https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports...ins-vision-20181026-story.html#nt=oft03a-1la1
This article says is all right here.
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I actually read the article, so I can honestly say David Hyde is like many members here in thephins and has no flipping clue what he's talking about.
Quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, that's all I flipping hear is quarterback. Tell me genius Hyde, and any others who want to side in his camp...does the quarterback play defense? Does the quarterback let the opposing offense rush for 600 yards over a 3 game stretch? Does the quarterback cause an opposing offense to go 3 and out? Tell me geniuses, what good does it do to have a quarterback that can light up a scoreboard when you have a defense that's as strong as a wet paper bag with a hole in it? Anyone here actually old enough to remember the Marino/O'Brien shootout?
Dan Marino leads the Dolphins and lights up the scoreboard with 45 points...FORTY FIVE!!!!! And the Dolphins LOSE because O'Brien led the Jets and put up 51 points! Who scores 45 points in a game and LOSES? The Dolphins do because their defense then...and now is weak! We have the talent, God only knows we have the talent on defense to dominate opposing offenses, but the defensive scheme, the "Wide 9" of Matt Burke has failed and failed miserably. This past Thursday, the Texans scored 3 specific touchdowns due to poor defense; 2 wide opened long passes and the opening series of the 3rd quarter in which Houston ran the ball right down our throats, including the 58 yard rush by former Dolphin Lamar Miller. Take those 3 TD's away by well executed defense, and the score is no longer 42-23 Houston, but 23-21 Miami.
I'm not saying that it's not time to start looking for Tannehill's successor. I'm not saying that at all. We do need to be looking at that future and with Ryan's injuries as of late, its something to seriously consider however, unless we can even STOP an opposing team's offense, I don't care who we have at the offensive helm...Tom Brady or the reincarnation of Dan Marino, we're going to continue losing royally.
It's time for the Burke experiment to come to an end and if Gase doesn't pull the trigger (if the authority ultimately lies with him), then it's time to Ross to step in and make that executive decision and put Gase on notice. This team needs a guru as it's DC. We have an incredible amount of talent on defense, way too much to get blown out by weak opposing offenses.
The days of losing in Miami need to come to a close right quick and in a hurrydanmarino, Tin Indian, Dol-Fan Dupree and 4 others like this. -
I said this team was built before the season like the peyton manning colts.Small quick D that plays with a lead.Of course the problem is we have no peyton manning to give us a leads.Teams fiqured to run run run and wear us out and that's exactly what is happening.
This team should have been built to play physical like the ravens who have a limited Qb.No vision or wrong vision?DolfanR likes this. -
I don't know if it's lack of vision as much as it is continual poor drafting. Our 2013 draft class is a complete bust. Harris is non-existent. Parker can't stay healthy. Tunsil and James are solid but our OL still sucks. On top of that, we still don't have a franchise QB.
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A good offense is the best defense, signed Aaron Rogers and Pat Mahomes.
I just dont get the point of pretending that we have the QB that we need in either THill or Brock. We dont.
Yes. There are other problems, but having those nobodies helming the team isn't doing us any favors. Getting off to quick and big leads, responding quickly to opponent scores, having top end 2 minute, etc. These are things good QBs do that take pressure off our D and put it on the other team.pumpdogs likes this. -
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It's kind of hard to attack when the offense has largely failed in the scoring department and building leads - not to mention hasn't notched an opening drive touchdown in 18/19 games. I'm not trying to make excuses because they have really crapped the bed of as of late, but it's the reality of the situation.Last edited: Oct 29, 2018texanphinatic and pumpdogs like this. -
If I told you our offseason free agent moves, but I didn't tell you who the team was, where would you think the franchise is?
Quinn
Gore
Sitton
Ammendola
To me, that is a team in win now moment. Unfortunately, we are probably closer to rebuild mode. The article is correct; the team has no idea what the state of the franchise is.
