I'm just gonna leave this right here. Somebody get it into the Dolphins locker room please.
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The DB's are definitely a concern....Good luck getting a pass off without at least some above average pressure from this defensive line though.
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What needs to happen is for the defensive backfield to establish itself early and force the offense to think twice, or even adjust their game plan accordingly, which plays right into the strength of this defense. If they have the talent to do that, then Miami should be fine. If not...then we will be relying on our offense to bail out the defense. -
Well, he isn't really wrong. Lucky for us we have an all-world defensive line who will make the DB's jobs a bit easier.
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If this defensive line is as good as advertised, no quick route spread offense will be able to move the ball on them. Think of it this way: If you spread Miami out, you're betting that the offensive line can 1) Double up Suh with no disruption. 2) Wake, Vernon, Mitchell won't beat a 1 on 1.
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I think he's wrong about Jones, but the rest is about right.
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Silva is one of many douchebags that cover the NFL. And he always rags on Miami.
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Evan is good people. I've known him for years. He can hold a grudge, though. But the biggest grudge I know him to have is not one anyone here would mind, and that's against Omar Kelly.
He's not totally wrong here. Take yourself out of your Miami Dolphin shoes for a minute and put yourself in the shoes of an offensive coach about to play Miami.
Yes, you see Ndamukong Suh and Cam Wake and you're like...****. I do NOT want to mess with those guys all game long.
But you're also staring at quite literally the oldest corner in the NFL (Grimes is 32 years old and is also a mere 5'9" and 180 lbs). You're seeing the guy opposite him is 5'9" and 185 lbs, thus far a career slot/nickel corner who has really struggled in the NFL more seasons than not. You're seeing Reshad Jones as a big play-maker but definitely more of a force, come up into the box player. Then you're seeing Walt Aikens, who makes a lot of mistakes on what tape there is of him, is a second year player out of LIBERTY, and spent his entire first year in the coaches' doghouse because of lack of professionalism.
You see all that and you're going to tell me that isn't the first thing you point to in the game planning process and say, we need to take advantage of this?
I sure as hell would. And one way to do it, which will tie in with a weakness that Rex Ryan split wide open on us a year ago, would be to get the ball out to the perimeter of the field on runs and screens and really force those tiny (and in Grimes' case, old) corners to play physical and stick themselves into blocks to get to the ball. Even if they succeed, those are body blows and you're going to wear them out during games. Later in the game you're throwing passes to big bodied players (Sammy Watkins, Charles Clay, Allen Robinson, Dorial Green-Beckham, Brandon Marshall, Eric Decker), and if you've worn those tiny f-ckers out then you could score some big plays off them.
This of course has the dual benefit of making guys like Ndamukong Suh and Cameron Wake chase the ball laterally all day long rather than teeing off on you.
This is so predictable that Miami should be prepping for this. Which makes the decision to start Brice McCain over Jamar Taylor all the more interesting because Jamar is bigger than Brice and what little he's been able to demonstrate well on the field has been in exactly this sort of capacity, coming up and being a good force player. Then again he can't stay healthy, much like Dimitri Patterson and Cortland Finnegan before him. Which is probably not completely coincidental.MutinyOnTheBelafonté and khat like this. -
Chris, what's his grudge with Omar?
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Basically, two proven guys, thee unproven guys, unknown depth outside of Zack Bowman.
Walt Aiken is essentially a Rookie Safety -
With respect to Jones though, there's not much that isn't true with that assessment either. He's great at coming into the box and run stuffing. That's his role. Sure they left out the fact he's not bad in coverage, but I don't think it's a huge deal.
I think some people just need to come to terms with the fact that while our DL is beyond elite, our secondary of the opposite. We're hoping the DLs rush will negate some of the shortcomings in the secondary,
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Hmm, seems like the Bengals have made it to the playoffs multiple times with a similar secondary.
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He's right though, our DB's have got to step it up. Guys like Taylor and Will Davis need to somehow find a way to emerge. I am not sold on McCain either.
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Good luck testing that secondary with a pocket passer. Id be screening, dinking and dunking this defense, testing shepard, Misi. Revis is hardly younger than Grimes FYI.... The narrative on that journeyman is surely much different. Jones is more of a ballhawk than a liability in coverage. I still like how our weaknesses on D compare to the other 31.
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Our secondary is a concern but nothung huge yet. As others have mentioned, our dline is great. Qbs won't be getting 6 solid seconds back there. And if they do quick spread ****, bring it. Thats essentially the easiest stuff for a secondary to cover.
And finally, let's see the guys play first. Aikens might be a great safety. Taylor and McCain might be good. -
Or it could just be the whole secondary breaking down and failing at the end.
We will see real shortly won't we.