Preseason game 1 vs Bears

[Denver2]

No ... reporters were brutal yesterday. It's nice to see we bounced back. I just hope they learned something from it. I'm tired of them quitting against teams like the Bills.

I think the reporters are overreacting, we’re currently up on the Lions and looked pretty decent.

[Pappy13]

I think the reporters are overreacting, we’re currently up on the Lions and looked pretty decent.

It's not just reporters, it's everyone in the media. They have latched onto this rhetorhic about how bad the Dolphins are and they are leaning into it. It's one thing to say that the Lions dominated a practice, even Tua admitted that it wasn't as good as needed to be, but it's a completely different thing to call it the most lopsided joint practice in the history of the sport.

Now that's not to say there's nothing to it, I do feel like we are looking at about a 9-8 season give or take a couple games on either side, but the way the media is talking Dolphins are looking to go 0-17. Can we try to have at least a bit of objectivity?

But I also kinda feel like this is the way the media approaches every story these days, exaggeration to the max and zero objectivity.

[Denver2]

It's not just reporters, it's everyone in the media. They have latched onto this rhetorhic about how bad the Dolphins are and they are leaning into it. It's one thing to say that the Lions dominated a practice, even Tua admitted that it wasn't as good as needed to be, but it's a completely different thing to call it the most lopsided joint practice in the history of the sport.

Now that's not to say there's nothing to it, I do feel like we are looking at about a 9-8 season give or take a couple games on either side, but the way the media is talking Dolphins are looking to go 0-17. Can we try to have at least a bit of objectivity?

But I also kinda feel like this is the way the media approaches every story these days, exaggeration to the max and zero objectivity.

Yeah the coverage  has been hysterical, it will be fun to prove people wrong.

I might get burned but I see us 10-11 wins and a playoff birth.

I think you’re right though everyone just wants clicks and to promote the narrative that we are soft and McD lost the locker room.

We had a bad practice but we have some things to be happy about from the preseason games.

[Sibster]

Yeah the coverage  has been hysterical, it will be fun to prove people wrong.

I might get burned but I see us 10-11 wins and a playoff birth.

I think you’re right though everyone just wants clicks and to promote the narrative that we are soft and McD lost the locker room.

We had a bad practice but we have some things to be happy about from the preseason games.

Don't read too much into preseason games.   A lot of the guys you see will not be on the team come opening day.  Preseason is where key guys get hurt because guys who are established are going half speed to avoid injury.   Meanwhile they are going against guys who are fighting to make the team and those guys go at 150%.   That's a recipe for disaster.

[CF DolFan]

Don't read too much into preseason games.   A lot of the guys you see will not be on the team come opening day.  Preseason is where key guys get hurt because guys who are established are going half speed to avoid injury.   Meanwhile they are going against guys who are fighting to make the team and those guys go at 150%.   That's a recipe for disaster.

You mean I can't count the fact we tied Chicago but the Bills got smashed by them? Hahaha

[Denver2]

Don't read too much into preseason games.   A lot of the guys you see will not be on the team come opening day.  Preseason is where key guys get hurt because guys who are established are going half speed to avoid injury.   Meanwhile they are going against guys who are fighting to make the team and those guys go at 150%.   That's a recipe for disaster.

I don’t but neither am I going to overreact to a bad practice no matter how breathlessly the press covered it.