It’s Week 2 in the NFL, so it’s far too early to be a turning point of the season. On the other hand, the Miami Dolphins need a really solid effort this weekend at home against The New England Patriots. The Patriots are 0-1 coming off of a loss at home to the Las Vegas Raiders. A lot of experts felt the New England Patriots had a really good offseason and made a lot of improvements to the roster, in adition to adding a new Head Coach in former Patriots Linebacker Mike Vrabel. There is hope that their QB will take step up in his 2nd season with the Patriots. They drafted one of the best OT’s available in the ’25 Draft in LT Will Campbell. They added in RD 2 an athletic RB in TreVeyon Henderson to the more physical running style of Rhamondre Stevenson. The Patriots, like the Dolphins are 0-1, but the Patriots were in the game the entire game while the Miami Dolphins just got embarrassed all game long.
Unless this game ends in a tie, one of these 2 teams is going to be 0-2. The Patriots have a new Head Coach with a young QB while the Dolphins are in year 4 with HC Mike McDaniel and year 6 with QB Tua Tagovailoa. There is no question as to which team needs the “W” more than the other, but I’d simplify it by saying the Dolphins need to resemble a legitimate NFL team this Sunday, win or lose. They can’t have an effort that in any way looks like what they put out last week against the Indianapolis Colts where they got blown out 33-8 and even the score doesn’t accurately represent the carnage. This organization has been talking about their new culture for months now and some fans ate it up like crack. If what they did last week is the “new” culture, that culture won’t be around much longer, and I’ll be quite thankful for that!
Unfortunately for the Dolphins, the injuries never cease here. Yes, every team goes through injuries in the NFL but the Dolphins lost their starting RG after a play or two. RG James Daniels who I had doubts about due to coming off an achilles injury in 2024 is OUT, and not because of his achilles, but a pectoral injury. In addition, right next to him, RT Austin Jackson will also be OUT this Sunday. So 2 plays is all we get from our new and improved O-line. OL Kion Smith will replace RG James Daniels and OT Larry Borom will replace RT Austin Jackson. Obviously, that’s not ideal, and Mike Vrabel is from the Belichick Coaching Tree and that means defense is a priority, and physical play is what they’re all about. Our guys will no doubt be tested. After all, this Dolphins team told us they’re not soft despite fromer players insinuating just that. I’d like to see this team be the more physical team on Sunday and smack the Patriots down.
The team held a players own meeting after the poor showing Week 1. What exactly that means is unclear, but it’s Week 2 and you’re excluding the HC from a meeting? Not necessarily a good look from any perspective. What have y’all been doing up until this point? QB Tua Tagovailoa has been ornery answering questions and seems angry with some of the reporters questions. Answer those questions on the field young man, stop whining, bitching about what reporters said after you shit the bed on opening day! You don’t appreciate the negativity, play as well as your undying supporters think you’re capable of, like some Top 5 God of a QB! It will undoubtedly make the post game interviews much more palatable.
You want some good news? The Dolphins have owned the Patriots defeating them twice last season, 15-10 in Week 5 and then an ass whooping Week 12 34-15. In 2023 it was the same, we defeated the Patriots 24-17 in Week 2, and then 31-17 in Week 8. Despite all the offseason hype for New England, history is in our favor, and add in we’ll be wearing all white which means the Patriots will be wearing their dark navy jerseys in the Florida heat. Hopefully it’s a scorcher. It’s supposed to be 88 degrees and very humid but there’s a threat of rain in the afternoon (No way, not in Miami!). I don’t need the Dolphins to wipe the field with the Patriots and honestly I don’t need them to win, but they have to look significantly better than they did last week and look like a professional team that has real ideas about being contenders for a playoff spot.
Besides the 2 injuries on the O-line, there’s more injury news as well, some good, some bad. RB Jaylen Wright is trending in the right direction to be active. NT Benito Jones however is the opposite, and he may be OUT and replaced by rookie DT Zeek Biggers. I swear from this point on I’m not discussing the TE that shall not be discussed until he actually suits up and plays. I’ve wasted not nearly as much time and resources and draft picks as the Miami Dolphins have, but his time is done with me until he plays. WR Jaylen Waddle is QUESTIONABLE. CB Storm Duck has not practiced so it’s looking as if he’ll be OUT. As I mentioned earlier, RT Austin Jackson is in the same boat as Storm Duck and Benito Jones. Every NFL team gets hit with injuries but our team just gets obliterated by them.
