Yahoo Sports activities’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab talk about why the Miami Dolphins want high quality wins this season to show they’re respectable contenders. Pay attention and subscribe to the “Zero Blitz” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you pay attention.
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Miami Dolphins all the time speaking level with Tua.
However what’s your large speaking level for the Dolphins?
Frank?
Yeah, my one large factor for the Dolphins is one thing we talked about all final season and I am gonna dredge it up Dolphins followers.
I am sorry.
However are they paper Tigers?
I, we, we talked all final season about this crew does not have any high quality wins.
Like they, they’re beating dangerous groups and, they usually’re beating the heck out of dangerous groups and that is an indication of being a superb crew as nicely.
However when it got here to the standard groups on their schedule, they misplaced most of them.
The one large win they’d final 12 months, week 16 at house, they beat the Dallas Cowboys on a final second subject purpose.
Beat them by two factors.
A win is a win.
I get that.
However we’re speaking mainly a coin flip consequence.
That is their solely good win.
That they had all season whenever you return and have a look at who they beat.
It was the Denver Broncos of the world.
It was a beat up New York Jets crew that did not have a quarterback after which that actually got here again to chew them late within the season once they bought blown out by the Ravens.
They lose the Payments in an AFC championship recreation.
They lose to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the playoffs.
So we come into this 12 months with the Dolphins coming off a very nice season and you want their expertise and Tyreek at Tu, uh and the operating backs and Mike mcdonnell is a extremely good coach.
However the query behind my thoughts is, are we simply overrating them now?
Due to all of the wins they’d final 12 months as a result of most of these wins got here again towards dangerous groups.
I must see them show they may beat good groups frequently earlier than I put them forward of the Payments and even the Jets for me with a wholesome Aaron Rodgers.
I am down on the Dolphins somewhat bit simply because I feel they’re extra unproven than you’d suppose from a crew that simply made the playoffs.
Look, I, I will credit score my buddy Mike Gold Junior who final 12 months on the finish of the season requested this query to our good friend group.
In the event that they hadn’t put 70 up on the Broncos, would we nonetheless give them the identical stage of road cred?
I feel the reply to that’s no.
In reality, for those who look, I pulled up their outcomes final 12 months and for those who have a look at who they scored a bunch of factors on 70 factors on the Broncos.
Yeah, that is an overview 42 on Carolina who everyone knows is the worst crew within the league, 31 towards New England, who we all know was one of many worst groups within the league 34 towards the Jets later when there was a shell of themselves 45 towards a nasty commanders crew that was in the course of, of change, proper?
If you have a look at a number of the higher groups, 14 towards Buffalo, 19 towards the Ravens, like 14 towards Kansas Metropolis, 17 towards the Eagles.
Even the offensive manufacturing of the don’t simply the wins, the offensive manufacturing towards the Dolphins final 12 months was like two completely totally different conversations.
How are they towards dangerous groups?
How are they towards good groups in my thoughts whenever you have a look at what it’s important to see from them, we nonetheless must see sustained greatness towards nice groups.
That is why as a lot as everyone desires to anoint the Dolphins or the Jets as the longer term winner of the AFC East.
I nonetheless imagine within the Payments as a result of I am undecided if the Dolphins are going to have the ability to beat high quality soccer groups or put factors up towards high quality soccer groups.
And I instructed you concerning the Jets earlier.
So it is attention-grabbing to me that the Dolphins aren’t simply concerning the wins.
They’re all offensive manufacturing is a little bit of a paper tiger generally.
So, uh uh that is why I do know that the Payments recreation was within the, the chilly and everyone will speak about these kind of components.
However, uh, that is simply, that is simply the way in which it goes proper.
Like, uh, and that, that, that is simply the way in which life goes with the state of affairs.
Truly, the January loss was at house.
They misplaced 2114 to Buffalo.
How are you solely placing 14 factors up when your offense is meant to be that good?
And there was that a lot on the road.
