The players play hard.

 

The Dolphins have only beaten one winning team outside the AFC East since 2006. (Packers 2010) That's not changing in 2012. And that is one pathetic stat.

But we did help make the Saints & Falcons into annual Super Bowl contenders by giftwrapping them MVP caliber QBs! D'oh.

 

I don't know why everyone is so surprised. Even when we were winning, we kept seeing flashes of manure. In the overtime loses, the close wins, every game really, this team kept showing us that they were capable of being trash.

There's really no surprise they are showing who they really are.

 

I've been the most optimistic defender in here this year, but I have now given up on the season. Our defense has lost it's heart. Our safeties are nowhere to be seen. s Smith has really regressed.

....and that blown call on the Harper fumble takes the icing on the F#%#n cake

F-you Miami defense

 

The pass defense has been crap all year long. Why that's surprising is beyond me..

I just don't want Tannehill to get hurt.

 

Which ones? A lot of missed blocks and arm tackles... Not only is there no time to throw but our 5's and 6's can't seem to get open against the 30th ranked passing defense. Forget about the running game. Across the board our team was not prepared to play this game.

 

Why didn't we hear that they filmed an episode of The Walking Dead using Dolphins players? Props to AMC for putting it on in the daytime though, very bold move by them. I can't believe Michonne and Rick haven't been in this episode though.

 

There's a difference between playing poorly and not trying.

 

Trowa : I know we havent seen eye to eye but this was one of your best post. Mainly because you are telling the truth.


we were never this bad under Dave Wannstedt sure his picks suck but his coaching has been better then any of the coaches that follewed.


I have never liked Jeff Ireland and seeing how quickly other teams have rebounded it should tell all of us that we are stuck in a big rut and it should be put on Irelands empty head .

 

You want to know what's worst? Competing for the worst units of this team is the O-Line, O-line that has a lot of high round picks. That alone, should be enough evidence of the decrepit state of this team.

 

The defense is over rated. The offense is impotent. Weak.

 

Reggie bush made up for some deficiencies early on and has since crippled us on offense. Rookie qbs can't be put in the spots tannehill is put in.

 

Team is terrible. Worst game I have seen in a long time.

 

This was pathetic, now we have a short week before playing Buffalo. I predict another ugly loss on our way to a four game losing streak

 

I'm definitely not a fan of Philbin benching Bush for fumbling the ball. He is our main threat and without him on the field, we are VERY one dimensional. Sometimes I get the feeling he doesn't have complete trust in his players.

 

It looks to me that this team quit playing early in this game. Last year the Dolphins finished 5-3 over the last 8 games of the season. They are now 4-5 after 9 games this season. Is it the coaching or the overall lack of talent on the roster which keeps this team merely mediocre? I think it is the overall lack of talent throughout the roster and that I blame entirely on Ireland. He needs to go immediately. I can't remember when the Dolphins last beat a team which finished the season above 500.

I predict this team will go no better than 6-10 this season. At least they will get another top ten draft pick. I just pray that Ireland isn't the GM making that selection for the Dolphins in the 2013 draft.

 

Yes, and how terrible Ireland has done in not only drafting and signing free agents for the OL, but also how inept he has been overall as the teams GM. Time for him to go.

 

By the way Ireland TRADED for Bush. Just to remind everyone, that was AFTER Parcells had left the building.

 

I think over the past two years, I have given Ireland all the credit in the world for being the one of the worst GM's in the NFL. It is just unbelievable that he still has defenders on this forum. I guess some people just like to see the Dolphins remain a mediocre team. I swear that I often think that these Ireland supporters are actually Jet fans, who would like nothing better than Ireland to remain the teams GM.

 

I will stick with what I said in the game-day thread.

Ireland will still be here come draft day. I truly believe Ross will give him this one last chance.

Don't get me wrong I want him gone, but I believe Ross will let him have one more chance to turn it around.

 

I have no confidence in Ross to pull the plug on Ireland. He will be your GM come draft day.

But I hope I am wrong.

 

Bush played well over the latter part of the 2011 season. He didn't do much in the early part of the 2011 season. He started out well this year, but hasn't played at a high level consistently since the first game against the Jets, when he was injured. Based on his limited play in recent games, I have my doubts that he will be a member of the Dolphins beyond this season. I think the coaching staff will look to go with youth in the backfield starting next year.

 

If Ross wants to show that he has absolutely no idea what he is doing as an NFL owner, all he has to do is keep Ireland as the teams GM. At least that way I know that he actually has no real interest in building a winning team in Miami. It would also show that he likes half empty stadiums and mediocre football teams. Of course he does live in New York. So maybe he is a Jets fan and only purchased the team to make sure the Dolphins wouldn't be a playoff contender while he is the owner. :up:

 

Yea I agree.My intial prediction before the season was 4-12.Whats ****ed up 2 weeks ago after the jets game I was thinking playoffs.Oh well back to reality as we are the same old dolphins.Season over once again in november.

 

He will be gone, count on it. He is not going to be worth what he is going to want in a new contract. They have Miller & Thomas and they will go with that combo without Bush. He's just not going to be worth the trouble of negotiating with, we have other worries to deal with 1st.

 

Really liked Rodgers and Lamike James from those drafts...same thing with Gronk and Dwayne Allen..

I think we're gonna need a real good back, someone that can do it all in a traditional sense, with some speed..someone like Stephan Taylor would be nice.

 

There's certainly some merit to the idea that this isn't a playoff team.

It's hard for that not to be buried by how ridiculous some of these posts are. You're crawling out from under a rock week 10 of the NFL season after being largely and rightfully silent, and expect to be taken even halfway seriously? Yeah, ok.

 

Then you'd think it would be pretty easy to pick apart any number of arguments or points I've made.

We can feel free to revisit any of that stuff if you'd like, but given the fact that you're now looking at decisions like Reshad Jones, Koa Misi, Chris Clemons, Nolan Carroll, Mike Pouncey, Kevin Burnett, Brian Hartline in a much more favorable light and have what looks like a promising rookie quarterback, it's probably not going to look particularly favorable for you.

 

I don't think that anyone upset with the state of this team is in the wrong after the 2nd worst home loss in team history, and the worst in 43 years just occured.

 

That's ridiculous. An awful game does not mean you can literally say whatever you want that's negative without being able to support it and it suddenly becomes right.

 

You're right. Back to back historically bad weeks makes it right.

 

You lost by 3 points to what appears to be a playoff team who has a supposed generational talent at quarterback coming on. It's not a historically bad week and that's a pretty dishonest way to frame it.

 

There are "rant" threads, and they get moved to the rants forum, and there are "rant" posts that do not.

 

Nicely stated. I'm still in Japan, sitting on the sidelines. Keep it up. :)