesn’t this team pull it’s cranium out of its rectum, right? Just allow the shit to flow out of the body instead of plugging it up with a cranium… and put the head in a cleaner space, devoid of poop. But alas, we have poopy-heads running our beloved team.
I don’t know anymore, man… great write as usche, though you already know my opinion on Tua. Methinks it’s time for Steve Ross to just sell the team and take it from there. New owner, new FO, new GM, new scout team, perhaps a new HC, and see what happens from there.
In some (if not many) ways, I feel bad for Chris Grier. I feel Steve Ross forced him to go for broke in order to bring a Lombardi Trophy home, before Ross moved on from the Dolphins or passed away. It’s been very EVIDENT with the moves Grier has made over the last few seasons… we were ALL-IN for a Super Bowl.
It’s hard to fault Grier when a lot of bad luck, injuries, and the owner himself cost Grier a 1st rounder and a 3rd rounder.
In other ways, I just feel Grier isn’t the right GM for the job… too many failed early draft picks over the years. Nobody will mistake him for former Baltimore GM Ozzie Newsome, that’s for certain. On the other hand, he looks like a GURU compared to Jeff Ireland… who Ross stood by for far too long.
Forcing something — anything — rarely succeeds.
It’s time for Steve Ross to sell.
And from what I read, hear, see, smell, sense, etc… Chris Grier is Steve Ross’ personal point-man when it comes to the Phins. If Ross doesn’t sell, don’t expect Grier to be fired.
Steve Ross – I Missed Again
M – Definitely stayed with Ireland too long, and I think he’s doing it again with Grier. One guy he fucked up with the other way was Rick Spielman. Vikes never won a SB, but they went to the Conference Championship twice, and were in the playoffs 6 times altogether in 16 years. Not great, but Grier has made the playoffs 3 times as a WC and lost all of them in 9 seasons, and next year things are looking bleak my friend
Thank you, Mike E. Somber but true…I really don’t disagree with any of this post.
I just hate to lose…lol!
I don’t see how the Offense’s inability to step up, play tough, score points, is a reflection of a bad D.
Nor, do I think anyone has stated our D has played lights out. 3 coordinators in 3 years is not a recipe for success and they deserve as much criticism.
Do I have have to mention the quality of our Special Teams’ play for the last 3 years with the same coordinator?
Football is a team sport and there are 3 phases. All 3 phases of this TEAM are weak and dis-functional. That’s why you need to start over.
And, it needs to start at the top.
Again, I can’t disagree with Mike E.’s post.
What I think drives me crazy about when folks here point their fingers at the D all the time is this team wasn’t built on defense, it was built to be an offensive team. The problem is, on defense, the guys they relied on were Jaelan Phillips and Bradley Chubb, both oft injured, and on offense, Tua Tagovailoa, also oft injured. All of them are a part of why we were bad on both sides of the ball, besides of course letting Robert Hunt go on offense and Christian Wilkins on defense
Lol…and then there’s that, i.e. the philosophy that O is good enough with all it’s speed and high paid WRs and QB. NO, it is NOT! And to date, it has proven that. If MM wants facts, these are the facts. Lol.
Yup!
and let AVG, Brandon Jones, Deshon Elliott go
@schadjoe
Terron Armstead, Anthony Walker, Bradley Chubb, Cam Goode, Kader Kohou, Raheem Mostert, Blake Ferguson all listed as questionable by Dolphins for Jets.
Kendall Fuller, Kendall Lamm, Tyreek Hill, Alec Ingold all good to go.
MikeE,
Thanks for the content! This team quit on their fans, so I have no problem ripping them a new asshole until they show me they’re worth not doing it. Tua needs to just go away. I’d focus on building a complete team….not a bunch of guys who compliment Tua and detract from the overall team.
YW Randy! I agree, definitely not keen on building the team around Tua, we’ll never be good enough to win with him. Sure, we can make the playoffs if the team is healthy, but we’ll never win against the elite teams with him. I’d rather just end the Tua era now, and try again, and be able to build a great team all around.
Going to check out ASU RB Cam Skattebo this first game. He is on my list if available in the 5th round. He’s 5’11, 215 pounds.
BOOM! He opens the game with a big run.
He’s a good receiving back also.
Iowa state has some day 3 WR’s to check out also.
The redshirt freshman QB for ASU is rather impressive and one to keep an eye on.
Tackling Skattebo is like trying to tackle a buffalo once he gets going.
10 carries for 140 yards and 2 TD’s in the first half
I don’t know if the team quit or they are just so arrogant. That arrogance starts at the top..
They never earned that right and even in their pressers you get that sense of how great they think they are. Even after all the big loses it’s a shrug of the shoulders and nonchalant attitude. No fire, toughness, or discipline. SOFT.
