Its a perfect game to get back to winning and even our record. Who's playing QB? Your guess is as good as mine. Who's playing on the offensive line? Who knows. This game is going to be won by the defense. If they can just start a game like they finish a game were going to be ok.
Right now our offense is a HUGE question mark. Who’s starting at QB? Is McDaniel going to commit to the run? What’s the status of the OL? Too many questions to factor the offense as the major reason we win this game. Will Levis has been BAAAAAAD!! If the DL can get pressure on him and cause him to throw some bad passes, the D could set the offense up pretty.
Thompson on Thursday very much looked like a man who got knocked out of Sunday’s game with a rib injury. He wore a brace/apparatus under his practice jersey, didn’t do much throwing during the portion of practice open to reporters, and labored while even lightly jogging around the field between periods. Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel left open the door for Thompson playing Monday against the Tennessee Titans. But it’s hard to see how. McDaniel on Skylar: “It’s not just a pain tolerance thing, because Skylar’s a very tough individual. But it’s how you’re able to do your job and with what effectiveness and every day from the injury, you get kind of a scope into what it could look like and how that can affect him. So, I’m really just balancing what he’s able to do and then with regard to the reps and what the other guys are doing, just trying to absolutely make the best decision for the football team.” Thompson seemingly would have had trouble protecting himself had the game been Thursday. Our sense? It’ll be either Snoop Huntley or Tim Boyle under center Monday, with Huntley the clear favorite. Skyler wasn’t the only Dolphins player who tried to practice through pain Thursday. Cornerback Storm Duck was in a red practice jersey after hurting his shoulder in Seattle Sunday. View on Watch If Duck cannot play, things get really dicey for the Dolphins at cornerback. Cam Smith is on injured reserve, and Kendall Fuller is in the concussion protocol. Fuller was one of five active roster Dolphins not participating in Thursday’s practice. The others? Tackle Terron Armstead, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, linebacker David Long Jr., and cornerback Siran Neal. Running back Raheem Mostert practiced and seems likely to play this week after missing the last two games with a chest injury.
Calais Campbell was only on the list for vet rest, so he’s not a concern. Hopefully, Armstead and Long can play. PS. Why is Cam Smith on IR?
Huntley officially named starter for this game. Best case scenario given the options right now IMO. If nothing else it should be more entertaining for us fans .
I think Cam hurt his hammy in the last game of preseason. (I think it was that game) And supposedly it was the same hamstring he hurt last year.
I think running close to 1/3 of our snaps alternating between Mostert, Achane, and Wright in a two back formation in the backfield with Huntly using two tightend sets this week to find a running attack would be a good idea. Essentially forcing the lack luster Titans run defense to have to account for 3 run options with passing options to the twin tight ends and backs coming out of the backfield. The Titans rank 21st in the league against the run, and we need to try to take advantage of that weakness. On the flipside they rank 3rd against the pass, and our passing game has been abysmal. We need to stop trying to try to polish our turd for this game, and instead rub their noses in their own.
I’m not familiar with Huntley other than he was on the Ravens PS. With all of the hype of him being a running quarterback, the only concern I have is will he be impatient and take off running rather than wait for the receiver and deliver the strike. I don’t honestly know. I do know however quarterbacks who are known for taking off and running often miss out on a completion. They tend to take off too soon. We’ll see!
I mean, he's a backup for a reason, he isn't going to threaten Tua. We just need him to be decent and give us a chance, something he has done filling in for Lamar with the Ravens before. Thompson and Boyle really don't, so here we are.
I like our chances to win this game and the patriots game next week.. we go into the bye week 3-2.. think tua has to sit out one more game as the bye week does not count, mandatory 4 games. We can be 4-2 or 3-3 best case scenario before Tua is back. if we end up 1-5 just shut him down.. and heads need to roll starting with Grier
Tbt if Tua came back on fire even with a 1-5 record we could get in the playoffs. Especially if we find a real running game in the interim. Hopefully things don't get that desperate.
The AFC is not the “Murderers Row” that it was last year; many of the usual suspects have shown major flaws.
The second part of your post couldn’t be truer! We have 2 DAMNED GOOD running backs in Achane and Wright and McDaniel isn’t hitching the wagon to those 2 studs. Not good! A good running back is a quarterback’s best friends. TWO good running backs is a quarterback’s wet dream. RUN—-THE—-DAMNED—-BALL!!!! If McDaniel would just run the ball and not rely so much on the quarterback, we wouldn’t be behind the power curve trying to play catch up. Last week in the first half, you have your backup quarterback starting, who hadn’t played a game since 2022 and out of 28 offensive plays, only 8 of those were designed called run plays. That doesn’t set your quarterback up for success.
