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I didn't watch much/any of Howell last season, but I did catch a fair few games that Fields played. Fields is a poor man's version of Lanar...
In a 17 game season 58.8 yards per game gets you to a 1,000 yard season. Which is still considered a benchmark. Maybe not as much as it was 20...
One feature common to many HoF coaches is that they achieved back to back winning seasons/playoff appearances within their first 3 years at a...
It’s a long time since I was excited about a late season matchup against a strong opponent.
The trouble with more complex models is they often tell you more about the modeller’s assumptions than about reality. The strength if passer...
I'm happy to admit to being wrong about Ramsey and Hill. I knew the players they could be, but I was worried that they'd coast by and cash in...
If speed is what is all about why isn't Ted Ginn Jr being measured for his HoF jacket?
I have to disagree with the Bengals HC,I didn’t rate him while he was here and the only thing he’s done of note as Bengals HC was to cripple the...
I watched the 1985 game on youtube in the off season. At one point the commentators mentioned 3 of our 5 staring OL were out fir tge season....
This is one of those he who does not remember history is doomed to repeat it moments. Josh McDaniel's previous stint as HC with Denver should...
False. When the 49ers had to choose between keeping Young or Montana they chose Young. i knew several 49ers fans at the time and precisely none...
If only we had a strong armed QB who could throw from the 50 yard line and hit Tyreek in stride 5 yards deep in the end zone for what's officially...
Look at what Flores achieved as HC. - Fielded the worst OL in Dolphin’s history in year 3 of his rebuild. - Chased away Minkah FitzPatrick, who...
And Steve Young And Joe Montana. edit to add In other words every QB whose game is based on timing, accuracy and anticipation instead of...
It’s theoretically possible if you have a TE or FB who does nothing but catch 1 yard TD passes or 2 yard 4th down conversions. But in practical...
We saw last year Tua posting similar efficiency when passing to people not named Tyreek Hill as he did passing to Tyreek Hill. People have...
Killers of the Flower Moon Production values are excellent. Acting ranges from good to great. Highly recommended. Nit Picking. De Niro and De...
I’m not worried about ‘only beating bad teams’ for 2 reasons. Firstly, of the 5 teams we’ve beaten the Dolphins alone are responsible for over...
The way I took the question was that it was giving Coach MCD the opportunity to say how Tua is better than the average NFL QB in terms of...
The only name that, arguably, fits that bill is Don Coryell. Great regular season records, but no SBs. The main reason Don made finally made it to...
De’von Achane averaged over 10 yards a carry again. He must be close to the leading rusher in the NFL. He’s on pace for setting some pretty...
Looking at the discrepancies on the list between the different rating agencies is eye opening.
A lot of what passes for evaluation in the commenteriate is limited to what they can see. - Herbert has a monster arm and because of that he's...
Grier is a fool. He can’t draft on OL to save his life. Plus we're regretting firing a real HC in Flores.
This shows how much we rely on Waddle. With Hill injured it shows the passing scheme sucks unless we've got WR1 and WR2 fully healthy so Tua can...
The NFL should follow the lead of other sports like Rugby and suspend players for dirty play, not issue fines. There are plenty of players...
It used to be that you could accept a kicker with a lower than average FG% if they gave you a field position advantage on kickoffs. With the new...
This problem is a crocodile problem. A crocodile problem refers to the fact that crocodiles are territorial so if you remove one croc another...
Let’s see so against the Pats with Flores as HC Tua was below average and with McDaniels as HC Tua has been a pro-bowler. And his HC on Sunday is?
He was too green on the details side of thing when he was here. With nore experience he could have been our guy.
Jim Brown? I never saw him play and the footage is old and grainy, but the man had power and could turn on the afterburners in the open field.
I've always sort of defended Grier with respect to the OL on the basis that the OL coaching under Gase and Flores was so bad we had no true idea...
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny My wife insisted we go, and I actually had a good time. Nowhere near as bad as the reviews make it to be....
Pui Pui Molcar. 2 minutes of Japanese surrealism available on Amazon Prime. Better experienced than described. season 1 is much better than...
On the eyeball test, I am in no way qualified to do a deep analysis. What I was interested in seeing was if therecwas something about the...
2 differences. 1) There was a lot of data on Kramer being an average at best QB in the years prior to 1886. But with Geno Smith we essentially...
From what I understand of your argument, what Geno Smith has done over the last 2 seasons has never been done in the post 1978 (i.e. reliable...
Geno Smith had 29 starts in 2013/2014 for the Jets which account for his horrible early stats. Since then he has pisted season passer ratings of:...
I don’t see it as player who gad to wait [N] years to be successful. I see it as a QB who failed with their first team then turned it around after...
Steve Young? Sucked in Tampa, spent 4 years warming a bench in San Fran before getting the starting job. Jim Plunkett? Sucked in NEw England and...
The evidence says otherwise. Watch a few fukk Seahawks games from last year and you can see the evidence with your own eyes.
In 30 starts with the Jets he had a 72.4 passer rating In 20 starts with the Seahawks he has a 101.1 rating. In his time with the chargers and...
Did you watch any Seahawks games last year? I did because I thought there must be some kind of mistake about the passer rating Geno Smith was...
No, one of those throws he was lucky not to be intercepted, the others were extreme efforts by the defenders to even get a hand on the ball. If...
League wide the Int% was 2.3% in 2022. Tua had a 1.7% Int%.
our OL improved from worst in recorded history to generically bad last season. The brains trust approach seems to be to prioritize skill players...
And he clearly has lost his quick release, it took like a full second to get out of his hand.
Even if he misses 16 that still means we got 1 game without Jackson as our RT, which makes it an upgrade.
It gives a good indication of how solid our roster is when people basically don’t care abour the UDFA signings. It wasn’t too long ago that there...
