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Barry Jackson Gives a Critical Look at the Coaching Staff

Can't ignore a report that players wanted out. The question is whether or not it's a couple of unhappy guys or is the last 2 weeks an indication of a team that quit. If it's the latter, 2014 will be a very long season culminating in a new coaching staff and high draft pick.
 
The sad truth is the Dolphins played much harder for Tony Sparano than Coach Philbin
 
I don't put much stock in this at all. Next to nothing. Everyone is frustrated at how the season ended and is looking for an adjustment, to find the missing 2 games toward 10 wins. Naturally the players don't want to believe they are an 8-8 team. Hence, it must be the fault of the assistant coaches. Virtually without exception players believe their team is more talented than it is. Heck, even Savannah State was making ****y comments about their personnel before the game against the Canes this season. Miami had 77 points late in the third quarter.

Back when NFL teams had 6 or 7 coaches total, I might have given this some weight. Not when it's 18 or 22, whatever it is. Those type of numbers lend themselves to parity.

Now, head coaches can vary in caliber dramatically. I'm convinced Philbin is largely to blame for the moronic 21 rushes per game.
 
While is everyone is busy taking shots at Philbin and his staff, let me point out something they have excelled at: discipline. The Dolphins led the league in fewest penalties committed with 69 (also among the least penalized were New England, Indy and Carolina). Did you see yesterday's game between powerhouses SF and Seattle? Tremendously talented teams, but penalties hurt both of them dearly, and they both were both among the most penalized in the season. I wonder how many wins that cost them in the regular season?

I noticed this tendency since preseason, when we didn't have a single penalty in the Houston game. Different coaches have different strengths, and Harbaugh and Carroll are no slouches (though I agree with the poster who said no one could have imagined Carroll taking his team this far a few seasons ago), but the ability to field a well-coached team (in the past, disciplined was synonymous with well-coached) cannot be understated.

Don't believe it? The difference in penalty yards between #1 Miami and #32 Seattle was 721 yards. However, Seattle was also one of the luckiest teams, as their opponents were 5th most in penalty yards, while Miami was unlucky that way and our opponents had the 5th fewest penalty yards. It is nevertheless a a very valuable ability and something that could easily have decided the championship game.
 
I believe there are some issues with the positional coaches, but I never bought into the notion that Philbin lacks "innovation" and is "unemotional", as the OP article claims. This guy changed the practice schedule because of feedback from players, ran two offensive units in practice to get players more reps, gave Thursdays off to players, and he is clearly willing to break tradition. I don't think its fair to say he lacks "innovation", especially when its not put in context. And anyone who's seen Philbin on the sideline during a game or at a pre-season practice knows this is a very emotional guy, but is also in complete control of himself. If you want someone who runs 20 yards and fist pumps after a FG, go hire Sparano. If you want a guy that high-fives players as they come off the field after they gave up a turnoverl, go hire Jim Bates. These over-zealous coaching types only last so long until their message gets stale.

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futurescout said:
The sad truth is the Dolphins played much harder for Tony Sparano than Coach Philbin
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Maybe in the beginning, but that kind of coaching falls off quick. When the hype in your message becomes stale, you have to have good coaching to fall back on, and Sparano couldn't coach.
 
Zounds said:
I believe there are some issues with the positional coaches, but I never bought into the notion that Philbin lacks "innovation" and is "unemotional", as the OP article claims.
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This is BS journalism as far as I'm concerned. Its interesting when people talk about Barry Jackson you never hear words like "he's smart" or "has integrity" or "is motivated..."
What you don’t hear are words such as "innovative" or "dynamic leader."
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Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/#storylink=cpy
 
where's th'fish said:
While is everyone is busy taking shots at Philbin and his staff, let me point out something they have excelled at: discipline. The Dolphins led the league in fewest penalties committed with 69 (also among the least penalized were New England, Indy and Carolina). Did you see yesterday's game between powerhouses SF and Seattle? Tremendously talented teams, but penalties hurt both of them dearly, and they both were both among the most penalized in the season. I wonder how many wins that cost them in the regular season?

I noticed this tendency since preseason, when we didn't have a single penalty in the Houston game. Different coaches have different strengths, and Harbaugh and Carroll are no slouches (though I agree with the poster who said no one could have imagined Carroll taking his team this far a few seasons ago), but the ability to field a well-coached team (in the past, disciplined was synonymous with well-coached) cannot be understated.

Don't believe it? The difference in penalty yards between #1 Miami and #32 Seattle was 721 yards. However, Seattle was also one of the luckiest teams, as their opponents were 5th most in penalty yards, while Miami was unlucky that way and our opponents had the 5th fewest penalty yards. It is nevertheless a a very valuable ability and something that could easily have decided the championship game.
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We are talking about Forty-Five yards a game. How many of Seattle's penalties were from Pass Interference, or Defenseless Receiver penalties? I don't have the #'s but in my estimation it is A LOT they coach their DB's to beat the **** out of receivers for 60 minutes. If you watch any of the corners for Seattle, one of them is committing Pass Interference almost every play. They just know they won't get that called on them 10 times a game. Maybe 2-3. So they accept a few penalties knowing they will allow much less yards than if they were playing another style. Brilliant idea by Carroll IMO. Same goes for Thomas and Chancellor. They tell those guys just to go hit everything, and they don't care about the penalties. They aren't called the LEGION OF BOOM for anything. Stupid name, but look at Miami's DBs. We have the softest secondary in the NFL. Outside of RJ, everyone is soft. Remember Jimmy Wilson trying to strip the ball, instead of make an attempt to tackle little Julian Edelman??? The trade off in PI and Big Hits vs. Penalties is one of the main reasons they are in the Super Bowl.
 
MadDog 88 said:
Can't ignore a report that players wanted out. The question is whether or not it's a couple of unhappy guys or is the last 2 weeks an indication of a team that quit. If it's the latter, 2014 will be a very long season culminating in a new coaching staff and high draft pick.
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The problem is that these reports aren't new. This stuff was going on relatively early in the season, and players were willing to put their names on it or say it in public. It's obvious that other players were saying stuff privately, too. I don't think David Canter was making up his comments about how much dissatisfaction there was with Mike Sherman.

We bashed Wallace for saying "ask coach" and sulking after the Browns game and then being upset after another game (Saints game, maybe?) but when three players on the OL have straight up called out the staff and Ryan Tannehill didn't refute a report that he had lost confidence in Mike Sherman, that's a pretty clear trend, IMO.
 
just my opinion but any time a season ends the way ours did if you look hard enough you can find some people willing to tell you they were not happy with something etc...i don't think it necessarily means it has really infected the lockerroom...
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
The problem is that these reports aren't new. This stuff was going on relatively early in the season, and players were willing to put their names on it or say it in public.

We bashed Wallace for saying "ask coach" and sulking after the Browns game and then being upset after another game (Saints game, maybe?) but when three players on the OL have straight up called out the staff and Ryan Tannehill didn't refute a report that he had lost confidence in Mike Sherman, that's a pretty clear trend, IMO.
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Did RT actually say anything about Sherman?
 
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