SB Nation User Blog: Neo

Trades? Trade Rumors? Please post here.

Neo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:45:58 -0000

Do me a favor peeps. Today is the trade deadline, and there might me some trades and rumors going around. Could you please post if you here anything so I/eveyone can easily keep up. This is one I heard:

The Dolphins, according to several rumors, will deal Ginn Jr. to either Baltimore or Kansas City. Pro Football Weekly says:

One player who might pique [Baltimore's] interest is former first-round pick Ted Ginn Jr., who has struggled in his development as a receiver and returner in Miami.

Ginn Jr. has not received the love he deserves in Miami. Sure, he has dropped some catchable balls, but he has also made some big plays.

Makes sense, Parcells son in law is in KC. Could Ginn be in a package for Bowe? Makes sense in Baltimore too. Since Cam Cam in OC. Rumor also has it, that Cam convinced Ravens GM to sign the Ginn family, and now they want Teddy too. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks in advance.

Pennington a top 5/10 All Time Favorite Dolphin? Poll

Neo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:04:08 -0000

Just reading the comments under one of Matty's latest articles. Fine work Matty, fine work . While reading I saw a post that Pennington, after 1 season, was a top 5 or top 10 favorite Dolphin. I have listed 15 others that I would put ahead of Pennington. Yes, he doesn't even make my top 15, maybe not top 20 for these came off just the top of my head. They are as follows:

1) Dan Marino
2) Ronnie Brown
3) Jason Taylor
4) Zach Thomas
5) Larry Csonka
6) Mark Duper
7) Bob Griese
8) Ricky Williams
9) Larry Little
10) OJ McDuffie
11) Mercury Morris
12) Sam Madison
13) Patrick Sutain
14) Richmond Webb
15) Reggie Roby

These are random order (except Marino). No disrespect to any other Dolphins greats. Upon request, I'd like to thank joel311 and Matty I for the inspiration for this post.-)

Where does he rank with you? Who ya dropping? Why? Gotta poll to engaged opinon.

Poll

Pennington ranks where in your "All Time Favorite Dolphins"?

Top 5

10 votes

Top 10

39 votes

Top 20

73 votes

Top 15

19 votes

Top 50

71 votes

212 votes | Poll has closed

Crowder's response to Pace

Neo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:24:41 -0000

I'm sure you all heard it, but I think it's worth posting.

"They want to say gimmick, gimmick this. We've won games with the Wildcat. I'll win a game with a gimmick...Hell, they ran two fake punts. If you want to say gimmick, those are real a gimmick. The Wildcat is an offensive formation [we've] been running for two years. They've got thousands of plays on film about it. Go stop it and shut up about all that junk talking....They ain't gonna give us no credit. We'll see them in three weeks. We have to play them again, so the hell with them."

I love it. He's right. They are talking about Gimmicks and running 2 fake punts. LOL.

"The hell with them."

RIGHT!

BTW: -)

Aint - Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not.

- The Free Dictionary

Alright, Tell me why Pennington is so great and Henne will stink it up

Neo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:36:36 -0000

You know, all I hear is how great Pennington is. What he has done. How he is all everything.. How Henne sucks. How if we bring in Henne we are throwing away the season. I've said it in many comments, but decided to sum it up in one Fanpost. Here it is.

First thing first. We are a rebuilding team. Does anyone understand what rebuilding means? If not here it is:

tr.v., -built (-bĭlt'), -build·ing, -builds.

To build again.
To make extensive structural repairs on.
To remodel or make extensive changes in: tried to rebuild society.

Not patchwork. Patches is what the Jets did last year bringing in all those overpriced FAs. Built to win now and cap hell later. If your rebuilding, your tearing everything down and starting from scratch. Thats what we've done. To be honest, thats what needed to be done for YEARS.

