Finsmob Unleashed

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!!!