100% truth. I did not get that play calling at all. I mean yes, our offensive line doesn't instill fear in anybody, but Idgaf you still have to stay at running the ball. If not you are just allowing the defense to pin their ears back and go after your QB. We've seen first hand just how well that is working out for our 1st string and backup QB's this season. It also makes your play option pass game a joke because the defense knows 8 out of 10 times you are just going to pass.
Wright ran the ball 2 times for like 18 yards in the first quarter last week and McDaniel said, alright that's enough.
Anyone just see Derrick Henry house an 80 something yarder against Buffalo and wonder why, with all our speed, we can't do that against them?
The problem is that we have already all but lost the division and will have to go to some dump in round 1 like Pittsburgh, Cinci, etc. And while the depth of the conference isn't really evident, the elite are still sitting there being elite.
Here’s my take on running the ball…if you can’t run for a 1st down on 3rd and 3 or 4, then you have huge problems on offense. Balance is the key to a successful offense. Your run game must be just as much of a threat as your passing game. Teams that are one dimensional, or who abandon their running game completely are doomed to lose.
Lack of a dominant offensive line. Did you see that hole Henry had? You could have driven a Mack truck through that hole.
That may be true, but did you also see how many defenders he was carrying forward as they tried to bring him down on a couple plays. Henry might be the best power-back they've had since Jamal Lewis.
First, we can beat both the Jets and the Pats without Tua if we start running the ball consistently. With the speed of all three of our backs there is no reason we cannot average 150 yds per game on the ground with even average run blocking. If we can do that, then we can win games. If the Ravens keep beating down the Bills like they currently are, and if we can get our asses in gear on the ground against Tennessee tomorow night, then we are right back in it for the moment. But if we cannot put up 200 yards on the ground against Tennessee who has one of the worse run defenses in the league this week, then we are truly screwed whether it is because our line or McDaniel cannot find their balls.
The Bills have a ton of flaws. The problem is our head coach doesn't want to or knows how to take advantage of them.
Yeah I mean IF everything breaks our way, sure. But the bottom line is that we cannot expect to seriously challenge the Bills unless we can at least go 1-1 against them. Making up an 0-2 deficit is enormous, and they get to play the Jets and Pats too. We lost our best chance, at home in September. Now we go to them on the road, maybe without a QB. If we can't beat them in Buffalo, you can kiss the division goodbye and now you're jockying position with everyone else and facing a cold weather round 1 game unless you end up going to some place like Houston, which ...
It was fun to see Josh Allen get beat up a little bit last night. He took some nasty shots. A lot of violent collisions with his head and the ground. He has to be feeling it this morning.
Would love nothing more than to establish a run game and stick with it, but when a RB gets stuffed at the line and creates a continuous 2nd and long or 3rd and long , it alters the game plan. Maybe the running game will surprise us tonight. Let's hope.
If you type out all the guys missing (including those on IR) it's a real eye opener. QB1, HB1, LT1, LG1, WR3, WR4, WR5, Pass Rusher 2 (not sure if Chubb is classed as DE or OLB), LB1, CB2. It's only week 4.
Not cool dude. We might hate the Bills but Allen seems like a decent guy. Just because our franchise has no idea how to defend against him and makes him look like the greatest QB to ever live doesn't mean we should be be getting all giddy at other teams managing to rough him up. Maybe we should just learn how to defend against him for one game a year like both the Jets and Patriots do.
He’s not advocating for injury here. At least that’s not what I read. I don’t wish for Allen to get injured, but anytime he takes a shot I’m happy.
Just the wording of fun and "violent collisions with his head and the ground" can be interpreted that way I think.
I'm concerned about his reckless style of play. He takes numerous headshots a game and no one seems to bat an eye at it. It's going to catch up to him. He often looked dazed and confused last night.
Anyway, back to the game. I think the Dolphins win this if the offense doesn't shoot itself in the foot, if it cleans up the penalties then I think we win. I've watched the highlights of the Titans games (NFL on YouTube, only about 10 minutes per game) and from them they can't defend the edges but Miami has had a lot of issues sealing the edge as well. Maybe tonight is the game to throw 20 screens to Achane and Wright and see if they finally break a couple. Other than that, get Huntley moving, give him so read options and take the odd "fk it, Tyreek down there somewhere" shots to keep them honest.
That was before the rough shots. It literally looked like the Ravens were intercepting play calls from the sideline at some points in the game. The Ravens' D played a damn good game, and their offensive line came out with the mother of all chips on their shoulder. I wish our o-line played like that.
Civil war here at my place tonight. The Mrs is a titans fan. So... this is a must win game for us for my sake.
Paul does indeed have Huntley's blind side tonight. Jeff Wilson got injured in warmups. Only Achane and Wright available.
Almost 1:30 am let‘s go Fins! Don’t have much hope but maybe today is the start of something special!
