By all accounts, MarQueis Gray had a great pre-season, so it hurts the team that he’s out indefinitely with an Achilles tear. Gray was versatile and a good team player, never mouthing off when he had to sit behind inferior tight ends like Julius Thomas and AJ Derby.
The two rookie tight ends will have to step up now, so this is their chance. We also re-signed journeyman Gavin Escobar, who at least knows the offense better than signing some guy off the street. So far, the Dolphins have made the best of a bad situation.
If you get a chance, watch the NFL Network’s one-hour special on last year’s Eagle season. It’s amazing (and yet so simple) to see how that team won a title. You start with a smart coach who has played football before, especially at the NFL level and especially a Super Bowl champ. Then you let that head coach form his staff from proven veteran coaches, not his friends.
It was sadly funny to hear all the pundits laugh about Doug Pederson as a bad hire when the Eagles named him head coach. Now he’s a champion. Those same pundits worshipped Adam Gase’s hire because he was the genius quarterback whisperer. How many titles has Gase won again?
Pablo’s brother is a slug. Still waiting for someone to step up and explain why our receiving corps (LOL) is so great,according to the hype. Any time Ms. Parker is included,that is an automatic disqualifier. Having her gone for a few games is no loss at all. We are still a Bottom 4 team. I see 4 and possibly 5 wins,tops.
I wonder who is more feminine, a guy who risk being paralyzed when he goes to catch a football by a cornerback or safety moving twenty miles an hour, or some wimpy ass clown who never risked his neck on a football field and calls a professional football player “Miss?”
I studied Karate when I was a teenager in the 1970’s and my teacher was a hard nosed no bullshit instructor who made us do pushups on our knuckles. I learned quickly that anyone who was mentality tough enough to put up with the physical pain me and my fellow students went through along with knowing that one kick or punch and you could be hospitalized or killed, the respect that should be given to anyone who made blackbelt. That same respect should be given to any man who makes the NFL.
If you don’t like Parker, then that’s your right, but stop disrespecting the man’s nomenclature because I know you wouldn’t like it if somebody referred to you as miss or ma’am.
Anon, would you feel better if I said Mr. Parker is the worst WR on the team, and he consistently runs lazy routes and doesn’t ever try to out-jump anyone for a 50-50 ball? To make matters worse, Adam Gase pretends that Parker is good.
Look, it’s not about my feelings. Do you know anyone that refer to you as Miss? If that wouldn’t bother you if someone did, then that would demonstrate how much you respect your own manhood. I’m a man, and if any man refer to me as miss to my face, then I’ll refer to that person with the term “little bitch.” It doesn’t matter what Adam Gase thinks of Parker, you don’t see him calling the man Ms Parker in interviews and I bet he wouldn’t do it to his face.
Think what you want about the player but respect his manhood.
If we start 2-2,possibly 5 wins but I don’t think so. Keeping 4 QBs is beyond crazy-apparently Gase knows more than the 31 other REAL coaches do. Gone after this season!
This injury hurts! I liked Gray…. let’s hope these rookies step up!
Gray was good as he was versatile he could play TE and FB. Block and catch. Hopefully between everyone they can keep up. Maybe this will expedite the rookies growth…
Who called Ryan for HOF? Loser can’t even throw a game winning pass inbounds…. Oops he didn’t do it again…guy sucks with all kinds of weapons around him and we rag Tanny with no oline and no one near Jones at WR???
Flyer, I agree 100%. Ryan had 5 tries from first and goal, and he threw 5 awful, uncatchable balls in a row. FIVE!
On the series before that, he threw a brutal interception at the goal line. (Probably Jones’s fault on that one, but Ryan didn’t help).
Now go back to last year’s NFC championship, final play, and Ryan throws another horrendous pass on 4th and goal.
These weren’t close passes that got swatted away at the last second. No, they were awful throws that sailed 10 yards out of bounds. The balls landed closer to the fans than to any Falcon WR
Yes he’s not the worst QB but come on man not even close to HOF material. Going further back to the super bowl guy can’t even throw away the ball takes a sack that puts them out of FG range. Loses a huge lead. You can’t make this stuff up…
I don’t agree with the rampant pessimism on this site. I think Miami is wins 9 games and just misses the playoffs. Tannehill is much better than jay cutler I think even the biggest haters would agree with that. Drake has a chance to be one of the most explosive players in the division if used correctly. There is a lot of young talent on the defense and not really any horrible contracts weighing the team down. Oline is also better than it’s been in awhile. Biggest question marks are how fast the young linebackers get used to the NFL. If they thrive which I kno is a stretch Miami could easily be a playoff team. Bills and jets are basically 3-4 free wins. Raiders, bengals, colts and titans should also be winnable games. Bears and lions are toss ups but I think Miami should win those as well.
