phins_4_ever
E12 FH Tailgate Gang
I like to add:Here are my post game thoughts, in no particular order:
- The Dolphins lost the football game.
- Michael Thomas is a nice special teams player, but an absolutely dreadful safety. Any time that our defense is forced to rely on Michael Thomas, our defense stinks. Memo to Mike Tannenbaum, safety is an important position.
- Reshad Jones should not be asked to do the job of a free safety. He is a great strong safety, but he is not a good free safety. Maybe we should just go get a free safety? Trader Mike? Hello? I'd slit a nun's throat for Brock Marion back there right now.
- The personal foul called on Jones that led to Oakland's last touchdown was truly one of the most pitiful calls I have ever seen in any sport at any level of competition. I see people calling for cuts and jobs to be had over stuff on this board all the time, well how about for that? One of those zebras needs to lose his job, and also be publicly flogged for that call.
- Mike Pouncey needs to be the first cap casualty of the off-season. Do I even need to explain why?
- Devante Parker, nice highlight reel catch in garbage time. How about taking your 3rd down route to the sticks and then coming down with a contested football?
- Donkey Kong Suh is a great football player and if this team cuts him for 3.9 million dollars in cap savings, we are the dumbest morons on the entire planet.
- Bobby McCain has quietly developed into a competent slot corner. Credit to DBs coach Lou Anarumo for developing yet another young cornerback who needed a lot of work, who will now surely leave the team in free agency after we've spent three-plus years making him respectable.
- Jay Cutler and Julius Thomas were the two best players on offense tonight.
- Kenyan Drake, it is better to have died as a small boy than to put that football on the ground.
- Tunsil's a bust until he proves otherwise. Sorry, he's been that bad that I have to use the B word until he makes me look stupid for using it. Please make me look stupid, Laremy.
- Hey Matt Burke, maybe you should take some time off from moonlighting as an extra on Duck Dynasty and call some coverages that account for #87. Just a thought.
- Ultimately, the biggest thing I notice with the Miami Dolphins -- and this is ever since Jeff Ireland took over as General Manager -- is that we are just chock full of football players who are both dumb and can't handle pressure. That's a bad combination. I know this might seem like an overreaction, but I would look closely at every single player who committed an egregiously stupid penalty tonight and start thinking about how quickly they can be replaced.
- Play-calling was good tonight. You can't blame the coach for the same group of stupid, choke-prone players for stupidly choking yet again. They did it under the old coaching staff and they'd do it under a brand new one, too. They're just stupid chokers.
- The Dolphins lost the football game.
And those are my thoughts on the game. Some people are really mad about the result, some people are renouncing their fandom, some people are crying about Jay Ajayi, and some people think the NFL is rigged. I don't know. It was a football game. Some things were good, and some things were bad. It wasn't a bad football game, and that's far more than I can say for every other Dolphins game we've seen in primetime lately.
I guess I'll take it.
This team looked like a bad college team or a team filled up with fresh out of High School players. How often do we have run sideways and back to lose a 1st down we already had or we could have made by just falling forward? In addition to that how often do our receivers run back before running forward after catching the ball. The highlight on that was Landry running an almost full 5 yards towards our own endzone before turning around and going the right way.
That TD over Jones: absolutely amateur like. I have no words. That ball was thrown like a punt with a lot of hangtime and both players are looking at the ball all the way yet the guy with 2 catches all year gets it and our probowl DB is a step next to the receiver.
How often can you get burned on D by the same play over and over and over and over again?
It was more a bumbling and stumbling yesterday than anything else. Happless and helpless, confused and disorganized.
Oh one more thing: Landry better picks up the playbook otherwise he can go away. On our first TD he motions to the left. A frantic Cutler waving his arms at him to go to the other side. He eventually did. The play went to the right. How can a receiver in his second year in this offense not know the most simplest plays? If Cutler doesn't tell him to motion to the right this play goes nowhere.