Last week we ran the ball 9 times with our RB’s 7 rushes for Achane and only 2 for the rookie ollie Gordon who’s supposed to bring the physicality to the offense. I’d love to see Ollie Gordon get a bunch of carries although it’s difficult to steal carries from RB De’Von Achane, and if RB Jaylen Wright is active, gosh, how do you split up the 3-4 carries between them? I know that Achane’s herculean effort on that 4th down swing pass last week is the only reason we cored an actual TD last week. Mike McDaniel calls a swing pass on 4th and 11, and Achane avoids and eludes at least 3-4 would be tacklers immediately and scores. That’s a shit call, sorry! It’s amazing that he scored but it’s embarrassing that it’s what he called. I hope today we have a more run heavy game plan, take a little pressure off of #1 who is unraveling already due to the scrutiny of being a franchise QB that doesn’t play like one.
Lets see the defense, the front 7 that is allegedly the stregth of this team show up! We brought in veteran LB/DE Matt Judon in to join Bradley Chubb, Jaelan Phillips and Chop Robinson. The Colts had possession of the football for over 38 minutes. Not good! Of course Tua gifting the Colts defense 3 times didn’t help the situation, but our defense needs to make an impact too! Bradley Chubb got one sack and that was it for this defense. No forced fumbles or INT’s or anything really. We were jacked on both sides of the ball, and Danny Jones looked fantastic, a 115.1 rating, need I say more? Our Top 5 QB needs to rehabilitate his usual high rating which now stands at 51.7. Oh, forgot to mention Jaylen Waddle is injured with a shoulder injury. Did that happen watching the Colts go up and down the field all day on us? Rubbernecking injury perhaps? Jaylen Waddle did catch 4 passes for 30 yards, maybe 30 realy tough on the shoulder yards. Hopefully he’s better this week. I’m loving the new culture by the ways, but these boo boos we keep getting are just so nasty and unfortunate!
GO DOLPHINS!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Good start….
Hollins. Who else
Patriots offense just seemed to wilt in the heat. Oh wait, that was our defense
Welp, that sucked.
Well, the streak continues…we haven’t stopped an offensive drive from scoring yet this season!!!!
So much for relying on the D this year
Dolphins dominating on extra point attempt defense so far.
That’s funny Kong.
The dolphins have allowed a score on every possession this year and are 4 for 4 on 4th down this year.
Very lucky there
Tua Turndaballova
Mulligan for Tua.
Tua just looks special out there, real game changer
Boos already and it won’t get any better as the season goes along.
Tua doesn’t look right and he’s not seeing the field. Could it be that last week he sustained a…
M – I posted on last blog CKP posted an impact for Tua’s head in g1. Explains everything.
Could it be the team meeting was “Hey, let’s not kill ourselves, our only hope is if we lose the first 4 or 5 games, they may fire Mike and Chris”
“This Miami Defense just cannot get off the field”
The team meeting was a GOOD thing! Lol
Some were calling for out DC to be the HC I would like to see his D stop a drive first…
I was one. I’d potentially like to retract but our secondary is wet tissue this year Rock
Tua is what he is. Don’t try and make excuses for the guy. Hes either decent or horrible.
special teams extra point domination continues
lol the slimmest of silver linings
😂😆🤢🤮😭😭😭
that sums it up lol
brilliant 👏
Missed both XPs!! LOL
this might be the best extra point coverage team we’ve ever seen in Miami
🤣
lol
What Rock said. Weaver doesn’t appear any better than McDaniels. Fire them all.
But we’re so much more physical now with Grant, Jordan Phillips, Zeke Biggers etc!
To be fair to the team the young guy are playing a lot and they are making mistakes, but they are making plays too. So I can see the team getting better (if they stay healthy) But don’t tell anyone I said so. 😉
ukfinfan
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September 14, 2025 at 1:28 pm
M – I posted on last blog CKP posted an impact for Tua’s head in g1. Explains everything.
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Indeed it does! I’ve seen the tape with the hits in question, just not from CKP.
To emphasize Rock’s point. The scored in n every possession is extended
could it go unbeaten 🤮
Unfortunately I’ve just got the game
Man, Tua is throwing hospital balls out there. He’s going to get somebody killed.
So tell me, is “Tua is concussed ” going to be the excuse for the Tua stans? I think it’s just as damning as just plain Ole sucking, but that’s me
It doesn’t matter Mike. All this sh1t is getting flushed away under the new regime
Is it??? I frigging hope so!
That was a dangerous lateral
Has Tua completed one pass the season beyond 10 yards?
There you go…
Ha! I should have asked a lot sooner!
My game feed is weird. The video is behind the commentary like they are predicting the plays.
ditto
The actual tv broadcast is messed up as well – only using one camera being used a lot of the time, sound dropping in and out and out of sync. Some kind of technical issue at the stadium I’m guessing.
