Fans are the least of Dolphins’ worries
Jarvis Landry picked the right word for not just this past Miami Dolphins week, but a season where all the surprises so far have been bad ones. You just wonder about the topic he chose to apply the word.
“Embarrassing,” Landry called some fans’ sporadic chant to play reserve quarterback Matt Moore last Sunday. He also called the chant “disrespectful” to players.
He then went back to his first idea, saying, “It’s embarrassing as a player to have fans like that.”
Maybe he’s right. Maybe that’s the view from the locker room. But if we’re ranking what’s embarrassing about the Dolphins right now any possible fans’ chant, curse, boo or player-specific reaction is far down any list. They should rank even lower to an offensive player like Landry.
Because you want to know what’s really embarrassing as they try to change the narrative of a season Sunday in Atlanta?
Embarrassing is an offense averaging five points fewer than the next-worst team, the Cleveland Browns, a clown franchise.
Embarrassing is a team built around its running game still the only one in the league without a rushing touchdown.
Embarrassing is being on pace — admittedly, an early pace — for the fewest points (10.3) and yards (231.3) per game not just in the league but in team history.
Embarrassing is having scored only three offensive touchdowns when every other team has scored at least seven. Seventeen players have more touchdowns than Miami right now, including former Dolphins Chris Hogan (five) and Mike Gillislee (four) in New England.
Embarrassing is video of your offensive line coach, Chris Foerster, snorting lines of a white, powdery substance just before a team meeting going viral after its release by a Las Vegas woman.
Embarrassing is that snorting line coach being in charge of the worst unit on the team, which should be no surprise considering the trouble he had.
Embarrassing is having coach Adam Gase feel the need to say Foerster’s snorting was an, “isolated incident.” And what’s even more