Dave Hyde

7:46 a.m. EST, November 27, 2013

1. The last Dolphin receiver with the elite speed to get open deep like Mike Wallace was Mark Duper. And Duper says that speed is only part of the equation of a great receiver. The hands are the other.

“He’s got to catch that last pass,’’ said Duper said of the length-of-the-field heave by Ryan Tannehill that twisted Wallace around and went through his hands. “Let me ask you, did it hit his hands?”

It hit his hands.

“Then he got to catch it,’’ Duper said. “We started doing push-ups in practice when any ball hit our hands and we dropped it. It didn’t matter if it was a tough catch. We believed if it hit our hands, you catch it. ...

Some of the questions with Wallace and Tannehill have to do with chemistry. I asked Duper how long that took to have with Dan Marino.

“One game,’’ he said. “The first game we started together. That was it.”

They worked after practice, talked in games.

“I don’t see any communication between the receivers and the quarterbacks,’’ Duper said.

He said that’s not just on Tannehill. If he’s Wallace, he’s going to talk to Tannehill and get some extra work in.

“I want them to do better,’’ Duper said. ...

I miss the old days.

Still never won a Superbowl.

Maybe not. But Miami was a legit playoff contender annually back then. Shula and Marino gave Miami fans many years of competitive football.

Shula/Marino gave Miami '84, '85, '90 & '92. Miami missed the playoff from '86 to '89 & again in '91. They generally made the playoffs as the bottom feeder, outside the yrs listed above. The Marino yrs were not nearly as great as most recall them.

Those Marino teams would beat the crap out of our current team.

Was '94 that epic opening day game where Marino and Bledsoe each threw for 400 yds and 4 or 5 TD passes?

Still one of my favorite Dolphin games.

Man that duel between Marino and Bledsoe was one of my all-time great football moments. It was Danny's first game back from his achilles tear ...... All the worries about how he'd fare post-injury went out the window.

Shula/Marino gave Miami '84, '85, '90 & '92. Miami missed the playoff from '86 to '89 & again in '91. They generally made the playoffs as the bottom feeder, outside the yrs listed above. The Marino yrs were not nearly as great as most recall them.

Not true, and you missed 94 (an historic badly officiated game)cost them. They had a chance to beat any team in the league at anytime and did many times.

I disagree I think the Marino years were great.

And Duper says that speed is only part of the equation of a great receiver. The hands are the other.

Let's face it ... Wallace is not an elite receiver. I don't want to take anything away from Wallace in that we have seen MANY receivers with elite speed not able to make it in the NFL, but for the money that he commanded in free agency, he should have caught that last pass. I'm not sure if we would have had the time to do a quick snap to stop the clock, but that isn't the issue.

Who knows, if this group stays together next year maybe things turn around.

Keller signed a one year deal....hes gone.

And I agree that we should have drafted a guy....theres multiple rookies who have played way better than mike wallace. There is time to turn it around...we are still in it....id be thrilled with dumb luck to get in the playoffs.