I have always been a pretty quiet poster dating back to the premium days on the other site. I was more of a listener and always tuning in here for Dolphin News before even hitting the other sites. I cannot remember the last time I went to ESPN for actual football related info let alone Phin news. Every weekend on my couch in AZ overpaying Direct TV to watch my Phins let down after let down. Waving my puke green towel, yeah you know the one from that other site and changing jerseys trying to spark some luck. People will not watch football with me any more and sometimes leave the premises during the game because of the ensuing rage and f bombs. Still every week I come back and put myself through it again like ground hog day thinking that today is the day we turn the corner. I absolutely think that this is it. I have a feeling that enough manhood has been challenged, enough talent has been questioned, and well we cant go any lower, so this is it. We will beat the Chargers on Sunday. On paper We stack up great against them. Our DB's are better, Our DL is better, Our WR are healthier, there rb's are banged up, and Antonio Gates is out. Norv sucks at the beginning of the year. We will win this game. No matter how bad Tony has been, this is a winnable game. With a win we go into a bye week with confidence and this ship turns 180 and we make the run all of us Dolphans were expecting to make. I guarantee the Dolphins will beat the Chargers this weekend.
appreciate it... but don't come on here Sunday night disappointed threatening to not watch the Dolphins anymore this year like someone else I know...
Nice to see some optimism for a change, Jmorgan. Rivers isn't the same right now without Gates healthy or on the field. He has an 82.1 QBR with 4 TDs and 6 INTs verse a Pats, Vikes, and Chief's defense that have given up a combined 19 TDs, 12 INTs, and a 95 QBR. If our Dline can clog up the run like they're capable of, we have a great chance to win IMO if we minimize the sloppy play.
IMO It's embarrassing & disgraceful seeing "fans" wanting Miami to lose. I put fans in quotation marks b/c I'm not really sure if they deserve to be called fans based on the definition of the word.
I agree. Although I'm not a fan of Henne and Sparano and don't expect more than 5 wins with them, I'm not rooting for them to lose like others . It's sickening to me, honestly.
I suppose mathematically we are due to win a game now let me think How will Fony Sparano screw it up? Might win despite the idiot. I sincerely hope so...
I would agree it's selfish to want Miami to win... I think we all wanted to see a playoff team but it's not in the cards. We're simply not good enough. We're a bottom 5 team. And the worse we do, the better the future may be. It's a real ****ty place to be in, but some of us have accepted it.
I really do appreciate your logic, but only 4 of the 16 qb's drafted #1 overall in the past 30 years have won a superbowl. It does not matter where or who you draft, it is all in development and putting your qb in the position to make plays. Fricken Dilfer won a bowl. Not a guarantee and not worth losing on purpose....
Dilfer had the greatest D ever too.... and it usually does matter where you draft. Guys like Manning, Rivers, etc... Don't fall to pick 32 usually.
Sad thing is during the bye I will still have withdrawals not getting to see my phins. Doesn't matter how bad they are.
Don't make me go Brady and Marino on you. Matt Ryan has probably the most amazing weapons in the league. He is STRUGGLING.
Brady, Marino, Brees, etc.. are not the rule. They're exceptions. And Matt Ryan is struggling because he's (IMO) not that good. Which is why we passed on him, and rightfully so.
I thought our first win would come last week but this week against the Chargers may be the one. I applaud your optimism . Hope is the fuel that keeps us long suffering fans around.
I hated watching Clemson's Offensive Coordinator, Billy Napier, destroy their offense last year, and as badly as I wanted him gone, the thing I hated even worse was watching Clemson lose games.
Aqua, I know that not everyone who has Luck on their mind wants to lose, but there are fans who do....... and one of the removed posts was a good example of this. If, hypothetically, we leave everything on the field this year and still end up in position to draft Luck, then I'd be happy we're getting Luck, but I'd be disappointed that we're in position to draft him in the first place b/c we have the talent to be a playoff contender. And I agree, whomever has the #1 pick is likely to win a SB by 2020. It would sicken my stomach if we, as a team, had to cheat in order to accomplish this. Purposefully losing games to "Suck for Luck" IMO is akin to cheating. I'd rather root for a losing team or another than a team that believes they need to cheat to have a future. Not to mention, every future win we have with Luck would only remind me of the season we ditched in order to land him.
