http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/766983.html (snip) The Dolphins can't control it, but the schedule couldn't be much more favorable if they could. Their remaining opponents have a 24-39 record, the same as Indianapolis' remaining foes. That's no small factor when chasing a playoff spot in an AFC that's clown-car crowded once you get beyond 9-0 Tennessee. Only two games separate No. 2 Pittsburgh from No. 11 Jacksonville. In the even-chummier AFC East, everybody is within one game, and most scheduling elements have the teams set up equally for the final seven games. Each team has played each of its division mates once with the Dolphins, Jets and Patriots with 2-1 records. Part 2 of the AFC East's divisional round robin commences Thursday when the Jets go to Foxborough to face New England. That will be New England's last home division game. The Dolphins also have two left on the road and one at home. But as for the overall schedule, the Jets' opponents have a 34-29 record and they include division leaders Denver, New England and Tennessee, the last two on the road. Games against Pittsburgh and Arizona, both at home, boost the records of the Patriots' opponents to 31-32. Only Buffalo's schedule, 28-35, approaches Miami's in downtrodden teams and that's because both have 1-8 Kansas City and 2-7 San Francisco left. True, the Dolphins close with four of five on the road. But two of those are in moribund Missouri, where Kansas City brings a lousy team but has rabid fans that occasionally inspire spoiler upsets, and St. Louis doesn't even bring that.
12 Sun, Nov 23 New England 13 Sun, Nov 30 at St. Louis 14 Sun, Dec 7 at Buffalo 4:05 pm 15 Sun, Dec 14 San Francisco 16 Sun, Dec 21 at Kansas City 17 Sun, Dec 28 at NY Jets 1:00 pm If we take care of Oakland, we can still lose 2 of those and be at 10-6. I have a funny feeling that the winner of Week 17 will take the division straight up. Jets Dolphins, Pennington back in NY, for the Division... oh god :rofl:
Sometimes these things couldn't work out better if you scripted it. My brother-in-law, who isn't much of a conspiracy nut, says the NFL is about as real as pro wrestling, with the referees there to 1) make sure games go long enough to satisfy advertisers and 2) make sure the final outcome matches the league's annual script.
This is just more media nonsense. They have both the Jets and Buffalo on the road in December. They are anything but favored.
Lets be serious for a second, we suck? We're an ugly Favre pass away from leading this division. Should the Jets and the rest of the AFC East worry about us? I'm sure the Pats, Chargers, and Broncos will all tell you yes. This is a very young team, that's very well coached, and with nothing more than this past offseason to gauge off of, very well managed. We have many faults. We are struggling in pass coverage, and having difficulty establishing the run to name a few. However I believe we lead the league in fewest turnovers and have absolutely no problem taking the ball away. The cliche any given Sunday is always true, and the most difficult portion of our schedual is over and done with. We could easily finish the season 9-7. 10-6? Who knows?
You are into that media crap too. The most difficult part of your schedule is NOT over when you still have the Pats, Jets and Bills left to play again. 4 of your last 5 games coming on the road.
Hey, genius... they smoked the Pats, beat the Bills and were one intercepted endzone pass from beating our asses. You take the Dolphins lightly and they'll be in the playoffs and we'll be sitting at home kicking ourselves. They got a legitimate shot at it this year.
Yeah, people should be ready for trick plays the second time around. You only get away with that for so long. Especially teams that have already seen it once.
They aren't just winning on trick plays... but they are bring some creative plays to the table every so often. They are doing a very good job with a low talent level. Last year I would have readily marked both Miami games as wins, but after seeing them play a few games this year I have changed my mind.
Everyone is running the wild cat now, and it's not like we're in the wild cat 24/7. We use it about a half dozen times a game and it still works and it's been what 5 weeks since we first used it. Our biggest reason for success isn't the WC it's Chad.
That's why you scored 2 touchdowns last game in the WC and Chad threw a pick-6. Very nice. Let's play a game like junc likes to play here...you remove those 2 TD's coming from the WC...and you got another Dolphins loss and a nice cool spot of last in the division. Most teams (that I have seen) run the WC formation on 3rd down situations. Phins are using them on 1st downs.
This board will crash, all archives lost. Complete chaos the likes of which have not been seen in the Internet age.
Hey btw, our last day of exclusive rights with Manny. Afraid we aren't getting him back if one of the NY teams gives him the years Funny story though, ran into a Madres fan today(yes, in Boston, go figure lol) and he told me they have a realistic shot at Manny :rofl:
Yeah, that's why they're trying to unload Peavy. :rofl: I like the offer we made, you don't want to be up against that much money for a 40+ year old Manny for too long. We got the best Manny we'll ever see just now when he was playing for his contract. I'd love to keep him, but if we don't we can use that money to replace Lowe, Penny and Maddux. I don't want to see Chan-Ho (out of the) Park back in the rotation, and we don't know if Kershaw is the next Fernando or the next Edwin Jackson.
