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Did Philbin Just Bamboozle Everyone?

AJ Duhe said:
I may be over thinking this, but look at what has happened in the last 48 hours:
  • Philbin sends a veiled shot at Tannehill and the offense with his message of non-committal
  • The offensive starters publicly defend their quarterback and rally behind him
  • The formerly quiet and dutiful Tannehill confronts his head coach, names HIMSELF starter, and publicly expresses his ire but at the same time publicly expresses his confidence that the team will turn things around
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I think you are over thinking this. I think the media is overthinking this. I dont think anyone who follows the Dolphins ever had any doubt who the starting QB was. Not even for a second.
 
tannehill knows hes playing for big big money next year and in the future man. hes playing tight and add to that hes just not that good, i dont see how this helps him. football wise, miami isnt the place to go out and just have fun because this team and organization has been a joke for over a decade, theres tremendous pressure and scrutiny here to get it turned around. i see your point aj duhe but its wishful thinking man. and tannehill is not a leader, no how no way.
 
AJ Duhe said:
I may be over thinking this, but look at what has happened in the last 48 hours:
  • Philbin sends a veiled shot at Tannehill and the offense with his message of non-committal
  • The offensive starters publicly defend their quarterback and rally behind him
  • The formerly quiet and dutiful Tannehill confronts his head coach, names HIMSELF starter, and publicly expresses his ire but at the same time publicly expresses his confidence that the team will turn things around

Philbin just took the stress of a distracting travel game to London and put all of the attention on himself. On the surface, it looks like he created a distraction for Tannehill and the team, but after losing 2 straight to teams they probably should have beaten, the pressure was likely on anyway. Now instead of the media harping on what a loss to the Raiders could mean, Philbin is soaking up the negative media. Better yet, Tannehill, the offense, and the whole team are hopping mad and looking to prove Philbin and the doubters wrong.

This team rallied together after the Incognito/Martin scandal last year. Could Philbin's flub, maybe intentional, be what brings the team together this week?
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No. That's not it. He simple is too stubborn to change his stance on not naming starters and telling people as little as possible. Clearly to a fault.
 
Regardless of whatever mind job Philbin might be pulling, RT still has to throw the ball in front of the receiver in a place where they can catch it, the LB's and secondary have to tackle men that do not want to be tackled, and the coach has to try to out smart the opposing coach. Unfortunately, I do not think Oakland is going to go away quietly. I think the OP is giving Philbin too much credit is a highly implausible theory.
As soon as there is adversity, I would not be surprised to see this team crawl into a shell.
 
spiketex said:
Definitely. It was a calculated way to tell Tannehill that he's on the hot seat and he needs to lift his game.
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But why?
He already knows it.
A coach should do it privately first. So if he did do it privately, that would have to have been after week two which was the first bad game.
So if he did that, then he told Tannehill he could be benched after one bad Buffalo game with an injured running back. Why would you do such a thing after one bad game in week two?
Na, I don't think Philbin knows what he is doing.
 
So you're saying that Joe Philbin's plan for getting the team to feel some emotion and bring some intensity to the game was to get his players to hate him by throwing them under the bus and then leaving his quarterback twisting in the wind with a controversy that he created and then had multiple opportunities to back himself out of?

Damn, Joe. You a regular Machiavelli. #StrongerTogether
 
It's all about the shield.



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I'd like to see a pissed-off Ryan Tannehill play, he could use some anger out there
 
So Philbin is the Tyler Durden of the Miami Dolphins?

Sounds good to me. Better than an out of touch high school principal.
 
So the guy who can't figure out a good play to call on 3rd and long is the same psychological genius who has masterminded this plan to get Tannehill to perform at a higher level? And this makes sense to some of you guys? :crazy:
 
bird33 said:
if this qb doesnt know hes been awful and is on the hot seat he's really really really clueless. i dont think philbin calling him out is gonna do a damn thing but make him play tighter and more afraid to make mistakes.
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Then Tannehill isn't who we want him to be.
 
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