Just Some Thoughts

It’s been about 9 days since I left the stadium with about 12 minutes left in the game because of how bad it felt watching my favorite team get embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be a fan at the moment so I could only imagine how the team felt walking off the field. I have this thing where after a win I listen to the radio to hear the thoughts on the game and can’t wait to see highlights and watch the game over, but that loss going into the bye week just made me wonder if we will be able to turn it around with this tough schedule.

Slowly but surely I began to read some articles about how bad we played and how Sparano’s job may not be safe and the fired special teams coach being defended by the Jet’s coach and it just made everything worse. I had printed out a custom schedule with a predictions column and I had the Phins going 12-4 for the season. We are at 2-2 now and even though a lot of people have determined the Phins are done I beg to differ.

After the first quarter of the season we have Super Bowl favorites that find them selves in the same position as we are and worse. I don’t hear anyone counting the Colts, Vikings, Saints, Cowboys, and Chargers as being done. Yea, the Dolphins have a tough 4 game stretch coming up but that doesn’t count as automatic losses and we have yet to see our team play its best football this season. We are coming off the bye and we are almost back to full health as a team. We have had 2 weeks to go over 4 weeks of tape to see what’s wrong and 2 weeks to practice and get better at it.

I’m not going to make any predictions but every game left on our schedule is a winnable game. Every team in the league has lost a game, no one’s unbeatable. We know that our defense is solid without Crowder, so with him back along with our first round pick Odrick, we are a better Defense. Our running game has been average at best but I believe that with Jerry back our run blocking will be better. Our team is young and we have to take the growing pains of the first quarter of the season as lessons learned, I believe our team understands that. Point is we will get better as the season goes along.

I’m going to concluded this by saying that Sparano is doing a pretty good job. He started 0-2 the first season, 0-3 the second and this season we are 2-2 after starting off 2-0. This is his best start and I’m hoping we top it off with his best finish (Super Bowl would be nice). We can’t go down the schedule and count victories, the Saints lost to the Cardinals, the Chargers lost to Oakland and KC, and the Colts lost to Jacksonville. It’s going to be a long season and a very intriguing playoff race and regardless of how many tough opponents that are left on the schedule, we will be in the race.

Please don’t get on me about the “We”, I feel like I’m a part of the team.