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You share your thoughts on the Miami Dolphins future!
Last night I discussed the Super Bowl and our Miami Dolphins’ trouble making it out of the first round of the playoffs, let alone making it to the big game. I then asked the following question
So beyond getting through the first round of the playoffs how far away do you think this team is from making it back to the Super Bowl or winning the Super Bowl? Please tell us how far away the team is from making it to the big game in your opinion and why.
Below are some of your answers and thoughts on the subject-
Bill Moody sees some positives and the obvious negatives.
This was year 5 of the rebuild, starting with the tear-down in 2019. My expectation was that in year 5 we would win a play-off game. I didn’t set the bar at the Super Bowl or even Conference Championship, just simply, win a play-off game. The team failed in this regard. I’m not quite at the point of saying the rebuild has failed since the team has been decimated with injuries over the past two years. However, the team now has cap issues and missing draft picks, and it’s getting hard to envision what’s next. Hopefully, they can carry something forward, and I do think that they can be competitive next season, but the team could also just as likely be headed for another teardown.
On a positive side, the team has had 4 winning seasons in a row, a feat not accomplished in over 2 decades. The team also made the playoffs two years in a row, again, something not done in over two decades. The next step is to be competitive against the top-tier teams and in the post-season. If we can’t jump that hurdle, then may as well dissolve the team. Nobody wants to be an eternal cheerleader for the fodder teams.
daytonadolfan thinks the team gets there in the next two seasons, but he was once wrong…or maybe it was more than once.
We’ll see after this year’s offseason coaching changes but I’d say we are within 2 years of going all the way. Of course, I have been wrong before!
wolfpack1 has no faith that it will happen anytime in the near future.
Probably not for a very long time and I have been a dolphin’s fan since 1972. So, as a kid I became a fan during ‘that’ season and watched all the games that I could including the SB. The current formula of Tua+Grier+McDaniels = 1st round playoff loss. There are just too many good teams in the AFC to have inconsistent QB play and that will end your playoff run quickly, no matter how many Tyreek Hills you have on the team. McDaniels isn’t adaptable and was often outcoached as many on this forum have pointed out. Grier is who he is and no sense wasting words on what needs to be done with him. So, I don’t know when the Dolphins will win another championship. That is why you suit up and play the games, other than the paycheck, but for the fans it’s disappointing to watch other teams celebrate as they move on in the playoffs and your team is cleaning out their lockers. Just another year as a dolphins fan.
coach k 13 is always an optimist!
I always go with next year!!!!!
Call_for_the_Priest’77 has rolled out a two-point plan!
In order for our team to become relevant we need two things. The first actually helps achieve the second.
1: STAY HEALTHY!!
2: Plan B offense
#1 is obvious. How we achieve it is not so obvious. But what we can do (and I will be thoroughly disappointed if we don’t) is turn this team upside down and inside out with help from outside the organization to find out why our guys are dropping like ducks at a shooting gallery. Everything and everybody, coaches, players and other staffers need their roles examined to figure out why this decimation has occurred for the past two years running and how we stop it next season.
#2 refers to McD and Tua running plays that are NOT designed to throw the football like it were some live grenade to be tossed back to the enemy! We need plays where Tua can take his time and pick his options when Tyreek isn’t open off the snap. Certainly a healthy bunch of OL regulars will be a tremendous help in facilitating this. Working in some smart QB runs would also work in this Plan B format.
I trust Grier to do a good job at getting our most important FAs signed up for next year and beyond. I also think there will be some opportunities in the draft to get some help in key areas (transitional OLB to ILB stud, DE, CB, OL). We won’t fill everything from the draft but current and new FA signings should fill all the remaining gaps. I also think there are opportunities for Grier to manage the cap effectively with workable player cuts / trades and restructuring to keep the team competitive into future years.
We will have the talent to be relevant, provided our guys stay on the field and off of the medical carts!
heatforlife thinks it’s soon! Just need to wait for all of the good QBs in the AFC to retire.
when pat josh joe lamar retire
sdphinsfan says it’s from two years to who the hell knows!
Talent-wise, we’re a couple of years away. To get to the big game, you have to be good enough to get to December and then you have to be healthy or getting healthy. Who the hell knows when that could ever happen again….
SlayerNation1 wants some realignment.
Easiest path: petition the NFL to swap Carolina to AFC East, Miami to NFC South
The AFC is going to be brutal for the foreseeable future.
