The 2024 Season Finale! Still alive for a playoff berth, and the Miami Dolphins appear to be starting backup QB Tyler “Snoop’ Huntley. Yes, once again, our $212.4M man is unable to take the field, despite the importance of winning this game to stay alive for a chance at being in the postseason. I’m not an optimistic fella, but if I were, I’d be seething that my starting QB is once again missing in an important game. This has been QB Tua Tagovailoa’s modus operandi since he’s been here. He’s either missed the playoff games, or you would have wished he’d missed the game because he played so poorly. I mentioned this important aspect quite a few times here, the man played last season in bubble wrap. This season, it took just 2 runs outside the pocket for Tua to get injured in both situations. The first time was against the Bills of his own volition, where the first down was already secured but he engaged the defender (Buffalo Bills S Damar Hamlin) and that aggressive play resulted in Tua missing 4 games, and since Tua himself had a 1-1 record before the injury, the Dolphins lost 3 of 4 and were at a critical point with a record of 2-5. I’ll get to this later in the article, but the Dolphins were just basically throwing guys out there after being here for a week, and we’re talking about players on other team’s practice squad, that had no experience in HC Mike McDaniel’s offense, and of course, Mike didn’t at the very least appear to streamline and simplify the offense for either backup QB Skylar Thompson or even more importantly, Tyler Huntley and Tim Boyle.
The Dolphins then faced off in Week 15 against the Houston Texans, and again, our QB was injured during a QB run. Not a designed run, escaping pressure and running for yardage, as most NFL QB’s do at least once or twice in any given game. Our QB though, well, he shows you why he needs to stay in that good ole bubble wrap, because he gets tackled by 2 defenders, one of them seems to make pretty good contact on his bad hip, and guess what? Yep! He’s out again. It’s as clear as day to this author that you simply can’t count on this QB, in any way. He’ll wipe the field with the weaker teams, throw up some gaudy stats, and he’ll even find a way to put up some garbage time gaudy stats in a blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers. If you watched that game, you know we never threatened the Packers on offense, we were down 27-3 late in the 3rd quarter and scored 14 points with the game out of reach and already decided, losing 30-17. If you just look at Tua’s stats, you might think we won this one, 37-46, 365 yards and 2 TD, 0 INT’s. Unfortunately, he’s become a stat compiler. He really came alive with the Packers playing a soft defense allowing us to dink and dunk and use the clock up and down the field with the game already decided. If you want to see what Tua is really about. Big game, playing a competitive team after putting a whooping on the disinterested NY Jets. The Texans are playoff caliber team, this was a widely anticipated game across the NFL, a chance for the Dolphins to really make some hay and validate the huge contract for QB Tua Tagovailoa. Well, you know how this story ends. Tua completes 29 of 40 passes for 196 yards, typical 2024 dink and dunk affair, a game Tannehill fans are all too familiar with, 1 TD, 3 INT’s. To boot, Tua is injured and looks to miss 2 games, and potentially 3.
This is what you paid for with Tua Tagovailoa. He’ll beat the ham and eggers, and make you think he’s the real deal while doing it. Play a team that’s one of the better NFL teams, and the Houston Texans are a far cry from elite mind you, but they’re good enough to bring out the worst in the Miami Dolphins, both HC Mike McDaniel, and his QB Tua Tagovailoa. I can guarantee you when he (MM) saw Tua take off and saw 2 defenders in hot pursuit, he wished he had a joystick to control his QB and get him out of harms way, but the NFL is no video game, and as things go for this franchise, the it’s really only been a select few times when Tua his put his body in harms way, he’s only rushed 17 times, but perhaps two times too many. Now, the question as to whether Tua is physically able to play, but the team is being overcautious and holding him out so he doesn’t get hurt again, we’ll likely never know. I can add, it doesn’t matter either way. It’s a huge problem, regardless of whether Tua can’t physically play, or the team is being cautious and protecting him. They are putting one player above the success of team, you know, “All for one, one for all”, except here in Miami. Tua fans can argue with me until the cows come home, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes are going out there with Tua’s injury, and probably winning too. This is the perfect example of why they never should have given him that huge contract. They bid against themselves, there was no other team involved, and we had the rights to play him on his 5th year contract. What do you think his contract would be after this season, missing 6 games, getting injured twice, and once again losing and underperforming against better NFL teams? You can subtract a few zeros at the end, tell ya that much!
