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"danmarino wrote:
Allen hit his head on the ground and wa knocked out cold. He was allowed to come back in. He’s obviously injury prone if he gets knocked out from the ground and needs to retire.
On a serious note, if a boxer gets knocked out they aren't allowed to fight again for 90 days, it's why journeymen are so good at surviving to a points decision.
We just witnessed the equivalent of Allen get knocked out, fight not stopped, him getting dragged to his corner, given smelling salts and then sent out for the next round. He looked like crap this week even before the knockout but he did also smash his head into the ground against the Ravens last week as well.
If the NFL actually gave a damn about head injuries, any player, no matter who that gets knockout out on the field should be immediately removed from the game at a minimum. They also should likely have to sit for at least a week (or 30 days if that concussion article I read was true about it taking 30 days for brain activity to return to normal) but the league would never do that as too many players would miss games.
"danmarino wrote:
I’m sure Allen will tear his Achilles this season after today. Lmao
An ankle injury that needed some smelling salts to go back into the game. I wonder if the media will bring this up today or just gloss over it because Allen is 6"4, 240lb "superman", "alien", "Mr January" or whatever else they call him. He's a big, tough dude so he can shake of a concussion with no issues...
"texanphinatic wrote:
Why are we linking concussions to knee injuries?
Because it's something we can bash Grier with obviously.
"The_Dark_Knight wrote:
I’ve been saying this for years…for decades! The Dolphins have lacked a brutally tough offensive line to move opponents at will. Because of this, the Dolphins have been a finesse, gimmicky offensive team frankly, going all the way back to Marino.
Jimmy Johnson and Dave Wannstedt did try to bring the running game and power offensive line back during their tenure here, but they went too far and the passing game suffered with a lack of quarterback and receivers.
There is absolutely no doubt in my military mind that we have the BEST skill position players on offense. Hill & Waddle, Achane & Wright, not to mention Mostert.
If we could just get 1500 lbs of brutal, corn fed, man moving offensive linemen, this team, offensively, could be unstoppable!!! McDaniel wouldn’t have to run bubble screens, or pitches to get to the outside edge! We could get a guaranteed 5 yard run right up the gut if we just had an OL that dominated in the trenches.
Unfortunately, that kind of OL doesn't really exist in the NFL anymore. All the good athletes play on the DL since it pays more, there is a real lack of talent on the OL throughout the whole league.
Miami just needs 5 guys that are bang average, if this team had an OL that was around 15th ranked then we wouldn't be seeing the issues we do. Rob Jones is the worst starting G in the league, Eichenberg is probably in the bottom 5 and unfortunately Jackson is playing like a bottom 10 RT this season as well. However plays at LT when Armstead is out is bottom 5 as well so the line as a whole just flat out sucks.
"danmarino wrote:
Teams can only practice with pads 14 times per year and a max of 1 time per week. They practiced in pads on Monday.
You can still run practice without pads though, right? (Genuine question as I don't know). Also, maybe my terminology is wrong but I thought a walkthrough was different from a pad less practice.
This team just doesn't seem as well conditioned as last year, there have been guys pulling themselves out of games after running 1 route.
"hitman8 wrote:
I called it when we drafted phillips, he's a good player when healthy, but has a hard time staying healthy. Of course Grier always ignores injury concerns and here we are.
Did I miss the lower body injuries he had in college?
Or are you saying we shouldn't be drafting talented players that have concussions in college in case they blow out their Achilles and a team mate takes out their ACL?
"MonstBlitz wrote:
All those reports about this team being soft and not practicing hard ring a little louder when these injuries keep piling up.
And they also had a walk through on Wednesday. Just when does this team actually practice?
No wonder they have so many alignment penalties, they have barely practiced together.
Another blow in a horrible season. I think they will still pick up his 5th year option and let him play that out next year but I definitely wouldn't be offering up any kind of extension.
"danmarino wrote:
Looks to me like a screen play and the blocking was on point but Huntley F’d up.
Im not saying that the oline hasn’t been trash.
Screen to Wright who is helping block the one lone DT and then releases? Watching the play Huntley never even looks at Wright, he's looking downfield towards Tyreek.
Not really sure what it was meant to be but I'm pretty sure it wasn't drawn up with the LT, C and RG all blocking the DT.
"pumpdogs wrote:
Um Tua actually hasn't been lighting it up either.
Last 5 games with Tua this team is averaging 13.8 points a game.They sucked with him and as expected with backups suck worse.
Probably because they have been trotting out an interior OL of Jones, Eichenberg, Cotton or Jones, Brewer, Eichenberg in those games.
It was obvious at the end of last year that the line was a liability but the fact they rolled it out again I had put my trust in McDaniel either had saw something or that he had a new wrinkle up his sleeve that would at least cover for it. Stupid me.
