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What this season should be all about

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We KNOW Grier suhks big time.

But we should focus on evaluating what’s left to be known.

We should evaluate how Mike can coach a QB less team. How he can adjust and gameplan for what he has. The decisions he makes and how he can keep it close with almost no talent at OL and QB, two key ingredients on success.

Hopefully we will witness if a dual threat (but very limited) kind of QB in Huntley can give us hopes that if Mike finds a improvement we can hope for a better future without Tua.

Tua just can’t be on our long term future. Even if he comes back and plays lights out we should react as if he is on rented time. There is no way a QB that has been blacked out with those very common and soft hits, can last on the NFL.

Then we should evaluate which young players we should keep. Cam Smith, Chop Robinson, Kamara, Bonner, Duck, Paul, Malik, Taner, Hill, Smith and Tindall. We need to get rid off underperforming expensive old or often injured players like Poyer, Armstead, Robert Jones, Eichenberg, Austin Jackson, Ramsey, Berrios, Ingold, Smythe, Riley and Kohu.

Finally we should give ourselves a big hug for supporting a team that hasn’t delivered for our entire life and discover that hope is sometimes the motor behind everything. That’s why we need to find reasons for hope on this season for it to be not a wasted one.
 
The time for that is after the season is statistically lost, not just us fans speculating that will occur (I am one). Right now, McD has to develop a winning game plan and the focus should be on winning the division. If we lose the next 6 blow it up before the trade deadline.
 
These next two weeks will tell us a lot about the abilities of McDaniel and this team. They will have 10 days to prepare to play in Seattle and then a Monday night game the following week at home. If they can't come up with some semblance of a successful game plan and the ability to execute at even an average level by then, I don't see any reason for blowing smoke and saying that this team is capable of being a playoff caliber team.
 
DANTODUPER said:
We KNOW Grier suhks big time.

But we should focus on evaluating what’s left to be known.

We should evaluate how Mike can coach a QB less team. How he can adjust and gameplan for what he has. The decisions he makes and how he can keep it close with almost no talent at OL and QB, two key ingredients on success.

Hopefully we will witness if a dual threat (but very limited) kind of QB in Huntley can give us hopes that if Mike finds a improvement we can hope for a better future without Tua.

Tua just can’t be on our long term future. Even if he comes back and plays lights out we should react as if he is on rented time. There is no way a QB that has been blacked out with those very common and soft hits, can last on the NFL.

Then we should evaluate which young players we should keep. Cam Smith, Chop Robinson, Kamara, Bonner, Duck, Paul, Malik, Taner, Hill, Smith and Tindall. We need to get rid off underperforming expensive old or often injured players like Poyer, Armstead, Robert Jones, Eichenberg, Austin Jackson, Ramsey, Berrios, Ingold, Smythe, Riley and Kohu.

Finally we should give ourselves a big hug for supporting a team that hasn’t delivered for our entire life and discover that hope is sometimes the motor behind everything. That’s why we need to find reasons for hope on this season for it to be not a wasted one.
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Imo the season isn’t over. We have reinforcements coming back in a few weeks. If we can end up 3-3 we are still in a good spot. We’re spending a lot of money on the roster and jobs are on the line. It’s time to man up and find a way.
 
Highzenga said:
Imo the season isn’t over. We have reinforcements coming back in a few weeks. If we can end up 3-3 we are still in a good spot. We’re spending a lot of money on the roster and jobs are on the line. It’s time to man up and find a way.
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We’ve had two embarrassing performances at home on Thursday nites losing both with a lot on the line within the last year

Those were the times to man up.


Now it’s evaluation mode..
 
The Tua decision will shape the moves the franchise makes moving forward.

Will he retire? I know Tua says he plans to play, but he may change his mind. Either way, it's harder to think of Tua as a long-term answer. So, Miami is most likely back in the quarterback market.

Grier has more hits than misses, and eight players ranked in the top 100. But at some point the offensive line has to have positive reinforcements.
 
The only 2 situations this season ends up a success, IMO, are either:

A - win a playoff game
B - Grier/McD are gone

If A happens, they're off the hot-seat IMO, dealing with the loss of QB1 for a significant amount of time (projection).
If B happens, that would mean Tua's probably gone too, which would probably end up being a plus. I think McD's system is custom-perfect-made for Tua's strengths...if they can't make it work, he's in for tough sledding on this or any other team.
 
Danny said:
this season is about getting ready for next season.....been saying that this whole century and I'm sick of it.
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This or you could say, the next two seasons are about getting ready for the future.

Sadly, that might be more realistic. I don't see how this gets fixed in one offseason.
 
PhinFan1968 said:
The only 2 situations this season ends up a success, IMO, are either:

A - win a playoff game
B - Grier/McD are gone

If A happens, they're off the hot-seat IMO, dealing with the loss of QB1 for a significant amount of time (projection).
If B happens, that would mean Tua's probably gone too, which would probably end up being a plus. I think McD's system is custom-perfect-made for Tua's strengths...if they can't make it work, he's in for tough sledding on this or any other team.
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Winning a playoff game.... should have happened 2 years ago or last year.

Were at the point with Grier at the helm, it's make a Superbowl or GTFO for me personally.

No need to worry tho, we have maybe .001% chance of winning a playoff game. Which is much better odds than the 0.00% chance we have on making the Superbowl this year.
 
DrMultimedia said:
This season is about spending two months on vacation in Australia/New Zealand starting in three weeks and trying to ignore iPhone alerts related to the Dolphins. 🤣
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