No News Day this link will make some happy Miami to pick #1 in 2012

That guy has always been a joke, so nothing new.

 

2-14? I could understand the 6-10 predictions, but 2-14? No way.

 

I wouldn't be super surprised if Miami goes 2-14. I also wouldn't be surprised if Miami went 11-5.

 

The only good thing to take away from that article is his prediction that we get Luck in the draft.

 

yes, but when defense is in position to put the team to win 5 or 6 games, and the offense isn't, then a lot of bad luck could happen.

Heck look at Miami's 1-15 year, at least half of those games by less than 7 points.

A lot of plays could go against Miami early in the year and then a young team with a weak quarterback could easily go on a losing streak.

At the same time if a few things go right, Henne actually plays well, defense creates turnovers and a few bounces go Miami's way I could see Miami having another season like their recent playoff season.

 

He made these same remarks after our first preseason game. First of all, putting fake boobs up your shirt is not dressing in drag. Second, is he for real? Does he honestly think Brady, Manning, Brees, Rodgers, etc. didn't take vacations this offseason? If you're going to accuse a guy of not working hard, you should probably have more evidence than two pictures of him on vacation in the Bahamas. That's just amateur journalism. Hard to take anything he has to say seriously.

Also, in his writeup after the first preseason game, he had this to say about Henne's second interception:

Regardless of how you feel about Henne's throw, that's an insult to Grimes. It was a very nice pick, and for this armchair quarterback to call it easy is ludicrous.

[video=youtube;fybwCWZrRDY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybwCWZrRDY[/video]

 

IF we maybe go 0-4 and get beat badly, and IF Henne has a terrible stretch followed by Moore coming in and being a dud, then MAYBE this team quits on Tony (like the Pats game) for the rest of the season. I would be hard pressed to think we are a 2 win team this year though. We may not have gotten much better, maybe Henne doesn't improve, but the defense alone should win us some.
With even average ST performance compared to last years atrocity, I would not see us being the worst team in the league. I mean really, we are going to be worse than all of:
- Washington?
- Seattle?
- Buffalo?
- Cinci?
- Denver?
- Tenn?

And those are softballs. They either are in just as bad (if not worse) a QB sitution than us (Beck vs. Grossman! Tarvaris takes the snap on 3rd and 19 again! Andy Freaking Dalton?) or they have a ****ty defense like Denver who probably would surrender 40 points to the French.

All in all though, I think Walter does some of this stuff purposely - he always makes some outlandish claims and predictions. Does he REALLY think we are 2-11? Or is he maybe trying to stir a bit of controversy and drive up site views and an active comment section/forums? Seems if it's the latter its probably working.

 

Wake alone will win us 2 games.

 

Keep it comin..daddy like..Post it in the locker room..

 

LOL, the ONLY way we go 2-14 is if we get CRUSHED by injuries. Even bad QB play and we would still win 4-5 games. We won 7 last year with inconsistent QB play....

 

I think we're 2 injuries away from the "Suck for Luck contest"
If Long and Wake both go down early in the season for the whole season
we will be in some deep DOO-DOO

 

Gave the Dolphins 5 Stars for DL, 4 Stars for LB, and 4 Stars for Secondary and projects us to go 2-14. What an idiot!

 

Most teams are like that though.

 

Thats just ......

How do people make money writing crap like that? I dont get it.....

 

Advertising revenue by getting page hits by writing controversial predictions, regardless of (un)likeliness.

 

2 wins will not give you the #1 overall pick.....

 

It did last year for the Panthers.

 

I think at least two will battle it out for 1 win this year. (and no Miami is not one of them)

 

not to be a party pooper, but does anyone realize we actually have a decent team?


we went 8-8 with massive injuries against one of the toughest schedules in the league. Anyone who thinks we've gotten worse has lost their marbles. Teams that pick first don't beat the previous year's super bowl teams and AFC runner up.

 

2-14 is pretty ridiculous, but the notion that this team might quit on Sparano if they get off to a rough start (entirely possible with this schedule) isn't so far fetched.

 

this reporter is off his rocker over this analysis, I really cant imagine that many Dolphins Fans really think we are in the hunt for #1 overall pick based on this squad.

 

he's what I worry about Todd, the advantage that other teams have over us in terms of learning a new scheme..The pats and Jets know it in their sleep and can just play football, we on the other hand are thinking...Its seems so distinct, but I just don't know how to quantify how big of an advantage we have here to overcome..We have to get to the bye 2 and 2 to get that extra week of practice..

Lots of pressure but Sparano made a decision to keep Henning that extra year so there are no excuses.

 

I'm not mad. I hope it's true.

What's the point of a season if you aren't competing for a Super Bowl? We aren't super bowl contenders.... so I don't care if we miss the playoffs or squeak into the playoffs and get bounced in the 1st round again. Either way, we aren't going deep.


I would rather just enjoy the season and win only 2 games, have a fun time listening to the radio (remember how hilarious the 1-15 season was?), and then draft QB Luck. The next 15 years of QB position is taken care of and we can finally develop a real offense and become a legit Super Bowl contender.


