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Bush will be out with an injury by mid season

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by cobrajet, Sep 11, 2011.

  1. cobrajet

    cobrajet Mr. Ross - sell the team!

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    Mark my words. We will put too much of a work load on a RB whose career more than 3/4 over and will not be able to muscle the load. Our backups are two rookies - already hurt, Larry Johnson who doesn't even know the offense yet and Lex Hillard, a part timer who thus far is unproven. We should have kept Ronnie Brown to share time with Bush so we have at least one solid, reliable, proven RB to fall back on. There is no proven insurance policy at RB and this knee jerk offensive revamp could come apart at the seems with one hit on Bush. This is something that the guys holding the whistles apparently can't foresee.
     
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  2. Two Tacos

    Two Tacos Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    You should find them and tell them!! OH no! We must get this news out! Does anyone have a phone book? We need to look up Irelands phone number, he must be informed.


    AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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  3. Trowa

    Trowa A world of pain

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    Several reports surfaced after the Ronnie Brown signing in Philadelphia that Miami offered him more money to stay with the team and he refused. So clearly the solution isn't as simple as "holding onto Ronnie Brown." That's the beauty of unrestricted free agency. Players can go anywhere they want to, and Ronnie obviously did not want to be here. Do your research next time before you criticize that which you don't understand.
     
  4. Two Tacos

    Two Tacos Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Or, don't and continue to post for my personnel amusement. Thanks in advance. :up:
     
  5. Alex13

    Alex13 Tua Time !!! Club Member

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    i wish these injury predicting threads would be deleted in a matter of seconds, do you realize that RB is 26 years old ? just asking, because apparently you just wrote his career is 3/4 over....
     
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  6. GridIronKing34

    GridIronKing34 Silently Judging You

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    If you're right, then hopefully you'll be happy and shower in the glory.
     
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  7. pennphinfan

    pennphinfan Stelin Canez Arcade Scorz

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    Nothing like opening day pessimism. Right after you said "I Do" and leaned in to kiss your bride did you whisper that 40% of marriages end in divorce?
     
  8. DOLPHANITY

    DOLPHANITY Wooo Dolphins

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    Holy ****, I read it quickly as Reggie Bush will be injured for half the season. Pshhh thank god, but I think he will get nicked up a little bit but he looks as if he can take quite a beating and I think he will last the season.
     
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  9. Pandarilla

    Pandarilla Purist Emeritus

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    Challenge accepted...
     
  10. Larryfinfan

    Larryfinfan 17-0...Priceless Club Member

    Mark my words, while this may very well come to fruition, there will be 500 more threads on the very same thing. What's up here ?? We all know Bush has been somewhat injury prone during his short career. We all know he's never shouldered a team before, always being an accessory...so what is the big revelation here ?? Are you going to be a "I told you so" type if it actually happens ??

    Brown didn't want to come back here. He made that abundantly clear when FA started. He wanted a new, fresh start. Hopefully it'll be that way for him (except when he should play us). Get over it Shula Boy...besides, if you're really a Shula boy, you know that we'll take his'n and beat your'n and then take your'n and beat his'n with whoever we have in the backfield...
     
  11. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    And if he is not injured, what then? What is his upside?
     
  12. Ohio Fanatic

    Ohio Fanatic Twuaddle or bust Club Member

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    My vote for worst thread of the preseason.
     
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  13. CaribPhin

    CaribPhin Guest

    But if I were to say mark my words you'll suffer carpal tunnel for spending so much time making bad threads it'll be considered malicious.
     
  14. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    I used a highlighter to mark them, now I have yellow marks on my screen..do you know how to remove them KM?
     
  15. phineas64

    phineas64 Season Ticket Holder

    This.

    Easy to criticize when you don't have the complete picture. They also brought in other running backs for a look, but didn't sign for some reason. But since the fo doesn't give the reasons why, people call them idiots, or worse because they don't like what they see, even though that's incomplete.


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  16. GreysonWinfield

    GreysonWinfield Release The Hounds

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    Looks like somebody got shot down at the bar / match.com last night.
     
  17. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    I'd like to see the report saying that Ronnie shunned us and took less money.

    Reggie Bush was drafted in 2006. The idea that his career is '3/4 over' gave me a good laugh.
     
  18. Disnardo

    Disnardo Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    and that is the reason why we don't have Ricky nor Ronnie, not because the team did not want them...

    BUT because neither of them wanted to be here...
     
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  19. Disnardo

    Disnardo Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    It has been discussed by Sid on QAM...

    Ronnie was a few yards short of an incentive on his contract and Tony (Phins) kept him from reaching it... something around $500,000.00...

    Sources stated that he told other players that he was upset and did not want to return...

    I can see our FO, OK Ronnie return for one year on a incentive laden contract, then they don't let him reach them...
     
  20. BlameItOnTheHenne

    BlameItOnTheHenne Taking a poop

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    Oh, you're back.
     