I predicted 8 or 9 wins myself. However, I feel that Adam Gase’s playcalling is by far the most important aspect of this all. You said it yourself with “if used correctly.”
For 2 years, Gase has used NOBODY correctly.
He never called long passes for Landry.
He “rested” Cam Wake on important downs, even though Wake was 100% healthy.
He took Ajayi and Drake out of the game on every single third down and instead used Damien Williams.
Then he traded Ajayi for good measure,
He never let Jakeem Grant play offense until mid-December.
The list goes on and on. This year’s talent on offense is probably better than last year. But a coach who doesn’t use his tools properly will have us stuck again at 5 or 6 wins.
If the D can grow up quick enough they can be decent. I think that the O will be ok as well but overall will they lose games due to too much inexperience. Including the rookie kicker…. Either way it will be fun watching let’s enjoy the ride.
Here’s my problem with the Gase critisim. He inherited the Jeff Ireland disaster. Other than Landry who isn’t here anymore has anyone from those drafts really played well? In his first year Miami made the playoffs for the first time this decade. Last year Tannehill and the projected starting middle linebacker both go down in August. Then a hurricane makes Miami use it’s bye in week 1, and a third of the team was hurt at some point during the season. Any coach would of struggled last year and he deserves more than just this year to prove he can be the guy.
Yeah but Gase courted Cutler when no other team felt that he was good enough to be a backup QB. The money Miami wasted on this washed up mediocre ex-QB of the Chicago Bears could’ve been better spent going after some other needy position on the team.
It was already a lost season in my opinion. Who else was gonna play QB. Kaepernick? I can’t think of anyone legit that was on the market. Matt Moore proved in that Thursday night against the Ravens he was never starter material.
But they threw ten million dollars at Cutler and got the same results that they thought they would’ve probably gotten with Matt Moore. Other NFL franchises knew it was a lost cause to throw money at Cutler, but Gase convinced the Dolphins organization that he could bring out the best in Cutler. Cutler proved to be what those other teams thought he was, a SLUG. But he walked away with $10m and all us Dolphin fans got for it was being ridiculed by the rest of the NFL.
I can’t disgree with the way you said that. Gase made a bad call, Cutler clearly didn’t care. But in my mind at least he did something to try and save the season. Maybe that proved he had to much confidence in his own coaching and hopefully he learns from that this year.
And there lies the problem. Like Admin said, Gase has made many, many bad calls. Gase got rid of Ajayi, he got rid of Landry, he got rid of Sue, he drafted a tightend with the first Dolphins first pick while we were hoping for a quarterback. All this hoopla about Gase being head coaching material was bought by the Dolphins organization and again, us fans have to pay for their bumbling mistakes.
Well he never used a first rounder on a tight end but ok. He didn’t get rid of Landry, the team just didn’t want to pay him 16 mil a season which is smart. And the suh contract was a joke everyone knew it was a mistake to give a DT that much money when the rest of your defense sucks. The only point you may have is Ajayi but Drake looks just as explosive and more versatile. Also pretty sure the pick from the ajayi trade turned into Robert Quinn. Also what QB did u want, josh allen? No one good was left on the board by the time Miami picked.
Agreed Landry and Suh were too much for this coming season. Gase showed that he wasn’t a quitter by signing cutler although in hindsight it would have been smarter to roll over on that abortion of a season and take a higher draft pick. Hard to do though as personally I prefer to fight to the end.
Enough of ajayi he couldn’t practice and didn’t run the plays called. Whether he was right or wrong you can’t do that shit as it hurts the team. He even admitted his mistakes later. I’m sure if they didn’t have Drake waiting in the wings they probably work it out but Drake was ready and cheaper. No distractions. Landry is a constant distraction great player but not worth over 15 M… teams don’t win bowls with WR’S….
My mistake, I meant to say the Dolphins drafted a TE with their second pick in the 2018 NFL draft. But it’s funny that you would say “But in my mind at least he (Gase did something to try and save the season,” but you don’t give that kind of consideration to the organization for trying to improve the defense which you yourself said “sucks,” when they signed Suh. And I don’t see what’s so smart about looking at Landry as not being worth the money and then throwing money at Amendola. And what’re you talking about when you said “No one (QB) good was left on the board by the time Miami picked?” Lamar Jackson, a Heisman Trophy winner, was still on the board. With your kind of thinking, it was a good thing for Ajayi when they booted him to the curb because he got a Superbowl ring to put on his finger. And what did the Dolphins get from Philly for Ajayi.. a 6th round pick…aaaahhhh hahahahaha, aaaahhhh hahahaha, aaaahhhh hahahaha……….