The Floundering Fish After Only Four Weeks

by user LastRow

Four weeks into the NFL season life doesn’t seem too good for Dolphins Head Coach Nick Saban. This was supposed to be the year the Floundering Fish were going to challenge mighty New England for the division title…Instead four weeks in, the only thing they’re in competition for is in the fight for the number one overall draft pick for 2007. Needless to say this wasn’t exactly how Saban envisioned his sequel season on South Beach to be having a 1-3 to start of the first quarter of the season.

Many factors can be attributed to the less than stellar start, but undoubtedly the focus has to go to the offensive side of the ball. Now, I’m just a season ticket holder in the LastRow, but how smart was it to put all your offensive stock into a quarterback that’s trying to come back after shredding his knee to the tune of it resembling Swiss cheese more than a knee? Um Nick, hello….There was a reason why Minnesota wanted to dump his crippled ass. See, what made Culpepper great was the fact that he had number 84 to chuck the ball to in the Twin Cities. Some will obviously disagree, but I’ll give you guys a break…Must be clinically blind not to see it. What, Chris Chambers was supposed to be the next coming of Randy Moss…Sure, and Larry Coker’s not on the hot seat.

All offseason we kept hearing about how good Daunte looked…How he was ready to go. Okay, I’ll be honest, I bought into the hype too, drafting D.C. for one of my fantasy teams…Incidentally, that team too is floundering around at 1-3. Isn’t that ironic, don’t you think? Yeah, he’s done a hell of a job so far. So good in fact, why not have Ronnie Brown throw a pass on the two-point conversion attempt? Perhaps this is what it has come to since it looks like the Dolphins neither have an one or a two man at quarterback? Now most teams would bench a signal caller who has done nothing in favor of the number two man, holding the clipboard on the sidelines. However, when Joey Harrington is the one over there…The situation just goes from bad to worse. It’s a known fact that when a coach says something to the realm of that he “has two quarterbacks”, and that usually means he has none. I think it’s fair to say this might be a prime example of that…Or perhaps the Dolphins aren’t even on this level?

Let’s think back here for a second….Saban, you had a dilemma of deciding who you wanted to bring in. After all you are the GM too…And that’s the hat they wear. Let’s see, Culpepper or Brees? Wasn’t that the big question…Oh yeah, and you didn’t want to see Ricky Williams get hurt while on his adventure in Canada. Man, you just can’t win this year man…Literally (no pun intended of course)! Now all you have to say is something to the realm of “We’re not trying to wins games,”…That line seemed to work last year. Why not use it again…It can’t hurt, nothing else seems to be working so far. As your one sorry victory has come against the lonely Titans…And even then you had to squeak out a victory! Can there be anything more humiliating & demoralizing than losing to the Houston Texans?

All this coming from a team that was most likely the hottest team at season’s end last year. I believe it’s safe to say only four games into the season, the Miami Dolphins are already playing for next year…If fact, I’d bet the house on it, SORRY HONEY! Not that they can’t right the ship at some point, it’s just a matter of too many top quality teams play in that conference. Is it still too early to be chanting “We Want Marcus”? Just bypass Joey Harrington all together. And to think, you declined a dinner invitation with the President because you were “Too Busy”. Too Busy doing what?

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Date

Mon 10/02/06, 6:12 pm EST