I've been really aggravated by the lazy reporting on this team since the beginning of the year. Even as late as Friday I read how the Dolphins are a "Bad Football Team" which is just plain not true. Get it right, I don't proclaim us to be worldbeaters or that we will even win the division but I do think this team is far better than what has been put forth. Just came across this little blurb from Adam Schein on the NFL Network.
8) Miami Dolphins
NOT who I thought they were: Tannehill and Co. proving mettle at 2-0.
Coming into this season, I thought Miami could be the worst team in the NFL. Not so much. The Dolphins are alone atop the AFC East at 2-0 and they deserve great credit. I've been dead wrong thus far.
Ryan Tannehill has been really strong, much more than "just a guy," something I've labeled him in the past. The run game is consistent and the receivers have stepped up. The defense has been stout. Adam Gase's team won a road division game one week after surviving the longest game since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. That shows you something.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-mahomes-ryan-fitzpatrick-continue-to-impress
Now I really don't care if they want to hop on the proverbial bandwagon or whatever, I just want the blatant disrespect to stop. This is NOT a bad football team, just one that has a little ways to go.
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It's too soon to declare them anything. Once we are done in Foxborro we will have better idea.
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Love the mentality and enthusiasm of the team..
They are angry..justified anger.smahtaz and Tin Indian like this. -
I am happy with our resiliency(RT included). We have been far from perfect and still have come out with a W. Our defense deserves a lot of credit. I would say, right now, they are playing better than our offense (ranked 6 in team defense). I thought our offense would be more explosive (ranked 13 in team offense),but that may come.
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Thank you for setting me straight. That may help me keep our offense in perspective and not feeling like we just aren’t there yet.Irishman likes this. -
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It just shows how the media can only give an opinion on a subject and are not always right .The media also said Trump had no chance but look how that turned out.
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As far as "who can replace Landry", the answer is five other receivers getting equal playing time and opportunities. That alone has been the biggest change in my mind, and I think it's going to pay huge dividends in the weeks to come. -
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Not watching at the moment but I have it recording. We have to win against Oakland this week or we will get the I told you so's.
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I found the pre-season prognosticators stupidly lazy. Every one of them had us either third or fourth in the division, most with 3-6 wins. Now, I still don't believe this is a playoff team, but there is no way in hell I ever thought we'd only win 3 games, not unless Tanneyhill goes down early in the season. (If he does, we're royally screwed.) This is about a 500 team in my opinion. They might squeeze out one more win or they might drop one off, but they will not lose more games than they did in a season without their starting QB.
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These early wins will be HUGE in December if they continue winning enough to make a play off run.
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I agree at this point this is NOT a playoff team, certainly not one that can win in the playoffs. If Tannehill and the offense step up and start putting some points on the board my opinion on that will change though. I think the Defense even with basically Two rookies at Linebacker is more than good enough as it is.
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I didn't really have high hopes at the beginning of the season, but people who were picking us to be one of the bottom 2-3 teams I never got. I mean, we were a fair bit better than the bottom most feeders last year already and improved at QB (pretty much anyone would be better than Smokin Jay).
Our only major loss was Suh, and I get docking us for that, but still, call that even with QB. The only other major "loss" was Jarvis. I guess the national media really liked him and his catch numbers without seeing anything else.
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I’m being very cautious and can’t seem to enjoy the early success because well history. let’s wait till week 8 we could be 2-6 and everyone will be saying we’re complete ****. I know it’s a negative attitude I just seen this movie before!!
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Then the question becomes where we would play on the road in the playoffs, which for this franchise makes all the difference. One road playoff win since 1973, and that was in the old Kingdome in Seattle. Play at Houston, Indy or LA, and we've got a fair shot. Go to sub freezing temps and a stadium full of passionate loud fans in the Northeast, then probably not. -
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To be honest, I think it helps to consciously try and divorce oneself a bit from sports. Just enjoy the good moments, and don't let the downs take hold. If you get called bandwagon, whatever.
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I've crossed that bridge with college football, and there's sadly no going back. I watch games now as if I'm watching a scripted drama or comedy. Can it be enjoyable in the moment? Sure, but when its over its over. I don't feel connected to it, or that I'm a part of it any more. And I don't think much about it during the week until Saturday.
I absolutely could never do that with the Dolphins. They are my 365 passion, for better and worse. And I both want and need those feelings. -
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A big part of being a sports fan is hope. Often, its all you have. One day, things will be good. Just have to deal with the heartbreak until it is.
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The last time I heard that guy talking he didn't even acknowledge that the Dolphins had to scramble to find a QB last season after their (veteran) starter went down.
Clearly this guy--who seems to make a living off of snarky, hot takes--doesn't really prepare himself that well. That makes this #8 ranking just as meaningless IMHO.
I really don't care what Adam Schein thinks. He's a puppet inside a machine that creates nonsense news. He'll change this as soon as Miami loses their first game at which point he'll go back to the narrative that Miami is garbage.
The question was never about one person, rather if the lack of media attention in general signaled something. Well, apparently it didn't. Miami is doing just fine without the media coverage. In my view, this just signals that the media would rather report on other teams with bigger markets or higher profiles regardless of who's good and who's not. So tonight they'll cover the Giants, Pats, Cowboys, and Jets like always.
The bigger media outlets like ESPN, NFLN and FS1 tend to push only the high-profile stuff.
Miami isn't high-profile and they're probably not going to be regardless of their record.KeyFin likes this.
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