Red Mosquito

Decent human being, a little too cocky and "en vogue" and too many "uhhs and uhmms" but sober, accountable, loyal, diligent, responsible, etc. I wish him well but this is the right move for a team in dire need of deep culture change.

I hope they keep Anthony Weaver around. He might even make a good head coach if the right OC is chosen.

I'm hoping the Bucs hire Mcdaniel as their OC. They just fired theirs.

I think he'll be an excellent OC and could still be a good HC one day. Too bad he went all in on Tua. The word salad press conferences after losses became insufferable.

indeed.. and imagine playing for a guy like that? you can take him seriously up to a point, then it's like, what are we even doing here right now?

his interactions with press are by far the best thing about him, gtfo

Random question: are the Dolphins more popular outside Florida than they are in their home state? Living in Colorado, I feel like I see people wearing Dolphins apparel regularly - like, second only to Broncos stuff, even? And yet when I watch their home games, the stadium always looks like half full. What's the deal with that?

I was very specific: word salad after losses = insufferable. With the press more generally he was fantastic.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Random question: are the Dolphins more popular outside Florida than they are in their home state? Living in Colorado, I feel like I see people wearing Dolphins apparel regularly - like, second only to Broncos stuff, even? And yet when I watch their home games, the stadium always looks like half full. What's the deal with that?

There's probably some of that. Dolphins fans travel well to visiting games, but yeah the home stadium crowd is often lacking. In my experience, younger South Floridians aren't into the Dolphins the way they used to. To them the Dolphins have always been a punchline, so I think there's some generational stuff happening. And it's so expensive down there that many of your born-and-raised people are leaving the tri-county area, and they're mostly replaced with northeasterners coming from even more expensive states and people from the islands/central and South America who often aren't American football fans. It's an extremely negative, pessimistic (realistic, really) fan base that really doesn't believe anything good will happen. I've been to more road games than home games in the last decade lol. Idk. It's a good question. I never even want to go to important/rivalry games because I'm certain we're going to lose and it'll be miserable. Sucks.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Random question: are the Dolphins more popular outside Florida than they are in their home state? Living in Colorado, I feel like I see people wearing Dolphins apparel regularly - like, second only to Broncos stuff, even? And yet when I watch their home games, the stadium always looks like half full. What's the deal with that?

In KC when I was growing up in grade school and middle school, Dolphins gear was the second most popular after the Chiefs. Cowboys were a close 3rd.

I think it's a past thing.

i think ryan clark had a good observation that the issue here was really that Miami drafted Tua, gave him the massive contract, and then Tua fell off physically

McDaniels did amazing things with that team when they had playmakers

i think he will thrive as an OC or HC somewhere else with a good QB

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Random question: are the Dolphins more popular outside Florida than they are in their home state? Living in Colorado, I feel like I see people wearing Dolphins apparel regularly - like, second only to Broncos stuff, even? And yet when I watch their home games, the stadium always looks like half full. What's the deal with that?

Absolutely.. I live in northeast PA n there's tons of Dolphins fans here.. a lot of good friends too.. we used to fill up half the bar n get the main TV over the steelers n eagles

My good buddy moved to south Beach n was managing a hooters.. he said everyone there is Fairweather n couldn't care less about football in general.. the favorite teams are all random because a good bit of the people there are transplants

dad wrote:Harbaugh incoming.

Of all the openings I could see him in Atlanta

A dome in Miami would probably boost attendance.

epilogue wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Random question: are the Dolphins more popular outside Florida than they are in their home state? Living in Colorado, I feel like I see people wearing Dolphins apparel regularly - like, second only to Broncos stuff, even? And yet when I watch their home games, the stadium always looks like half full. What's the deal with that?

In KC when I was growing up in grade school and middle school, Dolphins gear was the second most popular after the Chiefs. Cowboys were a close 3rd.

I think it's a past thing.

Despite living in Minnesota, they were my favorite team in the 80s and 90s. I was in love with Dan Marino. I had innumerable posters of him, some in Zubaz, plastered all over my room. The Marks brothers were so cool. Shula was a living legend. And that logo. Peerless. I turned to my home state team after Marino retired, so I’m just shy of 50 and gave never felt the joy of NFL sovereignty.

It all comes down to how f'in cool those Starter jackets were in teal and orange.

man, we had it good with starter gear.

I always said if the dolphins drafted herbert over tua that herbert in Miami wouldn't have been as good as he is in LA

Last night kinda proved that theory

You got yourself a good coach there, Fin Nation. Packers D was useless under Dom Capers for years, Hafley sorted them out.

spike wrote:You got yourself a good coach there, Fin Nation. Packers D was useless under Dom Capers for years, Hafley sorted them out.

I went into this coaching cycle with basically one hope: Not Joe Brady. My very distant second hope was not Hafley...not because of him, really, but the new GM hiring his buddy from his old team just feels so much like Same Old Dolphins that I didn't want it. I would have preferred Saleh, but hopefully Hafley can change the culture. GB fans seem to really like him and he was allegedly in demand with every team he interviewed with so here's to hoping.

Hill and Chubb released. Tua next?