I thought this season we would make noise and get to the playoffs. Next season 4th under Sparano we would get to atleast the AFC Championship and perhaps beyond. I guess I was wrong. Yes, 10 games to play, but I am not feeling it. Do these coaches know how to coach? We are making noise, because the ****in refs are ****in it all up.
I wasn't really thinking about 2011...just this year. And I knew this team could be 11-5 or 6-10. So, I didn't really have any expectations.
I predicted 9-7 this year (not likely for the playoffs, maybe depending how things fell), and really don't see a reason that we can't hit that.
I was hoping to be a playoff team this year and maybe winning a playoff game, but the way this team is playing, we're a 3rd place team in our division. Very disappointing, IMO
I had us at 10 and 6, happy if we just compete for a playoff, if we dont, no worries, I just want to see improvement overall, have our young defense and QB mature, then dive into an important offseason of drafting and free agency. I have a question..Why has our GM not extended his coach..Isn't Tony lame duck at this point?...hmm, interesting no?, or am I just overreacting?
I agree I think we should let the Dolphins players know that this season is over. They need to stop wasting their time! I mean why even show up on Sundays?
To me, the next 3 games are the barometer of how we have progressed, or not. Bengals, Ravens, Titans, I thought we are a 10-6/9-7 team TBH, also thought things we be more predictable this season and they just are not. Why can't even hardcore fans have a solid feel that we will beat the Bengals this weekend? They are 2-4 and on a losing streak, and yet no one can say either way whether or not we will win this game. For me that is borderline unacceptable.
We all knew we still had holes going into this season. We all knew we had a hell schedule as well. So my "hopes" not expectation, but hope was to make the playoffs. We got through a very rough stretch of our schedule at 3-3. About where I expected us to come out of it. Losing the division home games leave us in a worse position than I figured but still I think were right on track for where I thought we'd be. We still have issues. Young players growing, holes at some important positions and many questioning the mental state of our OC being the ones I see but I still think we'll end up with a good record and a shot at a wildcard spot.
Because Coaches are typically extended prior to the final years of the their contracts to avoid lame duck situations. As for "expectations", here is what bothers me: The G-C-G problem is still there, in fact it has been the same for the past 3 seasons, in 08 they made do with Alleman-Satele-Ndukwe and waited for Thomas to get healthy along with Smiley returning to health along with signing Jake Grove. The 09 G-C-G combination Thomas-Grove-Smiley was effective in 09, but Grove and Smiley's injury problems cropped up, predictably so, so all three were jettisoned. In 2010 G-C-G Jerry-Berger-Incognito opened the season, and *gosh* they just are not opening the holes, so Jerry is defacto benched for McQuistan, who was acquired 4 days before the season began, Grove is too lite, and Incognito cannot pull consistently effectively or block for the Wildcat effectively. So basically, 3 yrs, 3 line up changes, mixed results after every change, and Sparano relies on running the ball to generate offense. Why is Sparano doing this? And do not make me catalog the idiocy surrounding the Te unit, to me, where ever Sparano is involved, or has direct knowledge of a unit, the tinkering, and poor decision making, never ends.
If this team finishes 9-7 that would be a major disappointment, but sadly a real possibility. I still see bad coverage in the secondary and the D can't seem to get off the field in 3rd and long situations consistently. The offense isn't running the ball real well this year and we are lacking overall team speed. Top it off I am getting very frustated with the play calling this year. I am not sure if it is Henning calling a conservative game when we get inside the 30 or if Henne is too willing to give up on the play and checks down. One thing I am sure about, I am tired of kicking field goals without mounting a serious attack on the endzone.
don't like to speculate too much on next year however, if we can't break 500 this season I don't believe most of the coaching cadre will survive, including Sparano and we'll be looking for another young prospect @ QB, a Center, RB & a TE having said that I do believe that Ireland & Nolan will stick regardless the outcome of the season all this is no more than opinion, nothing written in stone plenty of time & opportunity to turn things around no more excuses contend or step aside, allowing someone to emerge that can get it done GoFish! Sundays game against the Bengals should be in the bag. All we need to do is not let the cat out of the bag
Maybe Ross & Ireland are waiting to see how this year plays out, and how Sparano reacts to see if they want to extend him. Now do coaches get paid, and have a wasted year of their contracts if we have a work stoppage because the owners lock out the players ? I would think that if I were a coach, and wanted to work, and expected to work and was prevented from doing so, and was not paid, I would take legal action, if I could to make sure I do get paid. It wouldn't be my decision to not work, it was being forced on me.