That's definitely true, and I won't argue against that one bit. But you know what, I'd rather hope we turn things around as a team, go on a hot streak, and make the playoffs than root for us to fail. IMO turning things around would be a good thing, and even if we make a playoff run, it doesn't guarantee any of the coaching staff or FO is safe, right? If I order a fully loaded sundae and it arrives without caramel drizzled on the whipped cream, I'm going to know something's missing despite it still looking ok in front of me. Me, I'll send it back for some caramel.
It's not what you said but how you said it. It was critical of the poster as much as it was critical of the team. Half the staff is on the suck for luck bandwagon anyway. Now I'm going to forget this happened and move along. If you have other questions ask via pm.
I hope you guys win a couple games this year. I'm honestly frightened of you guys getting the 1st overall pick. I do not want Luck, Brady, and Fitzpatrick in this division.
Those are actually pretty good odds. Use a #1 on a QB and you have a 25% chance to win a superbowl. Those are really good odds.
I love it. Matt Ryan is struggling, yet has similar numbers to Chad Henne who is improved We're screwed.
Your attempt to insinuate that Henne on a good day is equal to Ryan's bad day is wrong based on the 2 and a half games I've watched them play. Henne & Ryan's similar numbers is because, for once, Miami and Atlanta are playing equally poor and unsound football, so for once these QBs are roughly on an even playing field. Because of this, you're seeing the gap between Henne and Ryan is much closer than people originally thought. The team they've been playing on is what's made the difference. It's like Rafael has stated many times---- Atlanta won a lot of games last year b/c they were solid as a team, not because Ryan carried them. He was frequently put in positions to succeed, and that makes all the difference in the world for a young QB. If Miami can begin playing like Atlanta did last year, Henne's QBR will also be over 90, and he'll look similar to Ryan last year, only with a better arm. lol.
Guaranteeing victory Sunday against the Chargers just became alot more difficult with powerhouse running back Daniel Thomas ruled out. Thomas gained over 100 in his two outings, which is what will be sorely needed to keep Phillip Rivers and the explosive Chargers offense on the sidelines. My pre-season prediction, based on historical outings, I had the Dolphins winning against the Chargers and us at a 2-2 record after tomorrow's game. I'm dreading the reality we may very well be 0-4, the third time the Dolphins have gone 0-4 since 2004 and the 4th time the Dolphins have gone 0-4 the first datng all the way back to 1966, the Dolphins' premiere season under intial head coach George Wilson. It's truly sad to say my friends, but like Joe Robbie following the horrible 1969 season when he made the decision to fire George Wilson and bring in some hot shot young gun named Don Shula from the Baltimore Colts, Stephen Ross is going to have to pull the trigger and find our next "Don Shula", a tough minded disciplinarian who commands the respect of his players and who truly motivates them to perform to the best of their potential. With the NFL though being the way it is now, where free agency and money, not coaches motivate players, I don't see a bright future in our horizon. I just hope to God I'm wrong.
Who would you rather have lead your team down by a TD with 2 minutes left? Its Ryan, theres no doubt. He is a lot better than Henne because he can actually be counted on to score a TD in the crunch. I was a fan of Henne when we drafted him and I do think he is better this year but the redzone play just makes you cringe, it might just make him a backup for the rest of his career despite his talent. I'm not sure why I read people putting down Ryan on this site, its literally the only place where I read these opinions that Ryan isn't a franchise Qb. Then again its the only place I read that we were better off taking Long (who is amazing but isn't a franchise Qb) over a franchise Qb.
I wouldn't take Ryan the way he's played since last years playoffs, Ryan without an effective running game has never won a game.
5 of the last 6 superbowl winners had a qb drafted in the first round.The game has changed you can't win without a elite qb in this new pass happy league.
Since Wannestadt took over (2000 and the end of Marino) we are 86 - 97. That is 11 years of football. We have had 5 different coaches and god know's how many different QB's. This franchise used to be the winning-est team in sports history. What happened. We must have consistency. Shula didn't win every game. But he won a lot of them and had some crappy seasons to. We won for so long because we had the best QB ever to play the game and consistent regime. At some point things have got to slow down and we have to be consistent. If we are going to be a winning team again we have to make a choice. I was one of the only posters here defending Sparano when almost everyone was calling for his head. Now we are 0-3 and the calls are being made again. According to the main page poll 75% of people who responded are calling for change again which will set us back even further. I want to win like everyone else, but changing Qb's and coaches everytime we turn around is further exacerbating our problems.
Yesterday on the news here. Ryan had the most sacks in the nfl And all the players were whining because they didn't protect him enough. They all have excuses for not winning games...the same as we do. I'll watch the Dolphins win, lose or draw. That's why I'm a fan.