Phins must go at least 4-2 over their final 6 games to reach the Post Season
In 2016, the Phins were 6-4 with 6 games left… This time around, it will be harder to make the Post Season
The Miami Dolphins came into Green Bay minus three starting Offensive Linemen. Without Laremy Tunsil, Ja’Wuan James, and Ted Larsen, a complete disaster was expected. Despite the final score of 31-12, the Dolphins played made the game competitive. Short of players going into the game and losing a couple more players during the game, the already wounded Phins were razor thin on every front. Add to this, both Tackles were ruled out late Friday, so the game plan had to be changed with less than 48hrs to put it together.
Even with all these obstacles, victory was within reach for Miami till the 4th Quarter. This was no small feat. Gase and the Phins should be commended… to a certain extent.
Now with that said, Phins lost, and close is no cigar.
This ‘nice effort’ also doesn’t take away from all the critical problems that Miami has both long and short-term…
…Yet, it does show that this team has character and isn’t a dumpster fire like the Cardinals or Raiders.
Yes, in the long-term, continually being in the middle of the pack isn’t a good thing. Most teams need to be in the Top 5 to find their QB of the future.
But, the future is uncertain and the end of the season is near, so let’s focus on what’s left of the 2018 Season.
The Dolphins biggest talent issues are at Quarterback and Middle Linebacker.
Miami has less than sufficient talent at both positions… and it’s killing them. These deficits reared their heads again against the Packer.
Obviously, Quarterback is the prime issue for the Dolphins. But the lack to a top-tier Mike ‘backer is a key reason for the Defenses inability to stop the run… among other things.
Notice the formation: The left is the strong side (D’s point of view) due to the inline Tight End. Kiko moves McMillan to the weak side (shown prior to the start of this clip). There are an even number of blockers and defenders, 3 & 3 on each side of the hash with McDonald lurking. Both Defensive Tackles absorb two linemen. McMillan is on the weak side with an outside alignment shade, which means the inside is more exposed. McMillan sees two lanes open in front of him, and before reads, he reacts and slides to the right vacating inside that’s the weak point. Sight of the hand-off gets blocked, he gets distracted by the QB booting and is isolated on the wrong side.
McMillan absolutely does nothing on this play as the Packers tear off a 63 yard run.
Now, both Kiko and McDonald share responsibility for this breakdown, but their culpability is diminished because they at least are engaged by blockers. McMillan repeats his tendency of poor technique by over running the play (again) and gets lost.
Every opposing offensive coordinator knows McMillan’s tendency and every week they take advantage of it.
But McMillan issues pale in comparison to the issues at QB
Don Jaime commented on the Phinsnews forums after the game, “The QB spot is Mucho Problema for Dolphins”
This revelation is no surprise… but it did set in concrete terms the crux of the Dolphins issues in no uncertain terms. In that way, it did change my thoughts by refocusing them on the real problem.
Ryan Tannehill isn’t the answer… and neither is anyone else on this roster. Gase was wrong in his estimations.
With Brock Osweiler and Ryan Tannehill they have two halves of a good QB. Tannheill has the physical part and Osweiler is pretty cool under fire (at least until this week). I like Tannehill, but his performance to start the season wasn’t good enough. He has all the physical tools and can make all the throws. Unfortunately, Tannehill has proven to crumble under pressure… and that’s what determines if you have the right QB or not.
You can build a team around an above average QB with a good ability to handle pressure. But you’ll never win anything worthwhile even if you have an elite arm talent that folds like a cheap lawn-chair when it gets hot.
Phins are 5-5 and can reach the Playoffs… but what about beyond that?
Let’s say the Dolphins make the Post Season… is that the goal? No. Winning in the Post Season is the aim and with the lack of play-making talent at the Mike backer and QB, this goal isn’t a reality.
Gase and Burke both have strengths and flaws. Their primary problem is a lack of talented players rather than a lack of coaching talent. Name a coordinator who can win consistently with a C+ Quarterback or Middle Linebacker leading their respective side of the ball?
Now you can fault both coaches for riding and dying with McMillan and believing the talent in these two spots was good enough. That’s fair criticism.
But in this year of living dangerously for those in aqua, if Gase can get the Phins to 9-7 it will have been quite an accomplishment. Even the best pay per head services like AcePerHead.com would agree on that. I don’t think I can recall a Phins season with this many injuries. No, 9-7 won’t bode well for 2019 and beyond because Miami doesn’t have a good enough signal caller…
…But I do think it earns Gase and Co. one more season.
A record of 9-7 would be enough for me to reluctantly give Gase it a go one last time with Luke Falk and a draft pick at QB… to see what he can make of it. If it’s ‘same as it ever was’ next year, then burn it all down in 2020. But if Gase fails to have a good showing over thee next 6 games, clean house this offseason, and roll the dice again. Go Phins!!!
This Management and Coaching ignored the QB in 2017 banking on a hail merry and called in Jay Cutler? Then they call in Brock Oswieler for 2018 Can we trust them another season to bring in another surprise?
