What a joke, our AFC East Champion Miami Dolphins are ranked #19 in Fox Sports power rankings.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/powerRankings?GT1=39002
The Bills are ranked higher than us, and they ranked us only two spots higher than the New York JEST!
The media bias against our team is ridiculous, people!
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I'm not concerned about ranking I'm concerned about play on the field.
We're over the other three AFCE teams right now by default.
Looking forward to september, come hell or high water.Rocky Raccoon, Agua, dolfan7171 and 1 other person like this. -
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We're ALL concerned about play on the field, bro. And I couldn't agree more with the bolded.
Some of us are concerned that the media seems to like to treat our team like a rented mule.
Wouldn't you think that becuase we won the division and put the Patriots out of the playoffs that we would get more nationally televised games than the Patriots? I do.
We won't though, partially because the media has a hard on for the Patriots and hates us.late again likes this. -
That is why the National Media will show more New England games because until someone can win the division without Brady missing the entire season, it is viewed as a fraud. Same thing would've happened if the Jets & Favre had held on, we would've taken a backseat to return of Tom Brady and RIGHTFULLY SO. -
You know Joe, I am just surprised that Tammy buttchin Brady was able to rehab with you being at the business end of his joystick like you seem to be
The preseason rankings are ALWAYS a joke folks
This year, just like every year, will turn out NOTHING like what they projectgunn34, dolphindebby, HULKFish and 5 others like this. -
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We prove ourselves this year on that stage and we should be good to go.Bpk likes this. -
I've said this before, and I'll say it again.
The media has hated the Dolphins for a long time now. Not sure why, but they have. I love that the media hates us. It makes a win that much sweeter. In the next few years when Miami is the juggernaut, and the media is kissing our asses, I would encourage everyone to write every sports writer to remind them how hypocritical they are.HULKFish, dolfan7171, Agua and 1 other person like this. -
That is good.
Very good.
Sparano and co can keep on playing US vs the world card.PhinsRock, mullingan, Colorado Dolfan and 2 others like this. -
Well, I'm not surprised by the ranking at all. Not because I agree with it, but because everyone looks at our success last year and bases it upon a weak schedule. Fair enough. But this is the NFL, and there are no sure things. We won some games in tough conditions on the road. We showed a lot of heart and lot of character that this team has lacked over the past decade. The team's confidence is high. We WILL be prepared. We are well coached, and we're building a very formidable team that will be competitive against everyone. I feel we are better than 19. Let them have their "professional" opinion. The players know we aren't respected. Anything to put more fuel on the fire is good for me. We'll let our team play the games and earn the respect we deserve.
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I want to say good post to everyone on this subject. I honesly am not sure why they place the Dolphins so low or don't think anything good out of us. I think this is the year that not only repeat as division champions, but they will let the whole know that the Miami Dolphins are for real and is here to stay!!
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- I don;t agree that the Bills are ahead of us, but this guy seems to love his aerial attacks and Moss and T.O.
- Texans better than us? I'd say no, but we've never beaten them, including last year, so I'll hold y tongue on that until we beat them head to head. (I *know* we're better though.)
- I think people are reacting emotionally to 124's comments about Brady. I dislike Brady, but don;t kill the messenger. Can anyone honestly argue that the Pats aren;lt better with Brady at QB than with Cassel? If they are not better, you'd be implying that Cassel is just as good as Brady, and that you'd just as soon want Matt Cassel on your team as Tom Brady. Brady annoys me, but he's a HoF talent and I'd guess Cassel probably won't turn out to be one (though I could be wrong).
By virtue of Brady being an improvement at the QB position (the most important position on the team), I'd have to think the Pats get better *on paper* compared to last year.
That doesn;t worry me, because the real question is how much better have we gotten too? I don;t think Tom Terriffic and the Patsies are going to like what they see on November 8th.
We have over nine weeks in the regular season to get ready for them. For Cam Wake to adjust to the NFL. For our rookies and secondary to gel. We're damned lucky we have that long before we meet them, in fact.
Since last year we have:
1) Gotten a center who can handle Wilfork one-on-one, unlocking the inside running game against the Pats
2) Gotten several physical, bigger corners and safeties to deal with the Pats receivers and spread formations.
3) We have weapon X in Pat White and a Wildcat that can throw.
Yes the Pats have Brady back. Yes, they are better for it. But our regime has designed this team to beat the Pats, and beat the Pats it will.
This year I'm not asking "Why not us?"... I'm looking at the Pats and saying "You want it? Come and take it from us."
This brawl's gonna be epic.orangefinfan, gunn34, PhinsRock and 4 others like this. -
Colorado Dolfan ...dirty drownin' man?
