The laundry list of coaches the Fins have trudged out the past 20 years has been to say the least, unimpressive. Most of them had at least one of the traits I list, but not one of them had all of them.
Jimmy lost his ability to lead and motivate when he came to Miami and would have rather spent his time fishing.
Wanny wasn't a leader nor an innovator.
Cameron was none of the above.
Saban was a motivator and innovator but was definitely not a leader of men as the locker room pretty quickly grew tired of his tyrannical philosophy.
Sparano was a good motivator at the beginning but had no idea how to lead or innovate.
Philbin I fear is a leader of men but not a motivator or an innovator. I say this for two reasons. His teams just seem to come out flat all to often, both at the beginning of games and to start the second half. He had an amazing chance this past week to motivate his team with an "us vs. the world" philosophy that by all accounts was low hanging fruit and still the team played like the little sisters of the poor for the first half. I also see now that he is not an innovator as the offensive philosophy has grown stagnant. Yes, I know the offensive line has been horrible, but I need to see better game planning. I need to see receivers switching where the line up pre-snap. I need to see Wallace put in motion where he has the ability to get a free release off of the LOS as well as take advantage of slower players in coverage. I need to see more screen passes on passing downs because the o-line can't hold a block for more than 3 seconds. On the defensive side of the ball I need to see better usage of our playmakers. Wake, if healthy should never be on the bench for the likes of Shelby. Jordan should also never be on the sideline when players like Trunsik and Spitler are in the game. The play where I knew Coyle needed to be replaced on Monday was when Trunsik was playing OLB and dropped back into pass coverage on either a 2nd or 3rd and long. Trunsik's assignment in the play was to cover the shallow flat. On this play Turnsik is late in noticing the RB had slipped into the flat, late in getting to the RB after the catch, then he misses the tackle which allows the RB to convert the 1st down. Wasn't one of Jordan's biggest strengths in college playing zone coverage in the flat? This type of D call was exactly suited to his strength and yet there he was on the bench. Don't even get me started on him not being in on every obvious passing down. Then just two days ago Coyle comes out and says the plan is still to use Jordan sparingly for the rest of the season, WTF! Get your damn playmakers in the game!
This coaching staff, on both sides of the ball just seems to have uncanny ability in putting players in position where they are doomed to fail. That is without even taking into consideration their philosophy of playing older, less talented veterans, over younger ones with more athletic ability. If a mistake is going to be made on the field it would be nice if was at least done by a rookie who is learning on the job, vs. an aging veteran who doesn't possess the athletic prowess to even be in position to make a play.
Last, there was a short clip of Philbin staring onto the field in disbelief about what was happening late in the game. (I deleted the game so I no longer have it on DVR.) The look on his face was that of a man who had no answers for what was going on. Unfortunately I had seen that face before on both Cameron and Sparano his last year coaching the fins. That face told me all I needed to know about Philbin. It was the look of a defeated man. Can he get back up from this one, I don't know, but I do know, after seeing that face, I am definitely leaning towards the belief that everyone in terms of the FO and coaching staff probably needs to be replaced.
Hopefully Ross, with the help of his new "Leadership Council" is able to find a new FO and coaching staff with all three traits listed above.
Jimmy lost his ability to lead and motivate when he came to Miami and would have rather spent his time fishing.
Wanny wasn't a leader nor an innovator.
Cameron was none of the above.
Saban was a motivator and innovator but was definitely not a leader of men as the locker room pretty quickly grew tired of his tyrannical philosophy.
Sparano was a good motivator at the beginning but had no idea how to lead or innovate.
Philbin I fear is a leader of men but not a motivator or an innovator. I say this for two reasons. His teams just seem to come out flat all to often, both at the beginning of games and to start the second half. He had an amazing chance this past week to motivate his team with an "us vs. the world" philosophy that by all accounts was low hanging fruit and still the team played like the little sisters of the poor for the first half. I also see now that he is not an innovator as the offensive philosophy has grown stagnant. Yes, I know the offensive line has been horrible, but I need to see better game planning. I need to see receivers switching where the line up pre-snap. I need to see Wallace put in motion where he has the ability to get a free release off of the LOS as well as take advantage of slower players in coverage. I need to see more screen passes on passing downs because the o-line can't hold a block for more than 3 seconds. On the defensive side of the ball I need to see better usage of our playmakers. Wake, if healthy should never be on the bench for the likes of Shelby. Jordan should also never be on the sideline when players like Trunsik and Spitler are in the game. The play where I knew Coyle needed to be replaced on Monday was when Trunsik was playing OLB and dropped back into pass coverage on either a 2nd or 3rd and long. Trunsik's assignment in the play was to cover the shallow flat. On this play Turnsik is late in noticing the RB had slipped into the flat, late in getting to the RB after the catch, then he misses the tackle which allows the RB to convert the 1st down. Wasn't one of Jordan's biggest strengths in college playing zone coverage in the flat? This type of D call was exactly suited to his strength and yet there he was on the bench. Don't even get me started on him not being in on every obvious passing down. Then just two days ago Coyle comes out and says the plan is still to use Jordan sparingly for the rest of the season, WTF! Get your damn playmakers in the game!
This coaching staff, on both sides of the ball just seems to have uncanny ability in putting players in position where they are doomed to fail. That is without even taking into consideration their philosophy of playing older, less talented veterans, over younger ones with more athletic ability. If a mistake is going to be made on the field it would be nice if was at least done by a rookie who is learning on the job, vs. an aging veteran who doesn't possess the athletic prowess to even be in position to make a play.
Last, there was a short clip of Philbin staring onto the field in disbelief about what was happening late in the game. (I deleted the game so I no longer have it on DVR.) The look on his face was that of a man who had no answers for what was going on. Unfortunately I had seen that face before on both Cameron and Sparano his last year coaching the fins. That face told me all I needed to know about Philbin. It was the look of a defeated man. Can he get back up from this one, I don't know, but I do know, after seeing that face, I am definitely leaning towards the belief that everyone in terms of the FO and coaching staff probably needs to be replaced.
Hopefully Ross, with the help of his new "Leadership Council" is able to find a new FO and coaching staff with all three traits listed above.
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