Where’s the line here?
I’ve read these forums pretty much every single day of my life for 15 years or so. I don’t post much. Partly because I don’t have the time and in all honesty partly because this place can be a little intimidating.
Over those 15 years I’ve been almost exclusively positive and interacted with positive users. People that come here and whine about individual players or plays or play calls as a reaction really annoy me and don’t aid the flow of information and useful subjective opinion. I completely agree there should be a limit on who is able to start threads. I’ve been a member here 15 years but in all honesty I don’t think I’ve earned the right to start them.
Over the last three weeks however I’ve found it really tough to be positive. I think that’s disappointment fatigue. I really thought this rebuild was going to be different and I really fear it’s going to be dreadful.
I’d like to think I’ve added some articulate and well reasoned thoughts to some of those debates rather than just lashing out with frustration. Although those thoughts have been largely negative this season, I still think they’re worth sharing. Good or bad, I’ll give a passionate opinion about what’s going on with this team.
I can’t ‘take a break’ from this team… I love it. I can’t help it but I do. I’m invested and committed to it. I have a Marino jersey tattooed to my leg for goodness sake. I look forward to every season, to every game. I don’t expect wins or a super bowl, no matter how much I’d love one, but the almost constant purgatorial state of this team and the farcical inability to field an offensive line that’ll enable a talented QB to succeed across two generations of QBs is not something I can just stand by and shrug off.
So where’s the line here? Because I’ve definitely fueled the negative fire recently but wouldn’t consider myself a negative person. Just honest, reasoned and passionate. I’ll never lose faith or optimism. Watching this team win is like a life goal that I have no control over. And I know that WHEN this team does win it will be all the more sweet for having endured the decades of futility.
So am I welcome here to give those views, even if they’re negative whilst the team deserves criticism? Or should I find somewhere else to post?
This is an excellent post.
It touches on exactly why its gone so negative around here.
The team really had alot of us excited. Excited the rebuild was on track because of the record in 2020. But when you actually watch whats going on, on the field, its pretty easy to see that that rebuild is not going well at all.
Alot of is waited patiently the last couple years because we knew the rebuilding was a process and its not gonna happen over night. But everyone has limits. The team is still majorly flawed in the exact same fashion it was before the rebuild started. Can't Block, Can't Coach, Can't keep QBs healthy, Can't Run the ball, Can't stop the run, getting blown out by the division leader.
Its felt like weve been dupped and it actually hurts that it hasn't gone our way.
I'm sure, like myself, many of these posters would LOVE to be positive but there is just way to many negatives on the other side of the scale to want to talk about how good X is playing or the fact that Holland might be an all-star one day.
Sure those are a couple good things but overall this team is flawed much like teams of the past and its easy to see were not really contenders and maybe we have a shot at the playoffs but thats the limit.
Its depressing, the Dolphins have hurt us, hence all the negativity.
