Yep if you are like me and started watching team in 1984 or 83 and in your 40s. This has to look very familiar. I remember that 1991 playoff game. Except I was in middle school and shrugged it off by playing football outside that day and thinking Marino would get us one eventually.driving home from syracuse today though buffalo( what a god awful place) and I told my wife about the trip to Buffalo in 91 playoffs losing 44-34…. I drove for hours in the snow watching a weak football team lose with little fight
I hear you kid and clear Bane. The design of this team simply won’t work for the long haul. Houston had some serious skill players but not a complete team.
I’m getting worn out - we simply can’t compete against the “better teams” forget the good teams
Whatever dude. It’s the same thing if you are in your 40s or 50s. Same team. Sorry you don’t like my post and don’t need my analysis. You cry hear every week bitching to fire everyone. Will that help ? They been firing people since the 1990s and now we are back to the same team exactly. We probably will not fire Grier or McDaniel this year and I am in favor of keeping McDaniel. But I bet the next person doesn’t get it right. None of these clowns have learned from the past and all of us fans see the problem.Again, the problem is the gm and the coaching. It's that simple. No need for all this other analysis
Not that I disagree with your post, but what makes you so sure we would've won all those games had Tua not been injured? Nothing is a sure thing in this league, nothingHere are the two things I think
If we have tua all year we make wildcard and make playoffs third straight year. Which for this franchise is impressive. Please don’t tell me he wouldn’t beat titans and colts. I am not including Seahawks
So we be 7-5 and in great position. For wildcard
But
We would lose in the first round again
Now we are not going to make the playoffs this year.
This rebuild has topped out as a wildcard team.
Something else I think . This might piss off the time dolphin fans who think back to the 90s as great teams.
The team we have now is the team pretty much that we had in the 90s with Marino.
Always passing.
Oline not good at running
Defense mediocre
Couldn’t beat Buffalo
Only difference was Marino was hall of famer and won one round on the playoffs most years in the 90s. But he could not do more than that.
Tua is not a hall of fame player and his best is just getting us in playoffs (yea I know this year we won’t be in them because he was hurt )
When we had Marino
We got crushed so many times in the second round of playoffs because no running game or no defense to keep score low.
It’s the same thing now. Except tua isn’t as good as Marino so we are just stuck getting 7 or 6 seed and losing in playoffs.
But the teams from the 90s and now are focused on passing
Inconsistent defense or mediocre
Inconsistency with running game or none
Good receivers
It’s like watching same team and same problems I saw in the late 90s
How many cold weather games can we lose in the 90s and now? All because the teams are more physical. Then and now
This is so fixable but the guys they hire just won’t fix it. They think they know better
We suck in the trenches. Even when we made playoffs 7-out of 10 years in the 90s where we ever strong in the trenches?
These last three years with McDaniel . 2 making playoffs. Where we ever strong in trenches. No to both.
****ing so simple and these are making same mistakes that this franchise made in the 90s. Sorry but we usually were a wildcard team in 90s and would get killed in second round. Only getting there cause Marino. Tua is good enough to get us a 6 or 7 .seed. He isn’t Marino. But this coulda been addressed back then. And it shoulda been addressed with this current team.
Especially when you are trying to do the same exact thing but without a hall of fame qb. That is not a knock on tua. He is good enough to not be the problem. But against top teams he needs help to be part of Solution. .
Whoa settle down, I'm not hating on your post. I actually agree with someone it. Although Marino actually got us to a superbowl. Won multiple playoff games. But can't argue he and the team didn't come up short because they did. I'm just saying all those thing you point out are due to the gm and the coach. That's all. Relax budWhatever dude. It’s the same thing if you are in your 40s or 50s. Same team. Sorry you don’t like my post and don’t need my analysis. You cry hear every week bitching to fire everyone. Will that help ? They been firing people since the 1990s and now we are back to the same team exactly. We probably will not fire Grier or McDaniel this year and I am in favor of keeping McDaniel. But I bet the next person doesn’t get it right. None of these clowns have learned from the past and all of us fans see the problem.
Look at a player like Chop Robison. He probably will be good. But man in the cold weather games with bad traction. These guys are not as effective.
Tua is good enough to beat mediocre average teams and bad teams. Those are in that categoryNot that I disagree with your post, but what makes you so sure we would've won all those games had Tua not been injured? Nothing is a sure thing in this league, nothing
Marino got us in superbowl in 1984. I am talking about the 1990s dolphins. Shula just depended on Marino to fix it all.Whoa settle down, I'm not hating on your post. I actually agree with someone it. Although Marino actually got us to a superbowl. Won multiple playoff games. But can't argue he and the team didn't come up short because they did. I'm just saying all those thing you point out are due to the gm and the coach. That's all. Relax bud
Really though, because the early 2000s all the way to gase and even Flores we never really has a high flying offense. We never had the qb to make that true. Last year, yes we had a high flying offense. McDaniel has made that possible. Temporarily. Now look it. He can't even game plan reek into the game. This is stupid. Our number 1 receiver only has 4 tds on the year.Tua is good enough to beat mediocre average teams and bad teams. Those are in that category
What makes you think you think the next guys will get the vision that we need to be more physical?
That is my point. It’s since the 1990s and it’s the same plan. High flying offense and scoring. Didn’t get us a superbowl then and it won’t now. And this time. We got a top 12-15. Not a hall of famer. If Marino couldn’t do it. How can we expect Tua to?
I don’t think anyone will get it. But it’s not hard. But for this franchise it is. It’s been going on since the 1990s
Your not wrong.Marino got us in superbowl in 1984. I am talking about the 1990s dolphins. Shula just depended on Marino to fix it all.
McDaniel is doing same with his scheme and Tua. It won’t work.
My bad
i just want to fix things and it seems obvious. How can they not get it and we do ?
You make way too many assumptionsMarino got us in superbowl in 1984. I am talking about the 1990s dolphins. Shula just depended on Marino to fix it all.
McDaniel is doing same with his scheme and Tua. It won’t work.
My bad
i just want to fix things and it seems obvious. How can they not get it and we do ?
Yep...reached it last season, a little over halfway through the season, and it isn't good enough.We have topped out and reached our ceiling. It's time for a huge change.