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Zim’s Grades For The Game: Week 9 Edition

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For those of you lucky enough not to have Dolphins’ season tickets. Consider yourselves blessed. With that thought….And Before I start I want to relay a tragic story that happened to me at the stadium today.

After parking in my spot to tailgate today, I went to use the port-a-potty for a few minutes. I had left my 2 tickets to the game on my dashboard…..Which was a huge mistake as I would find out when I returned. As I was coming around the corner, I noticed that someone had smashed my wind shield and put 2 more Dolphins tickets on my dash board!! Obviously, the Miami Gardens Police department is investigating and I’m confident the perpetrators will be brought to justice.

Now on to the grades:

QB — D : Not the best day for Brissett. 2 picks.. a QBR of 64. 5 and a lost fumble. Obviously, the OL was no help today….No rushing game….No real separation by any receivers. The OC couldn’t call a wet T-Shirt contest in Cabo. You know…The same things Tua faces every week. Anyway…..Brissett was not good today.

RB’s — D - : What do you get when you have undersized backs and the league’s worst OL? You get 40 yards on 24 carries. God-Awful. However, they are running behind a God-Awful OL. Gaskin did have 6 catches for 23 whole yards. Ugh.

TE’s — C + : Gesicki with 2 Highlight reel catches today. He impresses me. He’s definitely not used enough and we need to re-sign him ASAP. Smythe with 2 catches and Shaheen with 1. This was the best unit on offense today.

WR — C - : Waddle is the only guy that gets open on this entire unit. He ended up with 8 catches for 83 yards. That’s a nice day. Hollins had a TD which turned out to be a nice catch. Albert Wilson even had a catch today.

OL — F : Again. Pathetic. They are no longer worth the time to grade.

DL — B : Ogbah with 2.5 sacks against an OL that is almost as bad as ours. But still…A good effort. Phillips with a half a sack. Not a great day….But not a bad day by this unit. P.S. Christian Wilkins….PLEASE stop jumping on your teammates. Just stop it.

LB’s — B - : Not a bad day by this unit….But I was hoping for a lot more. Regardless, a nice pick by Baker to go along with a 5 tackle performance. Van Ginko had a sack and 4 tackles. Roberts had 3 tackles. Not bad.

DB’s — B + : Good day today. Multiple picks. Some sacks. Not bad at all.

ST’s — C - : Palardy still sucks. Huge 41 yard average today. Sanders was good. Holland fumbled…Which wasn’t a good sign.

Coaching and Front Office — F : Well….This OL is a joke…and nothing gets done about it. It’s way obvious to me that Eichenberg cannot play LT in this league. Jessie Davis would be lucky to be a Division 2 RT…And yet he’s still starting. The play calling is terrible. Oh **** it….It’s the same thing every week.
 
Thank you for the write up.

First game I missed in over 20 years. Perhaps my absence was the key to victory. I guess a victory is better than a loss.
 
I cannot imagine you season ticket holders would want to renew for next year if Flores and Grier are back. It is throwing your money away on a helpless, incompetent group that does not deserve support. They are all inexcusable.
 
For those of you lucky enough not to have Dolphins’ season tickets. Consider yourselves blessed. With that thought….And Before I start I want to relay a tragic story that happened to me at the stadium today.

After parking in my spot to tailgate today, I went to use the port-a-potty for a few minutes. I had left my 2 tickets to the game on my dashboard…..Which was a huge mistake as I would find out when I returned. As I was coming around the corner, I noticed that someone had smashed my wind shield and put 2 more Dolphins tickets on my dash board!! Obviously, the Miami Gardens Police department is investigating and I’m confident the perpetrators will be brought to justice.

:lol:

Thanks as always for doing these brother Zim
 
It sucks when even a win is hard to watch...

Frustrated Clint Eastwood GIF
 
Great win horrible games sums it up imo. Thanks for the write up. Agree with prior post about Wilson need to include Williams and Fuller also these guys have provided the actual worst thing a player can contribute to a team.
First they provide hope, then they become a no shows game day, they require roster spots that could be used on eager, willing younger talent that could actually help this team. These 3 guys presence on this team actually makes the Oline guys look pretty good at least they show up on game day. Flores best decision would be to can all 3 maybe that might send a message. Yea Parker could almost be included here. Wide receivers including these 3 deadbeats F minus.
 
Agreed.

I’m getting to the point where I’m not seeing anything worthwhile with Gaskin. Would not be upset with a whole new RB committee next year.
It's amazing how long us fans have been talking about the importance of a run game.

Not blaming Gaskin, but Miami needs a back who can break tackles and dictate the run game to some degree.

Obviously, the team needs to get some help on the offensive line.
 
It's amazing how long us fans have been talking about the importance of a run game.

Not blaming Gaskin, but Miami needs a back who can break tackles and dictate the run game to some degree.

Obviously, the team needs to get some help on the offensive line.
I was curious on this myself. I feel like Gaskin doesn't break tackles well. Seems to get hit and go down.

So I looked it up. You can sort by rushing yards after contact per rushing attempt. He's definitely lower tier:

 
It's amazing how long us fans have been talking about the importance of a run game.

Not blaming Gaskin, but Miami needs a back who can break tackles and dictate the run game to some degree.

Obviously, the team needs to get some help on the offensive line.

It is common to see a feature back go out and replacements have good production. It isn't uncommon to see a low performing RB go out and the replacements be, well, low performing. I'm an advocate of getting a solid productive RB, but the RB, by himself, won't make the run game much better
 
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