The Phinsider
I’m not going to bother trying to find silver linings for the team since they didn’t bother to play any football for me.
I do have one positive for my personal life in that I’ll be saving a good chunk of money by no longer going to the Dolphins v. Browns game in Cleveland. So that’s something.
Let’s dive into the pool of sadness.
How many times are we going to be forced to watch the same thing throughout a Miami Dolphins football season? When will the training staff and/or the offseason regimen be taken to task? How about the GM who appears to be funded by dark money from Big Blue Tent for all the porcelain dolls he brings into the organization?
Every NFL team suffers from injuries, but the Fins seem to suffer more than most. If nothing else, they suffer more greatly as a result of their injuries in terms of their immediate inability to function whatsoever, e.g. every time a single O-lineman gets hurt.
Knowing that pitiful reality, shouldn’t the entire franchise be focused on signing players with limited injury histories, designing an offseason program that works players to an adequate degree to help prevent injuries, and keeping players’ bodies prepared for the rigors of weekly professional football?
No?
We’ll just lose a handful of guys every week until we have to forfeit?
And that was before Storm Duck went down with an injury.
Cam Smith might be the most critical draft miss in recent Dolphins history. If he had turned into prime Xavien Howard, it would have been a second 2nd round pick success at corner. Instead, he can’t get playing time on a defense that allowed the Colts, led by Daniel ‘Exactly Tall as Required’ Jones, to score on checks notes 100% of their drives.
As a result, the team has brought in free agents like Jack Jones and Rasul Douglas while investing almost no additional draft capital in its other backs, like 5th rounder Jason Marshall and UDFA Storm Duck.
The Grand Reunion of Miami and Minkah only has impact if the rest of the defensive backfield is at least serviceable. No one player is going to turn that mess around. But if Cam Smith was X2 and Jalen Ramsey had stayed put, the Dolphins could be 3/4 of the way to dominant.
As it stands, I’m not entirely convinced that this won’t end up the worst pass defense that Miami has ever put together. I know that sounds like hyperbole, but also, the Colts scored 7 times on 7 chances while that pass defense was being paid U.S. dollars to stop them.
Speaking of pass defense, it’s been 118 years this September since Miami last defended a tight end. Ulysses Barnabus Cornrabble was held to just 32 yards on 3 receptions in the vaunted Rumble in Mundumble,...