If he played in the modern era he would have taken far fewer cheap shots to the head too.
The top 5 QB starts according to this:...
I can understand why many sites have the Jets higher than the phins. Rogers is a simpler and more obvious fix to their problems than Fangio +...
If a reporter could pick better than Vegas they wouldn’t be giving their opinions away for free.
The only “expert” I give credence to is Vegas. 1) They have real money riding on the outcome. 2) They have a very good record of being generally...
I think the Bengal’s DC has quietly been one of the better DCs over the last 2 seasons, definitely in the line for a HC spot if they perform well...
All rankings assume health of QBs etc. #1 chiefs #2 daylight. #3, 4 Bills, Dolphins # 5 Bengals - Maybe I should rate them higher, but I can’t...
That was because Flores was throwing himself on the floor kicking and crying in the middle of the supermarket. what the phins did is what all the...
My feelings. Coaching: I’m pretty excited about the offensive and defensive schemes. I think McDaniels will be better at clock management, game...
Good luck Aaron, you are going to need it. [MEDIA]
My opinion on this is. - NFL defenses are tough to pass on. No QB is ever going to have the luxury of always throwing to an open receiver, or even...
another non sequitur. Just because I pointed out that a a neuroscientist (i.e. a Ph.D. NOT a medical doctor) has a bias in his comments does not...
Has anyone done any study on ball velocity of different QBs? It would be nice to get some actual numbers rather than relying on subjective...
The context does matter, and in this case Tua was giving a short summary answer to a related but different question than what the twitter thread...
I’m against it for 2 reasons. Firstly I’m rooting for Brock Purdy to succeed. Secondly I’m looking forward to the impending dumpster fire of the...
Your genuine concern for Tua’s personal well being is noted, and I’m sure that was your motive in posting this, not some desire to wina an...
It was famously said of Terru Bradshaw that he couldn’t spell ‘cat’ even if you spotted him the C and the A.
Herbert seemed very impressive as a rookie, and had one of the best rookie QB seasons of all time. Trouble is ‘great for a rookie QB’ is equal...
Plenty of elite QBs have had crappy halves even crappy complete games, most have has many games like that in their career. One game doesn’t matter...
Do you think Steve Young had “great arm talent”? Why or why not?
Arm strength is an unambiguous concept. How fast can you throw the ball. Arm talent on the other hand is a very vague concept with no fixed...
To be fair you should compare Tua’s ‘almost interceptions’ against Pickett’s actual for real life interceptions from that game. I can’t find a...
Hey we had that QB on our roster the year before we drafted Tua. His name was Josh Rosen. Arm strength is over rated because its most visible...
Perhaps Bill should be looking in the mirror after the Patricia/Judge debacle as co-OCs. The phins had just spent a year proving what a horrible...
I take it to mean that he’s playing QB in a manner that the coach hasn’t seen before. The full quote from some months back noted things like Tua...
iirc we signed Wilson before the Tyreek Hill trade. I don’t think he’s a bad player or anything, but I think he just ended up in the wrong place...
1) It’s from Florio 2) Trade value for QBs that the team has given up on is very low, which goes against Belichek’s philosophy of buy low/sell...
There were a series of pulp hero movies in the 90s that came out of this mold that I really liked. The Shadow, The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy, The...
I clocked out of the MCU after the first Avengers movie. I hadn’t seen the Hulk movie, or really been aware it existed, but not bring up to speed...
Perhaps another way to view the quote is that Sherfield isn’t good at reliably running precise routes and he’d prefer a QB who is a bit more...
I think with the MCU there have been so many movies with so many characters that changing an actor isn’t going to register on most people’s radar....
For “can’t” the short answer is salary cap. For “won’t” the short answer is that signing him would mean 3 years in a row without a first round...
In order of interest Jets Bears Commanders Saints Plus the distraction of the extra media attention almost always hurts the featured team which...
Comparing this [MEDIA] to this [MEDIA] As Cbrad says Marino tends to move much less, much more pure arm movement as opposed to putting his body...
The thing for me about Marino’s release is that he’d do it from a ‘non-throwing’ stance - bouncing in the picket with his feet pointed the wrong...
I wasn’t suggesting that at all. What I was suggesting is that Steve Young was a successful QB with a weak arm who didn’t run all that much. He...
Steve Young in San Fran had 4.1 rushing attempts per game, with a 5.9 ypc for a total of 23.9 yards per game and 0.4 TDs per game. Steve Young is...
Steve Young then took over the same system and same receivers and did better than Montana with a weaker arm.
Turn it on for yourself then, it’s genuinely entertaining TV. There are a couple of episodes that carry a real emotional gut punch for parents,...
Bluey Ok a 7 minute kid’s cartoon on D+ doesn’t seem to fit this thread’s normal fare, but this is a great TV show, not a great kid’s show but a...
And I have played precisely as many NCAA and NFL snaps with Tua as my QB as Sherfield has.
If the problem is the scheme got figured out then that’s McDaniel’s job to fix.
You notice I didn’t suggest replacing him would be hard, just that it’s a priority.
I’ve had a further review of this, since I was skeptical to begin with. My skepticism was mainly fueled by the low price and thinking he was 2 or...
This worries me much more than having Devante Parker sign with the Pats. Maybe a 1 on the 1-10 scale. He made some nice plays for us, but he had...
Not sure how much I like this move. Ramsey is 29, has a lot of guaranteed money on his contract and didn’t play up to his usual standards last...
This is the name I really want to see. Gardner’s career stats are significantly better than Daniel Jones’, and I think he has enough similarities...
Interior OL. CB Backup QB, I really like Gardner Minnshew, as I think he’s a scheme fit, but I don’t know about his availability. Teddy and Skylar...
