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Some interesting numbers halfway through the season

Gotta love actual *good* news about our Dolphins right now. :up:
 
Thanks, a few more stats for thought.

Tannehill is sitting at 1977 yards. Will he go over 4,000? He has 11 TD's and 9 INT's. Can he finish with 25 and 15?

Miller has 448 yards after a slow start. Is over 1,000 likely? 1,100? 1.200?

Wallace has 480 yards, and Hartline is at 477. Can we have two 1,000 yard WR's?

Clay has 363 yards. Can he finish with 800?

Bonus question- We were all picking Hartline's TD's. He has 2. Will he get to 5?

The individual above stats look better than one would think with all the problems, and up and down play.
 
finfan54 said:
Ireland sucks for keeping Patterson.


just playin devils advocate.

Im sure you can add to that strength of schedule. We've played 6 of 8 playoff teams (New Orleans?)If not then 5 of 8.

Lets face it, we all knew this schedule was rough early on.
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Fe sucks because he had to go and get him as a free agent. How about hitting on some draft picks?
 
FinsBR said:
Fe sucks because he had to go and get him as a free agent. How about hitting on some draft picks?
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Pouncey, Odrick, Hartline, Jones, Clay, Misi, Vernon, and Tanne all seem to be good hits. Not every draft pick will be Tom Brady in the 6th rd. Also don't forget many of these guys had Sparano the first couple years they were on the team- notice how they are playing better now?
 
Sooo in other words.. If we somehow sneak into the playoffs this year we are dead meat.

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fishfanmiami said:
We're not getting as much from the new LB's as we expected but check out some D line stats.

SACKs at the halfway mark.

Odrick 3.5
OV 4.5
Wake 5.5 (missed several games)
Starks 3.0
Shelby 2.5
Big Paul and Jordan have one each.

Double these totals would be very good numbers for D linemen..
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Actually, it would be a team season record. So, yes.
 
shouright said:
These stats are hardly evidence of anything exceptional. I'm not of the mind that we should clean house, but it's not because of these stats or any other ones associated with the team right now.
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Sure they do, if you know what you are looking for, lol. The exception is that we improved over last year in several key areas, as the OP pointed out. And that is reflected in the record we have to this point. The only category where we've significantly regressed is sacks allowed. In several other areas, we have significantly improved. While the sacks allowed is not good news at all, and must be addressed, it does not overshadow our improvement in several other areas.
 
ATL_PHIN_FAN said:
Sure they do, if you know what you are looking for, lol. The exception is that we improved over last year in several key areas, as the OP pointed out. And that is reflected in the record we have to this point. The only category where we've significantly regressed is sacks allowed. In several other areas, we have significantly improved. While the sacks allowed is not good news at all, and must be addressed, it does not overshadow our improvement in several other areas.
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And as a testament to how poorly those stats that supposedly signify "improvement" correlate with winning, the team's winning percentage right now is exactly 0.0625 better than it was last year (0.500 to 0.4375).

Let me know when the quarterback play is adequate. At that point we can talk about peripheral stats that can assist in the overall goal.
 
Bumpus said:
Gotta love actual *good* news about our Dolphins right now. :up:
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Sure, but it's funny how when stats are used in support of the need for "good news," there is no "agenda" attributed to the person providing them. It's all warm and fuzzy, regardless of how meaningful the stats really are.

On the other hand, when someone presents stats that aren't what everybody wants to hear, regardless of the fact that those stats are strongly correlated with winning, ah, then look out -- that person needs to be burned at the stake! ;)
 
ATL_PHIN_FAN said:
Sure they do, if you know what you are looking for, lol. The exception is that we improved over last year in several key areas, as the OP pointed out. And that is reflected in the record we have to this point. The only category where we've significantly regressed is sacks allowed. In several other areas, we have significantly improved. While the sacks allowed is not good news at all, and must be addressed, it does not overshadow our improvement in several other areas.
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I think you don't understand some of the posters around here. If we are not superbowl contenders every year then someone must be fired. KC made major improvements this year and have the best record in football. If we can't be that good we must fire EVERYONE and start over once again which will of course give us less chance of being good next year. We live in a microwave age, where everything has to be NOW or it isn't good enough. Improvement doesn't impress many around here. Superbowl or Ireland must die...

But it isn't just us. I live in the Charlotte area and everyone and his brother were calling for Rivera to get canned after the first 3 games as well. Now that team is downright scary.
 
shouright said:
Sure, but it's funny how when stats are used in support of the need for "good news," there is no "agenda" attributed to the person providing them. It's all warm and fuzzy, regardless of how meaningful the stats really are.

On the other hand, when someone presents stats that aren't what everybody wants to hear, regardless of the fact that those stats are strongly correlated with winning, ah, then look out -- that person needs to be burned at the stake! ;)
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Thanks for disproving your own point.
 
shouright said:
The problem with the opponents' passer rating stat is that it's much more weakly correlated with winning than passer rating differential, and the Dolphins' passer rating differential is a good bit poorer than that of the other teams listed in front of it in the OP.

The defense may be among the league leaders in opponents' passer rating, but Ryan Tannehill's passer rating creates a fairly poor differential.
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Basically youre saying that if the Phins had a good QB, they would have a record more similar to the teams on that list.

Youre saying our D is performing to the level of a top team, yet because our QB isnt getting it done, our offense is not good.

Got it.
 
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