So here we are, Game 17, with a chance, albeit a slim chance to make the playoffs. The Denver Broncos host the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad, as the Chiefs have nothing at all to play for being the #1 seed with an incredible 15-1 record. I’m going to say something most of you here won’t like, this was a very difficult season for the Chiefs, they don’t have a juggernaut team, and their QB did not have a statistically great season. Now I know the first thing Tua defenders will say will be the Chiefs have a great defense. Just so you know, while that’s true, the Dolphins are the #3 defense in some metrics. Our defense is top 10 in most, with the exception of turnovers, a very poor year taking away the football. I know many Tua defenders point fingers at the defense, and in truth, they’re not completely wrong, but this offense was supposed to be a juggernaut, was a juggernaut last season. Apparently, the cheat motions we used last season quietly became illegal and then every team figured out how to stifle this high powered offense. So now, this high flying offense throws about 20 screen passes a game, and we use this short passing game as an extension of the running game with RB De’Von Achane catching 78 passes for 592 yards. WR Tyreek Hill has yet to crack 1000, an easy get in a 17 game season. WR Jaylen Waddle, formerly the other half of this explosive tandem will settle for 700 yards as he’s OUT with an injury. Some say Chris Grier is SAFE, well look at what he did with Tua, Tyreek and Waddle, and he could and should be fired for ALL of those contracts!
QB Tyler Huntley played well last week against the Cleveland Browns. I could make the argument that he did his best Tua Tagovailoa imitation, finishing the game completing 22 of 26 passes for a very Tua-like (84% completion percentage), and 1 TD, 0 INT’s. He might have done Tua better than Tua. So now we visit the cold confines of New Jersey to play in MetLife Stadium against the NY Jets, who are completely disinterested in winning. I’m sure the Jets have seen the vitriol across town when the NY Giants last week upset the Indianapolis Colts ending the Colts chances for a playoff berth, but also ruining the NY Giants draft position to 4 now, from #1. Giants fans are livid! The NY Jets have the #7 spot as of now, and I doubt they want to finish any further back in a critical rebuild. I ave to ask, what does Stephen Ross or the Dolphins organization have on the NYG? I bet it’s almost as good as what Grier has on Ross! SO, Huntley will get his chance to play this game and further solidify his chances of being the backup QB for next season. Ohhhh, we’ve seen this before, he’ll play great Sunday, and the Dolphins won’t entertain any other QB’s feeling confident that Huntley is the guy, much like Skylar Thompson was the guy this season. Tua will get injured next season, and Huntley will step in as the starter and look a whole lot more like he looked against the Tennessee Titans in Game 4, as we got trounced 31-12. Tell me I’m wrong, this is what happens here, I can see it all the way from New Jersey.
Root hard, but be prepared to be disappointed. I think we’ll beat the Jets, they don’t care. I do think however Bo Nix and the Broncos will do enough to take down Carson Wentz and the Chiefs backups and the Broncos will get the final playoff berth in the AFC. I think QB Bo Nix and the Broncos are a more compelling story anyway, certainly more so than our team of ill prepared chokers. I’m sure Mike McDaniel will be back, and I do think there’s a slim chance that Grier gets the axe, but it won’t be on merit, that much is clear. He totally destroyed this roster, allocating far too much cap money to 3 players who have turned out to have little positive impact on our team. Tua, 6-5, Huntley will be 3-2 after Sunday’s game. Huntley showed he could beat a bad team just as well as Tua, and he’ll get another crack this Sunday. The numbers are staggering, we’re going to need to replace more than half the roster next season, with not a lot of cap space, unless they mortgage the future even further, by restructuring the mistakes they made this season. My feelings are dead, I’m just waiting to see how it all turns out, without a care of whether we win or lose. I won’t be upset either way. If they leave both GM Chris Grier and HC Mike McDaniel in charge of this team again next year, I can’t really foresee any success next season, and who really knows if either will ever be held accountable if they’re not successful. Sad situation!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
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WR Cortland Sutton will be extra motivated for the Broncos. He gets a 2 million incentive bonus if he has over 82 yards receiving in week 18.
Other big ones:
WR Mike Evans gets a 3 million incentive bonus if he has over 5 receptions and over 85 yards receiving in week 18. Then, he gets a 500k bonus for every playoff game they make.
Geno Smith gets 2 million if he has over 185 yards passing in week 18.
100% Mike
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Good stuff Mike E
Thanks ER
Stop worrying about the future. Everything is fine…
https://miro.medium.com/v2/0*ZjYSm_q36J4KChdn
Brian Costello
Sauce Gardner has been ruled out for Sunday’s game. Morgan Moses is a game time decision.
MikeE,
It’s like you’re narrating my nightmares over the last year. I now hear your voice in my head like David Attenborough.
Hmmm let’s try this again.
I had to get my puke bag out about half way through.
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article297936433.html
“We still have an opportunity,” he said. “This is also one of those things where you just show who you are as a teammate. If you want to be part of the organization next year, when things are hard, you really show who you are and when things are not, anybody can act however they want to act. That just tells it a lot.”
Tell a lot about how you are an over paid pussy who should NOT be on the team!
LOL This is soooo true!
Hips don’t get better with age….they usually just get worse….especially when you play what used to be a contact sport for a living. This is just all bad.
Randy – I’m just so frustrated and I feel like fans who aren’t dissatisfied and aren’t hoping for change frustrate me even more
some people want change for change sake, others want to build on what we’ve done the last 3 years
some people remember 1-15 and all those bad years around that season and don’t want to go back
to each his own, one way isn’t necessarily better than the other
some days I want them to clean house, others I remember the tough seasons
a championship will come or it won’t, I’m not losing any sleep over their incompetence, just trying to enjoy some games, when I can
none of the other rebuilds seemed to amount to anything, why should I think one now will?
because you might have someone competent doing it next time. Grier has been a GLARING part of the problem here for 25 years!!
