Have you seen the schedule? It will get better.
This team has talent and I have been told over the past year that Sparano was a big reason why this team lost games. He is gone now, so shouldn't it just naturally get better?
Seriously though, no one knows what kind of head coach Mike McCoy, Joe Philbin or even Todd Bowles will be. No one knows that they will fail, and no one knows that they will be the next Don Shula. They are unknowns and we just have to hope whomever they hire is the next Tomlin, Schwartz or McCarthy and not the next Cameron or Spagnuolo. The fact they have a new head coach and direction should offer hope for the future and the schedule we play next year gives this team a chance.
I just hope the local fan base is smart enough to have hope and not to spend the season booing and actively rooting against the team like they did this past season. Remember this is the same fanbase that chanted "We want Orton" at a free practice at the stadium just after they signed Matt Moore. Or complained about the Daboll hiring and said the offense wouldn't improve. Or bashed the front office for trading for Reggie Bush, only to see him rush for over 1,000 yards. All I am saying is give it a chance, it is a fresh start try and support them even just a little.
1. How can you possibly know which games are going to be easy or hard next year at this point?
2. According to YOU Sparano was a good coach, so you should feel that the team will be worse.
3. If we had signed Jeff Fisher you'd be his biggest fan, so since we missed out in favor of the unending genius of Jeff Ireland, you're all about hoping against hope that we'll find a diamond in the rough. I've got bad news for you, for every Tomlin and McCarthy (who coincidentally both have AWESOME quarterbacks) there are 10 Cam Camerons or Josh McDaniels or Spags or name your favorite coordinator flavor of the week that BOMBED as a head coach.
4. I can't speak for anybody else, but I know that I was very actively rooting FOR the organization up until about week 5 when we were completely out of the playoffs and were much better off completely cleaning house and getting the 1st overall pick. They chanted "we want Orton" because they thought that Orton was a better option than Henne or Moore, God forbid they wanted improvement. There's no reason to believe that either of those guys would have played tremendously better than Orton would have in Miami this year.
5. We had the 22nd overall offense in the league this year. 20th in PPG. Did we have great players? No, but forgive me for not ****ting my pants with glee over Daboll.
6. Reggie Bush (much like the rest of the team) played very well down the stretch in a bunch of meaningless games against a bunch of really bad defense. He had 500 yards in his last 4 games against Oakland, Philly, Buffalo and New England. 4 awful run defenses. Outside of that the only other reasonably good games he had were against the Giants and KC, go ask fans of those teams how they felt about their defenses this season.
The point is that we have glaring holes all over this team. Not only do we need an entire coaching staff, but the offensive line is nowhere near shored up, our offense STILL isn't nearly fast enough or consistent enough as far as skill position players go, we haven't had a good coverage safety in years and years, we still need another corner and probably 2 more linebackers... Oh I forgot to mention the quarterback postion, how did that slip?
For the 100th time, I hope that I'm wrong, but honestly you say the same thing every season and you haven't been right yet. We're still a few GOOD off seasons away (which are hard to come by around here) and I don't think you would find a non Dolphin fan who would dispute that. To me, you don't have very much objectivity.... You can go ahead and tell me to go root for the Jets now because of my honesty.
