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Here's my sales pitch for Mike Singletary.

He's an extremely inexperienced coach in the NFL, and there's absolutely no evidence he would be successful as our head coach.

However, my very strong opinion is that you make your head coach a strong leader of men, and you make your coordinators your technicians with the Xs and Os expertise. Your head coach motivates and inspires your players and has the leadership ability to oversee and organize the coaching staff, and your coordinators and other assistant coaches are the technical innovators who develop the schemes and physically put the players in positions to win.

So that means for me personally, I don't wanna hear anything about schemes when I'm talking about head coaching candidates. I wanna hear about character and leadership ability. I wanna hear that a candidate is a great leader of men who will inspire our players and get the most out of them physically and emotionally.

With that said, here is some research I've done on Mike Singletary, whom I believe is the best candidate for head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Mike is currently the Assistant Head Coach and Linebackers Coach for the 49ers, and this is what his current head coach has to say about him:

http://www.sf49ers.com/team/coaches_detail.php?PRKey=16

After coaching under Nolan’s defensive staff for just two seasons, Singletary’s wisdom and commanding respect sent impressionable waves throughout the organization and team. When Nolan took his first head coaching position in San Francisco, Singletary’s character was a key cog in forming his coaching staff.

"Mike is one of the best leaders and teachers that I have ever been associated with," Nolan said. "Mike teaches with great passion and great energy; two things that are very important, I think, to being a successful teacher. There are not too many people that command the respect that Mike does the minute he walks into a room."
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Here's more on Mike's coaching style, along with a story from his playing days:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCL/is_3_35/ai_n15657213

ANYONE WHO EVER DOUBTED middle linebacker Mike Singletary on a football field paid for that mistake. In 1983, offensive lineman Dave Huffman paid in gold.

Shortly before Christmas that year, Singletary's Chicago Bears took their 6-8 record to Minnesota, where they had won just once against the Vikings in the past 11 seasons. With his team trailing by 10 points, Singletary lost the tip of the middle finger on his left hand and was forced to the sidelines. An injury that would have kept more timid men on the bench -- and one that once gave San Francisco 49ers safety Ronnie Loft notoriety -- only was of concern to Singletary that afternoon because it meant time away from the action.

"The doctor said, 'Well, you're playing hard but you're done,'" says Singletary, "I told him, 'No, I'm not done. You need to tape my hand up because I'm going back out there. I need to finish this game.

With that, the doctor wadded up Singletary's hand into something that resembled a boxing glove. The determined middle linebacker was back out on the field, his Bears unit facing the grim task of defending its endzone against first down and goal-to-go for Minnesota. For whatever reason, instead of joining his teammates, Singletary first walked into Minnesota's huddle.

"I told [Huffman], 'You will not score.' He looked at me and asked what I was doing in their huddle, and again I told him, 'You will not score,'" says Singletary.

Huffman, gave it right back to Singletary. "He said," remembers Singletary, "'I'll tell you what, let's make a bet on it.'" No particular prize was chosen, just pride. Sure enough, four downs, four stops, no points for the Vikings.

Sometime later, Singletary received in the mall a package from Huffman. In it was a gold quarter.

"Overcoming that obstacle and winning a game we were pretty much out of," says Singletary, "that was one of the great games of my career."

But that's Mike Singletary the football player, a member of both the pro and college halls of fame and one of the NFL's greatest 100 players of all time. Mike Singletary the man is much more determined, and perhaps even more remarkable.

Singletary, a devout Christian and family man, follows God's lead now. No longer the barking linebacker with a stare that could bring an opposing running back to a standstill, Singletary is now a coach for the San Francisco 49ers. His new book, Mike Singletary One-on-One, mixes football stories with motivational messages. For Singletary, it was the right time to talk about his faith, his football career, and his new journey as a coach.

