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The 1-1 Miami Dolphins seem to have assumed a double identity. Their first two games could not have been more different. After Week 1, Miami looked like a team that might not win any games at all (satirical newspaper The Onion had some fun with the team, posting an article last week titled "Overconfident Dolphins Already Talking About Going Perfect 0-16").
Then the Oakland Raiders visited South Florida for Miami's home opener this weekend. Miami trailed 10-7 at halftime on Sunday, but scored 28 second-half points to put away the Raiders. After the game, more than a few Dolfans took to Twitter with Super Bowl predictions.
It's definitely too early to be talking Super Bowl, but could the Dolphins be better than most observers predicted before the season?
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I have been saying this from the start of camp. Our WRs are better than they were portrayed during TC. Are they elite? No. But they are not abysmal either. We needed to see if the right side of the OL was going to hold and it has. Jerry has been a pleasant surprise and Martin looks like, if he can continue to improve, will be alright. It was like after one of the idiots said that he thought the Phins were the worst team in the league, the rest of the mob jumped on board.

I think our Achilles heel will be the secondary. We have to get better play out of the FS position. I think we will really struggle with better WR corps. But then again if we can improve the pass rush, it will take some pressure of the backside of the D.

One last thing, I do not know what the problem is, but Jake does not look the same after his injury. I do not know if he is a step slower, does not trust his knee, or is not fully healed, but he is not the same. Being a contract year and if he performs below his standard, he better be willing to take a cut in his salary. Right now he is just an avg LT.
 
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The WR corp is abysmal...We've got Hartline and Bess and I don't think another WR in our corp has caught a pass...at least not against the Raiders. One or two good receivers won't win you many games against better teams, especially not guys who can't win one-on-one matchups against elite corners in this league. If Hartline can do what he did against the Raiders to the Jets with Revis on him then I'll be impressed...very impressed but make no mistake one win does not mean our receiving corp is good...it's not. This WR isn't even average. When only 2 WRs out of 6 are making plays on the field...that's below average and they showed it against the Texans.

Too many people on this board go to extremes one way or the other. Last week we sucked, Philbin was a terrible coach, Sherman was an awful play caller, Tannehill wasn't ready and we needed to draft Barkley. This week its Philbin is great, Sherman is a mastermind with all his half time adjustments, Tannehill's the second coming of Marino and the WR corp is now awesome. Lets just say we're not as bad as everyone thinks we are and we're not as good as some on here think we are. This team is a work in progress. Philbin is laying the foundation down for the future...and it's the best foundation laid down since Shula came here in 1970 and that's not an exaggeration...hopefully it will be as good but time will tell. This team is far from complete but progress, however slight, over the course of the season is what I'm looking for. I still expect 6 wins this year and if we can get to 8 wins we need to extend Philbin at year end cause it will be a masterful job on his part.

We still lack playmakers on both sides of the ball. Reggie is all we have right now...I'm hopeful for Miller but right now I see no one else that has flashed and looks like they could be a playmaker for us in the future. I see a lot of solid players but you need the difference makers if you want to be a playoff team.
 
I do not agree. Could we be better at WR? Yes. But we have Bess, Hartline, Fasano, and Bush all catching passes. Clay had a bad game, but hopefully that was a isolated occurrence. I really do not think the passing game is in that much trouble.
 
DKphin said:
I do not agree. Could we be better at WR? Yes. But we have Bess, Hartline, Fasano, and Bush all catching passes. Clay had a bad game, but hopefully that was a isolated occurrence. I really do not think the passing game is in that much trouble.
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Clay had a bad game? Where was his good game?

If you think this WR corp is good then more power to you. Some people are ok with mediocrity...I prefer to constantly improve in all areas when possible. I like watching dominant passing games like that of Green Bay and Pittsburgh who incidentally have the deepest WR corps in the league. Both of those teams are 4 deep or more...we're not even 3 deep at WR...and they have TEs (better ones than Fasano) and RBs that can catch the ball too.
 
DKphin said:
Clay had a bad game, but hopefully that was a isolated occurrence. I really do not think the passing game is in that much trouble.
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I don't know man, Clay has been having bad games since the preseason.... I'm worried about Clay.. He is not involved in the passing game at all and several drops from him which is unusual based on how he performed last year.
 
We need Clay to step up, bench NoNo, insert Mathews..... and utilize Javorskie more on short passes too. Like our young QB who has shown every indication of the capacity to quickly learn, correct and improve, the team is a work in progress. Until we reach critical mass, IMO our performance against the handful of good teams will continue to reflect the Houston game while reflecting yesterday when playing against bad and mediocre ones.
 
Let’s be realistic, we went from playing a legitimate super bowl contender to one of the worst teams in the NFL. And the Raider game wasn’t as easy as the score might have indicated. Anyone talking super bowl or even division title after one win is bat **** crazy.

The Jets game is going to be a good test of where we are and how we adapt. I would be very surprised if the Jets allow Hartline to have a game approaching what he did against the Raiders. I think they will force us to go away from Hartline & Bess. Somebody is going to have to step up and so far no one else has. My hope is we catch the Jets napping and attack the middle of the field with Fasano & Clay. At this point I’d be happy to see Nannee contribute a couple of receptions.
 
That jets game will not be easy and I agree that we should not expect Harline to catch 9 passes again. Someone ese will have to make plays. I'm hopng maybe Armstrong can be ready for that game. I doubt he'd catch 9 passes himself but he does bring speed to the table and if we can connect long with him it'll help the running game. On defence we need to get presure on the QB and actually get there. The ST's have to keep the good coverage and returns as well.

Ozzy rules!!
 
I'm 30 yrs old and started watching the dolphins since 91. Back when they had Clayton and duper at the end of their careers, Bernie parmalee in his prime with mark Higgs and terry Kirby. Irving fryer, Keith Jackson, Keith byars, mark Ingram, oj mcduffie, Bryan cox, Dwight holier, Troy Vincent, JB Brown, Louis Oliver, Michael Stewart, Scott miller, Richmond Webb, Keith sims, Aubrey beavers, Zach thomas, Jason Taylor, Karim Abdul jabbar, jj, Johnson, Cecil Collins, orande Gadsden, yatil green(injured all the time) tony Martin etc. seeing Miami beat the chargers in the 92 divisional playoffs 31-0 then losing in the afc championship to the bills was the farthest I've ever seen them go in my life. They will one day win the Super Bowl and all of us Real dolphin fans will appreciate it. Bandwagon hoppers will do just that. But real dolphin fans will shed tears when they finally hoist the Lombardi trophy baby. Go Dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!
 
TheWarriorFins said:
we need to replace armstrong/legadu
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Armstrong isn't great but lets give him a chance to prove himself before we start talking about replacing him. Hopefully during his week of recovery he had his face in the playbook and is more up to speed now.
 
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