They have made a few key mistakes. Gase had 2 chances to use his mulligan: in 2016 as a rookie HC and after Tannehill went down. He had a load of credit to his name after 2016… he could have ran with what he had and he would have been given a pass. He went with Cutler and pushed his credit in the middle of the table. Now he out of luck and free passes. It will take something special to save Gase and Co.
This is why I’m very adamant about a 3 Quarterback Tre O for this team. We have Luke Falk (Not proven) We can draft Garner Minshew Washington State (3rd Rounder), who is on the Heisman Watch list
who lead his team a win against Justin Hurbert. We can Draft Kyler Murray (3rd to 5th rounder) if he comes out of college Murray sits next spot below Alabama needs Tagovailoa’s, on the Heisman watch list this week. Who sets below Murray is Will Grier who is going in the 1st round along with Justin Hubert and Drew Lock for what I have viewed is not on the list but consider a 1st rounder.
Miami Dolphins 3 QB package to play 2019 Luke Falk Minshew Washington Kyler Murray
We have Luke Falk he was smart and just got injured this season. He can start!
His decision making and moving the teams empress me the most He beat Justin Hurbert Said top QB in 2019 WSU quarterback Gardner Minshew II https://youtu.be/iDY4Zh8GF50 (2019 draft 3r rounder)
May just win the Heisman Trophy this season 2018 (He possess the Quarterback skill to move his team and handles the big stage well) He would be a mobility nightmare for our division. Kyler Murray Full Highlights Oklahoma vs Texas || 10.06.18 || 396 Total Yards, 5 TDs
Miami won’t be able to find a sure thing QB in 2019 draft. They might find one, but the top 2 QBs will go Top 5… at least 2 teams in the Top 5 will want one and the Phins won’t have the ammo to get there. They could find a QB later… but history shows finding good QBs aren’t easy. Phins have Falk… maybe. They need to drop Brock and Tannehill, if he doesn’t comeback and shine. Miami should get 2 QB in the draft to compete with Falk and keep Fales as the vet. I hope for a Tannehill miracle over the next 6 games, but he has proven to me to be someone who wilts in pressure.
We can select the top Defensive Tackle or Linebacker in this draft.
One player who could really help them up front is Quinnen Williams from Alabama, who is quietly becoming one of the best defensive tackle prospects this draft class has to offer. Williams is a guy who can really plug up the middle,
The experts say Devin White is the best middle linebacker this draft class has to offer and adding an elite prospect in the middle of the defense Or later in the 1st round my picked for the Miami Dolphins linebacker would be Alabama’s Mack Wilson would be a guy they could bring in to captain the middle of the linebacker group moving forward. Wilson is a big reason why the Crimson Tide defense has been stellar once again in 2018, and the expectation is that he is going to be a guy who can start at the NFL level right away.
He appears to have a home playing for Denver. Yes we really thought he would have been a good fit for the Dolphins here, write up about him in Denver rookie linebacker Josey Jewell played 13 snaps in Denver’s victory against Oakland to represent 20 percent of team’s workload at inside linebacker.
What’s more significant, though, was the timing of those plays — several late in the game as the Broncos’ defense made just enough second-half adjustments to slow down Oakland’s quick-twitch offense. Jewell, a fourth-round draft pick from Iowa, recorded two run-stop tackles against the Raiders. His role is beginning to expand from fresh legs when Brandon Marshall or Todd Davis need a break to carving his own niche in the Broncos’ defense.
“You definitely want the opportunity to get in the game anytime, but late in the game like that where there is a lot of pressure, that’s awesome,” Jewell said. “I strive to get there every week, and you want to be that guy they have confidence in. But I have a lot of things to work on still.”
The beginning of the College Football Season I was certain that Justin Hubert and Drew Lock were the Guys for the Dolphins. I may have selected prematurely on those two. They are not the QB’s for us and the Dolphins should not take a Quarterback in the 1st and 2nd round of the draft in 2019. They are well overrated. Yes they both check the boxes But checking all the boxes has this team in the state that they are in now.
The 2019 college draft will be top heavy in defensive players and it makes know since to just settle for A mediocre QB in the 1st round. We need to get this draft Correct for Once!
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This Management and Coaching ignored the QB in 2017 banking on a hail merry and called in Jay Cutler?
Then they call in Brock Oswieler for 2018
Can we trust them another season to bring in another surprise?
No prime time games:
They have made a few key mistakes. Gase had 2 chances to use his mulligan: in 2016 as a rookie HC and after Tannehill went down. He had a load of credit to his name after 2016… he could have ran with what he had and he would have been given a pass. He went with Cutler and pushed his credit in the middle of the table. Now he out of luck and free passes. It will take something special to save Gase and Co.
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This is why I’m very adamant about a 3 Quarterback Tre O for this team.
We have Luke Falk (Not proven)
We can draft Garner Minshew Washington State (3rd Rounder), who is on the Heisman Watch list
who lead his team a win against Justin Hurbert.
