An unrelenting barrage of excuses spewed forth from Arrogant Adam’s mouth this week.

While we’ve heard the same excuses for three years now, something seemed different this time around. It seemed a little different because Gase had to defend his improper calls more than usual.

Instead of asking him typical softball questions like, “How is Ryan’s shoulder doing,” reporters finally started to ask him about the specific play calls that lost us the game. And Gase didn’t like it.

Unfortunately, it seems that men like Stephen Ross believe the excuses, and thus Gase gets away with it.

In addition, even when reporters try to press the issue with Gase, they are all over the map, spreading the criticism around instead of specifying and doubling down on the real issues.

For example, let’s look at the Colt game that Arrogant Adam blew for us. Gase lost the game because he failed to notice, acknowledge, and (most important) take advantage of the fact that Frank Gore and Kenyan Drake were blowing through the Colt defense easier than Dion Jordan blows through ecstasy.

So with the game on the line with about eight minutes left and with the Dolphins leading by seven, it was time to ice the game with a series of handoffs. At the very least, you pick up a few first downs and kill 6 or 7 minutes of clock.

The CBS announcers were telling us just that, but I was shaking my head. I knew what Gase would call. Sure enough, he called a low-percentage pass play that went nowhere. Tannehill would have been better taking a knee to keep the clock running, but he threw the ball away.  Tannehill’s lack of Football 101 knowledge compounded Gase’s incorrect play call.  The Colts thanked him for saving them a timeout.

On second down, Gase again ignored the men who were netting him OVER FIVE YARDS PER CARRY. He called yet another pass, and yet another incompletion and clock stoppage. Gase’s stupidity absolutely astounded the CBS booth, but Dolfans were not surprised at all.

Those two plays cost us the game. And yet reporters let Gase get away with it. How? Because they keep asking him about the next series, when we began at the 6-yard line. It’s like catching a murderer in the act, but you question him about a previous shoplifting warrant.

And when you DO ask about him blowing the game, reporters need to ask him the right way!   Do NOT ask “What was your thinking on that series?”   Instead ask, “Why did you ignore both of your star running backs on that game-winning series.”   Better yet, “Why were you the only man in Indiana who didn’t notice how effective Frank and Kenyan were?”   I guarantee you that Mr. Arrogance would get the hint.

On the last series, it’s okay to be a little bit conservative. You’re backed up after all and have to be careful. Gase was repeatedly asked how come he didn’t call for pass plays in that situation…but INSTEAD, they need to be asking him why he DID call for pass plays on the previous series.

Ever since Jakeem Grant and Albert Wilson went down, our offense has been a mess. There are no more dynamic plays, and that is Gase’s fault.

He simply stopped calling all the plays that had been successful. His excuse? Without Wilson and Grant, no one else can run those plays. He said that, honest!

So no receiver can run in motion between the center and the shotgun QB? No receiver can fake an end around? No receiver can take a handoff and run forward for a few yards? Gase’s excuses are utterly ridiculous.

Using Gase’s failed logic, let’s say Gore and Drake both get hurt. In Adam’s World, you don’t let Senorise Perry and Kalen Ballage run the ball. Instead, you pass it every single down because when a few players are hurt, you shut everything down.

In the upside-down world of Adam Gase, we trade away men who have three different 200-yard rushing games like Jay Ajayi, and we don’t utilize studs like Frank Gore, who average 5 yards per carry. Let’s throw incompletions instead!!!

Speaking of Kalen Ballage, the few wildcat plays we ran this year have been successful. But when was the last time we saw that? Gase is the master of burying successful plays, and yet no one questions him about this.

How about in the Houston game, when we ran a trick play that saw Amendola throw a TD pass to Drake. Last time I checked, Wilson and Grant were not involved in that play. My point is, we don’t need Wilson and Grant in order to run misdirection plays. You do NOT throw half your playbook in the garbage because one or two men get hurt. You make the new guys run the same plays. Except if you’re Adam Gase.

Unfortunately, I think Stephen Ross is being duped. He hears Gase whine enough about Albert Wilson being hurt, so he starts to believe that one injury is the cause of our demise, not one flawed coach and his flawed play calling.

15 Comments

  1. His reasons for making the horrible calls are worse than the calls themselves. He said on the first drive he passed it because the colts were run blitzing, then on the second drive he said he ran it cause he was afraid the colts would blitz and sack Tannehill. Uhhh what?? So at first you passed it cause they blitzed then you ran it cause they blitzed? It doesn’t make any sense.

