Dolphins Truth

Any time your defense keeps an opponent out of the endzone, that is praiseworthy. So hat’s off to the defense. But there are some nuances here. First, the Vikings had a walk-in touchdown at the end that they chose not to score. So let’s not give our defense TOO much praise for not allowing a TD. Second, we continue a gloomy streak: it’s been about 4 decades since the Dolphins were able to cover an opposing tight end. It doesn’t matter if the TE is a starter or an unknown 3-string bum. Black or white, slow or fast. We have no game plan. Ever. 14Read More →

I’ll credit the defense for keeping us alive in the loss vs. the Chiefs. They didn’t play exceptionally, but there were three straight drives where we stopped them. That’s a moral victory! The offense is still not very good. Malik Willis is proving to be average at best. It seems like every deep ball he threw was into double coverage, where our WR wasn’t even close to being open. I don’t know why he’s throwing those balls instead of running or just waiting for someone to get open. The short crossing routes are better for him, but his long game makes me miss Tua andRead More →

Going into this season, I had no fear that we’d end up at 0-17. I can handle 1-16, but I don’t want that stigma of 0-17 hanging over us as a franchise. I figured that we have a few winnable games on our schedule, but I am quickly–very quickly–changing my tune. We are a historically bad team. I’ll start with a tiny positive, in that the game plan was better this week, solely because they fed Achane the ball more than in Week 1. That has to continue. He’s gonna start breaking through for long runs if we just keep trying. Other than that, theRead More →

Right off the bat, I’m starting in with some “Same Old Dolphins” stuff. We’ll get to a few positives later. But for now, I’m hitting the ground running with the Same Old Dolphins. Jeff Hafley is a liar. Like other coaches before him, Hafley promised to use our best player, De’Von Achane in our offense. Same Old Dolphins. Remember he said that he’d have Achane run the ball until he was exhausted? Achane got only 11 carries. A paltry 11 !! That’s not even 3 carries per quarter. Achane should be getting at least 3 carries per drive. 3 carries per possession AT LEAST. NotRead More →

A busy off-season, but not necessarily a good one. To begin, we are now without most of our best players. Tyreek Hill. Bradley Chubb. Jaylen Waddle. Minkah Fitzpatrick. Jason Sanders. And although Tua might not be among our “best” players, depending on who you ask, he was certainly a starter and a centerpiece of our offense. In return, we got four draft picks. Six starters gone, a mere four draft picks in return. The best pick we received is only #30. This garbage demonstrates terrible mismanagement by our illustrious new general manager. It ALMOST makes me miss Chris Grier. I don’t care what anyone says.Read More →

Jeff Hafley. A major, in-demand coach with a Super Bowl under his belt? Uh, no. An inexperienced coordinator getting his first-ever NFL coaching gig thanks to Stephen Ross’s charity? Check. An accomplished college head coach? Uh, no. A college coach with a losing record? Check. A current coordinator whose team is playing well and still in the playoffs? Uh, no. A coordinator whose defense just blew an 18-point lead in the 4th quarter of a playoff game? Check. Mike Tomlin, Robert Saleh, Sean McDermott, Jon Gruden, John Harbaugh, or Mike McCarthy? Uh, no. Someone who was not a hot commodity in this year’s coaching cycle?Read More →

If you are a fan of rewarding mediocre employees who have a success rate of absolutely Zero, then this is a sad day. If you want want to win, however, you must hire winners. Chris Grier is a loser. Make no mistake…if you have no success, then you have lost. And Grier brought no success. The only bad part of this move is that Ross took 7 or 8 seasons too long to make it. Slowly but surely, I see some improvement in Mike McDaniel. I still want him gone at the end of the year, but I can point to things that he improvedRead More →

Last Week I asked if we were at rock bottom, but now after getting blown out by the lowly Browns, I see the answer was no. The Charger loss was not rock bottom. The Browns loss is. For now. Until we lose to the Falcons. In another garbage game from Tua, the defense contributed three more third-down penalties that gave the opponent a first down. Special teams handed them the ball on a fumble. Achane got caught from behind on a breakaway run. Oh, and did I mention Tua’s three interceptions, including a Pick 6 AND another deep in our own zone where the BrownsRead More →

