A Shortcomming That Doesn’t Make Sense to Me

[Dajesus]

First I have to qualify this by saying there has been so much wrong the past two weeks, and you can’t win with this many turnovers, and penalties. That being said another thing that was aggravating ignoring the play makers. Example Grant was on fire in KC, so much so Andy Reid refuses to kick him the ball because he could see him taking over the game. Unfortunately our coach refused to see it. After his 3rd catch, 65 yard td, in the 2nd quarter we did not go to him again till the 4th quarter on 3 and 25 on a bubble screen thrown 6 yards over his head. After his good game against NE we ignored him in Buffalo as well.

Kenyan Drake is another example of this. The whole reason we traded Jay was he couldn’t catch, or run routes. Drake on the other hand is a dynamic receiver. Against NE getting him isolated on a LB was unstoppable. So against KC when Drake was running well making people miss in the back field and breaking tackles, we didn’t throw him the ball as he had zero receptions.

Instead of getting clever to get these two dynamic play makers the ball Gase was busy isolating Derby in the redzone who hadn’t played a snap in 5 games. Genius!!! I don’t want to hear KC took those two away. Our whole game plan was to focus on Kelce and Hill but they still killed us, because their coach got them involved. This week we will probably focus on getting Gray involved in the offense instead of focusing on getting game breakers like Grant, Drake, and Stills deep.

 

[Lionstone]

He did try to get him the ball a couple more times. The coverage was so bad I deleted the recording, so I cannot take a look at the important components to reply to your premise. I would need to see game flow, how Gase was setting up the defense, a good view to see if Cutler missed a read, a good view to see if Cutler checked out of a play, and a good view of the defense. It. Is never as simple as you are implying.

 

[artdnj]

Good points brought up by each of you.

 

[roy_miami]

Grant got 20% of our offensive snaps week 16, up from his average of 10%

 

[Dajesus]

He did try to get him the ball a couple more times. The coverage was so bad I deleted the recording, so I cannot take a look at the important components to reply to your premise. I would need to see game flow, how Gase was setting up the defense, a good view to see if Cutler missed a read, a good view to see if Cutler checked out of a play, and a good view of the defense. It. Is never as simple as you are implying.

I’m not saying they running wide open or Cutler missed a read. I’m saying Adam designed three plays to get Derby one on one in the redzone, and Cutler forced it in each time, yet the same consideration was not given to two guys who have proven recently they can take over games and win one on one match ups. The other thing I am saying is Gase has no feel for the game. When Grant and Drake we’re getting hot Gase decided to turn away from them, yet when Derby did nothing the first time to make anyone have confidence in him Gase did it again, and dispite the same result he did it a 3rd time. This just isn’t true in the KC game, but all season. When every pass going to Parker was getting intercepted he kept going to him. When Thomas was completely inaffective all season he kept getting reps, and red zone targets. When Drake flashed game breaking speed he stayed with Williams. Stills showed he gets 50/50 balls but Gase Insists on designing plays for Parker. He just has no feel for his team or play makers.

 

[raving]

I’m not saying they running wide open or Cutler missed a read. I’m saying Adam designed three plays to get Derby one on one in the redzone, and Cutler forced it in each time, yet the same consideration was not given to two guys who have proven recently they can take over games and win one on one match ups. The other thing I am saying is Gase has no feel for the game. When Grant and Drake we’re getting hot Gase decided to turn away from them, yet when Derby did nothing the first time to make anyone have confidence in him Gase did it again, and dispite the same result he did it a 3rd time. This just isn’t true in the KC game, but all season. When every pass going to Parker was getting intercepted he kept going to him. When Thomas was completely inaffective all season he kept getting reps, and red zone targets. When Drake flashed game breaking speed he stayed with Williams. Stills showed he gets 50/50 balls but Gase Insists on designing plays for Parker. He just has no feel for his team or play makers.

This...It troubled me a lot. That was one thing about Shula in his prime...Man he saw something worked and he made it rock...That's what WoodStrock was all about...Woodley would be fine one week and suck the next - Shula would try to time his putting Strock in the game so it would create maximal opportunity and it often worked.

If Terry Kirby got hot he'd throw it all day to him...If Aaron Craver looked like the 2nd coming of Walter Peyton he got the rock that day...

I think its weird he kept Julius Thomas on this team...He looked like the Texans RB that retired from Gase's Dolphins after game 5 last year (forgot his name)....Just slow and not interested anymore....

Grant looked like Duper for a moment there.

Gase seems over his head...

I am not a Gase basher but now that I have a few snap shots I think he's over his head.

We seem poorly coached - tons of mental errors...

The Cutler thing is weird - Cutler is so technically awful that he must be defined as lazy or uninspired.
He is so naturally gifted as an athletes and yet he seems so disinterested in the fundamentals.

Bill Walsh created a great Joe Montana by continually honing in on his technical skills...Most 9er plays in that era were about technical precision - Cutler is so off technically that it destroys him/the team in critical moments of the game...Gase cannot win with that no one can...So that decision was poor....And not having a plan B if Tannehill's experimental knee healing fell through the cracks - as it did - showed Gase was over his head...

Can he learn - we hope so - Dolphins need talent - and we need a coach to get some of his players to create some chemistry.