A home game in Madrid! Awesome! We may actually have a home team advantage with more Dolphins fans than Commanders fans in Madrid than we would at home at Hard Rock, although it’s possible there are delusional fans who think because we beat the Bills that we’re on our way to the Super Bowl. Dolphins fans are some of the flip-floppiest people I’ve ever seen. If you’re insulted by this, then stop fucking flip-flopping! We hit rock bottom losing to the Browns and everyone, even the most absurd Tua stans jump of his wood. Now they’re beating their chest on top of the Panorama Tower in Miami like Tua is Tom Brady in his prime. Besides just gushing about Tua, they’re on the crazy train that this team is ready to make their move and defeat all comers and vanquish the AFC all the way to the Superbowl.
OK, let’s just gather ourselves for a minute. This is not a good roster, and yes, we’re probably going to beat the Comandantes en Madrid porque Los Comandantes suck way worse than our team currently does. The Commanders have lost 5 in a row, the last 4 by more than 20 points in each game. Without QB Jayden Daniels, the Commanders are lost. Marcus Mariota actually has a BETTER passer rating than Tua Tagovailoa, 91.9 vs 87.6. Put that in your Tua cigar and smoke it! There are just so many Tua fans on X that are beyond delusional. Tua is irrelevant, and the only reason at all he may return as the starting QB next season is because of his ungodly salary and cap hit. No one is trading for him, although I wish like hell someone would. Tua’s salary is also the main reason why the Dolphins may waste yet another season by retaining HC Mike McDaniel. That’s a big slap in the face to all Dolphins, even you Tua stans.
There’s a “Report Card” circulating around X that has the Dolphins as A+ according to NFL players. #1 in the NFL to the players in every single category.
Coach A+
Owner A+
Food A+
Travel A+
Weight Room A+
Treatment of family (Players families) A+
You know what? That’s great to see, it really. You know what else though? It’s time to get A+ rating from the fans by becoming a legit contender!
STEP 1 – At the end of the season, FIRE MIKE McDANIEL!!!
STEP 2 – Before the season ends, give QB Quinn Ewers playing time, preferably at least 3 games or more so you can see if this kid translates to a decent backup with starter potential or just a 3rd string QB that doesn’t need to make the 53 man next season
STEP 3 – While all this is happening, Tom Garfinkle and everyone who is qualified in the Dolphins Front Office should be researching, scouring the NFL to find our next GM. Once that list is finalized, they should begin interviewing these candidates so we have our new GM in place as quickly as possible to handle all the necessary steps to be ready for off season activities such as roster management and assessment, preparation for the 2026 Draft and anything else that needs to be done to be ready for next season
STEP 4 – Thank Champ Kelly for taking over mid season but let him know at the end of this season, his job is done and if he’d like to return here to Miami, it will be in a different capacity.
So, back to Madrid, where our Dolphins most likely will be 4-7 at around 1PM EST, or 10AM on the West Coast. I know some people are going to get excited that we’re BACK, and ready to be a Wild Card spoiler in the AFC. We might just see RT Austin Jackson and RG James Daniels on the field, and is it possible that with those 2, the offensive line will be better and complete? Sure, it’s possible, but it’s also possible those 2 are rusty, especially Daniels who missed tons of time after going out for the season with an achilles injury for Pittsburgh Week 4 of 2024. He played a couple of snaps for us before going out on IR (Imagine that??) in Week 1, so that makes for a lot of missed playing time and a lot of rust to shake off. We’ll have to wait and see. Austin Jackson was limited in practice so don’t expect him to play and James Daniels has yet to practice.
Los Comandantes feature a defense worse than ours, allowing 28 PPG good for 29th out of 32. Our Dolphins have a defensive surge lately and have moved up to #24. Hard to believe that the Commanders with the combo of Jayden Daniels/Marcus Mariota are actually ranked better than our Tua led Dolphins, Los Comandantes are #22 at 22.3 PPG while our Achane’s are at 25 at 21.0 PPG. Can you just imagine this offense w/o De’Von Achane? He’s the most impactful RB in the NFL right now outside of the Colts Jonathan Taylor. Achane has 785 rushing yards with a ridiculous 6.6 YPC and 5 rushing TD’s, and has an additional 325 yards receiving and 4 TD’s. He’s unbelievable, and he will an UFA at the end of next season unless we take of our 25 year old superstar next season. Thankfully, Grier isn’t here to tell Achane he’s “Earned the right to become a Free Agent”. Ugh!