On a day in which Tua threw 3 more interceptions and the special teams unit faltered, the Dolphins lost again because of defense. More specifically, Jaelen Phillips missed easy sacks on both first and second down during the Chargers’ last-minute desperation comeback. Phillips can be a beast out there, and I’ve certainly praised him a lot over the years, but in this case, with the game on the line, he caused the loss. A sad coincidence to point out is the Charger game was among the best strategic games that Mike McDaniel ever called. He didn’t blow timeouts on offense. He kept running right afterRead More →

On Sunday, skipping the first 59 minutes of this game, it all came down to our $50 Million quarterback completing a pass or two on the final drive. He failed. At Buffalo, it all came down to our $50 Million quarterback completing a pass or two on the final drive. He failed. Interception. Against New England in week 2, it all came down to our $50 Million quarterback completing a pass or two on the final drive. He failed. He ran out of bounds and a sack. It’s time. It’s really time. Despite good opponents, these were 3 winnable games where Tua faltered when weRead More →

Three horrendous plays cost us this loss. Huge plays. The part that gets me most angry is that we could have overcome two gigantic mistakes, but three was one too many. First, honorable mention goes to guard Jonah Savaiianea, who ruined a nice first down by being downfield illegally. That stuff happens. But it was particularly grievous on this play because it was a pass to Julian Hill on the far right of the field. Savaiianea was 30 yards away, running up and toward his left to go chase after a defender who was not involved in the play whatsoever. I could understand if heRead More →

Unfortunately, with a short week on the road (again), the Dolphins don’t have time to correct or change anything. Let’s assume we lose to the Bills. Fine, no shame in that. But then our next two games are home on MNF against the Jets and then the Panthers after that. We have 2 doormat teams on the horizon, and that is what I want to see. Can we at least compete? Are there teams worse than us? Losing to the Bills will answer no questions, but losing to the Jets and Panthers would validate our low opinion of the Dolphins. One thing that has changedRead More →

Offense, Defense, or Special Teams? Or Coaching? Pick your poison. Reader Sean sent me a very sad statistic yesterday: The Colts scored on every single one of their possessions. Every one! That has not happened in the NFL since 1977, when many of us weren’t alive. I knew our defense would be bad. Chris Grier giving us a secondary full of castoffs, rookies, and undrafted no-names was very dangerous. Even if all these j.v. guys were healthy, it would be a terrible secondary. But when they started dropping likes flies (Artie Burns, Storm Duck), it went from bad to worse. On top of that, throwRead More →

It’s been a long off-season, and my apologies for not getting my site updated sooner. But here we are! I’m going to try to open the chat room, so let’s try it out !Read More →

The Dolphins have not made any splashes in free agency. But this may be a good thing. Every time we go out and overspend on the latest and greatest game-changing free agent, they typically become a bust. Enough of that. We signed a bunch of mid-range guys, and I don’t think I’ve heard of any of them except for LB Willie Gay. I watched Gay’s remote press conference on YouTube, and he’s sitting on his farm in Mississippi, seemingly without a care in the world. It’s far too early to judge, but he didn’t seem to have any fire to win or to join theRead More →

It’s one of those years where I don’t have much of a rooting interest. Like many people, I’d like to see the Chiefs dynasty stopped in its tracks, but on the other hand, I don’t hate them. I don’t blame the refs for their dynasty, etc. As I thought about this, I definitely don’t want them to win three in a row. Only two franchises have even PLAYED IN three in a row, but neither of them won all three. Our beloved Dolphins were first, winning 2 of the 3 in a row we played in. The other team was the Bills, who played inRead More →

I think, finally, that the Tyreek Hill situation might make Chris Grier get smarter when it comes to trades and free agent signings. Despite what Grier thinks, and despite what the players say publicly, and despite what the media portrays…I have a different take on things: Most free agents who sign with the Dolphins do so because they want the South Beach lifestyle and the lack of income taxes. Tyreek Hill and Jalen Ramsey were not technically free agents, but they lobbied to be traded to the Dolphins, which is the same thing in essence. I have always been leery of free agents who sayRead More →