Adam Gase blamed his offensive linemen for Ryan Tannehill’s 4th-quarter woes, and it just goes to prove how stubborn and/or ignorant he really is.
With the Dolphins nursing a 17-10 lead, Tanny was flushed out of the pocket to his right. With a sack imminent, he tried to spike the ball into the ground near TE Durham Smythe. He missed.
Not a typo. He tried to throw the ball to the ground, and he missed. It got tipped and ended up as a pick-6.
We have a professional NFL quarterback who admitted he tried to throw it into the ground to avoid a sack. And he missed the ground. Why not throw it 75 yards out of bounds? He was out of the pocket, so it would not have been grounding. His lack of awareness is compounded by his lack of skill.
This bears repeating, folks: He was trying to spike the ball into the ground, but he missed. The ground. He missed it. Instead he threw it to a Bengal. Unacceptably horrible, and yet Gase blames the line.
When Martrell Spaight took a stupid taunting penalty that cost us valuable yards plus momentum, we all saw Darren Rizzi chew him out. But when Ryan Tannehill missed the ground, Gase just stood there with his arms crossed, wondering which lineman he could blame.
Once again, I’ll sound like a broken record, but Tannehill never should have been in that position. Gase’s terrible play calling once again cost us this game.
Throwing long passes on third-and-short has been a Gase trademark for 3 straight years, and it never works. I can see Gase’s strategy if our RBs are bad. But they are not! Drake and especially Gore were very effective yesterday, and yet Gase refused to ask those guys to lunge forward for a foot when we had third and inches. THAT is a brutally bad play caller. Yet that’s who we’re stuck with.
I don’t really mind giving Kallen Ballage some game time, but save it for a day when Gore and Drake are ineffective or hurt. After Tannehill gave Cincy a gift TD, that tied the game. We still had time to simply eat some clock and go kick a field goal. A huge, important drive was needed.
And then Gase went with Ballage. Inserting the rookie RB into a tie game in the 4th quarter? Not the right time to utilize that young man. What was Gase thinking? Does he go up to Frank Gore and say, “It’s the most important drive of the game, but you’re not good enough. I’m putting in some kid.”
On a positive note, Reshad Jones really cements that defense. If not for the points that Gase and Tannehill gave away, we win 17-13.
When Cincy got in the red zone 5 different times, we held them to mere field goals twice, got one interception, gave up one TD, and blocked a field goal. 5 trips = 13 points. That is a recipe for winning I’ll take with any other coach/QB combo except ours.
Special Note of Interest: Let’s hear it for how great our recent first-round picks are. Minkah Fitzpatrick has been great so far, but he doesn’t count. I mean the REAL first-round stars that we’ve selected: Laremy Tunsil, Charles Harris, and DeVante Parker. Terrific contributions from all three of those guys, right? True studs who deserve their first-round pedigree, right?
Gase simply doesn’t get it. You can call plays or you can’t He can’t,that’s obvious. Some head coaches do,some don’t. The ones who don’t call plays realize they aren’t good at it and defer play-calling to a professional,usually the OC. We have an OC BT.
Regarding Tranny,the draft bust,you have pocket awareness or you don’t. He doesn’t and NEVER will. It’s not something you learn-it’s a instinct. He is simply clueless. Has he EVER called an audible? EVER? Does he know how? Does he have permission? He may be the biggest bust in recent memory and there are several candidates but none compare to the negative impact he has had since 2012 on this franchise at the most important position on the field OR with the franchise moving forward,or,in our case,moving backward. We paid that clown 20M and many of us said that’s far too much but when other REAL QBs were paid more,they said Tranny was a bargain in today’s market 2 years ago! How’ is that “20M bargain” working for you now!
The Back Office keeps recommending Head Coaching auditions for 3 -4 periods and Ross concure sincehe has little interest. When will we finally hire a HC with ACTUAL HCing experience-on any level!This franchise is a joke on literally level. The fish rots from the head-Ross,the Back Office,the HC and coordinators,players. Top to bottom. Rant over-for now.
Typos occur when you’re pissed off!
