I would like to nominate afishfan for the best new poster award...(since he's finally posting)..
All this guy does is pump out cold hard TRUTH in every. single. post.
You can tell he's been a Dolphins fan for a long time... he knows what's going to happen before it happens. Most of us that have been-there-done-that can...
lol...yeah thanks slimm....its been awhile....ive kinda stayed in the background....havent had a ton to say for awhile....but this seasons just come to the point where its just obvious at this point that its time for a change....and i know alot of people will disagree with me and i can understand that completely
BUT my reasons are very valid and this team lacks the kind of leadership to ever lead us anyplace significant and at the end of the day THAT is all that matters
let me just say that Sparano is not as bad a coach as Wandstedt or Cameron he also isnt as good as Saban....and quite frankly being better than Cam and Wandstedt is like saying our 1-15 season doesnt even compare to the Lions 0-16 season. Sparano is a POOR coach. he does do some things well. he has had the respect of the locker room his entire time in Miami and that is very important. However, his message and his conservative nature i believe are starting to wear a little thin in the locker room and the signs have just begun to manifest themselves. FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD and ill get back back to this. Sparano has his players backs and they respect him but when the team isnt winning and losing the types of games they have teams start to lose a little faith in the cheesy punch line like "feed the wolf" and they begin to question the coaches ability to lead...they begin to think what theyve been following.....maybe its just a little bit cheesy.....and what have i been following the whole time? really who is this guy? what has he ever won? why did parcells suddenly bail? and why is this guy ALWAYS SPINNING??? is he BSing me too?
henne is done - he was anyways....but i mean they ruined the guy because they have been dishonest with this guy and he will not be able to trust this regime moving forward
Sparano is depending on Pennington to save his job....he knows the lockerroom loves him and he needs a new voice to save this season....its a VERY smart move SHORT-TERM....BUT.....where does it leave us? and herein lies the problem
this team is going to miss the playoffs for the second consecutive season they will end up with no better than a .500 record over the last 2 years and Bill Parcells IS GONE.....EVERYTHING these guys tried to build now has to be questioned Because the record will say this just isnt a good team and after three years there isnt anything moving forward to build on. going into the offseason we will have a 35 yr old quarterback that has had three shoulder operations and lacks arm-strength. i love pennington. but he isnt somebody to build with. hes our don strock to our marino.....at least he SHOULD BE....but hes NOT....because this staff picked a quarterback they thought was SO FANTASTIC THAT THEY ERUPTED in the draft room when green bay picked Brohm.....if they loved the guy so much they took a TERRIBLE risk by not trading up in the round to get him....or picking him instead of Merling.......clearly they thought this guy was CLOSE ENOUGH to Matt Ryan to warrant passing....the problem i have with this is twofold....one of the things they love so much about pennington they disregarded in matt ryan and two you dont GIVE UP ANYTHING when picking a quarterback if they thought matt ryan was BETTER then he was BETTER and thats all they needed to know. YOU DONT SACRIFICE ANYTHING YOU DONT HAVE TO AT THE QUARTERBACK POSITION. EVER. sacrifice someplace else. develop THE BEST quarterback you have an opportunity to develop. there arent that many great ones in the game (less than ten every year....more likely less than five) so if Ryan was better you are ASSUMING that there can be 2 great ones AT LEAST from that draft (actually 3 cause they liked flacco too but chose a plan to get Henne) and that just FLAT OUT ALMOST NEVER HAPPENS. so they were assuming that they could take this guy they had debatably rated the THIRD best quarterback in that draft and somehow cause him to perform as THE BEST quarterback in that draft. guess what? Henne was the third best quarterback in that draft AND HE PLAYED LIKE IT....and third best isnt enough to change this franchises fortune. Flacco is pretty good BUT hes not a guy you build around either.....so even if they put a plan in place to get him IT WAS STILL A MISTAKE. you take THE BEST GUY YOU CAN. Colossal mistake by these guys. enough to sink the entire ship AND IT SHOULD. Henne had NO LEADERSHIP skills and THAT is WHY Pennington cant fulfill the role he SHOULD fill for this team.....one he would be GREAT at....but he needs a young QB with MOXIE in FRONT of him.....and Henne isnt it
This would be enough ALL BY ITSELF but there is so much more. they made NO attempt to find ANOTHER quarterback in their 2nd or 3rd years either.....second i can understand A LITTLE cause Henne hadnt actually played yet...BUT they had to see the development and the intangibles from being around him everyday....they thought this quit guy was somehow going to turn into pennington just cause he ended up starting? the team was going to suddenly follow this guy anywhere? believe in him? even tho he had shown NOTHING to that point? what the hell made them think he would change? and thats why this years sin is unforgivable....they had already seen enough.....they needed to draft a quarterback in the first round THIS year so that when this experiment went stale AT LEAST THEY HAD ANOTHER ROUND IN THE CHAMBER....at least if he kept the locker room and the team finished and played pretty well......at least they would have SOMEWHERE to turn.....and they could sell it to Ross and sell it to US.....if we had Tebow in the fold how many of you would want to see what we could do with him???? i GUARANTEE 90% of this forum.....and everybody in here would be at least OK with the fact Henne didnt work out.....and HEY we have a franchise LEFT TACKLE!!! SO YEAY!! we have our quarterback of the future....he will be playing next year....we have penny......we have wake.....we have marshall, dansby......looks like things HAVE REALLY PROGRESSED HERE.......and guess what....the locker room would be in the same boat.