  21. jw3102

    jw3102 season ticket holder

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    This would not surprise me in the least. It has been reported that both Ronnie and Ricky wanted out of Miami because they did not want to play for Sparano again.
     
  22. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    I had forgotten about that. I would leave too. That is not how you treat people. Shame on fist pumper for that one.
     
  23. FinNasty

    FinNasty Alabama don’t want this... Staff Member Club Member

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    Ronnie took less money to play in Philly Shula. Did you want to franchise tag him instead of Soliai?
     
  24. Den54

    Den54 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    A few yards short? He has no one but his self to blame then.
    He should have played more like a man possesed imo.
     
  25. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    What do the numbers 214, 147, 200 and 160. 241 and 159 mean? Those are the annual rushing attempts for Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams the last three years consecutively. You'll notice that the middle year (2009) was the year Ronnie went down and Ricky had to pick up the slack. It should be fairly evident from these stats that Coach Tony "numbers freak" Sparano goes into the season with a plan of splitting carries between his running back group (I didn't even include other backs who got carries). You all remember the drive last year where Ronnie was lighting it up and Tony was mad at himself for not pulling him out because he thought he was going to get too many carries. For the rest of the game Ronnie had like 4 rushes or something rediculous. Rightly or wrongly, Sparano will not force feed the ball to any of his backs.

    Reggie Bush (if healthy for 16 games this season) will not carry the ball for more than 200 attempts, 13 carries per game. Can we close the thread now that the facts have come out? Honestly predicting injury on any Dolphin player is rather moronic.
     
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  26. The G Man

    The G Man Git 'r doooonnne!!!

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    Did not know that. That is very disappointing to hear. Wonder if that was all Sparano, or was there an edict from Ross? Either way, that's a good way to lose quality football players in FA.

    JMHO...
     
  27. steveincolorado

    steveincolorado Spook, Storme & Pebbles

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    It's all Henne's fault!!

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  28. djphinfan

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    Thats funny because I'am on the record for not wanting to resign either of them, and in both cases it came down to more than just performance related reasons..I thought both players ran weak, with no enthusiasm, with an non aggressive nature, and I think both displayed poor leadership at times, and at other times I questioned their motives..

    Obviously I wasn't the only one who had these thoughts.
     
  29. unifiedtheory

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    It must be "play it safe with my opinions" day.
     
  30. AdamC13

    AdamC13 Well-Known Member

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    Too funny...Nostrodamnus predicts the solution is to sign a 29 year old, often injured RB that averaged a mere 3.7 ypc and refer to him as "solid, reliable and proven."
     
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  31. Ozzy

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    Or Ronnie Brown could have ran harder when the games actually counted instead of looking like he was hardly trying half the time. Then getting up off the pile with that crap eating grin on his face.

    I was a huge RB fan but he was not worth the incentive...
     
  32. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    Ricky just had a nice 'non aggressive' run in the Baltimore/Pittsburgh game. I believe it was a pass and run after catch. He would have went even longer if he wouldn't have been horse collared.
     
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  33. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    I don't really agree with that assessment. His ability might have been limited but I see no reason to think he wasn't trying. Ronnie did some good things in Miami and didn't deserve to be short changed on that incentive when he could have easily achieved it.
     
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  34. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    both players are now backups..Irish did exactly what I projected, get rid of them both, and go after Bush or Bradshaw, take a chance on explosiveness, both players had it..It was time to move on from those skillsets, skillsets that were not bringin it..
     
  35. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    It was a shady move indeed, but ronnie was overall unimpressive last year. If it were my business and my employee was about to earn a significant bonus for accomplishing almost nothing, id probably block it from happening too. The incentive is there so Ronnie would run hard in the games that matter, but he got pissed because they didn't give him garbage carries in the pats game that didnt matter? **** that, shoulda earned it in the weeks prior. Its a business and he knows that.
     
  36. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    100% agree.
     
  37. Trowa

    Trowa A world of pain

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    Incentives are earned, they are not given.
     
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  38. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    Spare me this please. Benching a guy right before he hits a half a million dollar incentive is a dick move. Plain and simple. If they wanted him to get that yardage in 14 or 15 games they should have put that in the contract. It's disheartening seeing people trash a good player who did some good things in Miami to attempt to make Ireland and fist pumper look justified.
     
  39. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    If they wanted him to get that yardage in fewer games the contract should have said that. This is ridiculous. You give him a contract that says, 'get X yards in a season and get this money' but then it's OK to screw him because you didn't feel he racked up the yards fast enough. Ronnie just sucked last season. The bad offensive coordinating and Oline play that excuses certain other players from underperforming doesn't apply here. He sucked yet he managed to get within a mere handful of yards of a number that the FO at some point thought was good enough to warrant a half a million dollar bonus. Maybe they should have set the bar higher. But they didn't.
     
  40. Trowa

    Trowa A world of pain

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    When did I trash Ronnie Brown? It's disheartening seeing people putting words in other people's mouths and distorting points they make to prove their own flawed point.
     

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