If Tua us a one read QB at least he’s reading from Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Jackson’s reading material is See Spot Run
Well the Ravens have built their offense around a run early and run often QB who often plays sandlot ball and uses a rocket arm to deliver balls...
You see it happen a lot when teams have multiple 1st rounders, they seem to think they can get away with gambling on low floor high ceiling players.
But I was told Tua can’t throw guys open.
Sounds like there may have been some kind of poor result from surgery. It takes roughly 18 months to get back from an Achilles tear, and even then...
Did you watch the offense Flo put on the field in 2021? That was pure trash because it ignored what Tua is good at and tried to turn him into an...
Drew Brees.
Color me skeptical. Firstly unnamed sources are to be treated with a dose of salt. Secondly, it’s very easy to say “another team should do [x] in...
If all he was doing was throwing to spot why couldn’t Teddy or Skylar do it?
Ambition. Sous Chefs will take a job as a line chef in three Michelin star restaurant.
The other main criticism was that “he needs his receivers to be Alabama open, he can't do it at NFL open”. watching the film from this year it’s...
Ryan Tannehill for one. I’d say it was a good decision, the poor decision was the HC choices we made. Not saying RT17 was going to be a HoFer or...
shouldn’t be interesting at all. A shedload of less productive QBs have had their options picked up and it isn’t like we’re sitting with the #1...
My reading of Shula’s response to Smith is that he thought Smith was being unethical. Smith wasn’t offering to work for the phins at a cut rate...
I think he could have been better for us if we’d given him better coaching. Tony Sparano turned him into “check down Chad” when his Michigan tape...
Now he is. He’s doing it deliberately for the clickbait. There was a time when he was worth reading, but that was more the off field stuff than...
his resume 2022: Broncos - OL coach. 2021: 49ers - OL assistant 2020: Packers - Senior analyst 2015-2018: Buccaneers - OL assistant 2010-2014:...
My brother coaches his daughter’s rugby team and had an interesting story from a recent coaching symposium he went to. One of the speakers was a...
I played rugby not football, and in set pieces the tight 5 which is as close to the OL as you’ll get to in any other sport. The similarity I see...
From his prior history it would seem Dr Faust has negotiated the contract for him.
If he repeats what he did this year, but with good health I’ll be happy. His college history suggests choking under pressure shouldn’t be an...
Tua had wins against NWE 8-9 BAL 10-7 BUF 13-3 PIT 9-8 DET 9-8 CHI 3-14 CLE 7-10 HOU 3-13-1 combined record of 63-67-1. Tua didn’t build his wins...
Better than 2021, means better than the worst Dolphins OL in history, including 1966. The line was bad, apart from Armistead and Connor. Common...
On Grier’s drafting. In 2016 Larmey Tunsil Xavien Howard Kenyan Drake Jakeem Grant Pretty solid 2 absolute syars with the first 2 picks, and a...
Looking at Grier’s coaching hires. 2016 Adam Gase. In retrospect this was a bad hire, but he went 23-25 as a HC so in the grand scheme of things...
I have no problem with the NFL investigating to see if certain techniques in the game are safe or unsafe, especially after serious injuries. For...
I think it would be wiser to get an old settled head as DC, rather than a young up and comer. Mainly because a young up and comer is going to get...
Teddy Bridgewater has entered the conversation.
I think I’m correct in saying this, Tua ends up as the leading QB by passer rating in the NFL, plus a bunch of other efficiency categories such as...
If you alienate your good players you’re a bad coach. Nothing wrong with alienating the slackers and no-hopers. Of course this implies you can...
I wouldn’t believe Omar Kelly even if he said water was wet.
I’d put my money on it being Flo. You had the press conferences last week where Tua was saying his coaches made him think he sucked at football,...
Well my eyeballs tell me Tua was doing it in Alabama and he’s doing it again this year, but I didn’t see much of it in the Flores regime. I think...
Is that like dance mode? [MEDIA]
He’s a bit bigger than a baby, I wouldn’t make that analogy.
I think the time has come to say what are the legitimate causes for concern about Tua. I see only 2. 1) Durability. Half of the QBs in the league...
If our opponents tackled as well as our secondary he’d have had half a dozen TDs like that this season.
The thing with receiving yards is that they’re not very consistent game to game. It all takes is one or two monster games and he’s back on schedule.
The secret squirrel business kind of reminds me of an incident with a rugby team I follow. One of their stars, as in GOAT at his position star,...
Does anyone know what the issue with Jones is? Just seems very secret squirrel, which bothers me a little.
I don’t see a first year HC getting into ‘trap’ games. The whole experience is too new for them to treat any game as anything other than a major...
You don’t lose your starting role in the NFL for being an *sshole, you lose it for not contributing to winning and being an *sshole. The Jets are...
Basically that’s all what the critics have left. I’ll take worries about his durability as a legitimate concern, but the same can be said about...
I was on the fence about firing Flores, as I could see arguments for and against it. However hiring McDaniel has been a major upgrade, and the...
Your argument is that the offense would be as bad as last year’s without Hill and Waddle. When not throwing to Hill and Waddle last year Tua had a...
Firstly your point was that the offense would be the same as last year’s without Hill and Waddle, even though we had Waddle last year. Secondly,...
Reading comprehension is a skill. I was replying to your assertion in post #3567 “It is really not that simple. Taking the 2 best receivers out of...
Reading comprehension is a skill I said at the start of my second paragraph, which you actually quoted - Obviously Hill and Waddle make a...
Not at all. 1) The OL s much improved from one of the worst in history to plain vanilla bad. 2) Mostert and now Williams along with the...
Week 1 - Tua can’t throw deep Week 2 - It was just one good quarter Week 3 - The Bills were missing half their starting D Week 4 - I told you he...