I’m not going to discuss the 2 anchors, Former GM Chris Grier and current Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa. They are the culprits for the Cap Hell this team will be in for the ’26 season and beyond until all that DEAD CAP MONEY is gone from Grier restructuring deals and pushing money owed to the future when he’s smoking cuban cigars watching the games from his comfortable couch. If he gets another NFL executive job it will NEVER be as a GM, not by any NFL Owner with half a brain or more anyway. Tua will almost certainly be here in 2026, but once again, that doesn’t mean he has to be the starting QB if we have someone else worthy of replacing him. Tua is getting paid whether he starts or sits, and if you’re like me, you probably can’t wait for that show to end. No matter how far we get this season, I’d bet that when the chips are down as to whether we make the playoffs or not, good ole Tua will be there to let us all down, you watch!
FIND A GM, FIRE McDANIEL, PLAY QUINN EWERS!!!!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Time to open up the passing game!
Why am I sacrificing my sleep for this game?
Here’s a clear case where the Halftime Show will be far better than the actual game
Not really
Awesome you are there in person Bri. I think Ken said he was going too. I nearly went as it’s such an iconic venue to footy fans. Flights were OK but tix were outrageous and hoteliers were gouging like the first day hospitality reopened after Covid. After reading the tea leaves I also thought this season would be wretched so I’m streaming it on NFLN. Fingers crossed fins do you a solid Bri
Jordyn Brooks has 13 tackles, 7 solo in just the first half.
Brooks is one of the few keepers.
From last page Steve – started following NFL at Uni in 1984. So technically old enough, but the embryonic internet or UK TV was certainly not around in the early 70s to bring gridiron here
The early season defense has returned.
if they weren’t behind the clock every eff’n play maybe they would be able to execute instead of looking panicked.
100%
I HATE MM’s 4th and goal play calls!
Agree 100%. Throw in a decent amount of the 3rd down play calls as well.
Also, on that 3rd and goal, Ingold whiffed on the block allowing 2 guys to get to Gordon. That’s the 3rd whiff I have seen Ingold make this game.
I can not stand to watch Tina anymore.
So Dr. Jekyll stayed Stateside this week and sent Mr. Hyde? Wet tissue defense and rushed plays = TD for then and FA for us. We were due another bad one in a woefully inconsistent season
3rd and 4th down snapped with 0 on clock
Asking for a friend . . . Was that a PUNT attempt by Tua there?
Yeah, one thing to do it on 3rd and long, on first down is just a stupid decision.
Yeah, but they weren’t expecting it…
Why are we always up against the clock?
13-13
Great block by Julian Hill on that TD run by Gordon.
We need to resign Dulcich and Julian Hill.
LOL @ Rich!
Huge Stop!!!
Tua is horrible
YES!!!!!!
Turnover!!!!
anyone else have a Bonner after that fumble recovery?
SBJ – Escapes the pocket and still holds the ball for a sack. Dude must be dumb as a box of rocks.
Exactly!
Similar 40 time too
Yeah, we got the muffed punt recovery.
WTF was that before? Screen pass, failed screen pass, Tua sack instead of throwing the ball away. SMH
That whole sequence ending with the muffed punt was all planned and executed perfectly 🙁
LOL!!!
A win is a win!
Not a win yet
Unfucking Believable!
Achane hurt on a stupid call when Gordon should have been the RB!
unbelievable to go for it there.
Lol
They basically took the ball out of Tua’s hands for most of this game
Another reason to just play Ewers!
Wow these 3rd and 4th down plays suck – so predictable
our hc is a FUCKING MORON
un-fucking-believable.
WTF!!!!!! I thought points wins games. Kick the fucking FG
who
wants
it
the
most
why are they calling timeout!
This is all helpful in the quest to get MM fired.
if this shit doesn’t get him fired, I don’t know what will.
