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ESPN's new beat writer (Cameron Wolfe) for the Dolphins gives his take on the team since their last preseason game.

Gase's Dolphins have ranked in the bottom five in penalties in each of his first two seasons as a head coach. That's a problem. Teams with loads of talent or superstars often can overcome those mistakes. The Dolphins have neither. They need to play clean, disciplined and fundamental football to push for a playoff spot. Otherwise, they will be faced with another 6-10 season -- or worse.

Heavy bouts of penalties often indicate a lack of discipline, sloppiness and overaggressiveness. Tannehill believes they are "self-inflicted wounds that we can totally correct." Gase said there is no central reason for the penalties -- just all individual little mistakes.
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http://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolp...ck-of-discipline-identity-could-doom-dolphins
 
That's been the pattern and it's not good. I'm really hoping we can correct it or else, we're going to see a lot of drives die because of it on offense and a lot of drives continue on because of it for our defense.
 
If you have players who have chronic problems with penalties you better find different players...

Being laser focused is JOB #1 for a pro athlete.
 
I keep hearing JaWuan James is running laps during practice. That is new this year to my knowledge. We seem to have a couple bone head tackles who cannot remember snap counts, etc. That's where it starts but could eventually end up as trades.
 
TrinidadDolfan said:
Gase should have used the opportunity to shoulder the blame himself. It is his responsibility to ensure that it does not occur, no one else’s
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. For these players it’s no different than any other profession. You can talk and threaten tell your blue in the face,and with some people it will not help. In the NFL there isn’t much a coach can do but cut or sit the player. And unless the backups are as good as the starters all you do is hurt the rest of the team.
 
We have been in the top of the league since Gase got here in penalties. Its such a pain in the ass.
 
Last season it appeared to me that we were rarely prepared to play at the start of games and the second half.

So yes lack of discipline, focus and sloppiness sounds about right, only points in one persons direction for me.
 
BigNastyFish said:
If you have players who have chronic problems with penalties you better find different players...

Being laser focused is JOB #1 for a pro athlete.
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We have been churning the roster for 3 years now. Sounds like the same warts keep popping up. Building a culture the way you want it is great and all but sometimes you have to take a step back and make sure you are building it the correct way. Seems to me the discipline problems are more coaching related.
 
What's interesting is the need for former players to take shots at Gase. Were they the only 3 in the locker room not buying what he was selling? Unlikely.
 
Daytona Fin said:
We have been churning the roster for 3 years now. Sounds like the same warts keep popping up. Building a culture the way you want it is great and all but sometimes you have to take a step back and make sure you are building it the correct way. Seems to me the discipline problems are more coaching related.
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Probably right. But it also relates to personal discipline and intelligence. Stupid players do dumb things. Undisciplined players create mistakes.

That said -- the HC is responsible for the product on the field. So accountability is important.
 
I agree, I can't imagine how these players actually feel about Gase.

Gase, and his "Culture Reform" singled out all the players from 2017 that arnt here in 2018 and made them targets for shouldering the blame of our losing season last year. It's a greasy move when you think about it, even if it's true, why say it publicly? If Gase was smart he would have blamed it on contract negotiations and the team not able to come to an agreement. Instead he tells the NFL and anyone who will listen, that the guys who made up all of our probowl selections for the past half decade are bad guys, not fit for our locker room and like St Peter, Adam Gase is gonna drive these Snakes out of Ireland or Miami, whatever, you catch my drift.

I'm not surprised they are taking shots at Gase, the guys kinda a scumbag.
 
MrChadRico said:
I'm not surprised they are taking shots at Gase, the guys kinda a scumbag.
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Scumbag? I doubt anyone feels that way about him other than you. It's his first HC gig, he is trying to do it his way, can't fault him for that. I think every coach does it. Whether it's right or wrong is to be determined. We've seen plenty of coaches try to have it their way only to fail. All we can do is hope Gase's culture works out. Criticize his methods but don't put him on the scumbag level of say a coach like Snortin' Foerster.
 
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