Men of brass-balls, make your bold way-too-soon predictions for the season here! We have Free Agency and the Draft done… What say you?
10-6. The oline is improved, but it's likely two rookies will be starting. Maybe better than last year, but significantly better? I'd like to hope so, but the question mark is there. Hartline and Gibson are both returning from (IMO) significant ligament tears. And obviously, will Tannehill take another jump in his development? 10-6 is a safe bet. Anything less, without some crazy contextual scenario justifying it, the temptation to hit the reset button will be strong...
10-6. Should've been the record last year. James is going to be 10000x better than clabo. Billy turner or Dallas Thomas will be better than Jerry. Tannehill gets sacked less than 30 times next year. The new found pocket will let him step up more often, deliver a deep ball more precisely, and Wallace will have 10+ tds. Our receiving corps with Landry thrown in has the potential to be crazy good IMO.
8-8, got better on some areas but we didn't address the major hole in the red zone, no weapon there for Tannehill to throw it to.
I thought this was a 7-9 or possibly 8-8 team prior to the draft. I still feel that way after the draft. I see the Dolphins finishing 3rd or last in the AFC East in 2014. I don't see this team becoming a winner until Ross sells the team and Philbin is no longer the HC. Of course if Ross can pry Harbaugh away from the 49ers after this coming season, maybe I will reevaluate his ownership of the Dolphins.
Worse.... WORSE? You are the kind of fan that shuts off the game in the first qtr when the other team gets a field goal off of a turnover. You can honestly say the team is WORSE off this year? Based on WHAT? The fact the we are filling holes we have on the roster? Wtf. We are DEFINITELY not following the same team. Unreal, this board around this time.
Youre insane right? Please tell me you are just bat **** crazy and know nothing about football so this post makes some form of sense.
Harder schedule. The new oline is going to have severe growing pains. Downgraded DBS. Same lbers. We upgraded a poor rb group with an average rb. Same TE's. Half the receiver core is coming back from injuries. Mike Wallace did nothing to improve chemistry with THill. Division got a little better.
I agree we need a bigger red zone threat, but considering the lack of a runnning game, I thought we did a pretty good job in the red zone last season. Now with an upgraded line and upgraded RB corps, Gibson and Binns coming back, along with Landry (who I think will be a good red zone receiver) I don't think we'll have problems scoring in the red zone.
I say 8-8 last year was the year to step up I believe the other three teams in this division will all be playing better this year than last. Jets are the only question, Pats and Bills are both improved.
Take the sheet of paper you just wrote it down on. Scan it. Email it to yourself. Now save it on your desktop.
I think we will be better this year as well. I expect our line to be significantly better, our running game will be better and I expect Tanny to be better. On D I expect our LB's to be better after a year in the system and that is for a D that was ranked 8th in scoring. If we can get Sturgis to not choke on a few 30 yarders and get his confidence back we can be competitive even if the other teams in the East have improved.
9-7. Hickey did his job. I have NO faith whatsoever in Joe Philbin. This should be a 12-13 win roster, but with Joe, i'll say 9 wins. And that is being generous.
This is basically a list of nonfactual opinions and speculation. What's more safe to say is that you are definitely in the minority with most of these opinions
aside from the draft improving the team we have better coordinators this year and better o line coach. 11-5
Cross out all the vowels. Now cross out the repeated consonants, if there are any. Use the remaining letters to create a symbol... We need all the help we can get at this point.
You are correct that on this forum, PhinsRDbest is probably in the minority. Yet I think going into the season, his opinion will probably be in the majority for those fans and reporters who are not fans of the Dolphins. Philbin really hasn't shown that he is capable of taking rookies and using them effectively in their first year in the league. So to expect this draft class to come in and be productive this year, goes against what we have seen from Philbin so far as an NFL head coach. The Dolphins in Las Vegas have an over-under win total of 7.5. So that would show that the vast majority of the bettors who are willing to put money on it, don't seem to think the Dolphins will be anything but a mediocre team once again in 2014. I think with the tougher schedule they appear to have this season and having to rely on rookie offensive linemen to improve the play of that unit. Along with the fact the LB corp is one of the worst in the NFL and the secondary in 2014 doesn't appear to be as good as it was in 2013, the Dolphins will be very fortunate to win 8 games this season.
