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 
OH BOY!!! Tied game!!!
Here we go…not sure why we’re here…lol
The Jets barely have a pulse, so we should take this game
lol
Tua came up (as I requested) on that drive. Now time to finish
🤘🤘🤘
Defense pumped we scored a TD. We should do that more often
Nice edge setting by Chop
So good to see our OL come up big on that last touchdown drive! 🙂
good first down call on the out To Hill – we can do that all day
give the screens a break
Aaron Rodgers looks completely emotionally invested in this game
Maybe we can fix the Jets woes of losing games by 6 points or less
MY GUY BROOKS!!! 🤘🤘
BTW, Breece Hall isn’t even playing today, no head coach, no GM, but hanging around to try and steal one from us
but….but
This Defense is unacceptable.
Yes, almost as unacceptable as the offense
TRUE!
missed tackles
missed tackles
missed tackles
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Benito got ran the F over
Tua giving up too many yards in coverage
Kendall Fuller is playing like he’s afraid to make contact. He won’t engage and tackle
Well our season officially ends today
It really ended when we 2-6
correct my friend
offense can’t convert on third down and gives the ball back , defense can’t stop them on any down.
like I’ve said, this is a total team failure. This will be the game that brings the blog together.
Ken – what’s your plan on fixing the defense? Fire Weaver and then do what exactly?
Need DBs and a pass rush would help
Of course, but how do we accomplish that. We need to fix the trenches on both sides, fix the secondary and linebackers all with little cap space
great protection. OL does its job. Offense fails late in the game again so the defense is expected to win, or as we call it in Miami, take the blame for the loss.
23 points in a home game. 15 after 3 quarters. Not gonna win much that way unless you’re the ‘85 bears.
Less than yard per carry. OL really did its job
2 yards
Ken,
Yes, they did their job on that last drive. Skill players did not.
Cherry picking
Ok. Time for Tua to come back and win this game! I’m all-in!
Can Tua be a hero? Stay tuned!
Ken,
You cherry-pick constantly! Lol
No actually I’m not I am looking at the team holistically. Everyone else seems to zero in on one player but whatever
Here’s his chance Piggy.
Favorite special teams play of the season!!!
Malik!!!!!!!!
Guess not . . .
Ken,
Tua gets 20% of the payroll. He deserves more criticism.
if he hits Hill on that play it might be a TD
At least 1st down…lol…big moment missed again
If hill caught that pass the game was over one way or the other
Yeah, but the most accurate QB in the NFL waits till the game is on the line to be inaccurate
sanders should get 20% of the payroll….lol
So you’re saying there’s a chance…..
This game is worse than ugly. The Jets look like the better team today and that’s shameful. We actually found a way to not only get Rodgers his first 300 yard game in the past 34 games, but we did it in a week that the Jets didn’t have their primary RB, and best CB. One of the worst teams in the NFL just outplayed our sorry excuse of a team and some really fortunate penalties are the only reason we’re still in it.
Jason Sanders!!! OH BOY!!!
I read Tua’s lips. He said: “Thank God Sanders saved my ass again!”
I read Aaron Rodgers lips, he said “Oh fuck, they tied it up, I wanna go home!!!”
Tua’s ready now…lol
How the fuck do you not even come close to Hill on that pass?
Got it…D’s fault
The stej were the #2 passing Defense coming into this game. Tua’s done very well today… even though Saucey Gardener is out.
This place is a live Abbot and Costello skit!
Tua holding the ball too long
They just found out Jonnu is playing today!!
Finally Jonnu!!!
Save Jonnu for OT
Just keep feeding Jonnuuuuuuu
some damn fine pass protection going on her.
good spot to run a play action
great throw
better catch
Tua sucks
Tua is not clutch!
WOW
M13 – I told you he was a good red zone target….lol
Did you see that protection?!? Nobody close to Tua! Great drive by the OL.
PHINS WIN!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!!
32 points I heard we are not scoring 20
Imagine using Jonnu all game….at least they won.
One throw isn’t everything but that throw was perfect!
