Most positive season prediction article I’ve seen

[zullo1]

LMAO! You have all been HOODWINKED.. This team is not going to win more than 9 games. I highly doubt they win 7. I believe they finish in the Cellar of the AFC East with a 6-11 record. I think the full reset begins in the latter part of 2025 and into 2026.

You are probably right!

 

[mwestberry]

At least the 2-9 is using recency and the same players.

However, using “primetime” as a metric won’t really tell us anything. These primetime games have been against SB winning or SB favorite teams… Bills, KC, Cinci, Eagles, etc….

If Tampa Bay, for example, played Chicago-like teams the majority of their last 10-11 primetime games and went 7-4, does that somehow make them a better primetime team?

I'm not looking for an argument.

The team has to play better against top competition. Whether it's primetime, in cold weather, or any given Sunday.

The rub with primetime is that everyone is watching, and that is the time to shine.
This is the week to get juiced up, pumped up, and ready to put on a show.
If the team not only doesn't shine but continually lays an egg during primetime, then there's a disconnect somewhere.

Can playing top competition be a deterrent? Can injuries play a part?
Sure, but 2-9 feels like a bad trend at this point.

It feels like the team folds a bit under the spotlight. It's like a string gets pulled, and it all unravels.

Here's to turning it around by winning at least 3 of the 5 spotlight games this season.

 

[danmarino7051]

I'm not looking for an argument.

The team has to play better against top competition. Whether it's primetime, in cold weather, or any given Sunday.

The rub with primetime is that everyone is watching, and that is the time to shine.
This is the week to get juiced up, pumped up, and ready to put on a show.
If the team not only doesn't shine but continually lays an egg during primetime, then there's a disconnect somewhere.

Can playing top competition be a deterrent? Can injuries play a part?
Sure, but 2-9 feels like a bad trend at this point.

It feels like the team folds a bit under the spotlight. It's like a string gets pulled, and it all unravels.

Here's to turning it around by winning at least 3 of the 5 spotlight games this season.

Im not trying to argue, just pointing out that a lot of these media narratives… “primetime”… “.500 teams”… “the 3rd Tuesday of every month that ends in a “Y” and after 4:36pm”…. lol… It’s nothing but a talking point for ratings.

Do the Dolphins need to play better? Sure, but can’t that be said about every team that hasn’t won a SB recently? We WANT them to play better because they are our team. There’s nothing wrong with that, but we should use a little context and reality.

A lot of the primetime games over the last 3 seasons were against the actual SB winner for that year or against SB favorites for that year. Not to mention the other factors involved. I mean, the Bills haven’t won a road playoff game in forever. Are they soft and do they suck? Why don’t we hear that as a narrative? Mahomes has looked like absolute dog crap in 2 of his 5 SB appearances. Does he suck? Neither are true… the Bills are very good and Mahomes may go down as the GOAT.

There are actual contextual reasons why the Bills haven’t won a road playoff game and why Mahomes looked like crap in those 2 SB’s that don’t involve either the Bills or Mahomes sucking. It takes a “little” bit of objectivity, reasonableness, and objectivity to see what those reasons are and it doesn’t seem like most want to take the time to see that. They’d rather spew the new sports media jargon or narratives and pretend that they’re smart.

 

[danmarino7051]

The 2025 Dolphins are built on "Ifs":

*If Tua
*If Jaelan
*If the OL
*If the DL
*If the DB's
*If the Head Coach

I'm sure there's plenty of other "Ifs", but those are the big ones off the top of my head!

A lot of teams are built on “ifs” this time of year.

 

[zullo1]

A lot of teams are built on “ifs” this time of year.

Yes, all teams have "ifs". The difference with the '25 Fins is that almost all of the position groups are "ifs" at this point. Read all the posts, it reads like a beginner's guide to programming...if this, then that!

 

[danmarino7051]

Yes, all teams have "ifs". The difference with the '25 Fins is that almost all of the position groups are "ifs" at this point. Read all the posts, it reads like a beginner's guide to programming...if this, then that!

All players have been and may once again get hurt. I agree that Tua’s past injuries (mainly due to his own behavior) makes him a bigger “if” than most, but the rest of the ifs can be asled about nearly all teams. Lamar, for example, had 2 straight seasons where he missed 4-5 games in each not long ago and a couple of other seasons where he missed a few games due to injuries. What if he goes down? JA has been a rock, but he’s human and with the way he plays an injury is bound to happen some point. Maybe he’ll get lucky, but if he goes down? Mahomes has been banged up frequently over the past couple of seasons… what if he misses 5-6 games? I could go on and on.

I think the bottom line is, if the Dolphins can stay relatively healthy, something that seems they’ve been unlucky about, they should be pretty good. But that can be said about every team. “If” any top team has their QB, or multiple skill players get hurt, they will fall way off, too.

 

[zullo1]

All players have been and may once again get hurt. I agree that Tua’s past injuries (mainly due to his own behavior) makes him a bigger “if” than most, but the rest of the ifs can be asled about nearly all teams. Lamar, for example, had 2 straight seasons where he missed 4-5 games in each not long ago and a couple of other seasons where he missed a few games due to injuries. What if he goes down? JA has been a rock, but he’s human and with the way he plays an injury is bound to happen some point. Maybe he’ll get lucky, but if he goes down? Mahomes has been banged up frequently over the past couple of seasons… what if he misses 5-6 games? I could go on and on.

I think the bottom line is, if the Dolphins can stay relatively healthy, something that seems they’ve been unlucky about, they should be pretty good. But that can be said about every team. “If” any top team has their QB, or multiple skill players get hurt, they will fall way off, too.

No doubt. It's a QB driven league with the rules set up to ensure that. You lose your number one, you're in trouble. I don't know off the top of my head who all the back-up QBs in the league are, but I know that if Tua goes down yet again, the Fins are done. Wilson and/or Ewers are not taking the Fins to The Promised Land.