Gase Getting Everything Right, Except the Record

[Mike13]

After just two weeks, Adam Gase is intimately familiar with the brutal assault that NFL head coaching can put on your emotions. For Gase’s Dolphins, two games on the road against legitimate Super Bowl contenders (Seattle and New England) have resulted in an 0-2 record that, with a different bounce here and different roll there, could very well have been 2-0.
It’s not just that Gase’s Dolphins have lost. It’s that they’ve lost despite the fact that their offense—his offense, the one Gase was hired to transform—has played well. Or, at least they’ve played much better than what meets the eye. Sunday in Foxboro, Gase’s quarterbacking reclamation project, Ryan Tannehill, was 22 of 27 for 273 yards and two touchdowns in the second half. Playing mostly from a no-huddle, Tannehill figured out the Patriots’ matchup coverages and caught fire working the deep-intermediate levels from within the pocket. Highlights included near-perfect balls against man coverage on a 24-yard touchdown to Kenny Stills, a 33-yard slot wheel route to Jarvis Landry to convert third-and-1 and, best of all, on a tight-window 12-yard touchdown strike to Jordan Cameron against red-zone Cover 4 (the most congested zone coverage in football).

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[NBP81]

My response to the title is... The Fins record is what it should be... There is no one to blame yet, things are exactly how they should be regardless of who the coach is.... If anything, the Fins were closer to 1-1 or even 2-0 then should have ever been given the situation... At this point, the record doesnt mean ****

 

[royalshank]

I hate when I see Tannehill referred to as a "reclamation project". Doesn't that imply he hit rock bottom or something? He's improved every season.

 

[Mike13]

My response to the title is... The Fins record is what it should be... There is no one to blame yet, things are exactly how they should be regardless of who the coach is.... If anything, the Fins were closer to 1-1 or even 2-0 then should have ever been given the situation... At this point, the record doesnt mean ****

So you didnt read the article?

 

[NBP81]

So you didnt read the article?

No I did not, hence the first 6 words of my post....

Edit: Just read it to make sure I wasnt making an ass of myself, and sure enough, I was doing exactly that...My bad!

 

[Beach Bum]

No I did not, hence the first 6 words of my post....

Edit: Just read it to make sure I wasnt making an ass of myself, and sure enough, I was doing exactly that...My bad!

I have a lot of confidence in Gase. I hope he sticks. Ross screwed up before, but now he needs to stop the churning and be patient. Let Gase do his thing for a few years.

 

[phins_4_ever]

Like they always say: you are what your record is. I personally hate this game:
- we lost but we lost better than expected
- we lost but we looked good
- another play here and there and we could have...

It's a loser's attitude. When you are a top echelon team and you miss a FG at the end you can have these arguments. But a franchise who is struggling mightily for the last 15 years it is business as usual.
After so many years nobody is getting years here to turn a franchise around. You have to do it in one or two years or you are out in year three.

The difference between 2-0 (or 1-1) vs 0-2 is that the stadium may not be full to capacity despite a remodel. That is the the only difference. Right now it is the same old Dolphins. Losing and no consistency whatsoever. Grea D, bad D. Great O, bad O. The differences from game to game (often inside a game) are still too much.

Having said all that I expected to be 0-2 (after 2 games) and 1-3 (after 4 games) for an 8-8 season. Now I am looking for real change. Today is a must win and then we will see if we have the new Gase Dolphins or the every-year same Dolphins with just a different coach.

I am done wuth this always searching through a looking glass for good things. Today is the beginning of the new Dolphins. Win today and Thursday and we can talk about Gase being the right coach.

 

[FinfanInBuffalo]

Like they always say: you are what your record is. I personally hate this game:
- we lost but we lost better than expected
- we lost but we looked good
- another play here and there and we could have...

So getting blown out 67-0 at home to a crap team and losing 12-10 on the road in the toughest place to play in the league are identical? They say exactly the same thing about the team and where they are relative to the rest of the league?

If you are the coach or GM after those two scenarios, you make the same changes? You are tweaking the same things?

Just doesn't seem rational to me. if after a 67-0 loss to a crappy team, the coach blows up the defense and benches a bunch of the starters, everyone responds with "about time". If he does exactly the same thing after the 12-10 loss, people respond with "WTF are you doing?"

Ultimately you have to win, you cannot go for a whole season rationalizing the losses, but if you really are a play or two away, you should be able to begin winning and that will validate what you said about the losses.

 

[jtoomuch]

I have a lot of confidence in Gase. I hope he sticks. Ross screwed up before, but now he needs to stop the churning and be patient. Let Gase do his thing for a few years.

Completely agree here. Give the guy a real chance and let us have some stability.

 

[Sirspud]

Being in close games and losing is Tannehill's MO. Gase needs to get used to it if he sticks with him.