"A coach, to me, is nothing more than a parent," says Singletary. "If anyone were to ask me, 'Mike, what do you do?', I might say that I try to coach guys to understand the concepts and buy into my philosophies, but when it really gets down to it, what I really do is change lives. In the final analysis, when it's all said and done, the thing I want to do is to touch someone in the way I have been touched by the coaches I've had."
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This is a webpage on Mike's side career as a speaker and what he chooses to speak about; videos of him speaking are available in the upper right-hand corner of the page, as well:

http://washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=924

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Speech Topics

Don’t Just Compete - WIN!
Mike Singletary strikes a chord with his audiences because he's not your typical athlete. He knows how to break individuals out of their comfort zones - showing them that it's not acceptable to just "get by". He shares with audiences the lessons he's learned on the road to success, while giving them practical tips that they can use immediately at the workplace and at home. Singletary's primary game plan is focused on creating strong teams that achieve great things together, as well as overcoming challenging times as a cohesive unit. Singletary comes equipped with the history of his audience's organization and walks them through what made them great, while relating his entire presentation to their goals.

He shows audiences how to:
* Develop leadership skills
* Be better communicators
* Build stronger relationships
* Embrace diversity

Developing a Great Team
Teamwork has been the cornerstone of Mike Singletary’s career. Team captain for the NFL’s Chicago Bears for ten years, Singletary worked with management and the players to help them understand each other’s perspectives, appreciate their differences, and to work together as a successful organization. Drawing on this experience and his work as linebacker’s coach for the Baltimore Ravens, Singletary explores the key components of developing and sustaining a great team: effective communication, trust, shedding egos, sharing a vision, understanding expectations, and commitment to the team’s goals. He shares the valuable lessons he has learned on the road to success and offers practical steps that can be put to use immediately, in every area of life.

America - A Great Country
In this moving and motivational presentation, Mike Singletary speaks about what makes America stand apart from every other country in history and looks at how we will prevail over today’s challenges. The last few years have been difficult for our nation, but America endured times like this before. He talks about the strength of our citizens, history and traditions, and how we have pulled together as a nation to overcome great hardship, times of war, economic uncertainty and seemingly insurmountable challenges. Adversity strengthens us; it is the core of who we are as Americans.

Daddy's Home at Last - What It Takes for Dads to Put Families First
Mike Singletary, himself a father of seven, feels that families are no different from a business. They need a vision, must deal with change, have to balance the needs of very different personalities, and much more. Mike talks about building stronger families - and offers practical ideas made popular in his book, Daddy's Home at Last.
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This is the kind of man I want coaching the team I've bled with since I was eight years old.

Right now Mike Singletary is flying under the radar, and by the time we're looking for another head coach he'll be well-established as a head coach somewhere. Now's the time to go get him.

The Dolphins front office wants to hear from you. This was a letter from the front office that was recently sent to all season ticket holders:

Now that we have undertaken our head coaching search, we want you to know that Wayne Huizenga and all of us at the Miami Dolphins organization are committed to finding the best possible individual for this special franchise. Now more than ever, Mr. Huizenga is determined to do whatever is necessary to ensure your Miami Dolphins win consistently and be the elite team in the NFL.

We have identified a number of coaches we think are excellent prospects and are in the process of interviewing them now. You will no doubt hear a great deal about our progress in the coming days and, since we are all in this together, we are open to your ideas and comments. Please feel free to send us your thoughts to ideas@dolphins.nfl.com. In addition, we also invite you to listen to the Dolphins Show weeknights at 790 The Ticket from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for all Dolphin news and events. The show is also available through MiamiDolphins.com.

We thank you for your past and future support. We are optimistic about our future and the 2007 season.

Best wishes,


Joe Bailey Bryan Wiedmeier
CEO, Dolphins Enterprises President and Chief Operating Officer
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Again, the e-mail address is:

ideas@dolphins.nfl.com
 
I contacted them about Singletary. He has all the attributes to be a heck of a good head coach in the NFL. I would be elated to have him as our new head coach!!!
 
