Go check this page out! The Dolphins have become a parody of a football team under this ownership, administration and recent coaching. It is not all on the present coaching! Nor should it be focused on one element of this organization. Go to the page listed below and "enjoy" the reading! E-Bloody-Gad https://www.miamidolphins.com/team/stats/ The condition of this team at this time is among the most atrocious moments of its existence. I am beginning to wonder if this team can match the Dolphins first year team.
If you compare this season's start to 2019, we are world's better than that season and this year was definitely a tougher first three games. Fate was not on our side getting @Pats, Bills, @Raiders as our first three games, but luckily the schedule does get much easier once we get into the meat of the season. It's not time for panic!
I understand and appreciate the positive sentiment but I have to disagree here. The schedule might be tougher so far, but the key problem for me is that we've not been competitive. We've taken a step back from last year, not forward. The best argument I've heard is that this step back was actually predictable because we shed the majority of our veteran talent and now we're dealing with a bunch of young player mistakes and developing player issues and that this was the plan to improve the team in the long run. Maybe one can make that case, but what I won't buy is that the OL was intentionally this bad and a risk to the health of our QB's. This year should not be a repeat of last year. It should be an improvement. It isn't. I can't forget the misses in free agency, the inability to lock down an OC, etc. There are clear, serious mistakes and I'm all for being positive but these things happened for a reason and I don't those reasons go away. OC change, GM change, or maybe, owner change. I'll give Flores a pass for now.
I agree with everything you said...but I temper that thought process by saying it's been three games against quality opponents that would have slaughtered us a few seasons ago. Heck, we beat the Raiders last year in spectacular comeback fashion...but the truth is that the Raiders dominated a large part of that football game as well. The Bills this year- where do we even start? Massive regression by the receivers, the line, etc. But it was also a game we were supposed to lose, and it's very possible that our guys simply tried to do too much while failing to do anything. It was a week 2 loss and it's important not to overreact. For week 1- we knew that the Pats would pretty much shut down Tua's best options...that's just what they do. Yet we won in Gilette, with some horrible no-calls from the refs and everything going the Patriots way. It was ugly, sure, but since when did we take a win at NE for granted? That's a super hard task in any season. For the Raiders, who have been blowing everyone out....we played poorly, force them to play poorly as well and we lose in overtime. This is a Raiders team that may be headed to the AFC championship this season and they barely scraped by us. There's no shame in that- we hung with them and if one flag came out on a super-important play, we win the ballgame. It was that close, a flip of a coin, that determined the win there. I get that the stats aren't there and we should be a better team than last season- but who's to say we aren't? I just don't think we've seen enough yet and we don't have Fitzpatrick to carry us like the prior two years. Because despite what anyone says, he was a massive part of our success from the top down. We replaced a lot of leadership in the offseason on and off the field, and that always takes some time to adjust.
Speaking of stats, it’s hard to believe that we traded up for a guy to take the lid off of a defense and that player is averaging 7.6 YPC. That’s not all on him and it’s a good sign that he’s getting targeted so much. But this points to the horrible strategy our FO deployed this off-season. Meanwhile, we could have stayed at 3 and gotten the best WR in this draft, traded to 12 and gotten the best OL in this draft or taken Parsons at 6 who looks to be all world. I know this is revisionist, Monday morning quarterbacking but they are all players that this middle aged armchair GM wanted and somehow our well paid, professional GM missed on.
Even if we did get marginally better than last year (debatable) our opponents and division rivals got a whole lot better than we did. The Bills rebuild has been a complete success, while we are still contemplating another rebuild. The Raiders started rebuilding right around the same time we did, and they are a whole lot better now than we are.
What is the point in year 3 if u only can beat the ****ty teams?If u can't beat good teams then your rebuild is a failure
I am discusted with this entire organization.I am 54 going on 55 and haven't seen a playoff win in 20 years..Chris Grier ****ed this whole team up! Ross needs to sell and we need a competent owner. I fully expected 11 + wins.From what I have seen this team will be lucky to win 6.
100% of the offense issues are on the line look at those stats. They just are not protecting well at all. It seems this team is haunted by horrible OL issue for like ever. Why can’t we get this right? If you have to buy the damn OLINE and stop drafting busts across the board or trading the ones that are good!
Dolphins have failed in both buying and drafting OL. Failed in such a way that a lot of players look better before and after they become Dolphins. It is almost like there is something in the water in Miami that just makes offensive linemen bad at their jobs.
Billy Turner is rated petty high by PFF. Clearly he’s done things in GB that he didn’t do in Miami, to further prove your point.
We can't get it right because our GM and Oline scouts are terrible at scouting and picking olinemen. We also have never had a good Oline coach who can develop them and turn them into one cohesive and effective unit.
Maybe it’s the culture in Miami warms nice weather cool drinks and beaches / women all over the place maybe in Miami they just can’t focus on the game or just say f it I’m going to enjoy some down time Also if Flores is complacent and not fighting for better coordinators or is scared to get someone who would replace him than I don’t want Flores anymore. But since we been **** before Flores came in betting it’s not him and maybe somone else in the office…..
It's probably Ross. He burned his reputation with most in league circles when he tried to to secretly hire Harbaugh while Sparano was still employed. That has led to each regime having to fight for third tier NFL coaches and assistants. Any top notch talent looked elsewhere as they don't trust Ross. Ross has hired the wrong GM for decades now, and even a good coach like Flores can't compensate for bad picks and bad free agent signings.