Finsmob Unleashed

Monday Night Football baby! The 0-3 New York Jets come to visit the 0-3 Miami Dolphins in the AFC East “Toilet Bowl”! Hope you can make it to witness the reveal of the brand new for 2025 NFL Rivalry Uniforms (Pictured Above). I get it, some people are excited about this game, it’s time to turn the season around, it’s Monday Night Football and all. This team has no place being on Monday Night Football, but I guess the NFL doesn’t read my articles before making the schedules. Whichever team loses this game really is in the toilet bowl because only 1 team since the NFL has been around has made the playoffs after beginning the season 0-4, and that was the 1992 San Diego Chargers. Would losing to the NY Jets in front of a national audience and at home wearing those snazzy NFL Mandated Rivalry Uniform be enough for sleepy Ross to finally do something about this situation with Chris Grier as GM and Mike McDaniel as HC? We may just find out, but as we are all painfully aware, you can’t count on Ross to EVER make the right move which would be cleaning house, OUT with Grier and McDaniel. You can just about bet he will go with a half measure instead and probably just fire HC Mike McDaniel which would once again leave Chris Grier in charge of the franchise and choosing our players in the 2026 NFL Draft.

Let’s get back to the game at hand. TE Darren Waller was limited in practice but he is scheduled to play Monday Night. Oh joy! Supposedly, he will be on a snap count, but rest assured, his impact will be felt! WR Jaylen Waddle was also limited in practice with a shoulder ailment. Our rookies haven’t looked good so far and that means #13 pick DT Kenneth Grant, and #37 Jonah (Two Picks) Savaiinaea haven’t really showed well as of yet. One draft pick who looks very ready to contribute is RB Ollie Gordon II who has a total of 12 carries in 3 games. That oughta really allow big Ollie to get in a rhythm, huh? Our offense is 25th, and our defense is dead last, 32nd. They must be doing something right then! The Jets seem to be ready to start injured QB Justin Fields if he’s ready but Tyrod Taylor will be the backup, and he’s sliced and diced our defense many times, He has a 98.8 Passer Rating with 1769 yards and 10 TD’s, 3 INT’s.

Things were looking a little better last week, until the end of course, when it matters. We moved the ball last week and it looked like we had a chance until Tua allowed the Bills to snatch the football and the victory from our team. Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner insists it wasn’t Tua’s fault so that makes me feel so much better about the whole thing. See, I’d rather have a Hall of Fame QB playing for our team rather than having a retired Hall of Fame QB making excuses for our QB. Just saying! Even if we somehow come out on top, how do you gauge this win over another 0-3 team? The NY Jets are exactly mid pack on on offense at #16 (23 PPG) and close to our Dolphins on defense at #28 (31 PPG). You might think this could be a shootout since neither team seems interested in playing defense.

I don’t know if there’s a betting line on Darren Waller being done for the season after this game but I’d throw a few bucks on that one. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him laying down on the soft Miami grass field after getting hit and getting helped off the field either by a couple of players or a cart and ending his season with the Miami Dolphins. This has been a joke as soon as Grier actually gave up legitimate draft compensation for a player who retired and quit on his team (NY Giants). I mean who were we bidding against? If we told the Giants we’ll give you a bag of popcorn in 2029 for Waller would they have said no? He’s also been on the 53 man roster the entire season which kept someone else off, ridiculous!

Supposedly, rookie NT Jordan Phillips will be getting the start this week, we’ll see if that happens, and how he responds to his promotion. As so far, our rookies are not doing well, more fodder against “Grier the Great”. You want this guy picking players next year when we might have a top 10, maybe even top 5, maybe even top 3 pick? You know my answer! It also appears that Daniel Brunskill will be starting at RG over Kion Smith. and once again the RT spot will be Larry Borom. Brunskill was blamed wholeheartedly for the pressure on Tua during the choke INT that sealed our fate, but Larry Borom according to some played well.

If we’re going to win this game, let’s win it in style, let’s play a complete game and blow them out of Hard Rock. How about 31-0? I don’t need a 23-21 slopfest victory, but I suppose some will be happy and take that. I’m looking at the inevitability that this team will be cleansed, so wins and losses don’t matter much. I have no such delusions that this team will compete for a playoff spot, so I’m just waiting for that shoe to drop, if Ross is willing to do the right thing and try and better this team. We’ll see.

GO DOLPHINS!!!