I have no idea why some of you root for the Dolphins to win a handful of games, always be too low to draft any elite QB prospect, and stay in mediocrity. Is winning 5-7 games more important than securing the next 15 years with a franchise QB?

 

Great merciful crap man...You'd rather your team be a cellar dweller and draft what may or may not be a great QB because you think these guys can't be had later in the draft? Let's take a look at the current NFL QB landscape....

Tom Brady - 6th round pick 199
Ben Roethlisberger - 1st round pick 11
Drew Brees - 2nd round pick 32
Aaron Rodgers - 1st round pick 24
Joe Flacco - 1st round pick 18
Josh Freeman - 1st round pick 17
Matt Schaub - 3rd round pick 90
Tony Romo - undrafted
Kevin Kolb - round 2 pick 36

hell even our own Danny Boy wasn't picked until #27

All of these guys are on teams that feel they are the franchise QB they are looking for (I'm not so sure about Kolb..yikes) and all were had out of the top 10. Sucking for the sake of sucking is ridiculous.

 

He's the clown who wouldn't shut up about how wonderful Jimmy Claussen is and why he should have been the first pick in the draft. I can't think of a worse talent evaluator out there.

 

I have been pegged as Mr Gloom & Doom around here, and even I think this guys analysis is stupid. No way Miami wins just 2. As I have said before 5-11 to 7-9 most likely, and with luck they can be 8-8. But we are not going to be worse than Cincinnati, Seattle or Washington. But I do think we slide to 4th in the division. Buffalo manages to win 1 more game than us. AFWIW, I do think the Jets slip but only to 9-7 and missing the playoffs.

 

I know I've given you a hard time before, but I think this is a pretty reasonable assessment. I honestly have no idea what to expect from our boys this year, I really don't. A good bounce here and there and maybe we surprise some folks, or if those bounces go the other way maybe we're looking at a new regime starting next year.

 

IMO we will not be bad enough to be in the Suck for Luck club.However I dont foresee this team making the playoffs either.

The real question is whether we will suck enough to get this regime fired ?

 

Thanks for the support. I think many of the guys have vilified me because they are afraid I might be right, and looking at that 1st game last week, our 1's vs Atlanta's 1's gives me no cause to back off my gloomy feel for this season. The new offense may eventually look better, but no way it will be good enough to win that 1st game against NE, and maybe not against Houston. If they start 0-2 I am afraid we could be bad until at least mid-season, and by that time the coaching staff may be so desparate they haven't waited to let the new offense gel. Which could lead to a real disaster, but I still see more than 2 wins no matter what.

 

That is the burning question for me too CT. Will 6-10 keep them here ? or will 8-8 and some heavy lobbying after the season, just like this past season keep them here ? Ross listened to them last year and supposedly bought in. But I can't remember the time line.....did the powwow with Ross listening to their "new ideas" happen before or after he flirted with Harbaugh ? If it was before, I still think even Ross is not totally bought into their "vision" if he did do that after listening to them, but he was kind of boxed in to keeping them, especially after the Harbaugh flirtation.

 

I've been as critical of this team and certain players and coaches as anyone, but this guy is a real Debbie Downer. Man, he must be really depressing to be around...Even the Panthers fans and media think better of their teams at this point ??

I have two words for this writer:

Internet Hack...

 

i feel like with this defense alone, there is no way we win only 2 games... i mean its HARD to lose 14 games, cmon now...

last year our offense was the result of us losing 9 games...
21st in YPG
30th in PPG
and according to MonstBlitz stat monkey thread an important aspect to a team winning...
27th in Yards Per Play

if that improved just a little bit we should, theoretically, be a better team... and i think just the change in philosophy will help those numbers improve...

 

That's really my point as well. If you give the DLine 5 stars, Secondary 4 stars and the Linebackers 4 stars, how could you project only 2 wins? I don't care how bad your offense is, that's 5 wins alone. It's truly amazing how much the media has stuck their heads up the QB's a$$ in the NFL. I think we all know how important they are, but this is a team sport.

 

All I can say is this....

Not one player on that Dolphin team believes they have no shot at winning a championship. As long as they believe...so do I.

 

There's a lot that can be picked apart in that article, but he totally lost credibility with me when he referred to the Chiefs as being one of the "cupcakes" on our schedule. They may not be a great team, but they did win their division with a 10-6 record, which I think hardly makes them a "cupcake", especially having to play them on the road.

 

The Defense which gave up 5 YPC to Falcons Running Backs?

And yet: the Defense that has outperformed our Offense overall, consistently all preseason, according to every camp report.

You can view that in two ways: one, that the Atlanta game was an anomaly and the D is better then that, judging by their performance in camp; or two, that the D isn't as good as advertised, and they only looked good against our Offense...which, then, bodes ill for both units when the real lights come on.

The fact is, we can believe one way or the other but we won't actually know until the real games start. But we'd better hope for the former, because the latter will make for a long, hard season all around.

 

If we got the #1 overall pick we would probably use it to draft a tackle.

 

You sure there's not another dominating 3-4 DE out there next year?