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Three questions with Adam Gase

The Dolphins started the coaching dominos falling Saturday, naming the former Denver and Chicago offensive coordinator their head coach. Gase’s experience coaching—in succession—Tim Tebow (as quarterbacks coach), Peyton Manning (as quarterbacks coach and coordinator) and Jay Cutler (as coordinator) was a big factor, with Ryan Tannehill there to be salvaged in Miami. “He demonstrated to us [during the coaching interview] what really is the essence of coaching,” said Dolphins executive vice president Mike Tannenbaum, who ran the coaching search. “His ability to have the emotional IQ to understand that players need to be coached differently, and his results doing that, was an important factor for us.”

We’ll start there with Gase, who spoke from South Florida late Saturday:

The MMQB: You’ve gotten a reputation of forming your offense around the players you have, not vice versa. Was that an important part in your getting this job?

Gase: “I believe it’s about the players, not the scheme. Doing what’s best for the players, developing the players, developing the team. For me, that goes back to being with [former Denver coach] Josh McDaniels, on that staff. Every week was a different week. The time I spent with Josh, that’s where it really hit me that it’s always about what’s best for this week, winning this game with this group of players—whatever you have to do. That is the fun part of coaching. You get to create, and I love the creativity part of the profession. You can create the foundation, but then I want to coach a team that’s fluid, to put guys in the best position possible to win every week. I’m pretty sure that’s a big reason why the guy who’s been on top of the division for so long [New England’s Bill Belichick] stays there.”

The MMQB: No one doubts your offensive acumen, but you’re a fairly mild-mannered guy, and I’ve heard that affected some teams’ opinions of you as you’ve interviewed. Can you command a room?

Gase: “That would be a good question for the people who interviewed me. Josh gave me an opportunity [in 2009] to present in front of our offense … I was the third-down guy. I did that more and more since then. In 2013 and 2014, as coordinator in Denver, I had a pretty high-profile group to be in charge of. Sometimes what you see publicly is different than what’s happening behind closed doors. I feel I bring a passion, an attitude you can’t fake. What goes on in most of what I do in this job, you haven’t had a chance to see.”

The MMQB: Your next project will be Ryan Tannehill. Can you help him become consistently good?

Gase: “I keep an eye on quarterbacks around the league, and one thing I remember thinking going into this season is that every year I saw him get progressively better. We saw the numbers getting better each year. This season it didn’t work out that way. We’ll go back and evaluate this as an offensive staff and personnel department. What can we do to help him maximize his strengths? That will be our process the entire spring.”

Very interesting point regarding Tannehill from Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald on Sunday: Salguero reported former Dolphins coach Joe Philbin had soured so much on Tannehill before the 2014 season that he favored taking Derek Carr high in the draft. I get the sense that Philbin wasn’t alone in the organization.
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"but Peter, Ryan hasn't had an o-line, or good coaching! Just leave Ryan alone!"
 
I can't believe a respectable media source asked Gase whether he could "command a room", basically the same kind of question some people on here were asking.

Either MMQB/SI are just as "crazy" as FinHeaven posters who are skeptical of the hire, or maybe it was a legitimate question.

I still don't see his demeanor as a key issue. I'm much more concerned with his lack of experience as a head coach.
 
If he can put the players "in the best position possible to win every week". we'll have something this team hasn't had in years.
 
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ForksPhin said:
I can't believe a respectable media source asked Gase whether he could "command a room", basically the same kind of question some people on here were asking.

Either MMQB/SI are just as "crazy" as FinHeaven posters who are skeptical of the hire, or maybe it was a legitimate question.

I still don't see his demeanor as a key issue. I'm much more concerned with his lack of experience as a head coach.
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Yes, but what did he think his response would be? No I cant command a locker room, he actually had a decent reply for someoene with limited experience.

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andyahs said:
Saw that yesterday. People defending Philbin to bash Tannehill......unreal.
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NFL executives are in line for are awesome prior coaching staff I see.
 
nerfball said:
"but Peter, Ryan hasn't had an o-line, or good coaching! Just leave Ryan alone!"
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Glad you agree.

For anyone blowing their wad over Derek Carr, remember that Oakland is 10-22 in the last two years. That isn't totally indicative on Carr but he hasn't shown more than Tannehill in the wins department for many of the reasons it takes to win.
 
It seems like the Dolphins finally have a head coach that knows how to play chess. It's just a matter of letting him play with a full complement of pieces.
 
ForksPhin said:
I can't believe a respectable media source asked Gase whether he could "command a room", basically the same kind of question some people on here were asking.

Either MMQB/SI are just as "crazy" as FinHeaven posters who are skeptical of the hire, or maybe it was a legitimate question.

I still don't see his demeanor as a key issue. I'm much more concerned with his lack of experience as a head coach.
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It would've been great if he had answered "Not really, but I´ll try..."
 
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Wow. Why does Finheaven collectively blow over the most important nuggets revealed by these interviews to get into another protracted Tannehill argument?

I don't know whether Gase will ultimately be successful, but I'm ecstatic about his philosophy. We now have a young coach who isn't married to a scheme. We now have a coach that will play to the strengths of the players rather than ignoring those strengths. We now have a coach who will demand gameplans that challenge our opponents, rather than reacting to what the opponent is doing.

Haven't many of us fans been admiring these traits in Belicheck for years? Guess what? We now have a coach who will attempt to tackle the problem of wining consistently in the same way, and he reportedly has the intellect to do it. Now we just need to find smart, committed players and make sure that they buy in.
 
Who cares what Philbin thought?

He lost this team in season one when he got rid of all the leaders... Not interested in his thoughts.

Tannehill improved his deep ball this year....despite this lousy scheme and the major O-line problems.

I see reason for optimism this year.
 
I really like how serious he takes the gameplab part of coaching. Philbin lost half his games before he even started with poor ganeplans and bad player maganement. So far it seems like gase is the polar opposite in that aspect. who knows maybe we'll even see our team exploit another teams glaring weakness this year! That would be new.
 
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