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MERGEDX3: Some Sparano Background via ESPN

First thing that stands out to me is his wife is gorgeous. I hope for their sake his kids took after her, not him. :)
 
This guy is everything the other coaches weren't. He lives for the game and demands the best out of everyone. He is just the man we needed.
 
Hey......Tony Sparano looks just........ like..............................me!

Cool!

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we shall see. At this time last year there was alot of love for cameron, not from me but from most.
 
dlockz said:
we shall see. At this time last year there was alot of love for cameron, not from me but from most.
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There was a lot of love for his offensive schemes, and I think they proved worth the love, but what started to look questionable was the conditioning. Also there was a wholesale discounting of the possible negative effect Saban's departure could have on the defense, which was always his baby.

This time around we can definitely tell this is going to be an exceptionally in-shape, well conditioned team. They probably will not run into many injury issues, either (Dallas was relatively injury free over Parcells' time there and already we have guys amazed at how the added strength is making certain areas of their body hurt less).

The wild card now, is what happened to the schemes? Is Paul Pasqualoni running a good defense? Is Dan Henning running a good offense? We have no idea. We know that on offense they plan on taking some risks, by striking out and reverting to old style tight line splits and power running game...on the basis of a theory that NFL safeties have gotten too coverage-oriented and can't handle run support against that kind of offense. This is a risky strategy. Dan Henning's an old man, and I would hate for this strategy of his to be a sign that the NFL has passed him by. I'm just throwing that out there. We'll see.

I can be relatively sure John Bonamego is running a pretty good STs unit. I'm also relatively certain Todd Bowles' secondary will snag a lot more picks than they did before, led by Jason Allen who I think will snag 5 of them. After that, it's hard to tell whether our schemes will be working in our favor or against us.
 
ckparrothead said:
There was a lot of love for his offensive schemes, and I think they proved worth the love, but what started to look questionable was the conditioning. Also there was a wholesale discounting of the possible negative effect Saban's departure could have on the defense, which was always his baby.

This time around we can definitely tell this is going to be an exceptionally in-shape, well conditioned team. They probably will not run into many injury issues, either (Dallas was relatively injury free over Parcells' time there and already we have guys amazed at how the added strength is making certain areas of their body hurt less).

The wild card now, is what happened to the schemes? Is Paul Pasqualoni running a good defense? Is Dan Henning running a good offense? We have no idea. We know that on offense they plan on taking some risks, by striking out and reverting to old style tight line splits and power running game...on the basis of a theory that NFL safeties have gotten too coverage-oriented and can't handle run support against that kind of offense. This is a risky strategy. Dan Henning's an old man, and I would hate for this strategy of his to be a sign that the NFL has passed him by. I'm just throwing that out there. We'll see.

I can be relatively sure John Bonamego is running a pretty good STs unit. I'm also relatively certain Todd Bowles' secondary will snag a lot more picks than they did before, led by Jason Allen who I think will snag 5 of them. After that, it's hard to tell whether our schemes will be working in our favor or against us.
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I personally detested his playcalling especially in the first two games where we for some reason decided not to run very much. Putting the ball in Green's hands probably cost us the first two games and the run pass imbalance really put us in a whole that we never got out of. We did the same thing versus Oakland. There was not much I liked about Cameron from his alienation of the team in free agency to the Dan Qualye moment after his draft. He had this know it all approach that seemed to come back and bite him in the azz. As for the defense Im not sure what happened because Capers has proven to be a good coordinator. I really started to detest him in preseason when he had Ronnie as a kick returner and never gave Lemon the supposed chance to compete that he had stated. Another year later his draft has lost alot of luster also.
 
I pretty much disagree with everything you wrote. If one were so inclined, they could make similar criticisms toward everything a coach does. I'm not saying Cameron was a good coach, I'm saying his weaknesses were more related to team handling, conditioning, and having too much trust in certain individuals.

It may be popular to call the play calling into question, because it's easy, and everyone assumes that if different plays were called those plays would have been successful. However, the fact of the matter is through 7 games which was the time period where we still had Trent Green and/or Chris Chambers and/or Ronnie Brown all healthy and on the field, this offense underwent a ridiculous transformation from an offense that in 2006 scored something like 15 points a game to one that scored like 22 points a game. Say what you want, I attribute that to Cam's handling of the offense. And notice the moment he was fired he had several teams banging on his door to become their offensive coordinator. Dom Capers heard crickets, until he was asked to be a mere position coach.
 
ckparrothead said:
I pretty much disagree with everything you wrote. If one were so inclined, they could make similar criticisms toward everything a coach does. I'm not saying Cameron was a good coach, I'm saying his weaknesses were more related to team handling, conditioning, and having too much trust in certain individuals.

It may be popular to call the play calling into question, because it's easy, and everyone assumes that if different plays were called those plays would have been successful. However, the fact of the matter is through 7 games which was the time period where we still had Trent Green and/or Chris Chambers and/or Ronnie Brown all healthy and on the field, this offense underwent a ridiculous transformation from an offense that in 2006 scored something like 15 points a game to one that scored like 22 points a game. Say what you want, I attribute that to Cam's handling of the offense. And notice the moment he was fired he had several teams banging on his door to become their offensive coordinator. Dom Capers heard crickets, until he was asked to be a mere position coach.
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So the three games early in the season I mentioned you agreed with the playcalling? I say we win week 1 if we ran the damn ball like we should have. We were in the game with Dallas but of course we kept the pass first approach and kept turning the ball over. I think our offenive numbers were an aberration due to other teams scoring so much on our defense.
So you dont think he lost control of the team quite early in the game, the post first round draft pick speech did not make you think of DaN Quayle or Admiral Stockdale. I also was not a big fan of giving up a draft pick for a declining Green when he already had a protege in Lemon here. Cameron clearly should never be given a head coaching job again, he clearly was in over his head. He was horrid at Indiana and even worse here.
 
I noticed on the page about Sparano there was also an article able Matt Jones from Jacksonville getting busted for cocaine possesion in Arkansas. I know some are clamoring for us to pick him up if he gets cut by Jax. Maybe this will temper their enthusiasm.
 
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