Fields is gonna have to start completing passes.. even Lamar figured that out after year 2.. justin is catching a lot of teams by surprise, a lot of that stuff he did in the game usually does not fly in the NFL.. that is not going to happen again the next time we face the Bears.. so he better hope that his GM get him some better receivers than Claypool, who is average IMO and the steelers stole a second round pick..
He definitely needs to prove he can throw the ball. Teams will start stuffing his running sooner or later. I was watching a NBC recap thing on YouTube after the game that was out of Chicago. They had Wanny, Lance Briggs and Alex Brown on the show and they had to pick their QB, RB, WR and defence after the game. They all went for Fields and were gushing over him as you would expect. Me, I’ll take the guy who has proven he can throw the ball and is the most efficient QB in the league thanks. I thought Fields looked amazing running the ball but this is the NFL and running QB’s get shut down eventually. We’ve seen it many times before. I’d be super excited if I was a Bears fan but he really needs to prove he can throw the ball or else he will get shut down.
Good for him after the way he has been trashed while the rest of that terrible draft class gets a pass.
Tua is one of the best 4th quarter quarterbacks in football. Tack on 3rd downs and you have the best situational QB the Miami Dolphins have ever had. Just need the defense to catch up and stop us from having to score on 80% of our drives to win.
Dave Wannestedt evaluating football players is like Helen Keller discussing the subtleties of a Monet painting.
I think we can all agree that the Dolphins D were somewhat respectable on most aspects of their approach. . . . except for containing Justin Fields. Good news is that, maybe Josh Allan, is the only other QB that can even approach that level of mobility left on their schedule. Bad News, overall is that McDaniels needs to stop going for it on 4th Down and leave points on the board. That last drive would have been a lot less stressful if the Dolphins were up by 6. That's the second time he's allowed a far lesser opponent to have an excellent shot at winning a game in the last minute. Is Sanders that bad? Sure he Finkle'd that kick at the end of the first half, but the analytics had to have them making a FG from the 15 at greater odds than converting a 4th and 2. Sometimes he's way to cute for the situation. Also either Tua's receivers are too fast or he really can't air it out North of 50 yards because he is collecting an ever increasing catalogue of deep throws that the receiver had to come back on. He doesn't need that play to be elite. He's got a lot of great things going for him. That just isn't it right now.
I think McD just saw going up 6 to be not as valuable the way the defense was playing as opposed to it being about Sanders. That Steelers 4th down call was real bad but this was fine. He obviously can throw the Waddle pass a lot farther than that he just made the bad call to lob it up. Although a slightly earlier pass and that would have worked too.
I don't remember ever watching a Game where I was fixated on the #2. Chubb is great. It's too bad the Bears made almost all their Hay up the middle on broken plays. This tandem is going to eat Brisset's lunch next week.
He made NFL history twice yesterday. Never as notable in a losing effort, but definitely worth writing about.
On the throw to Waddle he was trying to loft the ball over the CB and hit Waddle in stride for the TD. Waddle go to his mark a little faster than expected.
Yeah no, that was an underthrow. I think however the sun affected waddle's ability to judge it well and catch it more the the underthrow. It's pretty clear now that Tua doesn't have the arm to hit Waddle and Hill in stride on the deeper throws. Good thing is they get so much separation it's still good enough to complete the pass most of the time.
Tua has shown much more arm strength than what he used on that play on 90% of his throws the season. So yes you can say the ball was underthrown, but it wasn’t underthrown because of a lack of arm strength. The ball was “underthrown “ because there was a misjudgement of where the receiver would be at [x time elapsed] after the snap.
I think we are talking about different underthrows to waddle. There were two different ones in the game, I'm talking about the deeper one down the right sideline where the sun got in waddle's face and he jumped up for it, and the official bailed us out with a bogus DPI call. That was an underthrow due to lack of arm strength. I agree the other one later down the left sideline was more Tua just trying to get cute and throwing it too short with too much air under it.
Head coach Mike McDaniel conducted the traditional day-after-the-game press conference Monday in the aftermath of the Miami Dolphins' 35-32 victory against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Here were the highlights from McDaniel's media session: -- First question deals with injuries, and McDaniel says this was the best the Dolphins came out of a game in a while. McDaniel sounds congested, so maybe he'll be on the injury report this week with an illness or a cold. -- McDaniel reveals that Hunter Long currently is in the concussion protocol. -- Regarding the improvement of the offensive line, McDaniel credits a fixation on fundamentals. While he won't say it, we will: A lot of it has to do with Terron Armstead being in the lineup every week. -- TV cameras caught McDaniel telling Justin Fields on the Dolphins to "stop it," and McDaniel joked that Fields didn't listen to him. Adds that all the Dolphins took the Bears seriously. -- Regarding Bradley Chubb's first game, McDaniel said he was "pumped" with the "stuff he was able to do." Said he affected pass plays a few times even when he wasn't getting on the stat sheet. -- Chubb and Jeff Wilson Jr. getting as many snaps as they did speaks volumes to the kind of football guys they are in the way they prepared to get ready. -- Raheem Mostert and Wilson are both starter-caliber players, but McDaniel says there will be times when both guys become aware that one guy is feeling it and the team is going to ride that player. -- No change on Byron Jones, who again will not practice this week. -- Austin Jackson will get some practice time this week. -- Tyreek Hill's back flip after his touchdown earned a 7.8 from McDaniel, he jokes, because he didn't feel like he stuck the landing. Turning serious, McDaniel says he likes how Hill is serious about getting better and how his individual success leads to team success. -- Asked about Jason Sanders' missed 29-yard field goal attempt, McDaniel jokes that the media failed to warn him about the wind in Chicago. Turning serious, there was a technical element to the miss, though there was a gust of wind right at the snap.
See how winning cures everything? Had we lost this game, people on here would be complaining about how McDaniels isn't mature enough to be a head coach and that the jokes need to stop. They would be screaming about how we just traded away all of our draft assets for Bradley Chubb who is overrated. Tua would be lambasted because he doesn't run the way Justin Fields does and people would all be calling Justin Fields the Quarterback that we truly need in Miami. Thank god we won and more importantly, I'm so happy that Tua has been playing as efficient and awesome as he has. That dude is the truth!
“No change on Byron Jones, who again will not practice this week.” Heading into week 10, does anyone believe this guy will play this year?
Love McDaniels. Not happy with some calls he has made and some time management, but love him as the coach.