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Sports Buzz: Thoughts, reaction from another Dolphins disaster

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Thoughts and reaction from the Dolphins’ 22-7 loss to Cincinnati:

• The record, considering the daunting early-season schedule, isn’t surprising.

But the way the Dolphins have arrived at 1-3 is depressing, distressing and highly troubling.

Not only have the Dolphins not improved from last season’s 6-10 disaster, but they might have regressed.

Right tackle Ja’Wuan James, victimized for another strip sack on Thursday, certainly has regressed.

Ryan Tannehill has seemingly regressed, if you use passer rating and interceptions as a gauge. (He has five picks in four games, compared with 12 all of last season).

The pass defense is worse, allowing passer ratings of 100 plus to three quarterbacks this season, including Andy Dalton’s 111.8 on Thursday.

Yes, the Dolphins were playing a playoff-caliber team on a short week, without arguably its two best offensive linemen (Mike Pouncey and Branden Albert) and two starting linebackers (Koa Misi and Jelani Jenkins).

But there’s no excuse for the depth of this offensively futility, the inability to sustain any drives, the persistent failures on third down through one quarter of the season. The Dolphins offense essentially did nothing beyond the early 74-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Stills.

The Dolphins closed with eight first downs, just two more than the franchise record low for a game.

Tannehill (15 for 25 for 189 yards and an 80.3 passer rating) was sacked five times and hurried 10 times in 30 dropbacks.

Positives? The previously porous run defense stiffened, allowing 77 yards on the ground and 2.1 per carry. Jay Ajayi ran with purpose (six carries for 33 yards). And Reshad Jones had some impact plays, as usual. Bobby McCain had a sack. Kiko Alonso had eight tackles and some good moments.

The night began with the curious decision of benching Byron Maxwell and inserting Tony Lippett, who hadn’t played a defensive snap since preseason.

Lippett made strong plays in coverage on two third downs but was beaten for a 43-yard pass by AJ Green. And his inability to tackle Green on an earlier play resulted in a touchdown.

Midway through the third quarter, Green had outgained the Dolphins on his own. He closed with 10 catches for 173 yards. For the night, the Bengals outgained Miami, 362-222.

Cincinnati had an absurd 69-43 advantage in offensive plays. Through four games, the Dolphins offense has run 73 fewer plays than opposing offenses in those games.

And there’s this: The Dolphins have been outscored 116-52 in their last four full national TV telecasts. When the Dolphins are showcased nationally, they leave a stench that not even a cleaning crew can fix.

Not that they’re much better overall, now 68-96 over the past decade-plus and 1-3 this season, with home games against Tennessee and Pittsburgh looming.

GASE REACTION

Some thoughts from Adam Gase:

• “We have to go back to work” and determine “whether it’s schematically, players, decision making, play calling. I put us in a couple of bad spots with some of the play calls. We have to figure out what we do well and start leaning on that a little bit more. It’s literally somebody different every time.”

• “What makes me feel terrible, to be honest with you, is they [the defense] laid it out there and we didn’t show up on the other side of the ball.”

• On Terrence Fede’s roughing the punter: “It was a bad mistake, costly mistake from us. Coming from Fede shocked me more than anything. It was a painful penalty for us to swallow.” That penalty led to a Bengals field goal, making the score 22-7.

• On the offensive line: “Some of the plays were not ideal. Ryan has got to step up on the fumble. It’s everybody taking their turn. I don’t think it really mattered who was out there. We couldn’t get out of our own way.”

• On Tannehill’s performance: “Entire offense, we struggled. He missed a couple things early. He was behind on a throw to Jarvis Landry early. When things started going bad, you want him to find that one throw to where he can spring us loose. It’s hard, when you play that position, it’s tough. When you’re a quarter of an inch off, and the ball’s behind, they’re going to play tight defense. There were some good things he did. He’s going to come back to work, try to figure out a way to get this turned around.”