@wingoz
Saquon Barkley is on pace for an nfl record 2,123 rushing yards this season and he faces 4 of the 6 worst rushing defenses in his final 5 games
LOL, someone is lobbying
@houtz
big day for future Miami Dolphins QB Drew Allar
Do you like Allar?
I do but think he should be brought in behind a good starter to learn a year or 2.
I have a ticket to go to Miami tonight to see the game. I need a good but not too expensive place to stay. Any recommendations? Thanks
I don’t know what their rates are now days. Wife and I have stayed there a few times. In Dania Beach and about a straight shot to the stadium. They have rooms with kitchens, stove, full size fridge, etc.
The Desoto Inn | Family Hotel Hollywood, FL | Beach Hotel
Ewers doesn’t have any kind of a gun. I would be so upset if that is who they draft.
WE ARE!!! PENN STATE!!!
Can’t wait for the game tonight against #1 Oregon and QB Dillon Gabriel!
And who knows… if our Phins lose a game during the final stretch, we just might be able to draft PSU’s EDGE, ABDUL CARTER, to pair with former PSUer Chop Robinson!
M13, did you catch any of the ASU game? I would love to have RB Cam Skattebo as our RB3. Again, tackling him is like have to tackle a bull. His highlights from today.
No, I didn’t get to see the game earlier. I’ll check Skattebo’s highlights after the PSU game. Thanks!
Go HERD!
💚 🦬 🏈
Drew Allar staring down Tyler Warren on 3rd down.
Allar needs to scan the field better and faster. If he didn’t have Tyler Warren on his team, he’d look not so good.
This Oregon Offense is SO MUCH like our Phins’ Offense of last season: very fast, very quick, very up-tempo, and very sudden. Only difference? Oregon actually has an O-Line that can scrap with the vaunted PSU D-Line.
If our Phins would only fix the fuckin’ O-Line.
And I’m being serious: QB Dillon Gabriel would fit in VERY well with the Coach McDaniel Offense.
CAN’T drop that pass, Tyler Warren!!!
Mike – isn’t thst exactly what could happen here in Miami? Tua’s good, not great, and if he either gets injured again or fails to take us to the playoffs and win, maybe they finally pull the trigger and replace him
BIG BOY play by Drew Allar! That’s what we like to see.
ALLAR to SINGLETON!!! That was pretty!!!
Stock up: Drew Allar! VERY positive NFL traits shown on that last drive on several plays.
And what a time to finally show it, against #1 Oregon!
^
Dillon Gabriel is the most slept-on QB in all of college football. He checks every single box of a Mike McDaniel QB.
The comparisons to Tua are off the charts… minus an injury history.
“Quickest release you’ve ever seen”, says the commentator regarding Gabriel.
BB Mike,
I’m definitely going with your suggestion of bringing either Marcus Mariota or Case Keenum in to be the seasoned vet to backup Tua. Then, I’m drafting Dillon Gabriel on day 3… if he continues to be considered a day 3 pick.
Gabriel’s height doesn’t bother me at all, but his weight does. He can add weight.
I don’t care what position we are in or how bad the situation is. I will never, ever, ever want to lose to the Jets. I am a fan of the team to win first, and foremost, cheering to lose, to me, to be clear, is the worst kind of betrayal to my fandom.
I get it. We all fan differently. To me, this game is meaningless so as I said, a loss could be the catalyst for change here, which I think is quite necessary
Drew Allar… c’mon, dude. He’s so inconsistent. One drive, he looks golden. Another drive, he looks like fool’s gold.
Penn State is the #6 Defense in the nation, and Dillon Gabriel is carving them up. This is eerily reminding me of when Case Keenum carved up Penn State (a top-5 Defense) in the Bowl Game during the 2011 season.
And there’s Drew Allar missing a wide open Tyler Warren from about 8 yards out. He’s sucking really bad right now.
And again, two plays in a row where Allar missed the easy-peezy pass.
It’s not the Oregon Defense that’s beating Allar… Allar is beating himself. He can’t hit the broadside of a barn all of a sudden.
Stock down: Drew Allar.
I’ll take another loss if I’m the Phins, if it means we have a shot at drafting Abdul Carter.
Kaytron Allen: STUD!!!
They’ll beat the Stej and then lose the next 3 then beat the Stej again. Prob win enough to screw things up as usual. Lol
Drew Allar, you FAILED. Day 2 pick at best.
he should stay another year. He needs another year to continue to develop.
VERY good game. Oregon 45, PSU 37.
Stock WAY up: Dillon Gabriel
Missed about the whole game. Had to drive to next county to do bonds. Sucked. Looks like I missed 2 good games.
