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Miami Dolphins Thread; For all the Fish Fans out there
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Topic Started: Aug 21 2006, 04:19 AM (7,461 Views)
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MAGICMANEVAN
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Oct 8 2006, 09:29 PM
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Wow. 1 win through week 5... ouch. were not much better at all than the titans or browns...
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Black and Blue
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Oct 8 2006, 11:38 PM
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True MME. Horrifically enough, I thought Harrington looked better than Culpepper.
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Oct 9 2006, 05:50 PM
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Harrington to start again for Dolphins
DAVIE, Fla. (Oct. 9, 2006) -- There's no mystery this week. Joey Harrington will remain as the Miami Dolphins ' starting quarterback.
For now, anyway.
Dolphins coach Nick Saban said that when his team opens practice for an Oct. 15 visit to the New York Jets, Harrington will be the first-stringer. Daunte Culpepper will enter a rehab-type program designed to help restore some explosive movement in his surgically rebuilt right knee.
"We'll evaluate it on a week-to-week basis," Saban said. "This week, we're going to plan to play like we did last week. ... We're going to work with Daunte, improve his movement, give him some reps in practice, get Joey ready to play in the game. Now, does that make him the starter? I guess that makes him the starter."
Harrington completed 26 of 41 passes for 232 yards and two interceptions in Miami's 20-10 loss at New England on Oct. 8. He was chosen the starter one day earlier by Saban, while Culpepper was listed as "probable" on the team's injury report with what the team said was a sore shoulder.
And while Saban said Culpepper's shoulder remains a concern, it was clear that the knee recovery issues were foremost in his decision to continue with Harrington.
The decision could change "any time," Saban said, but no timetable for Culpepper's return exists.
"When he's playing and he can move laterally and quickly, not just in straight-ahead running, but in lateral movements and quick, explosive movements," Saban said when asked what he needs to see before he'd return Culpepper to the starting role. "That's what we'll be looking for."
The Dolphins are 1-4 and have lost seven of the last eight games at the Meadowlands, not including a 2003 win over the stadium's other tenant, the New York Giants.
Only one team in Miami history has recovered from a 1-4 start or worse to finish with a .500 record; the 1986 Dolphins rallied to end that season 8-8, yet still missed the playoffs.
Still, such a start isn't always a death knell. There are nine teams who have reached the playoffs from 1-4, most recently Green Bay in 2004.
"We've got to get it right. ... I think if we do that, we improve as a team, we start winning games and we got on a roll around here in a positive way," Saban said. "We're going to continue to focus on the good things, correct the bad things, focus on the good things that we have here and get the thing turned around."
Culpepper took every snap in the first four games, completed 81 of 134 passes for 929 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions -- and was sacked 21 times.
Harrington was sacked only once by the Patriots.
"By design, it was helpful that if the ball's coming out faster, you don't have to block them for as long," Saban said.
Culpepper and Saban exchanged heated words during practice Oct. 6, something the coach loudly -- and somewhat angrily -- tried to downplay Oct. 9.
Culpepper, Saban said, knows he's doing something that's best for the team right now, even though the Dolphins' top offseason acquisition is obviously disappointed by the situation.
"I understand that and I respect it," Saban said. "I would be a lot more concerned if the guy said: 'Great, I don't care. Let me go down to South Beach and see what's going on down there.' I would be real concerned then."
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MAGICMANEVAN
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Oct 9 2006, 05:52 PM
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Harrington to start again for Dolphins
DAVIE, Fla. (Oct. 9, 2006) -- There's no mystery this week. Joey Harrington will remain as the Miami Dolphins ' starting quarterback.
For now, anyway.
Dolphins coach Nick Saban said that when his team opens practice for an Oct. 15 visit to the New York Jets, Harrington will be the first-stringer. Daunte Culpepper will enter a rehab-type program designed to help restore some explosive movement in his surgically rebuilt right knee.
