Chicken Little and Boy Who Cired Wolves, please help me to understand.

[Kamelion4291]

The Dolphins did the same thing in regards to free agents in Shula’s last year as the head coach. They went out and signed a lot of former first round picks and many so called experts expected than to make it to the Super Bowl. Instead they finished 9-7 and lost to Buffalo in the wildcard game.
Building a team with free agents who’s former teams are willing to just let them go is never an effective way to build a winner in the NFL. The better teams build through the draft and only dip into free agency to sign one or two top free agents once they already have a solid roster built through the draft.

I mean, that's not really what we did. What did you expect the team to do? Sign nobody and then sit on all their money waiting until all of their rookie contracts ended? There's a reason why we signed guys to short contracts.

 

[Kamelion4291]

Most of the secondary money is tied up on the guy that left with an injury very early in the game and the other guy that just started practicing and conditioning a few weeks ago.

It's been said a million times already in response to this argument, but it keeps coming up mainly because people aren't going to read anything first. They're just going to show up and whine without using a single ounce of brainpower first.

 

[DolfanDuBbZ~]

The Dolphins did the same thing in regards to free agents in Shula’s last year as the head coach. They went out and signed a lot of former first round picks and many so called experts expected than to make it to the Super Bowl. Instead they finished 9-7 and lost to Buffalo in the wildcard game.
Building a team with free agents who’s former teams are willing to just let them go is never an effective way to build a winner in the NFL. The better teams build through the draft and only dip into free agency to sign one or two top free agents once they already have a solid roster built through the draft.

Hey, many people here were dragging me for not liking all the money spent on defense this year. Did not see the value in Van Noy nor Lawson, as both played in schemes that allowed them to be efficient in what they do best and never asked them to lead. As for our new corner and his lack of turnovers throughout his career, was.....brain scratching.

As for offense, I'm a happy dude. I'm pleasantly surprised and in hindsight glad those young men decided to work together during the off-season. And maybe I just like seeing the young, hungry bulls and all that entails right now. So much growth can be had from them....

 

[Jssanto]

I have no issue with our 0-2 start.
They point of this season is:
1. Win as we can
2. Develop the OL.
3. Allow time for Tua to continue to heal and learn.
4. Understand what we have with our young players; who can be developed and who cannot.
5. Fix the holes this off season with FAs and draft.
Accept no less than playoff contenders in 2021

 

[Etuoo33]

It is not the fact we are 0-2. It is the fact that the Phins spent decent money to help fix a defense that still can’t generate a pass rush and even though improved last week, has issues stopping the run. In addition was very suspect play by the secondary. Miami would need a 1999 Rams offense to outscore what their defense allows. With that said, what can Miami do fundamentally to fix this issue? Are Ogbah and Lawson going to wake up one day from their journeymen career and overpaid salaries and be sackmasters. When Clowney was there for $15m-$17m for one year, everyone scoffed. There was enough done on defense to pass up on a pass rush specialist. And with such a need for offensive firepower, Miami still drafted a corner in round 1, passing on pretty good running backs and wide receivers. So the sky is falling and this team, which won’t win much, has a chance to salvage this season and develop their rookie qb and get the Oline in synergy.

They had 3 first round choices not the top 13. You can't fill ever gap with one pick either. You have to take a chance on FA's (Flowers a definite maybe, Lawson looks like hot cow dung). Again No pre-season, not even a long training camp so you can't ( well some can) have expected a championship looking team with all the new players. Some of us know that this thing is going to take time.

 

[TheMageGandalf]

I blame the hype train. Seriously.

From drafting one of the most accomplished college QBs of all-time to revamping the defense with supposedly superior talent, the hype train was full throttle.

 

[1972forever]

I mean, that's not really what we did. What did you expect the team to do? Sign nobody and then sit on all their money waiting until all of their rookie contracts ended? There's a reason why we signed guys to short contracts.

I understand that they signed free agents because they had a lot of money to spend. Yet I simply pointed out that the better teams build through the draft instead of by spending a lot of money on free agents. The reason the Dolphins had so much cap room is because they have not drafted well enough over the last five years to have many players they wanted to sign to a second contract.

If you go back and look at all the money the Dolphins have spent in free agency over the last two decades, the only players worth signing were Wake and Grimes. The rest of the free agents were either vastly overpaid for the production they had with the Dolphins or were just bust as free agents. So while I understand why they spent so much money in free agency, I just don’t expect much production from the majority of the free agents they signed.

The Dolphins will only become a consistent winner once they start drafting impact players and solid starters who play well enough that the Dolphins will want to sign them to new contracts when their rookie deals expire. Hopefully the past draft will provide the team with some of these type players but only time will tell.

 

[Joe Dolfan]

Someone here sired wolves?

 

[Feverdream]

The hype train... we see that in every sector of our culture. People want easy answers... an EASY button, but life doesn't work that way.

When Flores arrived, we might have had 5 decent NFL quality starters on the roster (let's not quibble about the number guys), and now we have most of the 22 in place. (Again... why quibble about an exact number here). What we lack are established stars... we badly need a few.

I wanted to draft a pass rusher for just this reason (I liked Chaisson) and was higher on Herbert than most (figuring that Tua was problematic because of injury risk).

We've gone all in on Tua and I hope it works out as well as Herbert looked on Sunday, but we still need a FIERCE pass rushing edge... and for my money, we damned well BETTER take one with our first pick next year, because on defense... it starts there.

 

[Pandarilla]

Exactly. Check the post counts on most of the people who want it all burned down again.

*suddenly becomes paranoid that Adam Gase has hired a bunch of Russian bots to invade the forum*

That's what I thought, fake accounts...if they're real, then I say vent wisely and go take dumps on the Bills and Pats forums (Jets need to win a few).

 

[Ray R]

No matter how bad something is, you will always have people on here spewing nonsense to the contrary.

There are people on this board who until this very day give excuses for Ryan Tannehill, Josh Rosen, Bobby McCain, Raekwon McMillan, Michael Deiter.

There are people on here who wanted to keep Daniel Thomas, Dallas Thomas, Jason Allen, and wanted to get rid of Reshad Jones only to replace him with Bobby McCain and are happy with that.

Finheaven is the place where you are always wrong, even if you are right. And then when you were right, that means you were guessing and could not have possibly have known a thing. Josh Rosen comes to mind most recently, Adam Gase before that, and right now it is Chris Grier.

We were certainly right about Tannehill.

Ask the Titans!

 

[The Goat]

Someone here sired wolves?

My bad.

 

[BennySwella]

We were certainly right about Tannehill.

Ask the Titans!

No you weren't. Ryan "No Pocket Awareness" Tannnehill is trash and will never win a superbowl. Mediocrity is all you recognize as greatness if think Ryan Tannehill is a great quarterback.

 

[Travis34]

I haven’t been here a long time, but you will find that there are guys who regularly post and guys that only flood the board to rage when we lose. The board was all rants about us losing last year, and then we started winning and it was all rants about us blowing the “tank”.

I’ve been around for a long time and let me tell ya, years and years ago those Sunday /Monday after threads would FLOOD the board. Not as bad now but there can be usuals who post em

 

[BSQ]

How can you still say Tannehill is trash after he took the Titans to the Playoffs and landed a 100 M contract. He has a hot wife, huge money and he's the starting QB of a 2-0 team. Trash?? Only if you personally hate him would you call him that when he's proved otherwise.