I agree if they extend him, but I think they'll be under less pressure to extend him long term, and might just let him repeat another season. His full healthy season is an outlier. Let him repeat it.
I think that's because this offense runs through Tyreek AND Waddle, or it runs through Achane and Mostert. When we were running well in the 1st half, we were a balanced offense. But once Buffalo shut that down and Tyreek was the only real option, we were in trouble. I would have liked to see some screens and short passes to Achane, some quick throws to the TE, etc. McDaniel did not game plan for that though and we simply weren't ready. Our current 2, 3, 4 WR's each caught a pass or two but it was obvious they weren't part of the game plan. With Tua and Waddle, we're a scary offense. With just one of them against playoff teams, we're in trouble unless McDaniel really rounds out this offense in a hurry. Tonight though, what was Tua supposed to do? The options in the 2nd half were to throw it to Tyreek....or throw it to Tyreek. Our other guys weren't "NFL open" and we weren't scheming timing routes to them like we had earlier in the season. Heck, maybe the guys out there tonight didn't know the offense enough to be able to run this offense. I'm not sure. But I blame McDaniel a lot more than I blame Tua. That's three weeks out of four that we faltered in the 2nd half and couldn't get the offense going. I think Tua moped around because he knew that he had nobody to throw to. Tyreek dropped two or three that were threaded in there, and he had a few more batted away that were on target. Tua was delivering though, despite the defense knowing what we were doing and surrounding Tyreek. It just wasn't enough without that extra threat out there....again, it should have been Achane or Wilson coming out of the backfield.
Just one last thing. You can't play a home game for a division title and have the opposing team say it felt like a home game for them after they won. Just plain embarrassing. It was probably 30-40% Bills fans there. There might be 30-40 Dolphins fans in Kansas City next week.
It felt like a Bills home game for TV viewers too! That announcer was totally a Bills (or should I say Josh Allen) fan. It was excessive. A little is OK, but c'mon.
They shot themselves in the foot and missed out on a home playoff game to make a few bucks. Sucks for the rest of us Dolphin fans but serves them right.
I don't even know if I wanted to see a home playoff game in Miami. Imagine the turnout from Buffalo again or even Pittsburgh? The FIRST DAMN THING out of Tirico's fat mouth was "Bills mafia invasion". And, cbrad is right, we know who Tirico and Collinsworth were rooting for. Anyway, the only home field advantage this team will ever have is in September when it's hot and teams aren't in football shape yet.
Was no surprise, bit disappointing again Injuries have certainly curtailed the momentum I feel though, but as said maybe not all field related problems. KC ain't no great shakes, but they did rest up this week. Not confident, but a chance. FD
Personally I went to bed when we went 3 and out after the punt return as I knew what was coming and I’d rather get an extra 30 minutes of sleep, at least I got 3.5 hours rather than 3. Season ticket holders who sold their ticket should have their renewals revoked, first time in 15 years for a chance at the division and they would rather sell their tickets than support the team. Everything is embarrassing about this franchise from the ****ty fan base who would rather sell their tickets than support the team, all the way through to the head coach that has no plan B, to the star WR who has costly drops every big game to the QB who can’t win a big game and forces stupid throws rather than takes the easy underneath stuff. I’m just sick and tired of them failing every year, I live 4000 miles away, have never even been to the US yet it feels like I care more about this team than the vast majority of the locals do. To have your whole stadium taken over like that in its most important game in 15 years, maybe this fan base gets what it deserves.
To be fair and honest KC is our best bet to win a game. We were never going to beat Buffalo 2 games in a row when they own us 9-10 games. not that that matters but our only chance is to win in KC and have the Bills lose and the season will have some positivity for me. Maybe by than we have most players back
Boy, am I glad I didn’t stay up last night. Fire Danny Crossman, we’re not going to win anything as long as Josh Allen is our daddy and we can’t even take advantage, when he helps us turning over the ball. Most important game in a long, long time and we’ve got like half the stadium full of Jills fans. Don’t know looks like we’re cursed for real!
