Mike McDaniel hints at offensive changes after Dolphins lose

[PCmor]

Less backwards passes coming? Can we hope?

I like Mike McDaniel a lot but I can do without his play calling. And his offense in general.

It’s a gimmick.

At this point, his playcalling is the least of my concerns.

It doesn't look like these guys practice. We constantly come out flat and then instead of adjusting we get even worse. We've been making the same mistakes for three years ... good lord, all the penalties.

He doesn't even seem to believe his own BS anymore. That's a real problem. A player lacking confidence can be fixed by his coach. There's no way to fix a coach that lost his confidence.

 

[royalshank]

"The Dolphins also committed 10 penalties, giving them 21 over the past two weeks."

That's bonkers!

It’s also on coaching.

 

[67Stang]

The saddest part of all of this, are these freaking Flores supporters with ZERO football IQ coming out of the woodwork.

 

[royalshank]

At this point, his playcalling is the least of my concerns.

It doesn't look like these guys practice. We constantly come out flat and then instead of adjusting we get even worse. We've been making the same mistakes for three years ... good lord, all the penalties.

He doesn't even seem to believe his own BS anymore. That's a real problem. A player lacking confidence can be fixed by his coach. There's no way to fix a coach that lost his confidence.

Coming out flat indicates to me that the team doesn’t care any longer. They know they have no chance of winning anything this year and our HC is incapable of righting the ship as he’s not a strong “leader of adults”.

 

[Heinegrabber]

"A tremendous disconnect between preparation and execution"

It's called the other teams defense.

 

[PCmor]

Listening to post game press conference he sounds defeated. Saying the same crap he always does. I think I heard last week that 14 of his losses were by 2 scores now up to 15. Good coaches at least make a team respectable when things aren’t going good.

Yeah. He's cooked.

Even poor coaches usually look better than he did postgame last night. He didn't seem resolute or angry. He looked like a kid who knew he wasn't good enough for this spot.

 

[fansinceGWilson]

McDaniel: Fins not 'good enough,' changes coming

After his team's 31-12 loss Monday night to the Tennessee Titans in Tyler Huntley's debut under center, Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel forecast changes to the NFL's worst scoring offense through four games before his 1-3 club heads to New England.

www.espn.com

Is he giving up playcalling?

The following quote is all anyone needs to read . . . "Bottom line is it doesn't matter what we're doing behind the scenes. On the field, that's not even close to good enough, so you just have to go back to the drawing board and assess very critically."

Behind the scenes doesn't count????? No mention of '*I* have to do better?' All problems are 'on the field.' The guy is delusional. In denial. No, nothing will change. Obviously, play calling is NOT the problem.

 

[Sticky Gloves]

That is lack of discipline...period! McDaniel is the direct opposite of Don Shula!

The motion stuff needs to end or they need to greatly simplify it. That's been a large part of the penalties this year.

 

[Beach Bum]

A gold star to whoever listened to McDaniel's press conference! Thanks for taking one for the team.

 

[Avigatorx]

"A tremendous disconnect between preparation and execution"

It's called the other teams defense.

I'd call it practice, something foreign to this team.

You prepare the game plan.....you PRACTICE the gameplan.....then you execute the gameplan.

McDaniel is missing a step in his logic pattern, and we see the results every week.

 

[PCmor]

Coming out flat indicates to me that the team doesn’t care any longer.

Slight disagreement on this point.

Coming out flat can also be from being ill-prepared, or thinking the game was won before they took the field.

Regardless, this has been an issue with McDaniel's teams even before this, and the job of a coach is to know the pulse of the team and prevent a situation where you spot a team a quarter before your engine warms up and you start to play. With Tua, this team seemed to think it could strike so quickly that it could fool around and lack precision and fire in the beginning. Without Tua, you get down two field goals and it's practically hopeless.

A good coach sets a standard and hold his team to that standard or at least develops such a sense of ownership in the players that they make and hold the standard. Further, a good coach leads by example. He looked lost in the postgame presser. The press even, I thought, took it pretty easy on him, like they felt sorry for him. It was hard to watch.

 

[Rick Cartman]

I was surprised to hear him say multiple “check the tape” references. That’s unusual for McD to use that phrase.

I don't usually listen to post-game press conferences, what was he saying check the tape in reference to?

 

[FINFANFOREVER1972]

The saddest part of all of this, are these freaking Flores supporters with ZERO football IQ coming out of the woodwork.

Wrong...Flores was also over his head. He wanted to be Bill Bellacheat and destroyed his rookie QB's psyche. This is the problem with continuously hiring coaches with no head coaching experience. In the case of McGenius....it's even worse...he was never even an OC. Oh, but he's SSSSOOO COOL! We need a head coach that is disciplined, tough, and losing makes them sick!. We need a GM that has the correct philosophy of how to build a tough, December-January winning built team. McGenius and Grier has failed at both!

 

[zucca]

Huntley threw a ball yesterday from his own 14 that landed at the 22. That's about 65 air yards. He overthrew Hill. I don't think it's arm strength. It's more accuracy and timing.

True, but on the short passes, he seems to try to guide it or flick it. He loses zip on those. But he did air out a long one on one play but on the other hand, when he could have aired one to the far corner to Hill, he threw a duck. He's just not a very good passer, hence why he's no longer backing up Lamar.

 

[fansinceGWilson]

In the simplest of terms and at the top of this huge mountain of incompetence are the top 3 things from last year:

1. OL- we were not good last year and we lost 2 of our best guys and didn't do anything to improve.....we actually regressed

2. No 3rd receiver- OBJ was supposed to fix that, typical Grier fix. Busted up has been who has yet to take a snap as a Fin

3. Offensive play calling- Same dude making the same BS calls

When you don't learn from your mistakes, you repeat them. Not only did we not learn from them, we have regressed. Grier needs to be fired immediately, and McD needs to give up play calling. That would be a great start!

I still think McDermott, Reid,, or any above average HC would have this team 3-1 minimum with the same OL. The OL isn't good, but isn't the biggest problem.