A little bit of optimism

[fins in tally]

I think most fans would agree that the 6 game win streak to end the season last year, combined with many other factors such as chris chambers emergence as a top 10 wide reciever, ronnie brown showing glimpses of why he was the second pick in the 05 draft left us all feeling pretty damn good about our team last seaon...The feeling was not exclusive to fans, im sure some remember Ron Jaworski's comments the Monday after the Super Bowl last year when he warned the rest of the league to watch out for our Dolphins as an up and coming team. Then comes the Culpepper trade, adding to that feeling of excitement. The consensus was that if we could win 9 games with an Average Gus Frerotte at the helm there was no limit to what we could do with the physically gifted ( a statement i am glad to debate anyone on) Daunte Culpepper.

Now comes week 4, and a game against the lowly Texans. Im sure many of us thought by now we would be 3-0 near the top of most so called "Experts" power rankings and well on our way to a fast start. Well, this quite obviously isnt the case...but its also not the case that our season is a wash and we should bench our future for a QB who has looked nothing more than average throughout his career.

Lets slow down and think about this for a second...if we beat the texans, we improve to 2-2. For those of you who have looked at the schedule this week im sure you'd agree that the rest of our division may very well be in for a rough weekend, and it is conceivable that all might lose...leaving the jets, phins, and pats all at 2-2 with us traveling to New England next weekend and New York the in week six.

So for everyone who has been impatient with our slowly developing offense, or completely ignored our improving defense...I ask you to consider being optomistic if things start to look a little better on Sunday, we might end the weekend with an opportunity to go into New England in week 5 and take sole posession of first place, maybe even soldify it in week 6 against the Jets. What more could we ask for than to be in first place in our division in week 6...being hyped throughout the year as this seasons super bowl sleeper would have been nice but also could have presented challenges. Although its not what we all had in mind lets see how things play out these next few weeks before we bench Culpepper for Harrington and fire Saban to bring in Larry Coker.

 

[Spiff]

Enough said. Thank you. Common sense is rare these days but you prove it still exists among Dolphins supporters.

 

[The Aqua Crush]

I've felt that way. I always stay optimistic. And its not a single persons fault. Football is a team game and everyone needs to build on each others good play TOGETHER.


The phins will get it together. And we are in a good position as you pointed out to be sittin pretty come week 6.

 

[SarahAnn]

I hate Blind Optimism, what have you seen from the Dolphins this year that makes you remain optimistic? All you talk about is what Should have happened and what could happen in the future... Lets look at what really HAS happened as a basis of what this team is playing like right now.

 

[The Aqua Crush]

I hate Blind Optimism, what have you seen from the Dolphins this year that makes you remain optimistic?

Its called being a fan who doesn't jump on or fall off the preverbial bandwagon. You always believe, through good times or rough times.

Thats what being a true fan is all about :wink:

(but you are right it is blind optimism because we haven't done much good this year.)

 

[SarahAnn]

Its called being a fan who doesn't jump on or fall off the preverbial bandwagon. You always believe, through good times or rough times.

Thats what being a true fan is all about :wink:

(but you are right it is blind optimism because we haven't done much good this year.)

I love the Dolphins and no matter what they play like I watch them and cheer them on so dont even think I jump on and off the bandwagon. I just dont think we should kid ourselves into thinking we are a Superbowl contender this year. We have far too many holes in the O-Line and Secondary.

 

[tdmiami]

we can only get better

 

[SarahAnn]

we can only get better

*sigh* wish that were true, the fact is that we have most of the team out there doing well with only a few players dragging us down. If they were all doing poorly... Dont really wana think about that.

 

[Phanatical]

I love the Dolphins and no matter what they play like I watch them and cheer them on so dont even think I jump on and off the bandwagon. I just dont think we should kid ourselves into thinking we are a Superbowl contender this year. We have far too many holes in the O-Line and Secondary.

Very true. I would add at QB to the problems also.