We can Draft Kyler Murray (3rd to 5th rounder) if he comes out of college Murray sits next spot below Alabama needs Tagovailoa’s, on the Heisman watch list this week. Who sets below Murray is Will Grier who is going in the 1st round along with Justin Hubert and Drew Lock for what I have viewed is not on the list but consider a 1st rounder.
Miami Dolphins 3 QB package to play 2019
Luke Falk
Minshew Washington
Kyler Murray
after week 11 Heisman Candidates
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/11/13/heisman-watch-kyler-murray-moves-closer-tua-tagovailoa/1979054002/
https://sports.yahoo.com/heisman-watch-week-11-time-kyler-murray-leap-frog-tua-173321000.html?guccounter=1
We need to have a Quarterback package or 3 in 1
We have Luke Falk he was smart and just got injured this season. He can start!
His decision making and moving the teams empress me the most He beat Justin Hurbert Said top QB in 2019
WSU quarterback Gardner Minshew II https://youtu.be/iDY4Zh8GF50 (2019 draft 3r rounder)
May just win the Heisman Trophy this season 2018 (He possess the Quarterback skill to move his team and handles the big stage well) He would be a mobility nightmare for our division.
Kyler Murray Full Highlights Oklahoma vs Texas || 10.06.18 || 396 Total Yards, 5 TDs
Miami won’t be able to find a sure thing QB in 2019 draft. They might find one, but the top 2 QBs will go Top 5… at least 2 teams in the Top 5 will want one and the Phins won’t have the ammo to get there. They could find a QB later… but history shows finding good QBs aren’t easy. Phins have Falk… maybe. They need to drop Brock and Tannehill, if he doesn’t comeback and shine. Miami should get 2 QB in the draft to compete with Falk and keep Fales as the vet. I hope for a Tannehill miracle over the next 6 games, but he has proven to me to be someone who wilts in pressure.
We can select the top Defensive Tackle or Linebacker in this draft.
One player who could really help them up front is Quinnen Williams from Alabama, who is quietly becoming one of the best defensive tackle prospects this draft class has to offer. Williams is a guy who can really plug up the middle,
The experts say Devin White is the best middle linebacker this draft class has to offer and adding an elite prospect in the middle of the defense Or later in the 1st round my picked for the Miami Dolphins linebacker would be Alabama’s Mack Wilson would be a guy they could bring in to captain the middle of the linebacker group moving forward. Wilson is a big reason why the Crimson Tide defense has been stellar once again in 2018, and the expectation is that he is going to be a guy who can start at the NFL level right away.
2019 TOP LINEBACKERS
1 Devin White – LSU TO THE RAVEN PICKED 17TH 1ST ROUND https://youtu.be/-2vg38N3k40
2 T.J. Edwards – WISCONSIN 42ND PICKED SECOND ROUND https://youtu.be/WABbsjgACfo
3 Mack Wilson – ALABAMA 47TH PICKED SECOND ROUND https://youtu.be/WaV0tmSXLaw
4 Cameron Smith – USC 57TH PICKED SECOND ROUND https://youtu.be/UrDEmMswwPA
5 Kendall Joseph – CLEMSON 66TH PICKED THIRD ROUND https://youtu.be/ybdm7HWch8o
Maybe in the 1st round we go after Q. Williams D/T
and Mack Wilson in the Second round
Josey Jewell is doing very good… we should have drafted him…
He appears to have a home playing for Denver. Yes we really thought he would have been a good fit for the Dolphins here, write up about him in Denver rookie linebacker Josey Jewell played 13 snaps in Denver’s victory against Oakland to represent 20 percent of team’s workload at inside linebacker.
What’s more significant, though, was the timing of those plays — several late in the game as the Broncos’ defense made just enough second-half adjustments to slow down Oakland’s quick-twitch offense. Jewell, a fourth-round draft pick from Iowa, recorded two run-stop tackles against the Raiders. His role is beginning to expand from fresh legs when Brandon Marshall or Todd Davis need a break to carving his own niche in the Broncos’ defense.
“You definitely want the opportunity to get in the game anytime, but late in the game like that where there is a lot of pressure, that’s awesome,” Jewell said. “I strive to get there every week, and you want to be that guy they have confidence in. But I have a lot of things to work on still.”
The beginning of the College Football Season I was certain that Justin Hubert and Drew Lock were the Guys for the Dolphins. I may have selected prematurely on those two. They are not the QB’s for us and the Dolphins should not take a Quarterback in the 1st and 2nd round of the draft in 2019. They are well overrated. Yes they both check the boxes But checking all the boxes has this team in the state that they are in now.
The 2019 college draft will be top heavy in defensive players and it makes know since to just settle for A mediocre QB in the 1st round. We need to get this draft Correct for Once!
Haven’t watched them… no one but Mayfield appears to be the real deal in this draft.
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Nice Scenario: That’s another factor we must emulate! To use those running backs that possess that burst of speed to accelerate passes their tacklers.
They are good at RB. They need QB, MLB, and depth on the Oline. These injuries are downright absurd. I can’t remember a year like it.