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A very good article about former Coach Johnson. Dismiss the fact how you may feel about him, i.e., loved him, hated him, and just get into
the story itself. It's deep about one's self and it can make you wonder
just what life is about. It's not always being number 1. Spend time
with and love your families - to all of you.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/1085231.html
 
Great article about Jimmy and his way of life.

Never could understand the level of animosity from some Fin fans against JJ. He did bust his butt for us, no superbowl, but great drafting, lots of hard work on his part. Not to mention all those great Hurricane memories (and championships) he gave us.

JJ trivia? What other famous "JJ" was in his highschool class?
- Janis Joplin
 
TrinidadDolfan said:
Great article about Jimmy and his way of life.

Never could understand the level of animosity from some Fin fans against JJ. He did bust his butt for us, no superbowl, but great drafting, lots of hard work on his part. Not to mention all those great Hurricane memories (and championships) he gave us.

JJ trivia? What other famous "JJ" was in his highschool class?
- Janis Joplin
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I hear what you're saying, but on the other hand, Jimmy was the one who more or less took his last year off in spirit, imbedded Wannstedt in our organization, and sold WH on promoting Dave although there were street celebrations in Chicago when he finally got the boot there. And IMO, foisting his butthole buddy on this organization was the genesis of our spiralling decline. Cam just served as the exclamation point. Any good JJ did for this organization, history has shown pales by comparison to the tailspin for which he was directly responsible. And as a Fox talking head, whenever prompted he blamed the team, not Wanny for its poor performance...an apologist to the end. Personally I can't stand the sight of him. No question that he "took a little piece of my heart again!"
 
Cutie said:
A very good article about former Coach Johnson. Dismiss the fact how you may feel about him, i.e., loved him, hated him, and just get into
the story itself. It's deep about one's self and it can make you wonder
just what life is about. It's not always being number 1. Spend time
with and love your families - to all of you.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/1085231.html
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i ain't dismissin nuthin. i like being shallow & couldn't care less what life is about. it is whut it is. 'families' are overrated. and furthermore i ain't readin it.
:boohoo:
 
Screw mr overrated Johnson. He was the beginning of the worst period in dolphin history. His one stategy I agreed with was getting at many picks as possible but his draft picks were quite overrated. He did draft some nice players but also wasted completely some really high draft picks. When Zach Thomas was drafted after Lacurtis Jones you have to feel it was more luck than actual drafting ability.

He alienated and blamed the best player in dolphin history for no apparent reason other than I guess wanting the spotlight all to himself. Worst of all he had no heart and was a quitter.
 
I like JJ, but his worst move came long before he handed the reigns to wanstache.

Kippy Brown was just not OC material. He HAD to have known that...
He failed to get a decent OC, other than that I think he did an OK job.

Shula didn't exactly leave him a great situation here with the cap. He cleaned it up and changed our team make-up to be tougher and much more defensive.

I always sided with JJ over Marino. Danny didn't believe in the running game until he was on TV just talking about football...
 
TrinidadDolfan said:
Great article about Jimmy and his way of life.

Never could understand the level of animosity from some Fin fans against JJ. He did bust his butt for us, no superbowl, but great drafting, lots of hard work on his part. Not to mention all those great Hurricane memories (and championships) he gave us.

JJ trivia? What other famous "JJ" was in his highschool class?
- Janis Joplin
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Can anyone say Wannstadt?
 
tcdrover said:
I like JJ, but his worst move came long before he handed the reigns to wanstache.

Kippy Brown was just not OC material. He HAD to have known that...
He failed to get a decent OC, other than that I think he did an OK job.

Shula didn't exactly leave him a great situation here with the cap. He cleaned it up and changed our team make-up to be tougher and much more defensive.

I always sided with JJ over Marino. Danny didn't believe in the running game until he was on TV just talking about football...
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"Cause he knew his arm could still get it done, what was provided to him as a running game couldn't.
 
Cutie said:
You read my message. I fully understand why you don't read. Maybe it's because your lack of education because you certainly don't know how to talk.
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perhaps if you'd suggested instead of instructed (a bit condescendingly) as to the proper state of mind to adopt while reading the linked article, i would've read it.
as for your response... of course i read your message, obviously. never said i didn't but was referring to the link.
are you sure i don't read because of my lack of education?? or rather that my lack of education is the result of not reading. what is it you fully understand again? i fear i don't 'talk' well enough to help us figure that out.
:callme:
 
TrinidadDolfan said:
Great article about Jimmy and his way of life.

Never could understand the level of animosity from some Fin fans against JJ. He did bust his butt for us, no superbowl, but great drafting, lots of hard work on his part. Not to mention all those great Hurricane memories (and championships) he gave us.

JJ trivia? What other famous "JJ" was in his highschool class?
- Janis Joplin
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"Great drafting"? :lol2: Compared to Wanny, maybe. But Johnson's first round picks make Cam and Saban's first round reaches look brilliant. And I don't know how much "hard work" he put into it, but he was nothing special as a gameday coach. He only looks better in hindsight because his hand-picked successor was an even more dismal failure than he was (something else to thank him for).

I'd love to see him back in the league-- it would put an end to any discussion of him as a great coach. Yes, he assembled a great team, ONCE. Given equal talent, I'd take just about any great (or even good) coach as opposed to Johnson.
 
Johnson traded down on the first round, picked john avery instead of randy moss. (((( I remember going, randy moss is going to fall to # 20 )Then he drafted randy shannon in the later rounds and said randy shannon reminded him a lot of moss.

Jimmy johnson had a knack for drafting defensive players, JT, Zach, madison, surtain Dgardner. With that been said he was terrible at drafting offense. He didn't draft a single offensive player that became at least decent.

The only decent offensive player he drafted with a lot of potential was yatil green but we all know what happened to him.
 
Both the Fin organization and his legacy would both have been better served if JJ just retired onto his boat in the keys after Jerry fired him.
 
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