So this is Christmas...
And what have you done...
Another year older...
And a new one just begun...
So Happy Christmas all you Shouters!
Unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins did not have very many gifts for us this season. Losing starting QB Ryan Tannehill started the disaster. Then a hurricane blew in and cancelled opening week at home. The Dolphins subsequently had no bye and didn't play a home game until a quarter of the season had past. When the offensive line coach was caught filming himself snorting a white powdery substance, it was merely icing on a season lost.
Bringing in Jay Cutler as the starting QB set off what seemed like a chain reaction of ill-fated collapses, more like an avalanche...
Perhaps that one decision undermined the entire camaraderie that had made this team so special the previous year.
Pinning this terrible season on one player is foolishly inappropriate and wrong, but it does seem as though the entire team took on the personality of its new QB. In the midst of crazy disaster after strange event, there was nothing to stabilize the ship and when the boat started listing, there was no leader on the field to keep it from sinking.
But this post is for all the faithful Shouters and Dolphin fans everywhere who have endured this ugly this season together.
Merry Christmas to all of you and your families.
We knew losing our starting QB would make this season very difficult. We learned a lot about our coach, who's whispering was not enough to make Good Jay Cutler appear more often than Bad Jay Cutler. We can only hope our coach also learned this lesson about himself when he begins anew with Ryan Tannehill.
We learned there's still a lot of work needed to field a championship caliber defense and it starts at the linebacker position. They couldn't cover anyone and sometimes had trouble even tackling.
So this is Christmas and I get to make some wishes...
Great and wonderful Oz...
Oh wait that's different...
To the Ghost of Christmas Past, I wish for a fresh new Zach Thomas!
To the Ghost of Christmas Present, I wish for the second coming of Keith Jackson, but I'll settle for Mad Dog Mandich!
To the Ghost of Christmas Future, I wish for brand new Larry Little.
So to all of you Shouters,
Merry Christmas and may all your wishes come true.
