This is one very scary stat that I just noticed. We lost our last 5 divisional games by a combined score of 182-72 going back to the end of last season against the Patriots, Jets, Bills, Jets and Patriots in this order. 3 out of those 5 games were at home. What does this tell us? I think it has a lot to do with our coaches and more specifically our coordinators. Obviously the jury is still out on Anarumo and Campbell, but it seems like Lazor and Coyle were getting constantly out-coached and out-schemed within our division. We also lost the Jaguars game, a team which played us last season and had some familiarity with the offense. These teams seem to have figured us out and we just can't stop them, whether the games are at home or away. If you look at our record versus teams that hadn't played us yet in that same time span, we actually played pretty well (offensively at least). We put up 36 on the Broncos, 37 on the Vikings, 38 on the Titans and 44 on the Texans. It's like teams initially have some trouble with us because we run a different offense that confuses them. Then when they learn how to stop us, they do it consistently and we have no answers. If this trend continues, we'll likely continue to play well against teams that have not played us yet under Lazor and will continue to struggle against teams that have. This means we'll likely struggle against: The Bills, Jets, Ravens and Chargers. Maybe the Eagles since they run a similar style of offense and Kelly probably knows Lazor's tendencies very well. If you think about, we may also struggle against the rest of the NFC East for the same reasons, like we did against the Redskins. I think the writing is on the wall, if we do not get this fixed we'll likely have a losing season, especially now that Wake is injured.
Agree, but I think you have to look at how key injuries have affected us the past few seasons along with Joe making poor personnel decisions and the pass heavy gameplans. Miller opened the game for us with an 8 yard run, but Lazor completely gave up on the run last night after we lost James. As for the struggles, it wasn't just the QB who struggled, the receivers and TE's did as well.
Please don't say that. I would be pissed if they went undefeated. Only our Dolphins are the only ones to remain the only one or else I have nothing else to bring up to my coworkers when they talk **** to me
There was no concerted effort to run after the first drive... Miller ended up with 9 attempts for 15 yards and a TD... Sims killed our opening drive with the holding call. Albert also had a false start. Miller's runs: 1st Qtr: 3 attempts, 11 yards RG 8 yards RT 0 RE 3 yards 2nd Qtr: 2 attempts -1 yard LG 0 MD -1 3rd Qtr: 4 attempts, 5 yards RT 4 yards RG 1 yard TD MD 2 yards RG -2 4th Qtr: 0 attempts
The first 4 in that streak were under Philbin so they don't matter anymore. The last game was simply not winnable. It would have taken a miracle for us and would have been incredibly difficult even for a supremely talented team with experienced coaching. Everybody will feel better when we beat the Bills and Eagles and are 5-4 heading back to Miami.
Agreed. We need to make a few adjustments with the offensive and defensive schemes, fine-tuning a few things still. We also need to make a few personnel adjustments that could help us out significantly... starting with the kicker.
I think our offense just looks so bland and vanilla compared to other teams that I watch play. The entire unit doesn't seem to play with any urgency, especially when behind.
Our offense cant function unless we run the ball. Period. Everything Lazor does well as an OC is based on being able to run the ball well. If we run the ball well next week...we will win. Pretty straight forward.
Oh the Patriots can be beaten. We can beat them. Just odds arent great we will. They usually play near a flawless game. If we played as flawless as they do...we would beat them almost every time. But nobody plays as mistake free football as the Patriots.
that was a pretty funny one when some pundits suggested it..they did the same with brady...all you have to do is watch the player in isolation to know
