15 OTHER teams ALSO lost their first game.
Here I go again, just like last year......FIRE SPARANO!
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15 OTHER teams ALSO lost their first game.
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As long as Jeff Ireland gets fired too for the garbage he has picked out for this team.
Not Nolan's problem? I didn't realize Sparano has his own defensive schemes and adjustments that he forces Nolan to follow or else.
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How many lost the 11 of their last 12 home games?
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Your right we should just keep letting our division rival embarass us at home.
So Sparano gets all the credit but none of the blame? Lol, isn't that convenient. As a HC ultimately it is his responsibility for both sides. Yes, the offense was great but the defense was a joke. We had guys huffing and puffing basically crawling to the sidelines, like they spent all offseason out in Siberia. It's on Sparano they were not ready to play.
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And we won't be ready next Sunday when the Texans come into Sun Life and smack us in the mouth.
Maybe they did as there where no OTA's.
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I'll agree with this one! I couldn't believe it. He was supposed to launch himself into the line and move back everyone...he played it like a freaking school girl...pathetic. I hope I never see him back there again!!!
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no doubt last night was an embarrassment. no doubt as the HC sparano shoulders the blame. i can't, for the life of me, explain the lack of conditioning on whoever was gassed and/or cramping up out there last night. can't remember seeing that before from the fins and i've been a fan since the 1981 season. and we are mad at ross for limiting 1 pm games in september? we'd have had 6 coronaries out there on defense if this game had kicked off at 1 pm sunday. that being said, the team has a strength and conditioning coach (staff) that should have made sure sparano was aware of any conditioning issues. the team has an awesome defensive coordinator (by reputation and achievement around the league), who should be permitted to draw up a scheme, implement a defensive game plan, make adjustments and call the defensive plays during the course of games. the team has a new offensive coordinator who should be allowed to put in a game plan, and call plays during the course of the game. the team has an offensive line coach, whose responsibility it is to have the o-line prepared, coached up, and ready to go on game day, and report to the head coach if any of the starters are not getting the job done in run-blocking, pass-blocking, line calls/protections, blitz pick-ups, etc. as the hc sparano ultimately shoulders the blame for everything, but the direct blame for any shortcomings last night needs to be spread around the locker room. and let's not forget, in the face of utter confusion and fatigue on the part of the defense for much of last night, and a historically great night from a future hall of fame qb (and head coach), this team was down 31-17 on the 18inch line in the middle of the 4th quarter. if you somehow figure out how to score there it is 31-24. that failure to score plus the ensuing welker 99 yard touchdown joke was a 14 point swing in that game. i am not saying that once it was 31-24 we are going to go on to win the game, i am just saying the difference between being in it at that point and being out of it was razor-slim, and we played HORRIBLE on defense. that's all.
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When I first saw this topic I was thinking "dude are you ****ing serious? One game in to the season douche bag!" But that changed quickly when I thought about it. I don't think we should fire Sparano yet. He has a lot to improve on, and there is a lot of room for improvement. But watching Belichick coach last night just shows what an amazing head coach has to do.
Granted he has Brady doing whatever he wants out there, but he still keeps the player's minds together. He has this amazing knack to make each player fit in a role, and love that role. Sparano doesn't know what roles he needs defined. Belichick is the only coach in the NFL at the moment that has this kind of managerial and organizational skills to make sure everything is filled where it is needed. The fact that they had not given up a turnover in the regular season since week 10 last year is freakishly good, and a lot of that has to do with coaching. We got outcoached and picked apart by a way better coaching staff.
My only argument for Sparano is that he does not have the same power Bill has over his team. Sparano is just a figure, and lets the rest of the coaches make the decisions. He differs his powers to his coaches who he concedes are much better than he is with certain decisions. He won't be an elite coach, and because of it we won't be an elite team. That hurts to say, but if we can't get our players in the right positions with scheming and counter-scheming then we won't get far every season.
Ha i guess that was an argument against him. He's passionate as hell, but a lot of the momentum changes are noticed in him. If he goes flat the team goes flat. Players don't seem to respect him all that much.
Granted he has Brady doing whatever he wants out there, but he still keeps the player's minds together. He has this amazing knack to make each player fit in a role, and love that role. Sparano doesn't know what roles he needs defined. Belichick is the only coach in the NFL at the moment that has this kind of managerial and organizational skills to make sure everything is filled where it is needed. The fact that they had not given up a turnover in the regular season since week 10 last year is freakishly good, and a lot of that has to do with coaching. We got outcoached and picked apart by a way better coaching staff.
My only argument for Sparano is that he does not have the same power Bill has over his team. Sparano is just a figure, and lets the rest of the coaches make the decisions. He differs his powers to his coaches who he concedes are much better than he is with certain decisions. He won't be an elite coach, and because of it we won't be an elite team. That hurts to say, but if we can't get our players in the right positions with scheming and counter-scheming then we won't get far every season.
Ha i guess that was an argument against him. He's passionate as hell, but a lot of the momentum changes are noticed in him. If he goes flat the team goes flat. Players don't seem to respect him all that much.
So how come the Pats were conditioned well? What do the Pats live here?
But hey.. Tony is still a winning head coach with a 25-24 record.:rolleyes2:
Yea, besides the defense being literally historically bad, everything was fine
Get real. The defense came out flat, had zero heart, had no idea where to line up, had no conditioning, tackled poorly, ect, ect. Tony Sparano is the head coach of this team. Thats his problem. We got brutally outcoached today, and anyone who cant see that is blind. I wont even get into how we still waste TOs like we have 3 per possession.
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what exactly is your argument here? we ran into a buzzsaw last night. how is it tony sparano's fault that our D-line had no effect on Brady? how is it his fault that Wake was handled by a rookie?
The only critique of Sparano last year was the micromanagement of the offense, and he admitted that he "looked in the mirror and changed" regarding that. Our offense looked awesome last night.
This is not a game where it is justified to blame Sparano. This is a game where we take a deep breath and realize we went up against a buzzsaw that will likely be doing THAT to teams all year long.
It's like the Heat Mavs series. NO ONE was stopping that Mavs team. The way the Pats played last night, NO ONE was stopping them either.