If Dan Henning is still here next season, I take a year away from the NFL and start working on Sunday's. I can't deal with it no more . . . the guy is an idiot. And if Sparano leaves, I wouldn't ***** about that either.
Tom Landry started out with Dallas and didn’t have a winning season for seven years, and then had 20 straight,” Henning said. “And Chuck Noll [a former Chargers assistant when Henning was a player there] … he started out [12-30]. And Bill Walsh went to the San Francisco 49ers and he started out [8-24].
“Before Bill Belichick won his first Super Bowl, he was [42-56] in Cleveland and New England. Those are four of the top coaches in my lifetime in the NFL, not to mention my buddy Bill [Parcells] who started out 3-12-1 with the Giants and then ended up winning two Super Bowls there.
“I think the evaluation has to come from somebody who wants to see what kind of management you have, what kind of personnel skills you have and all that type of thing. I really believe our guy here, Tony, has those skills. I really believe that. I wouldn’t have come here in the first place if I hadn’t thought that when I started, and he’s convinced me of it.
That's actually the ONLY sane thing this guy as said all season. It does take time. It does take more than 3 seasons. Especially when the team you start coaching is coming off of a 1-15 season with absolutely nothing more than old greats who have lost a step and crap.
Henning can no longer play call in this league because he thinks it's still 1972. However, I think Sparano should get his 5 years.
sounds like henning is blaming the players.
Bill Belicheck: 5 years as a head coach with Browns, fired. hired in NE as assistant. then went towo years with parcells to the jests. Then in his second year with the Pats started winning as a head coach.
So, it took BB 7 years as a HC to win one. And he hasn't won one in 6 years since his last one.
Bill Belicheck: 5 years as a head coach with Browns, fired. hired in NE as assistant. then went towo years with parcells to the jests. Then in his second year with the Pats started winning as a head coach.
So, it took BB 7 years as a HC to win one. And he hasn't won one in 6 years since his last one.
Exactly. I'm not comparing Sparano to Belichick. I'm pointing out that even the greatest of coaches need time to figure out the job. :)
Earlier, Henning made it clear this team doesn’t have enough speed on either side of the ball, but especially on offensive.
“We need speed,” Henning said. “We need people who can take it to the house, whether it’s on our own 10 or the other 10, for that matter. … We’re missing dynamics.”
http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sport...ning-on-green-carpet-and-graham-crackers.html
On D-fense, i would say we could use some more speed in two areas
1) Another LB/Pass Rusher
2) Perhaps 1 CB
But the true Lack of speed is glaringly on Offense IMO in this order
1)WR- I'm not even gonna mention the Ginn thing! Look how not having a burner condenses the field.
He talks about team playing defense to not give up the deep ball, but yet a poster mention you look at someone like desean jackson always seeming to make plays deep, do those defenses not also play to prevent the deep ball?
2)TE
3)RB
We better draft 95% on offense.
Well why were they so eager to get rid of Ginn? It should not have been a surprise that Marshall doesn't have speed (and they knew what they had in Bess, Hartline, Fasano..)
Please send Henning back to his rocking chair and mint juleps on North Carolina porch.
Henning needs to stop blaming the players and man up and admit his lack of play-calling ability.
We need speed? Why? So you can run your ol' end around you sly dog Henning!