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Merged: Insight into Sparano's more aggressive approach

also interesting is the fact that Henne admits he felt uncomfortable around Pennington last year and that the team did have interest in Brett Favre but it wasn't mutual.
 
Miamifinz said:
I just hope this doesn't make him go coo-coo bananas on the field and do crazy things like go for 4th and 10s on our end of the field and whatnot. He needs to find the right balance. Being over-aggressive can really bite you in the arse - just ask Bill Belicheat when he went for it on 4th down against the colts on primetime TV and blew the game. Or even in the Superbowl in '08, when he went for it on 4th down AGAIN, when he could have easily went for a moderate difficulty field goal. It'd have been a 17-17 game!

Here's to many TD fist pumps in 2011!
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Those things happen though.. you have to look at what it does for you in the bigger picture.

Plus, I'd rather lose a game by putting your nuts on the line rather than losing it because you were fine with trying to accumulate field goals.

But that's my viewing of it..
 
I join everyone in voicing my skepticism, though it's encouraging that he's finally realizing all the things he should be realizing. But sadly, a leopard doesn't change it's spots. When it gets to crunch time, he'll have to be himself. That's all he can be. I doubt his intellectual understanding of these issues will overwhelm his instinctual conservativeness.
 
Yet he didn't feel the need to secure an accurate long baller. Frustrating.
 
I think this has less to do with the play calling (which DOES seem more aggressive...) and more about letting Henne get out there and try to make plays. I hope to see more of Chad Henne willing to stand up, slide around, run around and throw the ball while on the move. That type of stuff. Jay Cutler, Aaron Rodgers... these guys who just move around and keep making plays. That's what I want to see.

I was so happy to see Henne running the ball up the middle once the protection broke down (due to 5 seconds of solid coverage) and him taking off. I saw him pull away from a sack and run sideways while hitting Hartline for a 4 yard gain instead of a sack. That's what I want to see. That's the "aggression" I want... not just deep bombs.
 
what an obvious slam on Henning.
both Henne and Sparano seem to have developed a F-you attitude this year and I'm loving it
 
I wish we had this team with a healthy Chad Pennington. With his accuracy we'd put up 25 a game. I hope Henne can do the same.
 
I've been as hard on Sparano as anybody.... but it's extremely difficult to change your philosophy as a coach, especially when that's all you know. You'll change a lot of things, but changing your philosophy requires changing what you believe in. It requires changing what you believe works and doesn't work.

You HAVE to adapt and change as a coach to last, there's no way around it. Shula had to... Bear Bryant had to... they've all had to do it at some point, or they'll get somebody who will.


Sparano has to buy into the philosophy more than any player does. Sparano has to find a way to score more points in order to leave himself more of a margin for error. Sh*t gets tight in this league... and you need all the buffer you can get.

Don't think that Sparano is the only coach that's ever had to look himself in the mirror and realize that sticking his toe into something that's unfamiliar to him is his only chance at survival, it's not the case.

The problem for Sparano is that his area of "expertise", and/or trade as a coach isn't something that he can fall back on when things get going in the wrong direction. If you're a master playcaller, or can coach and develope quarterbacks in this league, it provides you a lot more of that buffer I'm talking about rather than just being an ol' line coach by trade. Sparano is the type of coach that has to rely more on his staff and those around him to fix things, and especially when things are going wrong at the most important position on the field. I'm willing to be Mike Nolan knows exactly what I'm talking about, and how Sparano feels.
 
Of course he has to change his coaching mentality a little bit. He is coaching for his job right now and if the result does not look better then he will be gone next season...
 
This guy is consistently one to two years behind the curve...Pasqualoni, Bonamego, Henning, Ginn, Crowder, White, Henne...we will always be a few key parts away from winning with this moron because he doesn't adapt quickly enough to a changing league. Everyone he started with has been let go...he should be next. Ireland could have gotten a pass last year if he canned Sparano, but now he is as much to blame as him. As far as I'm concerned this whole FO needs to go.
 
Dr. Phin said:
This guy is consistently one to two years behind the curve...Pasqualoni, Bonamego, Henning, Ginn, Crowder, White, Henne...we will always be a few key parts away from winning with this moron because he doesn't adapt quickly enough to a changing league. Everyone he started with has been let go...he should be next. Ireland could have gotten a pass last year if he canned Sparano, but now he is as much to blame as him. As far as I'm concerned this whole FO needs to go.
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Shouldnt you wait until the season is over before you make such proclamations? At least Sparano was the agent of change when it came to those decisions. If it were up to Parcells, the staff wouldnt have changed at all since 2008. Sparano was the man pushing for these changes.
 
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