Things certainly appear to be going our way. That game yesterday was one we would have lost in the past. And now with Gronkowski out, the Pats are vulnerable. Maybe it's our time?
If they beat the Pats then maybe we can talk about that. I don't see this team beating Denver in Denver though. Beating KC in KC is do-able and they've already beaten the Colts and the Bengals. Anything is possible at this point.
With Baltimore and New England pulling games out of their asses (literally) it's hard to say that we're a team of destiny. Both the Ravens and Pats should have lost yesterday. The Pats aided by another ref call at the end. If that's pass interference I'm Bill Clinton.
We could be. How many teams have gotten in by the skin of their teeth and ended up going to the super bowl recently?! We need to just take it one at a time, get in and anything can happen!
It often seems more like we're a doomed team than a destined one. At any rate, I don't believe in fate or destiny, so no.
Well... Im sure it wont happen..but...if you look way back ....I predicted the Phins would be in the Super Bowl this year. Had nothing to do with our team talent....was based on the fact it would be our luck to finally make it to the Super Bowl....and have to play the damn thing in a Blizzard.
I don't remember a dolphin team in a long while that could of beat the steelers with the way that Qb was playing in those condition, at their house..
There is no such thing as luck. Luck is something randomly happening for no reason. Its more or less againdt the laws of physics. Everything is a product od every motion made by the players, do even what seems lucky isn't. Now the impact refs have....different story.
It's hard to say. Miami has been in this position before only to blow it down the stretch. I really hope you're right and this is the year they finally break out of this mediocrity. I'll believe it when I see it!
This is just a bizarre reply. Here I was thinking these rabbit's feet were keeping me above ground and killing my neighbor's black cat was needed
Peyton got a little testy yesterday after another big win , but in the cold. He basically told those that were saying he cant win in the cold to stick it where the sun don't shine. I get the point however , but I am not buying into the self destruct mode at a certain temperature for Peyton .
So you're putting Tannehill in Brady's class now? I'm as excited as anybody about the win yesterday, but let's not go completely nuts.
It's far too early to start writing that story. If the Ravens and Pats had lost, we might be able to start whispering. I don't think this team is quite good enough to do something like they did Sunday every week for a month, which is what they would have to do in the playoffs. An aside: how many referees will eventually end up in the Patriots' ring of honor? The Gronkowski injury is moot with luck like theirs.
Not sure Tenn should be termed helpless but yeah not an elite team to be sure. Peyton didn't let that wing and a prayer throw complete against Baltimore to lose that playoff game last year.
Man, way, way too many things have gone against us. The bad calls, game after game, by themselves are enough. Even that last play, the stillers were moving around at the snap and then Ben throws a forward lateral and NEITHER were called. Thankfully the side judge actually did his job and called the kid out. Would that play have been reviewed?? I know all scoring calls are supposed to be reviewed, but they sure ended the game pretty quickly after that call, without a review, to me ?? I mean, the ump talked with the side judge and announced the call...no review was [apparently] done...
That's a bunch of bunk, Alex....Luck is certainly part of the formula for winning in this league. It's luck when the ref's call a phantom PI on the last play of the game. It's luck when despite TWO missed penalties (illegal motion and forward lateral), the ref actually catches the guy stepping out of bounds. Those things didn't happen because of training, coaching, working out, etc...it' happened because, as you say, sometimes things go your way... If you don't beleive me, try to find the games of our 72 season and watch them. I beleive Shula, in one of his books, when he said that luck is just as much a part of winning as preparation and playing are... But I digress, I'll take any good luck we get, we deserve it after 13 yrs of crappy football...
yes! have been saying this since year one of the new regime & we have arrived. the win over New England Sunday will be the mark of ascension & dominance of the Miami Dolphins in the division.
Dolphins a team of destiny? Ive been supporting Miami since i was 15yrs old. Im now 22yrs from official retirement and a free bus pass and we havnt done jack regarding Superbowls since. Destiny? Give me a freekin break!
I conflated your two posts but you did say you would Tannehill over Peyton "any day" in the cold, did you not? Sorry that I confused two incredibly hyperbolic posts. I get being excited, but we're a 7-6 football team that was an inch from losing the game on a miracle play yesterday. We aren't any better today than we would've been yesterday had we lost.
Here is the hyperbole I was referring to. You then stated that Manning lost every time in the cold to Brady, a superior QB. If you're taking Tannehill every time over Manning in the cold, your statements imply you feel Tannehill is on Brady's level. If you actually believe this, I don't know what to tell you.
Wasnt bizarre at all. You said we were lucky, I said there is no such thing as luck. I mean, Antonio Brown didnt run out on his own. Clemons ran him to the sideline.
None of those things you stated are lucky. They are just people doing things to impact a game. A ref making a good/bad call isnt lucky or unlucky, its a human being right or wrong.
I said that we tend to downplay luck in outcomes of these games. I would think (hope) that in 2013 when someone talks about luck, its common usage is to be understood as not referring to supernatural occurrence, but rather randomness that benefits them (or something along those lines). Clearly I should have prefaced that. We really don't know why Brown stepped out of bounds or why one of the refs didn't toss a flag for illegal formation or illegal forward pass.
I don't know about destiny, but it's going to take until at least Friday for me to get over going into the house of the Pittsburgh Steelers for a game they had to have to stay alive in the playoff picture, and beating them and a hot Roethlisberger in the cold and snow. Seriously; I couldn't fall asleep last night. If the Ravens lose and we take the sixth wild card spot after sweeping the Jets, I won't be able to sleep for a week. Bring on that crow.