WTF…saving Jonnu for OT ..game planning…lol
I also said there was plenty of time to get 30….lol
Jonnuuuuuuuuuuuu
Ken,
23 after regulation so keep your smug pants in the drawer. You were predicting we’d give up 30….how’d that work? Lol
The Flying Pig says:
December 8, 2024 at 4:29 pm
M13 – I told you he was a good red zone target….lol
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Works for me, Pigster!!! 😀
IDK what to say, other than this team plays with no passion most of the time, in OT they did, the D didn’t all game
Biggest play of the game was Adams getting pushed OB on jets last O play
Lmao
This team hates you Mike 🤷♂️😳
Best of both worlds. We beat the Jets but look absolutely terrible doing it.
LOL, not more than I hate them. I hate everyone but Jonnuuuuuuuu
Weird, wild and fun game. Typical Jets and Dolphins 😂
GREAT GAME, TUA, against the #2 passing Defense in the NFL!!!
Uhhhh, Sauce was OUT
Fuck Saucey Gardener! He’s SOOOOO over-rated, man!
I mentioned earlier, why didn’t they use Jonnu all game long? What if Sanders missed a FG? We’d be dead. No one here can explain why he wasn’t utilized all game long. He’s so explosive, so physical, something we desperately needed
Our biggest problem this year is that we’re so one dimensional and only have 4 real offensive targets. Two of those targets are easily diverted too. It really prevents our offense from doing anything meaningful. Why McD can’t get past the 2 deep safety defense…only he knows.
Maybe the opponent played well and he wasn’t open. It’s not always about dialing up plays. The other team game plans too.
Probably true but kinda sad. Take out the TE, completely nerf the offense.
Tim,
I was thinking the same thing. Another weird game against the yets. I’m happy.
Who cares about anything else but beating the Jets?
oink and agreed
not me!
Knocking them out of the playoffs is always a win in my book!
Tim Knight
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December 8, 2024 at 4:34 pm
Weird, wild and fun game. Typical Jets and Dolphins…
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Allow me fix that for ya, my Brother! Gotta keep the “Ws” going with weird and wild…
Weird, wild, and WON game! 🙂
I love this team. Upgrade the Defense and back up QB and we are good!
AND the interior O-Line! Other than that, I’m with ya!
Point taken, and we can do that.
and OG’s
^^^
The dillema is, do we trust Grier to do any of that? I like Mike. He’s a young head coach so there are a ton of learning curves. Plus, what he was able to do with Tua cannot be overstated. Grier has had some HORRIBLE picks regarding the defense and the OL. Does Ross let him continue?
Jonnu for MVP, the rest of the team can kick rocks! 🤪
So, no kudos for the OL on that last drive? Nobody???
Where had they been all game… or all season long?
They competed plenty.
the Bills, who have run away with the division only beat the jests by 3
so it really doesn’t matter how close the game was or that it was OT
what matters is our guys made plays when it matters
Maybe fire the GM, but no way fire MM
I’m 100% with ya there brother
We didn’t just beat the Jets. We also beat AAROD so that’s a bonus.
M13,
No love even when they win a game for us, huh? Wow, so predictable. People always say they think it starts upfront, but they don’t really believe it.
Not here but elsewhere. Winning teams start upfront but since we don’t, people have to find alternate viewpoints for why we haven’t won a playoff game in 24 years.
You speak of a unit that has a 75% chance of failure. I’m not into giving out participation awards when they actually did their job for once. Sorry, that’s just how I feel, man.
I’m not all of a sudden re-up Robert Jones and Liam Eichenberg for one mere drive in OT… it doesn’t work that way, Brother.
Tim- nope! I saw Jonnu open on many plays, including the last drive when he threw to Hill near the sideline. Jonnu broke open down the middle toward the same sideline Hill was at further downfield, but Tua went safe to Hill. Besides, you throw him shot passes every now and again instead of Achane. He was there a bunch of times, just didn’t go his way
Anyway, y’all can continue the Tua/MM love fest another week, enjoy it. Next week it will all come back to reality, or maybe the following week, doesn’t matter
This week. Texans are a good team with a winning record. They will destroy us.
