Week 4 is officially over and the Dolphins are about to into their bye week 0-4. Not much reason for confidence in South Florida and the Suck 4 Luck talk is starting to get very loud.

If you’re a not of #Suck4Luck well then you can go with #Lose4Landry or #Breakdown4Barkley!

Not many thought we would be here at the beginning of the season but the Dolphins are a legit player in the Andrew Luck sweepstakes. The Dolphins sit at 0-4 along with the Colts, Vikings, and Rams and then more competition comes from KC and Seattle at 1-3. Realistically the Rams would not go Luck at 1 with Bradford and the Colts showed some encouraging signs Monday Night that they won’t be beyond awful.

So Dolfans are given the options give it all we got every game or hope to Suck 4 Luck. Andrew Luck is the type of Quarterback that only comes around once every 15 years if that. Some have said Luck is the best QB prospect to come out of college since Peyton Manning.

Look at the Colts, with Peyton a potential Super Bowl contender, we can only hope Luck would do the same for us.

So do you hope for the best and a competitive Dolphins team with a 6-10 record and a middle of the road pick or the number 1 or 2 pick and potentially a Quarterback that can potentially save the franchise?

And btw, If your wondering, is Luck really that good ?? The answers yes ! Luck threw for 3338 yards last year with 32 TD's and only 8 INTS. This year he has already thrown for over 1000 yards 11 TD's and just 1 INT. Not to mention he team is a perfect 4-0 !



Seems like a no brainer to me! Oh and hey, if we mess up, it's not like Landry Jones is so bad either !

The buzz is going around the NFL that its only a matter of time until Tony Sparano will be fired. Many Dolphins thought that Sparano being let go would happen immediately after the Dolphins loss to the Chargers but that would require Steve Ross and the Dolphins organization to work logically and we all know that’s not happening.

According to a wide variety of sources including ESPN (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7053553/tony-sparano-miami-dolphins-reportedly-safe-bye), Tony Sparano will survive another week and will NOT be fired during the Dolphins bye week.

Since winning the division Tony’s record is a lacklustre 14-22 and has failed to get the Dolphins a winning record.

If you have had the bad omen of being forced to watch a Dolphins game, you’ll realize that no team in the NFL is more boring to watch then Sparano’s Dolphins. Although Sparano seems to be a motivating characters as most confuse him with mob boss Tony Soprano, yet Tony has failed to get his team prepared to play on a weekly basis.

Being a die hard Dolphins fan myself, it’s obvious to see Tony Sparano’s biggest weakness. Tony would rather get a field goal and 3 points then roll the dice and go for 7.

In the modern day NFL you simply don’t win games by getting 3 instead of 7.

The Dolphins moved Sparano’s press conference for the day until tomorrow but I wouldn’t read to much into that. Steven Ross is trying to create the best NFL fan experience and create a buzz in Miami and he is going to run out of patience with Sparano.

For Dolphins fans that want consoling, every game Sparano coaches is a game closer to Andrew Luck, so don’t sweat it!

The Miami Dolphins organization woke up with a huge hangover this morning. Maybe not all of us drank off our sorrows of a 0-3 start but there has to be many head aches inside the confines of the Miami Dolphins headquarters in Davie.

Good news from week 3: Dolphins didn’t get blown out and most likely will have a high draft pick next year.

Bad News: The Dolphins have not been very good this year and
are 0-3.

Even Worse News: There is no reason to think the Dolphins
are going to get any better, any time soon.

Fans have been left pretty much speechless as the Dolphins once again came out flat losing to the Cleveland Browns falling to 0-3. Not only did the Phins fail to get their first win against the Browns, they failed to take advantage of the fact that the Browns were without their best player.

I could go into depth on how the Dolphins lost this game but I am sure not many Dolphins fans want to be reminded.

The image of Sean Smith (who was supposed to be part of the best secondary in the league with Vontae…take time to pause and laugh) watching Joshua Cribbs jump over him and catch a touchdown I’m sure is still in many fans mind.

Many of the trends that have plagued the Dolphins continued
this week:

Defensively

Dolphins linebackers couldn’t cover an 85 year old grandmother as yet again another TE took advantage of this Dolphins defence.

The Dolphins D could not get off the field on 3^rd down.

Offensively

The O-Line once again did not give Chad Henne much time to work with

Chad Henne was given the ball in the 4rth quarter and good field position all set up to get the W instead he made a bad decision and threw and interception.

Reggie Bush has been used as an inside runner and fumbled instead of more appropriately being used as a WR or scat back.

Red zone = A disaster

Special Teams

Dan Carpenter once a reliable kicker has now either lost his confidence or just plain old lost it.

As you can see there are many issues that still plague this 0-3 Dolphins team.

The only thing to think about now is where do we go from here…start talking draft or new coaching options perhaps or is it too early?

Stay Classy! Phins Up!

Its prediction time once again here at Phins Phocus. Unfortunately, Daniel and I both missed picking the Dolphins a week ago while the majority of the experts were spot on siding with the favored Texans.

Did we learn our lesson or will we take an underdog Dolphins’ team again this time around? Our picks can be seen after the experts’. As always, give us your prediction in the comments. 

Tony Sparano is now only three days away from arguably the biggest make or break game in his coaching career.

A win will keep hope alive in Miami and temporarily take some heat off of Sparano’s seat. If the Dolphins fall to the Browns a 0-5 start to the season will become likely and Sparano’s fate will be all but sealed.

Fortunately for Sparano and the Dolphins, however, Sunday is surely a winnable game and on paper they are probably a better team than the Browns.

But in order to preserve the season these Dolphins are going to have to dial up that “road warrior” mentality that enabled them to go 6-2 away from Sun Life in 2010.

Here’s what needs to happen for the Dolphins to earn their first victory of the season.

Contain Josh Cribbs

It’s no secret that poor special-teams play has haunted this regime over the past couple years. It hasn’t gotten any better this season as Dan Carpenter missed two “gimme” field goals last week and returners have been a block away from taking one back to the house on more than one occasion through two weeks.

Enter the second most feared kick returner in football, Joshua Cribbs. The Dolphins may outperform the Browns on both sides of the ball on Sunday, but if they concede a big return they could easily still fall to 0-3.

The Dolphins’ coverage teams need to stay disciplined in their assignments and fly to the football. Of course, if Dan Carpenter could just utilize the new kickoff rule and boom some footballs out of the endzone like many kickers have been able to do consistently, this wouldn’t even be an issue.