All good points. Sadly, in your defense of Gase, you stayed away from his issues. Chronic slow starts, dumbing down offense/defense in back to back years and the belief you could roll this season with trash interior offensive line play.
That is on Gase, and he and you people need to own it. Like I previously said...people here will defend it or live with it.
This is a reasonable response and I think it deserves a reasonable reply.
For a team to win there must be teamwork. Players can only offer their capabilities. Coaches can only offer plans, coordination and support. The two must mesh for consistently good results. If Gase changed his play calling to match the fans expectations, he is probably ignoring his players capabilities. Please keep in mind that fans only see a finished product on game day when they determine a players capability.
The real reason a play works is based on the performance of eleven players, not just the ones who touch the ball. As an example, a receiver gets wide open and makes a great catch and scores. The receiver has excellent skills, the play called took advantage of the defenses physical position and their players physical capabilities to enhance the receivers possibility of success due to the coaches having developed such a play, the offense was able to give the quarterback time to make the play due to their skillset, execution and the play design by the coaches, the quarterback had the option to change the play at the line if he saw an opportunity or a problem, due to his coaches preparing him, their play planning and the ability expected of an NFL quarterback to execute those plays. Then there is always fortune, sometimes good, sometimes bad and sometimes just stupidity (playing in a hurricane).
This makes 3-D chess look like child's play, doesn't it?
Many of our forum members are pretty knowledgeable about football. The coaches are more knowledgeable and are far more aware of each players strength and weaknesses. Any argument otherwise is the worst kind of self-aggrandizement.
I hear fans screaming we are too predictable, but every team is just as predictable in their own way. We have people on our coaching staff that have looked at an opponents last three games and determined what plays were made and when they were made.
What separates teams is primarily their ability to execute a given play which requires player capable (not necessarily the best player; they needs to be competent at the NFL level) and the availability to select effective play calls against their defense and offense, which falls to the coaches. As an example I will reference Jim Brown, a running back. His teams play was predictable. He was usually going to get the ball and run it. The other team knew it. Jim's team executed the running plays successfully and so did he.
Now, back to our current situation. The members on this forum have made it clear beyond question that they feel we have a crappy team based on all kinds of player issues, such as poor drafting, poor ownership, poor coaching, poor trading (getting rid of our best players. I am surprised we have any because we have drafted so poorly and traded so badly for so long) and anything else they choose to find fault with. Considering last years winning record, which some members seem a little negative about and this years winning record in spite of everything that has come our way, I find it hard to fault our coaching staff based on their results. We have won and have a winning record this year in spite of some horrendous games. We have continued to weed out problem players and I expect we will benefit from that.
Wow - no wonder I like Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase.
