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I'm not sure who said it without dredging through the depths, but a few posters said they expected close game losses early on in the season with the team finally gelling and finding their identity around week 4-5.

Well, step forward and accept your praise from me, because despite the 0-2 (against two very good teams on the road), its sure looking like they may be settling in to their roles and adjustments. Today's 2nd half WAS NOT garbage time, IMO it was a team that came out motivated with a plan in place.

And before you come at me, no I don't expect playoffs, but I sure am enjoying these games an awful lot more than the weekly snoozers last season.
 
If only we could play against Brissett for the next 14 games, I think we'll be okay.
 
Judging by Seattle's performance so far today, I'm not yet beating my chest over that "moral" victory. I guess based on Seattle's pedigree it was a "quality loss."
 
PAphins said:
I still don't understand how the qb for the pats affects the offenses 21 2nd half points?
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Big difference could have been the final score. With a better QB the Patriots may have scored another 21 themselves. So instead of 31 -24 the score could have been 42 -24.

IMO against most of the teams the Dolphins are going to face they are going to need to score at least 35 points a game. I believe the Patriots showed the blue print on how to exploit the Dolphins defense and most of those teams have QBs just as good as Jimmy Garoppolo and offenses with just as many weapons as the Patriots had today.

Can the Dolphins offense show up for 4 quarters and score close to 35 points a game? I don't think they will be on that level this season.
 
joenhre said:
Big difference could have been the final score. With a better QB the Patriots may have scored another 21 themselves. So instead of 31 -24 the score could have been 42 -24.

IMO against most of the teams the Dolphins are going to face they are going to need to score at least 35 points a game. I believe the Patriots showed the blue print on how to exploit the Dolphins defense and most of those teams have QBs just as good as Jimmy Garoppolo and offenses with just as many weapons as the Patriots had today.

Can the Dolphins offense show up for 4 quarters and score close to 35 points a game? I don't think they will be on that level this season.
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Excellent post, and I do agree on the final score aspect. However, I was just trying to highlight the halftime (offensive) turnaround as evidence of a meshing of the players, and a coaching staffs ability to make adjustments - which we all know was completely lacking last season.

Of course they are nowhere near contending for anything meaningful at this exact moment, but the whole point of this thread was about gelling, and working towards an identity.
 
joenhre said:
Big difference could have been the final score. With a better QB the Patriots may have scored another 21 themselves. So instead of 31 -24 the score could have been 42 -24.

IMO against most of the teams the Dolphins are going to face they are going to need to score at least 35 points a game. I believe the Patriots showed the blue print on how to exploit the Dolphins defense and most of those teams have QBs just as good as Jimmy Garoppolo and offenses with just as many weapons as the Patriots had today.

Can the Dolphins offense show up for 4 quarters and score close to 35 points a game? I don't think they will be on that level this season.
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This whole blueprint talk is one of the most overused talking points in fan forums. Based on this logic there should be a "blueprint" for every team owned by every other team nullifying all wins and losses. The simple fact is this league comes down to execution and protecting the ball. All the blueprints in the world will not win you a Super Bowl.


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For two games now we've seen the offense move the ball when Tannehill is passing the ball and making the calls. Play a no huddle 2 min offense the whole game. Run the ball a little bit, but don't do it just because you feel you have to. The passing game will open up the running game anyways.
 
Seattle lost to the god forsaken Rams today. Just sayyyyyyinnnn...
 
SebasMiamiFan said:
For two games now we've seen the offense move the ball when Tannehill is passing the ball and making the calls. Play a no huddle 2 min offense the whole game. Run the ball a little bit, but don't do it just because you feel you have to. The passing game will open up the running game anyways.
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This. The mindset of plan equaling, or, not equaling results is exactly what I'm referring to. This system is 2 nfl weeks old against 2 good defenses in 2 hostile environments. Gase says it himself that he's learning something every snap. I expected 0-2 honestly, now I will change my tune if its week 7 and we haven't cherry picked our effective schemes and use them, and trash the junk that doesn't.

Time will tell, but I'm still aboard the ship.
 
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