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I have to look back at Tua's scramble vs Buffalo in Week 2.

If he had not gotten injured, I think Miami would have defeated the Colts.

That SINGLE game would change the Dolphins' playoff chances drastically.

If Miami misses the playoffs by one game, is it fair to give Tua the Shame of the Year for the that?

The Texans will be a tough team for the Dolphins to defeat. 

No.  We are only where we are because Tua has been great.

The fact that we can't beat anyone or even be competitive when he's out tells us how good he is.

No, but I'm sure if you try hard enough you can find a missed kick by Sanders to blame it on, or perhaps a holding penalty somewhere, or a missed PI call.

This isn't 3D chess.  You don't blame the best player on the team for the 4 losses they didn't play in.

Just pick someone who is shitty.

Tua recently came out and accepted the blame for missing those games.

"Nobody else will say it but me, and I feel like this has a lot to do with myself obviously putting myself in harm's way in the second game, going down -- basically leaving my guys out to dry, that's what I would say," he lamented ahead of Miami's Week 14 game against the Jets. "Anyone can have an opinion about, 'It's football. It's this, it's that.' I do take heart to that as well and still don't want to do that to my guys again."

Just cause he accepted it doesn't mean it's his fault .. This is a failure at the GM level to have any sort of acceptable backup in place. Skyler Thompson isn't the guy and was never the guy.

I don't think there are any "backups" who can run McDaniel's offense as designed.
We've seen 4 backups try (including pretty well-regarded backups in Teddy and Huntley), and every time the Dolphins look like the worst offense in the league.

I thought Thompson was because the coaches thought so ... but I agree with everything else.

This might sound crazy but you know who I think can do it? I think Gardner Minshew can. He seems to be pretty smart and accurate at times. Watching him against us this year made me a believer and with McDaniel's help ... who knows?

I don't think Minshew is any better than Teddy.

Teddy was horrible for us. We were better this year with Snoop than Teddy in my opinion.

Josh Dobbs! He needs to be our back up next year. I know he is smart enough for it.

They were both terrible.

Are there any decent left-handed backups out there?

Maybe we could call Steve Young and see if can come out of retirement?

LOL.  He is definitely a smart guy, but he is a 3rd string QB that has been bouncing around the league for 7 years (Didn't play at all in 4 of those seasons).  I admire a guy like him, he's been cashing checks for seven years while going 3-11 over that time period.

Sounds like a Dolphin already.

Nothing tanked faster than the coverage game of Ramsey once he got that extension but I guess that's better than all the others we sign to come here and round out there retirement.

Regarding Ramsey:
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If that's a real stat from this season ...it's a cherry picked stat that doesn't tell the whole story. What's his stats on being targeted in man to man? He's defended very few passes in the last few games. In fact only one comes to mind right now. Garrett Wilson owned him all game long.

In general none of our DBs are very good at defending passes this season and one of the reasons we are low in take aways. The best we can hope for is to make the tackle soon after the catch.  

He was burned badly in the opening game against the Jags, and Marvin Harrison Jr. owned his ass one-on-one in the moments that counted vs the Cardinals.

He almost got burned again for a long touchdown last week by Metchie if he managed to hold onto a perfectly thrown pass by Stroud.

Whatever the stats say, Ramsey sure doesn't look like the elite corner that we're paying for.

Ramsey is the biggest disappointment this year by far. It’s just weird because after he came back from injury last year he was immediately having an impact but all I can remember from this year is Kyler Murray looking a hall famer

Knowing the offense is what matters, he is good enough to win a few games or finish one if something happens to Tua but no I don’t think he’s a regular starter but he’s one of the few guys who I think can understand the playbook and that matters more than raw talent on this team

I'm tossing a coin right now as to who is the biggest disappointment, most overpaid, and overrated player of the year. Hill or Ramsey.

Tua and Waddle are right up there too, but these two clearly head the pack.  

The Hill or Ramsey comparison is legit. People have been slow to criticize him but Hill seems to shrink in tough games including several costly fumbles. I don't know why Ramsey is struggling so much unless age is catching up. At least we see a big difference in the team when Tua is playing.

It's been a nightmare year, going back to the off season. Alleged assault on a boat operator. Arrest by Police for being an asshole right before the first game. Statistically the worst season in his career. All the illegal shift and other penalties as well during the season...

The kicker though for me is that one play against the Titans with the throw behind the line of scrimmage when he dropped the ball, and couldn't give a shit about recovering it. That's the one moment when you had to think... we're fucked. The guy really has checked out, taking all the money we guaranteed him and just doesn't care anymore.

So if we are talking about the gold standard of QBs and systems...

Kansas City has been in four of the last five Superbowls, and won three of them. Does that team run such an incredibly complex system that a backup like Chad Henne cannot win a game for them in relief of Mahomes? A playoff stakes game for them? Like he did to beat the Jags in the lead up to Superbowl LVII?

Sorry, but I don't buy it. Tua is not as smart as you think. It's equally the coaches and players locked into Tua: when he isn't here, the effort isn't either. That goes back to coaching not being as good as you think.

I don't think Tua is in our top 10 list of things to fix. He is very capable at performing but he isn't going to carry an offense like Josh Allen. Few QBs do. Tua is more on the Matt Ryan level where if given a competent team he can lead them to victory. He has some outstanding strengths but regularly making plays when things break down isn't one of them and every time we play a good team he is running for his life.

https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/news/tua-highlights-first-miami-dolphins-week-16-injury-report-01jfe1v2mqz3

Some are finally starting to come around that there's a lot more that caused this years disaster than just Tua's injury.

Raheem Mostert is the difference between being 6-8 and 8-6 right now.

Of course there are some fluke plays for other teams that allowed us to win but everything else aside if Mostert doesn’t fumble we likely have W more dubs

If those fluke plays from other teams that allowed us to win didn't happen... we'd be in the same situation or even worse.  I think a consistently decent offensive line would be a better start to addressing our rushing woes this season.

Remember back to when we scored 70 against the Broncos last year? When the left side of our line was blowing open holes that literally any of us could run through to gain yardage.

Our starting Offensive line was: Armstead - Wynn - Williams - Hunt - Jackson

None of those guys were playing last week. Two aren't even on our list anymore, and one hasn't played a down all season.

You want to run the ball? You start with the beef up front. Wynn not being able to suit up so far this season has really hurt - A LOT - but it's Grier's job to have contingencies.

Jones is OK as a relief/fill-in, but you don't want to bank on him week to week. Oh, and he let Hunt walk in the offseason.

Eichenberg is popular because he's versatile and can be moved around - so were the deck chairs on the Titanic, right up to someone said "that iceberg looks close", after which, like him, they're totally useless.

This is what Grier thought was perfectly fine going into this season with. I'd label that a much bigger failure than a couple of Mostert cough-ups (as bad as they were).

Grier's thought process about our O-Line:

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