SkapePhin
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i just got to thinking and I can hardly believe it when I went back and checked... since Nick Saban, every HC hired by the Dolphins has been an offensive minded coach. That’s 15 years of offensive minded coaches. Is it any wonder that the Dolphins have been mired as a weak finesse team for so long, routinely getting smashed by physical teams like the Ravens?
It’s time to change that... the offensive wizard route has failed miserably every time it’s been tried here and left the team weaker than when they got here.
Looking around the league, most of the perrenially dominant teams are led by HC’s with a defensive background, except for the rare exception like Andy Reid’s teams and his protégés... but even Reid’s teams tend to falter in the playoffs consistently.
Patriots, Steelers, Ravens (even though Harbaugh was ST coach, I’d argue that’s closer to D than O in terms of mindset.)
This franchise needs to reboot with a more aggressive, smash mouth mentality and purge itself of its decade plus of finesse players.
We keep wanting to relive the Marino years and since we can never hit on a QB we keep fantasizing that the offensive guru will fix all our offensive woes, but they always get here and end up with a substantially worse offense than what they did with their previous teams when they had genuine franchise QBs.
No more being hoodwinked by the QB whisperers. It’s time to create a new Miami Dolphins identity.
Hopefully Grier recognizes this as well.
I’d only consider coaches with defensive backgrounds at this point, John Harbaugh being the exception.
From what I’ve seen, the Legion or Boom mastermind Kris Richard would be at the top of my list, Vic Fangio second and any vet coaches out there with defensive backgrounds... Jim Schwartz comes to mind.
It’s time to change that... the offensive wizard route has failed miserably every time it’s been tried here and left the team weaker than when they got here.
Looking around the league, most of the perrenially dominant teams are led by HC’s with a defensive background, except for the rare exception like Andy Reid’s teams and his protégés... but even Reid’s teams tend to falter in the playoffs consistently.
Patriots, Steelers, Ravens (even though Harbaugh was ST coach, I’d argue that’s closer to D than O in terms of mindset.)
This franchise needs to reboot with a more aggressive, smash mouth mentality and purge itself of its decade plus of finesse players.
We keep wanting to relive the Marino years and since we can never hit on a QB we keep fantasizing that the offensive guru will fix all our offensive woes, but they always get here and end up with a substantially worse offense than what they did with their previous teams when they had genuine franchise QBs.
No more being hoodwinked by the QB whisperers. It’s time to create a new Miami Dolphins identity.
Hopefully Grier recognizes this as well.
I’d only consider coaches with defensive backgrounds at this point, John Harbaugh being the exception.
From what I’ve seen, the Legion or Boom mastermind Kris Richard would be at the top of my list, Vic Fangio second and any vet coaches out there with defensive backgrounds... Jim Schwartz comes to mind.