but instead what do we have? what do we have that shows these guys can bring us ANYTHING? we dont. yes we have SOME talent....i LOVE alot of guys we have.....but we FLAT-OUT dont have nearly enough PLAYMAKERS on either side of the ball....who have we drafted that created turnovers in college???? who do we have that was a touchdown machine???? NOBODY....i laid it out earlier and this is sick but its true. here is what these guys have done in 3 YEARS in the draft. we traded probowlers JASON TAYLOR, and CHRIS CHAMBERS (yes they didnt - but they DID benefit from the draft pick) and we spent 4 FIRST round picks, 6 SECOND round picks and ONE THIRD round pick and we have Jake Long, Vontae Davis, and Brandon Marshall to show for it......in other words gave up 2 probowlers 10 really high picks and a 3rd and we have 2 probowlers and vontae davis....THAT IS AWFUL.....that is like Wanny all over again. and we STILL do not have a quarterback!!!
so what do we do??? its taken 3 years to figure out the guy we wanted to lead this team CANT. so this offseason we are going to go Quarterback shopping only we ARENT GOING TO GET THE BEST GUY IN THE DRAFT....because HE IS GOING TO GO NUMBER 1.....and there really isnt much left over this year despite what mel kiper and everybody will say about first round grades blah blah blah.....so AT BEST we get the 2nd or 3rd choice among quarterbacks WHICH ISNT GOOD ENOUGH.....oh yeah and by the way we still dont have ANY PLAYMAKERS. so my question is when we go through ANOTHER mediocre season what happens to this team? SPARANO IS GOING TO LOSE THEM IF HE HASNT ALREADY. we simply cant give these guys 2 or 3 more years to find a quarterback....THEY ****ED UP....they missed their 2 chances to find one. why do they deserve another shot? terrible draft record....cant evaluate a quarterback, .500 record, and nothing to build on....
fortune favors the bold.....and Sparanos coaching philosophy is ANYTHING but BOLD....these guys simply arent coaches that a team will follow BECAUSE of that. sure they like him...they respect him....and that better than what weve had......but they believe in him....they think hes a little cheesy and THEY HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO QUESTION HIS METHODS FOR WINNING. that is not good. and ill show u some of the quotes if i need to....but look at these guys questioning the play-calling....questioning our approach to winning.
we CANT give these guys any more time. the belief in the system left when Parcells did. the walls have only started to fall....but u will see more and more signs....they might even win a few games....but the signs will be there....and what do we really have to build on? there isnt anything special here....i dont want to move on more than the next guy....but LOOK at this THEY DIDNT FIND THEIR GUY and PARCELLS IS GONE.....nobody is going to follow these guys for 3 more years....AND THEY NEED THAT LONG TO FIND THEIR QB (if they can even do it) the luster has worn off.....and Ross is going to see it....and i dont blame him one bit
i just hope to God that HE can get it right....that Ross will find us a coach that is BOLD...that Ross can find us a coach this team will follow even after the message isnt new anymore...a guy they will follow because they wont question....because what he does WORKS...and there simply arent too many belichecks out there
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what ever happened to that sweet rant someone posted on here a month or so ago? that should be stickied. is it on here somewhere? that actually cheered me up.
yeah that was SUPER funny
