I chucked while reading an article by Andy Cohen at miaimdolphins.com. It was like listening to John Lennon imagining the greatness of the Miami dolphin rushing attack. “Imagine if Arian Foster can fully recover from a torn Achilles and regain the form he once had. Imagine if Jay Ajayi makes the quantum leap from his first to his second season as many predict that he will. Imagine if rookie Kenyan Drake can provide the same bolt of electricity he did at Alabama?”
The axiom, ‘availability is an ability’ seems to allude the Miami Dolphin personnel department, no matter who resides at the helm. Earth to Miami, reality is constructed from the word real… Arian Foster is less than a year removed from a torn Achilles tendon. Jay Ajayi is nursing a bruised knee bone after putting on pads for the first time (not to mention his fall in the draft due to injury concerns) and Drake has some nagging injury to go along with the litany of injuries that derailed his college career.
About this time, you’re pounding little heart is screaming at the Negative Nancy writing this article. “He’s shattering my illusion!”
Reality is a wicked little bastard…
Ever notice how we’re allowed to write bastard, but we’re not allowed to write bitch? Oops, I did it! I wrote a politically incorrect word, bitch…
Isn’t that what this is all about? It’s politically correct to write about Miami’s potentially great stable of running backs, with the preface, “if they can stay healthy.” Heaven forbid we delve into reality, because it seems cruel to burst anyone’s happy little bubble prematurely. No, let’s run with this deception right up until reality lands like a cinder block on our cozy wittle heads.
How about let’s just go with the idea perhaps Adam Gase was just not that impressed with Lamar Miller. Isn’t the Miller situation another instance of bitching? The offensive coordinator and head coach just wanted the QB they hated to throw all the time and didn’t hand off to Miller? Please, listen to yourselves…
According to all the bitching, it wasn’t Tannehill audibling out of the running plays. He wasn’t allowed… Is it too early to call bullshit on the entire mess Philbin created?
Is bullshit another politically incorrect word?
Miami is a laughing stock because the entire organization was full of bullshit…
Boss Ross couldn’t admit he made a colossal mistake hiring people like Philbin because rich guys don’t make such terrible mistakes, bullshit!
How long has Andy Cohen been writing for miamidolphins.com? Unfortunately, I’m old enough to know and for the last decade of dismal performances, he’s been writing the same delusional bullshit.
Sorry Andy, nothing personal, I’m just bitching.
This is how a team gets to where Miami is, by believing in their own bitching and bullshit.
How about we start over, it does look like Adam Gase has the potential to be a good coach, but he won’t last if the front office, fans and the press continue to live in the land of misfit bullshit and bitching.
They didn’t run Lamar Miller because he was afraid of contact… He was afraid of contact at UM, it was nothing new. I got nothing against Miller, he got paid and he still has two knees that function. Ajayi and Drake want the payday and Foster wants one more chance to cash in. There’s that reality thing again, how we hate the real thing!
“Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby... Bullshit!”
The whole politically correct society has crept up on our game and our consciousness like bitching and bullshit on a downhill roll. Two huge men crashing head first into each other, bashing helmets, oh my… That’s bullshit, we need to be bitching about that right now.
Whoa, in one sentence I changed bitching and bullshit from forbidden to politically correct…
Bashing and bitching and bullshit, oh my!
You see, Tannehill was actually changing the plays… Miller didn’t like to run between the tackles, when Tannehill checked to the open “A” gap Miller hesitated. That’s why he wasn’t allowed to change the calls anymore.
Call it bullshit, but that’s why Tannehill is still here and Miller is not. Philbin never corrected the problem. When Philbin was gone, Man Campbell started sitting Miller. Campbell didn’t go for the bitching and bullshit and neither should we.
The reality is, Miami couldn’t fix all the problems the team was facing. In light of what I just wrote, they were not going to pay Lamar Miller. Olivier Vernon was on a defensive line that began the season with Wake and Suh taking the brunt of the double teams. Vernon may have been a decent player, but he was never worth the dollars the Giants threw at him.
We all know the bullshit with Brent Grimes’ wife’s constant bitching. Whether it was a career decline or a product of her in his ear, Grimes was not the player he had been.
I don’t need to go into the mess Philbin made by not jettisoning the bitch, Jonathan Martin. If we still had Richie, I doubt we’d have the problems at guard, but that’s bullshit under the bridge.
