Finsmob Unleashed

Training camp is in full swing and the fans are EXCITED! GM Chris Grier just signed FA CB Jack Jones off the street, and instantly he becomes our best CB. The fans are thrilled, “Hey Chris, great move!” Maybe Chris Grier has the jump on the NFL, the draft doesn’t mean anything, who cares about developing talent when you can just wait until a month or so before the season and pick up a couple of guys that will be better than any player you spent hours and hours of research on, scouted for hours, went to games, watched hours of film. Don’t bother, it’s not really important because if you’re patient, there will be a gem of a player available in Free Agency that you can just pick up a month or so before the season starts, and he’ll end up being one of the best players on your roster at that position. Chris Grier found the cheat code to the NFL!

Let’s put this into perspective. Stop giving Chris Grier the benefit of the doubt. The fact that Jack Jones may be our best CB is a sad commentary on how Chris Grier built this roster. I say this so often, I think you guys are numb to it, but he’s just not good. QB Tua Tagovailoa is killing it in Training Camp and the fans are going wild! Not only has he not thrown an INT but he might not even have an incompletion. Just remember, there’s no contact with the QB in Training Camp, and he’s also playing against our secondary where Jack Jones who was picked up last week is our best player. QB Tua Tagovailoa knows this offense backwards and forwards. He is a dedicated player to his craft, I’ll never slight him on that. This offense was designed for him by HC Mike McDaniel from the very beginning, and Tua can run it with his eyes closed. Unfortunately, the reality is, once the season starts and we play a better team, don’t expect the performance to be as electric as it is now in training camp.

RB Alexander Mattison has been looking much better once the pads went on. Our 6th RD Draft pick Ollie Gordon who got tons of hype has disappeared. Ollie Gordon or Mattison for that matter probably won’t see many carries with DeVon Achane and Jaylen Wright ahead of them, but as we all know, injuries run rampant in the NFL so depth is always tested. You have to carry at least 3 RB’s on the roster, so Ollie Gordon may well get cut and end up on the practice squad. So far with the WR’s, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine has been invisible. That’s a disappointment, but my guess is he’s going to get a lot of rope with the departure of TE Jonnu Smith. NWI is probably the best replacement of Jonnu as a bigger WR that can terrorize smaller DB’s or LB’s in the slot. NWI was great last season at catching TD’s, more than a 1/4 of his receptions were for 6. He had 32 receptions and 9 TD’s, and we can use that type of player with all the smaller WR’s we have like Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle and Malik Washington and you can add Tahj Washington too.

So what’s happening at TE? Where’s Waller? We’ll be saying that the entire 2025 season. No worries, we have guys that get hyped up every season before the actual season starts like Tanner Conner, Julian Hill but we do have physical blocking Pharoah Brown who will be in the starting lineup and that boy can block! Will Tanner Conner or Julian Hill finally step up? Julian Hill is in year 3, Tanner Conner going on year 4. I wouldn’t bet on it, but it sure would be nice for one or both of these guys to match the hype with some good play.

Listen, I know I’m negative, and if that’s a downer for you, I apologize. I just think the way we go about things in this organization is all wrong. I think Chris Grier will likely be gone after this season and he will have left the new GM, whoever that might be with a shitty cap situation and a roster with holes galore. This roster is full of injury riddled players with boom or OUT potential. One we traded for, Bradley Chubb. We drafted Jaealan Phillips, who I truly admire for his amazing resolve. He’s faced down two major injuries the last two years and comes back ready to go and just as fast and strong as he was before those injuries. God bless that kid, I root for him always. QB Tua Tagovailoa we drafted and in his own words, he knows he needs to stay out of harms way to play an entire season. Unfortunately, that type of play doesn’t usually translate to championship play, because every now and again, a QB has to extend a play, run for a few yards and challenge a defender for a first down or a trip to the end zone, and we probably won’t see those things from #1 so he can stay healthy enough to remain in the game. Some of you here compare Tua Tagovailoa favorably to Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow and other top Qb’s like Josh Allen. That’s not how ANY of those guys play, but hey, you tried and you get a consolation prize for your effort, you got mentioned in this article!

GO DOLPHINS!!!