Dolphins Truth

Dolphins open at Home:   Week one, Titans @ Dolphins! Raiders AT Dolphins Sept 23 Dolphins end the season (Week 17) at Buffalo.  The league really really needs to stop giving the Bills this December advantage every single year. NOVEMBER 11:   Dolphins at Packers.     Better than December in Lambeau I guess.  Joe Philbin is now the offensive coordinator, LOL. WEEK 6:  Bears at Dolphins. Week 12:   Dolphins at Colts Lions @ Dolphins Week 7 Dolphins @ Vikings Week 15 Looks like the Patriots get to come to Miami on comfortable December 9th instead of miserable September.  That’s okay.  We beat them last year in December andRead More →

Will the Dolphins get a Monday Night game? Will we FINALLY get to play our required Thursday game at home? Will we get plenty of home games during the brutal humidity? Will Stephen Ross give away invaluable home games in order to play in Europe instead? Will the schedule leak out long before the “official” release?  (Yes!  it does every year.  I disagree with the Dolphin writers at the Herald very often, but I give them lots of credit for discovering the schedule in advance.) Will we get some oddball Saturday game? Thanksgiving? Will we have to go to Lambeau in December…or September.  A bitRead More →

Just a few months ago, there were positions where the Dolphins were extremely solid.  We had a versatile running back in Jay Ajayi, with a potential star in Kenyan Drake as his backup.  Awesome depth.  We had an excellent WR crew, led by All-Pro Jarvis Landry.  We had a reliable kicker who was clutch all season long.   And we had the best defensive tackle in the business. Now…we have none of that. Now, because the Tannenbaum-Gase crew don’t quite know what they are doing, we have to waste valuable draft choices on those positions.  Free agency has already filled a void at WR, but weRead More →

I don’t know the exact player the Dolphins should draft. I’m not certain of the position he should play. I don’t recommend a player from one college over another. Junior or Senior? Who cares. What IS IMPORTANT is that we come out of the draft with some winners. By that, I mean a winning attitude. A ferocious competitor. A guy who’ll cut off a finger or a toe to get ready for game day. A guy who will fight tooth and nail for the ball. Give me a fighter like that with mediocre skills, and I’ll take him any day of the week over aRead More →

In a move that won’t hurt the Dolphins, special teamer Michael Thomas has ditched the team to go to the New York Giants. Five years ago, Thomas came to the Dolphins in mid-season.   He had a game-ending interception that helped us beat the Patriots that year.   Since then?   Nada. Yeah, I know people count special team contributors as key ingredients to a team, but I don’t.  Thomas was not our return man, so it’s not a big deal to replace him. I’m more concerned that our DB coach, Lou Anarumo, also ditched Miami and went to New York.    The DBs were the ONLY position thatRead More →

Former Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga passed away yesterday, leaving a nice legacy in Florida sports, but not such a great legacy for the Dolphins specifically. Huizenga was the Dolphins’ third owner, behind Joe Robbie and Tim Robbie and ahead of Stephen Ross. We all know that Joe Robbie lived and breathed for his Miami Dolphins.  When he died, Tim Robbie wanted nothing to do with the team, taking the money and running.  The Dolphins were an orphan…willed to a new parent who didn’t want them (Tim Robbie) and who sold them as fast as possible to the highest bidder:  H. Wayne. Huizenga clearly boughtRead More →

Going into the final game of the 2017 season, the Buffalo Bills were in the playoff hunt when they traveled down to Miami. The Dolphins had a chance to beat our division rivals and send them home crying.  A chance to knock them out of the playoffs.  A chance to return the favor, since the Bills’ defeat of Miami a few weeks prior had ended our season.  A chance to prove how incredibly over-rated Tyrod Taylor is.   A chance to end the season on a high note and send 70,000 fans home happy.  Did I mention how sweet it is to beat a division rivalRead More →

Ryan Tannehill was drafted the same year the Dolphins were featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks.   If you’ve never seen it, the show is a documentary on how NFL training camps work, with lots of candid behind-the-scenes conversations that fans rarely see. My first impression of Tannehill came from a simple conversation he had with Matt Moore, and the cameras were rolling.  I don’t remember the exact words, but it went something like this: Tannehill was new to the Dolphins, and Moore was talking to him about the AFC East and the upcoming schedule.  Tannehill did not know what teams were in the AFC East.  MooreRead More →

