Soooo if we won one more game....

[Despacio]

One loss, one win makes sometimes all the difference in the world. Coaches are being fired and hired over the difference of one game more or less in the win column. Quarterbacks make a difference in critical games. The last two games meant more to this organizations than just making the playoffs. If you don't have coaches who can come up with a game plan before facing two inferior opponents to make the playoffs and when they can not counter act and change throughout the game, yes, you do have a problem.
If we would have missed the playoffs by one game because we were trying to play catch-up. OK. Can happen. But we had the playoffs and we just tossed them away. There is losing and losing. One way of losing is when the other team is just better and the players tried their best and the coaches were trying to come up with plays who may work but it just didn't work because the other team was simply better.
Then you have losing in which your coaching staff looks hapless and helpless and does not attempt to do anything better, when coaches and players just give up and let teams who are worse talent wise totally dominate you.

We had collapses in the past even with the great Marino. But one thing you can never hold against them is the lack of trying, trying to avoid the unavoidable that day. These two games were the biggest two-game collapse in the history of the Miami Dolphins because nobody cared. They turned on their back like a bunch of ****roaches and died.

See, what is that? So Joe Philbin and Ryan Tannehill and Co. decided not to try? They just gave up? These guys are competitors who love and play this game for a living. We were beat plain and simple. You don't win them all. This whole they didn't care nonsense is one of the worst misconceptions of football. You don't just lose your will to win.

All I came here to say is we improved from one year to the next, not as much as we hoped for, but it was there, relevant to the very end of the regular season. Next year, who knows. The trajectory was upwards despite a very distracting fork in the middle of the season.

After a week of depression and wild emotions I've come to terms and I'm excited for next season in what I think will be a continued upwards trajectory. Patience is a virtue, and using the past of different men as examples of exaggerated overreaction wants is silly.

We had 8 great and exciting wins, and 8 sad and disappointing losses. We moved up to average by it's very definition, next year we shoot for above average with the men who pushed us a little bit closer.

To an exciting and unpredictable 2013 Miami Dolphin season I bid adios. Looking forward to the next.


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[ForksPhin]

There were signs all season that something was wrong with the offense as a whole,Keller and Gibson going down didn't help.The end of the year confirmed it.

Keller and Gibson really had nothing to do with anything. Keller never played a regular season game and the team was still 8-6after 14 games with a playoff spot staring them in the face.

The.team was 3-4 with Gibson against the weaker part of the schedule, as it turns out. They were 5-4 without Gibson and beat NE, San Diego, Pittsburgh.

 

[gofins60]

Miami had a half-decent running game, but Philbin brought in his "system" and did not value the running game. Miami used to make those 3rd and shorts with Polite. Now, they can't even make 3rd and inches. Miami had a 3rd ranked rushing defense, but Philbin wanted changes and it dropped to 13th. Ireland swapped LBs and it dropped to 24th. Miami needed upgrades on the o-line, and for 2 years Ireland signed nothing but scrubs. I've been down on Sherman since he was hired, and even he said that when he wanted a balanced offense with more running Philbin said no. Ireland is not doing a good job, and Philbin is actually destroying the strengths of this team just to run his "Master Plan". Ross needs to clean house.

 

[BSQ]

OC and GM must go. It's ok with me if you keep everybody else but these 2 are holding back any shot at progress.

 

[dlockz]

How are the last two games we lost Irelands fault lol?How are any of the games we lost his fault? We were in position to win most if not all (except the Saints and last 2). If you guys can't see the improvement from previous years than I don't know.

well u can blame him for the horrible oline he has assembled and the regression of the linebackers. Not to mention a draft that did little to nothing as well as many of his overpaid free agents not performing.
You can blame him for downgrading RB. He still had money in cap and left us this weak esp in depth. Yes besides all that Ireland is for the fifth year in a row free of blame

 

[dlockz]

From what we've heard, this is the why Ross didn't just swing the axe on Monday. He felt everyone was doing well enough at 8-6 to stay and doesn't want to judge them on just 2 games. Supposedly, only reason he is even considering changes is because of the way it ended.

good call by Ross esp with Ireland because he only has the last 6 years as evidence in his case. He is doing just fine in Ross's eyes and should be handed an extension due to Ross being a clueless NFL owner

 

[roy_miami]

We lost the last two games, but won the three prior. We put ourselves in position in the very final game to get into the playoffs. Last year we were outta it weeks before the end of the season. That is an uphill trajectory, not a down one. And that's despite a scandal that directly affected our offensive line.

The reactions around here are reserved for 4-12 teams or teams with declining records. Where is the common sense around here? I imagine it's being overridden by the emotion of last Sunday still.

People are irrational, that's why.

