What's the Goal of this season, realistically?

[PlexGod]

I dont really care about our record as much as i just want to see us be competitive.... I want us to be in all our games with a chance to win some. And i would like for us to not give up victories that we should win like the Cleveland and broncos games last year. Beat the lesser teams and compete as much as possible with the middle of the road teams and up. Let Tannehill play and see if he is the real deal. Game plan and Adjust to the other team. One thing that bothered me about sparano is that they never seemed to adjust well to other teams during the game and at half time. Also see if Philbin can handle the HC job. No dumb wasted time outs and crap like that. HOPE for the furture is what i want to see

 

[ALUCK]

to finish better than the jets

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

Find out if Tannehill is legit or not.

I like Matt Moore a lot, but this team is wasting an entire season if it doesn't put Tannehill in there from day one to see what he can do.

 

[HarryBagpipe]

Barring injury, new England's gonna run away with the division. 2nd place might be a toss up so I'd be happy with that.

 

[Cali Finfan]

I'll sit and watch and root the same as you. But sorry realistically we will not win the super bowl. Is it our goal like every other team of course but it's not going to happen "realistically". Which was title of this thread

Going into last season, I would have never thought that the 49ers would have "realistically" had a chance to play for a superbowl but they were close. I am not saying that is what is going to happen this year for us but to count us out simply because of what we think is "realistic" would be a bit premature.

 

[Irishfinfan1]

Superbowl is obviously unrealistic given our QB situation. Given how much change and unanswered questions we have really to a degree the progression and development of players, especially Tannehill are the most important things, but winning 7-9 games isn't inconceivable.

 

[Mabdul Doobakus]

Goal #1 is obviously evaluating/developing Tannehill. This franchise will be stuck in neutral until they get their hands on a good QB.

Goal #2 is being entertaining. This has been the most boring team in the league for about 5 years now. It's one thing to suck. It's another to suck and be boring. I'm hoping Philbin's system will give me a reason to tune in even if we fall out of the playoff race.

 

[WVDolphan]

Beat the **** out of the Jests....... TWICE.

 

[Regulus]

Seeing if Tannehill has it. I would rather go 2-14 and know we have our franchise QB then go 10-6 with a has been like Garrard and get bounced in the first round like years past. This team is no where near Super Bowl level but having a great young qb gives us a huge step forward for the future. Thats why he needs to play this year and take his lumps and get some experience.

 

[Dr. Phin]

To suck bad enough to get Ireland fired!!! That's the goal!

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The goal of this season should be to finally see the gm get fired.

Exactly. This is the idiot who brought in Marshall and Ochostinko and has built a team very little talent at the skill positions...

 

[andyahs]

The goal of this season should be to finally see the gm get fired.

That's the horse you're riding this year........to hope we suck to get someone fired?

 

[CalDolFan10x14]

Some people actually want this team to SUCK just so they can have a man get fired from his job?

Sad in so many ways. :refuse:

 

[Ed Norton]

I know there a lot of concerns with the secondary, the WRs, the O Line an injury or two from disaster, not a proven QB. A lot has to go right to get above .500 and probably nobody in their right mind is picking them to win the division and I think most people would be suprised with 2nd place. New England is the big favorite and rightfully so but I hate just handing them the division title in August. Don't forget New England's got to get through the season without key injuries as well.

I hate words like can't and limits. Right now my only concern is that they find a way to pull an upset in Houston. If the secondary gets them embarrased out there than come back and figure out how to put it back together against some teams that aren't so good. Maybe rattle off a win here a win there and see where it takes them.

 

[MexDolfan]

The same as every other season. Win the Super Bowl. Every team has the same goal.

Ok and my goal of life is to be respected as scientist and become a millionaire.

But as the starter of this thread said, being "REALISTIC", with questionable players at WR and DB, and playing twice New England Patriots that seem to have an unstoppable offense, the Dolphins are a complete underdog for 2012.

Jeff Ireland & Joe Philbin have tagged "rebuilding" as a prohibited term, but with a new HC, new OC, new DC, new offensive system, new defensive scheme and different philosophy on PR, it's unlikely to avoid using such word to describe this organization. That said, rebuilding teams rarely get a place in playoff.

Trying to accept the FO idea that this team is just adjusting things and will be competitive this year, I think there are different levels of goals for this season:

1) The most elemental is to find a starting QB while installing a WCO derivation offensive system. On the defensive side, Dolphins must adjust the defense to play faster and execute better.

2) Once this team was passed such retool, the football must be executed well and as I pointed several pieces are questionable. So splitting series with each team on the conference looks like a feasible goal (I think we can win-out Jets, but only a miracle will avoid Patriots to sweep our Fins). Then if Arizona keeps playing as they have been and winning the rest of home games, there's a chance Dolphins could be on Wild Card games with a 9-7 record.

3) Anything above that is over-achievement for Philbin in 2012.

 

[FinsNCanes]

I wish. Without stars you can't win playoff games, so even if we 'toughed it out' and somehow made it into the playoffs, we'd get crushed just like we did in 08. We're bereft of stars. Whether he was a dick or not, Brandon Marshall was a star. Only getting a 3rd round pick for him was criminal, IMO.

I thought we received two 3's.

My expectations are 6-10. I just hope we have something in Tannehill and then we can work go from there. I hope people don't freak out tonight on our defense..I believe a few starters are out.