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Dolphins’ Mission of Mediocrity

phishxhead said:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-dolphins-mission-of-mediocrity/
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That includes the most important game from the Philbin era, a 19-0 humiliation in 2013 at the hands of the Bills in a game where the Dolphins could have clinched a playoff berth with a victory. A week later, with a second chance to stay in the hunt, they lost 20-7 to an 8-8 Jets team with a 5.4-win Pythagorean expectation. The Dolphins have the same record against the Patriots under Philbin, 2-4, as they have against the Bills.
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Maybe the most frustrating 2 weeks of my life as a fan. Hopefully this bull**** stops. The blue balls is unbearable.
 
Let me guess . . . Bill Barnwell. That chode is the dog **** on the bottom of clown shoes.

Listened to Grantland's podcast about the AFC East (which was extremely amateur on all fronts) the other day and he didn't even know the name of our head coach, seriously. How's that for being a dumb ****. And now he suddenly knowledgeable to post a write up on him. GTFO.

Also, in his top 100 list, he listed QB's Colin Kaepernick and Alex Smith but not Ryan Tannehill, how's that for an ignorant bias.

****tard with a column to fill.
 
he other part is that the Dolphins really didn’t run the ball very frequently. My favorite quick-and-dirty measure of what a team wants to do on offense is what it chooses to call on first-and-10 while the game is within 14 points. Miami ran the ball just 43.9 percent of the time in those situations, the third-lowest rate in the league — only the Bears and Eagles threw the ball more often.

When they did run the ball on those first downs, though, the Dolphins averaged 5.1 yards per carry, the league’s third-best average. Granted, that includes Miller’s 97-yard touchdown run, but take that out and they’re still at 4.6 yards per carry, which would have been good enough for 12th. (And they would rise even higher if you took out everyone else’s top carry, too.)
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We must run more this year. I like Lazor a lot, but he gets too pass happy.
 
When discussing stats the worst thing you can probably do is to remove a particular play or object that doesn't support your argument. You are then no longer relying on stats but are molding narrative. especially when discussing averages because both the highest and lowest outcome are already taken into account.
 
It isn't like Barnwell is wrong in any of his points. Miami has been average. Years worth of being average in fact.
 
ShorePhin said:
When discussing stats the worst thing you can probably do is to remove a particular play or object that doesn't support your argument. You are then no longer relying on stats but are molding narrative. especially when discussing averages because both the highest and lowest outcome are already taken into account.
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Ya but he wasn't removing the play in an attempt to discredit the Dolphins run game, he specifically says that even if you remove the play their run game was still very good, and would look even better if you removed the top play of other teams as well.
 
The breakdown in those big, playoff clinching games is a big deal, and that needs to stop. There's obviously something about the preparation for those games that the coaching staff was screwing up - either hyping things up too much so players tightened up, or doing something that made the players not give a rat's.

Over the last decade, this team has always done better when it plays loose (i.e., vs. opponents it would be ok to lose to). When the pressure is off, we give the better teams great games, rising to the occasion and pulling off upsets. But then we get stomped by teams we should beat easily, and we get stomped when we get to the playoffs.

If Philbin hasn't figured out how to help his players handle pressure, I'm not sure the results will be any better this year.
 
DuderinoN703 said:
It isn't like Barnwell is wrong in any of his points. Miami has been average. Years worth of being average in fact.
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Philbin, the Dolphin's organization and the players have failed in multiple areas in recent years to play well down the stretch and in other facets of the game. But there is no way that you can read that article and come away saying that it doesn't not have an ignorant and slanted bias.

It's wording heavily suggests it's not a neutral take on our team.

Since every Dolphins offseason seems to be about putting out the most recent year’s fires . . .
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Unless you've just won the Super Bowl (and even then) it's what every team does in the offseason.

. . . the Dolphins were actually incredibly lucky with how bad their opponents were on aspects of special teams over which Miami had no influence.
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While there’s no way to sustain that sort of blind luck on special teams from year to year. . .
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I can’t fault the Dolphins for signing Suh, but I’m skeptical that he’ll solve all of Miami’s problems overnight. . . Detroit was 24th in defensive DVOA and 26th against the run as recently as 2012.
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Or as recently as 2014, they were 7th in defensive DVOA and 1st against the run.

And besides a farce assessment on saying Tannehill's numbers are inflated, here's his only remarks on one of the NFL's best young, up and coming QB's.

His eventual upside still remains a question mark. . .
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The fat bald headed dickbag needs a gut check.
 
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insomnia411 said:
Ya but he wasn't removing the play in an attempt to discredit the Dolphins run game, he specifically says that even if you remove the play their run game was still very good, and would look even better if you removed the top play of other teams as well.
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Then why do it? If you're are going to point a particular play say it inflated the average or point it out as an anomaly then brush it off what was his overall point? They're good but not that good so that allows me to paint their run game as average is what he is essentially saying. Also he is casually saying Miller can't snap off big runs usually which is untrue. It happened you can't discount Miller because he wants it to be that way. 3rd in the in the NFL is 3rd in the NFL if it was that easy or average then run game would have averaged lower
 
Sons of Shula said:
Philbin, the Dolphin's organization and the players have failed in multiple areas in recent years to play well down the stretch and in other facets of the game. But there is no way that you can read that article and come away saying that it doesn't not have an ignorant and slanted bias.

It's wording heavily suggests it's not a neutral take on our team.



Unless you've just won the Super Bowl (and even then) it's what every team does in the offseason.







Or as recently as 2014, they were 7th in defensive DVOA and 1st against the run.

And besides a farce assessment on saying Tannehill's numbers are inflated, here's his only remarks on one of the NFL's best young, up and coming QB's.



The fat bald headed dickbag needs a gut check.
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I understand your plight but the overall message from Barnwell is correct. I don't give a **** about his cute ways of describing the Dolphins. They need to not be average any longer. They haven't won a playoff game since a year after I graduated high school and that's revolting.
 
DuderinoN703 said:
I understand your plight but the overall message from Barnwell is correct. I don't give a **** about his cute ways of describing the Dolphins. They need to not be average any longer. They haven't won a playoff game since a year after I graduated high school and that's revolting.
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Understandable.

You also can't include and lump in previous regimes with one we currently have in place. All in all, our core group has only been together for 2 years (Philbin, Hickey, Lazor). I know we're tired of hearing about patience, but it's coming together and it will be this season. I have a lot of faith and trust in this regime, unlike others we've had in the past.
 
Pythagorean expectation? I didnt know that Pythagoras was an NFL fan. :D
 
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