I remember with 5 minutes left wishing that Packers would score a TD on the FG drive.. Because we've seen this script one too many times before. Doesn't matter who is coaching this team, when it's put up or shut up time, this D, more often than not, will flounder. Same story with ZT and Zach. I'd take a tie game at 24 with 5 minutes left over the Dolphins up 4 and getting into predictable mode. Grimes is not playing at the high level and urgency he had last year. Maybe we should have signed him to another one year contract to keep him hungry. Finnegan had a terrible game. Coaching staff once again proved that regardless of talent, boneheads running the show can be the difference. I'm all in Harbaugh. I like what Hickey has done but I don't care anymore. In avoiding the sacrificial lamb in the past, we only prolonged the misery. Our 4th down D is the stuff of nightmares. The only thing worse is our 4th down offense. Moreno did not have good field vision today. Jenkins continues to impress. The OL seemed disjointed. Way too many false starts. Tannehill was Tannehill but you have to give him credit for playing through a rough first half. Perhaps the worst of his career. Either the coaching staff has been brilliant during halftime adjustments this year or horrible with how they script the start of games. I'm thinking the latter is the truth. Miller continues to impress. Never thought he had it in him. Landry put the big boy pants on today. He is going to be a stud. Hartline looks done. I don't see him playing in the NFL for more than 2 more years. Need to get Sims involved more in the passing game. His blocking is stellar. Aaron Rodgers is a boss. Nothing more needs to be said. That team does not have a winning record if you replace him. Dolphins DB's are bad. Did our secondary knock down any passes or even come close to an INT? Mike Wallace is playing with fire this year. Love his energy. Philbin is a joke of a coach. A robot of a man with no ability to react in realtime. He also seems like the type of narcissist that thinks he is smarter than everyone else. I wonder if he would still call a timeout on 4th down and 10.. My money is yes, and that he is the type to justify moves even when they backfire. I also forgive everyone that was on the Suck for Luck train. I was clearly wrong all along.
Must win next week, can't go 2-4. Bears' receivers are going to kill Grimes/Finnegan if they continue playing soft. Jeffrey, Bennett and Marshall are way too strong for that, not to mention they have Holmes on the slot and Forte. IMO I think if we lose that game, Philbin is fired if we manage to give Bortles his first win. That would be 2-5 and that's pretty much hopeless in a deep AFC.
I thought we matched up well against Green Bay. However, I do not think we match up well against Chicago. Our DLine will have to get after it even more if we stand a chance. We should be able to run the ball well on Chicago, too. I don't remember the last time the Bears have started 0-3 at Soldier Field.
This was a game the Dolphins should have won and needed to win. Honestly I only see one win in the next 4 games, that still being a road game against a team you're supposed to beat (Jacksonville), and in the past few years we all know how those "should win" road games against bad teams have turned out for this team. @ Chicaco @ Jacksonville Vs San Diego @ Detroit I don't see wins here aside from perhaps Jacksonville, I really don't. We could be looking at a 3-6 or 2-7. And after all that, still left is the chuck of the division play, including @NE, as well as @Denver and Vs Baltimore. Could get ugly if they don't get some tough wins in the next 3-4 games.
With all the disappointment, the way our corners have been playing has to be the most painful, at least for me. I'm sick of seeing our corners playing 12 yards off in 3rd and 6+ situations. They get burned anyways, might as well try taking away the short guaranteed first down.
Grimes play has really dropped this year. I'm not sure what it is. Did he get his payday and not work that hard in the offseason? He was one of the top corners in the NFL last year and this year he doesn't even look like he's a top 30 corner.
So, you give no credit to Tannehill for bringing the team back, and having a lead with 3 minutes to go in the game? Come on. The Dolphins defense can't seem to stop a pass on third down, ever. Tannehill put us in a chance to win. Philbin's timeouts were horrible, and the receiver should have been tackled in bounds on the fake spike.
Not denying...but, when has the last time been that you could really count on the defense to stop a team in the fourth? It's been years. Defense kept us in through the first half. Tannehill gave them the lead. TrackR the receiver in bounds on the fake spike and the game is over...Too bad the receiver was given the sideline as an option.
not sure what past d's have to do with it? Again the only reason you weren't done in the first was due to the d. Say what you want, the d kept us in the game the whole time. They are the last that should get blame here.
Grimes hasn't been very good this year, Finnegan had been playing better. Until today. Finnegan stunk. Next week could be a bloodbath.
Past d's failures are the same as what we've seen today. Fail in the fourth. There is no one to blame for losing the game except for Philbin and the defense. That fake spike play was pathetic. Force the guy back inside and end the game. Instead, he's allowed to get to the sideline and out of bounds. Is that Tannehill's fault? No doubt that the defense did it's job in the first half, but Tannehill had a lead late in the fourth, and the defense failed to get stops when it mattered the most.
