In 2023 the Dolphins Were the Best in the NFL at...

[Fan Since the 70s]

...rehearsed and elaborate end zone celebrations after touchdowns.

Not the spontaneous kind that we see players engage in all the time, like spiking the ball and similar things, but an entirely different kind -- rehearsed and orchestrated with multiple players in a fairly elaborate manner.

To my knowledge no team in the league was anywhere near as good at orchestrating and performing those. The Dolphins were truly highly distinctive in that area among NFL teams in 2023. In fact if those had anything to do with winning games in the NFL, the Dolphins might've been so distinctive in the league that they would've won the Super Bowl.

Now, that may sound like quite a smart-ass point to make, but the purpose of the thread is to open that up for discussion, in terms of what it may signify about the team's culture and the impact their team culture may have had on their season.

What do folks here think? I'm truly interested in people's perspectives on that.

 

[eMCee85]

I wasn't totally against it but it's a really bad look now looking back at it. They didn't win **** and now look like a bunch of assholes for doing it. The bigger thing here is the coach putting up with that ****. The ****ing guy doesn't have an authoritive bone in his body.

 

[bigfoot]

Elaborate? Lol they literally spent one minute on it at the end of practices.

 

[DuderinoN703]

They weren’t the only team to do **** like that. Take it down a notch.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

I wasn't totally against it but it's a really bad look now looking back at it. They didn't win **** and now look like a bunch of assholes for doing it. The bigger thing here is the coach putting up with that ****. The ****ing guy doesn't have an authoritive bone in his body.

That's along the lines of what I was thinking.

 

[DirkForever]

I was into the NFL allowing some end zone fun but I was pissed when the fins did their stupid s*#!. A good look to me is dropping the ball, getting kudos from the team and taking more names.

 

[Miami 13]

It only feels like they were the only team doing it because we saw behind the scenes on hard knocks of them doing it.

 

[royalshank]

I was into the NFL allowing some end zone fun but I was pissed when the fins did their stupid s*#!. A good look to me is dropping the ball, getting kudos from the team and taking more names.

Achane drops the ball and acts like he’s been there before. Very Barry Sanders like

 

[DirkForever]

It only feels like they were the only team doing it because we saw behind the scenes on hard knocks of them doing it.

Possibly, but I'm not sure I saw much Hard Knocks. I think it more like I don't watch many non-fins games, so I have a focused frame of reference. I guess many other teams did things similar but I've never seen them.

 

[powerball1373]

To me it shows camaraderie and I'm all for them, plus they're entertaining. You must be a really grumpy person to let end zone dances from your own team bother you lol.

 

[DirkForever]

To me it shows camaraderie and I'm all for them, plus they're entertaining. You must be a really grumpy person to let end zone dances from your own team bother you lol.

Not grumpy. I forget these are kids. Juvenile.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

To me it shows camaraderie and I'm all for them, plus they're entertaining. You must be a really grumpy person to let end zone dances from your own team bother you lol.

Rehearsed and elaborate end zone celebrations are certainly harmless if they aren't indicative of a team culture in which fun and games gets in the way of becoming sufficiently serious and driven to beat good teams that are playing in that manner themselves. If a team can flip a switch from fun and games to serious and driven, then fine, but this team could not flip that switch, and so it was completely overwhelmed by teams that could. The end zone celebrations are simply symbolic of that kind of inadequate team culture.