Mike E,
I’m going to tell you a ‘secret’ of sorts, so just make sure this stays between only you and me on this very public blog. LOL 😉
I wouldn’t have minded if we lost this game, and for the exact same reasons you’ve been stating recently. You viewed my response to your write… I’m on your same page.
But I swear, Tua is NOT the problem in any way, shape, or form, my friend.
McD centered this offense on Tua’s abilities. Do we have a good offense? I like Tua the person. The player. I don’t like Tua as the Dolphins QB. He can’t handle competition for his job, he can’t stay healthy, and he’s been unable to get us over the hump for 5 years. Not the great team hump, just the playoff victory hump. He’s just not good enough here. Maybe elsewhere but I doubt he’d get that chance…because he’s not healthy enough.
And I understand you, New Age, 100%. And that’s exactly WHY I feel it’s important to find Tua’s replacement sooner, rather than later.
He’s possibly one more concussion away from becoming “scrambled eggs” (Jason Taylor on Trent Green, when Green was our QB).
I do humbly disagree with you, however, on Tua not being good enough. It’s a team game and Chris Grier has put all of his eggs ($$$) into one basket on Offense (skill positions), neglecting to address the O-Line.
This is reminicent of our team in 2005… when we had Pro-Bowlers at every skill position and outright denied addressing our O-Line.
Tua by himself is not the problem. Building a speedy offense by overpaying diminutive WR’s and counting on certain players in defense that are always injured, and destroying the cap by doing this is the problem, and Tua is the by product. He’s a complimentary QB, not a guy who carries the team. It’s going to be nearly impossible now that we’re paying Tua elite QB money to fix all the problems we have on the O-line, secondary, D-line and LB, both inside and outside because you can’t rely on Chubb or Phillips. I loathe to think Grier will be in charge of fixing what he created. MM can’t seem to get out of his own way when we go up against better teams
Exactly. It’s not on all on Tua but he demanded an elite pay package and isn’t an elite talent. They went all in on giving him tools that can’t take over a game instead of building an all-around solid team. This team is the definition of a glass cannon and all it took to crack the glass was a 2 deep safety look.
Look at Sam Darnold. That’s what giving a decent QB a great all around team looks like. Brock Purdy, Jalen Hurts, Jared Goff, Russ Wilson, Geno Smith. They just needed to build a solid team where Tua didn’t need to play hero ball. Yet…here we are. Shit team where Tua feels like he has to save it every week.
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+10000000000 on Tua being the byproduct of a failed/mismanaged assembly.
And even so, Tua is BALLING OUT(!), despite it all.
Enjoy the win!!! Don’t overthink!
Tua isn’t the problem. He’s just not the answer. 5 years. Zero to show for it.
He’s not except for one thing. That pay package. He needed that payday more than a solid team around him.
M13,
So, it’s okay for Tua not to perform well enough to win for the whole game, and you still slap him on the back for the last drive, yet the OL doesn’t deserve the same? Yep, that sounds like fan logic. Lol
LOL, I’m not slapping Tua on the back for the last drive… I’m slapping him on the back for his last 3 seasons (this season included). He continues to excel, even when his conditions are not ideal.
He’s not the problem, my guy. Even YOU have acknowledged the lack of redzone targets (taller receivers, not midgets) and the weaknesses of our IOL. It must be improved upon.
Why is Tua not the answer? He won a title…..,,,,
And he’s now led the NFL in passer rating, passing yards, and soon to lead the NFL in completion %.
This is a guy one BUILDS around! Enough of Chris Grier trying to turn this Offense into an Al Davis track team. REINFORCE the trenches!
Exactly
The least of our worries is the QB position, except for the back up.
EXACTLY!
Randy
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December 8, 2024 at 4:31 pm (Edit)
Ken,
23 after regulation so keep your smug pants in the drawer. You were predicting we’d give up 30….how’d that work? Lol
Smug is just my style 😉
Ken,
All I know about your pants is I run when they’re purple! Lol
Draft Defense and interior OL! We are set. I like this MM and his staff, can we stick with someone and see what he can do? He has adjusted so much this year, even pointed out today on the broadcast. He also has won the second half of the last two games. To me, he makes adjustments.
