The Best & Worst of 2014?

[So Be]

For me, the best was the overall play of Tannehill, Miller, and Landry on O, the overall play of Jenkins and Jones on D, and Michael Thomas on special teams.

The worst was the injuries to Moreno, Pouncey, and Albert.

Your Choices?

 

[SkapePhin]

BEST
- Tannehill's improvement
- Landry's emergence
- Lazor's offensive system
- Miller's emergence
- Jenkins' emergence
- San Diego shutdown beatdown

WORST
- Philbin
- Kodaking
- Philbin staying through 2015 to ruin another season
- Stephen Ross still owning the team
- 1-3 December to choke away playoffs
- Late season defensive collapse
- Coyle
- Philbin
- Failbin
- FAILBIN

 

[dabeastdabone]

Where we sit now...

The Worst

Obviously Philbin is a lame duck Head Coach and we will waste another year.

We thought we had a guy in Wallace for the immediate future. Now we must get rid of him, this team is to volatile as it is, he isn't worth the risk.

One of our better players in Grimes has baggage that is bad for the team. Given I wouldn't consider Grimes as a shut down CB I think they should rid themselves of him as well (while he has value), the team has had to many locker room issues and like Wallace, Grimes isn't worth the drama.


Om the positive...

Tannehill is a franchise QB and will do nothing but get better.

Landry should be helpful in filling some WR holes if need be next year.

Clay is a top 5 Tight End and if healthy can pick up Wallace slack.

If the Dolphins get rid of Grimes, they would get something of value.

I think we are selling Knowshon short. We don't need to bring in a halfback in the offseason, use Lamar and Knowshon.

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

Best 6:
+Tannehill
+Miller
+Cam Wake the pass rusher
+Lazor the QB coach
+Branden Albert's play and leadership
+Jelani Jenkins

Worst 6:
-Hartline
-Cam Wake (or any other Dolphin) the run defender
-Branden Albert's injury & the OL play that followed
-Lazor the situational play-caller
-Any player with dreadlocks
-Joe Philbin's queasiness


Tough to narrow it down. On the whole, I'm not as bummed out about 2015 as most people here are, but I'll acknowledge that we still have the potential for a lost season coming up.

 

[Danny]

The best of 2014 is that it's over. The worst is that Ross kept Philbin making sure that we get more of the same in 2015

 

[DolfanISS]

Best:

Tannehill - Best QB we've had in a while, unfortunately that's not saying much.
Miller - Solid season from an emerging back.
Landry - Only WR on our team worth anything.
James - Asked to do a lot as a rookie, solid job.
Grimes - Had some bad games but overall the only defender we could count on.
Jenkins - Head scratcher as to why it seems he barely made the team (by TC reports).
Sims - Emerged as our blocking TE who sprinkles in some receptions.

Bad
Any O-lineman not named Albert of James, I guess Satele filled in admirably too. Colledge, Thomas, fox and Pouncey were not good. Pouncey gets a pass for playing out of position and hopefully hurt.
Clays injuries were a disappointment
I used to be a "Hartline is solid" guy but now I see the light he sucks.
Gibson, see above to a lesser extent
Wallace is a douche bag I wished we never signed. I was never a Mike Wallace fan.
Any interior defensive lineman, this group was bullied in the latter stages of the season. We need some fatties up front I never liked the 300 lb DT's.
Wheeler sucked ass as usual. Jeff Ireland's LB swap was the worst move in history. We'd have been better off with 2 washed up vets in the twilight of there careers than throwing money at Ellerbee and Wheeler.
The 2nd year CB's don't look like they've made any strides or very little, both got injured.
Dion Jordan's 1 sack, not good for the #3 overall pick you traded up to get.

Bottom line is we are still feeling the affects of a very, very, very poor former GM.

 

[Dolphin North]

Best:
Lazor's offense

Worst:
Ross announcing we are keeping Philbin for another year and calling it a Christmas present. Shows how out of touch he is.

 

[AGFins]

Tannehill developing was the good.


The collapse of our defense was the bad.

Also agree the J. David about the dreads.

 

[GreenMts]

Best :
Landry - a gamer
James - great play for a rook
Tannehill's continued development
Miller - playing through injury and playing well
Jenkins overall play
Sims stepping it up - pass catching and blocking

Worst:
Coyle - maybe one or two good games this year
Philbin getting a pass in week 16 before the season is complete and Ross looking like an idiot for it
How the OL never reached potential & fell a part due to injury / Daniel Thomas @ RT
Secondary Injuries and Jimmy Wilson
Possible Internal Strife ... Season ending weirdness with Wallace, RT, Coaches
How our DEs and DT disappear in some games

 

[gafin]

I feel like Armando said, banana in the tailpipe trick, nothings changed. That about sums it up.

I thought about spending a day or so thoughtfully breaking down the 2014 season so that I could produce for you two lists today -- the top 10 Miami Dolphins moments and the worst 10 Dolphins moments of the season -- and have that serve as a review of the last year.

And then I realized I was about to fall for the banana in the tail pipe trick.

Look, the Dolphins were 8-8 in 2014 just as they were 8-8 in 2013. And after that '13 season that finished with a whimper, the organization said something akin to, "Next year will be different, we will not tolerate mediocrity. We want improvement."

And this year when the team again crawled to the regular-season finish line and mediocrity again reared its familiar head we got a figurative "this is good enough," from owner Stephen Ross.

So the Miami Dolphins 2014 season in review?

It was an 8-8 season. Nothing's changed.

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...-dolphins-season-in-review.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Best by far was Lazor's ability to widen the field. He's still not offered even half the credit he deserves for that. Nobody came close to the number of cheap 6-12 yard gains we managed from parallel guys angling upfield and generally out of bounds. Granted, it wasn't going to work against everybody but as I posted in preseason we weren't in position to care about the handful of aggressive teams that would maul those tactics. It was a necessary first step to allow Tannehill not to play solely from the pocket in traditional looks.

Every time I watched the tape a few days later it was hilarious how many opposing defenders were flatfooted and hesitant while trying to decipher our schemes. It reminded me of watching college teams try to defend current Georgia Tech.

Now we obviously need to build on our strengths by prioritizing downfield looks. That started to improve late in the season, once Tannehill seemingly became more comfortable defaulting there. Red zone was disappointing in that we seemingly became overly conservative, failing to use trips looks and motion to our full advantage. Tannehill has the dart line drive but not the touch necessary to make every throw based on how the play evolves in tight quarters. The scheme has to create windows for him.

Worst was our YPPA Differential, which ended up a net negative after being as high as +1.0 fairly deep into the season. Easiest way to pinch a playoff berth is for the pass defense to improve by a half yard and Tannehill to improve by a half yard. Otherwise we are relying on low percentages, like Arizona managed this year, finding the playoffs easily despite a poor YPPA number. They had excuses with the key injuries at quarterback.

Landry's grab ability was impressive. Rare for this team. Nice tenacity. He's not a truly great player, which we desperately need, one bucket at a time.