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Okay. so enough of this nonsense about Dan Campbell being a rookie interim coach and still learning and… Nonsense. The man has been in football his entire life.  He has played in the NFL and was a Super Bowl champion. He should know that when your defense has just stuffed the opponent on third down, and you’re about to get the ball back…you let those cards fall.  Period. Period.   Instead, Dan Campbell decided to give the Bills ANOTHER third down. We don’t have to get into the details, the down and distance, the score, or anything else.  Dan Campbell gave the Bills an additionalRead More →

On Sunday, the Dolphins play the Buffalo Bills, led by either some guy named Tyrod or else led by bust EJ Manuel, depending on who is injured the least. Joe Philbin always had trouble with the Bills, and we never understood why.   When we lost to Buffalo, we lost big.  When we won, we squeaked by in games that featured a lot of field goals.  And in each of those games, win or lose, the Bills featured a horrendous joke of a quarterback who we should have pounded into submission. Let’s hope we can shake off the New England game and get back intoRead More →

The Titans fired head coach Ken Wisenhunt today because he had a losing record, the team was stagnant despite signing some stars, and they had no chance of making the playoffs. They only needed a year and a half to realize this. While Wisenhunt was accumulating loss after loss, the Tennessee ownership did not give him an extension.  They did not build him a new stadium–thinking that fans want an awning more than they want a Super Bowl title.  They did not publicly praise him.  They did not bring in new executives to try and improve the coach. They looked at the record and madeRead More →

When a team scores 36 points, your first reaction is to blame the defense for giving up so many. Until you examine how it happened.   This loss was caused by Ryan Tannehill.   He picked a poor time to have his worst game of the year.  The stats might show worse games, but when you factor in the timing of his mistakes, the locations where he made them (all were deep in our own territory), and the severity of them…there truly is no one else to blame. His lack of fire and lack of passion reminds one of Joe Philbin’s style.   The teamRead More →

Thursday Night Football is silly.    It’s a test of whichever team is healthier from a previous game three days prior.  The visiting team has to spend a day traveling too.   I like prime time games, but the NFL needs to move them to Friday or Saturday Nights.  But previous commissioners like Tagliabue were too concerned about interfering with high school and college game nights.   Who cares! Former Governor Jeb Bush owns Ryan Tannehill in his fantasy league and he’s 7-0. Little Julie Edelmann runs the same slant route 99% of the time.  I’m not saying it’s easy to cover the tiny guy,Read More →

An incredible win, and we all feel good.  But… Jamar Taylor and Damien Williams should not be NFL players.   Cut them tomorrow and watch how many teams pick them up on waivers.  Zero. These are guys left around by the Philbin regime, and we’re stuck with them for now.  Why?  Lack of depth.  Philbin’s idea of a balanced roster at the beginning of the season was to have about 35 wide receivers and two running backs. Philbin put way too much faith in undrafted fumbler Damien Williams and thought of him as a solid backup to Lamar Miller.  They should have kept Jay AjaiRead More →

Somehow the Miami Dolphins have lost every single game they ever played against the Houston Texans. Whether Houston was a terrible new expansion team with bust David Carr at the helm, or a decent playoff team under Gary “Hair Dye” Kubiak, it didn’t matter.   The Texans have won every time. Now we can reverse that trend. On offense, Houston is a one-man team behind Arian Foster.  Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.  That was the failed Philbin philosophy:  keep talking about how talented Thad Lewis and Brian Hoyer and Geno Smith are, so that when you lose toRead More →

I re-watched the Titans game and listened to every interview and press clip available,  To a man, every single guy on defense insisted that Lou Anarumo did not change things up. After you re-watch the game, you tend to believe the players.  There weren’t a lot of fancy new stunts or blitzes.  Reshad Jones’ interception came from his studying the Titans’ previous games.  Cameron Wake didn’t seem to do anything different than weeks past. So how could these guys play so much better?   Is Dan Campbell’s attitude really THAT infectious? It really might be.   But I don’t think it was the D feedingRead More →

There were plenty of plays that stood out Sunday, but we’ve narrowed it down to a few that really changed the flow of the game. Although it seemed quiet, this was the biggest play of the game: Second quarter, Dolphins only leading 10-3. We had first and goal at about the Titans’ 10-yard line.  J’wuan James commits a questionable holding penalty, and suddenly we have 1st and goal from the TWENTY yard line.   The penalty seemed like a huge setback. But on the very next play, Ryan Tannehill hit Dion Sims with a short dump pass.  Rishard Matthews throws a nice block downfield, andRead More →

The dust wasn’t even settled on Dan Campbell‘s interim contract, and the talk began about who should be our next head coach. Before the man ran his first practice, let alone coached his first game, Dolfans were buzzing around the same old tired names like Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden.  Here we go again.   zzzzz. First of all, right off the bat, we DO NOT WANT those guys.   These guys both make millions and millions of dollars a year to talk for a living.   They have a cush job, especially compared to the rigors of being a head coach.  They would haveRead More →

Well, it’s hard to write about the importance of Darren Rizzi being named as Assistant Head Coach, because no one really knows what an Assistant Head Coach does. It’s hard to judge how much football a special teams coach has to know.   Kickoff formations, punt formations, and some occasional fakes, and that’s about it.  Although under Joe Philbin, we tried only two trick punts in 4 years, and both times, the offense was in an illegal formation.  Those penalties were both declined, because both fakes failed.   Gotta give Rizzi some blame there. But one thing Dolfans noticed over the years was that Philbin andRead More →