Coming back to the “it’s Hill and Waddle carrying Tua” argument. Tua’s season passer rating: 118.4 Tyreek Hill % of targets: 34.9 Passer rating...
If he could do it, he'd still be a QB in the league.
Totally agree that the 30+ attempts caveat is an irrelevance. I’d be happy to take the threshold down to something like 7 attempts in honor of Bob...
I normally don’t give much stock to these kind of runs because if you play enough games eventually some rando (eg Jay Ajai and 200 yards games)...
I was expecting to be able to use “It’s all Hill and Waddle”, but they were relatively quiet today. Maybe “see he can’t avoid good pass rushers...
I didn’t realise has EPA existed for so long. There is however a difference between ‘a thing exists’ and a ‘a thing exists in an accessible and...
DVOA presents itself as being scientifically rigorous. As the oldest of the ‘alternative statistics’ site for football they’ve got credibility due...
Can’t believe how lucky the Vikings have been. They get to okay the Dolphins and the Bills with the backup, not the top 3 QB
I was looking at yards of separation purely in relation to the Alabama Argument that Tua is doing well because his receivers are more open than...
Getting ahead of the Tua is succeeding because of his receivers. From playerprofiler.com Average yards of separation at time of catch. Tyreek...
Tua has shown much more arm strength than what he used on that play on 90% of his throws the season. So yes you can say the ball was underthrown,...
Schematically he’s light years ahead of Olivadotti, but Olivadotti had his players trying hard every week.
Tackling is more about motivation and willingness to put your body on the line than anything else. Poor tackling is a bad sign.
For that to happen Tua has to loft the ball over the CB, which is exactly what he tried to do. Throwing a dagger stops Waddle’s momentum and he...
The vibe I’m getting from the team is more like late ‘80s Dan Marino. We have the QB and passing game to win it all, but the D is handicapping...
On the throw to Waddle he was trying to loft the ball over the CB and hit Waddle in stride for the TD. Waddle go to his mark a little faster than...
Polynesia is about as far as you can get from Africa and still be on the same planet. There is no ‘technically not black’, more like ‘how ignorant...
Just for fun. If Pittsburgh had intercepted all 4 of the ‘almost interceptions’ in their game, Tua’s passer rating would be 108.6., which would...
Didn’t mean it to come across that way. I was just trying to expand on your point a bit.
I think his game against the Lions was better, but the Bears D is a much stiffer challenge. As a by note Aaron Rodger’s put up a passer rating of...
For those who may think putting up 130+ passer rating against the Lions and Bears is somehow less than impressive. Miami’s D, which we all...
Today was the first time all season he hasn’t come through with big plays in the clutch. Can’t expect any QB, not even Dan Marino, to be...
Thanks for the update. Week 1 - Tua can’t throw deep Week 2 - It was just one good quarter Week 3 - The Bills were missing half their starting D...
I can support McDaniel going for the 4th down in the 4th quarter. I’ve read that there’s actually a bigger chance of losing with a 4-6 point lead...
There were legitimate reasons *cough* [Brian Flores] *cough* to have doubts about Tua before the season. Even the people who were highest on him...
Speaking of cold takes that didn’t age well, from 5:51 of the video in the OP Paraphrasing - Miami wants to trade for Deshaun Watson because the...
Considering how Flores had hobbled Tua they were legitimate questions. Add into that the Flores law suit and if you’re a talking head on TV who...
I came here for an argument and you’re just disagreeing with me.
Superbowl VII Miami passing attempts 11 Miami passer rating 88.4 Washington attempts 28 Washington passer rating 19.6 Superbowl VIIi Miami...
Good deal. It’s under what people said Chubb was looking for (30M per season) and takes advantage of Tua being on a rookie contract and
The fact is PR efficiency has much higher correlation to win% than any volume stat. The 1972 Dolphins are the poster child for that - ranked 24...
Tua has a passer rating of 113 Miami has allowed a oasser rating of 100 Justin Fields has a passer rating of 81. Chicago has allowed a passer...
I’ll admit to wanting to hold onto the draft capital to build the OL and RB in particular, maybe also build depth on D as our D appears to be...
Doesn’t really matter, the Bears don’t have a QB who can throw the ball.
I haven’t watched any Seahawks games, only seen the highlights and read the post game reviews. I’m not going to bet on Geno falling, as the game...
Geno Smith is a guy who I’ve always rated as mediocre at best, although capable of putting a great game together every now and again. I’ve been...
Gotta wait to 3 days before the game to get good accuracy with forecasts. It also depends on micr-climates. Some cities have more changeable...
One interesting aside. Tua is pretty well dismantling Brian Flores’ claim for unfair dismissal before our eyes.
At this pace Hill and Waddle will put up around 3500 receiving yards between them. If they do that they will have more receiving yards than quite...
So after 6 starts and 5 full games Tua’s passer rating is 112.7. Which I’m pretty sure equals leading the league at the halfway point if the...
Not just that, but he put up 160 yards and 177 yards in the Cinci and Minn games, meaning he’s putting up those numbers no matter who is throwing...
Which indicates, even leaving Tua aside, that this number isn’t actually measuring what they think its measuring.
It’s been dressed up to look like a stat deliberately. Also it’s a bit like QB pressure ‘stats’ in that it’s a pure counting stat which doesn’t...
A couple of points, based on my experience with settling legal claims. 1) From X’s POV, just pay the cash. Your lawyers will cost more and...
Let’s compare the Tua ‘turnover worthy’ plays and Pickett’s actual turnovers. The Bethel interception wad thrown straight into his hands when the...
A stat like ‘turnover worthy’ this is meant to be predictive of future performance. The theory being that random chance produces noise that can...
Football is a violent game. Taunting leads to revenge shots. Some players when taking revenge shots will try to deliberately injure, as opposed to...
