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Loses and how it impacts YOU

I always wondered what it is that made me even care that they won in the first place..
 
I agree with some others, that the team hasn't been good enough for a very long time to expect a win. So if they do, I'm happy. Personally, if they have a string of good games, it's good for me because I interact with my family more, and we all get excited about it and get together, get some food, and watch the game. If they lose a lot that tends to taper off a bit.

How I feel about the team itself? Well, not since Taylor and Thomas were here, have I felt the team had members that cared as much as they did, and were as committed. All the ex-dolphins are commited, many of them do radio and show up at events and show a lot of concern.

Now, I feel, we have guys coming and going. That's a side effect of trying to fix things, I know...but it hasn't resulted in building anything substantial yet. It would be nice to look toward some exciting youth....but there doesn't seem to be anything you can hang your hat on. No exciting young QB/Receiver tandem. No young CB tandem. No exciting LB. When Tannehill came, I put a lot of hope on him, but to be honest with you, I don't know if he has "it" and his personality is pretty bland. With Marino, it was his life. He would kill out on that field. I would get scared sometimes when I saw him yelling at a receiver or lineman because he was that passionate. I get a different vibe with Ryan. I think he'd be pretty happy to play, but just as happy to get paid as an nfl commentator, or retire and sell insurance or something, and be married. It's a job.
 
I am surly piece of garbage after a tough loss.
 
It happened about 10 years ago, after Ricky left the team. Is stopped caring after losses. Wins still feel good tho.

But I still care about the draft follies. Like when we refuse to take Dez or Demaryius but are salivating when we take Odrick. Or when we target Misi over Gronk. Or when we refuse to take Jimmy Graham or Mallett when they stare you in the face. Or we trade up to 3 overall and take a tweener Jordan when Ansah is there. That kinda stuff keeps happening and it never fails to piss me off. Being a dolphins fan is like being buried alive in coffin.
 
In my younger days 12-26 years old a lost meant a bad day and night. Since our 1-15 year, a lost is like "oh well, lets try again next game". I don't read any NFL news or watch ESPN or NFL network unless we win.
 
They don't impact on me anymore. Used to be I'd be nasty when we lost, be nasty to all those around me. I'd hate to come to work because I knew I'd hear it from my coworkers. But now, after several years of underacheivement, I am happy to say that I have outgrown that disgust of losing. It's actually kind of pathetic.

Now I'm the same, win or not. I'm almost at the point when I wonder why I should spend any time at all on weekends watching this team, but I still watch 'em, and hope that someday, someday ............
 
xSxPxHx said:
At what point do the loses start to become numb to you? Gone are the days where for sure I would expect the dolphins to at least make it to the 2nd round of the playoffs. Back then a loss would devastate me for the week. Crazy I know..lol. I remember yelling and cheering as hard as I could. I was 12 at the beginning of our constant playoff run we had 97-01 I believe. Now? the loses just start to get numb.
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I'll just say that how I feel about the Dolphins before they play each week is the exact opposite of how I feel about the Spurs. With the Spurs, as a fan, I have almost no feelings at all that they'll lose. Sure they aren't perfect and haven't won the title since 2007 yet it's almost isn't describable how I feel about their chances each game/year.

The Dolphins? I've been numb for years. I expected them to beat Buffalo and Tampa Bay. I didn't expect them to beat New Orleans or the Patriots. Do I expect them to win in New York this weekend? No. We all should be numb at this point. How the Dolphins lose is how they've been losing for years. It sucks to have expectations and desires for them to get to the Super Bowl but we shouldn't be surprised that they never do.

Not until the day where they prove us wrong.
 
I was excited after the Bengals game and I thought this team was on it's way back. Then the Tampa game really disgusted me. Especially being foolish enough to listen to ESPN before the game. I don't usually watch that crap but was excited for the game to start. Another thing that sucks about primetime it takes me out of my routine. My hatred of the media in general was getting to a boiling point with everybody walking all over our Dolphins. Then our team hits the field on national TV against a winless team, they are still in a division race, and what do they do?

I didn't even want to watch the SD game I was still pissed but I guess I'm just too stupid not to turn on the game. Even during that game I hardly had an ounce of emotion it's just kind of whatever happens, happens. The Panthers game I actually got excited when Wallace caught a couple of deep balls but didn't have my usual tantrum when they finally blew the game. It's still kind of whatever. I'm not real fired up about this Jets game but who knows it the Jets and maybe once they kick off it's just Dolphins/Jets at the moment you don't always think about how much both teams blow.

Before 2004 I thought those disastrous seasons only happen to Cleveland or Arizona or some other team. The mid/late 80s were pretty bad but they got competitive again in the early 90s.
 
They've been harder than ever this year. The only reason I can think for that being is because I feel like we finally have enough talent and are actually UNDERACHIEVING which I can't recall happening for a long time. Every loss except the Saints has been extremely winnable.
 
Since little nicky satan left, I've pretty much had no hope ... except for the brief fake out we experienced in week 1-3 of this year.
 
Every loss for the last 10 years I've gone and robbed either a bank or a jewelry store the next day. I'd say more about it but I have to log off now. My private jet is landing on the Caribbean island I use as a winter home.
 
I hate when we fricken lose ... yet I set myself up every damn week.
 
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