• On benching Maxwell: “We just felt like we wanted to give Tony a shot. It was a decision we decided to make as a coaching staff. We want Byron to keep practicing, figuring out a way to get better. We’ll decide who the best group is for that week. We’ll see how that goes from here on out.”
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And there’s this: The Dolphins have been outscored 116-52 in their last four full national TV telecasts. When the Dolphins are showcased nationally, they leave a stench that not even a cleaning crew can fix.
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Tell it like it is Barry.:lol:
 
Misi and Jenkins were not missed. Lippett overall played much better than Maxwell and as a whole the entire D looked better. Not sure why Gase continues to alternate RBs. No one will get into any kind of a rhythm if he keeps do that.

A line from Phil Simms that stuck out...."This offense is very complicated" Simplify it, Gase. Commit to the run and take the ball out of your Qbs hands.
 
This. I think Tannehill has all the physical tools, but he's never going to be the savvy smart QB that outwits the defense. As long as he's your QB....and for the first time since they drafted him, I think they need to take a QB in the first 3 rounds this offseason.....but as long as its RT you have to cut him down to read 1 and read 2. Give him the option to audible at the line if he sees something, but otherwise tell him read 1 then read 2, if that's not there start looking for a whole to run for 5 or 6 yards.



thefieds said:
Misi and Jenkins were not missed. Lippett overall played much better than Maxwell and as a whole the entire D looked better. Not sure why Gase continues to alternate RBs. No one will get into any kind of a rhythm if he keeps do that.

A line from Phil Simms that stuck out...."This offense is very complicated" Simplify it, Gase. Commit to the run and take the ball out of your Qbs hands.
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I honestly don't know the answer and neither does this coaching staff. It's early to give up on Gase but he is showing me that he's in over his head.

Time to move on from Tannehill. He has played one good half out of eight. The regression under Gase is remarkable.


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OMG if Ross cant see that the players Tannenbuam brought in are fcking garbage and the coach is benching them and doesn't get rid of him after this year... then I don't know what i'll do. But ill be very mad. My hate and anger at Ross is beyond anything I've ever felt before. We are a joke, and it is a direct result of his choices.
 
phinasota said:
OMG if Ross cant see that the players Tannenbuam brought in are fcking garbage and the coach is benching them and doesn't get rid of him after this year... then I don't know what i'll do. But ill be very mad. My hate and anger at Ross is beyond anything I've ever felt before. We are a joke, and it is a direct result of his choices.
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Chill man. It's just a game. Your most vivid feelings should come from another source - preferably, one in which you have some control.
 
in 44 years as a fan I have never turned a game off early...after the Fede penalty last night I actually gave up and went to bed.... it actually hurt me in the gut

I like what I saw in the defensive effort....green was just a horrible match up

Tannehill looked like a 1-AA QB against Alabama...he was out of his league and processing everything 0.5 seconds too slow
 
j-off-her-doll said:
Chill man. It's just a game. Your most vivid feelings should come from another source - preferably, one in which you have some control.
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I know it man... seriously I do. But for some reason, I cant let go. I absolutely am tired of losing. Especially in the fashion that the dolphins lose in.
 
This is a result of drafting no skill players and always taking lineman in the first round. We always draft mediocre talent. Can someone please tell me why we drafted all offense and none of the players starts except Tunsil. Why 3 WR and we traded picks to get some of them. Man Tannenbaum! We should have stuck to drafting all defense and OL. Man it sucks to be a fan.
 
because Tannenbaum man... its all him. This draft is looking to be one of the worse besides tunsil and howard.
 
I'm not going to lie. I watched a House Hunters in the middle of the game. The Dolphins are not worthy of my full attention. It's prime time and a night game, I can't force my wife to watch that nonsense with me.
 
Each game now there are multiple HUGE mistakes, and nowhere is it more evident than special teams. I can't remember the last time we started past the 20 yard line.
 
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