5th year option….what could have been. Who could have seen this coming? Oh yeah, anyone without blinders on. Grier, the Ray Charles of GMs
Steve – On that same token, Tua, and MM to a degree haven’t gotten us any closer that any other team we’ve had here, so you keep trying until you get it right. Grier is more the common denominator though, so getting rid of him is at least a step in the right direction
Also, this is not change for sake of change, it’s change to get better. He tried his best to build a team to be competitive in a small window, and he failed. We need to fix his mistakes before he mortgages more of the team’s future
Hes been here in some capacity as long as the playoff win drought. Time to move on.
25 years of not being able to scout
Grier is liked by most as much as our STs coach, kick both off them to the curb
🧁 is still warm, I’d like to move him to OC and have Weaver as HC, we need a tough guy image, can’t do that with a 130 lb 5’6″ guy, that wants to be everyone’s bestie
Jaxson Dart helped his draft status last night.
MikeE,
Hakuna matata, bud….hakuna matata. It’s entertainment. I get frustrated too, but I’m getting better at letting it go…kinda. Lol
I can see why Seiler didn’t make the Pro Bowl, but Kelce over Jannu Smith is BS!
Jannu Smith – 828 yards, 10.5 yards per, 7 TD’s
Travis Kelce – 823 yards, 8.5 yards per, 3 TD’s (only 1 TD since week 10)
It has always been a popularity contest without any connection to who is actually the best player at a position.
BBM,
The pro bowl is nothing more than a name recognition award. Brock Bowers should have beat them both in voting.
Bowers was #1TE and labeled the starter. Kelce the #2 TE but should have been Jannu.
Marcel Louis-Jacques
Game statuses for Dolphins – Jets
Or did Bowers get picked for the pro bowl?
Or did he? Lol
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bailbondmike says: January 3, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Bowers was #1TE and labeled the starter. Kelce the #2 TE but should have been Jannu.
Dumbass NCAA with their stupid field of 12, make it 16 with no byes, all 4 bye teams lost this week
WTF were they thinking? Teams with a bye haven’t played a game in a month, while the teams that kicked their asses played and won last week
Better yet, 8 with no byes.
Bills have signed QB Mike White to be QB3 behind Trubisky. I would think this is due Allen only playing limited snaps, if any, this weekend. I don’t think it was because they have an outside chance they would play the Dolphins in the first round. They don’t need any insider info on how to beat the Dolphins. They got that down.
“Imma be available next week if we make the playoffs “. You know what bud, stay in bed! Tyler wins 3 in a row he’s earned the job and he brings another dimension. You can stay home and retire next season and never put your head or hip in danger ever again. Think about it, will ya!
Like that hip will hold up in around 27 degree weather that weekend in Buffalo.
Not to mention his nemesis, Matt Milano, is back playing.
LOL Mike, anyone with 2 legs is his nemesis, including Damar Hamlin
Van Ginkel made the Pro Bowl. At least one Dolphins player did it
Thank you Mike E…..the rage is appropriate.
We have nothing to play out this year…wtf is that worth?
If we make the playoffs should we continue to rage?
That all depends on how we finish. If we get blown out in the first round, absolutely!
Even if we make it, real strong chance we lose in the first round of the playoffs. But if rage makes folks happy they should do it. I’d be looking draft, but probably just me.
Good to hear from a Jets beat writer:
“the Jets are just a broken, defeated team at this point. This season can’t end soon enough.”
Back door shit…lol…not a back door man…lol
I completely get the team is not perfect, but we are going into the last game and are still in the playoff hunt. Tua will be missing his 6th game and at worst we are going to end up average. Been a lot of great games to watch.
I think if Tyler Huntley plays well and we get in, he should start. Why put limpy gimpy in after missing 3 straight wins without him to clinch a playoff berth?
That would be an idea. Seems all depends on Tua’s health though. Bills in Buffalo would be a tough task. Seems you go with your star QB if he is ready.
Star? Is that what you think he is? He will be rusty missing 3 games and probably compromised with his injury. How he can promise that he will play if we get in is very disturbing because that likely means he can play Sunday, but won’t. He’s only a star in MM’s eyes, not mine
Yeah I think he is our star QB, but get “star” a subjective adjective. He’s at least our starter when healthy. We can agree on that right?
which 3 games did Tua miss Mike?
Where is Bat when you need him?
Retired like Tua should be! 🤣
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Stanger – no doubt he’s the starter, but I think a very strong case could be made to play Huntley if he plays well Sunday and we get in
We don’t know how Huntley will do on Sunday. At this point he’s only shown one good game against one of the worst teams in the league. But yeah if he crushes the Jets bad this weekend, roll with him. I assume even if playable Tua will be less than 100%.
