i’m startin to believe too

I don’t think we’ll make the playoffs, but I now believe it’s totally possible. That’s enough for me.

I was looking forward to this game all year cus my little bro (20 years old, not so little) is a massive Donkeys fan. So what happens? Day before the game, I come down with fucking neuralgia. (Yeah, what the eff is that, right) So after leaving the hospital today, I see a bookies right across the road. Maybe the medication made me lose my damn mind, cus I rarely bet, and never big money, but I walked in and put 50 euro on the phins to win at 19/10. Walked home, put the betting slip on the table in front of my bro and said ‘This is the season, right here.’ Within 20 mins the meds and pain had knocked me out, I missed the whole game despite my brother’s attempts to get me up.

Wake up in the middle of the night for meds only to find out the phins dominated, and those magnificent aqua and orange bastards essentially paid for my meds and the hospital because of the bet. (essential for a broke ass like me.)

It seems whenever life is shitty the phins come through. What an awesome team.
Go phins!

…the Phins are .375 at 4-4. Is there some odd statistic at work, or have they been eating the brown acid?

I actually saw the Pats run the “Wildcat” tonight.

I’m cautiously optimistic about the playoffs for the Fins. We are one game out in the division and the Pats are gonna play the Bill, Jets, and Fins all in a row so its gonna get interesting in the next 3 weeks.

I posted after the game about that last drive. Very, VERY impressed with it. Thats what good teams do. Your on the road, home team just scored, crowd going crazy, you sustain and drive and PUNCH THAT MOFO IN. You take the heart out the team and send their fans home pouting. (along with Cutler and TO jr). Boohoo we’re at home we should be able to cheat and win…….not.

Yea the defense won this one for us, but they OWED the offense one. Anyone remember Houston? I don’t care how we won it to be honest with you, a win is a win. And good teams win when they don’t play their best.

Now I’m with you Matty, The Fins SHOULD win the Seattle game. Now I wanna see them do it.

“I think it’s healthy to have goals and talk about future endeavors,” on making the play-offs.

All business. I love this guy.

I believe in us getting W’s with Seattle, Oakland, New England, Saint Louis, Buffalo, San Francisco, Kansas City, and New York

First of all, it’s good to see so few penalties on our side.

Second of all, I’ve got a roommate who’s a Broncos fan. He’s all kinds of mad about that PI call on Marshall. Matty’s right…the refs did get that one right. Over at Mile High Report, they’re calling it retribution for Hochuli’s call, but that’s not it.

Brandon Marshall’s penalty was karma for Eddie Royal’s kick return, and the (I counted, along with one other, non-biased, friend) FOUR blocks in the back on that return.Two of which were right in front of the refs and Royal, and nothing was called.

They can have the Marshall touchdown, but they’ll have to give back the return and eventual touchdown by Royal. So either way, suck it up Ponies…you’d still lose either way.

I pretty much agree with everything. One thing to quip about. I think Cutler really showed how young he is. Towards the end of the game, you don’t roll your eyes and shrug like you just got scolded. You lead. He didn’t really strike me as the strong leader type of qb that we are fortunate to have. I honestly think with the right attiude at QB for Denver, it would have been a real tough game. I commented about Marshall on the Porter post, he was really whiney as well.

  One thing thats kind of neat. All 4 of our wins, have come against division leaders at the time we played them. Kinda cool eh?

  And Thanks Phinsider, I’ve had one of the most fun 1/2 seasons in my Dolphin loving life because of this blog. All that was said when I first joined has come true. Thanks Matty and Phinsider nation!

But we should start giving an attaboy award to the person that came closest in the prediction. I see that lancelotlink was only ONE point off with his 25-17 prediction. Thats pretty damn good.

From me at least lancelotlink……….Attaboy!

about the pass push off call. We can play that game all day. What about the blatant block in the back during the long KO run back? That was a good non-call, right Denver? Anyway. . .Next!!!!

SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE!!!!!

I agree about the Royal statements made. They missed two potential penalities there.

There was def PI. There was a SMALL push, but a push is a push nevertheless

Now Cutler can go “push” Marshall in special places

Vernon Carey has ALWAYS scared me. ever since w wanted Shawn Andrews…but settled for him cuz we were scared to move up a few spots.

he was airborne for maybe 3 sec it felt like….that should NEVER happen. i doubt he is real high on the trifectas list right now

i love it…matty talkin smack. i almost could sense u not posting as much because you wanted to be cool and not get into the smack talking (cuz ur the adult here). way to stay classy san diego. now we can give it to them with victory in hand.

i hate the broncos now…huh….who woulda thought that? before i dodnt care..now i hate them. lol.. cutler says he has a better arm than elway…..all that does is get the ints to us faster…thanks Jay.

still one big area to improve is 3rd n 10+, still 0/29 this season… thats just ridiculous.

I did not expect it basically because Denver had 2 weeks to prepare for this game. Obviously there offense took us too lightly.

Players on winning teams MAKE PLAYS! Maybe not the stars, and that’s why we won yesterday. There’s just too names to name, Matty’s named them anyway.