I’ve never been a fan of vastly over-rated Mike Pouncey.  But I am a fan of continuity on the offensive line.   With Pouncey and Jermon Bushrod both gone, we have nothing in the interior of the line. We won’t be able to run the ball at all, which is fine for Adam Gase’s pass-happy schemes.  We save some money, which is fine for Stephen Ross.  We will lose many many games, which is NOT fine for the fans. Management discarded 4 All Pros and got nothing in return but some low draft picks.   Ajayi, Landry, Suh, and now Pouncey.  If it was so infuriating itRead More →

Unconfirmed reports are declaring that Patriots WR Danny Amendola is coming to the Dolphins.   That accompanies news that we will also obtain Chiefs WR Albert Wilson. So that’s 2 WR signed in the course of 24 hours. A week ago, if you asked me what was the Dolphins strongest position–a position where we do not need to tamper…no need to sign free agents…no need to draft–it was WR.  But the Dolphins create their own needs, even when they don’t exist. The Dolphins drill a hole in their sink pipes and then say, “Hey, we just went out and hired the best plumber available.  Aren’t weRead More →

  Word out of Miami is that Kong Suh will be the latest casualty in Stephen Ross’s disgusting purge of all the Dolphins’ best players. Suh is the latest Pro Bowler to get discarded by the inept decisionmakers in Davie.  Fellow All Pros Jay Ajayi and Jarvis Landry got the axe already.  After giving Ajayi away, the Dolphins doubled-down on that mistake by getting rid of Landry too.   Today, the triple-down was announced.  The three best Dolphins are now gone. Who is our best player now?  Who is nearest to becoming a Pro Bowler? There will be idiots out there who say that losing SuhRead More →

It appears that Jarvis Landry is on his way to Cleveland for a couple of mid-round draft picks.  That’s not the important part of this. The important part, as I feared and wrote about, is that Adam Gase just last week lied to us.  His lie is now proven.  He lied and said that they gave Landry the franchise tag because they wanted to keep him.  We now know that’s a lie.  Dolphin fans are spat on once again by team management. The other important part is that Stephen Ross remains one of the NFL’s most ineffective and misguided owners.  With one word, he couldRead More →

As of now, the Dolphin owner will not force players to stand for the National Anthem.   However, the NY Daily News quoted him as saying that his players will stand throughout 2018.  Ross then issued another statement saying that his first statement was misconstrued. We can’t make this stuff up, folks.  This is the torture of being a Dolphin fan.  Each new decree from our owner, followed up by the invariable “clarification,” invites ridicule and laughter from other NFL fans towards us.  I’ll cut Ross some slack, and we can assume his words and his intent were not clearly displayed by the Jets’  hometown newspaper.Read More →

Breaking:   Dolphins acquire defensive end Robert Quinn from the Rams.   Because having 47 defensive ends already on the roster apparently isn’t good enough.   The local media are getting more and more bold in their predictions that Landry will soon be traded, even though they have no proof.   We are no closer to an answer now than we were at the end of last season. He may get traded, and that would be stupid for the Dolphins to do, considering we’d probably get a mere third rounder in return. The interesting thing to me is that on Wednesday, Coach Adam Gase said publicly that theRead More →

At first it seems odd, or ludicrous, or even unconstitutional to require and NFL owner to devote his time and resources to the team he owns. After all, when you own a car, there are no laws that state how often you must wax it. If you own a TV, there are no laws about what channel you watch. However, the NFL operates in a longstanding bubble, where seemingly illegal labor laws are the norm. For example, you and I get to work wherever we want. But an NFL rookie MUST work for the team that drafts him. If I graduate high school and someoneRead More →

No, it’s not April Fool’s Day.   This is real. A few years after the Dolphins sided with Martin (now under police lock-up) instead of Richie Incognito (who continues to be an All-Pro each year), this story refuses to go away.  It’s one of the worst decisions in sports history, and it continues to haunt the Dolphins. Apparently, Martin posted a photo of a gun and then wrote that Revenge was an option when you are bullied.  That’s pretty scary.  But what makes it worse is that Martin tagged Mike Pouncey, the Miami Dolphins, and Incognito too.  Clearly he aimed that message at the people heRead More →

…but it’s not the one we want. News broke today that the Dolphins are changing their uniforms again, and I instantly became enthused that it would be back to the aqua and orange, with the mighty dolphin jumping upright through the sun.  But then Stephen Ross dashed  my hopes again.   He is only “tweaking” the existing uniform and logo. I don’t know what the tweaks will consist of, but it will not be a return to our proud logo and colors. Armando at the Miami Herald actually said the team CURRENTLY wears aqua and orange.  He is wrong.  Larry Csonka wore aqua.  Dwight Stephenson woreRead More →