Its the same as getting angry when we lost the NE game, or specifically at the way we lost. The Patriots don't lose at home, we were dogs, HUGE dogs going in and we lost, like we were supposed to. But people get all in a huff because we ended up having a good chance to win and the Pats came back (which is pretty typical). Of course the staff gets no credit whatsoever for giving us a chance to win a game we really had no chance at in the first place, they just get killed for "blowing it". If you want to get emotional you should at least come away feeling like it was a "push", the coaches did a great job, then a poor job=even (exactly like the entire season played out).

If you must get angry, get angry at the fact that we were such huge dogs in the first place for that game, and have been for a decade now.

 

[roy_miami]

Miami had a half-decent running game, but Philbin brought in his "system" and did not value the running game. Miami used to make those 3rd and shorts with Polite. Now, they can't even make 3rd and inches. Miami had a 3rd ranked rushing defense, but Philbin wanted changes and it dropped to 13th. Ireland swapped LBs and it dropped to 24th. Miami needed upgrades on the o-line, and for 2 years Ireland signed nothing but scrubs. I've been down on Sherman since he was hired, and even he said that when he wanted a balanced offense with more running Philbin said no. Ireland is not doing a good job, and Philbin is actually destroying the strengths of this team just to run his "Master Plan". Ross needs to clean house.

What did a half decent running game ever get us?

 

[Bob512]

Miami had a half-decent running game, but Philbin brought in his "system" and did not value the running game. Miami used to make those 3rd and shorts with Polite. Now, they can't even make 3rd and inches. Miami had a 3rd ranked rushing defense, but Philbin wanted changes and it dropped to 13th. Ireland swapped LBs and it dropped to 24th. Miami needed upgrades on the o-line, and for 2 years Ireland signed nothing but scrubs. I've been down on Sherman since he was hired, and even he said that when he wanted a balanced offense with more running Philbin said no. Ireland is not doing a good job, and Philbin is actually destroying the strengths of this team just to run his "Master Plan". Ross needs to clean house.

While I agree there are a lot of flaws on both sides of the ball, I think you are only looking at this from one side. Our running game has gotten worse, but our passing game has gotten better. Our run defense has gotten worse, but our pass defense has gotten better.

And I would hope, our coach has a "master plan" and is working towards achieving it.

 

[dlockz]

While I agree there are a lot of flaws on both sides of the ball, I think you are only looking at this from one side. Our running game has gotten worse, but our passing game has gotten better. Our run defense has gotten worse, but our pass defense has gotten better.

And I would hope, our coach has a "master plan" and is working towards achieving it.

Neither unit I even ranked in top 20 of NFL teams so its becoming who cares. I mean yay we have the 26th ranked offense and the 21st ranked defense yay. The offense number may be off just took a guess I think its 27.
Our lazy owner is making me lazy even looking stuff up. Im trying to figure a reason to care

 

[roy_miami]

Neither unit I even ranked in top 20 of NFL teams so its becoming who cares. I mean yay we have the 26th ranked offense and the 21st ranked defense yay. The offense number may be off just took a guess I think its 27.
Our lazy owner is making me lazy even looking stuff up. Im trying to figure a reason to care

If you like the DVOA stat our offense did improve a ton since getting McKinnie, we're actually ranked just behind Cincy even with all their weapons and 40 point games they rattled off.

 

[Sirspud]

One more game won means doing your job and getting to the playoffs. I'm sorry, but they don't hand out awards for almost doing good enough, and losing against subpar opponents when success is finally attainable means that you are weak and a choke artist.

We shouldn't even have been in this position but due to poor coaching costing us wins, the amount of times we lost was much higher than the amount of times we were outplayed.

 

[JJM_7]

I think the problem is that we didn't just improve steadily throughout the season and simply fell one game short. We were inconsistent ALL year long. Won the first 3, lost the following 4, and so on. Similar to last year.

And that inconsistency is why, despite having EVERY opportunity to make the playoffs this year, we didn't. That's what sucks, and imo that's also why so many fans question our QB. Because he's proven to be very inconsistent as well. I mean, we had the opportunity to win our last game at home, and he simply couldn't elevate his game and play at the high level he'd shown weeks prior against the Pats. That is frustrating and it HAS to raise some doubts. Just my opinion.

 

[rent this space]

good call by Ross esp with Ireland because he only has the last 6 years as evidence in his case. He is doing just fine in Ross's eyes and should be handed an extension due to Ross being a clueless NFL owner

Maybe Ross thinks there was enough talent to beat the Bills and Jets

 

[sixzero]

We were not a playoff team. I hate that we lost to Bills and Jets but we would have lost in 1st round. In a way, I'm contempt with the way it ended. Especially after seeing KC have their season come to an end the way it did. Heartbreaking...