The Miami Dolphins Are Facing a Disaster Despite Offseason Hype | Lines.com
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Couldn't have said it better myself. And whether or not it's justified, whether or not it's smart, I believe the fact is, a loss to the Jags means Flores won't be back next year.
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Spot on analysis. Our only hope is Flo rights the ship. So many players are underperforming their contracts and draft spot. But there is still 12 games and I’m hoping Tua can provide the spark. Do I think he’s the long term answer? No. But he’s leaps and bounds better than Brisset and maybe, just maybe, people didn’t fight as hard knowing they had no chance to win a game with him. -
We are already in the disaster , not facing one. If columns like this are being written, it’s already over.
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But lose this week, and it not only puts the team into a 1-5 hole that's impossible to crawl out of with respect to the playoffs, but it would mean that you've lost to one of the worst teams in the league and that the Dolphins themselves may be the very worst team themselves.
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But that's pretty rare. Flores has to right the ship this year and produce a winning record. He's had enough time. -
Unfortunately, I’m not sure if Ross is smart enough to fire Grier.hitman8 likes this. -
A few things to keep in mind:
- Both Jones and Howard and playing hurt. The D is just 'eh' without them healthy
- We've played 4 very good opponents and 1 bad one. However, we lost to the bad one
- The offensive line is a massive liability and can't be fully fixed this season
- Tua is essentially a "year 2" rookie and his weapons are useless if plays can't develop
- The ground game looks decent, but it's also useless playing from behind
There's three fixes that could turn this team around:
- Figure out the line and protect Tua. Then we can evaluate our offense & use our weapons effectively
- Sit Jones and/or Howard to let them heal up. Start Iggy and Needham until our stud CB's are healthy
- Finish drives. We left so many points off the board against Buffalo, Vegas and Indy. Tampa pulled away, but there were paths to victory in the other 3 losses. We just couldn't complete drives
At this point, I'm no longer thinking playoffs because it just doesn't matter. But could we still win 9 or 10 games? Absolutely. it's just back to fundamentals- fix the line, get your corners healthy, protect your QB so he can make plays. Then capitalize on those drives and we're back in the hunt. I honestly don't know if all that's possible but I do agree that some jobs will be on the line if it doesn't.
My new over/under for the season is 8.5 wins. If we go 7-10 or 8-9, we're in that grey area where it could go either way. Anything less and multiple people should be fired. But at 8-8-1 or better, I'm happy to say it's inexperience and we need to give it another year. So that's my gauge for the year.Last edited: Oct 15, 2021 -
We’re in this after countless of swing and missed on the draft and free agency.. we always draft the small guy, the tweener, and the “need”. While letting big talent just pass by us.. Grier has got to go…
if we lose this sunday, the team is going to start quitting on Flores. There is already some signs of it startingUnlucky 13 and Rick 1966 like this. -
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We got to get a win this weekend for starters. I don't care if it takes Jason Sanders kicking fix field goals to do it, we need a W bad! I feel really good about beating both Jacksonville and Atlanta these next two weeks. We'll have an opportunity to climb back into the race, but we're going to have to notch a big win against a good team to do it.
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It’s not the players it’s 100% coaching. Flores had not been able to put together a staff of quality coaches period end of sentence. We have had multiple offensive in defensive coordinators who are well beyond their prime and out of touch or with zero real world coordinator experience. We draft talented players move them out of their detonates positions and give them bad coaching and expect to take the next step!
This lies at the feet of Flores For in the field issues. I would bet my left show that if we left go the last 2 draft classes within a year or two max they would be key players on some other franchises. -
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Huh? You mean any team that cut or traded all their talented veterans and drafted poorly would be having a disaster? Yes I think we can all agree to that. -
How would you expect him to give even adequate performance when he's running for his life constantly and has no running game? That's not to say that he's not partially to blame. He was certainly drafted too high and has not lied up to his draft status. But that's also Grier's fault for picking him instead of Herbert. -
Tj Watt, Dalvin cook, ramcyzk, budda over Harris
Kyle Pitts or Jamarr Chase instead of trading down
Herbert over Tua
Wirfs, Jeudy, Ruggs, Becton, Ceedee over Tua
Micah Parsons or Surtain over Waddle
Justin Jefferson over Austin Jackson
Helaire over Noah Igbi
we always end up with the little guy tho..
he got it right once with Minkah and Minkah saw this mess and wanted no part of itRick 1966 likes this. -
On the other hand — and this is what you're alluding to — given the variation among OLs in the NFL (i.e. how often they produce a clean pocket), the OL accounts for a relatively small amount of variance in QB passer rating, on average at least.
That distinction is important. Yes the OL matters in principle (i.e., the effect on a given play), but no, teams generally can't build OLs that are so much better than NFL average for it to make much of a difference in QB performance over time.The Guy likes this. -
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And teams can win a lot of games with an above average QB who gets that help. There are NFL teams in the Divisional Round of the playoffs like that every single season. (The Final Eight) Somewhere the Dolphins haven't been in twenty years now. -
As of right now his 89.5 passer rating corresponds to a z-score of -0.4788, which is 32nd percentile. He's currently bottom 1/3 in a league where the average passer rating is a whopping 95.78. So we'll see how he ends up this year and beyond. If he doesn't play that well going forward then he's certainly not "above average" career-wise. -
I think we have one disaster that is causing so many other problems.
I think the disaster is the offensive line. This is holding up the entire offense causing us to rely heavily on the defense. When the defense is out on the field a lot, they get worn out and are more susceptible to injury.
What was the plan for the offense in the preseason? Get Tua to push the ball down the field. Did we bring in the personnel to do this? Yeah, this was the whole point of drafting Waddle and bringing in Fuller. Even with Fuller out, we absolutely have the guys to stretch the field. But if your line can't protect the QB, these plays simply cannot develop. So, when we see Waddle as essentially a 4 yard slant guy, it really is more of a product of the line.
Tua is already hurt. Wanna guess the problem? The line again.
I loved the game where they essentially used RB screens with Gaskin to offset the weakness of our line because in my heart of hearts, I knew that we simply could not run the ball. Which again, this comes back to the line forcing the coaches hands.
I really want to know are the players the problem or is coaching failing to develop these guys? I really think that the offensive line is making the whole team look terrible. I think if we had the 16th ranked offensive line, our record would be vastly different.mlb1399 likes this. -
I think Grier is again the problem here. He should have never gotten rid of the veterans on the OL this off-season. This line has so little NFL experience it’s no surprise they are struggling.
On another topic, this kid Robinson at Texas looks like a future star in the NFL, if we can get a GM who values the RB position even a little bit.hitman8 likes this. -
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Too many poor evaluations on the personnel side and Flores and co completely ****ed up with Fitz, Tua and Gailey situations…
Now if this staff was forced to play Tua last year when he wasn’t ready to play and Fitz didn’t deserve to be benched then we’ve got massive issues.
If Flores handled the situations on his own accord then that’s about the dumbest and most disrespectful ways to handle all three situations ive ever seen at this levelmlb1399 likes this. -
It seems more likely, to me, that either Grier or Ross or both, required Flores to put Tua in. Especially because the move took Gailey by surprise. I can't see Flores doing that.
That said, whoever made the HC break his word to his players needs to go. If that's Ross we're in trouble. If it's Grier, he needs to be gone.
On the plus side, Grier has managed to find some quality talent, but he seems to always want to get the sneaky good pick, to get cute in some shenanigans with moves and selections. He seems averse to just making solid picks and wants to always do something magical.KeyFin likes this. -
Ian Wharton is an idiot. More of a cheerleader for the team than anything else.