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Offense Lost All 5 Games This season.

Dolph N.Fan

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Offense is highly overrated. Definitely not explosive. Defense had Miami in position to take the lead vs San Francisco and twice vs the Chargers and the offense failed miserably. 8 3 and outs forced vs Minnesota, and I don’t care that Miami had backups vs Cincinnati and the jets. Many teams still win games with their backups. If Miami can’t do that than Teddy and Skylar need to be sent packing next season.

Offense is smoke and mirrors, can’t be explosive without some sort of running game. Not a single dolphins loss this season where you can say well the offense showed up Miami just couldn’t stop anyone.
 
dreamblk said:
I have been trying to point this out. You have to be able to win some games without Tua.
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The offense never adjusts to anything. Whether the O-line has someone out, they don’t call roll outs or short passes, the defense has taken the middle of the field away and they’re not taking the underneath stuff, you have a backup QB starting and you’re still calling deep passes for Skylar. Abandon the running game way too fast. That game vs the chargers finally felt like a game from last year where we didn’t know who was calling the plays.
 
For the longest time we hadn't lost a game with Tua playing but with the last two games we finally lost games with him for the same reason we lost with the backups- there's too much responsibility for the success or failure of this team being placed on the QB's, there's not enough responsiveness to what's happening in the games. McD called the games with the backups the same way he called games with Tua, and he called games with a struggling Tua and offense in general the same way that's happened with a Tua that didn't throw an errant pass for like 12 quarters straight. Calling the same offense regardless of who is on the line.
 
McGenius has turned into Mcfraud. The guy doesn't know his ass from his elbow. Same play calls every game. He Only cares about the 15 yard middle of the field pass plays. Lacks creativity. Can't adjust his game plans. Why hasn't he diversified his passing game to include the flats with the RB's and TE's. Teams are now dropping deeper to take away his middle field pass plays and he hasn't adjusted to a short passing game to offset. This guy has clueless written all over him.
 
For what it’s worth we were in both of these last awful games til the very end. Even though it feels like we got beat by 35 both weeks. WE AINT DONE. A break here or there and we could have won both of these games

Time to make the proper adjustments and go shock the world in Barfalo this weekend. Or at least punch them in the face….HARD

Hopefully the team isn’t doing a much moping as we are today
 
Sirspud said:
For the longest time we hadn't lost a game with Tua playing but with the last two games we finally lost games with him for the same reason we lost with the backups- there's too much responsibility for the success or failure of this team being placed on the QB's, there's not enough responsiveness to what's happening in the games. McD called the games with the backups the same way he called games with Tua, and he called games with a struggling Tua and offense in general the same way that's happened with a Tua that didn't throw an errant pass for like 12 quarters straight. Calling the same offense regardless of who is on the line.
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He must really think he has a a Greatest Show on Turf offense that could literally plug in any QB and still be successful. But he doesn’t have HOF players on the O-line and at running back like the rams had with
Marshall Faulk and Orlando Pace
 
Dolph N.Fan said:
He must really think he has a a Greatest Show on Turf offense that could literally plug in any QB and still be successful. But he doesn’t have HOF players on the O-line and at running back like the rams had with
Marshall Faulk and Orlando Pace
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Well, we don't have the line, but could this team be greatest show on turf? I mean with certain dispensations, it could be. But the Greatest Show on Turn wasn't just throwing downfield all the time. In fact utilizing the RB out of the backfield was one of its key components- Faulk had over 1,000 yards receiving in '99 and averaged 850-900 in other years. They attacked all areas of the field and that's what McD has fallen into not doing.

This offense has similar potential and it showed it for good stretches this year, but anytime you make an offense predictable you're doing part of the defense's job for it.

For me I look at the Kansas City offense, helmed by Andy Reid, basically the modern day Bill Walsh. Best QB in the game. Best TE in the game. There was a time they had Tyreek Hill and a healthy Sammy Watkins at receiver. Kareem Hunt at RB. Did Andy Reid just rest on talent and call plays to let it do the work? No. There's motion and misdirection every play, with enough balance that a team has to respect it. There's WR screens, TE screens, RB screens, mid screens, tight end sneaks, direct snaps, anything you can think of to give his offense an advantage they haven't even always needed, Reid has always done it in Kansas City.
 
Martel13 said:
For what it’s worth we were in both of these last awful games til the very end. Even though it feels like we got beat by 35 both weeks. WE AINT DONE. A break here or there and we could have won both of these games

Time to make the proper adjustments and go shock the world in Barfalo this weekend. Or at least punch them in the face….HARD

Hopefully the team isn’t doing a much moping as we are today
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That’s why I’m not sure why everyone is freaking out. Literally If Tyreek doesn’t lose track of the ball on that deep pass last night or gesicki catches that 4th down vs San Fran we probably win both games. Just comes down to adjusting and simplifying the offense when the deep ball isn’t there. McDaniel will figure it out.
 
Broad generalization: The intermediate passing attack feels a little lIke the Wildcat, where we caught early teams off guard until they figured out how to defense it.
 
Dolph N.Fan said:
The offense never adjusts to anything. Whether the O-line has someone out, they don’t call roll outs or short passes, the defense has taken the middle of the field away and they’re not taking the underneath stuff, you have a backup QB starting and you’re still calling deep passes for Skylar. Abandon the running game way too fast. That game vs the chargers finally felt like a game from last year where we didn’t know who was calling the plays.
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But McDaniel is a genius
 
Teddy's numbers for the game he started and finished was 329...2 TDs...2 INTs (one was directly on Waddle).

That should win a game as a backup. Can't lay this at the feet of the backups.
 
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