I see it contributing to injuries as it limits substitutions and rest. Especially if a player is carrying an injury into a game.
In other words it’s a rationale that’s been obsolete for 30+ years.
I have never understood the idea of why there should be inactive players on the 53 man roster.
Just watched the replay, missed it live. - After the first 3 drives I thought the O was going to run up 40 points. Pittsburgh changed their D...
I think it will depend a lot on practice. I get the feeling that McDaniel is the sort of HC who will go with the player who gives him the beat...
Totally agree that 150 pass attempts is the minimum, and I personally prefer 250+ as giving a true neasure. I just started the thread because I...
After 3 games this season he is ranked second in the NFL passer ratibg, with a ratibg of 117. For me what is most impressive about this is that of...
To be clear, I think Tannehill’s ceiling isn’t in the same stratosphere as say Mahomes or Herbert. We saw in his rookie year that he threw with...
My thoughts. Tua’s interceptions weren’t bad interceptions. In both of them he was aggressively trying to fit the ball into a tight window. It...
Tannehill entered college as a QB. He chose to play WR rather than ride the pine. And when he did start he showed he was a major step up over the...
Well if we are going to slice and dice passer rating, we need to remember in 2021 the Pats were the #2 pass defense in the league and only allowed...
Mac Jones “the best Alabama QB in the NFL” is 0-3 against Tua.
I’m starting to get the vide that Tua is Ryan Tannehill ver 2.0. Regardless of the differences in their play styles, they’re both “great on...
My thoughts. The Good. 1) The TD to waddle was special. Lots of QBs can make the throw, but for most QBs, Josh Allen included, it would have been...
Josh Allen looked a lot like a young Dan Marino with his quick release and velocity on his throws. Only real flaw I saw was he trusted his arm too...
I think the DB made a really good play, and that’s something all the anal-ysts missed. He made Tyreek take the scenic route to the ball. He didn’t...
Put me in the wait and see what they do against live NFL opponents camp. Preseason has become a bit of a circus and nothing like what it was even...
i get real confused with pre-season performances because of playing aginst 2nd and 3rd stringers, lack of gameplanning, coaching for process not...
Shows flashes of brilliance one game then disappears for the next 3?
The Browns, if they have any sense, will have hired goons watching and monitoring Watson. Much cheaper to shell out say 150k a year on...
I can’t agree with this. The difference between the Browns/Watson gaming the system and Goodell gaming the system is that Goodell writes and...
I have made a point of not reading any of his stuff for at least 4 years. It got to the point that I felt I was less informed after reading his...
Rosen’s performance is somewhere between Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russel after you adjust for era. You can’t blame all of that on poor...
A good guy and a good LB, but not the right fit for the wide-9 we were running when we hired him. In the wide-9 LBs are meant to be super...
I think you’d be surprised. 66 in one year is a very easy number for professional athletes to achieve especially if they play a high profile...
Oh no, how will get enough snaps to prepare for the regular season?
Plus the media which has spent most if the last 18 months ignoring the Watson story have an excuse to go silent again.
The Judge’s report does little to clear up the situation. My thoughts in no particular order. 1) Watson’s behavior legally wasn’t criminal - the...
It seems to me more like he didn’t know how to coach Offense so he decided the only way he could get a good O was to hire a HoF caliber QB. Not so...
i can the NFL wanting this to disappear quietly.
I’m a bit more wait and see on whether the run game in particular and the offense generally perform as advertised. I also am a little wary about...
JaMarcus Russel has a career passer rating of 65.2 compared to Rosen’s 61.1 Ryan Leaf has career passer rating of 50.0, which he set when the...
In Josh Rosen’s first 16 starts (a full season at the time) he did not once post a passer rating higher than the league average. Ryan Leaf,...
Why? We have our starter. We have a veteran backup. We have a developmental QB. We have no known injury concerns at the position. The only...
There were people on this site saying it was a mistake when we cut Rosen. Let that sink in.
When Minkah plays at HoF level (consecutive All-pros) as soon as he leaves the Dolphins that indicates that the problem is not the player. What...
I never got the hate Ted Ginn got. The man has speed that is unmatched. A solid WR2/3 and incredible return man isn’t a bad return on a first...
It’s basically the Ryan Tannehill trade 2.0 Sam Darnold equates to Marcus Nariota, the over hyped but never delivered high first round pick...
Not really, The contracts of Mayfield and Watson all but guarantee Mayfield has to be cut not traded in that scenario.
Because the wide side usually has more WRs and extra DBs, again creating a numbers advantage for the D, unless you have WRs that can actually...
Because an extra blocker almost always equals an extra defender im the area. The traditional way to make up for the lack of starting numbers is a...
I agree entirely with your sentiments. One thing about the recent high draft OL picks is that under the Flores regime they suffered from bad...
I’m guessing this is a McDaniels hire. There is something about Williams’ game that McDaniels sees as translating well to how he sees the Center...
I’m not sure if all the plans A to F were serious plans, or whether they were kicking the tires. For me the Brian Flores lawsuit is proof the...
The important thing to remember is that they are unit dinners, not whole team dinners. So a $60k dinner is for, at most 10 or 12 people. Having...
There seems to have been a massive increase in SADS recently.
I haven’t been following it too closely after the initial complaints. Mainly because this whole thing is an absolute viper’s nest of wrongness,...
And you can still argue he’s underpaid.
Omar Kelly is precisely the last person on Earth I trust to give me accurate news on the Dolphins. I’d trust a Marind-Anim headhunter from the...
Having worked in claims for personal injury insurance I’m not surprised it took a long time. Lots of issues need to be unpacked. 1) Jay Ajayi was...
The context is yards past the sticks, not total yards per attempt.
