https://sports.yahoo.com/article/ra...-QDwx3X5aeRr-jKwoa7J8eP7GgddmUlYM22k4aCtBA4Q0 It seems like we could (and should) get more back, but it depends on the money. If the Raiders are willing to take on all of Hill’s salary, then this becomes much more intriguing.
Why would the Dolphins do this? While I was all for trading Hill (for value) earlier in the year, this seems like nothing more than a Raider fan fantasy. The Dolphins get almost nothing in return, create a hole in their lineup that they wouldn't be able to fill, and undermine Tua and McDaniel in an important season where the team is a playoff contender. Would someone suggest that the Bengals make the same trade with Ja'Marr Chase? I really doubt that.
It doesn't really make as much sense for the Raiders since they drafted 2 WRs and they are having good camps. "Tom Brady is going to want to win now" is some goofy logic. And if Miami was willing to just give him away it probably would have happened already
This team is not a playoff team so I could definitely see them trading Hill in Nov after Tua gets hurt again and McDaniel gets fired. Getting asses handed to them again in practice by lions This was supposed to be a team competing for championships after having all those draft picks not a hope and a prayer for a wildcard appreance. Ross is a terrible owner and Grier and McDaniel should have been kicked to the curb in the off season.
Not sure the cap works for it, but frankly I wouldn't care if we lost Hill. I wanted him gone after last season anyway. Does ANYONE trust that his current injury is actually an injury? I have no real confidence in him.
So, the offer is to trade our best player for a few future late-round draft picks and a TE. Hmm, I'd really have to think about that. Would they trade a beer and a hotdog for our stadium as well? Or maybe we just give them the entire city of Miami for five tacos and a Gatorade. Any objective mind would not propose a scenario so one-sided. Hill is a generational talent.
Unfortunately trading for him has done nothing to move this franchise forward. We are in the same spot we have been in for the last 25 years.
That's an extremely black and white way to look at sports. Why even bother watching the games if its only the standings at the end of the season that matter?
I think the only way this would be at all realistic is if LV were to take on the entirety of Hill’s contract, thereby creating some financial breathing room. You’re not going to get a lot back for a guy everyone assumes won’t be on the team after this season, and the argument could be made that it would make the offense better, because Tua (and McD) won’t be able to force the ball to Hill, and will have to look at other options. I don’t think there’s much substance here, but it’s something to talk about besides the daily overreactions to practice reports.
If you don’t care if your team is good or bad then what's the point. Winning is all that matters and this team can't even win one playoff game.And I'm sorry that isn't asking much in 25 years. But you are right about one thing. Not sure why I bother to watch this same crap year after year hoping I'm wrong.
Winning obviously is the most important thing at the end of the day, but watching the process is important as well.
I think that the results would likely be quite different were the Fins in another division, but they're damned to be in the East.
Could be worse being AFC north or better in either South conference where we belong being the most southern team.
The Dolphins will surprise a lot of people this year. How far will they go? No idea, but they will be a lot more competitive than the early know-it-alls give them credit for.
Especially given that nearly all media outlets seem to think that 8-10 of the Dolphins opponents this season are going to finish with a losing record, and many of those same teams had a bottom-ten offense last season. How a Dolphins team that was ravaged by injuries last season but still managed to limp to an 8-8 record before the final week gets many important players back healthy, improves both through the draft and with proven veterans, loses mostly only old and injured players from last year, and faces what's frankly not a difficult schedule ends up as one of the worst teams in some people's eyes is quite the mystery. I challenge anyone to use one of the various services that lets them pick every game week by week, and then show me how you came up with that result. I think that as many as eleven AFC teams could finish with a winning record, leading to a muddy WC field, but that the Fins are right there in that bunch and a few key games will determine how high they end up.
Winning a playoff game should be the absolute minimum threshold for keeping McDaniel. We're in year 4 and the team (and offense) seriously regressed last year. Ross is also fairly predictable with his 3-4 year trial period for HCs, so it's not unreasonable to expect a change at HC (who knows about Grier) if we don't win a playoff game this year. As usual I'll root for the team, but I'm not very optimistic this year.
So if the Fins go 12-5 and have their best regular season in 35 years, that wouldn't be enough for you if Buffalo wins 13+ games like they usually do?
Yeah sorry 4 seasons no excuses. .. and just so it's clear, with 12-5 we almost certainly get into the playoffs, so that means the question is whether we CAN win a playoff game with this HC and an apparently strong team. If you still can't win in the playoffs after that kind of regular season performance, something is seriously wrong.
Its obvious win a playoff game or bust but at the same time there are some scenarios where it isn't clean house worthy with the AFC being stacked. Just like how their two losses are very different. Their performance vs the Chief was embarrassing but they really gave the Bills as much as was realistically possible. If they lost to the Chiefs close but because Mahomes just did Mahomes things it wouldn't feel so hopeless.
In 58 years of existence, the Dolphins have never won a cold weather road playoff game. In fact, most of those games have not been close. I don't expect that to ever change, no matter how good the team is. Winning the division, or getting lucky and being able to play on the road at the AFC South champ, is basically essential to winning in the post season.
I saw a post the other day saying the NFL is considering new divisions, with Miami in the AFC south vs Tampa, Jax, and Atlanta. And I'd absolutely love that- teams could fly in on game-day if they wanted and the weather would be nowhere near as big of a factor for us or opponents. I agree with you as well that winning is always the ultimate goal, but a hard-fought game is fun to watch regardless. I don't love the team any less when they lose, and I don't let it ruin my day either. While I love football and the Dolphins, at the end of the day it's just football and not worth getting all worked up over. Negative folks might say, "They've let me down for 30+ years...." They've had lousy expectations for 30+ years though, LOL, that's their own fault.
