I don't think it is healthy to keep talking about the same problems Miami has. They won't go away this season. The shortcomings everywhere were established back in camp. The salaries given to players that are under-performing are immovable. So are you giving up watching? Are you looking for player development? Are you holding out hope for a run? Does anyone think Miami can honestly turn this around?
I will say this, if this continues, I would like to see what Miami has with Fales or Doughty in the last few weeks. Backup qb will be imperative to review in 2018 also
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I think Miami is a long ways away. We still have doubts about QB, our Ol is still garabage after wasting a ton of resources in them, Cam Wake isn’t getting younger and we may not be able to afford Landry.
We’ve been pretty much one of the worst 5-10 teams over the last couple decades and I don’t think we’re any better off. Not giving up on being a fan. I pretty much expect them to be a 5-9 win team every year until they prove me wrong. -
Good thing the NFL is not pay per view because no way would i watch this crap. I'm in to deep now to follow any other team and losing more intrest in the NFL every year..It makes me enjoy college football more and more. At least the Hurricanes are finally getting it right..They show you what a new coach and ways to motivate players can and should do... Don't worry Dolfanz we'll get em next Year! Oh god i'm so sick of saying that.
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only time i stand is to get another beer during a blowout, good thing college basketaball is starting and football is coming down to the wire so something not so depressing is on.
I agree there's nothing this team can do besides absolutely clean house and literally cut everyone eat the contracts next year and start over, atleast if we know we wont win nothing will be a surprise but this off season had so much promise, but I see us losing landry easily and I would rather just implode everything and start over, rather than sit here and coddle RT for another yr or two for him to be who I know he is, id rather just go get someone else, if not a FA then implode everything and get picks and go hard in the paint in the first 3 rounds. -
I'll watch every game if I can.
In the past if I had to work on a Sunday I would try to get off or get someone to work for me. Not anymore.dolphin25 and bigballa2102 like this. -
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I don't think it's where anyone stands on being a Dolphins fan- either you love the team or you don't. And if you love the team, then you're going to stand behind them no matter what. I am a Dolphins fan....there's nothing else to say on that matter.
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I won't be watching any more games for the rest of the season. I can't watch a team that can barely tell right from left. When Tannehill went down, I knew it would be a rough ride but not this bad. Unfortunately, we have to look to the next off season for reinforcements. I hope FO dedicates a ton of time/resources to fixing the OL and finding a good QB prospect to put behind Tannehill.
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No extra effort to watch games live the rest of the season.
I'm good with keeping Tanny, trading down to get more picks, and focus on the OL for 2018. Gase gets one more year even if we lose out, I want to see his offense with Tanny and a decent OL.
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Even if you know something is horrible you will cheer the move?
trying to understand what standing behind a team means.
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I will watch games when possible, but I don't spend money to get TV packages or anything. I also will not hesitate to turn off the TV if we are sucking. Haven't bought or asked for merchandise in years.
If they aren't making me happy, I have no need to support. If that makes me bandwagon, then I'm cool with it. I enjoy general football discussions, which is why even if I am not throwing everything I have behind them, I still like to discuss it. I just won't let a football team (or any sports team) suck down my enjoyment of life. Ill shamelessly enjoy winning, and pass on the **** inbetween. :up:
As for what we do? QB and OL are musts. Would prefer to hit OL in free agency. Sign some high-tier vets (especially a LT if available) instead of drafting or bottom tier players. That seems to be the quickest and best way to turn around a bad OL. It's happened for Philly, Rams, Chiefs, etc.
QB, I want us to draft one in the first round. I don't care what names people throw out at this point. Let the college season go, see what shakes in the offseason. But the big names that would interest would be Rosen, Darnold, Allen, Jackson and Mayfield. Though ... Mayfield getting run down and tackled by a hefty cop ... :glare: I would NOT trust Tanny's knee, but would not be opposed to keeping him a year, or letting him go in favor of a rook. Regardless, get a better OL in front. -
I think the difference you're asking about, however, is that I watched every single game the season we went 1-15...I took the ride with my team and stayed bummed out for most of those four months. But come December, I was right back on the totem pole thinking about the draft, the next season and all the possibilities. And the caveat, even though we were freaking horrible that season, was the great Cleo Lemon hitting a streaking Camarillo for an overtime TD against Baltimore. Our team was terrible but in that moment, I was out of my chair shouting and cheering. I saw all 16 painful games that season.
