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I really think it’s gonna be bridgewater. To be fair to people though lol, all the talking heads have been saying Thompson is ‘expected’ to start which is why they think that. they don’t want bridgewater to further aggravate his finger so he’s not takin practice reps and they’re gonna see how it feels Sunday The thing with bridgewater though is he’s a bit of a mismatch to what their offense likes to do. I don’t think he’s that much worse than tua he just doesn’t have the skills their offense is built around

Huh? The secondary was decimated in the first game. Probably the worst it’s been all year. The only starter that played was taron Johnson. Poyer and hyde didn’t play at all. Safeties were Jaquan Johnson/Damar Hamlin. didn’t have Dane Jackson or Christian benford so the corners were kaiir elam and cam Lewis/Jamarcus Ingram. our secondary situation is exponentially better than that game right now even if tre is mediocre miami would’ve gotten absolutely destroyed if our injury situation was a little closer to typical. We were missing 5 offensive linemen by the second half also.

Wouldn’t that be ‘the best way to stop the bills is stopping throws to diggs’ then? Lol which is the opposite of what RGIII said. the last three Super Bowl winners were in the bottom 10 in rushing ypg during the regular season. RGIII is mistaking ‘teams with leads run the ball’ with ‘you have to run the ball to win’

We’ll see if his theory is correct lol baltimore should be his superbowl choice by those standards.. they are the best rushing offense and rushing defense in the afc playoffs

They could be missing 3 starting offensive linemen too…tough to get guys in space in that situation. Sounds like they’re gonna try to start teddy and they don’t want him takin reps in practice to keep him healthy. I feel like teddy is gonna start and this Skylar Thompson stuff has been a smokescreen the quote about Skylar has been ‘they’re preparing like he is gonna be the starter’

Won’t work nearly as well…dolphins pass out of heavy formations and the defense plays them with a relatively light box because they have to respect the speed of tyreek/waddle. It becomes less effective in the red zone even in ideal circumstances because the line of scrimmage naturally gets more clogged up when tyreek can’t take the top off the defense. that’s why we saw McDaniel attempt some throws on 3rd and short/medium down around the goal line. The threat of the passing game gives them a big time schematic advantage between the 20s and they’re still not a great rushing team. We had an awful night tackling or it would’ve gone significantly better for us.

Idk how they start him potentially missing three starting offensive linemen either. Even if he has no more lingering concussion effects, the reinjury risk is pretty high

I think he’d play in the Super Bowl for sure and maybe the afc championship assuming we make it. 4 months post surgery seems like the point where you get into ‘if it’s a big game he’s healthy enough to play’ territory with a herniated disc. that year jj watt pushed it with a herniated disc in his back he came back in two months which is certainly too soon.

The rest of our decision isn’t in great shape either. The jets have the most cap room but the least quarterback 😂

Crazy that we had more injuries vs them in that game than they will have this week still. Imagine us Gatorade bath-ing McDermott beating the dolphins missing like 8 starters lol

Yea they give up some yards in the rushing game but they make some huge tackles behind the line especially on short yardage situations.

They won’t by the time they find the consistent qb play. That’s the downside of drafting multiple early round picks in the same couple of years. They can’t pay all those guys. They have to hit on a qb in one of the next few drafts but now they won’t be drafting in the top 10

It wasn’t even qb that concerned me for them…no armstead no eichenberg no shell is crazy. Idk how they could put tua behind that oline if he could play

Tua is ruled out but bridgewater technically isn’t

He’s been working out off to the side for a month or so now. Our safety play has been a little rough so even if he’s 75% it would be an upgrade

Lose a roster spot I would think

I don’t think McDaniel trusts his offense to pick up tough yards on the ground on obvious running downs though so it’s not quite as simple as ‘if they just ran the ball on those red zone plays they would’ve won’. A lot of their shtick is they frequently pass out of heavy formations and most teams play them with pretty light boxes to respect the pass but the closer they get to the end zone the less you have to worry about tyreek/waddle taking the top off the defense so things get jammed up more closer to the line of scrimmage. So between the 20s they’re pretty much being given free yards if they want to try to run the football but things get a lot harder in the red zone. And if their threat to pass isn’t as strong, they will have a lot more trouble running the football. also if they’re missing armstead and shell, their offensive line won’t get the push to run or pass.

I have a weird feeling they’re trying hard to get bridgewater ready to start and they’re pulling a fast one lol the language has been ‘the dolphins are preparing like Thompson will start’…I don’t think bridgewater has been ruled out though

There will be plenty of ‘the season is over’ posts in the gameday thread if Miami picks up at least one first down on their first drive lol

Lol no definitely not…and despite all that we were a gabe Davis drop away from tying the game or winning outright in the last couple seconds

I don’t think Skylar is bad but he does not have the particular skills that the offense was built around. Bridgewater really doesn’t either.

Kenny Pickett was all garbage time. The Zach Wilson game was more the jets picking on Terrell Bernard all game which won’t be an option this time. The falloff from Edmunds/Milano to Bernard is massive and the jets took advantage. If we had both our starting linebackers we would’ve shut the jets out

It’s crazy because he’s completely wrong haha. It literally proves the opposite of what he’s trying to say. How was tua even allowed to re-enter that bills game when mahomes wasn’t? and tua has memory loss after his second documented concussion…clearly mahomes didn’t have that

tua did come back from his stumble hit in the same game and didn’t go into concussion protocol after the bills game I don’t think. Mahomes came out of the game right after that hit and never returned despite the playoffs being on the line. This proves the opposite of their point this recent bout tua literally has proven long term memory loss after already having one other documented concussion this season(possibly 2 others) I’m not sure what that twitter person is getting at. tua remembered the interception plays in the postgame and had completely forgotten them by the next day concussions vary greatly in severity and that one he sustained in the bengals game was very bad

There’s something pretty puzzling going on with this most recent concussion. I just don’t get how you can play him a couple weeks later when he experienced mental confusion like that after his second concussion this season. In the post game press conference tua talked about individual plays at length and how they cost his team the game. then the next day supposedly Mike McDaniel asked him about certain decisions he made on plays during the film session and he ‘couldn’t recall the plays’ -Jay Glazer so he must’ve had some pretty serious long term memory issues beginning after the game which could last a long time