I contacted them too ... for whatever reason, Singletary's name jumped out at me on Thursday when I read something in the Herald about the search for $aban's replacement. I heard Mike Nolan sing Singletary's praises on the NFL Network on Thursday night (Nolan called Singletary one of the greatest leaders he had ever been around, and said "as great a player as he was, he's twice the man) ... and I've seen him in that damn "America's Game" commercial every 20 minutes pretty much ever since. LOL

I've been a Dolphins fan since 1981, but I've always admired Mike Singletary. Let's give the man a shot!
 
Good write up.

I have always admired Mike myself. However I must admit that I have reservations due to his lack of experience.
I do want to know what kind of defensive and offensive strategies he favors.
 
I wouldn't be upset to see Mike leading this team. The man has a fire in him.
 
shouright said:
Here's my sales pitch for Mike Singletary.

He's an extremely inexperienced coach in the NFL, and there's absolutely no evidence he would be successful as our head coach.

However, my very strong opinion is that you make your head coach a strong leader of men, and you make your coordinators your technicians with the Xs and Os expertise. Your head coach motivates and inspires your players and has the leadership ability to oversee and organize the coaching staff, and your coordinators and other assistant coaches are the technical innovators who develop the schemes and physically put the players in positions to win.

So that means for me personally, I don't wanna hear anything about schemes when I'm talking about head coaching candidates. I wanna hear about character and leadership ability. I wanna hear that a candidate is a great leader of men who will inspire our players and get the most out of them physically and emotionally.

With that said, here is some research I've done on Mike Singletary, whom I believe is the best candidate for head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Mike is currently the Assistant Head Coach and Linebackers Coach for the 49ers, and this is what his current head coach has to say about him:

http://www.sf49ers.com/team/coaches_detail.php?PRKey=16



Here's more on Mike's coaching style, along with a story from his playing days:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCL/is_3_35/ai_n15657213



This is a webpage on Mike's side career as a speaker and what he chooses to speak about; videos of him speaking are available in the upper right-hand corner of the page, as well:

http://washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=924



This is the kind of man I want coaching the team I've bled with since I was eight years old.

Right now Mike Singletary is flying under the radar, and by the time we're looking for another head coach he'll be well-established as a head coach somewhere. Now's the time to go get him.

The Dolphins front office wants to hear from you. This was a letter from the front office that was recently sent to all season ticket holders:



Again, the e-mail address is:

ideas@dolphins.nfl.com
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Great post Shouright. I have thought alot about Singletary and have him as one of the top 3 coaches that I hope we hire. You're right about the leadership needed. He has to be able to influence, and lead, a large number of people - from the coaching staff all the way down to the last player on the roster. IT isn't necassary to have 20 years of coaching experience to accomplish this. You just have to have the passion, intregity, selflessness, influence, energy, etc. Singletary fits the bill. I think he'd do an outstanding job as a head coach. One can look at Jack Del Rio as a great example of what type of coach we might get in Singletary, should we go that route. I'm all for it.
 
Man, that was an awesome write up.Before this, I never even thought about him for the position. Now I think he definately needs to be considered. "The Mike Singletary led Miami Dolphins take the field"...has a nice ring to it.
 
I like Mike!
I would be concerned about todays players. Most only respect the money. There is a very selfish attitude in the game today. Mike has never been a selfish "me first man". He is just a MAN. I would love to have Mike show some film of his playing days to our guys and challeng them to be NFL professionals or hit the road get and make a punk fool of yourself somewhere else. The Dolphins are lucky we don't seem to have much of the "punk fool me first players". Mike Singletary would bring toughness and respect. Just think how Channing Crowder would respond to Mike.
 
We could certainly do worse than Mike Singletary. I won't be sad if he's hired!

Will depend on how he interviews.

Only thing is I don't see how H.W. will ever give a guy this inexperienced total control. And if H.W. insists on hiring someone to give total control, then Singletary isn't the man. But if H.W. decides to go w/ a GM-coach tandem, then Singletary would be interesting for sure.
 
I really like Mike. I think it could work if we found the right Offensive Coordinator to run Linehans offense.
 
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