Like several others have mentioned, I, too, don’t put much stock into earning a Pro-Bowl nod… at least not as much as I used to. For instance, our own Tyler Huntley made the Pro-Bowl in 2022 after like a dozen AFC QBs backed out of it.
The whole Pro-Bowl process has become a watered-down, generic version of what it once had been. And remember, fans can vote an unlimited amount of times for their favorite players… talk about rigged elections, LOL.
All-Pro 1st team and 2nd team is where it’s at if ya ask me. Hopefully, a couple of our guys (Sieler and Sanders) get those nods.
I hope they’re being cautious with Tua, because they don’t want to fuck up 2025, like they did 2024
we’re going to need both QBs next year, whomever they are, Hopefully continues what he started last week
IMO, we all but must draft a QB in the ’25 Draft. Tua’s going to have his outlet year after the ’25 season, Huntley may not be ‘it’, and we need to groom a QB of the future.
I’ve never understood the hatred for Tua from the MSM since day 1, and I cannot understand the hatred for Tua from our own fanbase. The correlation? Too many people are being brainwashed by the MSM: turn it the fuck off!
Tua didn’t draft himself to the Dolphins: that was Chris Grier, rightfully or woefully. Tua doesn’t quit: the fans quit on him. Tua plays through injury: that’s on Tua. Tua has 2.25 seconds to get rid of the football: that’s on Chris Grier (from day 1) due to his lack of a pass-protecting O-Line.
Tua didn’t give himself the extension he got prior to the season: that was on Chris Grier and the football player’s agent. Tua didn’t tell every opponent to play 2-high Safeties all day against ‘Reek and ‘Da Penguin in ’24: that’s something a good HC or OC can mitigate and turn into an advantage.
There is a LOT of misplaced blame going on here in Dolphins land, and MUCH of it is being unfairly saddled on Tua. Yet… Tua has put up admirable numbers… even if one disqualifies his completion % due to the high frequency of screen-passes (I’m raising my hand on his completion %, and I’ve said as much over a week ago).
The most EYE-POPPING stat that everybody who wants to blame Tua conveniently won’t acknowledge? Our YPC on the ground, to keep the passing game honest. And Coach McD is supposedly a running-game guru… WOW.
Blame Tua all one would like, but that’s really just a cop out and defense of how poorly Chris Grier and Coach McD have run this team. Ya might be able to get rid of Tua, but Grier and McD are going to be here another year or more.
Don’t worry M. I fully blame Grier. This perenniall average season was forseen by many with the moves that were made coming into it.
Tua can’t help being made of glass. Some people just are and there is no offseason conditioning, magic trick to rectify it. Grier put nothing in place to protect his prized QB knowing this…..well he should have known this. Maybe he doesn’t watch the games.
McDaniel is in LaLa land too. Seriously Skylar Thompson was the #2? He was fine with shit at OL as a supposed run oriented coach?
They all failed.
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Happy B-Day to the late, great Don Shula!
Don’t know why, but January 4th has ALWAYS been ingrained on my brain.
M – Maybe I need to show you the “Show me the money” clip again, with Tua in OTA’s with him shouting “Show me the money!” and making a very similar hand gesture to Johnny Manziel. He wasn’t going to take just any contract, he wanted to be paid like a top QB. He also probably wouldn’t have played on the 5th YR, we’ll never know because they didn’t try. He can’t make a simple football play outside the pocket without getting injured. We have to have to have the best O-line, best receivers, and make it so he never has to leave the pocket. No thanks! I’m reading in between your lines and basically everything has to be perfect for Tua to lead this team to a playoff victory and beyond. You know where we’re at with the cap, and the most likely way to make the cap workable is to further mortgage the future. I don’t think he should be part of the future of this team, he’s a QB who can beat up the crap teams and look like the old Sam Darnold with the Jets against the good ones.
It still amazes me how tolerant some of you are that he’s not available this weekend, but says “Imma be available next week if we make the playoffs”. Why do we tolerate this? Can we just get a guy here who wants to win and play through anything, and not have to be protected? Holy hell!
I can blame Tua AND Chris Grier, and MM. I don’t hold Tua solely responsible, it’s ALL of them, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.
correct, it’s all 3
I keep hearing Tua doesn’t make plays outside the pocket, he’s not Josh Allen (who is), but he made several big plays outside the pocket this year, he just doesn’t extend plays long enough sometimes and our D never seems to play complimentary ball against good teams
I don’t think we can win in the playoffs with just Tua, think Snoop is needed some games, assuming he is who we saw last week
I think it’s a bit unfair to say Tua needs great players around him to succeed, he does need some help especially at OL
last year to start the season we had great play from the skill positions, sans TE, the OL was firing on all cylinders, but we didn’t play any good teams, once the Bills game came we had OL issues
would be nice to see a healthy team for once, I blame Grier for signing soft players
15.Kelvin Banks Jr. OT Texas
49.Deone Walker DT Kentucky
98.Lander Barton LB Utah
99.Jaeden Roberts OG Alabama
116.Jeffrey Bassa S Oregon
153.Theo Wease Jr WR Missouri
155.Justin Walley CB Minnesota
223.Alfred Collins DT Texas
230.JC Davis OT Illinois
251.Tyreem Powell LB Rutgers
Another nice one! I like the Theo Wease pick. Good size with 4.42 speed and a savvy route runner. Will be good starting off in the slot but can play boundary WR also. Added some beef to the DL with Walker and Collins. Barton is a solid ILB with good speed and frame to add a couple pounds. There are about 8 sites that have him in the top 100.
