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Dolphins fans who have criticized the hiring of Adam Gase generally make the same point: This is the fourth consecutive time the Dolphins have taken an offensive assistant coach and made him a head coach --- an approach that clearly hasn’t worked here, at least pre-Gase. Whereas Tony Sparano had been an offensive line coach, Cam Cameron and Joe Philbin (like Gase) were NFL coordinators before Miami hired them.
So we started wondering: Generally how successful is this strategy of hiring offensive coordinators as first-time NFL head coaches? Here’s what we discovered:
### Since 2000, there have been 20 occasions in which a team hired a head coach who had been serving as an offensive coordinator in his previous job and had no NFL head-coaching experience, like Gase.
Of those 20, only five have produced winning records in their first head coaching jobs: Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy (104-55) and his predecessor Mike Sherman (57-39), ex-Rams coach Mike Martz (53-32), former Vikings coach Brad Childress (39-35) and Cowboys coach Jason Garrett (45-43).
### This is discouraging: Since 2000, AFC teams have hired 11 head coaches who were an offensive coordinator in their previous job and hadn’t coached an NFL team before. Of those 11, not a single one produced a winning record in that first head coaching job; Gary Kubiak (61-64 in Houston, two playoff appearances in eight seasons there) was the only one who was even somewhat successful in that first job. (He's now with Denver.)
The others: Cameron (1-15), Philbin (24-28), the Browns’ Pat Shurmur (9-23) and Rob Chudzinski (4-12), Buffalo’s Mike Mularkey (14-18), Denver’s Josh McDaniels (11-17; Gase was his receivers coach), Kansas City’s Todd Haley (19-26) and Oakland’s Bill Callahan (15-17), Lane Kiffin (5-15) and Hue Jackson (8-8).
Those 11 AFC coaches produced only six winning records and four playoff berths in 29 combined seasons and won 39.6 percent of their games. Gase, incidentally, said he wanted to return to the AFC.
Please click on the link for the rest of the article. I hope Adam and his coaching staff can get this team turned around.
Dolphins fans who have criticized the hiring of Adam Gase generally make the same point: This is the fourth consecutive time the Dolphins have taken an offensive assistant coach and made him a head coach --- an approach that clearly hasn’t worked here, at least pre-Gase. Whereas Tony Sparano had been an offensive line coach, Cam Cameron and Joe Philbin (like Gase) were NFL coordinators before Miami hired them.
So we started wondering: Generally how successful is this strategy of hiring offensive coordinators as first-time NFL head coaches? Here’s what we discovered:
### Since 2000, there have been 20 occasions in which a team hired a head coach who had been serving as an offensive coordinator in his previous job and had no NFL head-coaching experience, like Gase.
Of those 20, only five have produced winning records in their first head coaching jobs: Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy (104-55) and his predecessor Mike Sherman (57-39), ex-Rams coach Mike Martz (53-32), former Vikings coach Brad Childress (39-35) and Cowboys coach Jason Garrett (45-43).
### This is discouraging: Since 2000, AFC teams have hired 11 head coaches who were an offensive coordinator in their previous job and hadn’t coached an NFL team before. Of those 11, not a single one produced a winning record in that first head coaching job; Gary Kubiak (61-64 in Houston, two playoff appearances in eight seasons there) was the only one who was even somewhat successful in that first job. (He's now with Denver.)
The others: Cameron (1-15), Philbin (24-28), the Browns’ Pat Shurmur (9-23) and Rob Chudzinski (4-12), Buffalo’s Mike Mularkey (14-18), Denver’s Josh McDaniels (11-17; Gase was his receivers coach), Kansas City’s Todd Haley (19-26) and Oakland’s Bill Callahan (15-17), Lane Kiffin (5-15) and Hue Jackson (8-8).
Those 11 AFC coaches produced only six winning records and four playoff berths in 29 combined seasons and won 39.6 percent of their games. Gase, incidentally, said he wanted to return to the AFC.
Please click on the link for the rest of the article. I hope Adam and his coaching staff can get this team turned around.