The Phinsider
Earlier this week, I wrote a post (HERE) highlighting that the Buffalo Bills won the division again, the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC, and then the Philadelphia Eagles won the whole thing. I then asked-
A) What have we learned from those three teams that should be applied to the current roster of the Miami Dolphins? In other words, what needs to be done or changed to achieve any or all of those three goals mentioned above? B) Do you believe that the individuals with the power to make the changes necessary to reach those goals will recognize them as essential to their success, thereby working towards them, or are we destined to keep repeating the same patterns and consequently see the same disappointing results?
Below are some of your answers and thoughts-
Miami7 also has a question-
are we we are destined to keep repeating the same patterns and consequently see the same disappointing results?!!!
Jptapt says what we have always been told was the recipe for a championship-winning begins in the trenches. Also would like Grier to just go away.
You know what I think.
1. Build a great offensive line.
2. Grier be gone.
StanleyDoyle1 agrees with a point I made a few posts back. The long-term recipe to success is to draft and develop your own players and then find a way to hold on to the key players—something the Dolphins do not do. I agree with the argument that you must let some walk when they become too expensive to re-sign, but that’s where drafting with some future insight (like other successful teams have done) also comes into play.
Apart from the trenches, maybe the bigger lesson is that it’s better to to draft your team rather than buy it in free agency. Philadelphia started the season having drafted 31 of 53 (58%) of its roster. In the last three years, 19 of its 21 draft picks (90%) were still on the team.
By contrast, the Dolphins’ 2024 opening roster had only 20 draft picks out of 53 players (37%), and only 53% of its draft picks over the past three years were still with the team. And only 25% of its starters were its own draft picks.
I think the verb is “Griered.” Used in a sentence: The company filed for bankruptcy after several years of being Griered by senior management.
cyberflea knows you can’t win with your quarterback on his back or with defenders constantly in his grill.
Hopefully our genius GM learned that you can’t win a Super Bowl without protecting your QB. The Chiefs makeshift OL was dominated and the reason why they lost despite having one of the best QBs in the league.
Balantine is another who made the point about how things begin in the trenches, as we saw in the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl was a bit of a revelation. The best quarterback...