I don’t know that throw to the ground could happen a million times and it would never bounce back to the defender like that. It was ridiculous bad luck. I understand his logic as he didn’t want to lose yards and his TE was right there. Problem was there was defenders coming from all angles and he probably should have just taken the sack. The D was playing well and odds are bungals weren’t going to score on a long drive. Due to the D I think that this team still has a chance but the offence has to get their shit together and Gase needs to more than the rest or hand over the play calling…
How could he not see all those defenders and try to ground the ball? He’s an idiot on every level. BTW,I’m a Flyers fan too and another season of frustration has started there too.
His logic was correct on the play as he knew that his TE was right there but the execution was complete bad luck. Like I said he could do that a million times but this time the ball bounces right back to a defender. Come on that’s ridiculous luck. I think Gase said that he’d rather him take the sack but the kid was just trying to do something positive in that situation and it backfired badly. To be honest I wasn’t even mad at him more shocked if anything.
Karma don’t get so worked up I know its hard but it’s sports shit happens. The Flyers are getting better should make the playoffs but you can’t win them all. The avs are improving too hell Toronto lost to Ottawa! I thought that the Fins had an outside shot of playoffs this year but with the injuries you have to wonder. They actually played better at first than I thought but keep shooting themselves in the foot…
If he didn’t hit the 1st OL in the head,it would have hit the OL next to him!! I am convinced he has tunnel vision,no pocket awareness and he is just plain effing stupid.
He’s not an effing “kid”!!! This is his 6th year as an overpaid,20M professional,not a redshirt freshman “kid”. Stop making excuses for him.
FFF, sorry but the ground is the ground. It is straight down. Tannehill missed the ground and hit a 6 ft 5 man in the head. If he hit a guy’s foot by mistake, that is at least close to the ground. But he hit a guy’s head 6 ft in the air while aiming straight down.
If he didn’t hit the 1st OL in the head,it would have hit the OL next to him!! I am convinced he has tunnel vision,no pocket awareness and he is just plain effing stupid.
If you look at that play again he is getting hit at the moment he is releasing the pass. That is why it bounced of the helmet. That was not his bad but bad luck. When and if Ryan gets a decent offensive line I’ll pass judgement on him. Do you think the lines Ryan’s had would bode well for Brady up north. I think not, he wouldn’t make it through the season.
Well, then it comes down to lack of pocket awareness. He was inside a crowd of Bengals and yet he saw/felt/heard nothing.
I don’t think that was the case as he tried to get rid of the ball. If anything he made the wrong choice when in that situation should have just taken the sack and live to fight another day. He was simply trying to hard and sometimes that backfires. Don’t get me wrong they should always be looking for better players at every position QB has to be on the list but in the meantime Tanny is their best option. I honestly believe that with a good team around him that he can win. He definitely needs a good oline no doubt about it…
He’s making rookie mistakes in his 7th year. Can’t have that happen. And can’t have a coach who allows it to happen with no repercussions.
Albert Wilson is a better option at this point to play QB. He has a perfect passing percentage of 1.000 this year with a TD!!
That’s why he was getting rid of the ball, he doesn’t have eyes behind his head. Everybody is so caught up on him. The man does not have the luxury of a clean pocket 50% of the time. Brady, Brees, Ryan, etc. have more time than not to scan the field. Look at the hits and hurries he faces and then compare that to his counterparts in the league.
But did you see the way Andy Dalton got away from our rush almost every single time? Robert Quinn chased him on virtually every play. Dalton simply stepped UP. He didn’t panic and run to his right.
I’m not saying the line is a bunch of all-stars. I’m saying that Tannehill and Gase simply must realize that the line sucks and come up with a series of plays that adjust for this.
You can’t put a bunch of j.v. practice squadders into a game against All Pros, and then blame the j.v. guys.
It’s like Gase asking you, Larry, to block Khalil Mack this weekend and then Gase saying, “I did my job. Larry’s the one who didn’t.”
Techincally, he’d be correct.
You can only run away from a passrush so many times eventually something bad happens. I’ve seen Russel Wilson screw up because of pressure and he’s one of the best scramblers in football.
