Vegas showing Dolphins disrespect too

I guess betting on the Dolphins will make you more money this year, we will definitely win more than eight games.

and screw the bookies…whoever bets over on the Dolphins will be making money…end of story

Not with his luck in gambling.

I remember even in the Marino years, the over/under wasn’t respectful. Maybe it’s time to use our team to make some money….

How can I place a bet besides going to Vegas?

they act like the dolphins is the miami wildcats or something..
thats all they see in us thats why..
all my friends say the teams are ready for that this year…
but thats not out offence..
ronnie didnt rush for almost 1k off the wildcat and ricky wasnt really involved
in the wild cat to run for 700+
what a rediculous choice to think where gonna do worse..
we got a way way better defence and a way more organized offence..
so stfu friends and media
haha
=]

the lack of respect just makes you wanna kill somebody when it’s time to perform on the field and that my friends is a great motivator for winning games!

Hey Matty these high prediction for low ranked teams, might they be an outcome from our own spectacular season last year? are all the bookies now going…“hey….we might could make some money by actually convincing people that the lions might go 8 games this year!” lol or perhaps it’s just a higher over all expectation for team turn around on crappy seasons combined with our tougher schedule?

just food for thought.

…if I put $100 on the over???

I don’t bet (I used to, however, until the Broncos burned me once too often!).

Much if not most of the disrespect by the media is based on Miami going 11-5 with the easiest schedule last year, combined with the fact that many of the wins against poor record teams (I wouldn’t call them weak, however) were by 5 pts or less. I also think a lot of media pundits believe Chad P will have one of his “odd” years—in 2003, 2005, and 2007 he didn’t play particularly well.

Further, the love given to the Pats is due to the return of Brady, who they think can play no wrong, his throwing to Moss and Welker, who they think can can and route run no wrong, combined with the misconception that the Pats went 11-5 not only with a second stringer, but on a much more difficult schedule. Horse hockey! the ONLY difference between Miami’s scedule and the Pats was the Pats played the Steelers and Colts—losing both if memory serves!—while the Fins played Texans and Ravens, also losing both! So really, what is the difference in schedules? the Pats beat the Cards, but the Fins beat the Chargers—which turned out to be the reason Miami, not NE, made the playoffs.

The FACT is this: sports pundits and Vegas bookies HATE it when a team (Miami) goes beyond all their expectations while another team in the same division (NE) falls below their expectations. Since the beyond expectations makes them look like idiots, they MUST get back at the team that makes them look like idiots, the following year.

Players have egos (said Jason Taylor in a video at Sun Sentinel), but so do sports pundits and Vegas bookies. But players should have egos. the others have them because they don’t have to suffer the consequences when their egos explode on them.

And it’s been a LONG time since the Dolphins had the respect they deserved (1973 maybe?)

Like go play ping pong or something

To be honest, I disagree with your saying that we can take this as Vegas saying we’re the 7th worst team in the NFL – sure, seven wins for an over/under is crap. But those odds are surely based more on our schedule and the fact that the AFC East as a whole got better: every single team did.

I mean, you may just be simplifying the o/u they set, or more directly, our record as a whole, to equate the record they expect us to get with power rankings in the NFL.

Or, put in a non-confusing way, you might just be figuring record correlates directly with your position in the NFL in terms of “rankings”. I don’t see it as such, and I don’t know necessarily that you do. I mean, it’s a simple way of looking at things of course, and record is by far the most important gauge in the NFL. Wins and losses mean everything.

I however don’t equate being set as the seventh worse o/u as meaning Vegas sees as as the seventh-worst team. It just means they’re fully aware of how difficult our schedule truly is.

it’s about the right number to try and split the bets evenly. It’s more about the betting public disrespecting Miami. Because as far as I understand it, they set the over/under at a number that encourages roughly the same amount of bets on both sides, meaning the bookie wins no matter what. If they set the over/under for Miami at 11, MOST of the bets would be on the under, and the probability of the bookie/casino paying out more than they brought in would be pretty high. There’s no way a casino will risk losing money, so the number goes down until the betting is about split.

I’d say 7 is a great number, just because we know we should win at least 8-9, and the dirty Pats/Jets fans that are keeping that number low with their predictions of 4 or 5, will just lose a ton of money.

btw, give me the under on NE, the Jets, and the Bills lol

We’ll give them the proverbial finger this year

Odds to win AFC East, according to sportsbook.com:

New England -400
Buffalo +600
NY Jets +700
Miami +1000(WTF?!)

So, the Dolphins are considered to be a “longshot” to win the East. Just to put things in perspective, only the Lions have longer odds to win their division, at +1500 to win the NFC North.

Simply put, I just dropped $50 on the Phins to win the division. Bet $50 to win $500? You bet your ass I will.