Every postion needed to be upgraded after that 1-15 team. Out with the old, in with new. We got Parcells, for hopefully 4 years to REBUILD not only our team, but our entire franchise. Everyone has to answer for thier work. Ireland, Sparno, ALL the players, even the waterboy.

I remember when the Steelers were forced to put in Roethlisberger, some players thought they couldn't win and perferred a veteran. I dare to say that Big Ben broke the mold on how to will with a rookie QB. The Steelers showed that just because a guy is a rookie, the season is not lost. Anyone know what Roethlisberger's rookie record was? Anyone? Anyone? How bout 13-0, 14-1 including playoffs.

Before his rookie year how many rookie QBs came in and had succes? How many have come in since? Flacco, Ryan, Sanchez, and others have come in to show that you can win with rookies. Its not throwing in the season if you have a good coaching staff, running game, and defense. If you have a bad organization like Oakland and Detroit, well then, thats another story. But I dare to say that unlike previous years, we now have a coaching staff that knows how to call a game with a young QB in there. One that gives us a chance to win and not forfiet the season.

Now to Pennington. First let me give hime his props. Pennington is a fine QB, nice leader, and a total benefit to have on the team. But that does not mean he benefits the team most by starting at QB. I heard that he single handedly took us to the playoffs last year. We can't win without him. Might as well throw in the season by startin Henne. I see this as a blinded loyatly to a man, and simply people that are afraid of the unknown.

Let me lay down some facts to all the Pennington lovers, and your not gonna like it. Pennington did not in anyway single handedly do ANYTHING for us. Or took us ANYWHERE. If he was so great, why were we 0-2 and having to bring in the WC formation, and even with Brady out, we DO NOT win the NE game without Ronnie's 5 TDs. Hell we were 2-4 before Sparno got our defense and o-line together good enough to keep us in games to allow Pennington and the rest of the offense to muster up drives at the end of the games against the weakest schedule in the NFL.

I said this before and I'll tell ya again, in order the reason for our turnaround last year:

1) Bill Parcells

2) Ireland, Sparno, coaching staff

3) A bend, but don't break defense

4) Improved O-line play

5) Wildcat formation

6) Running game

7) Pennington

All I hear is Pennington this, Pennington that, but no props to any other part of the team when we talk about last year's success. What do we lose if we take Pennington out? Are we scoring 24+ a game? Is he making so much of a diiference that he cannot be replaced? What is he doing that rookie QBs weren't doing last year?

So here is it. Tell me why are we throwing in the season if we pull Pennington and start Henne. Why is the season lost if we pull a weak arm qb, for a stronger arm qb who had a chance to sit and watch for a season. We've seen you can win with rookie QBs, now we got one that has sit a year. Why does Pro-Penne people say everyone can do it except us?

We are a rebuilding team, and every position needs to be addressed.

FYI I started typing this before last nights game, and the Colts game had nothing to do with this Post.

I post because I care.

Parcells on Sirius

Neo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:15:01 -0000

Just a nice quick read I found.

Fins: Parcells on Sirius NFL Radio
> Posted by Ethan J. Skolnick at 10:57:06 PM

Bill Parcells was on NFL Sirius Radio tonight, with Howard David.

Some highlights:

-- He said that he promised H. Wayne Huizenga, before taking the job, that he would stay through at least two drafts.

-- He said of working with Stephen Ross: "I think it's going to work out fine."

-- He acknowledged that the Dolphins will have "a much more difficult schedule" and "we're going to have to have a better team on the field to do what we did last year."

-- "I think Tony (Sparano) did a magnificent job. I certainly wasn't involved in the coaching. He's the one who molded the team... He established law and order. I think the players have a good deal of confidence in him. I think he showed a very human and passionate side. He was very tough on them, but he showed he was passionate too."

-- He said Chad Pennington "brought a confidence," and that "the coaching staff did a very very good job with him." He called Pennington "a very good leader" and "a very good game manager," while acknowledging "that also is a little bit limiting from time to time in terms of taking a chance here or there." He said that the Dolphins ranked in the top-5 in the league in the Discipline Index stat that the team tracks, and that Pennington deserved credit for "at least a major portion of that."

