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Miami Dolphins’ Bill Lazor majoring in Ryan Tannehill development

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Lazor majored in human development at Cornell.
Bill has a new major now:
Tannehill development.
Head coach Joe Philbin will continue to have much to say about the offense Miami runs, its philosophy and style. But Lazor is the guy who needs to make sure that offense perfectly suits Tannehill, and vice-versa. That Miami runs an attack and draws from a playbook that allows Tannehill to flourish as he begins his crucial third pro year.
Miami needs Tannehill to grow to Pro Bowl-caliber or close to it, not maybe someday, but in 2014. Lazor must find an offense, a vessel, that allows Tannehill to be dynamic and efficient and all shades in between.
Yes, Lazor is inexperienced as an offensive coordinator. He has not previously held the title in the NFL and has at a major level only at the University of Virginia in 2010-12, before joining the Eagles last season.
That doesn’t bother me.
His coaching tree has impressive branches. He has worked under Dan Reeves, Joe Gibbs, Mike Holmgren and Chip Kelly. He is versed in the West Coast offense and its quick-hit passing. He was a part of Kelly’s very-successful uber-up-tempo attack in Philadelphia. He called plays at Virginia, inheriting an offense that ranked last in the Atlantic Coast Conference and seeing it ranked third his first season there.
All of that, and what he did with Foles, suggests a man ready to be a coordinator at the top level – or ready for his chance, at least.
Lazor has pieces to work with. Mike Wallace and Brian Hartline both had around 1,000 yards receiving last season. Tight end Charles Clay was a hugely pleasant surprise with room to grow. Lamar Miller and Daniel Thomas can be an efficient combo platter for a ground game.
An improved Tannehill and a better offensive line are essential, but enough elements are in place that Miami underachieved last season averaging only 19.8 points per game, including that late two-game fizzle that cost a playoff spot. It’s what got Sherman fired. It’s why Lazor has his shot.
Miami’s goal should be an offense capable of scoring 400 points a season (25 a game). You can win with that. Here is how many times Miami has scored 400 points since the advent of the 16-game schedule in 1978: Three, 1984-86. Dan Marino’s peak.
It should not take a Hall of Fame QB in his absolute prime to generate such production. Eleven teams (more than one in three) topped 400 points this season; nine made the playoffs.
We’ll see if Lazor can jump-start that kind of output.
For now just say the hiring of an offensive coordinator offers hope in a way the search for a GM to replace Jeff Ireland does not.
I can’t see how Miami will attract a top-tier candidate; three men it sought already have declined interviews. The Dolphins’ new GM will inherit a head coach (and now an offensive coordinator) he didn’t hire and doesn’t have the power to fire, and will step into a management structure that cedes much of a GM’s typical authority to owner Stephen Ross and to Philbin.
Eagles vice president of player personnel Tom Gamble is a guy Miami should redouble efforts to lure as new GM – especially now that Lazor, with whom he’s worked, is aboard. Gamble is well respected, but it would take Ross opening his wallet and ceding some authority to get him. That seems doubtful.
So the Dolphins have one major hire down now and one to go.
The new offensive coordinator might have much to prove. But that hiring is a good deal more reassuring than the pulsing uncertainty in a GM search that seems without rudder.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/16/3872634/greg-cote-miami-dolphins-bill.html
 
Good to know. He was a QB coach and a well respected one from what i understand. He should be good for Tannehill i hope. We need somebody who is going to put him and the offense in the best chance to succeed. Hopefully he can use Wallace like Philly uses Desean Jackson and we start seeing some creativity.
 
Lazor + quality o-line + premier running back = SUCCESS
 
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Some tough courses to pass to earn that degree.

I heard deep ball 101 with Tannehill is tougher than any 400 level course in any other major.
 
Welp we just have to hope for the best and pray for a new offensive line to come via the draft/free agency and we will be good! :woot:
 
AFCMiamiEast said:
I'd love to see him use Wallace consistently with Bubble Screens, his speed was criminally underutilized last season under Sherman.
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This.

IMO, this will be the biggest change in this offense from this year to next. Spread defenses out and make them run side to side while Wallace and Miller go north and south.
 
WVDolphan said:
Some tough courses to pass to earn that degree.

I heard deep ball 101 with Tannehill is tougher than any 400 level course in any other major.
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Hopefully it still won't prove as challenging as "Remedial Clutch 101 - Winning After December" :idk:
 
had miami played with more tempo on offense we could have averaged 25 ppg despite all our woes on offense...i hope lazor gets that...
 
Vaark said:
Hopefully it still won't prove as challenging as "Remedial Clutch 101 - Winning After December" :idk:
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Winning after December is a 400 level course.

We are still talking about late season games vs. bad opponents and winning in your own division which are 100 and 200 level courses that Lazor will be working on with Tannehill.
 
WVDolphan said:
Winning after December is a 400 level course.

We are still talking about late season games vs. bad opponents and winning in your own division which are 100 and 200 level courses that Lazor will be working on with Tannehill.
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Well you may be right because whatever one thinks of a raw college QB after 2 seasons, they should be sure of a 4 year college QB with 6 seasons who going back to an ACC Championship is batting 1 for 6, and over the last 1-4 postseasons, demonstrated that beating in-season opponents with an elite supporting group is meaningless when you're actually playing a better quality of opponents with that same supporting cast but either shooting offensive gooseeggs for the game, the second half, the 4th quarter and/or hemhorraging large first half leads when crunch time rears its ugly head.

So maybe there's no course that can teach clutch - while a basic teammates Heimlich Maneuver course should be mandatory. :idk:

Bottom Line: if you're sure about a still raw QB with a terrible OL and coaching after being 2 games in the red over 2 seasons, you should be all the more **** sure about a seasoned college QB who's been coming up empty when and where the rubber meets the road since his senior year (1-5) when it's "win or go home." :idk:

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