By Ben Volin

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

DAVIE —

Coach Joe Philbin doesn’t know any easy ways to repair his stagnant offense.

“Obviously we have to make some improvements quickly,” he said at noon Friday, just 12 1/2 hours after the Dolphins sputtered to a 19-14 loss at Buffalo, their third defeat in a row.

“I don’t know if there’s any one immediate fix that will solve everything, but we have to go back to work starting today.”

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Dolphins radio analyst Joe Rose said “guys are in a little slump right now, mentally,” rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill hasn’t been at his best and the Dolphins lack the weapons to come back from early deficits. They fell down 21-0 to Tennessee in the second quarter and trailed Buffalo 19-7 at halftime.

“I don’t think Ryan’s playing his best football right now,” Rose said of Tannehill, who threw two interceptions during an unsuccessful comeback effort Thursday.

“And when they go down, I don’t know if we have enough firepower to come back. When it’s a two-score game, it feels like a five-score game.”

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“What’s the evolution of the offense? I’m watching the same plays over and over,” former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder said Friday on his radio show on 560 AM. “We had our early game plan, they figured our game plan out, then when it was time for us to turn the next page, we turned the page and it was empty.”

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I would like to see more of Clay. He creates mismatches. Tannehill simply missed him with the throw and he was in position to score easily.

Interesting we don't see more slants...the bread and butter route in Green Bay. Could that be because of the tipped passes at the line?

“What’s the evolution of the offense? I’m watching the same plays over and over,” former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder said Friday on his radio show on 560 AM. “We had our early game plan, they figured our game plan out, then when it was time for us to turn the next page, we turned the page and it was empty.”

Actually well put by Crowder. For some crazy reason, this team has started to really regress and it is a shame when they were looking good sitting at 4-3 and playing decent football.

But help should be coming next year via the draft and free agency. We've got a lot of picks and a lot of $$$.

WK , I know this team can go out & sign Ryan Leaf or Jamarcus Russell & you would find something positive about that (& that is not a knock on you as I read your posts & admire your positiveness) but I am getting tired of hearing things like this. I am all for keeping continuity in this regime & I am not a FIREland guy but even with his accomplishments picking guys in the draft he seems to go the safe route which has really limited us on finding that superior offensive weapon & free agency has really not done much for us. Lesser teams have surpassed us dramatically. I am so tired of being told we won the battle in August only to be eliminated from the war by the end of November.
So being frugal & stockpiling picks while nice in theory is not a reason for us to get excited. It seems when we draft we get so excited because we addressed a need but once the season starts we realize we did not fill that need.

One way to not have a stagnant O is by not trading your best WR & then not attempting to replace him.

The O was stagnant even with said receiver...

Different coach. Different system & they still did not do anything to replace him.

Two different systems, offense stagnant with said player..

I don't think said player would have made the offense better than stagnant..

While I have some confidence left in our GM , I have none in our owner. I shutter when I hear people say he will have to evaluate.

You mean the same crazy owner who tried to replace Tony Sparano with Jim Harbaugh? And the same crazy owner who said he would not rest until we found a franchise quarterback? Yeah, I really don't know what's wrong with that guy.

Did you see how many fomrations the Niners playwith? They run, pass and do whatever they want. It's a amazing.

Two different systems, offense stagnant with said player.

I don't think said player would have made the offense better than stagnant.

Time to move on already...

amazing what a great offensive line can do.

More like coaching. The niners were nothing until Harbough came in. That line played inconsistant agasint the Giants. The Bears were on thier heels all night. They didn't know what was coming at them. THey blitzed, it was ahot read, they thought pass it was a run. THey lined up in about 10 different formations last night. The fins are predictable.

Yeah the Harbaugh thing gave him credibility on that issue but lets face it , he was trying to hire a friend while still having a coach employed. Then he tries to save face with a Bull crap press conference
to extend him while trying to show unity when Sparano could not even look into his or Irelands face. What owner's goal is it not to have a franchise QB. All he was doing there was listening to fans & media. Made this team a laughing stock with the celebs & orange carpet , honoring Tebow & the Gators at halftime while sucking up to another potential coaching candidate. I will stop there & keep my fin up. Go to a game , his crappy influence is all over. He is eliminating the hard core fan for the fair weather one who might leave at half time but will drop major dollars on champagne & a club Liv membership. Look , I know the owner is basically the one constant & criticizing him clearly goes against any effect that the kool aid has but until he hires a "football guy" (DUH) the only way things change is if we happen to get lucky. Even so my opinion will not change of this guy so you can start a petition to ban me as I know the owner might be viewed as god like but he sucks.