The Dolphins Are Not Tanking
I feel bad for everyone currently employed by the Miami Dolphins. Okay maybe not Fitzpatrick. But everyone else.
Like, they have to pretend the tank isn’t happening because it’s bad form, but they are totally tanking. It’s not something any team really wants to do, but after a certain point you realize it is probably better for long term prospects to suck it up, gather picks, then go all in when #theprocess starts to work. So maybe in 2021 the Dolphins might be worth watching. But until that moment, it’s going to be pure misery. The 59 – 10 disaster yesterday is just the start.
I mean how must it feel to be on that team? To know you are essentially a bunch of placeholders that are there because the team isn’t trying and doesn’t consider you a winner? Knowing you’ll probably get cut at the end of the year when they find someone they actually like? How must Josh Rosen feel? The poor guy was rejected after one season in Arizona for the new hotness, and he gets sent to another team that is blatantly not even trying. If the Fins tank and draft a QB, where does that leave Rosen? The poor guy is going to go down as a bust without ever really getting a fair chance.
How must it feel to be coach Brian Flores? Dude finally climbs to the top and now he’s being set up to be the next Belichick coaching tree failure. Does he really expect to survive the rebuild? He now has to try and motivate a bunch of players who know they are seen as worthless fodder, wasting their time.
This is misery for all involved. Probably the only thing these guys can look forward to is getting paid. I doubt the games are going to be fun. I doubt the meetings and practice are fun. Watching the games won’t be fun, unless you root for the opposition that week.
Sorry Miami.
I commented first! I win!
So what do you make of the AFC now being completely set and the patriots winning another goddamned super bowl because the league is a joke? I’m having a hard time thinking of reasons to even bother watching for the rest of the season
NBA’s looking to be more competitive than it has been in years, at least, and European soccer is around if you’re into that sort of thing
and NCAA football at least (because it’s not like Clemson and Bama aren’t gonna just stomp everyone or anything)
Miami looked pathetic. I’m hoping that maybe the Ravens are just that good and Jackson went from a good runner to the complete package instantly almost. We will find out in a few weeks I guess since week 1 always produces some strange results.
Whenever my D/ST is playing a tough team, I’m just going to pickup whoever is playing the dolphins.
Maybe Rosen will he signed by the Patriots to be Brady’s backup and replacement for when he retires in 8 years
The Dolphins are going to be an interesting case study for tanking in the NFL. How will players react? Fans? Coaches/ownership? It shall be interesting. If it succeeds and multiple teams begin the tank, does the NFL utilize a draft lottery? It shall be an interesting time.
I can’t help but feel for Rosen. Dude’s gonna get screwed over the exact same way by two different teams. That sucks.
I still am (and always will) suffer from McDaniels burn and get some nice schadenfreude out of a Belichick coaching tree failure, but it still kinda sucks that Flores is gonna go down in the history books as a floundering incompetent just so the Dolphins can hide the fact that they are tanking.
969, nice.
Flores had to know what he was getting into, so I don’t have a lot of sympathy for him. There’s a reason why he was able to negotiate a 5 year fully guaranteed contract as a rookie head coach.
Not related to the comic in anyway, but several folks have pointed out that Minshew looks like Jim Tomsula’s son.
Is Gardner Minshew II the least likely football name ever? Sounds like he should be an investment banker or something.
Gardner Flint Minshew II – oh and there actually isn’t a first – his family just added it for kicks.
Can we Shoot AB out of a Cannon into the sun
no it would cause the sun to internally combust.
The Sun is already internally combusting. That’s how stars work.
Someone posited that Ross was wanting to tank the team so he can sell up to his butt-buddy Drümpf. If that happens, even after 30+ years, I’ll ditch Miami on the spot.
I don’t feel bad for anyone on the Dolphins. Except Kenyan Drake and Reshad Jones. Rosen? He could have stopped the tank. If he hadn’t lost the job to Fitzpatrick by being inconsistent in practice and struggling to pick up the offence, the team would have been all, “okay, maybe we got our guy” and continued evaluating him instead of giving him up as a bad job. Brian Flores? He knew what he was signing up for. The bunch of scrubs? They’re getting a chance to be NFL players, which they never otherwise would have. So yeah. Drake and Jones is everyone I feel bad for because their careers won’t past much longer and one year is being wasted here. I hope they can make their way to Tennessee so I don’t have to root for yet another team. I’m already rooting for them cause of Cam Wake.
Ceci n’est pas un tank
And to prove it, let’s sign Tank Carradine.