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Dolphins debacle: reading their press clippings

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Agua, Nov 14, 2012.

  1. ckparrothead

    ckparrothead Draft Forum Moderator Luxury Box

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    Winning teaches you how to win. If you've got a solidly talented team with good temperament and good coaching, the players will eventually learn to manage the ups and downs I think.

    The question is whether we have those things. Some say we do, some say we don't.
     
  2. LBsFinest

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    if you want fans to come to games, put a better product on the field. nobody wants to come to Sun Life and watch the dolphins get blown out by the sorry *** titans, they can do that in the comfort of their own home.
     
  3. WhiteIbanez

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    Did you actually understand the representation on Sunday?
    After a close loss to the Colts on the road.
    It was a travesty.
    Those who were there get my utmost respect.
     
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  4. ckparrothead

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    It's entirely possible the Dolphins underestimated the Tennessee Titans but I tend not to believe in this whole "believing their own press clippings" thing. The Dolphins had just come off a loss where they let a rookie QB have an historic day against them, and win the game in the end. How do you come out of that believing you're a superior football team? I don't buy it.

    What I find more disappointing is not how they managed the ups but rather how they managed the downs. From everything I hear, the rout was on pretty early against Tennessee due to miscues. An early fumble handed the Titans a touchdown and instead of going back to the punt-punt back and forth, the Titans showed the fortitude to go 65 yards down the field for another touchdown, letting the Dolphins know they meant business. What is disappointing is that the Dolphins never managed around that unexpected early 0-14 deficit.

    It sounded to me like a game where all the players came away thinking that everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. It was a good reminder that they don't have the talent to be making mistakes against any football team. But I still don't think it was about reading their own press clippings...I think it was more about underestimating a bad team that had been blown out the prior week 51-20 (with 7 of the 20 coming late on an 80 yard big play run by Chris Johnson when the game was already well decided)...then not having the fortitude to dig in and come back once that team punched them in the mouth and showed them they weren't the same team that just got routed a week ago. The reverse could easily happen in this Buffalo game tomorrow night.

    All in all you'd rather a team be confident than not.
     
  5. ToddPhin

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    So you're saying we should be fair weather fans. Gotchya. :unsure:


    I didn't realize everyone knew in advance that the game was going to be a rout. South Florida bookies must've been hating life monday.
     
  6. Califin

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    This seems to support my previous suspicion, in that the coaches themselves may have been the complacent culprits, or rather could have simply looked past the downtrodden, seemingly flatlined, or otherwise comatose Titans, in having to also prepare for the early Thursday game.
    Experiencing his own rookie mistakes as HC, Philbin could have easily placed greater, or disproportionate emphasis on his inaugural, divisional matchup with Buffalo, inadvertantly leaving the team– as Nolan Carroll carefully stated–
    with little energy, and (apparently few answers) along the sideline last Sunday, when stuff started going south, against a suddenly resurgent, well prepared Titan team.
     
  7. Ozzy

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    The problem is that the fans here do not trust the team any longer! Too long we've supported them only to see them fail. One hundred plus sellouts in a stadium that is way too big shows support. Now most fans are like, I'll come back when you show me something on a consistent basis. This years team is improved over last season but unfortunately for them, they're not quite there.

    However, I do think that if they continue to show improvements and with the right signings and draft picks, it will be much better next season.

    Fair weather? Sure the hell are but many teams in the NFL are exactly the same.
     
  8. ToddPhin

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    I'm sorry, but I don't agree with that mindset. A live game experience is ten times more enjoyable than watching it in your living room. In college I traveled with friends 9 hours to FSU to watch a game we entered with little chance of winning, and then even though we subsequently got trounced, I'm glad I went. It seems people in South Florida take for granted that the stadium is in their own back yard b/c those of us who live out of state would relish every opportunity to see this so-called mediocre football team that we love play live if given the opportunity.

    WADR, Ozzy, the excuses you're giving don't hold true for every team in our boat, so I have a difficult time finding it acceptable for us.
    The Seahawks don't have enough room in their stadium to hold all their fans as they sell out game after game (with 11,000 more fans per game than we see).
    Panthers are at near 100% capacity (with roughly 17,000 greater turnout per game).
    Titans are at 100% capacity (with 13,000 more per game).
    Jets are at 96% (with 26,000 more per game).
    Heck, even the similarly afflicted Jaguars, Browns, Bills, Chiefs, and Redskins put a significantly greater amount of fans in the stands per game at 7,000, 10,000, 13,000, 15,000, and 22,000 respectively.

    We currently rank 30th in home attendance (less than 400 fans per game away from 31st), but we're not close to the 2nd or 3rd worst team in the league.
    Your statement of "Coming back when you [the team] show me something on a consistent basis" is the very notion of fair-weather. IDK, perhaps I just care more about the actual game itself (seeing it live, hearing the smack of the pads, etc) than staying home just b/c there's a chance we might lose. TBH, some of the greatest games I've attended are ones in which we entered as foregone underdogs but fought our way through and emerged as victors. Just sayin.
     
  9. CRAZYFACE

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    It better had do :cursing:
     

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