We can only hope
achane with no situational awareness when he ran to the outside and got pushed ob. Clock stops on the injury when we should have run ollie, then not taking the points.
we deserve to fucking lose. So sick of this fucking clown hc
Let’s call fucking time outs so the Commanders have plenty of time to drive into FG range.
Please fire this fucking idiot!!!!
he has to lose his job over this!!
Crazy Game!
first time in dolphins history a kicker missed a long game winning fg
Waddle does that way too much
he has killed us in the 4th
and now you let the other team have the ball first in overtime!?!
🤡 13 v 🤡 13
Painful to extend this. If it was an animal they’d put it to sleep
WTF, we win the toss and elect to kick in overtime?
Fucking overtime when I need to be going asleep. I have to be back at work at 8pm. Sucks. Too pissed to fall asleep right now anyway. lol
now that a td doesn’t automatically win it, I’m ok kicking first
I mean I’ve seen some stupid shit before, but this takes the cake. I don’t care if we win or not. WTF?
And that last pass from Tua was a bad throw. Put it where it’s supposed to be with your amazing accuracy that we hear about constantly, and it’s an easy catch and puts you in position to try a FG at least.
Since both teams are guaranteed the ball now in OT, most teams that win the toss kick.
jones!
In Achane we trust. Tua, not so much
FG wins it. Expect Tua to lose 35yds on a sack
good to see achane back
I don’t mind kicking in OT. You get the ball too, and it lets you know if you need a FG or TD.
Yep
yes, but you better get it done on that possession, because you may not get another
lol, another TO
So what Vilma is saying is we basically have a $53M per year game manager for our QB
WIN!!!!!!
I still feel like we lost in a way.
That was just some real Forrest Gump shit right there.
Still in the Hunt!
We won that game despite Tua and Mike McDaniel. Hopefully Ross realizes that both of those guys should be gone next season.
That was about as hollow a WIN as a win can be. Our HC is clueless, and now we realize we’re paying $53M per season to a Game Manager QB, who BTW got lucky he wasn’t picked off on that awful deep throw on 1st down
MikeE,
I don’t watch pregame crap much unless it’s about our game. It was interesting to see all the hype or talk about us coming up to the game had little to do with Tua. They talked about Achane and Waddle. I think even the NFL folks have moved on from Tua because they almost always talk about the QBs.
steve,
That applies whether you kick or receive. If you receive the ball you better score because you may not get another chance.
Todd Bowles with a challenge worthy of McD.
https://x.com/ckparrot/status/1990114075854975437
New GM can get rid of anyone they want besides Achane. Man that guy bails this offense out so often. He’s incredible!
The limited QB really hurts this offense. 1 more year……
Hopefully new HC next year and new QB after that
Mike McDaniel will be back next seson get use to that fact!
ER, so much of my frustration comes from knowing we’re still a year and a half away from being able to really get into rebuilding. We’re stuck with Tua next year and likely McDaniel as well because of Tua.
Can some of you enjoy the win?
No. Not me. As Mike said, a hallow win. Hopefully MM did enough stupid stuff to show he needs to be fired. Tua has become awful.
What part of the fact that the Dolphins owner actually likes Mike McDaniel do some of you delusional people not understand?
The only joy for some of you is at least they fired Chris Grier and is cleaning house in the front office executives, getting rid og co-directors of player personnel Adam Engroff and Anthony Hunt.
Jordan Love has been absolutely awful the last month+
Maybe it hasn’t been quite that long, it only feels that way. I’m not sure what has happened with him.
i don’t even know what to say about today’s game, the timeouts at the end of the fourth quarter, going forward.On fourth and one SMH
I can enjoy being 2-0 since losing Grier’s stank. 😂
Nice try….
But I still give Grier the credit because it’s his players who are winning. Nothing has changed; the team is basically the same, just starting to get healthier.
