I've only been around a few years...and if it's not RT's deep ball, it's Fireland...gotta be the deep ball, because with the exception of LBs crusade, there's not much mention of Pasty anymore.

 

Chris Chambers dropsies. Ted Ginn's family.

 

Glad I missed that period. HATED the Ginn pick the second it happened.

 

Oh lord.... Pornstache, Jay Fiedler, Ray Lucas, Ricky's "retirement", Kippy Brown's "balanced offense by math", before that... Olivadotti .... before that.... no internet so who knows.

 

The constant whining about Ted Ginn makes the Deep ball talk seem boring....the fanbase never liked him from the jump because they all wanted Brady Quinn. And ofcourse Ginn never living up to a top 10 pick triggered the emotions.

 

Chad Henne, Chad Pennington, John Beck...

 

Jeez...y'all were Finheaven back before this site launched right? What year did that kick off?

 

The MOST talked about has to be anything regarding Jeff Ireland, IMO.

From being Parcells' puppet to the players drafted to the flipping off of fans, his divisive demeanor cements his butt firmly into The Phins Fan Site "Hall of Blame".

 

Ricky Williams was both revered and hated in Miami. That's hard to do. Through trading 2 1st round picks, to his 1800 yd rush season, pot smoking suspensions, retiring abruptly, coming back, teaming with Ronnie in the Wildcat. What a crazy career.

 

What do you mean, you only became a fan a few years ago? Not that there's anything wrong with that just trying to clarify.

 

Ricky.

 

I think some are not sure everyone understands if this is for as long as one has been a fan...or only since joining thePhins.com:up:

 

logos?

 

The Offensive line has been the main trending theme since the '90's...Quarter century

 

Jokes aside...

THE ANNUAL IS JASON ALLEN A SAFETY OR A CORNER THREAD lol

 

juan heron.

 

Dante Culpepper vs Trent Green

 

"This is the year the Pats are most vulnerable."

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On this site is has to be Fireland, you couldn't escape it. It's still fresh around here, 2 years removed. Close 2nd would have to be the complaints against Mr. Ross. Everyone seemed to have an opinion on him, but he seems to be fading into the background which is a good thing.

 

Like clockwork.


Drew Brees has got to rank somewhere. It's not often that a future HOF player has the ability to be a Miami Dolphin twice and was passed over. Although there's no way he's the most talked about, because whenever he is talked about, the conversation branches off to Wannstedt's ineptitude or Saban's quit and his handling of the fiasco and what it did to the franchise.

 

How much the offseason sucks.

 

For a single off season: Dan Marino (after achilles injury) -v- Scott Mitchell.

It also had the quickest finish after the regular season opener when Dan blew the Pats up for something like 450 yards and 5 TDs

 

For me, the most long standing issue by far was our lack of a 1000 yd running back. KAJ finally broke the barrier in 1996, which hadn't been done by a Dolphins RB since Delvin Williams did back in 1978.

 

Along the same lines.......Whenever we beat the Pats,people proclaim "Changing of the Guard!" " Brady finally on the decline!"

 

The uniforms.

 

Beat me to it haha

 

Obviously the answer was, neither. But the Troy Polamalu comparisons were comical the first few years.

 

473 yards and 5 TD's. Would have been 6 TD's if Keith Byars didn't kick Danny's pass up in the air at the goal line for the Pats only INT that game.

I was at that game with my dad. Best game I've ever seen in my life.

[video=youtube;8Ki0j3GL2cY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ki0j3GL2cY[/video]

 

The annual Jeff Ireland debates dwarf this deep ball thing. The Joe Philbin debates of the last couple of years probably outsize the deep ball thing. Hell you can argue that Russell Wilson is argued about more on this board than the deep ball thing.

Chad Henne was a big one people kept coming back to over and over.

John Beck was a huge one as well, because the beat writers all had it out for him the moment he stepped into training camp and looked "small" in the huddle. But the fans mostly loved him, so there ended up being a constant feud between writers and fans.

 

Danny and Jimmy and Jimmy and Danny and Danny and Jimmy

 

Jay Fiedler was pretty hotly contested.

 

Matt Flynn over RT had some steam for a while, where did all those guys go? I can think of one who doesn't post much anymore lol.

 

I don't recall those two being considered competing substitutes.

I do recall a lot of discussion about signing Matt Flynn as a free agent. But that would not have necessarily precluded taking a QB in the draft. Personally I saw three options. You could go for a Brandon Weeden, go for a Ryan Tannehill, or go for Matt Flynn and then swing around and pick up a riskier asset that had tremendous upside in Russell Wilson. My preference was the latter. I was for signing Flynn when free agency started and once that happened I would have targeted Wilson in the 2nd round.

 

Yeah, I remember the discussions between signing Matt Flynn to a big contract or draft a QB, not necessarily Tannehill I guess. I was never on board with Flynn because he was so unproven but many were convinced he was the answer. I remember I was pretty high on Weeden as well probly because all the posts I read that you made breaking him down lol. But most who wanted Flynn were not fans of Tannehill if I recall correctly.

 

^ I think this. I'd add to that list Matt Ryan. Even though he was never a Miami Dolphin there was certainly plenty of discussion on whether or not he should be pre draft, and then plenty of discussion about it post draft. It still comes up from time to time.

QB is always going to be the dominating discussion on any team, especially those who don't have a franchise guy. The other aspect to it is no matter how ineffectual the QB there will always be those who think he could be the guy. I think John Beck proves that best of all.

Edited to add: Jeff Ireland discussion? I don't remember much of that. :shifty:

 

I really, really wanted to see Beck get a chance, so much so I didn't like the Henne pick from the get go.