"We'll evaluate it on a week-to-week basis," Saban said. "This week, we're going to plan to play like we did last week. ... We're going to work with Daunte, improve his movement, give him some reps in practice, get Joey ready to play in the game. Now, does that make him the starter? I guess that makes him the starter."
Harrington completed 26 of 41 passes for 232 yards and two interceptions in Miami's 20-10 loss at New England on Oct. 8. He was chosen the starter one day earlier by Saban, while Culpepper was listed as "probable" on the team's injury report with what the team said was a sore shoulder.
And while Saban said Culpepper's shoulder remains a concern, it was clear that the knee recovery issues were foremost in his decision to continue with Harrington.
The decision could change "any time," Saban said, but no timetable for Culpepper's return exists.
"When he's playing and he can move laterally and quickly, not just in straight-ahead running, but in lateral movements and quick, explosive movements," Saban said when asked what he needs to see before he'd return Culpepper to the starting role. "That's what we'll be looking for."
The Dolphins are 1-4 and have lost seven of the last eight games at the Meadowlands, not including a 2003 win over the stadium's other tenant, the New York Giants.
Only one team in Miami history has recovered from a 1-4 start or worse to finish with a .500 record; the 1986 Dolphins rallied to end that season 8-8, yet still missed the playoffs.
Still, such a start isn't always a death knell. There are nine teams who have reached the playoffs from 1-4, most recently Green Bay in 2004.
"We've got to get it right. ... I think if we do that, we improve as a team, we start winning games and we got on a roll around here in a positive way," Saban said. "We're going to continue to focus on the good things, correct the bad things, focus on the good things that we have here and get the thing turned around."
Culpepper took every snap in the first four games, completed 81 of 134 passes for 929 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions -- and was sacked 21 times.
Harrington was sacked only once by the Patriots.
"By design, it was helpful that if the ball's coming out faster, you don't have to block them for as long," Saban said.
Culpepper and Saban exchanged heated words during practice Oct. 6, something the coach loudly -- and somewhat angrily -- tried to downplay Oct. 9.
Culpepper, Saban said, knows he's doing something that's best for the team right now, even though the Dolphins' top offseason acquisition is obviously disappointed by the situation.
"I understand that and I respect it," Saban said. "I would be a lot more concerned if the guy said: 'Great, I don't care. Let me go down to South Beach and see what's going on down there.' I would be real concerned then." Link
Ahhhhhhh. No! My worst nightmare just came true. This season is ruined.
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Tony
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Oct 15 2006, 08:42 PM
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Dolphins lose again today against the Jets. Now 1-5. Harrington went 27/43 - 266 yds - 1 TD - 2 INT. And Ronnie Brown had a good game with 22 Rushes for 127 yds and a TD, he needed a game like this to get his confidence back up since he hasnt had a good season so far. The Dolphins made a nice run at the end but it was too late they came up short on the Mare FG. Lost 20-17.
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Oct 15 2006, 09:57 PM
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Yikes. Not a good game for the Phins.
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Black and Blue
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Oct 16 2006, 11:27 AM
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Wowza, this really can't get much worse. I never thought I would find myself rooting for the Raiders to win a game so the Dolphins could get Brady Quinn with the #1 pick overall
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Nov 7 2006, 05:38 PM
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nice win against the bears
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Nov 8 2006, 02:05 PM
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yea....Dolphins are only the 2nd team in like the last 18 Bears Home games to score in double digits.
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Tony
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Nov 25 2006, 10:55 PM
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The Dolphins are on a roll now. They won 4 straight and are now 5-6. Even if they win the rest of their games they probably still wouldn't make the playoffs, the AFC is too strong. They always go on a roll too late into the season. Like last year when they won thier last 6 games or whatever it was but it was too late and now this season. It takes them too long to get started.
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Nov 26 2006, 11:28 AM
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Miami Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown will be evaluated on a week-to-week basis following surgery on his broken left hand.
Brown, injured Thursday during the third quarter of the Dolphins 27-10 win at Detroit, had surgery Friday.
