Miami Dolphins coaching changes may be the problem

[mohammer]

Chad O’Shea, Dave DeGuglielmo, and Tony Oden were all fired at the end of the year. Of the three, O’Shea was the bigger surprise.

When a team hires a new head coach they assemble a staff exactly like Brian Flores did when he took the job with the Miami Dolphins. You also expect that staff to stick around longer than a year. Instead, some of them are bailed in lateral moves. Even defensive coordinator Patrick Graham left to take the DC role with the New York Giants.

Coming into the, there were many questions about the Miami Dolphins. Chiefly, Chan Gailey shouldn’t be the OC simply because he isn’t likely going to last but a season or two. And second, the hiring of a high-school coach to handle the secondary.

So far no fan in the right mind could say these moves are paying off. I know its too early to tell but to me I think the team took a step back mainly because of all the coaching changes.

 

[BigNastyFish]

I know its too early to tell but to me I think the team took a step back mainly because of all the coaching changes.

You essentially nullify your core premise (if there really is one) with your internal contradiction.

On one hand you "know" on the other hand you "think."

I'm going to vote you don't know AND it's too early too tell.

 

[TrogdorTheBurninator]

Ebbs and flows of a rebuild.

 

[RobertHorry]

Uhh the Dolphins barely lost to two teams who are 1000x better than them.

 

[BigNastyFish]

Uhh the Dolphins barely lost to two teams who are 1000x better than them.

OK, 10 yard penalty for you!

I'm calling "slight exaggeration!"

 

[ANUFan]

Wait the new coaches aren't firing on all cylinders in this truncated season? WTH....fire everyone!

 

[biggrouper]

The problem with Gailey isn't that he might only last a year or two...

Its that in a year or two NO ONE will interview him.

We need some progressive aggression - His hire wasn't on the list of positives for me.

 

[biggrouper]

Wait the new coaches aren't firing on all cylinders in this truncated season? WTH....fire everyone!

I think that we should entertain the Finheaven masses and fire them all after every loss...

 

[circumstances]

So far no fan in the right mind could say these moves are paying off.

Ok, what kind of payoff were we, the fans in our right minds, expecting after the Pats and the Bills?

 

[fansinceGWilson]

Chad O’Shea, Dave DeGuglielmo, and Tony Oden were all fired at the end of the year. Of the three, O’Shea was the bigger surprise.

When a team hires a new head coach they assemble a staff exactly like Brian Flores did when he took the job with the Miami Dolphins. You also expect that staff to stick around longer than a year. Instead, some of them are bailed in lateral moves. Even defensive coordinator Patrick Graham left to take the DC role with the New York Giants.

Coming into the, there were many questions about the Miami Dolphins. Chiefly, Chan Gailey shouldn’t be the OC simply because he isn’t likely going to last but a season or two. And second, the hiring of a high-school coach to handle the secondary.

So far no fan in the right mind could say these moves are paying off. I know its too early to tell but to me I think the team took a step back mainly because of all the coaching changes.

I'm not yet sold on Gailey, but the DC has a LOT to prove. Two games. Both O's had a strategy to beat Miami's D and, apparently no answer. I've said elsewhere, I blame the DC more than the D

 

[Fin-Loco]

We're still building the team and had no PS (though I do understand that the teams beating us also had no PS). We all need to relax and give it another couple games before we even think about having an opinion. Sure, I'm dissatisfied with what I'm seeing on defense and in the running game but I have faith in Flores.

 

[Dolph N.Fan]

Uhh the Dolphins barely lost to two teams who are 1000x better than them.

Look inside the box scores, Miami was dominated on both sides of the ball. Games weren’t as close as the scores suggest.

 

[Dolph N.Fan]

Wait the new coaches aren't firing on all cylinders in this truncated season? WTH....fire everyone!

Maybe just maybe this wasn’t the season to let all the coaches go in a truncated season...and pretty soon here Flores may take you up on your “fire everyone”

 

[AZStryker]

Look inside the box scores, Miami was dominated on both sides of the ball. Games weren’t as close as the scores suggest.

while I agree the box score tells a more accurate story than the score, it‘s the fact that I haven’t seen one d line stunt, not one well hidden blitz,or one overload to try to get pressure. We just line up in man coverage and rush straight up And that’s not just these 2 games, it’s been all of last year too. This scheme is really, really bad. Zero creativity and completely predictable for our opponents. It‘s real hard to be patient when we keep doing the same ineffective things over and over with an almost zero percent chance of making adjustments.

 

[andyahs]

Another thread I'll visit later in the year.