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They came back from the bye and lost eight of their final 10 games.Lesson learned.The Dolphins were last 2-0 in 2013, actually winning their first three that year before sputtering to an 8-8 finish. Gase's first season in Miami was 2016, those Dolphins started 0-2 and 1-4, and made the playoffs regardless."You've got to play every week, you've got to reset it every week, you've got to work to get better, try not to be a team that's up and down, try to be consistent," Gase said. "You're going to lose games in this league. That's why there's only been one undefeated team that's ever won it all and another undefeated team didn't win the last game — so nobody really cares."To be clear, he wasn't drawing any parallel to the 1972 perfect Dolphins or the 2007 New England Patriots team that went 16-0 in the regular season and wound up losing the Super Bowl to the New York Giants.Gase knows this team has to get better, with much to clean up before playing host to the Oakland Raiders (0-2) on Sunday. And although he insi1sts that what's said outside the Dolphins' facility doesn't matter, some players are finding a bit of satisfaction knowing that Miami might already been exceeding the gloom-and-doom expectations they heard about coming into the year."Yeah, we're proving some guys wrong," Dolphins receiver Jakeem Grant said. "But at the end of the day, we're playing for each other. 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He raved about quarterback Ryan Tannehill's accuracy through two games, the third-and-19 catch by running back Frank Gore that sealed Sunday's win, or the multi-layered effort that the Dolphins' defense made to keep the Jets out of the end zone on the final play of the first half.To him, that's what matters.Hearing about having a one-game lead in the AFC East with 14 left to play only was worthy of an eye roll."If you ask half these guys, they probably don't even know," Gase said. "They don't care. I mean, it doesn't mean anything. The division stuff right now is so irrelevant. ... No one cares what you're doing right now. When it's December and it's really coming down to the end, half the time you don't even care then. You're just playing games and trying to win them all." 9 of 66 DeVante Parker’s snaps in GIF form; he caught 6 of 9 targets.There’s a 69 joke somewhere in there.The TapeAnyone could’ve looked at the box score and told you Parker had a decent game. 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Long story short: not the most perfect in route technique-wise in a vacuum, but it works just fine on this play. The way Brock Osweiler whips his head around makes me think Parker was the #1 read in the progression, and DeVante had plenty of separation to boot. This is about as easy as pitch-and-catch gets in the NFL. If Jesse Davis could’ve gotten to the deep safety, there was a crease for a TD. As it stands, Adam Gase’s favorite play gets admirable results here. The blocking unfurls, giving Parker a nice pocket to get upfield. Danny Amendola and Jakeem Grant both block well here and the design and execution are both solid overall. Nuances are there: Parker driving upfield before coming back to the line of scrimmage, OL not getting too far upfield before Parker catches it (can’t be getting a stupid “ineligible man downfield” call), play called to the wide side of the field with more space for a screen to be effective, etc..Parker literally sits down in the zone, making the catch as he plops down on his derriere. It’s hard to tell what would’ve happened on this play, but if this ball hits him on the inside hash he might be scoring on this one, too. The safety, in my opinion, reacts a bit late and takes an aggressive angle - an on-target throw here capitalizes on this, possibly with 6 points. The ball is behind, he drops his momentum to make a sliding-ish catch, and the Dolphins settle for a nice 17-yard gain.The safety totally bites on Amendola, and Parker’s 9 route is open. In my opinion, illegal contact or defensive holding could’ve easily been called: before the pass, at the 47 yard line, Parker moves inside and the CB clearly uses his left arm/hand to slow him down. However [url=http://www.authenticsmiamidolphins.com/cheap-kiko-alonso-jersey]http://www.authenticsmiamidolphins.com/cheap-kiko-alonso-jersey[/url] , I don’t think it was enough to alter the outcome of the play - I believe it still would’ve been an incompletion. Woulda, shoulda, coulda.Osweiler looks to the wide side of the field, with the play design isolating him while all of the other skill position players were off to the right side of the line of scrimmage. He gets inside, and most importantly, he uses his size to create separation in short quarters. Osweiler fits it in a tight window and move the chains. DeVante wins this pseudo-jam by the CB, still within the legal contact window, he extends the left arm, almost like you might see a point guard in basketball do to a defender while getting an in-bounds pass.That space created by the extending left arm allows Parker to get his mitts on the ball first and not allow the CB to deflect the pass.Deep crossing route, Parker working behind the nickel LB. It’s a good ball by Osweiler. Parker is able to take the angle and get upfield for a few more yards. Too little, too late, but a great play nonetheless. This GIF doesn’t do the catch justice. The picture of this article captures the left-handed snag by Parker here. I feel like I’m nitpicking here, but this is a ball you want to see him come down with. It’s a corner route and you want to see him use his size to wall off the defense there. At the very least, you’re creating a situation that can garner a defensive penalty if the safety has to fight through your body to make a play on the ball. Instead of planting earlier and getting vertical, he continues to drift horizontally, and that allows the safety to have the angle to make a play on the ball.Usually these plays happen against the Dolphins, this time it’s in our favor. This fleeting glimpse of good luck, of course, would be swallowed by the impeding doom of a Houston butt-kicking. But as someone who soured on DeVante last year, I enjoyed digging into the tape and having something other than bitter flavors when discussing our former 1st round pick.
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