In the late 90s, when the Browns were re-added and we knew that they were going to expand to 32 and realign, I was so excited. I started dreaming of all of the possibilities and how great it would be to get away from the Bills and Patriots - and that was before Belichick was even up there! Then when it happened it 2002, it was a kick in the pants, and only made worse years later when it was revealed that the league wanted to put us in the South and the Colts in the East, but Huizenga fought to keep it like it was so that more Jets and Patriots fans would fly to Miami to buy tickets to watch the game every year. His greed and short-sightednes has cost us for decades now. Imagine how many division titles and home playoff games we might have had along the way had that happened. I have not heard anything serious about new realignment in a while, but I'd love for it to happen. The 4-team setup you laid out would be wonderful. I also like the idea of an 8-team South that also includes Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Tennessee.
The league doesn't even need to go that radical in realignment. There has to be an NFC South division, so simply move Miami from the East to the South...Baltimore from the North to the East and Indianapolis from the South to the North. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. As for winning, of course, we ALL want the Dolphins to win, absolutely!!! But like you, I want to see the Dolphins play well! I don't want to see the Dolphins beat themselves. If Miami plays a hard fought game and loses to a BETTER team, then so be it. At least they played their BEST and the better team won. What I don't want to see (as I'm sure you are as well), is the Dolphins shoot themselves in the foot, say losing to a team by allowing them to score 2 touchdowns in less than 2 minutes, especially when you were dominating them throughout the entire game. Games such as those are the ones that chap my a$$ and hopefully we don't have any loses like that this season.
Well, there doesn't even have to be a NFC. They could do a total geographic realignment now, because all of the reasons that they were held back in the past are now gone. There doesn't need to be one NYC team for CBS and one for FOX any more, for example, because games get cross-flexed and the networks don't really matter. They could just have them "draft" games from the schedule at the start of the year and it would be fine. That said, the "quick and easy" realignment that was tossed around about a decade ago would be fine too. Miami to the NFC South, New Orleans to the AFC South, and Indy to the AFC East.
Yeah, I completely agree. Losing due to a series of penalties that give opponents 1st downs late in the 4th...of course that's as frustrating as can be because we're beating ourselves. The random flag that shifts the momentum of the game gets me as well, although I've come to terms later in life that if we had played better earlier, one bad flag call wouldn't ruin the day. But losing to Buffalo or KC by 3 in a high scoring game? There's no shame in that. And coming back on a powerhouse like Baltimore and Tua having a record quarter is so much more than just a typical win. Stuff like that makes the season for me. For instance, the Miracle in Miami...I still see that a few times per year and grin from ear to ear. "Gronk didn't have the angle!" I can't tell you what our record was that season, but I still remember the glory in shocking Brady and Belichek with last-second heroics. Heck, there was a game Tannehill was on fire against the Pats...it felt like they just turned the kid loose or something and he went berserk in the 2nd half when we were down by like 30. We lost that one (I think by 7) but it made the year for me. So yeah, we think the same way. Winning is always great, winning big games against tough teams is an extra bonus. Someday we'll go all the way again, but I'll enjoy every season until we get there. I mean, heck, I even enjoyed that 5-win season with Flores when the ownership was trying to lose. Fitz and company balled out with a bunch of college-level talent...how can that not inspire people?!?
I personally think it would make a lot more sense if the Jets and the Giants were in the same division. I get why they're separate, so locals will root for both of them, but I think they'd love the rivalry as well. They could do 4 divisions with 8 teams each, sort of like soccer does overseas. At the end of the season, you'd have a division playoff for the top 4, then a 2-game league playoff with the remaining four slots. Or make it a 3-game league playoff and let the top-2 from each division advance. It would be fun since everyone likely has a "regional team" making it to the final 8. Of course, it's fine how it is today...but I'd really love if Miami's divisional opponents were all within driving range. I think any fan would since they could easily travel for away games.
I really like the idea of four 8-team divisions. Play the other seven teams in your own division once, alternating home and away, every other year. 7 games. Play all eight teams in one other division, four home and four away. 8 games. Play one team from one of the other divisions that finished in the same spot to fill the gap that you need home or away. 1 game. Play one neutral site game, international or otherwise vs a team from the final division. 1 game. 7+8+1+1 = 17 game season.
Yeah, that would work and it would make 16 teams directly relevant to us since we'd track our division of 8 and the rival division as well. For now, we care about four teams only (AFC East). I think it would be a lot of fun and a lot more to pay attention to in any given week. Another thing you could do is have the playoffs where teams in different divisions of the same seed play each other for wildcard rounds. That would be super cool because it's the SE vs the NW...not our own division eliminating each other. So you could end up with a Fins/Jets super bowl or any two same-division teams. Why would that be cool? Because you'd only face divisional opponents once and their seeding doesn't matter to us anymore. So you could root for the Jets all year. Not that I'm a Jets fan...just keeping the example consistent. You'd be a fan of your own division over everything else, meaning you have a 1/4 shot at your division winning each season.
On the topic of the trade. I think I would pull the trigger on that. Mayer is a young all around tight end who can block and has serious Recieving chops. Would be the best tight end we have had in a long time and would be a good building block going forward. Hill’s days are numbered here. 1 year left, maybe 2 at the most. Would also free up a bunch of money to spend elsewhere