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      Yeah, he’s a pig of a decisionmaker. to me, down and distance is easily overruled when your running game is doing well.
      Even with an 8-man front, I am very very confident that Frank Gore would be able to rush for 3 or 4 yards.

  2. Admin,prior to this thread,you called Gase correctly when he makes excuses. Earlier this week,gase said he made the wrong call and regretted it. But it NOT the wrong call everyone expected him to be sorry for it was some moronic reason instead and I thought of your comment just after the game.
    As an aside,during the game tonight,it was mentioned that Brees had 4 TDs last week to 4 DIFFERENT undrafted players!!! We can even get our high draft picks to play,much less catch 4 TDs in a game.

  3. Gase is the worst HC in the league. The front office knows it and Ross knows it but he doesn’t care. This is his hobby. He is still reeling from his team getting crushed by The OSU.

  4. I honestly believe gase snorts blow..no normal person’s eyes look like that…cokeheads stick together;that’s how forester got away with it until the hooker came along.I bullshit you not,Ive been around cokeheads before and gase exhibits classic cokehead traits…wide eyed,aggressive behavior (except for play calling lol),narcissistic,paranoid…the man probably stays up late nights doing line after line while designing WR screens for 3& longs.Its no wonder why these players DON’T wanna play for this clown

    1. After looking at the cap situation Miami really can’t cut Tannehill and I’ll explain why. Last year if Miami had cut him he would not have carried dead cap space over since all his remaning money was non guaranteed, but they restructured his contract last offseason giving him more guaranteed dollars in the future so they could save money to sign guys like Albert Wilson. By doing that if they cut him now there will be 13 million dollars in dead cap space. So by kicking the can down the road the FO has made it almost impossible to get rid of him. Literally the dumbest organization in the NFL. If they cut him now they would have created 13 million dollars in dead cap all of their own doing.

      1. Exactly but at the same time it doesn’t hurt to keep him and not force a rookie QB to start on day one unless the kid is ready. Similar to Smith and Mahones he was allowed to sit and is now ready. I’d actually prefer this anyway. Otherwise you would have Os starting or someone like that if the kid isn’t ready and have absolutely no chance to win.

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        Money is always always movable. “We wanted to keep him, but we couldn’t afford him” is a cop out. By the same token, “we can’t afford to cut him” is an excuse as well. Guys like Landry and Suh and Pouncey are gone–not because of their high salaries–but because Adam Gase didn’t think they were the right material to be Dolphins.
        If they want to give up on Tanny, then his dead money cap hit will not stop them from cutting him. Some team will pick him up, and the money will be re-arranged.

        1. Miami has 10 million in dead cap space because of Suh this year. Cutting him was a huge mistake both football wise and financially. If they take 13 million in dead cap for cutting THill which is unmovable and add another QB in the draft and free agency your looking at least at 25-30 million dollars of cap space on the QB position which is basically what THill will make if he stays. Unless there is an absolute guarantee the replacement will be better than Tanny I don’t see Miami cutting him.

          1. Exactly the point of the article. Either way if you keep him you don’t have to rush a rookie QB into the game. If the rookie is better and ready great you’ve improved with a solid backup. One can hope…

  6. 1 – We need the next QB no matter if they move Tannehill this year or next year after another horrible year.

    2 – If we draft the next QB and we believe he is a stud then let him play. Many great QBs played right off, Manning, Rivers, Rogers, Ryan, our own beloved Marino started his first year albeit due to injury. Here’s some great research on this point

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ganggreennation.com/platform/amp/2018/8/6/17655388/how-rookie-year-playing-time-impacts-a-qbs-future-chances-of-success-new-york-jets-sam-darnold

    3 – As admin pointed out money is never the issue

    If Gase is still here Tannehill will start and we will draft a dud QB in 87th round of the draft!

    1. If the rookie QB is better than Tanny definitely let him play you hope that it’s not even a question. Some guys do need a a few games or even a year especially if the team around them sucks but you still hope that they can beat the vet out. If not it may end up being a bad pick. In darnolds case hard to say he’s looked ok and now stinks. Will starting on a bad team hurt him? Only time will tell…

  7. Amendola out but otherwise nothing too serious this week. Swanson as well. If they don’t win today then it’s definitely over…

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