You did mention another good point the coaches how many good ones has Tanny had since he’s come in? Philbum and Laser? Come on Tanny isn’t perfect but to pass the blame solely on him is ridiculous. Not to mention that his all pro WR is never healthy…
LOL….any time we pick on DeVante Parker, it makes me laugh.
Keep reading about Ray Lewis playing with a torn triceps or Ronnie Lott hacking off his pinkie in order to keep playing. And then there is DeVante and his sore leg….
“Throwing long passes on third-and-short has been a Gase trademark for 3 straight years, and it never works. ” Stubbornness seems to get a lot of folks good football jobs, but it doesn’t keep you there.
Gase is infuriating at this point. He basically said during the press conference that Miami lost because Tunsil got hurt. First off maybe design some run plays that involves getting the last 2 starters on the line as lead blockers instead of doing the same old shit. Second off in a sport where 22 people on the field at a time he actually thinks 1 injury is a big enough excuse to blow a 17-0 lead. All he cares about is the offense and the offense is what the problem is. With Jones, Howard, Fitzpatrick, McCain, Baker, and Vincent Taylor this Miami defense has potential to be special. If gase and Tannehill are allowed to stay around (if I had to get rid of just one it would be Tannehill) all that potential might be wasted.
I don’t think that the oline was the only reason for the loss as Gase made some horrible play calls again but it sure didn’t help. Its the perfect storm they already had 2 out and then a 3rd broke their back. Before the game you can prepare somewhat but Young struggled coming in at the point of the game causing a chain reaction. IF you can’t run or pass you are doomed….I’ve seen Brady look horrible when his line was injured and we know that he’s not horrible…
The problem is brady has carried bad teams before so if he has a bad game we all know it’s just one game. Tannehill has been with Miami since 2012. He is 30 years old and I honestly struggle to remember one game that Miami won because Tannehill carried them.
Yeah, I see your point and have to admit it. We hover around the 20-point average per game in Tanny’s tenure. I remember 30+ only a small handful of times, and that is sad.
One was a loss at Denver. One was Dan Campbell’s first game.
There should be dozens of these 30-point games coming to mind, but I only have 2
You missed my point any QB will have trouble when their oline breaks down. Tanny has spent most of his career with a piss poor oline and coaching. When the guy has time he gets it done like on the Drake pass but he’s obviously not as good as others when there’s chaos around. He’s not the only one especially when Gino Atkins is allowed to come untouched up the middle of the line. Just calling it like I see it… Ossweiler wouldn’t have faired much better most wouldn’t. Now Gase could have kept running the ball at least you don’t put your QB in front of the firing squad..
FlyerFinFan skipped the game day chat, so he jinxed us and I blame him ! 🙂
I deeply apologize but had to watch on delay. I could imagine the comments though…
I’d give Osweiler a shot. It’s time. Gase can tell Tanny to pretend he’s hurt to save face. Like hue Jackson did to Tyrod Taylor. “I don’t wanna publicly bench you, so pretend you’re hurt.”
David Fales is not an NFL QB. I really wanted to throw caution to the wind and start 4th string rookie Luke Falk, but he’s now on IR. How do you hold a clipboard for a living on the taxi squad and get sent to the IR? Only the Dolphins.
Jay Ajayi out for season. (ADMIN silently weeps) Yet another Gase/Back Office screw up by giving him away .
Ryan Tannehill gives 14 free points to the opponent in the 4th quarter: He keeps his job.
Jay Ajayi rushes for 200 yards three different times in one season and asks for more caries: You’re Gone!!!
Remember,according to Gase,Jay didn’t tow the company lines,which means he actually had the gall the question God,who Gase thinks he is.
Did you see Jordan Phillips get the W yesterday with Buffalo and then troll us?
Classic.
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I just cannot handle Gase’s excuses anymore. it makes you want to punch him in his smug face.
”I don’t think he was horrible,” Gase said. ”When a (teammate) gets beat so fast he can’t defend himself unless he’s Houdini, not many guys are getting away.”
We DON”T NEED HIM TO BE HOUDINI. We need him to hand the ball off to Frank Gore when it’s third and a foot.