They tried that, or something similar with NFL Europe. While I think it’s a good idea, there is an awful lot of money that goes into making a...
The reason relegation works in soccer is that the difference the best of the 2nd division and the worst of the first division isn’t so great. The...
Nope. Franchise savior is number 1 overall, maybe number 2. The value of draft position decays exponentially. Historically the #5 overall pick...
Some I like, The New Jersey Giants/Jets The Flaming Thumbtacks (referring to the Tennessee helmet logo) The Browns [said with the right intonation...
I’ll leave Tua out because he obviously is number 1 for obvious reasons. 1) Tyreek Hill. We’ve had many high profile WR signings that never lived...
I don’t claim myself to be any kind of draft expert. However what I look for is how the player performs against the top college teams, how they...
Your own words - More than that, though, he does not have the talent disparity vs other teams that he had in college. Ignoring that is the most...
I seem to remember Tua coming to national prominence with his play in the 2017 national championship game, where his substitution for Jalen Hurts...
Thanks cbrad. One other thing I’d add, separate from cherry picking, is that when you slice data into smaller and smaller fractions you will find...
I normally only follow the first round live, and then check on the summaries for day 2 and 3. This year zero interest in the draft, and I can’t...
To be fair to Bruschi when he played the Pats were allowed to get away with mugging opposing receivers in the street on their way to the stadium....
Mike Florio is becoming less and less reliable and more and more clickbait-y every year. It’s at the point where if he told me the sky is blue I”d...
The point Campbell was making was off field issues are only really an issue if they affect on field performance. NFL reams are willing to put up...
It’s not weird to get fired after going 3-13. Especially when in the prior year you were 8-8. Kingsbury was seen as some kind of offensive...
For hiring a lackluster coach like Wilks in the first place? I’ve had a quick review of his record as DC at Carolina and at Cleveland before and...
Assuming the Flores memo exists, why isn’t it quoted in his claim? If you've got solid gold like that, then as a lawyer you put it front and...
There is a long term stable correlation between a team’s NFL passer rating within a season and win% (around 0.65 iirc). Cbrad has run the stats...
You’re the one beating the drum about great players whow greatness immediately. Why did Tom Brady split playing time with Drew Henson in college?...
‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,...
Well at least that will take the microscope off Ross.
My impression was that after 2 years of churn and burn the FO said “we’re not buying you any more expensive toys until you learn to look after the...
Steve Young https://fansided.com/2021/01/30/hilarious-pro-bowl-exchange-brett-favre-steve-young-video/ Joe Montana had on OK arm at best. Tom...
Arm strength is overrated because it is highly visible. There is a matrix of factors that contribute to the ability to be an NFL calibre QB in...
My assumptions. 1) With the addition of Armstead we are done with significant FA signings.. 2) Our draft will not add any difference makers....
I’m firmly of the belief that coaching was the main issue last year. You don’t get that bad without the captain steering the ship into the rocks....
If he wanted to do that he wouldn’t be banging on about systemic racism and calling John Elway a drunken racist. He could just have filed his...
Dear Emmanuel, ‘Snake eyes’ is not a good thing, but I get your meaning. BTW congrats and I’m very happy for you and the phins in this.
Inflation is eating his savings, he has to go back to work.
Whatever merits Flores has on legal grounds is getting washed away by headline chasing by his lawyers. That may work if the goal was to shame the...
Another problem with over-fitting data is when it is combined with culling data. A researcher may exclude certain data because of reasons such as:...
iirc Don Hutson of the 1940s Packers is the only other WR in NFL history with 20+ ypc and a TD better than every 5 receptions.
Best WR Warfield first and daylight second. Best receiving 1-2 combo Clayton and Duper. Best 1-2-3 Clayton, Duper and Moore. Best TE. Wake me...
Package apparently us 1st round pick, 2 x 2nd round + Drew Lock + swap of 4th and 5th round pucks. One thing it does is devalue what the Texans...
I heard his wife absolutely vetoed it. Zach got so intense and into his film study and prep as a player she felt she and the kids would never see...
Considering the product he put on the field after 3 years of trying neither does Flores.
Flo said Ross personally asked for the NDA. That is different from the Dolphin’s lawyers asking for the NDA. Ross vehemently denies personally...
Nice to know that Lovie Smith doesn’t count as black.
Billy Turner for one
So now for Flores to win in court he’s going to have to go to court and prove Lovie Smith is an inferior coach to him. You establish...
Was the tractor OK?
Stephen A. saying that is a bit like the latté complaining the cappuccino isn’t an espresso.
I think it’s more likely that Flores went to an attorney with an agenda, and the attorney is using Flores as an excuse to go for a ride on his...
The problem with the general approach is that Flores is presenting his case, saying he personally was discriminated against. The point of a law...
It’s a long time since I practiced law, and not I didn’t directly work with employment law, so take my musings with a truck load of salt. -...
Well, about 1/3 of the NFL had HC vacancies and none of them hired him, I wasn’t paying too much attention but I didn’t hear his name on too many...
Bienemy has sexual harassment/rape allegations in his past along with some arrests and a bullying scandal. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago teams would...
Luck wasn’t better than Tannehill.
Doesn’t matter. You can’t buy something that isn’t for sale. Maybe if you had a Texans/Watson (assuming no legal issues only discontent) situation...
That arrest record is more than a bit concerning, and I hadn’t been aware of it, as is the bullying issue. The rape accusation is something that...
My feelings are that 1) It’s creepy, but not illegal for Watson to have so many massage therapists. 2) the lawyer for the accusers has done dodgy...
My criteria. 1) From a proven coaching tree. (No Belichek clones) 2) First time HC, as SB winning coaches are more likely to be first time hires...
