You have to start by beating the crappy teams, and now finally, the Dolphins are able to do so. It’s a baby step, but an important step.

Earlier in the the year, we lost to several of the NFL’s worst doormats. Snoop Huntley couldn’t beat the Titans or the Colts.

But it seems like those horrendous games with our unknown horrible quarterbacks are in the rearview mirror. The Dolphins have beaten two teams in a row in games we had a chance in. In the prior two weeks, we held our own against the first-place Bills and Cardinals.

It has the feeling of turning the page. It’s a good feeling.

Unfortunately, that good feeling is tempered by the fact that the Dolphins decided to scrap Tua for a month, essentially giving 3 free wins to the opponents. We could/should be 7-3 right now instead of 4-6. What might have been.

Beating the Raiders at home is something we were supposed to do. It was ugly at times, but we got there. Tua fumbling–yet again–any time he’s feeling pressure is a backbreaker. Some rookie unknown tight end setting a reception record against us is disgusting. Watching Kader Kohou and Jordan Poyer each miss routine tackles on Raider touchdowns had me furious. But someone we won. Let’s savor it.

5 Comments

  1. “What might have been” seems to be a recurring theme with our beloved Dolphins. We hold the dubious honor of being the only team in the last 25 years to not win a post season game. Some of our former coaches are finding great success in the NFL these days – Campbell, Flores, Rizzi, Fangio to name a few. As for the rest of the season, I think we’ll win a few more games but I think we miss the playoffs. And until Josh Allen retires or we find a way to beat him and the Billies we ain’t going anywhere. Just my $0.02.

  2. Admin, although I agree with you that we would have a better record if Tua had returned sooner from his 4th concussion, we would have been in the same place as last year – a solid winning record thanks to beating average to bad teams, and thus way too over-confident as we head into the toughest & coldest part of our schedule

    So I disagree with you about the long term consequence. I think it will prove-out beneficial…because thick-headed Tua needed to learn a valuable lesson and I postulate that the 4-game forced absence did that. Tua is playing arguably his best quarterback play of his career since returning from the 4-week absence.

    Also, McDaniel and rest of team needed to experience some adversity as well as experience the offense without Tua, and re-focus the play-calling on the running game.

    Lets focus one game at a time. McDaniel needs to maintain the balanced run/pass play calling.
    I have a smidgen of hope. Go Dolphins!

    1. Yes good post they are definitely playing a better brand of football now. Today they couldn’t run as well but the short passing game was there and they took advantage of it. I’ve been begging for little dump offs and screens and we can see it working instead of going deep every play. TE play has improved as well which should and is wide open its about time!

      1. Jonnu Smith has turned into a nice compliment to the passing offense that is finally paying dividends.
        But I feel that our offense is slowly slipping back into it’s pass dominant, finesse motion trickery play calling which works great against the bad to average teams, and works better in warm weather, but does not work as well as well against good teams, and does not work as well in cold weather.

        Smash mouth football wins in cold weather, not finesse. So we will need more of our rushing attack to prevail on TNF. We will need a balanced attack🙏

        I remain hopeful. Go Dolphins! 🐬

        1. Can’t agree with you more MM has to stick to the run. Hopefully Mostert can regain his form as he’s been slowing down of late. Not sure if age has caught up to him?

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