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Surprising Perspective On The Miami Dolphins’ Many Injuries

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Injuries have played their role in this Miami Dolphins season. That is without doubt.

The team has nine players on the injured reserve list. Starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill has missed five starts, although he is scheduled to start against Indianapolis on Sunday. Head coach Adam Gase said he has spoken to owner Stephen Ross about the issue.

So the Dolphins must be doing something wrong.Because plagues such as this don’t just happen, right? Well, actually that is not true.

http://amp.miamiherald.com/sports/s...ticle222084285.html?__twitter_impression=true
 
Aqua ‘N Orange said:
Can’t lose your starting competent qb for 5 games.

Starts with that.
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Exactly! You can afford to lose 12 players if they really aren't at premier spots.
How many of these teams Pittsburgh, KC, NE, NO, Rams, Panthers etc can afford to lose their starting QB and not miss a beat?
Can any of those teams lose those players and still have the same record and be as dominating as they've been this season?

Sure, some of them can still be pretty decent BUT NE isn't 7-3 right now. NO definitely isn't 8-1, Rams absolutely don't have their current record etc etc

It's one of the reasons why I'm personally so mad at Gase. If there is one position this league has taught you to protect it's the QB position.
 
It did dawn on me last night as the site often throws around, “what other teams have dealt with so many injuries” myself included. The Falcons have taken a pounding in the injury department. They are not overcoming it.
 
Some of it starts with the draft. I think Miami has made an effort in recent drafts to look for durable players, but have seemed to look past injuries in the past. Players like Mike Pouncey, DaVante Parker, Jamal Taylor and Dion Jordan are some of the examples of guys who had injuries in college. Pouncey and Parker have always been injury prone in the NFL as well.

Obviously, there is no exact science on injuries. Jake Long was extremely durable in college and early on with Miami, but didn't prove to be that after an early injury and playing through it when he probably shouldn't have. Tannehill was durable until recently and now that is a huge question with him.
 
DolfanISS said:
It did dawn on me last night as the site often throws around, “what other teams have dealt with so many injuries” myself included. The Falcons have taken a pounding in the injury department. They are not overcoming it.
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Despite having Matt Ryan. Only so much a qb can do. Not that Ryan played all that well yesterday cause he didn’t but some of that like some of it for every qb he does not control.

I’m convinced the posters that rag on Ryan tannehill don’t watch qb play around the league enough. They seem to lose touch with reality.
 
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One thing is for sure. Nobody's going to feel sorry for you in the NFL when it comes to injuries. Like the report says, every team has injuries. We've been hit but not anymore than other teams. NE has 6 of their draft picks in IR......think about that for a moment. I do agree that having your starting QB healthy really helps. Of course after Tannehill got hurt and missed games in 2016 and then got hurt and missed all of 2017 our FO/HC decided to do NOTHING at the QB position and put all their eggs in one basket by giving your two seasons in a row injured QB an extension. That's out FO/HC in a nut shell.
 
I think Wake has actually been hurt so that was a strange reference.

Tannenbaum brought in some outside the box consultant types to work on avoiding injuries. Probably not the best investment in resources as it hasn’t proven much based on Armando’s data, which if anything is biased toward the Dolphins.
 
they can focus on soft tissue handling all they want when it comes to season ender type major injury you aren’t gonna avoid it by being more prepared. As if you could be for something like that.

Eagles last year pretty healthy this year hammered by injury to the secondary etc it kills seasons. You aren’t gonna change it. Just got to hope for some luck.

Miami’s no different than a lot of teams. Maybe avoid older veterans if anything but that’s also hit and miss. Mainly avoid the ones already showing signs of attrition
 
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