Dolphins Must Do Better?

[ATL_PHIN_FAN]

Dolphins at SB 49: Guess who Tannehill is picking

PHOENIX -- The Miami Dolphins aren't in the Super Bowl. But they definitely are at the Super Bowl.

Dan Marino has been here for several days and be part of a CNN kickoff show Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
Club president and CEO Tom Garfinkel is in town, as is general manager Dennis Hickey. Hickey will collect a Steinberg DeNicola 2015 Humanitarian Award, along with Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, at a ceremony Saturday. The award will be presented by sports agent Leigh Steinberg.
Executive vice president Mike Tannenbaum will be in town by this evening and owner Stephen Ross is scheduled to arrive by Friday.
But the most interesting Dolphins representative at the Super Bowl this week is undoubtedly quarterback Ryan Tannehill. He made the rounds at radio row and on the NFL Network and said, well, nothing of news value.
But he spoke volumes by posing for a photo in and around the Super Bowl village when he clearly picked one team to win the game Sunday.
Yeah, Tannehill is picking the Seattle Seahawks over the division rival New England Patriots.
Am I the only one getting a kick out of Tannehill's expression?
Some people on my twitter were not amused. They wondered if this might incense the Patriots. I doubt it. I doubt a prediction by an opposing quarterback is on their radar.
I will say that Tannehill picked rightly. I don't think it would be a good look for him to pick a rival team. I don't imagine Dolphins fans would love that.
Finally, let me leave you with this thought:
Since 2001, the Patriots have dominated the AFC East. They have a 67-19 intra-division record during that time. That's a .779 winning percentage.
The Jets have a 40-46 intra-division during that time for a .465 winning percentage. The Dolphins have a 36-50 intra-division record during that time for a .419 winning percentage.
And the Bills bring up the rear with a 30-56 intra-division record since 2001 for a .349 winning percentage.
The Patriots have won the division every year except two -- 2002 when the Jets won and 2008 when the Dolphins won.
Must do better, my friends. The Dolphins must do better.



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Right . . . Armando. But perhaps you should have said the Dolphins must CHEAT better if they ever want another division title.

 

[fisi]

obviously...this team has not taken the divisional battle seriously since JJ left town. I remember when the great Don Shula went in to the 1990 draft and he drafted an OT and OG back to back and two years later he went defensive also back to back. What he said was you have to draft to beat your division rivals. the OT and OG draft was to slow down the formidable Buffalo Bills pass rushers of Bruce Smith and company. After the 1992 draft of Troy Vincent and Marco Coleman, he was talking about turn-around time. Miami made it to the AFC championship game that season. That's how you bud a team ! The Seahawks was bult to beat the Niners, two years later, back to back CHAMPIONSHIP !!! If Miami starts building now to destroy New England, in two years we could be in the SB. Anything is possible, if you build it.

 

[Kdawg954]

Just judging by the quality of articles coming out recently by beat writer nation South Florida . . . . this is going to be a long offseason.

 

[Hayden Fox]

Is it okay to ask the South Florida media to "do better" ?

 

[z926538]

Right . . . Armando. But perhaps you should have said the Dolphins must CHEAT better if they ever want another division title.

They are going to have to get much better to even be at the point where cheating will make a difference! And do you really want to match Joe Philbin in a cheating contest with Bill Belichek?

 

[MAYHEM]

obviously...this team has not taken the divisional battle seriously since JJ left town. I remember when the great Don Shula went in to the 1990 draft and he drafted an OT and OG back to back and two years later he went defensive also back to back. What he said was you have to draft to beat your division rivals. the OT and OG draft was to slow down the formidable Buffalo Bills pass rushers of Bruce Smith and company. After the 1992 draft of Troy Vincent and Marco Coleman, he was talking about turn-around time. Miami made it to the AFC championship game that season. That's how you bud a team ! The Seahawks was bult to beat the Niners, two years later, back to back CHAMPIONSHIP !!! If Miami starts building now to destroy New England, in two years we could be in the SB. Anything is possible, if you build it.

I think that the attempt was there.
If Dion Jordan and Cameron Wake were putting pressure on Brady the way we had hoped it would have helped.
At least Wake is doing his part.

 

[ATL_PHIN_FAN]

They are going to have to get much better to even be at the point where cheating will make a difference! And do you really want to match Joe Philbin in a cheating contest with Bill Belichek?

My point is, we shouldn't have to beat Belichek by cheating better than he does. Yet, that seems to be what we will be left with if the NFL sweeps this crap under the rug yet again. I'm not just talking about draft picks and fines, either. I want a response from the NFL that discusses why it thinks the patriots are playing like they are in a league of their own, when there should be no way in hell they could. If it is shown by the NFL that the Patriots were definitely cheating all this while, then I want to see disqualifications and forfeits. Maybe, even banning from the HOF for coaches and players.

If I don't get some kind of explanation that makes sense, it may be time for me to move on to another spectator sport altogether. Tennis? Golf? LOL

 

[Finland]

My point is, we shouldn't have to beat Belichek by cheating better than he does. Yet, that seems to be what we will be left with if the NFL sweeps this crap under the rug yet again. I'm not just talking about draft picks and fines, either. I want a response from the NFL that discusses why it thinks the patriots are playing like they are in a league of their own, when there should be no way in hell they could. If it is shown by the NFL that the Patriots were definitely cheating all this while, then I want to see disqualifications and forfeits. Maybe, even banning from the HOF for coaches and players.

If I don't get some kind of explanation that makes sense, it may be time for me to move on to another spectator sport altogether. Tennis? Golf? LOL

I have learned to not put any sports celeb., musician, politician, etc. on too much of a pedestal. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Let's face it, didn't Dan Marino cheat on his wife? Didn't see his character assassinated much around here.
They are all just people like the person standing next to you, to me.

 

[LandShark13]

obviously...this team has not taken the divisional battle seriously since JJ left town. I remember when the great Don Shula went in to the 1990 draft and he drafted an OT and OG back to back and two years later he went defensive also back to back. What he said was you have to draft to beat your division rivals. the OT and OG draft was to slow down the formidable Buffalo Bills pass rushers of Bruce Smith and company. After the 1992 draft of Troy Vincent and Marco Coleman, he was talking about turn-around time. Miami made it to the AFC championship game that season. That's how you bud a team ! The Seahawks was bult to beat the Niners, two years later, back to back CHAMPIONSHIP !!! If Miami starts building now to destroy New England, in two years we could be in the SB. Anything is possible, if you build it.

Actually Under Pornstache we won the Div tittle 3 out of his five years with us. Ya mainly with JJ's players and he ran Ricky into the ground but still. 3/5 aint bad.


PS. NO I am NOT a Pornstache fan just pointing out the facts.

 

[PeterNorth]

Actually Under Pornstache we won the Div tittle 3 out of his five years with us. Ya mainly with JJ's players and he ran Ricky into the ground but still. 3/5 aint bad.


PS. NO I am NOT a Pornstache fan just pointing out the facts.

Your "facts" are hilariously incorrect.

Actual fact: Under Wannstedt, the Dolphins reached the playoffs exactly two times (2000 and 2001)

Fact: They won the division just one time, in 2000.

Fact: They had epic collapses in both 2002 and 2003 under Wannstedt

Fact: Wannstedt somehow was able to keep his job after said collapses, and was subsequently shown the door halfway through the disastrous 2004 season

Fact: Wannstedt completely wasted the best years of the careers of Zach Thomas, Jason Taylor, Sam Madison, and even Ricky Williams

Fact: Dave Wannstedt was a horrific head coach, eclipsed in my opinion only by Cam Cameron.

 

[Kdawg954]

Your "facts" are hilariously incorrect.

Actual fact: Under Wannstedt, the Dolphins reached the playoffs exactly two times (2000 and 2001)

Fact: They won the division just one time, in 2000.

Fact: They had epic collapses in both 2002 and 2003 under Wannstedt

Fact: Wannstedt somehow was able to keep his job after said collapses, and was subsequently shown the door halfway through the disastrous 2004 season

Fact: Wannstedt completely wasted the best years of the careers of Zach Thomas, Jason Taylor, Sam Madison, and even Ricky Williams

Fact: Dave Wannstedt was a horrific head coach, eclipsed in my opinion only by Cam Cameron.

And Cameron never really got a chance, people despised him for his terminology, but talk about injuries . . . . that year Dolphins were dropping like flies all over the place. It was a complete disaster.

Yea Wanny was IMO the worse coach we've had . . . although I must say Joe Philbin is creepin up the list. Saban, although people don't love him, he lost on the Culpepper/Brees gamble and that was his ultimate undoing. Sparano just needed a consistent QB . . . this team was well disciplined in 2008 but afterwards the oline couldn't stay healthy and Henne just never took the steps we needed him to take.

Wanny blew any chance of a legacy in 2002. That was the team that should've been in the Super Bowl. 7 Pro Bowlers on a non playoff team in the "pre social media" era? Unheard of. His boneheaded decision making the final 2 games has haunted us for the last 13 years. The playoff years I credit JJ with because he drafted well.

 

[z926538]

My point is, we shouldn't have to beat Belichek by cheating better than he does. Yet, that seems to be what we will be left with if the NFL sweeps this crap under the rug yet again. I'm not just talking about draft picks and fines, either. I want a response from the NFL that discusses why it thinks the patriots are playing like they are in a league of their own, when there should be no way in hell they could. If it is shown by the NFL that the Patriots were definitely cheating all this while, then I want to see disqualifications and forfeits. Maybe, even banning from the HOF for coaches and players.

If I don't get some kind of explanation that makes sense, it may be time for me to move on to another spectator sport altogether. Tennis? Golf? LOL

I am sorry I missed your main point. I agree that the league appears to have its favorites and the Patriots are more favored than most. I joked in another thread that I thought the Patriot's punishment for deflategate would be that the league would grant them additional first and second round draft picks.

The fact that Kraft and Goodell appear to be best friends may be part of it. My philosophy professor back in college used to say that "Caeser's wife must be beyond reproach." Even if Goodell were to show no favoritism, and I am NOT convinced that there is no favoritism, the fact that we can even reasonably make the accusation that there is favoritism is detrimental to the long term health of the league. Too bad the people in the league office can't see this. I suspect they have fallen for NYC symdrome and hold us hicks in fly-over country in contempt. It might not hurt things to relocate the league offices to Kansas City, Green Bay or Canton. Some place where they would have to understand the league's roots and why it is popular.

My point is that the Dolphins have been so bad for so long that cheating won't make a difference. Seriously, can you think of a single reason why you would want Joe Philbin as your head coach over Bill Belichek? Joe Philbin is the incarnation of the Peter Principle: people rise to the level of their incompetence.