dlockz
Hall Of Famer
I will say as a dolphin fan that its much easier to be one this season than last. I am a firm believer that we were 1-15 as more a product of our coaching than our actual talent. Any team that has Zach Thomas, Jason taylor, Joey Porter , will Allen and Ronnie brown is not devoid of talent. They were not a 1-15 team on paper but our coach lost this team from day one and continued to lose them. From bad player decisions , to bad draft and bad handling of almost everything it was dreadful. That being said during these first few weeks people have been very reactionairy after some games for the good or bad but we are basically where most thought we would be at this point. 2-4
After we blew out the Patriots I think way too many people seemed to miss that we are still a very flawed football team. We have improved our oline and Qb play on offense but we have a bottom rung receiver core that will not translate to more wins. We have brought in depth on the front 7 but our corners have no depth. The talk of playoffs was really just judgeing too much on one game. We then had people thinking that riding the wildcat would be unstoppable , even with the evidence of coaches that have experienced it saying that in time teams adapt. Some even made Ronnie brown the best back in the league based on a couple of games. People that disagreed were haters even in the face of very little evidence to support these conclusions.
I do think we have a good foundation that with next year's free agency and draft should be a team that should challenge for a playoff spot. We were smart enough to not wait three years to determine if Beck was really good enough and based thier decision on off season workouts and film and actually drafted the guy that they wanted. We are buiding in my opinion a possible elite OL and have a good core that needs more depth. We have also built a good dline with the exception of a young NT unless Starks can handle that role. very good depth at LB with some needed youth hopefully on the way next season.
To this point to be mad with our team for being 2-4 is basically reading way too much into our wins and not enough into our losses. I do however think we should have done better against the Ravens. Lets be happy we are on the right path and that we are actually using the draft for whats its supposed to be.
After we blew out the Patriots I think way too many people seemed to miss that we are still a very flawed football team. We have improved our oline and Qb play on offense but we have a bottom rung receiver core that will not translate to more wins. We have brought in depth on the front 7 but our corners have no depth. The talk of playoffs was really just judgeing too much on one game. We then had people thinking that riding the wildcat would be unstoppable , even with the evidence of coaches that have experienced it saying that in time teams adapt. Some even made Ronnie brown the best back in the league based on a couple of games. People that disagreed were haters even in the face of very little evidence to support these conclusions.
I do think we have a good foundation that with next year's free agency and draft should be a team that should challenge for a playoff spot. We were smart enough to not wait three years to determine if Beck was really good enough and based thier decision on off season workouts and film and actually drafted the guy that they wanted. We are buiding in my opinion a possible elite OL and have a good core that needs more depth. We have also built a good dline with the exception of a young NT unless Starks can handle that role. very good depth at LB with some needed youth hopefully on the way next season.
To this point to be mad with our team for being 2-4 is basically reading way too much into our wins and not enough into our losses. I do however think we should have done better against the Ravens. Lets be happy we are on the right path and that we are actually using the draft for whats its supposed to be.