Need a safety though as Bassa put on some beef and now plays ILB.
Banks is a stud and hard to pass on if he lasts to #15. I think he could be moved into LG starting day 1 and keep PP at LT. That would be a very solid left side of the OL. Also give us Jaeden Roberts at RG.
My thoughts too
Kelvin Banks Jr.OTTexas
Height: 6 – 4 |Weight: 324 lbs |RAS: N/A
Banks will have debate surrounding his ideal NFL position from the predraft process to Day 1 of training camp. While his polished technique and strong anchor suggest he could stay at left tackle, some teams might see him better suited at guard due to concerns about his footwork and lack of explosive movement, which could pose challenges against stronger opponents.
no way OT at 15, even if he plays OG
Your not interested in the OL getting better?
Steve, have you been brainwashed by Grier? lol
PICK: 19 RND: 1 Kenneth Grant DT Michigan
PICK: 49 RND: 2 Nick Emmanwori S South Carolina
PICK: 53 RND: 2 Tyler Warren TE Penn State
PICK: 98 RND: 3 Luke Kandra OG Cincinnati
PICK: 99 RND: 3 Savion Williams WR TCU
PICK: 116 RND: 4 Deontae Lawson ILB Alabama
PICK: 152 RND: 5 Jaeden Roberts OG Alabama
PICK: 154 RND: 5 Daylen Everette CB Georgia
PICK: 224 RND: 7 Chris Paul Jr. ILB Ole Miss
PICK: 231 RND: 7 Omari Thomas DL Tennessee
PICK: 251 RND: 7 Trey Wedig OT Indiana
Trade down getting #53 and OT Blake Fisher from the Texans. The trade down 4 spots got me OT Fisher and TE Tyler Warren. Nice!
Some of this site player trades don’t make sense for the team that trades them. lol
Seems we have the same thoughts
3 OL
2 DL
1 S
1ILB
1-WR
CB, TE (best available)
Yep, couldn’t pass on Warren either.
Steve- it’s not so much that he doesn’t or can’t make plays outside the pocket, it’s that he can’t survive it. He rarely does it but gets hurt on way too a high a percentage of those plays
M13,
I don’t hate Tua. That word gets thrown around far too much. Hyperbole is part of what’s ruining this Country. In my opinion, Tua is a slightly above average NFL QB….say somewhere between 12-16. Why saying that is somehow equated with hate is beyond me. Well, no, it’s not because that’s how our World works now. Everything is couched in the extremes. Hyperbole is now the norm and put forth as the truth and rational dissent is crushed or cancelled.
Miami Dolphins
Roster Moves | We have elevated T Ryan Hayes and QB Skylar Thompson to the active roster for 1/5.
I don’t think anyone hates Tua. I think his defenders are calling honest complaints hatred when it’s just his personal failures. Much like Randy, I think Tua is a mid-tier QB at around the 15-18 area of QBs. He loses a bit of value though due to always being injured. Dude has played one full season in 5 years. That’s terrible when the QB is the most protected player in football. That’s just honest fact, no hatred. I also blame McDaniel and Grier for the inability to coach up the team and find players that can lead us to a playoff win. No hatred, just objective statements that the product isn’t good enough. Not at all.
While I don’t hate Tua, i am severely disappointed in him. He’s not a top QB. The pick was a bad one. I watched him all through college and I thought a lot of what I saw was him. It wasn’t. He had Jerry Jeudy, Waddle, Devonta Smith and Henry Ruggs as WRs. Najee Harris, top OL, and a great defense. Tua had a loaded team to help him look really good. And he did look really good, but he needs all that to look really good. He isn’t a difference maker. That’s not hatred. It’s just observations that have been justified after 5 years of watching him play. Throw in his constant injuries and he just won’t get us to where I want us to go…a single playoff win. That’s all I want at this point, and I don’t; see Grier, McDaniel, or Tua being good enough to get us that. No hatred, just my opinion based off the past 3-5 years.
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It’s not Tua”s fault this organization is ran so poorly. Can’t blame the dude for cashing in.
Flores knew and got ran out of town. Lots of non professionals knew and dumb fans came around over the years just by watching. What Grier was so afraid of by having to hurry up and sign him? No idea.
The only argument was, “Who else would be QB?” Seems other teams around the league figure it out.
“dumb fans” I meant as us dumb fans….
