What a joke, why would Miami be opening the season when the past couple of years they have made it a conf title game rematch? Miami didn't even contend for a playoff spot last year and therefore did not earn this honor.
You are annoying in all phases of your posting. Your statement that Miami did not compete for a playoff spot last year is completely incorrect. The Miami Dolphins went 9-7 last year only a few games from a wildcard berth...What is your definition of contending for a playoff spot?
Have I mentioned that you annoy me? Once the team gelled under both new systems and a plethora of new starters we won the last 6 games of the season. We did everything we could to earn a playoff spot but like many teams needed some help that unfortunatley didn't materialize. You don't think the Fins earned it, the NFL disagrees. Cry about it.
Once again I have to educate you? b/c a team was 9-7 and "only 2 games" out of a playoff spot does not mean they were in the race. That dolphin team was 3-7 and at no point were they ever in the lead for a playoff spot. They won their last 6 which was a nice job but they were never truly in the race and 2 games back in football is like being 10 back in baseball. Would you consider a baseball tam that was 10 out to be in the race?
You won 6 games congrats! the last one waas given to you by NE who was playing backps and 3rd stringers in the 2nd half and took the game so seriously they had their backup QB drop kick a PAT. The last couple of years they have made it a remtach of the conf title game and last I checked you didn't play in the conf title game so why is it that you are playing in this game? I'm sorry I should bow down to the greatness that is the Miami dolphins. I mean you won your last 6 so you must be great, right? and outside of SD and the sham NE game you beat 4 teams that combined for 17 wins- can it get any more impressive than that? How could I not see this juggernaut as worthy to play in a game they have giveb to the SB Champ and conf title team they beat?
I guess this is a decent game. Cincinnati or Denver might've been more logical as an opening night opponent. Dolphins and Steelers are both national teams though and the NFL should boost its ratings. Here's hoping that Pittsburgh is 1-0 opening night. Let's not use this as a forum to bash the Dolphins.
yea seriously, why the hell is it phins-steelers?? doesn't make much sense.... if denver-pitt is a matchup for next year, it should have been that....if not, def bengals-steelers then....a good division rivalry that should last for a while with big ben and carson on their teams
Hey buddy, I didn't make the schedual - and I'm not trying to justify it. Have I ever given you the impression that one should bow to the greatness that is the Fins? Do I parade around here with a dolphins flag rubbing your 4-12 season in your face? The answer to both of those are an obvious no, by the way. The NFL thought it would be a good game to open the season with, but what do they know? Lets call it the "JFL". Only then would the entire football communtity know how overrated Culpepper and the Dolphins are. We could then name Herman Edwards the new commishioner and Robertson would finally get that pro-bowl he so diligently deserves and that's only the beginning. Then, and only then, would you be in position to take over the world.
Did I say you did? I just said the dolphins didn't earn the right to be invovled in that game and I am 100% correct. In '02 the opened w/ a snoozefest btw NYG and SF then in '03 equally as bad was Jets-Skins so I would queastion what they know. They then started having rematches of the SB Champs w/ a team they beat in the playoffs and what do you know they had 2 good games. The only non-playoff teams to be invloved were NYG and Was and both of those games stunk. Maybe they should have kept to their revised formula for the game? Insetad they, like uninformed fans, fall prey to big names like Culpepper who aren't big players. I am very much looking forward to when yuo come crawling back telling me how much daunte sucks. I am never one to rub it in but that time I think I won't pass it up.
I try to be realistic and bring people back to reality. Phin fans seem to think they are wining 4 of the next 5 SBsright now and think daunte is great when he has never been except in the fantasy world. I love what Saban did last year and I think he's on his way to becoming a big time coach but the moves you made this offseason have NOT been good. Should I lie and tell you I love them? I love getting an injured QB who was a choker when healthy? I love getting a CB whose team dumped him so they could sing an aging, falling player the dolphins had? Should I love getting an OT from a team that overpent millions on a couplf of OL including filling his spot? I don't get what you want me to do? When the dolphins actually do something, make a playoff run and don't humiliate themselves in the postseason like they did from '97-'01 then I'll show more respect.
I agree with junc on this one and I don't see the problem with his original post. Compared to the "opening game" matchups of the last few seasons, Miami is certainly not in the class of those teams. He's also correct about them never being in contention for a playoff spot. We'll see what happens this year but there are plenty of times you see a team get hot when all the pressure is off and be the trendy pick the next season only to fall flat on their faces.
Maybe you've forgot your place in this game we love so dearly. You, are an internet sports forum poster - nothing more. If you'd like to state who deserves what relative to the schedual make it known as opinion, which means little to me by the way. I'm not sure what those games have to do with this game. We are talking about completely different teams aren't we? We're talking about a completely different time, no? Obviously getting to the conference championship isn't a prerequisite for the honors of this game, besides we smacked the Broncos all over the field last season. All bias aside, I think this will be a good game.
This is a Jet's board, and you're obviously intitled to your opinion. My problem lies with your inability to notice your own team's flaws. The excuses made, it's pathetic. You'd think this season would have humbled you a little bit, but I've never seen one man with enless criticism for another's team when his is as bad as the NFL has seen in Years.
It is not opinion it is fact. They onyl let playoff teams play the SB Champ the last 2 years, a grudge match after they lost to NE but now we have a team that wasn't close to the playoffs against the Champs and they have played once since '99(that was your '04 year). To me you need a bigger team to play Pitt. Give me NE, Indy, Den, Cincy- all of those teams deserve it before Miami and that's really not debateable.
the NFL probably doesn't want to "waste" a great matchup on a game they know everyone will watch anyway.