I just read the article, and buried at the end is the correlation between the new measure and win% NGS - 0.61 PFF - 0.56 QBR - 0.54 Noticeably...
I’m starting to think that it’s BB being HC/GM that curses his assistants when they go to a different organization and have to learn how to manage...
Don Shula reached the SB with the Colts. He was poached from Indy by offering him HC/GM + a 5% stake in the Dolphins
Problem is proven HCs who can consistently take teams deep into the playoffs don’t get fired very often. I’ll do a run on the numbers one day, but...
I was originally going to make a thread about not jumping aboard the Flores train, but events got ahead of me. I wasn’t going to advocate firing...
It’s called being a good communicator. Establishing rapport, building networks , persuading others to see what you see. It is a prime requisite of...
Overall I am onboard with this move. Back to back winning seasons within the first 3 years is a strong indicator that you have a strong HC, one...
I have some thoughts, and when I have time I’ll express them fully. However, the basic problem I see with the team is that it isn’t built to...
For me it’s a little bit of a pity he became so famous as a broadcaster and face of a video game franchise. The man was an amazing football coach,...
The fact we’ve won 6 in a row is irrelevant to winning the next 3. Based on 50-50 each game that’s a 1 in 8 chance.
It looks like defenses have him figured out, and as a passer he’s been a little less than average. Maybe he can come back, but until he shows he...
I’m not saying had a good game, but there were several plays in the game that would not be out of place in a MVP highlight reel. He had a couple...
Napoleon Bonaparte had a long history of abandoning his troops in the field after losing: - Egyptian Campaign - Aspern-Essling - 1812 Campaign -...
Can’t agree with this. Firstly, every player drafted is developmental. Secondly and more importantly it’s about what the olayer’s ceiling is and...
I remember reading an article from the 1970s about how Don Shula turned the Dolphins around. He was very big on getting former NFL players to be...
I would have fired him after the lap dance incident. Not because of any morality issues, but simply because that event cemented him into a...
It has to be a coaching issue. Until we get a good OL coach we won’t even know which players have it at the the NFL level. Just look at the purge,...
In the last 2 or 3 games Tua has been showing more arm strength than he has previously as a Dolphin. I think the talk that the recovery from the...
My first thought was Samoan, but then again a Samoan lady wouldn’t need mace or a gun. I remember being at a party with a Samoan who was an OG in...
This season is reminding me very much of the final years of Wannstadt, Sparano, Philbin and Gase. The players to me seem to have clocked off for...
It was the 3rd unblocked hit on him in a series and a half. The last one may not even have been the one that did most of the damage.
While I think it is patently disrespectful for professional announcers to mispronounce a name, I’ll give people a pass with Tua. I grew up playing...
It still depends a lot on the process. If we go 10-7 and miss the playoffs due to tiebreakers I could live with that if Tua balls out and we show...
I would remove overtime for regular season games altogether and let more games end in ties. For 2 reasons 1) Player safety 2) it creates more...
Again another example of why Houston is a poorly run team. You return that phone call even if it’s just to say “thanks, but no thanks”. NFL teams...
Three 1st rounders for Deshaun would be a good deal, but only if it was before the draft and with a clean legal situation.
This is how bad teams are run. The Texans could have shipped him off before the legal troubles started. The Texans could have shipped him off...
Never gonna happen. Besides base salary and guarantees are paid on the expectation of future performance, whilst (true) bonuses are paid for...
Looking at the way his previous deal was structured it makes perfect sense to me that: 1) X was unhappy with it; 2) X fired the agent who...
Bounce of the ball, matchups, opponent’s mistakes, unexpected game plans can all go to creating an illusion of a coach who can win more with...
Need to make sure if 2 things. 1) Is Flores the real deal? Another winning season in 2021 will strongly suggest he is. 2) Is Tua a consistent...
My opinion is that because of 1) Injuries to the WR room, especially late in the season. 2) Restricted practices due to Covid 3) Possible...
Let’s add the McMartin pre-school and Cardinal George Pell to that list. Who needs a trial or evidence?
I ran the math on this 4 or 5 seasons ago. The AFC East has been more or less .500 once you take the Pats out of the equation. The only reason why...
I think this isn’t about Tua. It’s about an opportunity to grab a HoF caliber passer at the start if the prime of his career. Watson has shown...
I’m not grading on success/fail. I’m grading on success (exceeds expectations / OK (meets expectations) / fail (below expectations).
For me, in order of importance. 1) what Cbrad said about HoF coaches developing consistent winners by year 3 of their tenure. I think the only...
Talk about deliberately stirring the pit to create dissatisfaction in order to create a story.
and to quote one of the great legal minds* of the 20th Century “And I am that fool”. [* I can’t recall if it was Gomez Addams or Groucho .Marx]
I’ve been a lawyer and I’ve taught ESL. I’m pretty confident my meaning was clear and incapable of being misunderstood by someone moderately...
There the rules, then there are The Rules. You can break the rules any time as long as you are prepared to pay the penalty. For example offensive...
The problem with that is in the NFL the team can break the contract at any time for any reason (eg injury, off field issues, new player who does...
D DM is the original. LoDM is the sequel. Legend is reasly good, but the original is better. The original was the first comedy Jackie Chan did....
You need to see the original “Drunken Master“
There’s your answer.
Can’t speak about anyone else, but I first started watching the NFL in 1984 which made me a Dolphins fan.
So we shouldn’t say Dion Jordan had alcohol issues purely on the basis that alcohol is legal? Doesn’t matter what happens afterwards. If it was...
I love Ricky. However, I always gets angry when his name gets brought up, because I firmly believe that Wannstadt wrecked him and was the real...
Nothing new in the article. Now they have built the base in 2018/20 it’s the building to win consistently, not sell out today for tomorrow or...