I don’t hate Tua, I hate that fans think he’s the guy to bring us to the promised land a d think he’s light-years better than Tannehill. I’d say he’s a little better. He’s a better thrower, but Tannehill was a much better athlete. Overall, they’re both limited enough to make it very difficult to get where I want to be, a team that can beat any team anytime. To me it’s very similar to “Stockholm Syndrome”. Because we haven’t had a great QB since Marino some of you are willing to fall in love with every QB we draft so that maybe if we love and coddle him he’ll end up being great. I see great twice a year when we play Buffalo. Tua can’t hold his jockstrap. IDGAF about completion percentage or how well he plays in small games if he can’t be a winner in a big game. Josh Allen makes that team a winner because of his indomitable spirit and will to win.
Good peeps, when I use the word “hate” in reference to some feelings about Tua, it’s obviously in the context of football and its fandom (aka: fanaticism). No, I don’t believe anybody literally *hates* Tua, of course… though I question the media at times (see Mike Florio and Chris Simms, for example).
Can’t believe I actually had to type that out, LOL! 😆
I don’t want to be labeled as a Tua “defender”, either. Look, he’s a severe injury risk at this point in time and nobody knows when it just may be his last game.
THIS is why I wish to draft a QB relatively early in the ’25 NFL Draft! This is also why I was wishing we’d fail down the stretch, in order to have the proper resources available to us to draft the best QB possible.
Does that sound like a Tua “defender” to ya? It shouldn’t… rather, Tua has an expiration date that’s coming far sooner than later.
But for the love of Pete (whoever ‘Pete’ is? LOL), I don’t believe it’s a healthy excercise to throw Tua under the bus or to target Tua for the failures of this FO.
Look at it like this… Tua is a SYMPTOM of a dysfunctional FO, not the causation of as much.
And even so, Tua has set records.
He’s a symptom no doubt, but I hold him accountable for wanting the highest contract. I wish he was like Tom Brady and realized getting the highest contract severely curtails the ability to build a better team, and if one thing Tua has proven to us is that he needs a better team. I’ll save you the frustration, he won’t get one and we won’t win a playoff game with him at QB
Mike E.
says:
January 4, 2025 at 7:05 am
“M – Can we just get a guy here who wants to win and play through anything, and not have to be protected?”
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But Tua DOES play through anything and everything… and that’s exactly why his body is going through a grinder. Now, couple that with the media telling the masses that Coach McD and the entire Miami Dolphins team as a whole (all the way up to Steve Ross) don’t protect their players, in the aftermath of the Tua concussions of ’22.
DAMN RIGHT you will hold your QB out — even against his will — if there’s an issue. Steve Ross is obviously TIRED of the negative press regarding his team and I don’t blame him. Don’t blame Tua, blame the media.
So if ether way is true, don’t you have to get rid of Tua? Either he’s selfish and holding out due to injury or the team is protecting him due to PR pressure. Either option is disaster and not going to change, right?
Should have played Tua on the 5th-year option, if that’s what you want to hear.
Can’t get rid of him now until there’s a good OUT for him, looks like ’26.
Gotta draft a QB this year in the ’25 Draft, Brother!
Mike E,
I was making a list of QBs who I think are better than Tua and it kinda opened my eyes. I think there are 11 QBs who are better than Tua today. He’s in the 2nd tier. In that Tier, I found about 3-4 that had better results. His injury history also knocked him some. Honestly, from a standard of ‘this is our franchise guy!’ he’s about 17-20? When you draft a guy 5th, is that really the standard you should have? After watching the year Sam Darnold has had?
It really looks like there are two successful models and have always been two. Get a top tier QB and build around him. This works for about 6 dudes. For the rest, it’s build the best team possible and have your second tier QB manage you to victory. That’s the better and easier option. We should be doing #2. Instead, we built around a 2nd tier QB and this is what happens.
Mike E.
says:
January 4, 2025 at 5:45 pm
He’s a symptom no doubt, but I hold him accountable for wanting the highest contract…
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Seriously, who DOESN’T want to be paid as much as they possibly can, especially in the world of sports, where one’s health could turn south on one bad play? Look at Andrew Luck. Look at Luke Kuechly. Look at Patrick Willis. They were all smart enough to get a 2nd contract and then hang it up.
Then look at Junior Seau, Lyle Alzado, and countless others.
I’ve got no problem with anybody trying to make their $$$ before shit happens. Just sayin’.
OK, but then he wanted the money, not to have a great team and win. He knows he can’t lift the team and make them a juggernaut, he needs a great supporting cast. Mahomes and Allen don’t need the best receiver in the NFL, they work with what they got and either will win for you no matter what
Kinda like Latrell Sprewell who “couldn’t feed his family” if he didn’t get a higher contract. I suppose I shouldn’t blame him, just the idiot who gave it to him
M13,
When your QB demands a $55M/year contract it’s hard to build a team around him….especially when that same QB seems to need a perfect situation to be successful. His contract is partly to blame for this team going cheap in other areas. There’s no law that says these guys have to be greedy and try to get every single cent they can in a contract. Brady didn’t. Mahomes didn’t. Tua is hardly just blameless in this. You make it sound like Tua was asking for $30M and Grier just said no I wanna pay you $55M. He made his choice and got his money, now he needs to perform with the team being hamstrung financially because they grossly overpaid an average QB. Greed is a bitch.
