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Let's put this season into perspective

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This season has been nothing short of amazing. Nail biters in the 4th, explosive plays, special team excitement, huge defensive plays. We are 9-5 and I'm sitting here wondering HOW?! For goodness sake, we should have lost to the Browns. Let me repeat, we should have lost to the 0-14 Browns.

Reasons this season are mind-boggling:

-We brought in a new coaching staff. Success usually takes time
-Our Pro Bowl center has been injured most of the season (Pouncey)
-Our starting center is a trash pickup (Anthony Steen)
-Our LT has been out a few weeks, moving our ROOKIE from LG to LT (Albert/Tunsel)
-Our ROOKIE LG/LT has also missed time (Tunsel)
-Our Pro Bowl Safety, far and away our best player in the back 7, has been out since October (Jones)
-Our #1 CB started off terribly and was eventually benched (Maxwell)
-Our converted WR to CB looked iffy to start the season (Lippett)
-Our #2 pick missed substantial time, never good for a rookie (Howard)
-Our stud RB was left home week 1 bc of issues (Ajayi)
-Our seem-threat TE out for the year (Cameron)
-Our starting LB out for the year, and our other starting LB has missed a large portion of the season (Misi/Jenkins)
-Our LBers, outside of Kiko, are all guys who belong on special teams. (Hull/ Hewitt)
-Our QB out for the remainder of the season (Tannehill)
-Our kicker can't make a kick over 40 yards confidently
-We started off 1-4, looking like another lost season, with whispers that Gase was not the man for the job

What did I miss?

This season has been awesome and despite what happens in these last 2 games (hopefully more), it has been a huge success! Go Fins!
 
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Notice how one of that mattered one bit once Dallas Thomas left the building. Just sayin.
 
Howard was our 2nd pick - Otherwise a pretty big laundry list of adversity they have faced and sitting in a playoff spot in week 15. I am sold on the coaching
 
This season has been nothing short of amazing. Nail biters in the 4th, explosive plays, special team excitement, huge defensive plays. We are 9-5 and I'm sitting here wondering HOW?! For goodness sake, we should have lost to the Browns. Let me repeat, we should have lost to the 0-14 Browns.

Reasons this season are mind-boggling:

-We brought in a new coaching staff. Success usually takes time
-Our Pro Bowl center has been injured most of the season (Pouncey)
-Our starting center is a trash pickup (Anthony Steen)
-Our LT has been out a few weeks, moving our ROOKIE from LG to LT (Albert/Tunsel)
-Our ROOKIE LG/LT has also missed time (Tunsel)
-Our Pro Bowl Safety, far and away our best player in the back 7, has been out since October (Jones)
-Our #1 CB started off terribly and was eventually benched (Maxwell)
-Our converted WR to CB looked iffy to start the season (Lippett)
-Our #1 pick missed substantial time, never good for a rookie (Howard)
-Our stud RB was left home week 1 bc of issues (Ajayi)
-Our seem-threat TE out for the year (Cameron)
-Our starting LB out for the year, and our other starting LB has missed a large portion of the season (Misi/Jenkins)
-Our LBers, outside of Kiko, are all guys who belong on special teams. (Hull/ Hewitt)
-Our QB out for the remainder of the season (Tannehill)
-Our kicker can't make a kick over 40 yards confidently
-We started off 1-4, looking like another lost season, with whispers that Gase was not the man for the job

What did I miss?

This season has been awesome and despite what happens in these last 2 games (hopefully more), it has been a huge success! Go Fins!

Just going back and how I (and many others in the stadium) felt after we beat the Browns. Hopeless, disappointed. It was the first win ever which felt like a loss. Even leaving the stadium it was unusual quiet. No cheering. A very mellow and somber mood. It was eerie.
I think most of us chalked the season into a loss column that day and the question was: which team can we actually beat?
Then came Bengals and Titans and the week of firing half the OL. And Pittsburgh on the horizon....

If you think about it: it was only 9 games ago but it seems like last season. The last 9 games (minus Baltimore) were so much fun and exciting and living the rebirth of our home crowd getting more excited and louder with every game. Seeing how more and more people drive around with Dolphins flags on their cars. It is a different feeling than 2013 or 2008. It is almost like the 90s. If the Dolphins win on Saturday the final home game on Jan 1 will be the absolute highlight.
 
I felt going into the season that Miami had slightly above average talent, but didn't know what to expect from the coaching staff.

More than anything this season points out what good coaching can do. All the injuries and here's the Dolphins competing for the playoffs with their first winning season since 2008. Honestly, when Jones went down I thought that was it. The offensive line has been an injury mess most of the season, then Tannehill goes down.

It certainly bodes well for the future once the talent level is improved.
 
You are putting too much into the WIN over Cleveland. They have played a lot of good teams close and likewise would have a list of if X then Y. I agree with your conclusion that coaching and has made a big difference, more to the point what I have preached all through the Philbin years, running a balanced offense makes a big difference. Philbin's flaw was not enough running plays and instilling a short passing game substituting a smash mouth rushing attack.
 
IMO the answer here is the coach. Now we need to find the players to go with him. Basically your saying Gase and VJ have worked we wonderd with this underwhelming roster which is true.
 
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