I’ve only looked at Waddle and Philips, and both of them fairly quickly. Both of them seem to have fairly complete games, in that there isn’t...
I know it’s the time of year we watch highlight reels of our new draftees. After being disappointed by some of our busts I have developed my own...
We filled the needs we had going i to the draft - Prioritize receiving weapons - Acquire edge rusher - solidify secondary - keep improving the...
Slot receivers and Nickel CBs are starters in the modern NFL. It makes sense to give them draft value on the basis that they are starters.
You have to look at the injury. A simple fracture, which is what I understand the injury was, is something you will make a 99.9% recovery from....
I do lime that the FO and Coaching staff have a “type” they lime and work to. I personally prefer a faster, more agile OL, but having a plan and...
The old saying about a bird in the hand applies. 6 weeks ago they could have traded Deshaun for the #3 overall and Tua plus maybe some change. Now...
I wish I could claim it as my own. I don’t know if it’s widespread or just a local idiom.
Unless something bizarre happens, best WR available. For example If it goes QB, WR (Jets be Jets), QB, WR, WR then Sewell has to be hard to...
In Australia the cops refer to sports stars as quokkas. Quokkas are an endangered species that live on a small island free from natural predators...
Having read the allegations as cleaned up by the lawyer something strikes me as being off. 1) I didn’t know instagram masseuse was a thing, but it...
We saw him as an OLB at times in Miami. He was an even worse OLB than he was a DE in the NFL. He made some good plays like matching Gronk step for...
For me. 1) Continual improvement on the OL. We were better last year than we have been for 5 or 6 years, but we weren’t good, a little below...
I don’t really read too much into highlight reels, except for what doesn't show up. What was a little disconcerting for me was that about 1:15 of...
1) I think Lawrence and Fields will go 1-2, which leaves Wilson as the next best option. If we are going to draft a QB high then you need to get...
The statistical measure I like best is passer rating because it has a strong history of being correlated to winning and because it uses a small...
continuity was the reason Adam Gase was still the HC fir the Jets this year. How did that work out for the Jets and Sam Darnold?
I wouldn’t compare X to Gilmore’s 2019. Gilmore getting DPOY was weak sauce, based on I don't know what. Gilmore never stood out for me like other...
Tua has 4 games with an above NFL average passer rating and 4 games with a below average passer rating. Considering where this team was at the...
Also thank you to the Jets. I know I would have preferred you to go 0-16, but guaranteeing yourselves the #2 pick of the draft and taking yourself...
My position on pressure stats is that they don’t differentiate between a 2 DTs coming through unblocked between the A gaps before the QB can set...
The thing is we’d tried 3 OCs plus an interim OC, 2HCs and an interim HC and 2 GMs and the team was mediocre and the only constant in the key...
See the careers of his former Offensive Co-ordinators since they left Miami. - Mike Sherman - Bill Lazor - Zac Thomas (QBs coach under Sherman and...
My inexpert opinion is that in his first 2 years Allen was able to make bad decisions, but not get punished for many of them because of his arm...
It wasn’t the lack of a RB that hurt Marino’s chances of a SB win. It was the completely ineffective defence. That lack of D comes down more to...
With the loss tonight the Pats will have their first season with less than 10 wins since 2002. As a Dolphins fan that makes me feel good.
I’ve been waiting for him to fall back to Earth, but this year he’s kept making plays. I haven’t watched too many Bills games so I don’t know if...
I think the opposite. We can expect the D to play well. It’s the O who has to play like a bunch of crazed dogs. We aren’t going to beat the...
Yeah, but what if Superman turns nto Clarke Kent? The risk is too much to draft him that high.
Thanks arodgers, Always good to see you here. Your comments about the Bay bring to mind Dan Marino’s career. Hope you guys can give Aaron a decent...
Xavien should be our first All-pro I think since JT.
My money is on the Coach, not the surrounding cast. Significant offensive coaches Tannehill had in Miami and their league rank sinse leaving Miami...
Tua was having a lot of trouble identifying pressure and making the right OL adjustments. It’s part of being a rookie. He couldn’t get the job...
One of my all time favorite fins. RIP.
From 5-3 the expectation is 10-6. From 6-3 the expectation is between 11-5 and 10-6. So 10-6 is doing slightly worse than expected from here. At...
Completely disagree. My perfect season includes the 2-14 Pats and the 0-16 Jets. And yes this is better than both teams going 0-14-2.
I’ll be rooting for Tannehill to do well, just not well enough to win. Apart from that I’m also rooting for Gase to go 0-16.
I rewatched the game. The future of NFL QBs seems to be evolving more into the light fast agile QB like Kyler Murray or Lamar Jackson, not the old...
Notice where Christian Wilkins’ name appears on that chart. It looks like we have a pair of solid run stuffers in the middle of the line, with...
On some Jets forums I read to lick their salty tears of desperation there is an idea they are keeping Gase on to ensure the #1 pick
It’s been more fun to read about the Jets this year.
Consider the tear down and rebuild we started 2 years ago and how RBs seem to be pretty interchangeable in the modern NFL. It makes sense for the...
That’s a really good read. I was impressed by the fact he had opportunities to throw Gase and Philbin under a bus but didn’t and Kept it classy.
It wasn’t consistently bad play though, a lot of it was the inconsistency. On one play Billy Turner (for example) would block like a pro-bowler...
I think it’s a coaching decision. I think it’s more abut the OL gelling to the point where Flores feels it is safe to put Tuan on field. However,...
Just look at the numbers. The Jets were in max protect (7 blockers) and the phins sent 5 rushers. Yet the phins still had 2 basically unblocked...
He got plenty of practice doing that here.
Cbrad, I know you were very critical of Ryan Tannehill’s performance in Miami when behind in the 4th quarter. Out of interest how does his...