I wouldn’t be too worried about the OL, I felt the offensive play calling lacked creativity at times. They’re young and it really looked like Denver’s defense was well prepared and pumped to stop the run (They must of felt like Chad couldn’t beat them — WRONG!).
It would be interesting to see them with D. Thomas.

It’s really fun to watch this young team gain confidence. Watching games is fun again!!!

SEATTLE SEATTLE SEATTLE — Look no further

ricky and ronnie hugging it out on the sideline after his clinching TD?

 I just cannot express how much easier my life will be for the rest of the year now that my Wife has somewhat shut her mouth about how “Great” her Denver Donkeys are…ESPECIALLY after the harassment I took last year and at the beginning of our 0-2 start. Nothing like a “W” to quite the enemy. I tell her if she smells my middle finger she can still smell the stench of Jay Cutlers ass……since we jammed it so far up there. You guessed it..she is on the “bad” ref PI call..I had to remind her that the worst call in history (San Diego game) was made in favor of the her team. So I will forgo nookie for the next month just to fxxk with her….a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do…sad..but to me..this victory is one step above sex……slow down-rephrase….sex with my wife(the enemy during football season). My plan is to sneak out at night and change her Broncos license plate to a Dolphins Plate……. Let the world now how much SHE loves my team..LOL… Revenge is childish..but it is so damn satisfying.
Beafea

Nah man, Shanahan, Cutler, and TO jr can bitch, moan and complain all they want to. The fact is, according to the rules, TO jr pushed off. It was so clear. They have been spoiled by getting all the calls going thier way.

Seattle and Oakland at home. While the Pats will be playing the Jets and Bills. Have we arrvied? We’ll find out. There is NO EXCUSE for losing either of these 2 games. We should be 6-4 when the Pats come into town.

Then give them the BEATDOWN OF THEIR LIVES, to let them know (if there is any doubt) things aren’t the same and the won’t be the same even when Brady comes back. Anyone remember the Pats game in Miami last year? There was no sense in them running that score up the way they did.

It does feel good to be competitive week in week out. Not since Marino, have I had the feeling we could win any game going into it……. 11-5 season would be Phintastic!!!!!

I love that you’re calling out Denver’s fans for bitching and Cutler/BM for crying all game. Tell them boys get big or go home.

My 2 cents:

- on the PI call, the thing that seems to be overlooked, and was overlooked by the announcers as well; Marshall knocked Allen off his route. Anytime you alter the player’s ability to make a play on the ball, when the ball is in the air, it is PI. Marshall is huge, like 6’20", 2000lbs… when he “taps” a guy, he moves the guy, and when you look at the replay, that “tap” almost knocked Allen over. Bottom line? Solid call, no question.

- the Denver D actually played very well. This was not the D that has been gashed so easily by other teams, these guys stepped up. It seems that most people are attributing the Fins struggles running the ball to deficiencies in the Oline, but Denver was doing a great job and my guess is that this is the improvement everyone was expecting out of them from having the bye week. In my mind, this makes the Fins victory even more impressive.

- regarding the Fins offense, Greg CamaWHO? Major Kudos to Mr. Henning! I have said it before and I will say it again, last year the coaching staff had an inability to deviate from their designed game plan. This year? Good coaching means being able to adapt to what the other team does, especially when it is unexpected. I guarantee you (although I have no way to confirm it) that Henning and Sparano did not sit down last week and decide “Hey, here’s an idea! Let’s throw the ball to Camarillo all day!”. No, what happened was that Denver took away the run, stuffed the Wildcat, and sat on Ginn. And what did Henning (or Sparano or Chad P, who knows who actually called what) do? Looked around and said, “Well, Greggy boy seems to be open, let’s throw it to him for a while.” Last year, we would have lost this game because of an inability to deviate from the game plan, which I am relatively sure started out as the Ronnie and Ricky show, based on Sparano’s concern over the lack of a running game recently. Nice job coaches!

- as for our secondary, I’m impressed. what more can I say? They played the best I have seen them play since the Madison/Surtain days. I don’t know if it is them turning the corner or just one of those games in which everything is clicking, but they played well and one can hope that they will be able to build on this going forward. I was pleased with every member of the secondary, and as odd as it is to say, Bell was not the strongest member this time out.

- as for the “killer instinct”, I said to a friend yesterday, “You know, the past few years I would expect the Fins to find a way to lose the game… whether it was a collapse of the D when playing from a lead, or the Offense’s inability to come through when behind, i found myself always waiting for the deathblow to victory. But this year? This year the feeling is different when I watch em play. I expect them to find a way to pull it out, and I am kind of suprised if they can’t get it done.”

I think that says it all about these new Dolphins.

As always, IMO.

6 yrs. :)

this year 4-4 team is the most exciting team i have ever been. Why?, because, in the final 80’s and 90’s we KNEW we were statrting the season like a beast, then we also KNEW that after mid season the team will go into a collapse. This year is all the way around. We are getting better after ea game, so the sky is the limit, we have not reach the pick. The team is gaving us glimpse of what can do ea. We we star to run in all FULL CYLINDERS, we are going to be the badess FM"s in the NFL, All of this smell DINASTY BABE!!!