M13, Dillon Gabriel has had me on the cusp of wanting to draft him. He won’t last to day 3.
Son has been talking about Gabriel a couple years now.
I agree our QB room with Tua, Mariota or Keenum and Gabriel would be nice and make me feel better about our chances if/when Tua goes down again. Do that, upgrade both OG spots and upgrade the defense and this team could do something.
Sorry about PSU, I was pulling for them.
The playoff seeding will be interesting.
Clemson wins ACC. I think SMU still deserves a shot and not Alabama.
yeah, their d did not play well today. Too many penalties overall, a bad turnover deep in their end early in the game, and inconsistent officiating did not help.
M13,
abdul Carter likely goes top 10, top 15 at worst depending how many QBs go before him.
what will piss me off is if somehow he’s around when we pick, and we can’t pick him because we picked chop last year, when we should have gone IOL
Graham Barton should have been the pick.
Though, I am liking Chop more. I just hate that there are games where he disappears/not dominant. Hopefully that comes next year. Same with Kamara but I think it will take more time with him.
exactly
Correct. Only way I see it happening is if we get rid of Chubb which is very likely.
If that happens, we will only have Phillips, Chop and Kamara on the edge.
They can always bring Cameron Goode back on the cheap which is likely.
I am sold on RB Cam Skattebo in the 4th or 5th round. This is a very deep RB class so he might last to at least the 4th round. He is the compliment we need to Achane and Wright. He has everything you want in a RB. He’s hard to tackle, powerful, great vision, lateral quickness, contact balance, very good receiver, loves to punish defenders.
Long video but enjoy with your coffee.
BTW, in the Skattebo highlight film of just the Big 12 championship game I posted last night, you may notice the excellent blocking by the Arizona State WR’s and TE’s.
Who is the ASU WR coach? Hines Ward
Congrats Teddy!
Teddy Bridgewater, Northwestern Miami Advance to Florida 3A State Championship Game
NFL Rumors: Teams Budget for $265M-$275M Salary Cap for 2025 Before Official Reveal
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Anything less than 270 will not be good for us. Spotrac predicts around 273 which would be much better and have us starting with around zero cap.
Apparently Mostert is out today and Wilson is RB3.
FinsUp!!!
We’ll probably kick the crap out of the Jets and there will be celebrating in a lot of places, but not in this house. No, this will just prolong the agony for us, especially if we win 2 or 3 more. There just won’t be enough against Grier/MM and everything will stay the same, including the fact that our collection of softy posers both running the team, coaching it and playing for it will never win a big game against good teams.
In response to the AFC North Hard Knocks, there will.be an AFC East Soft Knocks, with the exception of the Buffalo Bills who don’t qualify
Tough crowd 😂😂 Understandably. It’s been a tough season. I’ve got much more to say, but for now… Let’s knock the Jets out of the playoffs. Fins up boys 🤘🤘
can’t find a streaming service for the game
nflstreamlinks.com no longer comes up???
wow. That looked really easy until we got to the goal line. Weak IOL showing.
anyone have a link?
Google Stream east nfl. Don’t click on the links that ends in .app
I’ve seen a lot of Patrick Paul on this drive at LT
I saw Armstead limping (shocker!) after that defensive penalty
Just when I thought Sanders turned a corner
So we will lose by 1 today
yep
Haven’t been reading everything here so not sure if anyone has mentioned that CB Cam Smith was placed on IR and is done for the season
total bust
Yep, but let’s allow Grier to screw our team another season with 10 draft picks
that ball was uncatchable
Holland should have been flagged for roughing the passer
Defense doing what it does
Chop actually hit Roger’s arm despite being held
That play working well
Jets defense trying to make our defense look good
Tua throwing predominantly 5 yard passes but let’s drool over his amazing completion percentage 😒
Lol…dark Mike!
I love Dark Mike
if tua I hit a chain on the swimming pass he scores
talk to text. Jesus Christ .
Tua hit Achane on the swing pass
O line giving him lots of time to throw 🤷♂️
B E A T the Jets, Jets, Jets!!!!
I just want us to demolish the Jets every time we play them.
Evan – thanks pal, must have missed that when I was bringing the outside hose to the shed for the winter
Kamara held there
That is our D but it is Tua’s fault
Well, that was Ramsey who got beat, but at least we can take comfort in the fact that he’s the highest paid old DB in the NFL
Ken,
no one here is saying it’s all Tua’s fault. He’s part of the problem. At this point in his career he is a good to very good QB, but not great. We, like every NFL team, needs a great QB to win a Super Bowl.
Actually a lot of people are
Rodgers with a rope to Wilson
poyer was chasing a receiver who didn’t have the ball