Week 14: Dolphins vs Chargers Flexed To Sunday Night Football

This will be our first time having two Sunday night games during one season since 2004.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

This will be our first time having two Sunday night games during one season since 2004.

Might be more if we still have a playoff record by then.

I have tickets and paid up for tailgate parking. Anyone going that wants to come by let me know. Going to bring the hill-billy smoker out and do some ribs and tri-tip. DM me to hook up if you want.

Its too bad its not in Miami.. wouldve so gone to the game

Well deserved national attention. Go Phins

Currently Miami is a 1.5 road favorite, for what it's worth.

"TheHighExhaulted wrote:

Currently Miami is a 1.5 road favorite, for what it's worth.

Against Justin Herbert???!!!!!

"TheHighExhaulted wrote:

Currently Miami is a 1.5 road favorite, for what it's worth.

On a related note, ESPN says that 80% of the money is on Miami in the 49ers game too.

"ExplosionsInDaSky wrote:

Against Justin Herbert???!!!!!

A Justin Herbert with all of his weapons healthy too, because that was a thing this season.

This is going to be a hot ticket by game time. National buzz is already building and I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more on Monday morning. Especially if both teams win on Sunday.

Gotta tell ya, nothing would please me more than going into the Chargers house and knocking them off in a big way. Especially if that means Tua has a great game and we manage to pick Herbert a couple times. That might finally stop all this national Herbert/Tua stuff.

"Tin Indian wrote:

Gotta tell ya, nothing would please me more than going into the Chargers house and knocking them off in a big way. Especially if that means Tua has a great game and we manage to pick Herbert a couple times. That might finally stop all this national Herbert/Tua stuff.

It's mostly stopped for now. But it'll return if Herbert plays well and they beat us, though. There are a lot of people who want that to happen, especially if Tua has a bad performance in prime time.

"ExplosionsInDaSky wrote:

Against Justin Herbert???!!!!!

No names, no pack drill but I can think of two or three members on here who will be salivating at the thought of Herbert playing a blinder and beating Tua and the Dolphins.

"Phin McCool wrote:

No names, no pack drill but I can think of two or three members on here who will be salivating at the thought of Herbert playing a blinder and beating Tua and the Dolphins.

To be fair, most of them have shown to have been honest when they said they hoped Tua proved them wrong. I think his performance is winning most skeptics over, which proves they weren't necessarily hating for the sake of hating. Contrary to common opinion, their reasons to doubt him - subjective as they seemed to be - were not all exercises in trolling. There might be some who would relish a great game by Herbert, but almost all of his "haters" have proven that they're Dolphins fans first and consequently are rooting for him to continue playing at a high level.

I engaged with several of them and thought they were trolling, but it turns out that most weren't. They just wanted a franchise QB and in their opinion, he wasn't one. For the record: He still needs to prove capable of playing this well.

"OwesOwn614 wrote:

To be fair, most of them have shown to have been honest when they said they hoped Tua proved them wrong. I think his performance is winning most skeptics over, which proves they weren't necessarily hating for the sake of hating. Contrary to common opinion, their reasons to doubt him - subjective as they seemed to be - were not all exercises in trolling. There might be some who would relish a great game by Herbert, but almost all of his "haters" have proven that they're Dolphins fans first and consequently are rooting for him to continue playing at a high level.

I engaged with several of them and thought they were trolling, but it turns out that most weren't. They just wanted a franchise QB and in their opinion, he wasn't one. For the record: He still needs to prove capable of playing this well.

I think it will be interesting to allow people to see both QB's in the same game. Both QB's are very good QB's from what I have seen, but very limited on what I have seen on Herbert, his arm strength does pop on tape though.

"dolphin25 wrote:

I think it will be interesting to allow people to see both QB's in the same game. Both QB's are very good QB's from what I have seen, but very limited on what I have seen on Herbert, his arm strength does pop on tape though.

Herbert will make some of the prettiest throws I have seen.

Though I still think he is in the state of giveth and taketh away. He makes too many boneheaded decisions and throws in the 4th quarter. For every great comeback, there is a game he threw the game away.

Heck even in the Raiders game people tout him last season, he threw an interception in the 4th that could have ended the game if the defense didn't bail him out.

Tua and Herbert are both just 24 years old. There's a really solid chance that they're still their respective teams' QBs a decade from now, and this is just the start of a long series of matchups.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Tua and Herbert are both just 24 years old. There's a really solid chance that they're still their respective teams' QBs a decade from now, and this is just the start of a long series of matchups.

That might prove to be the best QB draft since 1983.

Feels good to see the Dolphins as a winning, entertaining and prime time worthy team.

"OwesOwn614 wrote:

That might prove to be the best QB draft since 1983.

2004 is no slouch, with Roethlisberger, Eli and Rivers, not to mention Matt Schaub who threw for over 25,000 yards himself.

And people forget about 2012. Luck was the best of the bunch and retired early, but then you have Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and Kirk Cousins all over 30,000 career yards now, and counting.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

2004 is no slouch, with Roethlisberger, Eli and Rivers, not to mention Matt Schaub who threw for over 25,000 yards himself.

And people forget about 2012. Luck was the best of the bunch and retired early, but then you have Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and Kirk Cousins all over 30,000 career yards now, and counting.

It's hard to remember that RGIII was believed to be the jewel of that class. Washington took him and Cousins in the same draft and promptly set about showing why I'd save my money if I was a running QB like Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. One play can change everything quick, fast and in a hurry.

"OwesOwn614 wrote:

It's hard to remember that RGIII was believed to be the jewel of that class. Washington took him and Cousins in the same draft and promptly set about showing why I'd save my money if I was a running QB like Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. One play can change everything quick, fast and in a hurry.

Griffin was horribly overrated even before the injury. He'd just heave the ball deep and hope for the best. Very much like eaely career Josh Allen but smaller and much more fragile.

"OwesOwn614 wrote:

It's hard to remember that RGIII was believed to be the jewel of that class. Washington took him and Cousins in the same draft and promptly set about showing why I'd save my money if I was a running QB like Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. One play can change everything quick, fast and in a hurry.

In RG3’s defense, we’ll never know what he could have been if he wreck his knee in a game he had no business being in.

"Fishhead wrote:

In RG3’s defense, we’ll never know what he could have been if he wreck his knee in a game he had no business being in.

I will never forget the game he got seriously hurt. The Seahawks defense was one of the best I have ever seen and before he got hurt, there was nothing they could do to stop him.

Pre-injury RGIII had the makings of a great quarterback.