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It's Only Happened ONCE!
From a simple math perspective, the Dolphins have zero business qualifying for the playoffs.
Consider:
There are 22 starters in football. On Sunday, the Dolphins will face the Patriots with as many as nine of the 22 players they counted on as 2016 starters out of the lineup.
The latest lost: Isa Abdul-Quddus, the safety placed on injured reserve Wednesday with a neck injury.
That’s crazy.
But the economics involved are even crazier.
The 2016 NFL salary cap is $155 million. Of that sum, $15 million was unavailable to the Dolphins from the start due to dead money from contractual obligations owed to players no longer on the team.
But that’s pittance compared to the eye-popping figure you get when you add together the cap figures of the nine players likely out Sunday: $55 million.
That means, all told, the Dolphins are going to the playoffs with one financial arm tied behind their backs.
Most teams that face half that adversity wilt. Yet the Dolphins have thrived, winning nine of their last 10 games and somehow clinching a Wild Card spot with a week to play.
So the question the entire league is asking:
How in the world are they doing it?
“I think it starts at the top,” said quarterback Matt Moore, who will start again Sunday in place of injured Ryan Tannehill. “... Coach [Adam] Gase has kind of preached 'next man up.' Guys understand that, again, there's opportunities. It's a shame that guys have gotten hurt. You never want to see that happen. But the guys that have stepped up and had to play have done well consistently, carried on.”
Moore has done just that with Tannehill (2016 cap figure: $11.6 million) sidelined. Moore is 2-0 as a starter and his passer rating (113.4) would rank second league-wide if he had thrown enough passes to qualifying.
More at LINK: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article123424279.html
Your Thoughts?
Consider:
There are 22 starters in football. On Sunday, the Dolphins will face the Patriots with as many as nine of the 22 players they counted on as 2016 starters out of the lineup.
The latest lost: Isa Abdul-Quddus, the safety placed on injured reserve Wednesday with a neck injury.
That’s crazy.
But the economics involved are even crazier.
The 2016 NFL salary cap is $155 million. Of that sum, $15 million was unavailable to the Dolphins from the start due to dead money from contractual obligations owed to players no longer on the team.
But that’s pittance compared to the eye-popping figure you get when you add together the cap figures of the nine players likely out Sunday: $55 million.
That means, all told, the Dolphins are going to the playoffs with one financial arm tied behind their backs.
Most teams that face half that adversity wilt. Yet the Dolphins have thrived, winning nine of their last 10 games and somehow clinching a Wild Card spot with a week to play.
So the question the entire league is asking:
How in the world are they doing it?
“I think it starts at the top,” said quarterback Matt Moore, who will start again Sunday in place of injured Ryan Tannehill. “... Coach [Adam] Gase has kind of preached 'next man up.' Guys understand that, again, there's opportunities. It's a shame that guys have gotten hurt. You never want to see that happen. But the guys that have stepped up and had to play have done well consistently, carried on.”
Moore has done just that with Tannehill (2016 cap figure: $11.6 million) sidelined. Moore is 2-0 as a starter and his passer rating (113.4) would rank second league-wide if he had thrown enough passes to qualifying.
More at LINK: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article123424279.html
Your Thoughts?