Markey – There is a small part of me that hopes Ross just didn’t want to waste time firing McDaniel in season because it just doesn’t matter much either way. To act though like Ross loves McDaniel is just silly talk. He looked like a jackass today not kicking the FG and if he lost, I wonder if he would have been fired after the game. McDaniel sucks as HC as much as Grier sucks as GM. One is already gone, the other will follow at the end of the season
you’re going to be disappointed Tua and McDaniel will be back next year
Most normal people will be disappointed if they run both of them back. We’ve seen enough, next year will be another wasted year with a GM who isn’t qualified making crucial draft picks and a HC who is in over his head, and a QB who is now Ryan Tannehill Part II
I think if this team kind of avoid injuries, they are more than Good enough to make it to the playoffs and win games and potentially make it to the Super Bowl
Nice try? Not sure what that means. I can be happy Grier is gone while you can continue to make excuses for him. Fact is 4-7 and season was lost weeks ago
Exactly!!! Grier is gone, time to move on…. Under Grier, 0 playoffs wins=FAIL!!!!
I think some of you fail to take into account that we have been without our two of our best offensive lineman since week, one
Also, when you take into account that we had made changes on defense that took time to develop but now they’re playing much better. Also keep in mind. We’re a top 10 youngest team in the league right now
I’m not sure what more any of you should be looking for
“I think if this team kind of avoid injuries, they are more than Good enough to make it to the playoffs and win games and potentially make it to the Super Bowl”
What are you smoking? What part of the shit show we just watched makes you think this team has any chance of making the playoffs, much less the Super Bowl? They stumbled to a win against a team without its starting QB, best defender , and best WR just to name two missing players.
They won
in fact they won three other last four games two of them were team was winning records
Many of you have been influence by viewpoints here that are not consistent with the majority of Dolphins fans IMHO
YOU are not consistent with the majority of dolphins fans!
More so than you!
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I’m very happy we got the win, but there are some serious concerns .
Mariota looked as good as Tua today, and he’s probably making $43 million less.
mcDaniel is very questionable making calls when the game is on the line. Those goal line calls were atrocious.
Even with those issues they won and that is all that matters
Markey – I gotta laugh. What I read in your last comment is the equivalent of causing a 30 car pileup accident in which 60 people were injured but saying we’re OK, so it’s all good.
🙂
Washington just had too many injuries to win. 🙂
All that matters is the Dolphins won we have had our share of injuries too.
Ugly win against a very bad Redskins team. I don’t care quite as much about the draft pick with no good QBs early. We might still pick around 10-14 and just get the best CB or OL you an at that spot. Set up the players around our next QB in 2027? We have a solid chance at 8-9 for the season though and a worse pick. We have played another really easy schedule this year. Honestly, this team should be a perennial playoff team with the schedules we’ve had the past 4 years. Maybe one day.
Your Boy Justin Herbert sucks today they are losing to the Jags 28-6
Who’s boy is Justin Herbert?
Harbaugh yanked him. He’s out of the game
the difference is anyone can have a bad game, but not everyone can come back the next week and beat any team
the redskins were about to make history for their 5th consecutive loss of 21+ points, and weak ass MM almost handed them a win
If you go for it on that 4th and 1, you’d better have a great play called, not just run up the middle
Bucs should be up 3 but they started chasing points, smh.
Josh Allen can be reckless, careless, but he’s light-years better than Tua. He’s such a dangerous offensive weapon. He has 5 TD’s against a good Bucs team when our QB doesn’t throw a pass the entire 4th quarter
you insinuate that’s a bad thing
Which part are you referring to? Tua not throwing a 4th quarter pass? Just shows you the difference in where the two QB’s are. Bills look to Allen to win games and Dolphins try to make sure Tua doesn’t lose it. How the fuck do you run that back here for next season? I think all Dolphins fan should opt out of renewing their tickets
Make it a 6 pack
Who’s boy is Herbert? If you are talking about QBs most here would rather have than Tua, that’s going to be a very long list. If you’re talking about another Grier mistake, that would be accurate too.
Best quote from the locker room: Linebacker Jordyn Brooks said Jones called his shot before the overtime interception. “If y’all stop the run, [Mariota’s] gonna throw it to me because he can’t throw,” Jones said. — Marcel Louis-Jacques
I wonder how many defenders say that about Tua
We’ve seen it a number of times.
Lol!
Carolina just won the OT coin toss and elected to kick as well. Thats what I would choose as well with the new rules.
