There are numerous water cooler conversations amongst Dolphins fans that can be summed up in blanket statements such as “Miami over looked Buffalo.” “Miami allowed Buffalo to hang around.” “Miami made poor coaching decisions.” “Miami didn’t make plays when they needed to and Buffalo did.” All of these things may be true but the bottom line is they lost in embarrassing fashion to the Buffalo Bills, 31-14, on a 24-0 4th quarter collapse that for all intensive purposes ended their season.
The Buffalo Bills?! Let me get this straight, the same bottom feeding Bills that Miami beat 38-10 earlier this season that has changed their minds at quarterback more times than Brett Favre has with retirement and the same dysfunctional team that recently fired their Head Coach just destroyed the Dolphins with an interim coach?
They didn’t care enough to show up and take care of business and now I don’t care enough to rehash their careless play with a summary. The season is over. End of story. No more pain, no more heartache and no more anger. It’s that simple. It’s actually quite relieving to know that for the next 5 weeks it will be virtually impossible for them to do anything that would tick me off. New England can now beat them by 40 this week and it won’t matter one bit. Better yet, what if New England wins on a last second Hail Mary to complete a 40 point 4th quarter comeback. Imagine how that would have felt had Miami beat Buffalo this week? It would be so sickening and heartbreaking that we would spend weeks in bed battling depression. Now, it won’t matter one stinking little tiny iota. I refuse to even begin the ”mathematically alive” preposterous scenarios because it really doesn’t matter. The season is over. If you think otherwise than I got a bridge I’d like you to take a look at. Miami couldn’t beat the Buffalo Bills in a gigantic game that their season was riding on. How can you possible look yourself in the mirror and say with a straight face that you really believe than Miami can run the table and finish at 10-6? Even if that miracle were to happen they would get slaughtered in the first round by… well, anyone! The season is over.
Now that we’ve clearly established that the playoffs are out of the question, Bill Parcells, Jeff Ireland and Tony Sparano have to use these next 5 games to answer the numerous questions that littered throughout the Dolphins roster and coaching staff. We need to evaluate everyone involved and get the young players as much experience as possible. Every snap the rest of the year needs to count towards next year. Here are a few questions that come to mind just off the top of my head.
- Is Bill Parcells sticking around for another year?
- Is Ted Ginn patially blind? Maybe more valuable elsewhere?
- Can Patrick Turner play at all? Dress him! Let’s find out.
- Will Pat White become a lethal weapon?
- Does Dan Henning even know how to draw up deep routes?
- Does Paul Pasqualoni know what a tight end is and if so, how to stop one?
- Is Jason Ferguson too old and banged up?
- How many guys do we ditch in the WR corps? Bess? Hartline? Ginn? Camarillo? Turner? At the very least two of these are gonzo.
- Will Ronnie Brown be back?
- What is the fate of Joey Porter and Jason Taylor?
- What do we have to do to get improved play at the Safety positions?
- Is our offensive line in tact?
- Is Chad Henne really the quarterback of the future?
- What trades will we make?
- Who gets cut?
- Where are we looking in the draft?
- Where will we fall in the draft?
Some of these may seem obvious but the point is these are questions that need to be addressed and answered as soon as possible as each one directly or indirectly affects the next.
All I know is this conversation should not have had to happen in November. The fact that it is speaks volumes to the importance of answering them correctly.
The Buffalo Bills!?! Great googly moogly.
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