Spok507 believes that it all falls to the level of defensive play.
If Weaver can turn this defense into a tougher, meaner, tackling force, we have a chance. But I still can’t see Tua taking the team on his shoulders in December and January and helping make things happen. So it’ll have to be the D peaking at the right time, keeping the game in check while the offense does just enough to win. In other words, I’m not all that hopeful we’ll make it past the Wildcard round for the foreseeable future.
budglo doesn’t believe that it all falls on the QB.
Well Griese had to get through KC, Steelers, Colts, and Jets just to get there. There were several QBs that were better than him. The Dolphins had a better team overall and went to 3 straight Super Bowls, winning 2 including the perfect season. Instead of throwing in the towel, find a path and stick to it
21Dave said some nonsense but I swear that he makes a lot more sense in person!
Nevuary 32!! Save the Date!
DolphinsKings1 is my age and I feel his pain, all of it all of it only I have been a fan since early childhood so yeah, um, yeah…
As long as this team is in the AFC East and AFC period we will not win any time soon that’s the sad reality plus, I don’t think Tua and McDaniel will do it. But if they do, the best chance to win and get to a Super Bowl is having the #1 seed and playing at Hard Rock Stadium. It gives you a stronger chance to win 2 games at home. But, I just don’t see it as long as Mahomes, Burrow, the kid Stroud, Jackson, Trash Allen, and the others are better than Tua. I have been a fan for 42+ years (age 12 1982) and I hope one day to celebrate a Super Bowl Championship in my lifetime now at 53 going on 54.
dedstrk316 says save the date!
2027
DX@TX says it will take a new GM.
Never as long as Grier runs the draft.
Miami7 says that the attempt to “buy” a championship is not working out.
I don’t see our Phins winning a SB anytime soon.
Grier tried to ‘buy’ a Champion. That’s just not a viable plan. Next season the foibles of that direction ‘may’ hinder this team? Extending Tua prematurely is dangerously unnecessary. That could work out OK or it could set this organization back another 4-5 years?
Thusfar Tua has shown a propensity to wilt in the biggest moments. He is now 0-7 in the end of season games he has played in – in Dec./Jan. under McDaniel.
McDaniel (while very likable) is stubborn and hasn’t provided much when 2nd half adjustments are needed. He’s been outcoached numerous times by the heads of the teams he would need to go through, at least in the foreseeable future. He doesn’t appear to have the comradery of defensive minds to bring in (maybe didn’t foster or nurture relationships as he developed in his path)? So Weaver becomes almost a lame duck hire, who ‘may’ work out (for however long – or short) he’s here, or, he may be another in the Dolphins eternal string of poor coaches post Shula.
Tyreek ‘IS’ the Dolphins right now. He alone makes the team, elevates the team to heights it wouldn’t come close to without him. Jitterbug Wrs aren’t necessarily known for longevity so he’s got a couple year window maybe before his toes are off the edge of a cliff.
This team was [built?] to win NOW. But they’re still a ways away & in a precarious situation both financially and via the draft opportunities. As much as I’d LOVE to see another Championship – I just don’t see it happening anytime in the foreseeable future.
Miami needs better talent. Build thru the draft and with undrafted free agents. Tua will get better this year. He will work on mobility and his reads.
There seems to be a wide range of time for which our fan base believes that this team will once again be a true championship-caliber team. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to stop in and answer the question of the day. Check back with us tomorrow evening for another question of the day post.
To no one’s surprise, FC Cincinnati and Inter Miami CF engaged in a scorefest May 13 at TQL Stadium.
A hat trick by one of the best goalscorers in the history of the game, Lionel Messi, sparked Miami to a 5-3 win. Miami scored three times from the 79th minute on to come from behind.
A sellout crowd of 25,513 witnessed the showdown, the club’s sixth home sellout of the season.
FC Cincinnati falls to 4-5-4, staying at 16 points, taking its first loss since April 4 at Red Bull New York. Miami improves to 7-2-4 for 25 points, improving to 7-1-1 on the road this season. Miami moved into second place in the Eastern Conference behind Nashville. Cincinnati started the night tied for fifth but could drop depending on games later on.
Second half highlights as FC Cincinnati squandered a late lead
Cincinnati took a 3-2 lead in the 64th minute.