Click on the WhatIfSports tab at the top and we're ranked #8... :up:
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I still do not understand why some people get so mad about what is written about the Phins. Who cares where we are ranked 2 months before the season starts. Sports writers are entitled to their opinion whether you agree with them or not. Maybe Miami is ranked too low and maybe they are ranked too high. It is way to early to start predicting who is gonna end up where much less getting all worked up about it. Relax and let's enjoy the beginning of training camp and see how our boys look on the field in pads before we worry about how the season will play out. Besides it's us the fans who stick together who's opinions really count anyway.
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Your obsession with him is heading into stalker territory.late again and anlgp like this. -
let's see what the media is saying after game four of the regular season
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a lot of people think that we are just a one shot wonder team, that cannot repeat the success we had last season. a lot of people think that we won 11 games because of the wildcat, and how it hasn't really been seen that much in the NFL and we used it to exploit holes in defenses, and they think that since teams now have an entire off season to figure out how to stop it and a lot of teams will indeed stop it, then we will have no offense.
i really think we aren't going to use the wildcat as much as people think we are. i think that the majority think that since we drafted Pat White that we are going to use him exclusively in the wildcat, but i think not! i think we just drafted him to use him as another element in our offense for this upcoming season and i fully believe that David Lee, Tony Sparano, and Dan Henning are cooking up something special for the 09 season. -
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Well, let's not forget folks, the last worst to first teams, the Browns and the Saints did not have good followup seasons.
That said, why aren't the Ravens and Falcons also discounted?
That chump has the dirty birds in the Top 5...the Falcons franchise has never put together back to back winning seasons, now they had a turnaround and they are expected to not only continue, but to make a SB run?
Those rankings at the moment are simply garbage, preseason chatter.
Let's just make it through Training Camp 100% healthy.late again and Themole like this. -
Nothing to get upset over..
but I've got to wonder why these teams are ranked ahead of us:
1. San Diego - last year 8-8 in a very dysfunctional and bad division.
2. Atlanta - really? What did they do that we didn't.
3. Green Bay - This is one I just do not get at all. Yes they had one of the better offenses last year. But still only managed 6-10. Guess what? 1/3 of their total wins were from playing Detroit!!!
4. Houston - Another 8-8 team last year. In fact a team that has never had a winning season.
5. Buffalo - They couldn't win even one game in our division last year, but TO all of a sudden makes them stronger than both us and the Jets? What?..
Pure silliness, if you ask me.
**padre - I went back and read it again. I missed the "Super Bowl contender" remark the first time. Wow! The writer has a crush on Ryan. Super Bowl contender? -
Excellent, Sparano will have this pasted up on every wall. Solid motivation, and who cares what someone writes that is so stupid they put the Bills ahead of us?
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we aren't a 'sexy' pick ... we didn't sign any big names, we don't have Brady at QB, etc, etc ... so should we get any love even within our own division -- not necessarily.
yes, we did win the division last year - and didn't follow it up with a playoff win. had we done that, it might be different - but most folks will atribute the division last year as sans Brady ... and write it off.
no worries, it will bear itself out this year -- that last year was no fluke, and this team is real and here to stay for at least the next 3-5 years.
also remember, every time in the last decade that the media did give us attention - what happened ... we tanked ...
these rankings are not so much about what you could accomplish this year -- it is more about your high profile players and where you ended up last year (albeit, ours has an asterisk next to it).
if you were to ask fellow players ... i don't think this team would be ranked at #19, that i am fairly certain of ...gunn34 likes this. -
Larryfinfan 17-0...Priceless Club Member
I don't usually pay too much attention to these rankings, but seriously...the Vikings, Bills, Cowboys, Packers, Saints, Redskins and Texans above us ?? Even the Chargers would be question to me as to being better than we are....I don't know what we did to piss off the media, but even when we win we don't get much respect...
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The media loves NE, Buf and the Jets for the most part because of so many reasons. We are still considered a lucky fluke. After all we didn't win the other teams just had bad breaks and gave us the division.
Let's show them in 2010 that 2009 was no mistake and built this team back to the dynasty is used to be.anlgp likes this. -
After looking at that link, I can't decide if that was written as a comedy piece, or if that is actual reporting. 11-5 last year, won the division, improved the team in the offseason, and were ranked 19th? Below soem teams that should really be ranked lower than us?
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The ravens beat us handily in the playoffs, at our house, with a rookie qb, we played the worst game out of all 12 teams playing...i would say a fair ranking is about #12, the worst seed you can have going in. I say that because even though we beat a team like san diego in the regular season, they stepped up in the tournament and we stepped down.
#12 sound fair to me.
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