Tua career record 44-31
Herbert career record 48-42
Fact!
Tua is the third winningest QB in Dolphins history
after today’s win
Markeyh,
in response to “we won, that’s all that matters”:
for today, yes you are correct.
for the future, you’d couldn’t be more wrong.
I win now or in the future is still a win that’s the objective of the game
That should also be the objective of true fan
I think that you’re missing my point . We don’t have much of a future with Tua as our QB. Do you realize what his QBR is? It’s 27th in the NFL. He’s severely regressed since 2023. He won’t be on the team past the 2026 season. Hes making about $40 million more than the QB he played against today, and he didn’t look any better. Washington came in on a historically bad for game stretch on D, and we put up 1 TD on them.
when the Dolphins are healthy. They are a top team
no team in the NFL is healthy. Austin Jackson has sucked since Hunt left- look it up. He’s had 1 1/2
good seasons in five years.
He has played well enough when healthy
Top at what? Compared to what team? This team has never been a real contender during Grier’s tenure as GM. Don’t even tell me ’23, we were pretenders
Grier is gone! Why are you bringing him up?
but they need the playoff back to back in 23 and 24 for the first time in over 20 years. Don’t let those facts get in your way
I meant 22 and 23
those facts mean shit to me. My hope as a fan isn’t that they “make the playoffs”. It’s that they win playoff games, continue to u prove and eventually win the Super Bowl. Those “facts”
suggest that this team has regressed the past two seasons, which they have massively.
I brought up Grier because I figured you were referencing a different year. If you mean the current roster that insane. This roster was flawed to death before the season even started. Gambled on an OG coming off a bad injury. Drafting a turnstile for a LG. Counting on a TE was retired due to injury and frustration from those injuries. We’re the De’Von Achanes, and that fucker isn’t even signed for next season. You can thank your pal Chris Grier fir that. I guess De’Von Achane has also earned his roght to be a Free Agent.
I guess we’re signing rookies for 3 years now
we have the ninth youngest roster in the NFL after this year‘s draft so they go to a transition and it appears that they’re finally getting on track. They have good coaching (minus the head coach) and they’re finally getting on track. We’ll see how the season goes.
Achane was Drafted by Greer he would’ve resigned him just as well as whoever will be in place will give him a contract extension. He is our best player by the way and he was drafted by Chris Greer.
KC vs Denver game has a penalty on every other play
The Dolphins won three of their last four games the time you guys get back on the bandwagon and quit bitching
Don’t tell me how to fucking fan! It’s time for YOU to stop telling the rest of us what “True fans” are. No, REALLY.
Fuck You!
Speak for yourself and not the”rest of us”
Take the bye week to get Ewers ready. Play anybody who is young and let them get experience. Anybody who thinks this team, with this coach, can make a “run”, is delusional.
I don’t think they’re gonna make a run, but I’m not rooting for him not to we will see how this season ends no matter what I can guarantee you one fact, both the head coach and the quarterback will be back next year
We have a young team because Grier blew his load on all those trades and Free agent signings and cap wrecking contracts that will hurt this team for another few seasons, so we have to rely on our draft picks and UDFA’s to play because we have no cap room. You continue to bring thst up as if Grier designed things this way when in reality he had no choice but to do this. This roster isn’t good. If Achane got hurt this team would be horrible
once again Chris Greer is gone. Why do you keep bringing him up? fact is this young team is playing well and there is a lot to build on. You guys need to open up your eyes and quit being so close minded
OMG, you’re like a Chatty Kathy doll. Because he built this shitty roster thst you keep wrongly praising and as far as Achane, Grier dropped the ball not re-signing him. He’s going to be a very expensive free agent now. Bad job by Grier as per usghe
Just for the record Achane is in his 3rd season of a standard 4 yr rookie contract
i’m fine with just moving on from Chris Greer whatever you think he did Doesn’t matter anymore he’s been fired
You seem to just wanna have something to argue about time to move on to bigger and better things
I have no problem with the fact that Chris Greer tried to make it work. It didn’t work and he paid the price move on!
a trade proposal.I heard today was straight up two or for kyler murray
What does anyone think?
Some contract notes: