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Hyde: A rite of spring — Dolphins fans want to trust through distrust

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Danny Amendola is a champion, a leader, a valuable slot receiver who brings a contagious attitude and shiny Super Bowl rings into a Dolphins locker room that hasn’t won a playoff game in 18 years.
Danny Amendola is an aging name with a history of injuries who was a product of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and couldn’t turn down a lifetime-achievement contract to play out his final, lucrative days in the South Florida sun.
It’s never clear as the ink dries in NFL free agency whether you’re playing the odds on a player another team let go or the odds are playing you.
But it’s always so clear afterward, isn’t it?
The Dolphins fear they don’t have the fans’ trust on their side, not after a 6-10 season, not after so many recent March decisions, not when just this week they’ve erased several once-touted signings, from Ndamukong Suh to Lawrence Timmons.
But the power of sports is such that Dolphins fans want to believe so completely in what’s speculation, mystery and value-based hope they’re willing to wave a magic wand to make the scars and sorrows disappear like Suh and Timmons.
Watch what happens now. Over the next six months, hope will get re-inflated. Faith will follow. It’s a rite of spring more than baseball is in South Florida, this idea that tomorrow is forever a place, no matter what yesterday brought.
By the summer, the Dolphins will have smartly re-done their receiving corps, judiciously filled roster holes, created excellent matchups for coach Adam Gase’s offense, fixed their defense, changed their locker-room culture and poured a full vat of hope on the 2018 season.
Never mind that, once the kickoffs start, we’ll see if they’ve made the kind of mistakes of overspending and under-vision that will again become apparent on the scoreboard.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...hyde-dolphins-free-agency-20180314-story.html
 
And we shouldn’t have drafted this Marino kid from Pitt in ‘83.

He didn’t have the maturity to play in the NFL.
 
While I wont click on the link, This blurb looks alot more like a rant post you'd find on a message board than something you'd read in a newspaper...
 
I'm not keen on getting Patsie rejects. Maybe I'm old skool but i still have my standards.
 
It's the same cycle:
1) Make shortsighted decisions that will ultimately backfire in a couple years
2) Draft someone in the first round that makes the fans go meh
3) Writers report about how someone is killing it in camp who later plays a grand total of 5 plays during the season or gets cut.
4) Have a really sloppy preseason game and a really good one
5) Start the season with a game that feels like a kick in the groin (Still encouraged by that Seattle loss two years ago or that Green Bay game down here in 2014?)
6) Last team loses and we celebrate our archaic achievement
7) Land in that 6-10 to 10-6 range
8) People on here post about how they're encouraged and the future is bright, meanwhile another season gone
9) Watch other teams play in conference title games and super bowls while were going on 25 plus years for either
Rinse and repeat
 
mfish41 said:
It's the same cycle:
1) Make shortsighted decisions that will ultimately backfire in a couple years
2) Draft someone in the first round that makes the fans go meh
3) Writers report about how someone is killing it in camp who later plays a grand total of 5 plays during the season or gets cut.
4) Have a really sloppy preseason game and a really good one
5) Start the season with a game that feels like a kick in the groin (Still encouraged by that Seattle loss two years ago or that Green Bay game down here in 2014?)
6) Last team loses and we celebrate our archaic achievement
7) Land in that 6-10 to 10-6 range
8) People on here post about how they're encouraged and the future is bright, meanwhile another season gone
9) Watch other teams play in conference title games and super bowls while were going on 25 plus years for either
Rinse and repeat
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Spot on synopsis...
 
Yessir said:
That column is the sobering reality some will refuse to accept until it hits them in the face yet again.

But the most precious commodity in sports is hope. And no one wants to hear someone take away their hope in March.
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Good ol hope, probably the 2nd most used 4 letter word in sports.
 
Timmons was NEVER a “Once touted” signing. He was always a stop gap signing, until you know what you have in your younger players. Amendola, the same thing. NE wanted him back, but he wanted a pay raise.
The tone of the editorial could be applied to almost every team in the league that doesn’t get to the SB. Sometimes these decisions work and sometimes they don’t.
What I will say is over the years, this team would have looked a lot better with a franchise coach and franchise QB.
Jury is still out on Gase and RT approaching the age of 30 has a lot to prove.
 
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