I was wondering if anyone caught it.
Mercury Morris was on and he talked, surprisingly quite even keeled,
about how his 1st. year with the Phins. in 69 or 70 I believe it was, they were 1-1-13 or something like that and he said when Shula came in and overhauled the roster and the staff, etc., the next year they went 11-4 or 10-5, I forget and made the playoffs and we all know what happened from there. He didn't say that the Dolphins would do that but that it's possible.
..which brings me to my next point.
When everyone judges and makes predictions on how we'll be this year, experts as well as people here, they all keep saying, "well Miami was a 1-15 team last year, etc. etc. etc.." The thing is we have to have a different criteria when judging the Phins this year because the only thing that is the same about this team as compared to last year is a small handful of players and the uniforms, the team name and where they play, etc. Even ownership has partially changed.
...EVERYTHING is different now. I know it's hard to predict what they'll be. We have to go on gut instincs, common football sense and the things we see in off-season transactions, off-season workouts, training camp and pre-season games...That's it. that's all we have to go on.
I don't care if people are skeptical, as they should be, or taking a "wait and see" approach, as they should do. I just wish people would stop using last year as the sole criterior to base what we will be like this year. It's gettting real annoying. These sport media guys get paid a lot of money, at least do some research and come up with some detailed, objective views. It would give what they say more credibility IMO.
On a side note, before Mercury came on, did anyone hear Greg Buttle?(sp?) talk about the game? Man! What a fool! I know he's a homer and that's part of his thing is to promote the NY Jerks, I mean, I admit that I'm a total homer, but man!..at least make sense. He was like incoherently rambling about God knows what. Michael Kay even said something to him because Greg was listing some reasons why the Jerks will win the game and he was like "A.. yada, yada, yada" and then he said "2... yada, yada, yada" and Kay said "Wait! You can't go from A to 2"
.. Nothing big, but it was funny. What a goone. You had to hear it.
Mercury Morris was on and he talked, surprisingly quite even keeled,
When everyone judges and makes predictions on how we'll be this year, experts as well as people here, they all keep saying, "well Miami was a 1-15 team last year, etc. etc. etc.." The thing is we have to have a different criteria when judging the Phins this year because the only thing that is the same about this team as compared to last year is a small handful of players and the uniforms, the team name and where they play, etc. Even ownership has partially changed.
I don't care if people are skeptical, as they should be, or taking a "wait and see" approach, as they should do. I just wish people would stop using last year as the sole criterior to base what we will be like this year. It's gettting real annoying. These sport media guys get paid a lot of money, at least do some research and come up with some detailed, objective views. It would give what they say more credibility IMO.
On a side note, before Mercury came on, did anyone hear Greg Buttle?(sp?) talk about the game? Man! What a fool! I know he's a homer and that's part of his thing is to promote the NY Jerks, I mean, I admit that I'm a total homer, but man!..at least make sense. He was like incoherently rambling about God knows what. Michael Kay even said something to him because Greg was listing some reasons why the Jerks will win the game and he was like "A.. yada, yada, yada" and then he said "2... yada, yada, yada" and Kay said "Wait! You can't go from A to 2"