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Dolphins’ defensive meeting outlines mental mistakes against New England. And there were lots

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It’s Monday morning and after spending the past 16 hours angry at the world because his professional pride and defense were severely wounded in a 35-17 loss the previous day, Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Matt Burke has gathered his players in a meeting room and everyone is reliving the nightmare of the New England game.

There have been moments this season that Burke is disappointed in himself because he missed a call or two in a game, and he sees that as a failure.

But last Monday was different because Burke called a good game against the Patriots. And no one on the Dolphins sideline was surprised by anything the Patriots did. Indeed, the Dolphins the previous week practiced all but one play the Patriots ran in the game.

Head coach Adam Gase, who normally doesn’t participate in these defensive meetings, sat in for the beginning of the 90-minute affair. He left after about 15 minutes and later asked Burke if the whole session was as harsh as the first 15 minutes.

The answer: Yes, it was. People within that meeting say the gathering spared no one.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article187400583.html
 
I really wonder what that one play was prolly the fake punt?
 
Wait, so Gase doesn't even sits in the meetings for the defense? A defense that is getting destroyed every week for more than a month now?????
I've said this before, Gase needs to stop thinking just like a play caller and start acting like a HC!!
A good HC is in charge of the whole team. He seems to think that he's in charge of the offense and the defense is on it's own.
At first I like Gase. I believe he's smart guy but he's not thinking like a HC. I come from the restaurant business and a GM would be in every meeting. You don't sit on a bar meeting but then totally forget about the kitchen. The GM is in charge of the whole restaurant and not just a part of it.
Gase needs to change his thinking fast or this team will never be the best it can be. I could see him backing off if we had a great DC that has been a DC for 15 years but Burke is a first time DC and Gase is letting him do whatever he wants??

Ozzy rules!!
 
Danny said:
Wait, so Gase doesn't even sits in the meetings for the defense? A defense that is getting destroyed every week for more than a month now?????
I've said this before, Gase needs to stop thinking just like a play caller and start acting like a HC!!
A good HC is in charge of the whole team. He seems to think that he's in charge of the offense and the defense is on it's own.
At first I like Gase. I believe he's smart guy but he's not thinking like a HC. I come from the restaurant business and a GM would be in every meeting. You don't sit on a bar meeting but then totally forget about the kitchen. The GM is in charge of the whole restaurant and not just a part of it.
Gase needs to change his thinking fast or this team will never be the best it can be. I could see him backing off if we had a great DC that has been a DC for 15 years but Burke is a first time DC and Gase is letting him do whatever he wants??

Ozzy rules!!
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Agreed. Gase needs to learn that he's in charge of the whole team, not just the offense. Unfortunately, we've been seeing the classic signs of a good coordinator who isn't fit to lead a whole team. I think Gase is smart enough, and it's not too late to take control of the team, but relying on his coordinators to do their jobs is getting him in trouble. Not to pour salt on the wound, but if you watch film on Belichick, he is constantly calling out his coordinators - as well as his players in all three phases when they screw up. I just don't think Gase has a strong enough grasp of each phase of the game to do that yet.
 
The defense sits and watches the horror show videos every week but every week they continue to crap the bed. They must enjoy humiliating themselves. Pathetic.
 
Bagga-Viagra said:
Agreed. Gase needs to learn that he's in charge of the whole team, not just the offense. Unfortunately, we've been seeing the classic signs of a good coordinator who isn't fit to lead a whole team. I think Gase is smart enough, and it's not too late to take control of the team, but relying on his coordinators to do their jobs is getting him in trouble. Not to pour salt on the wound, but if you watch film on Belichick, he is constantly calling out his coordinators - as well as his players in all three phases when they screw up. I just don't think Gase has a strong enough grasp of each phase of the game to do that yet.
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Agree. I see BB on the sidelines talking to his defense sometimes and sometimes to his ST's and of course he talks to Brady all the time. I don't see Gase doing that. I understand that offense is his thing but you need to cover the whole team. He's not just a play caller but right now that's what he's acting like.

Ozzy rules!!
 
DefensiveEnd76 said:
The defense sits and watches the horror show videos every week but every week they continue to crap the bed. They must enjoy humiliating themselves. Pathetic.
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But then you have Gase making excuses for them. He's not doing the defense or himself any favors by doing that. The guys on defense are thinking that if they play bad then it's not their fault but rather the offense's fault

Ozzy rules!!
 
What is the DC and head coach suppose to do? They practiced the whole week, nothing the Patriots did was a surprise (according to the coaches) and still the defense played like crap. After all this we just read some of you still beating up on the coaching staff. What should Gase do? Go outside and beat the players? cut their salaries? There's only so much a coach can say or do till the only thing left is to cut players and move in a different direction which I am predicting will happen in the off season. Stop blaming EVERYTHING on the coach and start holding the players responsible for at least something that has gone wrong this season. I'll say it again, this idea that the Dolphins team is unprepared every week is folly........to many of our players are over paid and not playing fundamental football, let's get back to the basics........we'll start with tackling.
 
They don’t have time to sit in on everything. Gase has to prepare this weeks garbage qb

Those qb tape meetings are by far the longest ones in the building
 
If guys aren’t lined up properly that’s the eye in the sky’s job to alert the coach and call timeout.

Or you just live with the results

That’s why having a dc in the box helps for those kind of things.

Whoever is in the box needs to know by the call what the alignment should look like. If you’re scheme is gap fill and guys aren’t in position pre snap to fill their gap you get gashed.

I had Timmons with the top lb grade in that game average pretty much sniffed out a few things at the los

If they practiced all but one of those game looks hard to blast the coaching for the results
 
finmann said:
What is the DC and head coach suppose to do? They practiced the whole week, nothing the Patriots did was a surprise (according to the coaches) and still the defense played like crap. After all this we just read some of you still beating up on the coaching staff. What should Gase do? Go outside and beat the players? cut their salaries? There's only so much a coach can say or do till the only thing left is to cut players and move in a different direction which I am predicting will happen in the off season. Stop blaming EVERYTHING on the coach and start holding the players responsible for at least something that has gone wrong this season. I'll say it again, this idea that the Dolphins team is unprepared every week is folly........to many of our players are over paid and not playing fundamental football, let's get back to the basics........we'll start with tackling.
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Do you give the coaching staff a pass on this and put blame solely on the players? That's ok, just curious cause i blame coaching say 60 40 vs players, maybe 70 30. What have you seen from coaching that gives you hope?
 
I'm not trying to blame the coaches for the results. I normally blame the players so that's why I get upset when Gase keeps making up excuses for the defense but I'm not the only poster here who has said many times that Gase seems to think his one and only job is to work with the offense. I want to see him in charge of the team. Hoops I know all about the Cutler thing but Gase was the same way last year. He blamed the offense for everything while the defense got a pass. I'm not saying he needs to run every meeting but he doesn't sit on any meeting for the defense at all can't be consider a good thing

Ozzy rules!!
 
If you read between the lines here odds are good they are gonna go into 2018 with the top 4 corners they have in the building again

Banking on tank playing more assignment football McCain in the slot and x howard who they like a lot more than pff does and the return on lippett as the 3rd boundary

Don’t expect an early corner pick folks
 
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