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Dan's support for Nick Saban seem to speak volumes to me. I have thought that this team has seemed strangely listless, unenthusiastic, unfocused, and self-destructive. When our backs were to the wall we have out-played, out-scored, out-hustled and out-smarted our opponents.
So what gives? Especially since Nick's major emphasis is one that speaks to attitude, mindset, perspective and self-reliance. It may be that it has to go this way, that is the team must sink to the bottom in order to be forced to find a way to find its identity.
Who knows what a win could do for this team.
I would not be surprised to see this Dolphins team give the patriots a run for their money this season. 1 and 5 has been so unbelievably painful for me, but if their season record mirrors their individual game performance we may see a team start to play better and better when their backs are to the wall.
Joey looks very promising - he must eliminate mistakes.
Crowder is for real. Welker is the most courageous player we have had since Bryan Cox got in somebody's face on a Monday night game while playing special teams. Ronnie is developing and has toughness, agility and grace he needs to become a bit more of a winner - that is cut out unforced errors, needless mistakes. Our defensive line had a sequence of series in the first half against the Jets where they got their hands on pennington's passes or interupted handoffs in the backfield over and over again. We need to capitalize.
This team is missing one huge thing to make us more competitive right now and that is a visciousness. A tough as nails attitude that has players burning to get into the opponents face and smash their teeth in. Right now it appears as though guys are thinking WAY too much about how not mess up and that leads to a self-consciousness that destroys flow, creativity, and intuition. When players simply burn to tear their opponents up, chew them up and spit them out, then everything else falls into place.
One win could easily change our fortunes. 5 out of the next 7 are home - so I say that in today's NFL anything can happen and sometimes it does!
So what gives? Especially since Nick's major emphasis is one that speaks to attitude, mindset, perspective and self-reliance. It may be that it has to go this way, that is the team must sink to the bottom in order to be forced to find a way to find its identity.
Who knows what a win could do for this team.
I would not be surprised to see this Dolphins team give the patriots a run for their money this season. 1 and 5 has been so unbelievably painful for me, but if their season record mirrors their individual game performance we may see a team start to play better and better when their backs are to the wall.
Joey looks very promising - he must eliminate mistakes.
Crowder is for real. Welker is the most courageous player we have had since Bryan Cox got in somebody's face on a Monday night game while playing special teams. Ronnie is developing and has toughness, agility and grace he needs to become a bit more of a winner - that is cut out unforced errors, needless mistakes. Our defensive line had a sequence of series in the first half against the Jets where they got their hands on pennington's passes or interupted handoffs in the backfield over and over again. We need to capitalize.
This team is missing one huge thing to make us more competitive right now and that is a visciousness. A tough as nails attitude that has players burning to get into the opponents face and smash their teeth in. Right now it appears as though guys are thinking WAY too much about how not mess up and that leads to a self-consciousness that destroys flow, creativity, and intuition. When players simply burn to tear their opponents up, chew them up and spit them out, then everything else falls into place.
One win could easily change our fortunes. 5 out of the next 7 are home - so I say that in today's NFL anything can happen and sometimes it does!