The reality is, RB, CB, OL and DL were in bad shape and there was not going to be enough talent or cash available to fix them all. Miami should be commended for not making the mistake of trying too hard to sign a single star. They let the chips fall where they may and got the best they could.
Mario Williams fell to them and honestly, if Vernon is ever as good as Williams I’ll be surprised. The best offensive lineman in the draft fell to them. Fixing two out of four in one off-season is not bad and they didn’t stretch too far except for perhaps Drake.
The Dolphins head into the season and the reality is, injuries are going to hurt the running game and the DBs are going to get torched…
See, even with all the bitching and bullshit, reality was not all that hard...
Miami Dolphins Week One Fifty-Three Man Roster Projection
The Miami Dolphins 2016 Training Camp begins today Friday, July 29th, and two weeks later they play a pre-season game at the NY Giants.
Here is whats likely to be concluded over the next six weeks.
Top 46 active upon the regular seasons Kickoff . (Starters Emboldened)
(Players 47 thru 53 could churn their way into the active 46 roster for any given games needs).
Offensive Twenty-Two
Quarterback (Game-Day ACTIVE Two)
1 - Ryan Tannehill
41 - Matt Moore
ACTIVE Eight, Game Day Offensive Lineman
Left Tackle
3 - Brandon Albert
30 - Jermon Bushrod career left tackle to play (guard & right tackle also), 2016 Free Agent
Left Guard
6- Laremy Tunsil (left tackle extraordinaire) rookie
49 - Dallas Thomas (likely on occasion to unseat right tackle Sam Young for the 45th spot)
Center
4 - Mike Pouncey
42 - Kraig Urbik (experienced C & G starter may win the right guard position), Free Agent
Right Guard could go either way including K. Urbik. (May the best man win)!
10 - Jamil Douglas
48 - Billy Turner (tough to put him out of the 46) but he's the least versatile while coach Adam Gase suggest that just 7 are likely to dress, and I'm already carrying 8. Meanwhile, he could very well take the job and force Douglas or right tackle Young outside the 46. Urbik is too important to the backup center position to be outside the 46.
Right Tackle
5 - JuWaun James
45 - Sam Young (guard also), Free Agent
Tight End (ACTIVE Two)
17 - Jordon Cameron
28 - Dion Sims
Running Back (ACTIVE Three)
13 - Jay Ajayi
27 - Arian Foster (Free Agent)
29 - Kenyan Drake (rookie)
Wide Receiver (ACTIVE Five)
14 - Jarvis Landry
15 - DeVante Parker
16 - Kenny Stills
39 - Leonte Carroo (rookie)
40 - Jakeem Grant (rookie)
Special Teams (ACTIVE Three)
23 - Andrew Franks
24 - Matt Darr
25 - John Denney
Toe The Line Twenty-Eight
Defensive Tackle (ACTIVE Four)
2 - Ndamukong Suh
9 - Jordan Phillips
32 - Earl Mitchell
33 - Chris Jones (Free Agent)
Defensive End (ACTIVE Five), could go with four if in need of TE, RB, QB, OL, LB or DB
7 - Cameron Wake
8 - Mario Williams (Free Agent)
34 - Jason Jones (Free Agent)
43 - Terrance Fede
44 - Andre Branch (Free Agent)
52 - Chris McCain (A great camp could potentially put he & DJ at 43/44), bad camp gets them cut.
53 - Dion Jordan (?????) Was drafted 2013 to be the eventual replacement to Cam Wake
Position is loaded with four highly experienced starters. Youth, size, plays made & reliability advances Fede.
Line Backer (ACTIVE Five)
11 - Kiko Alonso (Free Agent)
18 - Jelani Jenkins
19 - Koa Misi
37 - Neville Hewitt
38 - Zach Vigil
50 - Spencer Paysinger
51 - Mike Hull
Corner Back (ACTIVE Five)
20 - Byron Maxwell (Free Agent)
21 - Xavien Howard (rookie) currently on the PUP until week one. (Enter Lippett, Ifo, or Lucas)
26 - Bobby McCain (Slot Starter)
31 - Tony Lippett
46 - Ifo Ekpre-Olomu (Free Agent/Waiver-Wire Pickup)
47 - Jordan Lucas (rookie)
Safety (ACTIVE Four)
12 - Rashad Jones
22 - Isa Abdul-Quddus (Free Agent)
35 - Mike Thomas
36 - Walt Aikens
Others looking to make a training camp splash towards the 53 man roster, or ten man practice squad.