Greed IS a bitch, my friend! There’s absolutely no doubt about it.
Ultimately, the team (Chris Grier as GM) decided to offer Tua the roughly $55M/year contract. I’m signing that if I’m Tua.
They don’t even know what to do with all that money. None of these players need that. It would be just as hard to waste 40 million a year. His kids will never want no matter if it’s 45 or 55. Like you said, it’s all greed and so why not call them out for that? When did it become a virtue to be greedy lol? Tua picked himself over his team and that’s his choice…just like it’s mine to call him out for being exposed as a very average QB.
Y’all, this team IS cursed.
M13,
Come on. The only reason they paid Tua what they did is because he wanted that much…probably more. I’m sure Grier would have happily paid him less. I doubt Tua was asking for less. Lol
😆
Mike E.
says:
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 pm
Kinda like Latrell Sprewell who “couldn’t feed his family” if he didn’t get a higher contract. I suppose I shouldn’t blame him, just the idiot who gave it to him
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BOOM(!), you got it! And Sprewell was a punk who tried to choke out his HC!
I suppose we should be thankful that the only thing Tua chokes is big games. 🤣
😆
That was funny!
Guys, it is what it is!
Now (IMO) we MUST draft a QB in the ’25 Draft!
I’m sure most of y’all will remember when Jason Taylor said of Trent Green in ’05 or ’06 that he’s one hit away from becoming scrambled eggs.
Well, that’s where we’re at right now with Tua! We need to find a solid QB in the ’25 Draft.
It really doesn’t matter where ya rank Tua in terms of a top-10 QB, a mid-tier QB, or a shitty QB. NONE OF IT MATTERS is the point.
M – they should draft a QB but they probably won’t. They may wait until next season
All the more reason to move on from Chris Grier.
I have a nagging feeling that Tyler Huntley will be the backup, there won’t be a QB search for the backup spot and we won’t draft a QB. Yes, Grier needs to go but he almost surely gets at least one more season
i agree Mike, but he needs to play well and beat the jets first, if he does he should be a lock to be at least 2025 backup
M13,
how high of a draft pick do you think they should spend on a quarterback this year?
Well… it’s absolutely contingent upon the Offensive system said QB would be drafted into.
Let us say that Coach McD is still our HC for ’25 (and I believe he will be), then we don’t necessarily need to get the highest pick for a QB. However, if there IS a coaching change from our WCO (say, Mike Vrabel), we may want to get more of a pro-style QB.
Assuming Coach McD returns, my QB target would be Dillon Gabriel out of Oregon.
I’ve seen Gabriel go as early as the 2nd round in some current mocks, and go as late as the 6th round in some current mocks.
To play it safe, I’d definitely take him on day 2 of the NFL Draft.
Oregon has a way of making QBs look good, I’d reserve judgement on him
What’s with the Grier retirement rumors now circulating? Is it the ol retirement or be fired? He’s a Ross guy through and through but one can dream!
I saw the same, but they are mere rumors and ‘murmurs’.
YES… ONE CAN DREAM!!!
Saw a blurb that Grier might take a consulting role for the team, no idea whether it’s true though
When your QB demands a $55M/year contract it’s hard to build a team around him….especially when that same QB seems to need a perfect situation to be successful. His contract is partly to blame for this team going cheap in other areas.
that only makes sense, if Tua counted 55m against the 2024 cap, his actual number is 9.525m and in 2025 it’s still only 39.446m
Only 40M for a part time average franchise QB in 2025. Lol
It’s 56M in 2026
steve,
The point was his contract will hamper this team’s ability to build a better team. Is it your contention that it won’t?
I was commenting on this:
His contract is partly to blame for this team going cheap in other areas.
steve,
Are you saying it’s not? You don’t think the FO made choices prior to this season based on the idea that they were going to give Tua a huge contract?
Of course they did. If not, they suck even worse
no, they spent right up to the cap, plus future years, they went cheap in other areas, because they paid Hill, Chubb, Armstead, X, Ramsey, threw away lots of money on DTs that aren’t on the team, and 50 other things Grier fucked up
Joe Burrow just got his head crunched into the turf. Still down
He got up, jogged off the field looking like his neck hurt and went into the tent for evaluation
Burrow back in the game. Tua would miss 2025 🤪
It’s a game we have nothing to do with. We just root for the team and that’s it! Apologists and all of that doesn’t really matter anymore. We all know it’s been a sub par season. Okay so just saying it over and over changes anything?
I would do this and I would do that. Of course everything would be better if they did what everyone else said.
We’ll see what happens tomorrow and go from there.
LOL – what’s the point of being a fanatic if you’re just gonna take whatever they give you and just be happy about it because you can’t control it. That would be a very casual fan
When did we ever have any say in anything?
