phins_4_ever
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:roflmao
Time to put things in perspective....
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Phinatic8u
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Miami should sign Kirk Cousins.
**** it.
**** it.
phins_4_ever
E12 FH Tailgate Gang
Who said we were great?
roy_miami
2020 cant get here soon enough
Not shying away from my 8-8 prediction but looking at the rest of the schedule you could easily see how we get to 3-13.
montequi
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Eeeek. ALL those teams won today.
montequi
Middle Timer
Losses to the Jets are ALWAYS painful. I don't care if we're winless or undefeated.
I love blank comments and assumptions like this. You don't know a damn thing about what the team did during the week. It's one game. ****ing move on
More than a few - not you
Not in pain the play offs were over and done even Thill went down
Seems like we've regressed. Granted we lost our starting KB.
gofins60
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Ross is responsible for this fiasco.
I'm still waiting for Ross to hire a "real" Head Coach and GM after firing Sparano and Ireland. Actually, IMO the main reason why this team sucks is Ross; he's the one who hired Philbin, Tannenbaum, and Gase. I'll explain my reasoning:
When Ross took over the team, and before he decided to fire Sparano, this is what he had: a decent defense (with a Top 5 Rushing Defense), and a vanilla offense that settled for FGs rather than scoring TDs because they lacked above-average talent at the offensive skill positions (QB, WR, RB, and TE). Their defense kept them in games, going toe-to-toe with "elite" teams, but the offense just couldn't score enough points to get the wins. They could have been transformed into a playoff caliber team just by getting a better OC and replacing Ireland with a GM who wouldn't refuse to select players at those skill positions early in the draft. But no, Ross decided to hire Philbin, a Coach who wanted to completely change everything about the team. Coyle's change of the defensive scheme neutered that Top 5 Rushing Defense, and Philbin's personnel decisions resulted in talented players being replaced with inferior players. Blame Philbin, Gase, and Tannenbaum for the current o-line troubles; Philbin preferred players like Jonathan Martin and Dallas Thomas over someone like Incognito (recent Pro Bowler), and Gase and Tannenbaum went with the status quo instead of building a new o-line. The hiring of a new regime was the perfect time to start rebuilding a roster full of inferior players. Far too many of Miami's starters would be lucky to be a back-up on a quality team. Unfortunately, Gase and Tannenbaum decided to apply band-aids to fix gaping holes and a severe lack of talent.
Sparano's defense was one of the few in the league that gave Brady fits; it was his offense that couldn't score enough points to wrest the Division Crown away from the Pats. One or two decent drafts with a real GM and a better OC calling plays could have turned this franchise around quickly, but Ross set this team back years by hiring Philbin. Ross may really be trying to build a winner, but he keeps making poor decisions.
I'm still waiting for Ross to hire a "real" Head Coach and GM after firing Sparano and Ireland. Actually, IMO the main reason why this team sucks is Ross; he's the one who hired Philbin, Tannenbaum, and Gase. I'll explain my reasoning:
When Ross took over the team, and before he decided to fire Sparano, this is what he had: a decent defense (with a Top 5 Rushing Defense), and a vanilla offense that settled for FGs rather than scoring TDs because they lacked above-average talent at the offensive skill positions (QB, WR, RB, and TE). Their defense kept them in games, going toe-to-toe with "elite" teams, but the offense just couldn't score enough points to get the wins. They could have been transformed into a playoff caliber team just by getting a better OC and replacing Ireland with a GM who wouldn't refuse to select players at those skill positions early in the draft. But no, Ross decided to hire Philbin, a Coach who wanted to completely change everything about the team. Coyle's change of the defensive scheme neutered that Top 5 Rushing Defense, and Philbin's personnel decisions resulted in talented players being replaced with inferior players. Blame Philbin, Gase, and Tannenbaum for the current o-line troubles; Philbin preferred players like Jonathan Martin and Dallas Thomas over someone like Incognito (recent Pro Bowler), and Gase and Tannenbaum went with the status quo instead of building a new o-line. The hiring of a new regime was the perfect time to start rebuilding a roster full of inferior players. Far too many of Miami's starters would be lucky to be a back-up on a quality team. Unfortunately, Gase and Tannenbaum decided to apply band-aids to fix gaping holes and a severe lack of talent.
Sparano's defense was one of the few in the league that gave Brady fits; it was his offense that couldn't score enough points to wrest the Division Crown away from the Pats. One or two decent drafts with a real GM and a better OC calling plays could have turned this franchise around quickly, but Ross set this team back years by hiring Philbin. Ross may really be trying to build a winner, but he keeps making poor decisions.
Classic trap game...ripe for a letdown...should have seen it coming...oh well!
flynryan15
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Take all the distractions and stressors away and what you have is a team with a crap oline, crap LB and crap secondary.
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Really tired of people using last season as some sort of life line for the 2017 Dolphins.
Fact we barely made playoffs last season, mainly due to last ditch wins vs bad teams i.e Browns, niners, Bills, Cardinals, Rams, Jets etc.
Fact Dolphins of 2017 minus their starting QB.
Fact Dolphins still retain an awful football operations, led by a meathead Mike Tannenbaum, who yet again failed to address obvious needs i.e LB's, secondary, TE, legit defensive coordinator.
Fact Dolphins have crazy tough schedule in 2017 i.e in division SB champs Patsx2, tough bills squad x2, Titans, KC, Broncos, OAK, Bucs, Falcons, Ravens. Don't kid ourselves that loss to a garbage Jets team is a significant blow.
Fact we barely made playoffs last season, mainly due to last ditch wins vs bad teams i.e Browns, niners, Bills, Cardinals, Rams, Jets etc.
Fact Dolphins of 2017 minus their starting QB.
Fact Dolphins still retain an awful football operations, led by a meathead Mike Tannenbaum, who yet again failed to address obvious needs i.e LB's, secondary, TE, legit defensive coordinator.
Fact Dolphins have crazy tough schedule in 2017 i.e in division SB champs Patsx2, tough bills squad x2, Titans, KC, Broncos, OAK, Bucs, Falcons, Ravens. Don't kid ourselves that loss to a garbage Jets team is a significant blow.
Difference so far between 2016 and 2017 is that in 2016 the Dolphins beat every team that they were expected to beat. Most of the wins may not have been pretty but they were wins. We forget that even though the Dolphins started 1-4 in 2016 those 4 losses came against teams that the Dolphins were expected to lose to. Seahawks, Patriots, Bengals and Titans. The only team you could argue would be the Titans. However the Titans were a young up and coming borderline playoff team. So far in 2016 the Dolphins have already lost badly to a team that will most likely be competing for the #1 pick in the draft. That is one reason why this loss stings so much. Also this years schedule appears to be much tougher.