Quarterback
Zac Dysert FA
Brandon Doughty (rookie)
Tight Ends (at least one and/or another teams cut needs to step up into the 53, if not the 46)
Thomas Duarte (rookie)
Jake Stoneburner (2015 Dolphin)
Marqueis Gray FA
Running Back (same as outside looking in TE's)
Damien Williams (2015 Dolphin)
Isaiah Pead FA
Daniel Thomas FA
Wide Receiver
Griff Whalen FA
A.J. Cruz FA
Offensive Line
Jacques McClendon (2015 Dolphin) C/G
Ryan DiSalvo (rookie) Long Snapper
Defensive End
Cleyon Laing FA
Line Backer
James-Michael Johnson FA
Akil Blount UDFA
James Burgess UDFA
Corner Back
Lafayette Pitts UDFA
Tyler Patmon (2015 Dolphin)
Thanks for viewing, and we look forward to your angle of vision !!
What Say You ??
GOFINS!!!
Here is whats likely to be concluded over the next six weeks.
Top 46 active upon the regular seasons Kickoff . (Starters Emboldened)
(Players 47 thru 53 could churn their way into the active 46 roster for any given games needs).
Offensive Twenty-Two
Quarterback (Game-Day ACTIVE Two)
1 - Ryan Tannehill
41 - Matt Moore
ACTIVE Eight, Game Day Offensive Lineman
Left Tackle
3 - Brandon Albert
30 - Jermon Bushrod career left tackle to play (guard & right tackle also), 2016 Free Agent
Left Guard
6- Laremy Tunsil (left tackle extraordinaire) rookie
49 - Dallas Thomas (likely on occasion to unseat right tackle Sam Young for the 45th spot)
Center
4 - Mike Pouncey
42 - Kraig Urbik (experienced C & G starter may win the right guard position), Free Agent
Right Guard could go either way including K. Urbik. (May the best man win)!
10 - Jamil Douglas
48 - Billy Turner (tough to put him out of the 46) but he's the least versatile while coach Adam Gase suggest that just 7 are likely to dress, and I'm already carrying 8. Meanwhile, he could very well take the job and force Douglas or right tackle Young outside the 46. Urbik is too important to the backup center position to be outside the 46.
Right Tackle
5 - JuWaun James
45 - Sam Young (guard also), Free Agent
Tight End (ACTIVE Two)
17 - Jordon Cameron
28 - Dion Sims
Running Back (ACTIVE Three)
13 - Jay Ajayi
27 - Arian Foster (Free Agent)
29 - Kenyan Drake (rookie)
Wide Receiver (ACTIVE Five)
14 - Jarvis Landry
15 - DeVante Parker
16 - Kenny Stills
39 - Leonte Carroo (rookie)
40 - Jakeem Grant (rookie)
23 - Andrew Franks
24 - Matt Darr
25 - John Denney
Toe The Line Twenty-Eight
Defensive Tackle (ACTIVE Four)
2 - Ndamukong Suh
9 - Jordan Phillips
32 - Earl Mitchell
33 - Chris Jones (Free Agent)
Defensive End (ACTIVE Five), could go with four if in need of TE, RB, QB, OL, LB or DB
7 - Cameron Wake
8 - Mario Williams (Free Agent)
34 - Jason Jones (Free Agent)
43 - Terrance Fede
44 - Andre Branch (Free Agent)
52 - Chris McCain (A great camp could potentially put he & DJ at 43/44), bad camp gets them cut.
53 - Dion Jordan (?????) Was drafted 2013 to be the eventual replacement to Cam Wake
Position is loaded with four highly experienced starters. Youth, size, plays made & reliability advances Fede.
Line Backer (ACTIVE Five)
11 - Kiko Alonso (Free Agent)
18 - Jelani Jenkins
19 - Koa Misi
37 - Neville Hewitt
38 - Zach Vigil
50 - Spencer Paysinger
51 - Mike Hull
Corner Back (ACTIVE Five)
20 - Byron Maxwell (Free Agent)
21 - Xavien Howard (rookie) currently on the PUP until week one. (Enter Lippett, Ifo, or Lucas)
26 - Bobby McCain (Slot Starter)
31 - Tony Lippett
46 - Ifo Ekpre-Olomu (Free Agent/Waiver-Wire Pickup)
47 - Jordan Lucas (rookie)
Safety (ACTIVE Four)
12 - Rashad Jones
22 - Isa Abdul-Quddus (Free Agent)
35 - Mike Thomas
36 - Walt Aikens
Others looking to make a training camp splash towards the 53 man roster, or ten man practice squad.
