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As the 2014 season concludes Ryan Tannehill needs 214 yards to eclipse the 4,000 yard mark. Mike Wallace needs 138 yards receiving to go over 1,000 and Lamar Miller needs 79 yards rushing. If the offense can generate those numbers it will be one of the best offensive statistical seasons for the franchise. Which only makes the lack of a playoff appearance worse. Regardless it would be a huge building block for next season.

The 4,000 yard mark is so rare that Marino only accomplished it six times in his career. Bob Griese never did and Jay Fiedler topped 3,000 when he threw for 3,290. Tannehill has surpassed 3,000 yards each of his three seasons. Last season he posted 3,913 yards. Coming up just short.


If I were the OC, am going deep every play. Why not ?

YES WE CAN !!!!!!



http://phinphanatic.com/2014/12/24/three-miami-dolphins-look-make-history/
 
You don't have to go deep every time when Tannehill is doing good with short and medium passes but we need to go deep a few times. I see Tannehill and Miller reaching their milestones but not sure about Wallace unless he gets at least one deep one.
 
Those numbers will be very tough to get against the Jets defense. They pretty much shut Tom Brady down last week.
 
With the Miami heat and the jets coming down we need to wear them out. Roll outs and bootlegs to make them chase Tannehill and run at them in the 2ns half.
 
datruth55 said:
Those numbers will be very tough to get against the Jets defense. They pretty much shut Tom Brady down last week.
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Plus its Rex Ryan's last game as a HC. I'm sure he's got something up his sleeve as he auditions for a DC job this Sunday.
 
While I'm hoping for a beat down and all our guys to get those milestones, you can't compare 4K throwing season now to 20 years ago. 4k 20 years ago is like 5k now.

All 3 have had really good seasons. I read an article that showed Tannehill has had 37 receptions for 501 yards and 7 TDs dropped this year. That's an absurd amount! If that doesn't scream we need more receiving talent I don't know what does. We lack receiving talent behind our first and second WR's. Our backs have dropped a ton of passes for first downs and TD's. Those drops if completed puts us upper echelon in conference firmly in the playoffs. We have a QB that can put it there.

Miller has ran great all year and it annoys me he's on such a limited snap count. He has really improved in vision through the lanes and fighting through tackles, and his pass blocking has improved as of lately. He needs to improve focus in passing game.

Wallace has become the fastest possession receiver in league, but he has found a toughness not seen around these parts. Not a jump ball let me go get it guy, he's a body catcher but has improved catching with his hands. He has 11 TD's this year when was the last time we had a WR with that many TD's? Was it Chambers years? I'm excited to see these guys development into next year with more talent infused with them. I like how physical he's played this year with an attitude, would love to see a Steve Smith attitude come from him!

I'd like to see more Clay like last week and Landry catching the ball in the intermediate zone to make people miss for big gains instead of screens and short drags over and over.

Go Fins, whoop that trick!
 
Is Landry OK? I thought he was dinged up last week?
The Jets will probably take away the short and intermediate passing game. We need to throw deep to get them to back off.
I would get a couple of 1st downs and then throw to the end zone from mid field. If RT cannot stay in the pocket, roll him out and throw against the grain or deep post to Wallace.
I would like to see Lazor open his bag of tricks for this game since it means nothing.
Half back option passes, reverse pass/run option, Dion Jordan at QB..lol...the whole kitchen sink
 
Would love to see all three do it, would make me a bit happy in a disappointing year.it would be a great sign of things to come.
 
while its true more QB's reach 4,000 yards they still are not reaching 5,000. No QB this year is within reach of 5,000 without having a 400 plus yard game this year. The closest is Drew Brees who needs just under 400 while the other two need to get close to 400.
 
cullenbigcstill said:
While I'm hoping for a beat down and all our guys to get those milestones, you can't compare 4K throwing season now to 20 years ago. 4k 20 years ago is like 5k now.

All 3 have had really good seasons. I read an article that showed Tannehill has had 37 receptions for 501 yards and 7 TDs dropped this year. That's an absurd amount! If that doesn't scream we need more receiving talent I don't know what does. We lack receiving talent behind our first and second WR's. Our backs have dropped a ton of passes for first downs and TD's. Those drops if completed puts us upper echelon in conference firmly in the playoffs. We have a QB that can put it there.
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Number seemed too high so I had to check. http://hosted.stats.com/fb/tmleaders.asp?type=Receiving&range=NFL&rank=232

So 26 drops still put us 7th in the league in drops (also shows Luck's receivers aren't very sure handed). Agree 100% we need to upgrade the receiving core with a win WR for deep balls and the red zone. A big fast TE could do the trick and open things up by threatening the deep middle and given RT better end zone options.
 
PJack said:
Number seemed too high so I had to check. http://hosted.stats.com/fb/tmleaders.asp?type=Receiving&range=NFL&rank=232

So 26 drops still put us 7th in the league in drops (also shows Luck's receivers aren't very sure handed). Agree 100% we need to upgrade the receiving core with a win WR for deep balls and the red zone. A big fast TE could do the trick and open things up by threatening the deep middle and given RT better end zone options.
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Drops are counted kind of tricky in the NFL...what looks like a drop in many cases the NFL counts as just an incompletion.

It's funny we ended up with just 26 drops according to the NFL statisticians cause I think after the first 6 games we had something like 19 drops...that's a big improvement over the last 10 games. I know we had two drops in the New England game two weeks ago but I don't know if the NFL counted both...they may not have counted the drop by Matthews...and then there was the misplayed pass by Hartline deep which definitely wouldn't count as a drop.
 
All things being equal, it'd be nice to see the Dolphins finish w/ a winning record at home, in the division, & overall.

If you don't think that is progress; go see an optometrist & a psychiatrist
 
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