I didn’t want to draft Tua in the first place, but Grier has done more to hurt the guy than help him during this career. Hell, he sent a solid center packing in Ted Karras after one year as a middle finger to Brian Flores for Pete’s sake, not to mention all of the other mistakes on the o-line or at receiver and tight end. Yay, we finally got Jonnu! Big whoop
Bengals will be the best team not making the playoffs. Just like the Dolphins, they still have a chance though.
Despite their defense sucking.
Except Hendrickson
I always root for us to win, especially against the Jets. If we don’t win, it’s not a huge deal because we will improve our draft position and worsen theirs.
If we lose, we still need any of Colts, Cowboys or Cardinals to win in order to improve our draft position. The highest we would be able to pick would be back up to #12. The lowest is unknown if we make the playoffs.
If we win and Denver wins, we need Falcons to win vs Panthers to stay put at #15.
Anyone see the Amazon Prime commercial for the Wild Card Playoffs? Lot of teams on it, we’re not one of them.
It’s already planned out.
Wouldn’t shock me
100% correct Mike!Sent from my iPhone
Thanks bud!
Time to win a fucking game!
Let’s make it 3 in row and go Chiefs!!!
Head Coach Andy Reid, you owe us one!!! Beat the Broncos today!!!
‘All in all a great game and hail to the Dolphins,’ Chiefs Andy Reid says after beating the Chargers
Good one!
😀
Falcons, Cowboys and Colts all leading at the half.
The Bucs are struggling so far.
M13, Joe Milton playing well for the Pats
I’m tracking Milton, Trey Lance, and Mike Evans’ march to another 1,000 yard season.
Yes, Milton is looking quite good!
Da’ Penguin has been ruled as OUT today. That sucks.
That’s 2/3 of our salary cap wasters. Isn’t it amazing how bad we got stung by giving all 3 of them mucho dinero? I mean how much worse could it be?
BB Mike,
Marcus Mariota in the game for the Redskins… looking good!
Chris Brooks having a nice game today. Yet another boneheaded move by Grier. Probably had to keep Wilson Jr for MM. keep Brooks, don’t draft Wright and we have two picks for that move. Pretty simple Chris …
week 18 games mean nothing sometimes, this is one of those times
but stats don’t. They have similar stats with Brooks having a better ypc. It was a stupid personnel decision, plain and simple. You think Wright is worth two picks? You think waddle was worth two picks? These are the decisions that have put the team in the position it’s in, and it’s not good.
we only used 1 pick on Wright, if I remember correctly 2025 3rd
Waddle wasn’t worth moving up for, because of players still on the board, like Micah Parsons
but what does that have to do with week 18 games being like preseason?
Bucs playing today for the right to host Det/Min loser, almost as bad as us with upside at Buff
way too cute for Bucs play calling, remind anyone of anybody
stupid ass ref in Tampa game doesn’t know the rules, fans do
Let’s go Dolphins
“So you are saying there is a chance.” Go Chiefs! If the Phins lose that is on them.
Wright has more talent than Brooks. Don’t be surprised if he and Achane are the tandem next year. Work on the OL. Armstead is probably done, Lamm is retiring, Jackson will be back, Paul steps into a starting role. Brewer at center, we need better guards.
OL is my top thought for the draft, but then it was last year as well. It actually did better than I thought it would.
Just 5 more yards for Mike Evans!
NOOOOOO! Bucky Irving ran it in from 11 yards out with 1:51 left in the 4th quarter!
and that POS HC kicks the extra point instead of going for 2 and ending game
bucs win anyways, but stupid coaching
Tampa Bay gets the ball back with 36 seconds left! Mike Evans can still do it!
HE DID IT!!! MIKE EVANS with yet another 1,000 yard receiving season!!!
https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1876015150538633596
wow Tampa throws it instead of kneeling on it, against a div foe, that’s going to bite them in the ass in future years
Smite the Jets
GO PHINS!!!
HELL YEAH!!!
So, this morning my friend who is a Jet’s fan was leaving Starbucks and stopped by my table to say hay and when he went to go I said “go Jet’s” and he stopped dead in his tracks and with an over earnest manner begged me to stop. Please, the world is not right. You have to stop! LOL
Just
Fire
Chris
Grier
JFCG!
JFCG!
JFGC!
Sorry guys. I was fed bad into. Da’ Penguin is playing.
*info
Nice 3 and out…lol
TYREL DODSON 4 PREZ!!!
The man has been balling since he got here 👍👍
ABSOLUTELY, my man!
fantastic play on D
Fist Pump
(anal fist pump)
LMAO
I had the same info on 🐧
good to see him out there
Good to know I wasn’t alone on that.
YES! Great to see him out there!
that was disappointing after the int but I’ll take the 3 points
ask the Chiefs, you only need one more point than the other guy.
Broncos up 7-0
Wentz goes 3 and out
😣
KC looking like a Peewee league team too…
Fucking awesome by Ramsey
that wasn’t incomplete
that was a catch for a 5 yard loss
I do that with Achane all day in MADDEN keep doing it.
waddle holds his block a little longer and it’s a TD