Quarterback
Zac Dysert FA
Brandon Doughty (rookie)
Tight Ends (at least one and/or another teams cut needs to step up into the 53, if not the 46)
Thomas Duarte (rookie)
Jake Stoneburner (2015 Dolphin)
Marqueis Gray FA
Running Back (same as outside looking in TE's)
Damien Williams (2015 Dolphin)
Isaiah Pead FA
Daniel Thomas FA
Wide Receiver
Griff Whalen FA
A.J. Cruz FA
Offensive Line
Jacques McClendon (2015 Dolphin) C/G
Ryan DiSalvo (rookie) Long Snapper
Defensive End
Cleyon Laing FA
Line Backer
James-Michael Johnson FA
Akil Blount UDFA
James Burgess UDFA
Corner Back
Lafayette Pitts UDFA
Tyler Patmon (2015 Dolphin)
Thanks for viewing, and we look forward to your angle of vision !!
What Say You ??
GOFINS!!!
Miami Dolphins Add Do-It-All Veteran Running Back Arian Foster
The Dolphins core tailback tandem of second year man Jay Ajayi and rookie Kenyan Drake became a viable NFL threesome today with the addition of a proven do-it-all veteran in Arian Foster.
Foster has accrued 6,472 rushing yards with a 4.5 career average and 54 touchdowns in seven seasons while in three of those years he participated in eight or fewer games. As a receiver out of the backfield he's covered 2,268 yards with 14 touchdowns.
Arian a 2009 Houston Texan un-drafted rookie with 6 games played became superstar material in 2010, 11, 12, and 2014. Foster played in just eight 2013, and four 2015 games due to injury. His most recent injury (achilles) came in week seven of 2015 versus the Miami franchise at which he now resides.
Miami signed 6-1, 227 Arian Foster (30 in August) to a one year deal at 1.5 million with another 2 million worth of incentives on the table. At his best he's a proven threat in every phase of the game and will easily earn such incentives. At the very least he offers proven veteran leadership! Along with the leadership aspect. Foster (once 100% healthy while working out for the Dolphins on numerous occasions during the process) has the superior skill-sets and all-around game which didn't exist in the (break glass in case of emergency) scenario of Damian Williams, Daniel Thomas, or Isaiah Pead.
Training Camp begins in TEN DAYS on July 28th.
The Miami Dolphins will play 2016's first pre-season game at the N.Y. Giants 15 days later on August 12th.
HERE WE GO DOLPHINS, HERE WE GO !!!
WOOOOO-HOOOO-GIGGGITTTY, GOFINS !!!
Foster has accrued 6,472 rushing yards with a 4.5 career average and 54 touchdowns in seven seasons while in three of those years he participated in eight or fewer games. As a receiver out of the backfield he's covered 2,268 yards with 14 touchdowns.
Arian a 2009 Houston Texan un-drafted rookie with 6 games played became superstar material in 2010, 11, 12, and 2014. Foster played in just eight 2013, and four 2015 games due to injury. His most recent injury (achilles) came in week seven of 2015 versus the Miami franchise at which he now resides.
Miami signed 6-1, 227 Arian Foster (30 in August) to a one year deal at 1.5 million with another 2 million worth of incentives on the table. At his best he's a proven threat in every phase of the game and will easily earn such incentives. At the very least he offers proven veteran leadership! Along with the leadership aspect. Foster (once 100% healthy while working out for the Dolphins on numerous occasions during the process) has the superior skill-sets and all-around game which didn't exist in the (break glass in case of emergency) scenario of Damian Williams, Daniel Thomas, or Isaiah Pead.
Training Camp begins in TEN DAYS on July 28th.
The Miami Dolphins will play 2016's first pre-season game at the N.Y. Giants 15 days later on August 12th.
HERE WE GO DOLPHINS, HERE WE GO !!!
WOOOOO-HOOOO-GIGGGITTTY, GOFINS !!!
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