"It may be several weeks before he gets back, but we don't know that, nobody knows that," Dolphins coach Nick Saban said. "Running back is not an easy position to play when you don't have use of one of your hands. We're not going to put him out on the field at risk of his healing, that's for sure."
Miami has won four straight following a 1-6 start. The Dolphins' don't play until next Sunday when they are scheduled to face Jacksonville at home.
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Tony
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Nov 26 2006, 11:16 PM
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^^That sucks. They need Brown out there if they want to keep winning games. So I guess their gonna start Sammie Morris. I know he had a big game against the Lions but its gonna be hard for him to make up for Brown.
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Nov 26 2006, 11:40 PM
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Morris and Minor looked great so hopefully they can pick up the slack. Dolphins looking great lately!
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Tony
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Dec 2 2006, 03:44 PM
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I know the Jags are coming off a lost from last week but I think their gonna beat the Dolphins. Brown is out for the game and their playing against one of the best DL's in the league. Gonna be a tough game. But then again the Jags have been a streaky team this year and the Dolphins are on a roll so anything can happen.
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Jan 3 2007, 12:56 PM
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Nick Saban has accepted an offer from Alabama to coach the Crimson Tide and leave the Miami Dolphins, two weeks after declaring "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."
Sayeth Saban A chronology of comments about Nick Saban taking the head coaching job at Alabama:
Nov. 27: Saban: "When I was in college it was always about coming to the pros. This is the challenge I wanted. I had a good college job. Why would I have left that if I was going to be interested in other college jobs?
"I took this as a challenge. We certainly haven't seen this through and gotten where we want to go and finished the job here, so why would I be interested in something else?"
Dec. 5: Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga (after giving Saban a vote of confidence): "I am completely sold on Nick Saban. I would admit we made a mistake if we did make a mistake, but I firmly believe in Nick Saban."
Dec. 7: Saban: "I'm flattered that they may have been interested in me, but it never really progressed, because we just never let it progress."
Dec. 21: Saban: "I guess I have to say it. I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. ... I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.
Dec. 27: Saban: "I'm just making a rule to never comment on something like that again because every time you comment on it, it just makes for another story. So I'm not going to comment on it five years from now, and I'm not going to comment on it next week." Saban's agreement with Alabama is for eight years and a fully-guaranteed $32 million, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports. Saban can potentially earn an additional $700,000 to $800,000 annually in bowl-game bonuses.
Saban told team owner Wayne Huizenga of his decision in a face-to-face meeting Wednesday morning. Saban then informed all of his coaches by speakerphone that he was leaving the franchise to coach Alabama.
In a news conference at the team's facility, Huizenga told reporters he was not upset by Saban's departure.
"It is what it is. We have to move forward," Huizenga said. "We want the best for Nick and [his wife] Terry. I like Nick a lot and think he could have won here. I'm a Nick Saban fan."
As of late Wednesday morning, Saban was not yet headed to Tuscaloosa for a formal introduction.
"All indications are that he's coming, but I know they're not in the air yet," an Alabama athletic department official told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach.
Alabama made a formal offer to Saban on Monday after rumors swirled for weeks that the Crimson Tide were pursuing the former LSU coach.
Saban had issued repeated denials that he was interested in coaching Alabama, one of the most high-profile and high-pressure college coaching jobs in the country. He leaves the Dolphins with three years left on a deal worth approximately $4.5 million a year.
Saban was 15-17 without a playoff appearance in his two seasons as Dolphins coach.
"In my opinion, the Dolphins have always been about winning. I just want everyone to know that it's really all about winning now," Huizenga said. "I don't care what it takes or what it costs, we're going to make this a winning franchise -- sooner rather than later."
Alabama began looking for a coach after firing Mike Shula on Nov. 27. The Tide finished the season 6-7, losing to Oklahoma State in the Independence Bowl.
On Tuesday, Saban asked for and received more time from Huizenga to make a decision, yet Huizenga remained optimistic that Saban would remain with the Dolphins. Saban was given until 10 a.m. Wednesday to make a decision.
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Thats rough. as a cowboy fan i don't really care. but still rough for dolphin fans.
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