Fins Struggle Against Physical Teams

[Dolfan4life]

Baltimore, Buffalo (in the past atleast), Pittsburgh, and today’s Vikings

All these teams are powerful nasty teams in the trenches. They beat you up and take your lunch money.

The last 2 playoff appearances Miami plays Baltimore (2008) and @ Pittsburgh (2016). Both teams just imposed their will.

Miami has skill players and speed in droves but they lack stud players in the trenches. Tunsil is 1 solid piece. I don’t mind Swanson either. Davis is descent.

On D Vincent Taylor and Godchaux are good young players. Wake is done, Harris not living up to 19th overall pick, branch not living up to contract.

You fix those lines where they set the tone, where they can travel well and play cold weather games late in the year, where they can impose their will on teams and then this team will be what we all want.

You can get a franchise QB, you can say hey we need to upgrade QB first but that is not the way to go. The team has skill position players that are capable. Fixing the lines is priority.

If your QB gets sacked 9 times and you give up over 200 on the ground you aren’t winning consistently in the NFL

 

[DPhinz_DPhinz]

The Ravens have to be added to that list....

 

[mrbunglez]

Jaguars have a physical defense as well, i don’t care what their record is, I’d be worried about that game even if it is a home game.

 

[Dolph N.Fan]

Pretty much every nfl team is too physical for Miami.

 

[BahamaFinFan78]

You misspelt good teams

 

[elite14eva]

Miami probably won't win another game except sweep Buffalo

 

[Blake the great]

But but I thought speed kills in the NFL

 

[zach attach]

Was it Failbin who said he wanted a finesse blocking scheme? Seems like Gase is continuing that. I miss Sitton and Cogs. I can't believe that I would ever want to go 1st pick on an O-lineman, but Watching college tape of Nelson made me want him for Miami. With that attitude and nastiness, I'd take him over Minkah had he been there.

 

[Dolph N.Fan]

Miami probably won't win another game except sweep Buffalo

I don’t think Miami wins that game. Tannehill is absolutely terrible when he plays @ Buffalo

 

[elite14eva]

I don’t think Miami wins that game. Tannehill is absolutely terrible when he plays @ Buffalo

You know what on second thought you're right we probably won't win another game 7 and 9 here we come

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I don’t think Miami wins that game. Tannehill is absolutely terrible when he plays @ Buffalo

We aren't facing Tyrod Taylor or a younger LeSean McCoy. Buffalo is physical but can't score.

Just like the home/road split, the Dolphins have been terrible against offenses with a pulse but have feasted on the teams very low in points per game. Here is that list:

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/points-per-game

 

[Spiff]

Was it Failbin who said he wanted a finesse blocking scheme? Seems like Gase is continuing that. I miss Sitton and Cogs. I can't believe that I would ever want to go 1st pick on an O-lineman, but Watching college tape of Nelson made me want him for Miami. With that attitude and nastiness, I'd take him over Minkah had he been there.

Tannehill sacked 9 times today, Luck sacked 8 times in the last 10 games.

Luck was sacked 41 times in 2016, 15 times this year. What a difference a capable OL makes.

 

[Thumper1016]

When we get punched in the mouth we tend to get in the fetal position.

 

[joenhre]

There is no question that the Dolphins are a soft team. That starts with the coaching staff and their philosophies on both sides of the ball. The Dolphins can't seem to bridge the gap between boring hard nosed football and boring finesse soft football. I would take ole Tony Sparano's (RIP) style over what we have now. Even though it also failed in the one playoff game they could muster. Although, I think if Tony had a QB like Tannehill, those teams would have been more successful.

Right now we have a finesse team that struggles to score in most games and a defense that gives up close to 400 yards/game while relying on turnovers to keep from giving up 40 points a game. Sorry but the current systems on both offense and defense are broken. When the guy in charge appears to be too stubborn to change then as a fan you just lose all hope.

 

[bane]

Ya when you have light d ends like wake, Quinn, Harris , hell even Vernon was the same when he was here. You will get run over. Then we have a young middle linebacker and Kiko and baker are not physical. They are speed guys and not very good. Unless you are blitzing baker or having him play coverage. He can’t hold up against the run. We haven’t been good at stoping the run since Tony. But then we struggled against the pass.

Online sucks. Tunsil is good. Sutton would have been great but Larsen sucks. Davis is jag and James isn’t consistent. If Tunsil and Sutton were playing and dominating you could live with James and Davis. Having one great strong side is usually enough. Like sims and web in there early years. But Larsen , Davis, James? Nope they are not physical or very good.

Need to get some strong d ends who can stop run and rush. Space eater at d tackle.
Move baker to weak side. Move on from kiko and hope middle linebacker improves with experience.

Online sucks so bad I don’t know how they fix it all up. But we been having games since 2013 that we give up 6 to 8 sacks. Remember 2013 at buffalo?

I honestly don’t know how this team is 7-7. I know they had some good luck with the last two weeks and lots of bad luck with injuries.
I guess they play hard for gase because there is not one strong thing on this team you can lean on when games like this appear on our schedule.