November To Remember. Dolphins Playoffs Picture

Yes..you are right about Sturgis..I wonder if Dustin Hoskins is available? I can't remember if he is with anyone or not..For those not familiar he was Florida State's kicker and graduated the same year as Sturgis..he was money and I watched him kick several game winners from over 55 yards..I would like us to bring him in for a tryout..I am very afraid about Sturgis having to kick a game winner for us.

"dolfan22 wrote:

We disagree , being a pretender is more about the results you have produced not being real imo and we could end up not making the playoffs but still play well for the season overall and the last as half specifically.

We could win 10 games and not make the playoffs , that scenario wouldn't make them a pretender imo .

Same. 10-6 is the same record either way. 9-7 teams have won the Super Bowl after all. Missing the playoffs because the league or conference is lop sided isn't a team's fault. We're 4-2 against the AFC. If we copy that in the second half, I like our odds.

Damn Pats being the Pats again, winning, Damn it,

"Jimmy James wrote:

I think ESPN's tool was probably looking at it as us being ahead of both Pittsburgh and Baltimore for the moment with neither having played this week yet. I think it may actually be the case that a tie would keep us in 7th after the week shakes out, so who knows.

Both are 5-3 going into the game, and ahead of us already, so it can't be that.

Unless they were just taken out all together due to lack of playing yet this week, but that wouldn't make any sense.

"Samphin wrote:

Both are 5-3 going into the game, and ahead of us already, so it can't be that.

How's that? We win division tiebreaker with one and conference tiebreaker with the other.

"Jimmy James wrote:

How's that? We win division tiebreaker with one and conference tiebreaker with the other.

When multiple teams are tied, the tie breaking rules change.

I remember we lost out on the playoffs years ago at 10-6 due to a three way tie and one of the teams got in that we had beat.

Its a moot point anyways after their game tonight. One will be ahead of us, the other behind us.

Could be that my Bills v the Phis determines a WC for one of the two teams. As a fan of either team at this point in the season at least both teams are still in it.
Damn Pats look to be running away again, they always play so good the second half of the season. They manhandled the Broncos...not good.

"Samphin wrote:

Both are 5-3 going into the game, and ahead of us already, so it can't be that.

Unless they were just taken out all together due to lack of playing yet this week, but that wouldn't make any sense.

Neither of them are ahead of us already...one will be after tonight. We're "currently" 7th, Baltimore 8th, Pittsburgh 9th. Winner will move ahead of us, we'll drop to 8th, loser of this game will drop to 12th at best.

"We treated this game like a playoff game," Dolphins defensive tackle Jared Odrick said. "This is a game where, if we win this, the odds of seeing the playoffs are higher, and we knew that. This is one we got to have."

Quoted in the gameday thread but thought it was relevant, quote from JO.

Would like to see this specific mentality going into the bills game.

"PhinFan1968 wrote:

Neither of them are ahead of us already...one will be after tonight. We're "currently" 7th, Baltimore 8th, Pittsburgh 9th. Winner will move ahead of us, we'll drop to 8th, loser of this game will drop to 12th at best.

Here's the link:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/standings/_/type/playoffs/sort/conferenceRank/order/false

If we can get into December at 7-5, I'm happy. In that scenario a L, W, L, W would be preferred.

At this point, other than winning the games "we should win", the Bills game & Ravens game at home are really big games.

"rdhstlr23 wrote:

At this point, other than winning the games "we should win", the Bills game & Ravens game at home are really big games.

Almost must-win games, ya.

"dcafiero wrote:

Quoted in the gameday thread but thought it was relevant, quote from JO.

Would like to see this specific mentality going into the bills game.

I have a suspicion that this mentality will last for the rest of the season, or at least I'd hope so. It would almost be hard for it not to with the way the defense is playing.

"PhinFan1968 wrote:

Here's the link:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/standings/_/type/playoffs/sort/conferenceRank/order/false

That link did not help your case. We were 9th, and still are as Cleveland jumps us currently due to the weird tiebreaker laws. It will shake out in the weeks to come.

Again, the Buffalo and Baltimore games loom heavy.

The good news is that cleveland,steelers, ravens and browns all have to play with each other. Same goes for kc and the bills. Who we will be rooting for is hard to tell right now.

Bills and KC play each other next week. I think we want to root for Buffalo for the simple fact that we can get OUR loss back since we play them again. KC we cannot. At least, that is my logic. I feel dirty rooting for the Bills in any fashion, though.

Browns play Cincinnati on Thursday, naturally, we want the Bengals to win.

Steelers play the Jets, so don't expect much help from New York next week.

Tennessee plays Baltimore, which seems like an easy win for Baltimore, but Tennessee seems to match up well against them.

Patriots are on a bye, which means if we can get past the Lions, we will be one game out for the division, with a win against New England already in hand.

I'm continually surprised by Cincinnati's record, year after year. They really aren't very good but always seem to have a winning record