Evander fired a rocket from the top of the 18 into the top left corner. Deneky passed ahead to him, then he maneuvered around two defenders, and no one stepped up to him. It is Evander’s seventh goal of the season.
Miami tied it in the 80th minute, 3-3.
After a Cincy turnover, Rodrigo De Paul quickly found Messi in transition, who delivered to Mateo Silvetti. Silvetti, playing his first game in a month, maneuvered in space and scored from the top of the box for his fourth of the season.
Miami took a 4-3 lead in the 83rd. A Messi free kick from 35 yds was saved by Cincy keeper Roman Celentano. He collided with Andrei Chirila, which knocked the ball out of his hands. Miami’s German Berterame pounced on the rebound to give Miami the lead, his fourth goal of the season.
Chirila landed hard after the collision and was taken out of the game.
Miami took a 5-3 lead when Messi made a sliding shot after a cross from Silvetti. The ball went off the post, then off Roman Celentano, who was on his stomach trying to get the ball, then in. Messi was credited with the goal and a hat trick.
FC Cincinnati took a 2-1 lead in the 49th minute.
Pavel Bucha scored from close range. He took a crossing pass from Bryan Ramirez after Denkey found him on the left side in transition.
It was Bucha’s second goal of the MLS season and the second assist for Ramirez. Bucha was hit in the head late in the first half and examined by trainers, but stayed in the game.
Moments later, Messi had a free kick from 30 yards saved by Celentano.
Messi scored again in the 56th minute to tie it, 2-2. He had a nice give-and-go with Rodrigo De Paul, who dribbled near the end line and crossed to him from the right side. Messi was unmarked and scored easily from near the penalty spot.
In the 62nd minute, Luis Suarez missed an open shot that Celentano saved, set up by a quick transition by Miami.
Miami ended with 17 shots to 10 for Cincinnati, six on target. After an even first half, Miami controlled the expected-goals mark, with 4 to 1.6 for the home team.
First half highlights
Messi scored from close range in the 24th off a turnover by Matt Miazga. Miazga tried to pass to a teammate on the side but the pass went straight to Messi.
He had a goal in the fifth minute waved off by offsides.
In the 32nd minute, Cincinnati won a corner kick, which Evander placed right in front of the goal line but the ball was cleared away.
In the 42nd minute, a Kevin Denkey penalty kick tied it up. Denkey drew the PK after collecting a good pass into the box by Pavel Bucha and being grabbed by Gonzalo Lujan. Denkey converted for his team-high eighth goal of the season.
The first half was tied 1-1 and virtually even on statistics. Both sides had seven shots, one on goal, and 1.1 expected goals. Neither keeper made a save.
What’s next for FC Cincinnati?
Cincinnati heads to the West Coast to play San Diego FC 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16. It is the first meeting between the teams. San Diego, 3-5-4 for 13 points, was set to play Austin later May 13. Cincinnati will leave for California on May 14.
A wildfire has scorched over 11,000 acres in Florida’s Everglades, just outside the Miami metro suburbs, prompting officials to warn nearby residents of dangerous smoke.
The Max Road Miramar Fire is straddling the line between Miami-Dade and Broward counties. At least 11,000 acres have been burned, and the fire is 80% contained, according to the Florida Forest Service.
The fire was first reported Sunday. The Pembroke Pines Police Department said that drivers stopping to watch the fires along US-27 were causing dangerous traffic backups.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said they were working with state forest officials to protect nearby properties.
Florida Senator Rick Scott urged people on social media to adhere to any local road closures.
Aerial footage showed flames in the vicinity of a local subdivision, and smoke could be seen billowing for miles.
This comes in the middle of Florida’s wildfire season, which is being compounded by a historic drought ongoing across the state.
Almost 2,000 wildfires have burned nearly 120,000 acres just since the start of the year, the forest service said earlier this month.
Wildfires south of Jacksonville canceled and delayed Amtrak service last month.
While the vast majority of the state is under Exceptional or Extreme Drought conditions, Miami itself is roughly an inch below average rainfall, year-to-date.
However, parts of the Everglades are also experiencing Extreme Drought.
Fire officials are warning residents to take precautions if smoke is impacting your area. Those with respiratory conditions, older adults and children may be especially sensitive to smoke exposure.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue is advising people to stay indoors when possible and set home and vehicle A/C systems to recirculate.
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