This is the fourth year in a row Tua has failed miserably during the final stretch of a season. With that in mind, we're at least going to see him in a playoff game and that is the only silver lining I can find out of his piss-poor end to the year. How he does against the Chiefs is going to determine a lot for me personally. I'm borderline done believing in him if he sucks again. I don't care if it's in KC, I don't care if Travis Kelce is popular, I don't care if the refs favor Andy Reid or Patrick Mahomes and his douche haircut. I want to see him rise above, play well, and get us a win. If he can't do it, then it's time to temper the expectations with him and start looking elsewhere because this isn't getting any better. No major, meaningful corners are being turned and it's beginning to get a little maddening. The Titan loss was a bit of foreshadowing in my opinion. We really slipped up with that one and it only worsened from there. After that, Buffalo went on a tear and started winning some big games and the rest is history. Even Jacksonville let us down with the seeding matchups. We were put in a situation (that we created) by having to play either a red-hot Buffalo team at home or go to KC to play the Chiefs. At that point, which poison pill do you swallow? We're decimated by injuries, it's evident that Tua can't carry this team when needed, and the matchups toward the end of the run became as unfavorable as you can imagine. Does anyone here truly feel confident that had we beaten Buffalo last night, we would have beaten them again next week? I sure as hell don't! They've owned us. Again, no silver linings, but we get to see Tua in a playoff game barring some phantom catastrophic BS injury that we don't know about. The other thing is the team basically has no choice but to grow up a little bit with all the adversity they've faced over the last month (started with the loss to Tenn). We've played Dallas, Baltimore, and Buffalo, and now we're going to play the Chiefs for the second time this year. I actually like that we've ended the year playing the better teams of the league. At least we know the level that we need to get to in order to hang with them. Can't wait to see the schedule next year when the NFL screws us again in December. I swear they have too much fun with that. Gotta play who's in front of you though and that's exactly what we've done this year. We beat Dallas...The worst playoff team out all the playoff teams we've actually faced.
Drops from Hill were very costly, game changers for the offense. Along with Berios not going deep enough in his route on that first drive of the second half. Relying on guys like Claypool and Chosen, etc to fill out your WR roster... During the preseason I was afraid of what would happen if Waddle or Hill got hurt and we saw the results last night. Tua didn't play his best but from the opening drive I wasn't seeing guys getting separation. I'll watch analysis videos over the next couple of days to affirm or refute that. With a healthy Waddle and Mostert I think we win last night. On to KC where hopefully both are ready to play. PS: Dolphins are going to need two or three bodies off the streets to fill out the DL... Yikes
Yeah, the NFL is shockingly ignorant to how little NFL fans care about Taylor Swift. They want to see her all through the playoffs so expect all the calls to go in the Chiefs favor. Miami will be playing the Chiefs, refs, and the NFL script Saturday night.
There is a serious problem with a talented team that gets dominated in the second half of a must-win game, amidst the bigger-picture issues of almost always losing to good teams and practicing and performing rehearsed and elaborate end zone celebrations. There is a team culture and leadership problem afoot here, and I have to think it starts with the personality of the head coach. If the "team takes on the personality of its coach" as they say, then this team stands to be goofballs who can't get serious and bear down when they need to. And that's reflected in their pattern of performance throughout the season.
This is me. It's just not worth it when it's almost always disappointment. Collinsworth does that to a player (usually QB) every game. I remember back in like week 5 when he was creaming himself over Tyson Bagel or whatever the Bears UDFA rookie backup was .
Over the past four games the Dolphins have the 3rd-worst offense in the league in the second half (-0.289 EPA). Only the Jets and Falcons have been worse. So, when all the marbles are at stake and teams are making late-season pushes to get into the playoffs and get the highest seeds possible, the Dolphins have regrouped as a team at halftime of those games and then taken the field and proceeded to perform worse offensively than 29 of the other teams in the league.
That is one reason I got the NFL+, instead of wasting 4 hours of my life watching the games I can see it all in 45 minutes
