DrDawkinstein

haha, my bad, guess i need more coffee. My brain locked onto the Andreesen mention and thought this was a new thread about getting Andreesen. Embarrassing.

what is going on here?

Welp, we're now about 40% through the contract. Deshaun Watson has thrown for 300 yards 0 out of 15 times for the Browns. Joe Flacco threw for 300 yards in 5 out of 6 games. Listening to 92.3 in Cleveland to hear the mess... https://www.audacy.com/stations/923thefan

Here you go. Whipped this up and made it more familiar for most of us TBD members...

The NFL says it is random, but this is hardly the first instance of players talking about this. It's been talked about a lot that players will coincidentally get picked after big games. Maybe it is just coincidence, we definitely need more data to be sure. But it's not the first time.

Trying to google, but it might do with where the ball is recovered. As in, the fumbling team gets the ball where the 2nd player original recovers it, not back at the spot of the fumble. The recovering player can not run and advance it. But since they recovered it in the end zone its a TD. I'm mostly pulling that out of bad memory and my butt. But it sounds right to me, and if I believe it, it's true. edit: I was wrong, @zow2 was right https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-video-rulebook/fumbling-in-the-end-zone/ In American football the offense cannot advance the ball if it recovers its own fumble on fourth down, or in the last two minutes of a half, unless the ball is recovered by the fumbler. Any player of either team may recover or catch a fumble and advance, either before or after the ball strikes the ground.

Awesome! Well deserved, but I was worried that playing on Thursday would get overshadowed by more recent Sunday performances. Cant deny 3 TDs, especially the way he pulled them off.

It's not just last year's game, which was a complete team/coaching debacle. The travel-timing excuse is bs. Other teams traveled to London on our schedule and still won, and didnt take 2 more weeks to adjust after getting back. But in 2021 we lost in Jacksonville 9-6 in a mess of a game. Barely squeaked out a home win in 2019. And of course, the 2017 playoff loss. Could go all the way back to the EJ London meltdown as well. Just something about our franchises, we rarely match up well against them. Of course a lot of that (pre-2017) obviously isnt on McD, but something about our rivalry with Jacksonville just seems stacked against us. The Giants used "NASCAR" as their call for their all-DE line scheme they put together to beat Brady and the undefeated Pats. NASCAR racing, all fast DEs off to the races... All the fame and publicity from that Super Bowl made the label popular. Folks just took it from there.

Going from the Dolphins to the Jags is a great case study in the extremes of McD's coaching. He always owns the Dolphins, we always drop bad games in the worst ways to the Jags. Let's see how he does against Pederson next.

Seems like that happens every year. They get so over-hyped in the offseason because all the talking heads want to be assigned to cover them in south florida. And then the season starts and they ***** the bed. Love to see it.

If I'm thinking of the same plays you are... The MVS throw could have been a stop/comeback ball, but I remember Josh patting himself on the chest after like "That's on me". I'll give him a couple off target throws. He's earned it. The Coleman one was where Josh scrambled and then ran all the way to the sideline before chucking it towards Coleman. Low percentage ball. Especially because it wasnt a jump ball as much as it was a wild throw that Coleman had to come back to and the defender played it well in hitting him from behind and knocking the whole thing down. Some stuff to work on, but if those are our worst plays, I'll take it every time.

I'm not, you are!

lol, the second Cook broke through the line and I saw it was only #21 out there I was jumping up and down yelling "TO THE HOUSE! TO THE HOUSE!". Glad Poyer gets to milk a couple more million out of the Dolphins while semi-retiring to south Florida. Although I'm sure Rachel has spent it already.

I remember this play live and not believing that Waddle didnt pop it up that inside lane for 10 yards. Great job stringing it out by the DL/Toohill. Bad lane picking by Waddle.

Oh for sure. I wasnt arguing or disagreeing with you, just expanding your point that they signed those big names, but at what cost.

We always dominate McDaniel and the Dolphins. I'll give McDermott credit for that. Very important to show up against a division rival like that. However... Let's see how prepared and disciplined we look next Monday against the Jags which seem to be on the opposite end of McD's coaching spectrum...

With his fingers being taped together I'd bet good money that he broke/fractured one of the fingers and that's about it. Love that we were able to blow out the Dolphins and didnt need him to run at all. It was almost like we were back in 2022 and he was searching for words so he didnt make it seem too bad and they could rush Tua back onto the field again. Tell me more about how it was a "back injury"!

He's never been anything much. We definitely got the better pick with Groot. That seemed obvious their first year.

Also super annoying that we got a BEAUTIFUL performance from the Bills last night and all they are talking about this morning is the stupid concussion because dummy dove head first into our guy. The WORST possible thing he could've done. Just slide feet first bro. Havent even seen a single James Cook highlight this morning.

This is getting obnoxious. Feels like its become a lot of virtue signaling and almost some narcissistic trolling. JMO.

Christian Wilkins (13th overall). Robert Hunt (2nd rd). Andrew Van Ginkel (5th rd). Jerome Baker (3rd rd). Brandon Jones (3rd rd). Raekwon Davis (2nd rd). All Miami draft picks that were allowed to walk instead of getting a 2nd contract while they threw more money at Ramsey and Hill, and extended a mid-tier QB. It's like they got all those picks in the Tunsil trade and then threw them all away. That is how you destroy a franchise.

I stand by my original assessment.

True, and to take it a step further... None of this happens if one cares enough about others and their community to NOT drive 60+mph through neighborhoods.

Nowadays you gotta be able to make a "dank meme" about tackling in order to get through to the players.

I was agreeing with you.