-- He said that he expected about 18 new players on the roster at the start of next season.

-- On Lawrence Taylor going on Dancing with the Stars: "I haven't left him a voicemail, but I can assure you that will be forthcoming." He said he was talking to Dan Henning about it tonight.

Hi, I'm new here!

Neo — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:10:07 -0000

Please welcome your newest Dolphan (literally and figuratively). My lil man, Kenneth Michael (KJ - Ken Jr.) was born to Ken and Julie on Feb 5. 2009. He says he'll be giving his insightful opinons on Dolphin related issues just as soon as he learns to talk and type. He is extremely proud to be part of the greatest fanbase of the greatest team in the entire NFL.

PS. I love my mommy and daddy!

Vote Tony Sparano - Motorola Coach of the Year

Neo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:07:28 -0000

We all know that Tony got the shaft earlier, now is our chance to get him an award he rightfully deserves, coach of the year.

On NFL.com they are having the fans vote for the Motorola Coach of the Year. Lets all lend our support to the man that rightfully deserves the award. Ya know. The guy who coached a 11 game win season in his first year. Coached the franchise to 10 more wins than they had last year. Goes out and thanks fans for coming out and supporting the Dolphins. And is a all around class act.

Lets show we appreciate him as much as he does us.

Link:

Motorola Coach of the Year

Pennington Lovefest...I'm All for Henne..Bring it on...Posted Jan 2, 2009 1:57 PM EST

Neo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:09 -0000

This has gotten me stirred a little bit. In a Previous fanpost by Phinsguy99 (link http://www.thephinsider.com/2009/1/1/707031/have-we-signed-an-extensio ) We we're having a discussion on Pennington and Henne.

The question is asked if we signed Pennington to an extension. To which I rose to Henne's defense. Simply put, don't fall in love with Pennington like the Browns did with Anderson last year and lock up alot of money because of this one good year.

Like I posted:

The Jets got rid of Pennington for a reason. Remember he got a come back player of the year with the Jets. Don’t get me wrong, I think Pennington is a fine QB. I love the job he did, but I’m all for the future.

Some peeps think that Henne was the best QB prospect coming out last year, ahead of the likes of Ryan and Flacco. Now he has been able to sit a year. I have no problems whatsoever if the Dolphins start floundering next year to throw Henne in without any hesitation.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but, I think the Cincinnati Bengals had a similar delemma a few years ago. Remember when they first got Marvin Lewis.

They drafted Carson Palmer, but Jon Kitna was thier QB. If I’m remembering correctly Kitna won the comeback player of the year when he started Carson’s entire rookie season. But the year after they gave the reigns to Palmer. Look how that turned out.

I’m not saying Henne is Palmer, nor the Dolphins should/would do that here. Lets just not lock up alot of money in 1 player just because he had one good year.

Now I'll be the 1st to say my vote to the poll. Not no, but HELL NO. I don't wanna see a large amount of money tied into Pennington because of his good year. So lets go, I'll argue with anyone (and everyone) about it too.-)

Update:

Not trying to start anything over again, but since Matty abruptly ended my other post, I couldn't respond to a certain post(s) that I have seen.

I have been accused REPEATEDLY of just wanting to get rid of Pennington after his bad playoff game. Even after I (and others) brought up this post nobody seems to remember it. So I'm updating the date and time of this post so pepple can see that this wasn't a knee-jerk reaction. This was posted after Pennington help get us into the playoffs. That is all.

Go Fins!

Orginal date and time of Post ...Jan 2, 2009 1:57 PM EST

Heres da poll.

Poll

Knowing the money it might take, do you wanna see the Fins lock Pennington up long term?

