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Hyde5: National view of Dolphins? Bad, bad news

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1. If the Dolphins want to play the no-one-believes-in-us card, it’s there for them this year. That’s because even before training camp opens a lot of people don’t believe they have a chance to do much of anything this season. Let’s take three national football outlets:

A. Football Outsiders Almanac. 2012 Mean Prediction: 6.9 wins. Playoff odds: 9.7 percent. Super Bowl odds: 5 percent. Outlook: “Miami has replaced Buffalo as denizens of the AFC East hamster wheel, forever going nowhere.”
B. Pro Football Weekly predicts the Dolphins to be last in the AFC East and that one of the league-wide regrets of the season will be, “Joe Philbin taking the Dolphins job.” Why? “If (Jeff) Ireland becomes the scapegoat this season or next, the man Ross hires to replace him might not hesitate to fire Philbin and move in a different direction. The Dolphins are asking him to win now with two suspect QB optiosn in Matt More and David Garrard … Will Philbin even get a chance to see how good Ryan Tannehill can become?”
C. ESPN ranked its top 25 prospects, which was defined essentially as a player drafted in the third round or lower (or not drafted at all) and 26 or younger. There were 21 teams with players on the list if you stretch it to the 30 named in rankings and honorable mention. The Dolphins didn't have a player on the list. The Patriots had three (RB Stevan Ridley, OL Marcus Cannon and QB Ryan Mallett).
Of course, this is all just media talking. But the point is the Dolphins' off-season didn't move the needle of expectation on this team. If there's a rallying cry, it's how a new regime came in with similar expectations in 2008 and made the playoffs.
I'll save my forecast for later this summer.
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http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/spo...g/2012/07/hyde5_national_view_of_dolphin.html
 
I guess we might as well throw in the towel. We have no super star names that the expert pickers like. We didn't move the needle?
 
I love it!

The more people underestimate us, the more surprised they'll be when we get good and sneak up on their ass.
 
Who ****ing cares? Why do members insist on posting this kind of stuff? we get it, and we don't give a ****!
 
in pre 08 season we got the same doom and gloom; in pre 09 season, there were even a few of those so-called "experts" actually picking us to advance well into the playoffs if not the SB. Either way, everybody needs to take this opinionated BS with a grain of salt.
 
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I don't give two ****s what the media or anyone else thinks. I am a Dolphins fan through and through. I will cheer on my team in the worst of times.

Forgive my spelling. This was sent from my phone.
 
It must be a nice gig to have, to just sit around and talk out of your arse and get paid for it.
 
yeah me and my roomie had this discussion yesterday, on cnnsi there was an article on a college football mock draft. we said must be nice to write any kind of crap you want and get paid for it... guess i shouldve had a different carreer path
 
I was always told that if your team wasn't in the Top 10 in Power Rankings to start the year, you should just forfeit the season.

/sarcasm
 
I like this, if it's a good season it will make it that much more fun. I don't want to say settle for 2nd place in the East but I think it's a real dissapointment if they can't beat out the Jets and Bills this year.

Is it safe to say there aren't any bandwagon fans at this point?
 
Nublar7 said:
The Eagles moved the needle last offseason. The Giants didn't. Wonder who did better.
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What's interesting about that is if the Eagles had managed to win just one more game they'd have knocked the Giants out of the playoffs and the Eagles themselves were red hot at the end of the season, so an extended playoff run from a team led by a coach who has been to the Super Bowl before would not have been unthinkable. That's how the NFL goes sometimes, though.
 
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