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Well the Dolphins are 3-4?

Is too late to hope for a wildcard push?

I, for one, am NOT jumping off the Dan Campbell bandwagon.

A loss to arguably the best team in football right now shouldn't change anyone's opinion of the Dolphins. 9 games left. Plenty of chances to win big... or lose big.

I don't think we are in the playoff hunt, but as long as the O-Line stays healthy we should keep improving. I will still be happy if we dismantle Buffalo next Sunday and we should because they aren't that good and are reeling.

If we get crushed again, welcome Sean Payton.

The Bills aren't that good, AND they aren't that bad, kind of like Miami.  Bills coming off a bye week playing at home, against Miami on it's second consecutive road game.  Bills have a good defense, they just haven't been playing together, that could all change.  It is not an easy game.  Bright spot it's supposed to get up into the 60's in upstate NY next week, hopefully it will stay warm into the weekend.

I don't think last nights outcome means the Dolphins are out of the playoff hunt. 

While some of you may have gotten optimistic after the last two wins.  Only the most homerist of Fin fans had penciled this as a win pre-season. 

Dolphins need to beat the Bills this week to have any hope.  And unless the Steelers have a complete melt down, the Jets game is a now must win.  The Dolphins only have three more games against teams with winning records - Giants, Jets and Patriots. 

Jets is a must win. Giants aren't all that great.  And NE might be a cakewalk against three quarters of a Jimmy G led offense. 

And as bad as the score looks, the Dolphins defense did a hell of a job in the first half against a great offense. 

Something is wrong - I actually agree with almost all of this.

Minus the Jimmy G part. 

But even that may be reality come December.

I don't look too much into this game.

It's the best team in the league, on the road, with a short week.

They're better than us, so I wouldn't expect to win in perfect conditions.  And while we are better than we started the season, we're not as good as those last two ass-kicking we delivered.  We leveled out.  They just beat us. 

No need to jump off the bandwagon for me, because I never jumped on it.  We still have issues.  Bigger than the loss is that we may have lost Wake.

Exactly.  However, what concerns me after last night's game are the injuries Miami players suffered.  Wake gone for the season (most likely forever) just as he was coming around, Parker possibly gone for the season (would have liked to see him at least get some experience), and James gone for ???

Next man up.  Its not like NE won last night with an intact oline.  You don't win the sb because you went injury free, you win in spite of the injuries.

Easy to say when you have a HOF coach and QB. Not 1 player on Miami's roster is going to Canton anytime soon.

Suh could go.

possibly. But not am impact position like QB and not a head coach who has a bigger impact on the team.  A HOF QB can disguise a lot of teams flaws.

If the Patriots are undefeated, they will not be going with Jimmy G. 

true, but if the are 14-1 or 13-2 with homefield clinched

They will most likely be undefeated come week 17.

Very ignorant statement.  History shows only 2 teams ever to do this and the Patriots team with Moss is a very different unit than this year's unit. And speaking of units, quit suckling on theirs.

He's right, though. They will probably go undefeated. I did say earlier I don't think they will run the table (but that's probably just me being optimistic), but they really are just too well coached and they execute flawlessly. Teams are scared when they play the Pats, you can tell they go conservative even if they have a 1 point lead.

It's just that the rest of their schedule is very weak except for the Broncos. 

NE has only three games aginst teams with winning record Broncos, Giants, and Jets so running the table is possible.

If a week 17 loss by NE means that the Jets miss the playoffs,  than you can bank on Dolphin win.

Just curious what do you people think the Dolphins record would be with Tom Brady as their starting quarterback?

Well, like all QB's, Brady also has bad numbers when knocked on his ass dozens of times per game, so it would be about the same, maybe another win or two over a full season. Not a knock on Brady or anything, but almost every QB sucks when constantly hit.

His numbers would not be as good as they are with NE but we would be consistently in the play offs.

No, we wouldn't. When Brady gets hit and sacked a lot, he loses. Same thing with Peyton. Same with Eli. Same with pretty much every QB except for Big Ben, but he's called Big  Ben for a reason. With Miami's O-Line, perhaps we are 4-3, but that's it.

NE doesn't have much of an oline this year. Rookies and players that are in a different spot than they were last year.  Brady is more than his o-line. 

While it is true that NO qb makes passes if they are sacked.  One thing that separates the better QBs is the ability to avoid the pass rush.  Also being highly effective at screens helps, both because you have an out and b/c the DL/LB have to play more conservatively to defend it...thus less rush.

You're nuts. Brady would not be getting sacked like this. He would be getting those passes out and on target consistently. He senses the pass rush, moves a little in one direction to avoid a sack, he's decisive and on target.

No QB gets passes out within a second and that's what Tanny has. Not saying Brady isn't better, because he is and would avoid some sacks by throwing the ball out of bounds, but he wouldn't have great numbers with this O-Line. He would scream at them every other play, something I think Tanny should start doing.

Tannehill can't do that. He might hurt someones feelings and then they will run to their agent who would go to the press saying how Tannehill is "mean" and a "bad guy"....lol

I have noticed this

Getting back to the topic, Sunday was pretty good for the fins.  Jets, steelers, bills lost.

Mia is a game back for wildcard.  Raiders play the Steelers this week one of them has to lose. 

Raiders still have Vikings, packers and broncos as three very likely losses.

steelers still have broncos and Bengals

Mia plays both bills and jets again.  Plus they have to play ne and each other.

Mia doesn't have much room for error but the are in the hunt if they can beat the bills and jets