I think Ross needs to start thinking that a total rebuild may be needed. He really needs to step in and tell Tannenbaum to trade any aging vet with a big deal for whatever he can get. If he can't see them on the roster in 5 years, and they have value, ship em out. -
This article lacks vision and is just a $$$$$ fest. Lazy and sad. Miami obviously had a vision coming into this season. It just did not work past the injuries that the team had. Plus their dime less vision on defense is just bad
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Wow there are still people who believe tannehill is a franchise quarterback....
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That’s the new Dolphins philosophy, “The Miami Dolphins; re-building every three years” -
To be frank, there is no such thing as a full rebuild these days. A 'rebuild' is basically new coach, maybe FO/GM and QB. The rest are interchangeable. If the new QB/coach hit, they get extended and the team constantly works around them. If not, 3-4 years later you look again.
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Here is the thing. There is no question that we should be selling right now. Gase just said that we will not be trading Parker who undoubtedly, in Gase's mind, is not in our future. He is on his naughty list and his days are numbered. There are a lot of aging vets with bloated contracts that we should be trying to get off our books.
However Gase and Tannenbaum can feel their seats warming up, so instead of doing what is in the best interests of the franchise, they are doing what's in the best interests of themselves. They are keeping these guys that realistically have no future with the team with the hopes of finishing 7-9 with a shipload of excuses. This should buy these clowns one more season.
The problem is that we are gonna likely be drafting a QB. In all likelihood, a rookie will not be leading us to the playoffs, and we still have so many holes to fill.
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It's the culture. There's no way that so many players being picked by so many different people can all be such losers. I'm not sure how the culture can be changed if new coaches aren't able to do it. Maybe @Disgustipate is right in that it starts with the owner. Maybe if players/coaches/FO personnel respected Ross more then the culture would/could change?
I just don't know. It just seems to me that each season the Dolphins have 5-8 core players that play their heart out and the rest just go through the motions.Pauly likes this. -
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Ross: you know, I've been reviewing the tapes and even though we waited a year for Tannehill to heal I feel Lamar Jackson is too good a talent to pass up
Tannenbaum: go away ross. Here, here's a chocolate. Now go outside and play. Maybe call your friend harbaugh and see if he can join you in play. The adults have work to do -
Nobody expects him to watch tape, but you can be sure he is exposed to a lot of media. A lot of that media said Jackson may be a game changing QB and available. Why wouldn't Ross lead a push for that?
It's no different than the majority of us who watch and read about guys. But in this case, he actually can pull the trigger. He got talked out of it and is about to receive another mediocre season for it. -
You do realise Ross is a successful businessman. How many successful businessmen try to tell their experts what they should do in areas they have no expertise in. Do you see the CEO of Ford rewriting the computer code for the organization? -
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You're making strawman arguments here anyway with this undefeated garbage. Instead of a lost season with not much optimism for next year, we could be developing a new QB. And while most rookies struggle their first year, some have immediate impacts (Watson). And we are seeing coaches take second and third year QBs to some impressive heights right now.
And then, since Ross is such a successful businessman, I am sure he is paying attention to the business side of the game as well as the pure football side. You know what sells season tickets? TV spots? Local politicians? Shiny, fancy new QBs and hope for the future. You know who doesn't? Ryan Tannehill and Brock Assweiler. -
The failure I see in the drafting, especially at the top rounds, has been a focus on high level physical talent with undercooked football skills (Dion Jordan, Devante Parker, Charles Harris just to name a few). In the last 2 or 3 years we seem to have gone for more rounded football players, and hopefully that continues.
In baseball terms we’ve been trying for home runs and getting a lot of strike outs and flyballs but now we’re switching to hitting more ground balls.
Compounding the problems caused by “swinging for the bleachers” is that we’ve deliberately neglected 2 areas because the powers that be, for a long time predating Gase, considered interior OL and LB to be unimportant positions. -
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Prior to the draft, the Dolphins informed Tannehill that they may draft a QB, so to say that the organization was waiting for Tannehill to heal is disingenuous to say the least. A QB was seriously being considered.
