This year? Around the same record, 3-1 or 4-0.
Ummm, the title of the thread is "
O And D Rankings As Of 10/1"
This year? Around the same record, 3-1 or 4-0.
Ummm, the title of the thread is "
O And D Rankings As Of 10/1"
I am talking Miami with Tannehill, and though obviously they do lack something to allow anyone to crazy and think they are right now one of the top teams, they do tend to play beyond what is or should be expected of them.
In 2016, though they started slow (They were a dropped Deep pass to Stills from beating the Seahawks, and lack of time from maybe beating the Pats in NE), they started a winning streak against a Steelers team that was fighting for a playoff spot, and at the time was hot...They had a three game West coast trip, and beat a talented Chargers team, an up and coming Rams Team that had a great defense, and a 49ers team that was already in spoiler mode with little quit...They swept both the Bills and Jets (When was the last time Miami did that?).
The Miami of old would not have had any winning streak, and probably not even come close to reaching the playoffs.
In 2017,They lost their starting QB, replaced him with a retired QB that should have stayed retired, delt with a hurrricane that (Good or bad) did stay in the minds of the players for a few weeks, a FA LB that went Mia, a coach that seemed to have a substance problem, and Miami started 1-2, but still showed enough tenacity to fight back to a 4-2 record, they did still lose some games afterwards, but again were able to win a few game to stay in the playoff hunt for around 3 quarters of the season.
The Miami Old Miami Dolphins would have folded after all this problems, and ended up picking very high with a very bad record.
In 2018 Dolphins, cleaned house of some overpriced stars, brought back their starting QB that had surgery the year prior, started 3-0 before losing it's 1st game against a desperate Patriots team in NE where more time then not, they win.
Miami in the past never started 3-0, Miami never stayed so consistently focused in games whether ahead, behind, or tied. Miami of old would have show inconsistency starting then season, but what I see in this team is it is more focused, willing to win any way way possible, there are no stars, Miami will win on the arm of their QB, or by running it if it is working, or by playing very smart opportunistic defense. The mindset on this team has changed...Miami got destroyed by the Patriots this past Sunday, watch this coming Sunday if it seems to still be in their memory, or are they a new team from what we saw this past Sunday?
The Miami of old could not win against NE at home and apparently the new Miami still cant do the same. The old Miami couldn't not win big games to prove everyone wrong that Miami is for real. The new Miami still cant do that, and it's the same. We get killed in big games in the playoffs and against the Pats at home. The old Tannehill plays like crap in NE and the new Tannehill stills plays like crap in NE. We are consistently stuck in mediocrity. It's no surprise though, I expected us to go 8-8 this season.
Even though we are still 3-1 at this time, it feels like we are 1-3 after that horrible performance against the pats. Injuries are starting to take a toll and there's a sense that things will continue to go down hill for us and could go down hill real quick. The next couple weeks will tell us more.
Or maybe after this ONE game where Miami was blown out by a desperate Patriots team in their home, may have downgraded Miami's rank lower then how good each actually is capable of playing, and have played in their previous 3 games before NE.
Look on the bright side - at least Charles "Dark Place" Harris finally showed up for his followers....twice in fact.
Once for jumping offsides and again for getting blocked into oblivion by a Tight End. Kid's got a lot of upside
No my friend, offense has been putrid since the first game, if not for some unusual field starting position generated by turnovers and some gimmick plays we would be complaining of our garbage offense since game one. After the next two games we will see that it was not the Patriots game, but instead we survived miracoulsy the first three with less Time of possesion and no fundamentals. Luck and key turnovers. If we dont change 180 degrees we will be pretty humiliated.
What exactly is it that you’ve seen in this team? In 2016 they got destroyed in the opening round in the playoffs per usual. They missed the playoffs last year. I doubt they make it this year. That sounds like the same **** we’ve been dealing with since Don Shula.
No my friend, offense has been putrid since the first game, if not for some unusual field starting position generated by turnovers and some gimmick plays we would be complaining of our garbage offense since game one. After the next two games we will see that it was not the Patriots game, but instead we survived miracoulsy the first three with less Time of possesion and no fundamentals. Luck and key turnovers. If we dont change 180 degrees we will be pretty humiliated.