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My Mommy told me I could choose between going to church with her or staying at home and watch football with my older brother. The year was 1972…the “PERFECT” year to become a Dolphin fan. Well, football became my religion, the Dolphins became my Higher Power and Dan Marino was the second coming of JC as far as I am concerned. Looking back, it may be the wisest choice I ever made. I feel my unrelenting faith has paid off because I now find myself in “FinHeaven.”
I have been reading the opinions on whether Joey Harrington deserves a chance today and thought I would include my own. As the saying goes, “opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.” I do think Harrington deserves a chance based on the difference between the Dolphins organization and the Lions organization.
Unlike most people, I liked the Mike Williams pick by the Lions in 2005 and thought the Lions had the potential to be one of the top offenses for years to come. Then I read an article posted by Michael Smith of ESPN on October 18, 2005:
Scene: Detroit. Date: Aug. 29, moments before the Lions were to be run over by the Rams in their final preseason game.
I met president and CEO Matt Millen on the visitors' sideline and joined him on the stroll across Ford Field, along the way asking him about the unprecedented decision to select a wide receiver in the first round of three consecutive drafts and how those well-paid talents were to go about sharing one football. Toward the end of the conversation, I asked Millen specifically about rookie Mike Williams, whom I'd understood to have missed or arrived tardy to at least 10 team meetings by that time. (I know what you're thinking, and so am I: If I had fought to enter the league early and been forced to spend a year out of football, you'd have to drag me out of the team's facility kicking and screaming.)
Millen reminded me that Williams is 21 years old. In other words, kids will be kids. As evidence, Millen quoted Ecclesiastes 1:9: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." And I thought we were talking about one player. As it turned out, Millen could just as easily have been describing the franchise he directs. To continue reading this article you must be an insider.
Unfortunately, to access the rest of the article you have to be a member of ESPN insider and I am not. Maybe someone in FinHeaven is an insider and can post the complete article. Here is the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=michael_smith&next=50&page=espn&language=en&rT=sports
My opinion that Harrington deserves a chance is based on the article above. I am not a big Harrington fan per se, but nor do I dislike him. I certainly would not put Harrington in the category of Marino, Elway or Montana. But I would not be surprised to see him in the category of Rypien, Dilfer, Williams, Hostetler, etc... decent QB's on winning Super Bowl teams. In my opinion, the QB position is the most important position on the field and needs to be a leader. However, I think it is the coaches and management responsibility to ensure a talented and disciplined team around the QB and a scheme that embraces the QB’s strengths in order to succeed. Detroit may have surrounded Harrington with incredible talent at WR, but lack of discipline kills talent. Even the best QB can become stifled by inept coaching/management. One only has to look at the difference between how Coach Shula and that other guy Jimmy Johnson handled Marino to see that.
As for the current state of the Dolphins, Coach Saban has done an incredible job the past year in creating a talented and disciplined team in which Harrington or many other quarterbacks can succeed or fail based on his abilities and not managements inabilities. Coach Saban and staff also demonstrated last year with Ferotte they would implement a system and play calling in which the QB could maximize his ability. It appears Ferotte does not have the ability to qualify as decent QB on winning Super Bowl team. A system and play calling would also be in place to maximize Harrington's ability. Of course, this is dependent upon Culpepper’s health. Hmmm…I wonder how Saban would have handled Mike Williams continual tardiness. Maybe we should ask Manuel Wright.
Just wondering what you experts out there thought. Could Miami win a Super Bowl with Harrington at QB?
I have been reading the opinions on whether Joey Harrington deserves a chance today and thought I would include my own. As the saying goes, “opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.” I do think Harrington deserves a chance based on the difference between the Dolphins organization and the Lions organization.
Unlike most people, I liked the Mike Williams pick by the Lions in 2005 and thought the Lions had the potential to be one of the top offenses for years to come. Then I read an article posted by Michael Smith of ESPN on October 18, 2005:
Scene: Detroit. Date: Aug. 29, moments before the Lions were to be run over by the Rams in their final preseason game.
I met president and CEO Matt Millen on the visitors' sideline and joined him on the stroll across Ford Field, along the way asking him about the unprecedented decision to select a wide receiver in the first round of three consecutive drafts and how those well-paid talents were to go about sharing one football. Toward the end of the conversation, I asked Millen specifically about rookie Mike Williams, whom I'd understood to have missed or arrived tardy to at least 10 team meetings by that time. (I know what you're thinking, and so am I: If I had fought to enter the league early and been forced to spend a year out of football, you'd have to drag me out of the team's facility kicking and screaming.)
Millen reminded me that Williams is 21 years old. In other words, kids will be kids. As evidence, Millen quoted Ecclesiastes 1:9: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." And I thought we were talking about one player. As it turned out, Millen could just as easily have been describing the franchise he directs. To continue reading this article you must be an insider.
Unfortunately, to access the rest of the article you have to be a member of ESPN insider and I am not. Maybe someone in FinHeaven is an insider and can post the complete article. Here is the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=michael_smith&next=50&page=espn&language=en&rT=sports
As for the current state of the Dolphins, Coach Saban has done an incredible job the past year in creating a talented and disciplined team in which Harrington or many other quarterbacks can succeed or fail based on his abilities and not managements inabilities. Coach Saban and staff also demonstrated last year with Ferotte they would implement a system and play calling in which the QB could maximize his ability. It appears Ferotte does not have the ability to qualify as decent QB on winning Super Bowl team. A system and play calling would also be in place to maximize Harrington's ability. Of course, this is dependent upon Culpepper’s health. Hmmm…I wonder how Saban would have handled Mike Williams continual tardiness. Maybe we should ask Manuel Wright.
Just wondering what you experts out there thought. Could Miami win a Super Bowl with Harrington at QB?