The fact that Ross could have pulled rank over "the football guys" at this position is far more feasible than any other position. How many franchise type QBs come out each year? 5 tops? All he needed to do was ask the scouting guys, "What grade do you have on Jackson?" Then he could ask, where does he sit amongst draft eligible QBs next year?
Suppose the scouts said, we rate him as a B prospect or a 4 star or a 83/100 (however they rank their players) and that we think he would be the 3rd best prospect if he was in next year's draft is enough anyone really needs to make that decision.
Hypothetically, let's just say Herbert and Lock would be rated above Jackson by the scouts. Even if we were bad this year, there is no guarantee that we could draft either of those two QBs. Our options were Jackson or roll the dice on the future. If the grade was good on Jackson, Ross had every right to make the move. Afterwards, he could have bought his own chocolate with the same money he used to buy the Dolphins. -
This is the original article by Ben Volin, written May 5th, that somehow morphed into Ross wanting Lamar Jackson
"A well-placed league source tells us that the Dolphins had the pick of Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick all ready to go at No. 11 when owner Stephen Ross stepped in and implored his team to trade back, both to acquire more picks and to save money on the first-rounder. Ross’s football people talked him out of it, and the Dolphins went ahead with the Fitzpatrick pick . . ."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...draft-picks/gGmTzilRT6Z7dhc4zzWDzK/story.html
Notice nothing about Ross wanting Lamar Jackson or any specific player
Then on May 8th, Hal Habib of the Palm Beach Post introduces the article to Miami fans
"Two sentences about the Dolphins, buried deep in an NFL notes column in The Boston Globe, have caused all kinds of ripples around the league and South Florida, but nowhere should those ripples be actual waves more than in Davie.
“A well-placed league source tells us that the Dolphins had the pick of Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick all ready to go at No. 11 when owner Stephen Ross stepped in and implored his team to trade back, both to acquire more picks and to save money on the first-rounder,” The Globe reported over the weekend. “Ross’ football people talked him out of it, and the Dolphins went ahead with the Fitzpatrick pick.”
The report came courtesy of Ben Volin. It carries weight because Volin is a respected pro football writer and formerly covered the Dolphins for The Post, so to him, this isn’t a faceless organization among the 31 rivals of the New England Patriots. Ben knows people here."
Fair enough, but later in the article he adds
"While we don’t know how steadfast Ross may have been against Fitzpatrick, it’s clear that Grier or Tannenbaum or more likely both signed off on the choice.
And that’s the crux of this.
Ross remains convinced he scored a coup when he hired Gase. In Ross’ eyes, Gase paid dividends with a playoff berth in 2016, was dealt a lousy hand in 2017 and probably in 2018. (At least that’s according to oddsmakers, who are fooled by teams every year but get it right far more often than they get it wrong.)
Word around the league is Fitzpatrick is one of the safest first-rounders and was the right move for the Dolphins in that situation. If Ross was hoping for a sexier pick, a spark plug for the offense who could help fill seats — and, let’s be honest, a quarterback for the future — it’s understandable."
http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...h-fitzpatrick-was-right-pick-now-on-hot-seat/
What?!!! All of a sudden he slips in Ross wanting a QB even though there is zero mention in the Volin article about wanting a QB let alone Lamar Jackson.
An that's how these rumors start. The media always pushes the get a new QB story because that gets the most responses and they arent in the business of telling the truth but rather selling their advertising
Additionally Ross kind of verified that he asked Tannenbaum about trading back. I couldnt find the article but he basically said that it had nothing to do with saving money and it was a suggestion to be creative with the draft. No mention of Quarterbacks just basically saying that if you dont think Minkah is a game changer then consider moving down and getting extra picksLast edited: Nov 2, 2018danmarino likes this. -
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Look, the experts are experts sure. But the amount of busts indicate that to a large degree, **** is a crapshoot. You want to argue Jordan, fine - there are plenty of other names to choose from across the NFL and Miami specifically.
Do I trust Ross to put together a complete team? No. Do I think Ross preferring Jackson (hypothetically as you note) and having to be talked out of it is somehow absurd? Not at all. Do I think Ross having some input on finances in the draft is absurd? Not at all.