phinsforlife
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Getting harder and harder to do this. Both the ups and downs. The ups are tough, and too many downs to know what to highlight.
Three Up:
Achane – ran hard, was versatile.
The offensive line – run blocking was good, pass blocking was good. My guess, probably Brewer and Armstead were the two best players on the OL.
Kendall Fuller – been pretty good all year. About the only guy in the secondary that wasn't get smoked all day.
Three Down:
David Long – he was awful, and has not been good all year. He is a captain too. Why? Always been a liability in coverage. He got used up badly this game too. His calling card was being good against the run, but he isn’t even good against the run anymore.
Poyer - see above, and also look at the box score for their tight end 9 catches (11 targets), 124 yards. Between Poyer and Long, no bueno!
Ramsey – one more Grier special with that deal. Smoked again. The TD pass to Harrison, and the big completion to Harrison towards the end too (the replay overturned one). Both cases, Harrison was pretty open. Also, they blitz him a lot. Has he gotten the QB to the ground once? One more big whiff on Murray today too. When you are paid that kind of money, you need to be a lot better.
Dis-honarable mentions:
The Defense - I warned people, not as good as they have looked. They have played against horrible offenses all year, until today. The Cardinals offense is far from great too. They just don’t stink like the Titans and Indy with Richardson. The nerds had the Dolphins ranked only the 25th best defense in the NFL, and today we got a glimpse of why. Little in the way of pass rush. Flop Robinson???
OBJ - apparently he played, I thought he might have had another personal day?
Tua- yes, you read that right, Tua. Football is a game of absolutes, not relatives. Just because Tua was better than the scrubs they had in there, does not mean he held up his end of the bargain. The job of the QB is to win the game. We are an Etienne fumble away from Tua being 0-3 as a starter this year.
At the end, when Tua had a chance to put the game away, he did nothing. Ball went back to the Cardinals, and their QB drove the ball down the field, and won the game.
In football, the bad plays also count, they cannot be ignored. Not all bad plays show up in the box score either, it can often be very misleading. Tua put the ball on the ground 3 times. The missed shotgun snap was a killer – actually worse than a pick 6, and stupider, it just doesn’t show up in his passing stats so it seems many look past it. That was 9 points for the Cardinals, and that play alone cost us the game. Ingold and Mostert fumbled last week, and they were rightly crucified for it. Tua fumbling the shotgun was even worse, because there is no reason to ever do that, and folks just want to look through it because it doesn’t show up in the box score?
If Tua was a rookie, you would say it was a decent game. But Tua is not a rookie, he is now a $55mm a year QB. You pay your QB $55mm a year to win these games, not to miss shotgun snaps, and not to blow it at the end when you have a chance to win the game. Although Tua did some things well, he did not drive the ball downfield that much. He also showed his limitations. Compare him to Kyler Murray, and all the highlight film plays Murray made with his arm and legs, which is why the Cardinals won the game. Murray is not great either. Murray is not worth the big money. Tua is not worth the big money. The merger of both QBs is worth the big money, and that is Josh Allen and Mahomes. No coincidence, neither the Dolphins nor the Cardinals are very good. It is going to be a long few years, I just don’t see a way out.
McDaniel - This team keep keeps finding different ways to lose. If the offense is OK, the defense isn’t. If the defense is OK, the offense isn’t. Stupid mistakes (this time it was a missed snap) and turnovers. Can’t get it done at the end of the game. This all adds up to losing football. Ultimately, that is on the head coach. Probably has something to do with being too soft on the players and too soft in practice, and letting the team get out over its ski’s with regard to how good they really are. You would think after the way last season finished they should have realized they are not an immovable object. I guess not. Now we are 2-5.
Three Up:
Achane – ran hard, was versatile.
The offensive line – run blocking was good, pass blocking was good. My guess, probably Brewer and Armstead were the two best players on the OL.
Kendall Fuller – been pretty good all year. About the only guy in the secondary that wasn't get smoked all day.
Three Down:
David Long – he was awful, and has not been good all year. He is a captain too. Why? Always been a liability in coverage. He got used up badly this game too. His calling card was being good against the run, but he isn’t even good against the run anymore.
Poyer - see above, and also look at the box score for their tight end 9 catches (11 targets), 124 yards. Between Poyer and Long, no bueno!
Ramsey – one more Grier special with that deal. Smoked again. The TD pass to Harrison, and the big completion to Harrison towards the end too (the replay overturned one). Both cases, Harrison was pretty open. Also, they blitz him a lot. Has he gotten the QB to the ground once? One more big whiff on Murray today too. When you are paid that kind of money, you need to be a lot better.
Dis-honarable mentions:
The Defense - I warned people, not as good as they have looked. They have played against horrible offenses all year, until today. The Cardinals offense is far from great too. They just don’t stink like the Titans and Indy with Richardson. The nerds had the Dolphins ranked only the 25th best defense in the NFL, and today we got a glimpse of why. Little in the way of pass rush. Flop Robinson???
OBJ - apparently he played, I thought he might have had another personal day?
Tua- yes, you read that right, Tua. Football is a game of absolutes, not relatives. Just because Tua was better than the scrubs they had in there, does not mean he held up his end of the bargain. The job of the QB is to win the game. We are an Etienne fumble away from Tua being 0-3 as a starter this year.
At the end, when Tua had a chance to put the game away, he did nothing. Ball went back to the Cardinals, and their QB drove the ball down the field, and won the game.
In football, the bad plays also count, they cannot be ignored. Not all bad plays show up in the box score either, it can often be very misleading. Tua put the ball on the ground 3 times. The missed shotgun snap was a killer – actually worse than a pick 6, and stupider, it just doesn’t show up in his passing stats so it seems many look past it. That was 9 points for the Cardinals, and that play alone cost us the game. Ingold and Mostert fumbled last week, and they were rightly crucified for it. Tua fumbling the shotgun was even worse, because there is no reason to ever do that, and folks just want to look through it because it doesn’t show up in the box score?
If Tua was a rookie, you would say it was a decent game. But Tua is not a rookie, he is now a $55mm a year QB. You pay your QB $55mm a year to win these games, not to miss shotgun snaps, and not to blow it at the end when you have a chance to win the game. Although Tua did some things well, he did not drive the ball downfield that much. He also showed his limitations. Compare him to Kyler Murray, and all the highlight film plays Murray made with his arm and legs, which is why the Cardinals won the game. Murray is not great either. Murray is not worth the big money. Tua is not worth the big money. The merger of both QBs is worth the big money, and that is Josh Allen and Mahomes. No coincidence, neither the Dolphins nor the Cardinals are very good. It is going to be a long few years, I just don’t see a way out.
McDaniel - This team keep keeps finding different ways to lose. If the offense is OK, the defense isn’t. If the defense is OK, the offense isn’t. Stupid mistakes (this time it was a missed snap) and turnovers. Can’t get it done at the end of the game. This all adds up to losing football. Ultimately, that is on the head coach. Probably has something to do with being too soft on the players and too soft in practice, and letting the team get out over its ski’s with regard to how good they really are. You would think after the way last season finished they should have realized they are not an immovable object. I guess not. Now we are 2-5.
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