For those of you looking for a silver linning, I think at some point you are gonna have to face what what I already have. There is a silver linning but it will take sacrificing this upcoming season to GET to the silver linnnig. Some times ya have to have a really bad season to get back to the top.
Lets face it guys, there is no way Dave will ever be a winning SB coach, so even if none of these horrible things would have happened we still would not have had a chance at the SB. Now after we finish about 6-10 (and it will happen. I could design a D to stop this offense) Dave will be replaced, we will get a pretty good draft pick, Boston will rehab and be better than new and Ricky will find a new legal drug that makes him come to his senses and either return to us or return to a team that gives us draft picks. Either way we get something out of him. This year will give our new Oline time to jell and Wade and Carey will have time to get rid of those rookie mistakes and Will Poole will take over for Madison which will let us trade Madison while he still has trade value. Jr. will retire, but Moore or Jenkins will surprise some people and be better, with more speed than Jr.
Also this year will prove that AJ was not the answer at QB, and we will have several draft picks (our high pick and the ones from trading Ricky) to get one in the draft or will trade the picks for a QB already in the NFL.
Then our new coach will come in and mold all this talent into a true SB contender. They will know what it is like to suffer through a truely horrible season and will be willing to work extra hard not to have to go through it again. Also the media will be against us saying we will not finish .500 again which will motivate us and make other teams overlook us.
This is optimistic I admit, but much more realistic than saying Dave is gonna lead this shell of a team to the playoffs this year after all that has happened. Dave is not a leader that a team can rally around. You are gonna have to face it at some point, this is not a playoff team. We have not made the playoffs the last two years and we are not nearly as good this year. You can call me whatever names you want, but seeing the truth does not make me less of a fan. Actually it makes me more of a fan. I still love the Dolphins and always will, I don't need to think or say we are going to the SB every year to be the reason I pull for them. I will pull for them and love them even in the bad times. This is a bad time and burying your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretending everything is fine is not being a great fan. What it says is if you stop and look at reality you will see we are not that good and you will have to pull for a better team. You are the one who does not really love your team not the ones of us who are willing to see things for what they are.