Probably! Is my answer.

I listened to the Joe Rose Show on WQAM this morning and Joe interviewed Mike Mayock and later in the program, Omar Kelley.

Mayock is here covering the Dolphins and Bengals today and tomorrow and will provide commentary from the TV booth the night of the game. What I drew from his comments is that there's a systemic problem with the coaching; Omar Kelley opined during his interview that he thought the coaching staff was stubborn and didn't adapt well to making adjustments.

All of us are pretty much seeing the same things. Joe Rose also lamented that he didn't see much of a difference or improvement in the performance of the LB corp from last year. If there is a difference it isn't all that noticeable, so I have to pretty much agree with him.

Reminder: Kick off is 8:25 pm.

I hope we beat the Bengals at home before a national TV audience.

If we all keep hold our breath, there are going to be a lot of Phin fans passing out all over the country.

I'll DVR it and if they win or I get the inch I might fast forward through it. I'm not sitting through another potential crapfest.

I always watch and hold my breath for a victory...so, it'll be same-old, same-old.

I will be watching. However, I won't be holding my breath. I need to drink a ton of beer when I watch the dolphins. They go hand and hand

LOL. HOLDING OUR BREATH oddly enough has NOT been our pattern.

If the last game is any indication, we take the early lead and the only time we have to hold our breath is WHEN THE OTHER TEAM STARTS ITS LATE GAME COMEBACK.

Holding my breath would mean there's hope for a win, so I'm not holding mine. Read the news-wire people, the players/locker room is in a meltdown and Mike Sherman is in the middle of it.

Joe Philbin has lost control of his team and he needs to put his friendship aside and fire Mike Sherman. You cannot expect a team to win when the players engage in a shouting match with the offensive coordinator.

I think if Sherman is fired, then he will rat out Philbin and put all the responsibility on Philbin. He will say that Philbin overruled crucial plays. He will say that Philbin refused to run the Texas A & M scheme.

The only reason he wouldn't is because if a person is fired, dumping on the boss that fired him is not a good thing with respect to expecting someone else to hire you but the one exception is if you are fired under the circumstances Sherman would be fired, the implication is that you totally f*cked up the team and that's not a good recommendation either.

Sherman was able to do okay at TAM with Tanny and Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000–04 and three divisional titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

So my advice to you Sherman is to yell "Phoolbin, Phumblin, Philflam."

Probably the only time I didn't hold my breath as a foregone conclusion was the last 1/2 of Cameron's season. Right now, we have the talent to win. Besides NO, every single loss has basically been self-inflicted. I'll hold my breath even though I don't really think we'll win.

Watching NFL Am early today and they give the Dolphins no chance beating the Bengals. Strong criticism of Wallace, the O-line, RBs, and Tannehill.

What a loss of respectability. We are thought of as LOSERS.

colonel Wrote:
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> Watching NFL Am early today and they give the
> Dolphins no chance beating the Bengals. Strong
> criticism of Wallace, the O-line, RBs, and
> Tannehill.
>
> What a loss of respectability. We are thought of
> as LOSERS.


Because we are and have been LOSERS.

Oddly, I think we win this game. Terrible for me because it will mean Philbin will get all the credit whereas he was able to escape the full blame for that four game losing streak which he actually did deserve.

jrhammerjr Wrote:
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> I'll DVR it and if they win or I get the inch I
> might fast forward through it. I'm not sitting
> through another potential crapfest.


+1 we got better things to do, right?

At Purdue, I've noticed they have a saying that was not the case when I was there in the school term of 1966-67 before transferring to Berkeley.

They say "BOILER UP!!!!!"

Come on, guys!

Let's bitch and moan AFTER WE LOSE, not before the game.

For right now, "FIN UP!!!"

Fin Up!!
Dusting off my pom poms as we speak.

lol.

I wouldnt want their wr green or whatever even if he played for free for us.


Most eratic wr in the nfl.

Yeah...right...I guess if you call 862/5 through 9 games erratic. I would take AJ in a heartbeat! EVERY WR has off weeks.

I wasn't even going to watch the game. We went out to eat instead (I DVR'd it) but they were playing the game at Square One so of course, I got sucked into the game. My woman was thrilled BTW.

Got home for the second half. Fell asleep in the 4th quarter (too many Palm drafts, huge jalapeno burger and a mountain of onion rings)
and woke up in the final minutes. Boy am I glad I did!

This is me....climbing back on the band wagon. I will rewatch the 4th quarter tonight. lol

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eesti i wouldnt take him over hartline...


He drops some easy passes....hartline does not.

I wouldn't take him over Hartline either if I was weighing in his favor because he is one of my favorite players. That's blind loyalty. it's all about production and points. Aj is a true number 1 franchise receiver. Hartline is not.

He is one of my favorites though!

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eesti Wrote:
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> I wouldn't take him over Hartline either if I was
> weighing in his favor because he is one of my
> favorite players. That's blind loyalty. it's all
> about production and points. Aj is a true number 1
> franchise receiver. Hartline is not.
>
> He is one of my favorites though!

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Hartline just isn't targeted enough. Don't know if that's intentional (make sure Wallace gets his) or he just isn't open when RT looks his way.

Whatever the reason, he should be getting at least 10 passes thrown his way every game.

i COULD COUNT A WHOLE LOT OF RECEIVERS NUMBER ONE THREATS I WOULD TAKE OVER GREEN.


Green would be one of the last taken.

I agree , AJ Green is a true number 1... A lot of credit should go to Grimes for minimizing Greens impact on the game... As was said in another thread, Grimes and Patterson as our 1 and 2, really make us a different team....

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captkoi Wrote:

> Hartline just isn't targeted enough. Don't know if
> that's intentional (make sure Wallace gets his) or
> he just isn't open when RT looks his way.
> Whatever the reason, he should be getting at least
> 10 passes thrown his way every game.

Right, if for nothing else so that they will stop devoting all their attention to Wallace.

Like I said, when Nat Moore was a rookie, he started putting up great figures, I'm paraphrasing but he said, "I thought I was hot stuff since I was making all these catches until I looked at the other side of our line and I saw Paul Warfield standing there and I then understood why I was getting all those catches."

We need to do the reverse. Start pumping passes into Hartline (like we did when there was only him and Bess) until they get sickofit and lighten up on Wallace and then Wallace will start burning them.

But that falls under playcalling again.

ChyrenB Wrote:
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> captkoi Wrote:
>
> > Hartline just isn't targeted enough. Don't know
> if
> > that's intentional (make sure Wallace gets his)
> or
> > he just isn't open when RT looks his way.
> > Whatever the reason, he should be getting at
> least
> > 10 passes thrown his way every game.
>
> Right, if for nothing else so that they will stop
> devoting all their attention to Wallace.
>
> Like I said, when Nat Moore was a rookie, he
> started putting up great figures, I'm paraphrasing
> but he said, "I thought I was hot stuff since I
> was making all these catches until I looked at the
> other side of our line and I saw Paul Warfield
> standing there and I then understood why I was
> getting all those catches."
>
> We need to do the reverse. Start pumping passes
> into Hartline (like we did when there was only him
> and Bess) until they get sickofit and lighten up
> on Wallace and then Wallace will start burning
> them.
>
> But that falls under playcalling again.

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Well, Sherm at least stuck with the running game last night. It's a start.