Great drive!
who knew you could matriculate down the field by RUNNING?
We ARE killing it on extra point differential
Kong pointing out the keys to the game. LOL
don’t remember 1 cheat across the LOS that entire drive, OL must’ve been threatened
our fist pumped scored his 1st pt thus year
Defense is really looking physical
premium pass rush
thank me later 😉
Miami making Maye look perfect
2nd and 25 keep your fn hands to yourself
Maye completing 90% of his passes at 10 yard average and two passing TDs. 150 passer rating
Patriots offense must be exhausted in this heat . . .
😂
they’ve been doing a lot of marching up and down the field
Miami’s D is making Maye look like peak Brady
time of possession is over 3-1 Pats
Our defense is awful 😞
The warm butter defense
Stevenson had 15 yards last week. This team is awful!
Good thing the big o D is wearing white…..They might be getting tired otherwise
Pretty sure Dolphins are just looking to flex their extra point defensive prowess
STOP ONE DRIVE
STOP ONE DRIVE
STOP ONE DRIVE
LET’S GO DOLPHINS!
STOP ONE DRIVE
LET’S GO DOLPHINS
STOP ONE DRIVE
someone please tell Weaver to get out of prevent D
Fucker must be stuck in groundhog day
Weaver is wrong! We don’t have a positionless defense. It’s position is on it’s heels. This is historically bad.
It’s position is missionary
Every team the Dolphins play moving forward is going to have not only the advantage of being better, but able to have an extra player available not having to have a punter. 😡
jets playing like our effort this Thursday
Only gave up 3…lol
our zone D is laying way off the ball, Maye playing pitch and catch with his checkdown
By providing no resistance at all the Dolphins are lulling the Pats into a sense of security.
Why can’t we do this regularly?!!!!!! This is what we are capable of!
ACHANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All Achane!
Nice TD.
PP is my hero, I hate going for 2 early
Me too. Don’t chase points
Alright, they MAY be able to finally stop a drive on an opponents possession
Achane is special. One of the few bright spots on this roster
He’s doing too much. Injury time.
No points on this possession!! Woohoo!!
lol…thinking same thing…we STOPPED the streak
got home at start of 2nd qtr, cheats D looks like it’s coached by Weaver
and just like that we’re down 1 pt
That’s the first stop by Miami’s D this year
Does it even count? Not to me
Ross start pumping some heat into the cheats locker room
since I started watching our O is playing 7 on 7
Wouldn’t it be nice if our Defense could stop the run?
Tua completing 90% of his passes after the almost pick early
with our young roster we knew there were going to be growing pains, didn’t think it was going to start from infant
The combined passer rating for both teams is over 300
what is the combined IQ of MM and Weaver😜
I think Ditka knows
I want to see more TWISTS from our Defense in the 2nd half. We’re grossly over-pursuing off the edge, giving the Patsie* running game lots of room to run… including Drake Maye.
Our interior is worse off being we’re missing Bonito Jones. Do some TWISTS!
a sack for our D is like a pressure for other teams, it should only count on 3rd down, not in 4 down territory
When you don’t have coverage guys who can cover anybody, it’s hard to run a defense. It dictates that you must do certain things and you probably can’t do other things because of the risk.
How’s our defensive backfield looking?
Needing to call a TO 1 minute into the 3rd quarter because your guys aren’t competent to get a playcall off.
If Tua could throw, that should have been a TD. Instead, Hill had to stop and turn around
FIST PUMP!!!!
Replacement kicker has been perfect so far, so there’s that.
how long will this lead last?
in 2019 don’t think we had the lead first 3 weeks
run that clock out quick
No stopping us now.
and there it is
Jordyn Brooks!!!!!!!!!!!
Tell me the footballs they use on ST’s aren’t juiced
Agreed!
71-yard punt?!! DAYUM!!!
And it was all air!
in training camp the punts just go and go, to the point they just try to get it high and not out kick the coverage
Dumb challenge
the corpse keeps twitching. I was thinking we might need a Greg Camarillo moment this year. Jury still out
Weird challenge, very MMesque
I think it’s a catch, but I also think Waddle got hurt on the play.
it moved (Castansa)
Ref Ball is getting pretty annoying.
Two bad teams making lots of mistakes
Tua is 1 read, check down
then 1 read fall down
heat starting to get to cheats
Or maybe it’s the water they’re drinking in Miami…
There should be 10 minutes left, cheats would spend 5 mins getting their td and we’d have 5 mins to get the winning fist pump
Weaverrrrr your Swiss D has holes
Gonna make every QB look like an all pro. What happens when they play an actual good QB?
Sadly we’re not going to have to wait long to see it, Thursday is going to be really bad.