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Beginning of the end for Tony Sparano

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The look on Sparano's face was telling. He realized time was running out in Miami's eventual 24-6 loss to the New York Jets. But -- looking at the big picture -- time also ran out on Sparano's future with the winless Dolphins (0-5).
Change is coming in Miami. It might not happen next week or even next month. But the Dolphins can't continue down this perilous path beyond the 2011 season. Miami lost its eighth straight game under Sparano. Its last win was Dec. 12, 2010. Sparano also is 1-11 in Miami's past 12 home games and 25-28 overall. His only winning season was in 2008, which feels like a decade ago for Dolphins fans.
The Dolphins won't make the playoffs and have a great chance for a top-10 pick. Therefore, here is a quick, three-step plan for getting the organization back on the right path:
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Nick Laham/Getty ImagesThe last time a Tony Sparano-coached team won was in December 2010.


1. Make a coaching change: This is obvious. Despite owner Stephen Ross’ public backing of Sparano, the job has to be evaluated by wins and losses. The fans in Miami have given up on this current regime and coaching staff. A new coach, particularly a big name, would be the quickest way to infuse energy into this moribund franchise. The Dolphins have a lot of history and would be an easy sell.

2. Draft a quarterback: The ideal situation would be to draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. But that would require the Dolphins to lose enough games to secure the top pick. Miami is certainly one of the favorites, but that’s not a guarantee. However, Miami needs a young franchise quarterback under center next season, whether it’s Luck, Oklahoma’s Landry Jones or someone else. The trend of hiring a new coach and quarterback has worked with several other teams, including the Jets with quarterback Mark Sanchez and coach Rex Ryan. Other teams such as the Baltimore Ravens (Joe Flacco, John Harbaugh) and the Atlanta Falcons (Matt Ryan, Mike Smith) are other recent examples.

3. Win at home: The Dolphins are losing a lot of revenue with their lack of support at Sun Life Stadium. It is one of the deadest stadiums in which to watch a football game. Fans in Miami are tired of the home team constantly losing. The Dolphins can start to gain some momentum at home this year and carry that into future seasons.

Marshall summed up Miami's 2011 season best Monday night.

"This is embarrassing," Marshall said.

This season's Dolphins are a lost cause. Everything they do from this point forward should be with an eye on the future -- and that future won't include Sparano.
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We can only hope
 
If you think about it, the fruits of Tony's coaching have been humiliated on each and every high profile nationally televised game over the last 30 months or so.
 
Why is he still on the sidelines? Just another puzzling move by Ross & Co.

No other team in the NFL...None of them would have kept a coach like Sparano for another year.
 
The beginning of the end was the Saints game 09 it confirmed the Volts game wasn't a abnormality, but the norm
 
Beginning of the end? Heck, the beginning of the end was when Ross publicly went looking for another coach and failed. Sparano should've been let go before Ross started shopping around. While he gave Sparano an extension, Ross basically signaled to everyone that Sparano was a lame duck coach after that whole debacle.
 
I honestly felt this mess was unfixable under this regime after the Chicago loss last year, but I backslid into a cesspool of intermittent optimism and happy thoughts about Nolan's defense and how a strong draft/FA could save us.

LMFAO at myself for that one.
 
Myles Fynch said:
I honestly felt this mess was unfixable under this regime after the Chicago loss last year, but I backslid into a cesspool of intermittent optimism and happy thoughts about Nolan's defense and how a strong draft/FA could save us.

LMFAO at myself for that one.
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The aforementioned Bears game was the beginning of the end for the sorry regime. Lining Thigpen up under center a majority of the game? Really?
 
"This is embarrassing," Marshall said. "

Shouldn't he have said " I'm embarrassing."

Self responsibility starts the healing process.
 
The only bright spot this year has been Reggie Bush and Donald Thomas.
Sparano is a nice guy to sit at the bar and BS about football with, but he has failed here at Miami.
Parcells hired the wrong guy to lead the franchise, and then left town to watch Tony fail from the comfy confines of ESPN studio.
What is amazing to me is that he is not the focus of the blame by the national media. He built this team, and he built a loser.
 
Sparano was DONE at the end of last season when the team flat out quit on him. That was why Ross tried to upgrade the position, remember?

This is his mess, let him finish slopping around in it.
 
registeredguy said:
Sparano was DONE at the end of last season when the team flat out quit on him. That was why Ross tried to upgrade the position, remember?

This is his mess, let him finish slopping around in it.
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This is Parcells's mess. He is the one that brought in two unqualified cronies to be puppets for him.
 
No argument there, but you can't pin all the blame on Parcells since he's now gone. Parcells created his mess, but right now Jeff Ireland and Tony Sparano have ownership of it.
 
The Colts game and then the Saints game was when I started to dislike him.
 
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