I was always one that believed that you won in the trenches but with the rule changes and all the high flying passing offenses I thought maybe that had changed. I was wrong, everything begins up front as it always has.
I posted this on another board but just look at the state of this blocking, this is why the offense doesn't work. 4 guys blocking 1 while the other 3 got their ass whooped which meant a sack in 2 seconds.
"pumpdogs wrote:
We now don't have to worry about the typical late season collapse and can now plan other things to do on Sunday afternoons.
As for prime time games I can now get some.sleep instead of watching the typical beating we always get with the country watching.
Always some light you just need to search for it.
Yeah, no shot I'm staying up till 3am or 4am to watch the prime time games this year. Lowlights on YouTube when I wake up from now on.
"Tuanon4Life wrote:
Hire Deion Sanders as HC and draft Shedeur Sanders with our 1st rounder. If I’m Ross I would make McDaniel the ball boy. If he's getting paid he might as well work for the money. Plus he has experience. I'm not at all joking. Make him the ball boy.
Think I'd rather have Cowher and Billick. :lol:
"resnor wrote:
Or the Dolphins played with fire and got burned.
This is really no different than the NFL hammering the Patriots on Deflategate because they went easy on Spygate. Miami brought the scrutiny by how they handled everything a season and a half ago.
Not sure how you can come to that conclusion because every concussion since then has had the player sit at least 1 game and Tua was out for 5 games and then the season. The Dolphins are the only team doing this.
If you are referring to Tua playing in Cincinnati after the Buffalo game well Tua cleared all the concussion protocols after Buffalo and was never diagnosed with one. They can't be punishing them for that since we've seen stuff like the Mahomes one I posted and Derek Carr getting 2 in 3 weeks and not missing a game. Why weren't the Saints hammered for Carr's second concussion?
This is what I was worried about with Tua going to IR. From what I've read he's had no symptoms since 3 days after the concussion and he's wanting to play again. Instead we have to ruin our season just so it doesn't look like the big bad Dolphins are throwing a player out there who had a concussion.
"Pennington's Limp Arm wrote:
4th and an inch…. Calls a directly horizontal run play yet again.
That's because he knows he can't call a straight up run as the OL is getting beat like drum.
"Tuanon4Life wrote:
Who do we want with the #1 overall pick?
Trade it for a bunch of picks as long as Grier isn't the one doing the picking. Then pick a bunch of OL.
"pumpdogs wrote:
My bad drinking and missed the picture.
Lol
What you having? I was thinking about bleach...
"Born_in_'72 wrote:
Campbell got a lackluster Dolphins team to play hard for him as interim coach, and he wasn't even given a chance the next year despite performing fairly well after being thrust into a less then opportune situation. We'll never know how well he would have done if he had been given the chance.
Campbell was 3-19-1 in his first 23 games and this was 5 years after he left the Dolphins. He would have been run out of town if he got the job back then.
So he was put on IR because of the optics?
"Born_in_'72 wrote:
Pete Carrol is going on 73 yrs old and easily found a job.
Marv Levy coached till almost 73 yrs old.
Bill Belechik coached to 71 yrs old and did not choose to stop. Quite a few teams would.be happy as hell to have him. In fact one poster here said he would rather have Belechik than Billick. I don't think the NFL press would bat an eye or decry him as too old if he landed a head coach position this year.
Romeo Crenell coached until he was 75.
Brian Billick is going on 70 years old. I am not even on the highside of those coach's age range.
Try again friend. Just because you disagree does not mean using the man's age against him In an insulting manner by calling him a pensioner as if it equates with him not being able to do a better job than many current younger coaches is a worthy or legitimate answer.
I would take 3-4 years of Billick building a team and grooming an understudy OC to replace him over what we currently see happening with our team.
I'm not insulting anyone when I call him a pensioner because that is exactly what he is (in the UK anyway since men become pensioners at 65 currently, rises to 67 and 68 later). He also hasn't coached in 17 years, there is a reason for that. Imagine not working for 17 years and going back into your old profession as if nothing has changed. I'm a software engineer by trade and I can tell you a whole lot has changed in my field in the last 17 years.
If you want someone old, one of the greatest coaches of all time is available right now and he was coaching last year. In case you missed it, no team wanted him this offseason and his teams have sucked for the last few years.
Anyway, back to the game. I think the Dolphins win this if the offense doesn't shoot itself in the foot, if it cleans up the penalties then I think we win.
I've watched the highlights of the Titans games (NFL on YouTube, only about 10 minutes per game) and from them they can't defend the edges but Miami has had a lot of issues sealing the edge as well. Maybe tonight is the game to throw 20 screens to Achane and Wright and see if they finally break a couple. Other than that, get Huntley moving, give him so read options and take the odd "fk it, Tyreek down there somewhere" shots to keep them honest.