Fins Nation: A Miami Dolphins Blog With Dick Jokes

Ugh.

Two days.  Two injuries to potentially impact players. 

Speedster Kory Sheets apparently goes down with an Achilles tear during kickoff drills. 

/ carefully lines up 22 turtles

// shits on them

UPDATE:  Ben Volin of Palm Beach Post has confirmed via an NFL source that Sheets has a torn Achilles and is done for the year.  Back to shitting on turtles...
 

Slightly Off-Topic: FN Tailgate Meet-and-Greet Before Jets Game

We've mentioned the idea of having a small gathering on Friday, September 24th for those of us going to the FN tailgate extravaganza and for SoFla folks that can't make it but would like to still take part in some FN-related revelry.  With this in mind, The Dude, TA and I kicked around a few ideas with the following basic criteria:

• Cheapish food and drinks
• An outdoor place that can give us that nice, swampy September Friday night lovin'
• Somewhere that is close to other locations so if Place #1 sucks we can always barhop to another spot
• A dive bar feel with a cool vibe
• Has to be fairly easy for everyone to get to in order to make sure more heads come out

With that in mind, we settled on two places:

• Bayside Hut in Key Biscayne.  May or may not exist (the phone line didn't work when I called just now so that's not too good).  I took a girlfriend (yes, I've actually had a girlfriend) and some friends there once and it was pretty great.  Right on the water, kinda hidden in Key Biscayne, cheap drinks/food, palm trees and a nice view of Brickell.
• Scotty's Landing.  Also been here a few times.  Coconut Grove, right on the water, folks creep up on their boats and dock in the marina, nice night time vibe, near main Grove hot spots, and right by the Dinner Key Auditorium where The Dude can do his best Morrison impression and show us his tronkosonko.

Now, these are two very Southern locations but I'm sympathetic to the Northern souls that read our blog.  Therefore, I'm openly taking any recommendations to find a good spot.  You have the criteria above so feel free to make your voices heard.  If you have a better suggestion, please leave it in the comments or email The Dude if you're the non-commenting type.  Seriously, any help is much appreciated as we want to make this a fun event for some of us to get to know each other before the big game Sunday night.  That way we're more unified in KICKING JETS ASS.

I'll follow up on this post in a month or so once we've decided.

Thanks.
 

Just F*cking Peachy

As you guys noted in the previous posts' comments, the Miami Herald is reporting that 4th-round pick A.J. Edds is done for the year due to an ACL tear.  The Iowa rookie and personal draft favorite of Sergeant Dickjoke appeared to tweak his right knee during last night's practice and was seen watching the remainder of the practice with his knee wrapped in ice.  Edds was projected to be more of a situational guy, coming in on obvious passing downs and was drafted to do the types of things that Akin Ayodele lacked the speed to do last year (see:  Dallas Clark's ridiculous TD against us in the Colts game).  With Edds gone, this now falls on Dobbins, Dansby and Crowder.  You read that right:  Channing Crowder is now supposed to make plays and tackle speedier TE's running up the post as well as any RB's sitting in the middle of the defense.  Channing Crowder.

Holy Sweet Jesus Baby Child of Bethlehem, save us.  The only solace I can take from this is that EVERY NFL team deals with injuries during training camp to some extent.  The key is how we recover from this.  Let's just hope other guys can step up and take over for Edds.  Also, look for the team to bring in another undrafted or younger free agent to try and fill a similar role.

Feel sorry for Edds, too, as he seemed like a good dude and a nice player for our type of defense.  FACK!

Side note:  it's just a matter of time before Pat White goes all 'Willie Burton' on us.  Mark it down.