So we lost....how many are throwing the towel in?

Not giving in. I've been a huge Tannehill defender but I have to admit I'm questioning it. I'd love if he came out next week and looked great just to shut me up.

The next two games will pretty much decide if we are contenders or pretenders. We need to go into the BYE at 3-1 and beating KC/OAK is doable.

tanny looks bad. Real bad.

Its equally as ridiculous to overact to this game as it was to overact to the win against the Pats last week. It's a long season...but today was the first day that I seriously wondered if Tannehill will ever become a good/great QB. Drops aside, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn today.

"Alex44 wrote:

Not giving in. I've been a huge Tannehill defender but I have to admit I'm questioning it. I'd love if he came out next week and looked great just to shut me up.

Hes got some issues no doubt about it. On some throws the guy looks unstoppable...on others...hes lost. What I do know it....Matt Moore isnt the answer, and I dont know that theres anyone in the draft next season that will be available that is. All we can do is watch the season unfold in front of us. I will agree that right now....he hasnt shown he is our answer. Whether that changes...we will see.

"GridIronKing34 wrote:

The next two games will pretty much decide if we are contenders or pretenders. We need to go into the BYE at 3-1 and beating KC/OAK is doable.

I expect to win the next two games. To be honest....I can see us winning the next 5, but lets start with next week.

Anyone throwing in the towel after today, should just renounce their fandom and go eat a root.

Not I HOPEFULLY that stubborn as hell Staff realizes Miller is not the answer and to give Williams more touches, iron that out and we look good going forward as THill stumbles when it is all on him.

Thought the Lb's were exposed and thought Coyle did not plan for Watkins seriously enough.

Rizzi's unit...uhm...I hope some of those guys are renting, when even Fields is stoinking punts one knows they just were not prepared, and oh yeah, the TD return that Spiller went untouched on, may want to look into why and who allowed it to happen...and then there was the blocked punt

"MrClean wrote:

Anyone throwing in the towel after today, should just renounce their fandom and go eat a root.

And I wish they would do so , sooner rather then later. It makes being in the Game Thread almost unbearable.

We had a chance to get back in that game....then Spiller crushes one on a return....that sucked the wind out.

"vt_dolfan wrote:

Yeh loosing sucks...no doubt about it. Loosing to the Bills makes it even worse. But we are 1-1....with a stretch of some very winnable games in front of us. Everyone wants a team they can root for and they win all the time. We haven't had that in a long time in Miami, but I for one am not gonna cry about our QB sucking...our line sucking..Philbin sucks.....we lost, so easy to rant like that.

So...just want to know how many are gonna fold your cards and quit?

Buffalo played a great game...in an amazing environment. They have won fewer games then Miami for quite awhile..yet that place was easily as crazy as an Seattle crowd I've seen, their crowd deserves props.

We have some players coming back that we need ....Jordan, Jones, Pouncey.....our offense will only get better. To those that arent ready to cry and run...look forward to the rest of the season with yall.

I'm not throwing in any towel, but the Bills just showed the rest of the league how to kick our ass. Unless this game was an outlier of sorts, but MAN...it's hard to understand how THAT many mistakes could be made in one damn game.

We'll be back and win the next 2, I have no doubt about that whatsoever...but there's REALLY gotta be some soul-searching going on with these players. TOO many horrible mistakes...just too many.

Losing Moreno was a killer...out-right, straight to the chest, killer. Miller doesn't belong on the 53, I can't stand him. Williams looked far better than Miller on the few touches he got.

STs STs STs...I took this area for granted...silly me. BIG flop.

I pin this one on RT and the Offense, and STs combined. Too many players contributed to it...including some mainstays (RT, Hartline, Miller, Matthews). Lotsa blown assignments on the line too, for good measure.

And lastly........this.........

Andrew Abramson ‏@AbramsonPBP 5m
Philbin on running out first half clock: we got ball at 15, only had 40 yards of offense at that point.

Pu$$y!!!!!!!!!

I don't see a serious problem on this team other than the QB. The other issues are issues that any team will face over a given year. The OL wasn't actually that bad. They're fine, Buffalo is arguably the league's best DL and they weren't that bad against them. If Moreno is healthy and they figure out who they want at LB/get Jones back the team is fine. The problem right now is that you are being severely limited by QB play.