We DON”T NEED HIM TO BE HOUDINI. We need him to throw the ball to the ground when he admits he’s trying to throw the ball to the ground.
We DON”T NEED HIM TO BE HOUDINI. We need him to not fumble the ball in traffic.
Did you see Marv Lewis’s comments?? How many times do the Dolphins face some 4th string guy and we make him look like an All Pro?
When Lewis first noticed that Tunsil was gone, he said this: “They didn’t seem to want to help the guy when they left the guy out there. Our guys did a nice job. We had blood in the water, and we went after it.”
EVENTUALLY, Gase tried to scheme some help for Sam Young, but it was too late.
When you get outsmarted by a dimwit like Marvin Lewis, you are a very slow person.
Gase is safe this season and sadly,probably next. He is outcoached on a regular basis,which isn’t much of a accomplishment. Imagine how the 3 teams we beat feel now-LOL! “How did we lose to those clowns”?
It’s crazy to say that Stephen Ross might offer us some hope but he actually might. Last off-season he was apparently very upset Miami didn’t draft a QB in the first round. Now while I’m very happy we took Fitzpatrick I doubt Ross let’s miami pass on a QB again next year. If Ross was ready to give up on Tannehill in the off season these last two games might of just been the nail in the coffin.
I hope you’re right but this season was THE draft to take a QB. It will be slim pickings next year.
You would think. But Ross is gullible. When Philbin and Gase both tell him “Tannehill is an All Star” Ross tends to believe that stuff. Just like he believed that a couple of grown men teasing each other was felony bullying and got rid of All Pro Incognito. he goes by what he is told…not by facts
He is the definition of absentee owner. The Dolphins are a business to him. A profitable business. He is asked for money and he says no problem. It’s the folks who are asking that are the problem. They give 3-4 year auditions for the HC position and make simply awful trades-a long list- and questionable drafts. They went all in on Gase………that says it all.
One thing that actually works in Gase’s favor is that a lot of other respected coaches make awful decisions too.
How about Gruden yesterday with Marshawn Lynch in the backfield and goal to goal…and he called a pass. Interception! Sound familiar Pete Carroll?
Or Jason Garrett punting in overtime when he could have tried a long field goal or tried for a first down?
Or Baltimore’s John Harbaugh, with so much talent on that team, losing to the Browns.
Gase does it as a rule,not as an exception like the others you referenced.
I also think some of those coaches actually have some credibility (Like playoff wins, Superbowl rings etc.) to their name that indicates they aren’t complete idiots! Gase has only idiotic call after idiotic call on his resume.
I wouldnt mind trading for Bridgewater letting him run the offense this year and next than going all in on Tua in 2019. That kid is gonna be special.
I agree but we always manage to win just enough games to keep us out of a top 3 draft pick and our Back Office can’t ever figure out how to move up.
I could care less about what Gase is thinking because it’s like a broken record. What I would like to know is what Steven Ross is thinking. Contract extension to the best coach in the NFL or I need a new head coach! Gases excuse last year was the bad attitude players, year before that it was injured players, it looks like this year hes going to go back to injured players but come on we have so much talent and speed and we don’t have a QB that can execute or a coach who can optimize the efficiency of the team. On top of that the whole world can see he looks clueless on the side lines.
On another note I am in New Orleans and I’m staying in the Hyatt overlooking the Super dome and last night after the game we went out for dinner around midnight and man was it an awesome time, parties everywhere, people just happy as could be and all I could think about is that Miami passed on Drew Bress 2X…….. made me feel like an idiot to still be a fan of this crappy team!
Yes, we passed on him twice. But don’t you know? Duante Culpepper and Trent Green are better QBs who will be around for years and years and years. We made the right choice silly.
That’s the single BIGGEST MISTAKE our franchise has made… probably of all time! Not taking Drew Brees!
Gase would find a way to make Brees mediocre!
New Orleans was the fit for him. Miami had and has a terrible o-line, that is why we have been stuck in limbo for years. Until they can pass block and run block the team will always suck. T-hill has been the best qb we’ve had since Marino, but he has never had a decent line to give him the running game and time to pass