Dolphins Head Coach Joe Philbin has retained Special Team Coach Darren Rizzi

[FinAtic8480]

The same source said Philbin has retained Darren Rizzi as special-teams coordinator but is letting go of almost all the rest of the Dolphins’ assistants.

http://packersnews.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120123/PKR01/120123159

 

[ChambersWI]

ST DID improve under Rizzi I will give him that

 

[SeasonsMusic]

ST still sucked balls

 

[Nublar7]

I am OK with Rizzi returning, since Special Teams were better this season. Carpenter and Fields are solid players, they did block two punts and Gates seemed to improve as the year went on.

 

[DeathStar]

Hopefully we have a real kick and punt return...

Bess is completely useless.

 

[Kistner10]

ST still sucked balls

Clyde Gates was 13th in the NFL in avg KR, Davone Bess was 5th in the NFL in PR Avg, Brandon Fields was 3rd in the NFL in Punt Average and 4th in NET Avg, Dan Carpenter went 29-34 on FG's which is 85.3%, We ranked 10th in covering Kickoffs and 13th covering Punt Returns, and we blocked a punt for a TD this year.

How did that suck?

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Hopefully we have a real kick and punt return...

Bess is completely useless.

Again, Bess was 5th in the NFL this year in PR Avg, thats pretty good for useless.

 

[Bonedoc7777]

right move, but i like cleaning house

 

[Austin Tatious]

The special teams units definitely were trending in the right direction. Rizzi inherited a total cluster problem from about as bad of an assistant (Bonamego) as you can find. And they trended positively once Rizzi came on. So, that's something. At the same time, I still wonder if we could do better. I wouldn't call our units as stellar, but at least they were headed in the right direction. So, I'm open minded on Rizzi for another year. This year on ST was nothing like the amateurish 3 years under that idiot Bonamego.

 

[Daytona Fin]

ST still sucked balls

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[Adam First]

I haven't seen any blocked punts by the Dolphins special teamers in years before this year. Rizzi's done a good job.

We do need an impact kick returner however.

 

[Mage_Phin]

Definitely okay with this.

 

[MiamiDolfan85]

meh....

 

[mandal24]

I always LOL when i see someone defend a special teams coordinator by putting up stats showing about how great the punter and kicker are.

 

[insom187]

Our special teams, kick coverage especially, were definitely far better than they were the year before so it seems like the right decision.

 

[CedarPhin]

Works for me.