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I feel the Dolphins should celebrate the season, but I think the chosen method is crappy.  Celebrating another teams loss is NOT celebrating the accomplishment.  If I ran the Dolphins every 10 years I would host a huge reunion, have the throwback uniforms be the 72 uniforms, have 72 players be the ones announcing draft picks etc.  Missed a great opportunity in 2022, not gonna be as many for 2032 or 2042 the guys are getting old.

In some regards I don't mind them celebrating that amazing season when this happens, as it gives them a little spotlight every year - as you said, a lot of them are getting old (Csonka is 78 this year) and I don't think there will be many left for 2032 (let alone 2042).

What I don't like is when they say they are rooting for a team to lose so their achievement stays unique - it's petty, and I have no doubt it's generated a lot of the talk that tries to belittle what they did, which is horribly misguided.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-unbeaten-no-more-1972-dolphins-celebrate-another-year-of-being-the-only-perfect-team-in-nfl-history/

Are any of the players left to actually celebrate?  I know Csonka Griese, and Little are still around but that's all I can think of.

It sounded like Csonka was going to drink glasses for Shula, Buoniconti, and the others who had passed away... I'm guessing he had a fair headache the next morning!

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/larry-csonka-sees-similarities-between-9-0-chiefs-and-his-1972-undefeated-dolphins-team/

Emilia Pérez (2024)

Premise: A Mexican drug kingpin enlists a junior attorney for a secret project.

Rating: Excellent, but the genre-hopping that draws many in will push as many people away.

This is a hard film to review, which is why I chose to do it here.  The plot of the film, which I am dancing around in the premise line above, keeps you guessing and had several moments where I was legitimately surprised.  I sat up in my chair multiple times at the reveal of new information, but every time, I felt that the reveals were fair and were reasonable character actions based on set-up expectations, if not explicitly foreshadowed.  In this way, the film is a very competent and compelling crime drama with incredible turns.

But wait...

It's also a musical.  And sometimes kind of a comedy.  And sort of a thriller.  And most of it is in Spanish, but with actors you know from American films.

If none of that sounds like it makes sense, you're feeling what I was feeling.  The film is genre-less in that way.  It's a gritty crime thriller, but it will add in moments of levity and emotion through songs.  But these aren't Broadway style songs.  Often, it's characters whisper-singing or delivering almost gritty renditions to reveal what characters are thinking.  It's atypical to say the least.  Despite being a musical, it's mostly not one and much of the movie is a traditional narrative.  When a song kicks in, often I was like "oh yeah...music stuff".  This isn't the kind of musical that you will want to listen to the songs on the radio.  It's not bangers.  The direction is clever in how the musical scenes are portrayed, with dirty streets where the extras become dancers, to more over the top comical numbers, to real-world, bad karaoke that morphs into full breathed pop stardom, to step-style beat-making, to gangsters whisper-rapping their inner-most thoughts, to characters literally dancing in and out of reality during song.  It's a wild ride.

There are three main performances: The lead gangster, with whom I was unfamiliar.  Zoe Saldana, who plays the attorney, and Selena Gomez, who plays the wife of the drug lord.  All are Oscar-level spectacular and will be in the conversations, if not nominated and winning.

I don't expect the crowd here to go for foreign language crime musicals, so I can't give this a blanket recommendation.  And even if I did, I would understand if the skipping around between genres was a major turn off.  For me, the fact that I didn't have to sit in a stodgy crime drama and was given these strange asides -- it all really worked for me.  You'll never have seen anything like it.  But if you sound intrigued, the actual story underneath it all is superb.

We still celebrate July 4th even thought the founders are dead.  It's a celebration of team culture.

We are cursed because of the 72 season and the back to backs

Are any of the players left to actually celebrate?  I know Csonka, Griese, and Little are still around but that's all I can think of.

I don't feel like it's living in the past at all.  I wasn't even close to born when it happened, but it's a celebration of our history and it's tradition, like throwing rats on the ice or whatever other fun quirk a team has to calls back to an earlier time.

I feel the Dolphins should celebrate the season, but I think the chosen method is crappy.  Celebrating another teams loss is NOT celebrating the accomplishment.  If I ran the Dolphins every 10 years I would host a huge reunion, have the throwback uniforms be the 72 uniforms, have 72 players be the ones announcing draft picks etc.  Missed a great opportunity in 2022, not gonna be as many for 2032 or 2042 the guys are getting old.

I respect that you're doing this, but I just can't.  I am putting all my good vibes and juju into winning our games.  I think it's way premature to be thinking about playoffs. 

+1

The Dolphins aren't making the playoffs.  And if they do it will be a quick exit.  I'm just happy to see them play well and win some games, that may keep free agents wanting to come play in Miami.

After 50 years this doesn't have much meaning for me.  With the longer season and extended playoffs, it's like comparing apples to oranges.

From the NFL highlights package:

The middle of our defense (to quote a recent ex-Dolphins player) is soft as fuck.

As bad as the Raiders are, TE Bowers still had a field day against our soft zone (primarily against Brooks and Poyer).

Our open field tackling is still hilariously bad at times (Kohu & Poyer's misses directly leading to TDs).

They managed to do enough not to lose, but let's face it, this is the Raiders offense we are talking about with Minshew as QB.

Tough call, but I'll go with Weaver this week.   

+1 good analysis.  Miami gave up way to much over the middle and short screen passes.