Firing Sparano Doesn't Solve The Main Problem

[NY8123]

This article is the sad truth about the state of the Miami Dolphins.

Dave Hyde Sun Sentinel Columnist 10:19 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2011


A couple of years after he left the Dolphins, when the dust long had settled and the smoke cleared, Dave Wannstedt condensed what went wrong at the Dolphins into two words.

"Finding players,'' he said.

A few days after he left the Dolphins, Nick Saban invited a few South Florida writers into his new office at the University of Alabama. He was asked where it went wrong, and he gave the simplest of answers.

"In the NFL, you first need a quarterback,'' he said. "Then you need to surround that quarterback with talent."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-hyde-miami-dolphins-1020-20111019,0,3028255.column

 

[Dolph N.Fan]

It's a step in the right direction...

 

[Wildbill3]

well doing nothing doesnt' solve the problem either.

 

[datruth55]

I don't think you'll find any one to argue against that. Most here have been saying the same thing for a long time. The cornerstone to any franchise is and always will be the QB. Find that and then build the team around him. Unfortunately this franchise seems to think you can get free agents, retreads or late round draft picks to make it happen (although we had a shot at Drew Brees as a free agent).

IF we end up with the first pick in this draft even we can't screw this one up. If Peyton Manning can make Jim Caldwell look like a decent coach then any great QB can make his coach look better. Hyde is right though, firing Tony solves nothing for this year. We still have to get the QB and the players and we need a coach that can develop players too. I think that's Sparano's biggest failure...inability to develop the players that were drafted.

 

[Lilseb93]

I love the Saban part. It's so very true. You need a franchise QB to win in this league.

 

[NY8123]

well doing nothing doesnt' solve the problem either.

Oh that is true. It all has to go, every bit from the top down.

It just ****ing sucks to come to the realization that you need to build again. New GM, new coach yadda yadda yadda........bull **** for the last decade.

and can somebody please get Miami a ****ing quarterback for ****s sake, I don't care if they have to dig Al Davis up and prop his dead *** in the drafting room, as long as they tape a "with the first selection in the 2012 NFL draft the Miami Dolphins select ...........insert QB's name here".........card on his hand!

 

[datruth55]

I love the Saban part. It's so very true. You need a franchise QB to win in this league.

Funny cause he screwed that up something royaly. Trading for Culpepper and Joey Harrington, passing on Brees...went into his first season with Gus Frerrotte...could have drafted Aaron Rodgers. Didn't exactly practice what he preached.

 

[Vaark]

It's a sad commentary on the present when Hyde needs to reference the rear view mirror "words of wisdom" of 2 of our more clueless HCs/defacto GMs.. Looking forward to Tony's retrospective insight in a year or 2. And Little Nicky, don't get me started on Aaron Rodgers vs your favorite p/t SEC RB. Glad we got Frerotte as our potential franchise QB, eh/

Maybe it's just me, but I'd think it would be refreshing to have some personnel in place who actually know what they're doing at the time they're doing it.

 

[dolphinators13]

This article is the sad truth about the state of the Miami Dolphins.







http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-hyde-miami-dolphins-1020-20111019,0,3028255.column

Firing Sparano does solve the main problem which is Sparano. FYI this front office has had chances to bring in QB and draft one and nothing happened. Sparano promised QB competition, and who was that??? Matt Moore, really.

The next regime will do what this one failed and previous ones before it. GET A ****ING QB.

 

[Spesh]

Firing Sparano does solve the Dolphins main problem: as Sparano had a say in finding players. And he failed.

Wannstedt, Saban, and Cameron all had, at least, says in finding players. They all failed.

So yes, when we allow coaches to make decisions on player acquisistion, and the players those coaches find are not that great...then thats the coaches fault. This is year 4 of this regime. They have had plenty of time to get the players they wanted. If these are the players they wanted, than they misjudged them. If this isn't the players they wanted, then they failed to acquire what they needed.
Either way, it is Sparano's(and Irelands) fault and firing him will possibly be moving toward the solution.....if we hire competant enough people after him.

 

[KB21]

I don't think you'll find any one to argue against that. Most here have been saying the same thing for a long time. The cornerstone to any franchise is and always will be the QB. Find that and then build the team around him. Unfortunately this franchise seems to think you can get free agents, retreads or late round draft picks to make it happen (although we had a shot at Drew Brees as a free agent).

IF we end up with the first pick in this draft even we can't screw this one up. If Peyton Manning can make Jim Caldwell look like a decent coach then any great QB can make his coach look better. Hyde is right though, firing Tony solves nothing for this year. We still have to get the QB and the players and we need a coach that can develop players too. I think that's Sparano's biggest failure...inability to develop the players that were drafted.

Actually, the problem with this team is that they have spent the last 12 years trying to build a team that can support a game manager at quarterback, with the exception of a few failed attempts to land a quarterback (AJ Feeley, Daunte Culpepper, John Beck), and even then, they were only willing to spend a 2nd round pick to get said quarterback.

This is what I'm talking about when I saw the new regime needs to be one that is quarterback centric. Personaly, I'm convinced that whether we get the 1st pick or not, the Dolphins absolutely have to pick a quarterback in the first round next year. I think Stephen Ross knows it.

 

[datruth55]

Firing Sparano does solve the main problem which is Sparano. FYI this front office has had chances to bring in QB and draft one and nothing happened. Sparano promised QB competition, and who was that??? Matt Moore, really.

The next regime will do what this one failed and previous ones before it. GET A ****ING QB.

Was it Sparano that didn't draft a QB or Parcells/Ireland? Was it Sparano that brought in Matt Moore (former Cowboy PS player) or was it Ireland? If Sparano says to Ireland I need a QB to compete against Henne and Ireland says I'll get you one and signs Moore that's not on Sparano...that's on Ireland. I think we're getting the rolls of the organization confused here. Sparano is coach, Ireland is personnel. They are both failing...each other and the fans.

 

[Lilseb93]

Funny cause he screwed that up something royaly. Trading for Culpepper and Joey Harrington, passing on Brees...went into his first season with Gus Frerrotte...could have drafted Aaron Rodgers. Didn't exactly practice what he preached.

I know. That's why I found it interesting. He's a good game day coach. He could have done something with a franchise QB. That's why he looked back and said he should drafted a franchise QB.

 

[KB21]

Firing Sparano does solve the main problem which is Sparano. FYI this front office has had chances to bring in QB and draft one and nothing happened. Sparano promised QB competition, and who was that??? Matt Moore, really.

The next regime will do what this one failed and previous ones before it. GET A ****ING QB.

Ireland is a bigger problem than Sparano, IMO.

 

[datruth55]

Actually, the problem with this team is that they have spent the last 12 years trying to build a team that can support a game manager at quarterback, with the exception of a few failed attempts to land a quarterback (AJ Feeley, Daunte Culpepper, John Beck), and even then, they were only willing to spend a 2nd round pick to get said quarterback.

This is what I'm talking about when I saw the new regime needs to be one that is quarterback centric. Personaly, I'm convinced that whether we get the 1st pick or not, the Dolphins absolutely have to pick a quarterback in the first round next year. I think Stephen Ross knows it.

I agree with that if one of the QBs taken in the first round warrants that high a pick. I'm not drafting Kirk Cousins in the first round because Luck, Barkley and Jones are off the board already. If we're picking in the top 3 then we're guaranteed to get one but we have a lot of season left and I'm not counting any chickens before the hatch.