Miami Dolphins: Tony Sparano speaks on play-calling

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Sparano was asked Tuesday about the play-calling:

"Here’s what happened. When I started to go around hiring people and started to visit with them, I had two different deals going on. One was, if I found somebody that I was really comfortable with that had the experience running the offense, they would run the offense and I would be the head coach and make sure that I was able to touch both sides of the ball, the special teams, have my hand involved in all that and bring this kind of thing together a little bit more. If not, and I found somebody that I thought needed to be coached a little bit, then I would call the plays."

"I found Dan Henning. He’s got 30-plus years of experience, he’s been a head coach in this league, has called plays for a lot of head coaches, and I turned the offense over to Dan. He and I communicate very well together. I trust him. And Paul Pasqualoni with both the offense and the defense, and I’m very much involved with both sides of the ball in that way. So to me it’s the best of both worlds. Because what this team needed at that time, when I came in here, certainly wasn’t a guy that was just an offensive guy or just a defensive guy. In the last several years they’ve had that. They needed somebody that was going to be the head coach and be on both sides of the ball, and let Channing Crowder know, `Hey, I’m with you. This is what I see,’ and at the same time be over here with Teddy Ginn.

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[CitizenSnips]

I love Tony Sporano. He's just the right guy for this job. No ego crap. No stubborn gameplans. No bull**** mind games going on with the players.

Just coaching.

 

[RonBrown]

^ Amen to that man, its about time we got the right guy for us.

 

[CalDolFan10x14]

When Parcells is gone (hopefully that's a long while from now), Sparano will continue to do great thing for the 'Phins. If he led us to an AFC East championship in his first season, imagine what he'll do five years with these young group of players who should be in their prime!

 

[az fin fan]

I love Tony Sporano. He's just the right guy for this job. No ego crap. No stubborn gameplans. No bull**** mind games going on with the players.

Just coaching.

Great coach, I agree. Now I don't know if I would say he doesnt play mind games. B Parcells plays mind games and sparano learned from him.

 

[NCFINFAN13]

Man it's great to have a real coach again.

 

[Rio]

great coaches are disciplinarians, organizers, motivators, visionaries & not necessarily offensive or defensive coordinators
a great coach has the ability to pick their coordinators & other members of the coaching staff :D
in our case we have a Triumvirate to handle that end of it. the real force behind everything is Parcells

 

[Zounds]

I cant believe this guy was a chef before. I hope he stays a long time.