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Besides Shula, best Phins Coach?

Best Coach besides Shula

  • George Wilson

    Votes: 12 6.3%

  • Jimmy Johnson

    Votes: 69 36.1%

  • Dave Wannstedt

    Votes: 21 11.0%

  • Nick Saban

    Votes: 7 3.7%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 18 9.4%

  • They all sucked!

    Votes: 64 33.5%
  • Total voters
    191
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After Don Shula, who is the best coach the Miami Dolphins have had?
George Wilson (1966-69)
Jimmy Johnson (1996-99)
Dave Wannstedt (2000-2004)
Jim Bates (interim 2004)
Nick Saban (2005-2006)
. I am not sure we can add Cam Cameron yet because we have not seen the team play in the regular season.
 
After Don Shula, who is the best coach the Miami Dolphins have had?
George Wilson (1966-69)
Jimmy Johnson (1996-99)
Dave Wannstedt (2000-2004)
Jim Bates (interim 2004)
Nick Saban (2005-2006)
I am not sure we can add Cam Cameron yet because we have not seen the team play in the regular season.
 
Jim Bates. Even in the seven games he coached, he did a better job than the other garbage we've had after Shula, IMHO.
 
Smoke said:
Jimmy Johnson- If nothing else, he gave us Zach and JT.
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That has nothing to do with his coaching ability. Out of that list, Jimmy Johnson is the best talent evaluator, especially in the later rounds, but Bates did the best job as a coach.
 
mmmmmmmmmmm that is a poser

PhinCanuck said:
After Don Shula, who is the best coach the Miami Dolphins have had?
George Wilson (1966-69)
Jimmy Johnson (1996-99)
Dave Wannstedt (2000-2004)
Jim Bates (interim 2004)
Nick Saban (2005-2006)
I am not sure we can add Cam Cameron yet because we have not seen the team play in the regular season.
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I would have to exclude Cameron from the list, since he has not coached a season yet and despite the fact I genuinely like and appreciate his demeanor. Jim Bates was only HC because Pornstache got the heave ho and Bates didn't even survive the purge. Jimmy killed what was left of Marino's career and accomplished little else. Indeed you could say that Pornstache, Johnson and Saban all took the keys to the Ferrari and promptly drove it into the effing wall. George Wilson was kind of painful to watch; the birthing of an expansion team was more brutal in his time and he was probably in over his head. So, how freaking far do we fall from Shula to the rest of the swill in his wake? Pretty far I am afraid. I guess I would have to say none of the other HCs deserve utterance in the same paragraph. The short answer is there isn't a second best on the list. Sad but true.

Saban had me fooled for a while. Cameron doesn't seem to have that in him. I think it is a good thing that there is a humane human at the helm again. Hey maybe they will play like an actual team this year instead of an ad hoc clusterfudge of elite and not so elite players, not very often on the same page. Here is to hoping.

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I'd say Jim Bates. I wished he coach in the beginning of 2004.... except, we probably would not have been position to select Ronnie Brown.
 
it has to be bates or cameron by default like dolfandave said. the rest really left our team a mess.

if i hade to put them in order i would list it like this
1. don shula
2...hmmm. don shula
3.. shula deserves the top 3 spots:wink:
4. bates
5. cameron (by default)
6.johnson
7.wanny
8.saban
9. i just dont know enough about wilson to put him anywhere else.
 
I know this has nothing to do with what it takes for being a successful NFL coach, but I was thinking about coaches' lineage. In the NFLTA they were talking about a lineage of successful football coaches, which goes back to Paul Brown. Shula was a Paul Brown disciple. Every other coach, we've had since Shula is not part of that lineage. Jimmy Johnson came thru Oklahoma, UM and Dallas. Wannstedt thru Dallas, Chicago and UM. Saban thru LSU. Cam Cameron is part of the lineage thru Norv Turner and Marty Schottenheimer. That lineage includes Tony Dungy, Bill Cower, Bill Walsh, Mike Holmgren, Brian Billick, Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden and Sam Wyche. They all were Super Bowl winners as coaches, with the exception of Wyche who took the Bengals to the Super Bowl, but lost to the Niners. That is a pretty good lineage. I am glad Cam is part of it.
 
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