Sorry to those who actually wanted the Jets to win and/or embarrass us. To me, sorry, that is just wrong. All due respect, as I guess we can’t judge how people “fan”.
Look, one can have a fantastic outside-blocking scheme (OBS, or zone-blocking scheme, ZBS), but if one can’t dominate the opposing D-Line in man-to-man, short-yardage/goal line sits, one is a gimmick.
And then fans wonder why we SUCK in such sits. Oh, it’s all too convenient to blame the QB for these shortcomings… especially when our RBs are averaging HOW MANY YPC this season compared to last season???
C’mon, folks… lets get real.
Mike, I think you’re in a sports funk. You’re tired of having to fight out of the ashes.
I just watch the games these days. 😉
Just enjoy each game at a time. Has been my credo for awhile.
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It’s been my credo for this season, after being tired of the funk.
Been my credo for a few years
I’ll always enjoy trying to find solutions, but at this point in time, I don’t care what happens for the rest of this season… it’s too far gone.
exactly, even if we make the playoffs we can’t compete with the top 5+ teams
Who cares? Just enjoy each game.
MM is a good OC, he’s not an HC
Tua’s contract and what MM has been able to do for Tua’s career means you can’t let MM go, until you can let Tua go
We’ve seen what this team is without Tua and we have no cap to blow it up, might as well let it play out
Grier should be kicked to the curb
Very good commentary!
I’m with ya, Steve.
Yep. Keep MM who has adjusted and has a great offensive mind, and get a GM who can bring in some defensive talent.
I’m pretty sure all the Weaver as a HC are finished, he’s done a horrible job of late
how did our big left tackle look today? I didn’t watch the game, but I saw they won And he played
He did great!
I think you are a closet viewer. 😏
I played Holder’s gate three and I did laundry. Now that we’ve won I’ll go back and watch the DVR version on fast-forward. They have a button that works perfectly Takes you from play to play on the remote control
Nobody cares
chestnuts roasting on an open fire In the middle of Chris Grier’s desk fieldside errors being made raise my ire and offensive lineman are worth ice to Eskimo‘s.
IMHO, fans stick with the team through thick and thin. Your attitude disappoints me. Not that you care.
you got one part right…
Tua had FG scoring drives with under a minute on the clock and no TOs to end each half, and a game winning TD drive in OT- after a game tying drive with 2 point conversion in the 4th. He took no sacks and threw no INTS (not even dropped ones).
He straight up balled out in the biggest moments in this game. His stats were all inflated garbage against GB; he did nothing to help win or keep the team in that game- not the case today, he put the team on his back.
Our defense was garbage, but held the Jest to 2 of 5 in the redzone and made plays in the 4th when it mattered.
Holland sucks. Kohou sucks more. Kohou had at least one blown coverage and either he or Holland had another blown coverage on the same drive that resulted in a TD. I don’t know what happened to Holland, but he just doesn’t make plays. He dropped a game changing INT and, again, just doesn’t make plays. No way would I give him big money. I’d replace both our starting safeties because they are the weakest link on D.
The Oline gave Tua time to throw all day, but couldn’t run block for shit.
Our run game is holding this offense back. We need better guards and more consistency in the starting lineup. Jones is probably the worst starter on the offense. Liam is up and down, mostly down, although interestingly, he has drawn 3 personal fouls against other teams which is pretty awesome.
Sanders earned his spot on this team the last month, and our special teams actually contributed to the win big time today. That is the only time I can remember saying that this season. That KO return to end the 4th was amazing.
Highly emotional game for me; I detest losing to the Jest. I am so freaking happy we took that one. If we win out, we have a decent chance of making the playoffs, but I refuse to be hopeful because I know how that goes.
Next week is a playoff team with a winning record, so history tells us we’ll shoot ourselves in the foot multiple times early in the game, be playing from behind the entire 2nd half, and probably get blown out.
Maybe a blessing in disguise with Holland, not ready to give up on him, and not ready to pay him big bucks, think he’ll take less after this shitty season
That makes sense. If he’ll take a normal contract, I’d probably bring him back too. He hasn’t ever reached the level of play he did in his first season, but a new D coordinator every year probably hasn’t helped him.