That's what is means to be a Dolphins fan...to take the good and the bad while still rooting for your franchise.
As far as the "horrible things" that happened this season, I haven't seen them. Have there been bad play calls, missed blocks, dropped passes, crappy throws, lousy tackles, dropped interceptions, etc, etc, etc? Sure- that's happened on EVERY NFL TEAM. But you won't see me coming here after a tough loss and posting to fire the entire organization like some do, or continually bashing anyone who has a glimmer of hope for the season.
And the "horrible hires"? Who were they? Oh yeah, folks like Tunsil are "horrible" because they've missed a few blocks in their first year at LT. Gase is horrible because he only has one winning season and one playoff appearance in the year and a half he's been here. Tannenbaum is horrible because...well, I'll let someone else fill in the blanks...I'm not that creative. I'd love to see is someone bashing Tannenbaum to tell me what he did in the Dolphins organization last week. Their likely answer- "Uh, football stuff. And he sucks at it!" People have no clue yet they ramble on and on like they're professional football personnel and management experts.LI phinfan likes this. -
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I think we’ve got Chip Kelly 2.0 and Ross will hold onto him longer than Philbin because he actually had a winning season. Plus Tannehill’s injury will buy him time.
Gase and Kelly each went 10-6 their first seasons with desperate franchises. Then both got big heads and thought it’d be a great idea to get rid of their playmakers.
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I am enjoying watching the Dolphins franchise develop under coach Gase, recognizing that there will be some ups and downs until a consistently competitive team is on the field.
Last year, Gases' first draft, was desperately filling holes on a team that was fundamentally flawed and according to the posters on this forum, had been basically flawed for over a decade. I think most of the posters here recognized this. During the first year the Dolphins began to develop a next man up attitude and ended up playing better than anyone dreamed. They had a great year, even though there where still a lot of weak areas that need better players.
I feel this year we had a structured and successful draft. We addressed a limited defense and added a little to the offensive line. I stated in another post that this year seemed to be a perfect storm with some weird personnel problems, unanticipated early injuries to key players and a hurricane that lead to a disrupted schedule. It was like the sinking of the ship in the song, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Even with all the turmoil we have gone through this year, there has been an improvement in one aspect of our defensive run blocking (up the center) and an improved amount of time from the offensive line for the QB to pass. There does not seem to be the edgy next man up attitude that made us competitive last year. This may be due to some players riding on their laurels from last year coupled to too much of a potential degradation of performance if we used our backups.
It seems many of our players can't or won't bother to learn the playbook. It may be that many of our pre-Gase players are limited in their ability to understand the intellectual portion of this game or possibly it's due to some players getting better contracts, then losing the drive to play harder. It happens a lot in the NFL. To put this year in perspective, assume RT started this year at the level he was at last year just before his injury. Wouldn't we be having a better year? I think so!
In either case this next draft will take more steps to improve the offensive line and the defensive backfield (a target rich environment for improvement). I believe we will start next year with more high character, football smart grinders for players, as opposed to players who are just characters, along with more play and better performance from some of our draftees from last year. Add some more improvements thru this draft and free agency, along with a deeper playbook and we will be a better version of the team that I expected to see this year.
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I hate to say this, but for the first time in my life as a Dolphin fan, for the first time I feel done. I didn't watch any of the Tampa game and I probably won't watch another snap this entire season. I just can't get stomach watching this team, I just don't have the energy for it anymore. Every year, year after year after year it is the same thing over and over again. We have a season where it looks like there is some light at the end of the tunnel and that the Dolphins are turned around, only to find out that light was the headlights of an 18 wheeler. I don't want to be a downer, I just hope free agency and the draft will bring me back, but I don't know.
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I’ll continue to watch every game. I support them during the good times, and I support them during the bad times. You can’t pick and choose when you support a team, or at least I don’t believe that is how you should be as a fan. I appreciate everyone is different but my support doesn’t change with the win-loss column or the quality of football being played.