If Matt Moore comes in at some point this year and unleashes a deep ball to Mike Wallace you know what the problem is.

I don't think the QB is as bad as some others do -- I think it was more of a team failure today -- but he's got to get better.

I've been a huge Tannehill supporter, until today. I'm done now, I believe those that have been telling me to give up for a while now. I'm worried not about the next two weeks, but what happens in the middle part of this season.....it could get downright brutal.

I dont see how you can give up on Ryan Tannehill. Giving up on him...is giving up on the team. We didnt loose the game today because of Ryan Tannehill.....anyone who thinks that is just being stubborn.

Our defense did nothing in the second half when we needed them to.....our STs cost us as much as anything. We needed RT17 to step up and win the game for us....but he certainly didnt loose it.

"heylookatme wrote:

I don't think the QB is as bad as some others do -- I think it was more of a team failure today -- but he's got to get better.

He missed at least 4 open receivers on plays he had GREAT protection, that every one of them, would at the least been big gainers, if not outright scores. Sorry but that is inexcusable

"vt_dolfan wrote:

And I wish they would do so , sooner rather then later. It makes being in the Game Thread almost unbearable.

We had a chance to get back in that game....then Spiller crushes one on a return....that sucked the wind out.

In the regular season, I cannot stand the game threads. I stayed out of it completely all day. It does not enhance my game viewing experience, win or lose.

I'm not going to throw the towel , but a few things became very evident to me...

We have three holes on each of our linebackers on our defense....
We don't have the weapons on offense..
We need Pouncey, Dion and Reshad back... Satele is horrible and those two other guys can help our poor linebacker group..

Even with those three back.. we will get blown out by any team in the playoffs, we're an average team.

Nobody should be giving in after one loss, but the problem is it looks like every other Dolphins season. Big win, followed by a terrible loss. Let's just say it feels the same as every other year since 2002.

Maybe they'll bounce back... I mean its KC at home and Oakland on the road in London where there will probably be more Miami fans, with a bad Oakland team, possibly the worst team in the NFL, also having to travel further. Then we have the bye, then there's a tough team in Green Bay. However they don't have the best track record in hot Miami, and their defense is pretty banged up. Moreno may also be back for that one. ITs a VERY favorable schedule these next few weeks. Don't blow it like they've done so often this past decade.

"MrClean wrote:

In the regular season, I cannot stand the game threads. I stayed out of it completely all day. It does not enhance my game viewing experience, win or lose.

Yeh...Im done in there. We have people show up in there that have nothing useful to say all week....only to come in and stir up stuff.

I'll see what happens the rest of the season, but the grace period for Tannehill has ended. We will be in rebuild mode once again if he doesn't step up it.

"Jaj wrote:

I don't see a serious problem on this team other than the QB. The other issues are issues that any team will face over a given year. The OL wasn't actually that bad. They're fine, Buffalo is arguably the league's best DL and they weren't that bad against them. If Moreno is healthy and they figure out who they want at LB/get Jones back the team is fine. The problem right now is that you are being severely limited by QB play.

If Matt Moore comes in at some point this year and unleashes a deep ball to Mike Wallace you know what the problem is.

Moore sucks and you are blinded if you only have one problem with this team.

"vt_dolfan wrote:

I dont see how you can give up on Ryan Tannehill. Giving up on him...is giving up on the team. We didnt loose the game today because of Ryan Tannehill.....anyone who thinks that is just being stubborn.

Our defense did nothing in the second half when we needed them to.....our STs cost us as much as anything. We needed RT17 to step up and win the game for us....but he certainly didnt loose it.

You enjoy putting your head in the sand aye ?

"Vertical Limit wrote:

I'm not going to throw the towel , but a few things became very evident to me...

We have three holes on each of our linebackers on our defense....
We don't have the weapons on offense..
We need Pouncey, Dion and Reshad back... Satele is horrible and those two other guys can help our poor linebacker group..

Even with those three back.. we will get blown out by any team in the playoffs, we're an average team.

Were an 8-8 team right now....Ill agree to that. But I dont think its impossible for us to improve and get better.

Tannehill could have been better but there were others who contributed to this stinker with the dropped passes and not enough of a running game.