 

[TampaFinsFan01]

I think most fans would agree that the 6 game win streak to end the season last year, combined with many other factors such as chris chambers emergence as a top 10 wide reciever, ronnie brown showing glimpses of why he was the second pick in the 05 draft left us all feeling pretty damn good about our team last seaon...The feeling was not exclusive to fans, im sure some remember Ron Jaworski's comments the Monday after the Super Bowl last year when he warned the rest of the league to watch out for our Dolphins as an up and coming team. Then comes the Culpepper trade, adding to that feeling of excitement. The consensus was that if we could win 9 games with an Average Gus Frerotte at the helm there was no limit to what we could do with the physically gifted ( a statement i am glad to debate anyone on) Daunte Culpepper.

Now comes week 4, and a game against the lowly Texans. Im sure many of us thought by now we would be 3-0 near the top of most so called "Experts" power rankings and well on our way to a fast start. Well, this quite obviously isnt the case...but its also not the case that our season is a wash and we should bench our future for a QB who has looked nothing more than average throughout his career.

Lets slow down and think about this for a second...if we beat the texans, we improve to 2-2. For those of you who have looked at the schedule this week im sure you'd agree that the rest of our division may very well be in for a rough weekend, and it is conceivable that all might lose...leaving the jets, phins, and pats all at 2-2 with us traveling to New England next weekend and New York the in week six.

So for everyone who has been impatient with our slowly developing offense, or completely ignored our improving defense...I ask you to consider being optomistic if things start to look a little better on Sunday, we might end the weekend with an opportunity to go into New England in week 5 and take sole posession of first place, maybe even soldify it in week 6 against the Jets. What more could we ask for than to be in first place in our division in week 6...being hyped throughout the year as this seasons super bowl sleeper would have been nice but also could have presented challenges. Although its not what we all had in mind lets see how things play out these next few weeks before we bench Culpepper for Harrington and fire Saban to bring in Larry Coker.

This is the kind of post that makes my head want to explode. Fire Saban and hire Coker. This poor fan has been abused so long that he thinks he actually deserves someone as bad as Coker. Its like he suffers from some type of "battered syndrome".

But while he asks us to "slow down and think", he assumes that we will beat Houston, go to NE with the opportunity to beat the Patriots and the opportunity to solidify that win at NYJ. Thats all well and good, but I've got news for you....The Jets and NE are better than Buffalo. David Carr is playing pretty well. There is a chance that we go 0-3, and a better than likely chance we go 1-2.

If we are 2-4, with three division losses, this season will have a been a disaster and all hell (with my help) is going to continue to break loose.

 

[TampaFinsFan01]

Enough said. Thank you. Common sense is rare these days but you prove it still exists among Dolphins supporters.

I agree that common sense is rare these days. But I didn't notice any in that posters post. He was reciting a hopeful prayer. Hopefully we win in NE, hopefully we win in NY and hes assuming that we'll win in Houston.

If we win all three of those games, I'll come back and say I was wrong about this poster. But until then, IMO, he's living a pipe dream...and you are complimenting him for it.

 

[TampaFinsFan01]

I've felt that way. I always stay optimistic. And its not a single persons fault. Football is a team game and everyone needs to build on each others good play TOGETHER.

Because football is a team sport is exactly why I criticize the whole team.

 

[TampaFinsFan01]

I hate Blind Optimism, what have you seen from the Dolphins this year that makes you remain optimistic? All you talk about is what Should have happened and what could happen in the future... Lets look at what really HAS happened as a basis of what this team is playing like right now.

Sarah Ann....you get two stars for getting it right. What's wrong with the boys on this site?

 

[TampaFinsFan01]

Its called being a fan who doesn't jump on or fall off the preverbial bandwagon. You always believe, through good times or rough times.

Thats what being a true fan is all about :wink:

(but you are right it is blind optimism because we haven't done much good this year.)

Oh boy....so the rest of us aren't "True Fans"? Tell me again AC, what do we need to do other than just blindly chant "Go Team Go" and drink the koolaid?

 

[Phanatical]

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Originally Posted by SarahAnn
I hate Blind Optimism, what have you seen from the Dolphins this year that makes you remain optimistic? All you talk about is what Should have happened and what could happen in the future... Lets look at what really HAS happened as a basis of what this team is playing like right now.

Sarah Ann....you get two stars for getting it right. What's wrong with the boys on this site?

Yep, she can actually see what's going on. So many here can't, they just wanna break out their pom poms. :cheer: