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Don't Understand Criticism of Our Team and the Pass we Give to the Patriot's Refs

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I know we made mistakes, but come on! We won that game.

This Article explains it well.

We weren't perfect, but we played well enough to win this road game.

Stop attacking Dolphins and direct your fury at the NFL!
 
We scored zero (0) points in the second half. Like, none. We deserved to lose. We played like ****.
 
JTC111 said:
Bad calls happen. Good teams find a way to overcome them.
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This is exactly the issue.

The calls SUCKED, they were HORRIBLE. But a good team can shake it off, get their offense on the field and move the ball..... ours can't.
 
I agree, the NFL needs to suspend those refs for the season and hopefully beyond.
 
This is exactly the issue.

The calls SUCKED, they were HORRIBLE. But a good team can shake it off, get their offense on the field and move the ball..... ours can't.
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Maybe one or two horrible calls - in a game (or a season no less) - but not FIVE - in a road game -against your hated division leading rival - that you were leading 17 - 3 in after having thoroughly dominated for two quarters.

Sorry. I don't buy that. You show me another game where 5 blatant game changing calls turned the game around. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
 
miamirw said:
Maybe one or two horrible calls - in a game (or a season no less) - but not FIVE - in a road game -against your hated division leading rival - that you were leading 17 - 3 in after having thoroughly dominated for two quarters.

Sorry. I don't buy that. You show me another game where 5 blatant game changing calls turned the game around. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
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I would say 3 were really bad, not 5. But even those calls don't excuse how the offense performed after them. We score on those drives and it doesn't matter.
 
Did those bad calls cause Sturgis to miss 2 fg and get one blocked? Did the bad call cause Tannehill to throw to the outside of Wallace who couldn't make an adjustment and make a potential td catch? Every game has bad calls but when you are leading 17-3 on the road against a huge rival, you have to find a way to win those games. Those worst call that really did us in was the call on Olivier. I don't see how they could rule against a team that was LOSING. I could see NE purposefully bat a ball to keep Miami from recovering but I have NEVER seen that called before, EVER.
 
Doesn't matter how well our offence or defense played we were never going to be allowed to win that game ..NFL and officials love the pats...pats win..make playoffs ..NFL happy..
 
I keep seeing people say "good teams find a way to win, good teams make a play", well to me a sack-strip that knocks them out of FG range late in the 4th in a 3 point game is making a play, and one really good play is how you find a way to win.
 
The problem with blaming the refs is that it invites you to ignore the real problems. Over the course of the season you benefit from as many dubious calls as you're victimized by. You could chart every penalty over the course of a season for every single team, as the NFL does, (which is how they grade the refs) and you would see no pattern other than everyone benefits from and is victimized by bad calls at roughly the same rate. Personally I never, ever blame the officials. The Dolphins were putrid. They score 17 points. Their protections break down again and again. Tannehill makes bad decisions. The defense can't dominate at anywhere near the rate their talent dictates they should. This team is no where near contention and blaming the refs in one game doesn't change that. Goethe once called architecture frozen music, the Dolphins as an organization are frozen ineptitude.
 
HopaLong said:
I keep seeing people say "good teams find a way to win, good teams make a play", well to me a sack-strip that knocks them out of FG range late in the 4th in a 3 point game is making a play, and one really good play is how you find a way to win.
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