So what about the rest of this season...
Do I think we’ll make a run? Doubtful. At 4-6 we aren’t out of the race. If we beat the Patriots and results go our way (Cowboys beat Chargers, they fall to 4-7; Browns beat Bengals, they fall to 4-7; Chiefs beat Bills, they fall to 5-6; Panthers beat Jets, they fall to 4-7; Broncos beat Raiders, their records are 4-7; Texans beat Ravens, their records are 5-6) then things are very open. We’ll sit in a three way tie at 5-6 with the Bills and Ravens. Following week if we beat the Broncos, Ravens lose to the Lions, Bills fall to the Patriots - that will see us in the final wild card spot with a 6-6 record. Now of course that’s possibly bordering on drinking the kool aid, but it is possible that we can still get into the post season if we go on a (unlikely) run and results go our way. With that said, I doubt we do go on a run.
Player development? I’d say this is a priority. We need to give our young players the opportunities to develop, but at the same allow the veterans to show that they can still play a role on this team next season. If we lose a few games from here I wouldn’t be against putting Fales or Doughty into the lineup but I’m not convinced either guy have a future as a starting quarterback in this league, and we also have to be careful putting them in because that could hurt the production and development of other offensive talent (eg Williams and Drake in the running game; Landry, Parker, Stills, Carroo and co in the passing game).
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I used to think sometimes how we were just 2 or 3 years away from being a contender and we never got closer. Something would always happen to keep us just so close to being competitive or a contender. But then I realized that not so competitive teams are always about 3 years away because that is how long it takes to rebuild when you have the right FO and coaches. A few years ago for a prediction thread on another site I predicted 7 wins, because our average since Marino or Shula left was about 7.2 wins, or something like that. I did it as a joke, because I can't predict well at all, but it really has clarified things for me. Every year I expect us to win about 7 games. There will be the odd hiccup where we go 1-15 (thanks Cam), or limp into the playoffs like we did last year or the Wildcat year, only to be shown that we really were a fluke and do not belong in the playoffs. But those years are exceptions and are not to be expected. The league average is 8 wins for all teams if you average ties as half wins and we, being a little less than average will generally win a little less than half of our games. If you keep that mindset you won't be disappointed, it just doesn't go over well with other fans who want all of us to see that Ryan Tannehill is Dan Marino, Gase is going to get us past the cheats or whatever the new excitement is all about. I don't expect those things to happen, just wait and see and hope, regardless of the odd flash of greatness or futility that come along now and then.
I used to enjoy talking every little detail over with other fans too, but now I don't really look forward to that part of it so much, for various reasons. I do still watch all of the games, but the past couple of years I have started falling asleep during some of them, which is interesting, since I rarely nap. I no longer spend money on the Dolphins for reasons I won't get into specifically, but that self-imposed moratorium will change as the roster changes, probably fairly soon. No it has nothing to do with the anthem, although I think that whole thing is unfortunate and hope your country works it all out someday soon. Not that I will rush out right then to get another jersey when my key problem guys leave. I have a bunch that I still cherish from the old days.
So I guess I have spent a lot of years focusing on player development because we were always 3 years away, but now I realize that even that has become fruitless. What is the point of players developing when they are most likely going to develop into a roster full of guys that gets you to about 7 wins a year? Last year it hit me. I will just watch and hope to see some players develop into guys that make some entertaining plays. Entertainment is my key word now. I no longer look at how this team will ever become a contender. It will of course at some point and maybe even for a run of 10 years or more once again, but there is no reason to ever think that is going to happen soon. If it does great, if not...entertainment. Fins Up if you read this far.Last edited: Nov 22, 2017 -
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jboogie The sky is NOT falling!
I'm working hard to separate myself from the team emotionally. I'll be a dolphins fan for life, but I find I enjoy football much better when watch other teams and have no emotional ties and can just enjoy watching and admiring the athletic performance of teams and individuals. I'd call myself an aspiring bandwagon dolphins fan.
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Watch and hope for the best. That's sports. I watched a 1-15 team, this is nothing. Some of y'all are drama queens.
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