Yes

39 votes

No

62 votes

101 votes | Poll has closed

Hold on people, way too much credit to Mr. Pennington

Neo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:09:15 -0000

You all are starting to give WAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much credit to Mr. Pennington. Ya know what, he contributed to this great year, but by no means was he the REASON for this great year.

First our coaches did a hell of a job with the talent they had to work with. Draft picks like, Long, Merling, Bess played alot as well. Ronnie, Ricky, Porter, Ferguson players gave it all for this team.

An improving defense all year. Wildcat formation. And what seemed like a "nobody" player stepping up for this team to win in every game they won. All contributed to these wins.

To say that Pennington is the reason we went 1-15 to 11-5 is utterly ridiculous. Not to mention a slap in the face to every other player they sweated and put in the hours to help this team win.

Pennington manage the game. Fine. He drove the ball down at the end of a couple of games to help us win. OK. But thats mostly because the offense wasn't getting the job done earlier in the game to put teams away.

You know what, people call this a magical year, mythical, a "dream" year. Guess what? It was, but the year is over with now.

Now I know this isn't gonna be a popular opinion. I will be called neg neo (among other things), but I've seen this stuff happen alot. People fall in love with players, and let their hearts cloud the vision of their mind.

Alot of things broke the Fins way to do the things they did this year. All those close wins, injuries to the Pats, favorable schedule. Those things aren't going happen next year. We are a rebuilding franchise. Don't forget this. We are in rebuilding mode and had a magical year.

Now its time to get back to rebuidling for the future. It will be a open competition for the QB position and I hope Henne wins. Not so much that I hate Pennington, just that a 33 year old QB has no business starting on a rebuilding team if a second year QB is ready.

God bless the Fins, its players and its fans. Thank you Lord for this magical ride. Everyone think realistic and remember what we are trying to accomplish.

Thanks for reading my post. I'm sorry if you don't agree. But it is what it is.

For the record, stop making excuses for the guy. Those INTS were all Pennington's fault. Don't feed me any BS lines about our OL not protecting, no running game, the receivers or "he was trying to make plays". He played with them all year.

Pennington was overthrowing receivers annd throwing into double, sometimes triple coverage. Not to mention last time I checked it was 3-3 before all the INTS started rollin midway through the 2 qtr. The man is no god.

Typical Jet

Neo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:35:42 -0000

"When you can't line up and beat somebody one-on-one ... whatever," OLB Calvin Pace said, shaking his head. "I guess you can give them credit. Whatever. I guess when you go from worst to first, you have to do stuff like that."

Umm sorry. When I looked on TV, it looked like my Fins lined up against the Jets. It sure looked like we had as many players lined up on one side of the ball as the did. It looked liked we were right across from them too, looking at em.

You "have to do stuff like that?" You mean try to move the ball towards a endzone like every other team? The Hell You Say?!?!

Now now. Go home to mommy and watch us on TV. Maybe next year you won't lose to sorry west coast teams that don't win more than 5 games in a season. And maybe, just maybe your upper management won't jettison their QB over a "named" QB.

SHIRT TALE: To motivate his team, Mangini obtained a preprinted "Dolphins: AFC East Champions" T-shirt and showed the players in a meeting, according to ESPN. The Dolphins got wind of it and mocked the Jets afterward.

Word has it, a picture were taken of the incident:

All I got to say is...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Love that pic

Full article link

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/2008/12/28/2008-12-28_jets_defense_irked_by_tricky_dolphins.html

Damn its a great day to be a Fins Fan!

Let me just add this about the Parcells opt out thing. I don't want him to go, but if he wants to take his 9 mill, 12 mill whichever it is, and leave he can take it. He took my beloved Fins from 1-15 to 11-5 and a division crown in one year. He has earned it. I'll give a guy 12 mill to turn my team's win total by 10 in one year any day. Not to mention set a (what looks to be) awesome GM and HC, a grooming future QB in waiting in place. Ya know set my franchise which was a total disaster, up for the present and future. Ya thats worth it.