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Bad Coaching?

Was Bad Coaching the Reasing We Lost?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 21.4%

  • No

    Votes: 77 78.6%
  • Total voters
    98
  • Poll closed .
your poll is missing but it was bad game planning
 
We loss cause of one reason. RANDY MOSS!! We are the only team this year that didn't double cover him. Single coverage with Jason Allen no going to cut it. Moss is to damn good doesn't matter who is throwing to him..

Our secondary is still an issue giving up big 3rd down plays and that why we lost. Being down by 10 twice near the end of the game forces Pennington to throw it deep and throw risky passes that hurt us. Not his fault though..
 
Our secondary didn't play as well as they could have...but I wouldn't place the all the blame on the coaches
 
shula_guy said:
your poll is missing but it was bad game planning
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Exactly! We will lose far more often than we win when we let Pennington throw the ball 40 times and we only run it 16 times. Good teams don't just take what they give you, they take what they want. Just look at our first meeting.
 
look it we just got beat... the fins faught hard but just ran out of steam...it happens specially when their not suppose to win very many games this year yet have played beyond anyones expectations... they'll bounce back.
 
just shows we need some serious DB and CB help...
the game plan was to do that.. they obviously saw something on tape...
if you can throw it before porter gets to you, your safe all day....
our secondary only looks good once we're getting pressure...
but quick passes that ignore pass rush, will bea us all day... we're gonna have a tought time against west coast offenses..

they looked way hungrier too... our pass defense is not something we can rely on
 
I think there were definitely coaching mistakes made, but I think that is a good thing. We have to remember that this is the staff’s 1st year too. We’re presently a young and somewhat immature team but, we are learning and as bad as this loss feels…it will greatly improve this team in the long run.
 
you guys ran the wild kitten offense 9 times at downs were the passing game was working, which then threw the offense out of rhythm. evrybody and his sister knew what was coming in the wild kitten formation. It was so predictable. snap to brown fake handoff to williams and brown would try to run off tackle or behind center.
 
We lost because of coaching but not because of bad coaching. We lost because Bill Belichick is simply a great coach whether you guys like to admit that fact or not. He had a few additional days to prepare and he was 16 - 1 after a loss coming into Sunday. We embarrassed him on their home field earlier this season with the Widcat and Belichick wasn't going to let it happen again. Cassel had only one start under his belt in the first contest and the Patriots have really grown since. Cassel has truly developed.

Sometimes we read too much into a win and too much into a loss. In the first game against the Patriots a lot of us felt as if we had no chance against the Patriots after being boatraced by the Cardinals in week 2. A lot of us felt like we had no chance of winning despite having an advantage at quarterback against the Patriots for the first time since Marino retied. Now all of a sudden in week 12, we expect to beat the Patriots despite the fact that they are still a better team overall. It all stemmed from beating the Patriots in week 3.

I'm not saying that we could not have beaten the Patriots this past Sunday because we certainly could have. My point is that teams will prepare differently for a team the second time around; especially after a loss; especially when it's Bill Belichick. Great coaches do this. They make the necessary adjustments.

We never lost this game because of poor coaching. Jason Allen was mismatched with Randy Moss, the best receiver in the game. You can't coach height and Allen was giving up at least four inches. Some wondered why Will Allen wasn't covering Moss. Will Allen is 5'11. That's why. Will Allen would have been burned just as easily. It's Randy Moss. Randy Moss was a non-factor for one reason and one reason only in week 3. That reason is Matt Cassel. Randy Moss was the biggest factor in week 12. That reason is Matt Cassel. This is what happens in player development. This is great coaching.
 
Risk-Takers

I don't think we lost because of bad coaching but if you give a coach like Bilichick a few extra days to game plan for you, he is going to find a weakness he can exploit. The Dolphins coachin staff just didn't anticipate they would use spread offense as much as they did.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/inside-the-nfl/story/786151.html
Coach Tony Sparano denied the Dolphins were surprised when the Patriots came out with a pass-heavy attack that, on at least 10 first-half snaps, saw the Patriots work out of the shotgun with no running backs.

''From our end, we were prepared to see them in [an] empty [backfield, without running backs], but prepared more on third down than anything else,'' Sparano said. ``They were smart on their part. They took a risk in that our pass rush wasn't going to get to the quarterback and quite honestly, we didn't. A team that throws the ball that much and spreads the field like that with no back in the protection, and we had two sacks. We probably didn't hit them enough.''
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Coming into the game we should have known that Belichick was going to pass it down our throat, we only had any success in stopping the pass against one team-Denver. And Belichick is one of the few coaches in the league thats not afraid to go one dimensional to take advantage of a weakness.

If we came in expecting anything other than a heavy dose of 5-20 yard pass plays and didn't prepare for it then it was poor coaching. My feeling is Sparano fully expected it and did his best with what we have to work with, we were just outplayed both on and off the field.
 
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