The team outright blew two games last season purely due to the play of the RT (BUF and BAL). They tanked @TB because they were flat after the whole scandal deal. A combination of the officials screwing us and team team letting down in the second half gave the game away @NE. If not for giving up huge yards on a late 4th down, they would have won against CAR. And there's simply no excuse for tanking against the Jets in the finale. Thats six games that you could argue that they should have won last season, and they still ended at 8-8. They got their doors blown off by a better N.O. team away on Monday night, which happens to a lot of teams, and @ BUF in the cold and miserable weather, when the OL played like crap and the Bills had a scheme that the coaching staff couldnt account for. Thats it. Factor in the natural improvement and progression that we should expect from Tannehill, a better scheme offensively, the players fitting into the defensive scheme better than last season, getting something out of last year's rookie class, better offensive line play all around, and the lack of the scandal haunting the team, and you'd have to be a HELL of a pessimist not to expect the team to be better. I said 10-6, which I think is fair as an expectation. However, if things break right, more could certainly happen. Other than Denver, the AFC doesn't have a dominant team. New England, Indy, KC and most of the North are "good", but I think that the Fins are too. Make the playoffs, and its anyone's game.
12-4. Who really knowa this early..but..Ryan Tanehill was the 5th rated QB when given time. Two book end Tackles and a new LG..Pro Bowl Center...all the sudden Tannehill has a real line infront of him. I feel really good about our chances barring injury. Sure..could also see us goin 9-7...but..what the hell. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Well I'm done going above .500 until they actually prove it, so I'll pick 8-8. I think I've picked 9-7 or 10-6 every year, except 2011 when I figured disaster was coming.
I voted 10-6. Anything less and Philbin should be fired. Hickey should be judged on the merit of how his additions play but most likely would be gone too.
Honestly while I'd be thrilled about playoffs I genuinely expect more this season from us. If we had a few key injuries...fine I can live. However this is a talented roster IMO fully capable of ten wins if healthy. I mean I wouldn't consider 9-7 much of an improvement with our offensive line greatly upgraded.
Well Turner and James were guys I believed were plug and play on the offensive line. Turner does need to develop in many ways, but I doubt he will be any worse than what we had going last year even if he is terrible...which at guard I just can't see happening. James was my favorite (realistic) guy if we were going RT...so while its definitely possible that both or one suck...I just have to stick by my evaluation of that and hope I'm right. Now I do agree Albert will likely miss 1-2-3 games at some point....but if that is the only injury I can't see our line being as bad as last season. The Smith thing is also a possibility...but even so I can't see him being any worse than what we had last year. He will still be an improvement even if his play falls off a bit. I also have hope for Dallas Thomas progressing but that is another story. Of course every season has context...things happen, injuries, balls bounce strange ways, refs blow calls....but without being able to predict those things I feel confident with 10-6.
I'm certainly not gonna predict 10+ wins after a C draft and when this team hasn't cracked 8 wins in half a decade. obviously playoffs would be great, but if not a losing season wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, it could actually lead to us hiring a legit GM and coach
You realize that past results in no way dictate future results right? Also you realize that your draft grade isn't the only one....no offense.
week 1 0-1 wk 2 1-1 wk 3 2-1 wk 4 3-1 wk 5 bye wk 6 3-2 wk 7 3-3 wk 8 3-4 wk 9 4-4 wk 10 4-5 wk 11 5-5 wk 12 5-6 wk 13 6-6 wk 14 7-6 wk 15 7-7 wk 16 8-7 wk 17 9-7 I predict Phins go 9 wins and 7 losses
Roster should be improved with a breath of fresh Ireland free offseason. But it's a tough schedule. I think Philbin continues his baby steps and improves 1 game to go 9-7. But nothing this season would surprise me. A playoff run, or a terrible season. Time to find out if Ireland was the biggest problem with this team (as I suspect) or if Philbin was/is a big problem too.
