My Thoughts on the Whole Situation

[Spesh]

Our team lacks more than a good quarterback, our team lacks heart. It lacks a soul. Watch a team with that element; they have a passion and energy in the game that nothing else can bring. You know you'll be in every game and you won't get embarrassed because those guys take the game seriously. They actually care. We need a Ray Lewis type on the Defense. We need someone to bring energy and passion to the locker room. Get the guys fired up. Take back the mental aspect of the game. It's beyond talent here. We need winners. We need people with a killer instinct. We don't need guys that raise cans of food for the needy, we need assassins out there. Guys that will win the game. Mental assassins. Soul assassins.

Once we get that, we can start to bring back our edge. A winning culture. Just gut the whole thing. These guys play like a bunch of losers. Give the whole franchise an enema and begin anew because that's the only thing that will get us back to our winning ways. Mediocrity in business should never be tolerated. After all, this isn't really about sportsmanship; they get paid to be out there. This is about winning championships and taking no prisoners.

Would Drew Brees qualify as a team leader who brings out the heart of his team?

This team does have more problems than just quarterback. But quarterback is still a problem. After watching Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor(in his prime) have their careers washed away because of lack of quality play from quarterback position, id be willing to wait another year or two to find a leader as opposed to finding a quarterback. Especially when those two situations can be fixed at the same time.

The offensive lineman/cokehead comment made me laugh out loud, well done.

 

[vcip]

Bingo! (I'm not saying keep Henne either, because he's done here I'd think)

Possibly, but I have to believe 49er fans had to feel the same way about Smith. Look I can see the issues with Henne. Obviously we need a A list QB. But we need to do so in the draft & I would not just toss Henne until I get one.

 

[CedarPhin]

when u have a ***** for a head coach its awfully hard to develop soul assassins. i agree with u 100%. but it starts with your coach. when your coach is a ***** and literally PLAYS FOR FIELD GOALS. im sorry. your team will ALWAYS SUCK. go watch that bill belicheck special if u want to see the type of attitude in a head coach that breeds success. u gotta have A KILLER. that guy gets a lead, and he wants the other team TO QUIT!!! we just want to pray we can hold it. he even mocked sparano it was hilarious. he was clowning sparano for saying the division goes through the dolphins, and showed his players video of that!

sparano is a clown

Pretty much. Sparano is clownshoes.

 

[CedarPhin]

Possibly, but I have to believe 49er fans had to feel the same way about Smith. Look I can see the issues with Henne. Obviously we need a A list QB. But we need to do so in the draft & I would not just toss Henne until I get one.

It really is too bad that Norm Chow's the OC in Utah. If he weren't, I'd hire him as a QB coach. If Chow can't fix them, nobody can.

 

[CedarPhin]

Would Drew Brees qualify as a team leader who brings out the heart of his team?

This team does have more problems than just quarterback. But quarterback is still a problem. After watching Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor(in his prime) have their careers washed away because of lack of quality play from quarterback position, id be willing to wait another year or two to find a leader as opposed to finding a quarterback. Especially when those two situations can be fixed at the same time.

The offensive lineman/cokehead comment made me laugh out loud, well done.

He absolutely would qualify as a leader. Look at those guys in New Orleans, they'd die for Brees, they love the guy. We don't have that. It's like a bunch of jumbled pieces all playing for themselves (Bess seems like a team guy though) and not caring about the whole picture. None of these guys would die for Henne, they'd probably trade him for a pack of cigarettes in County.

Yeah, Brees would have been that guy. Andrew Luck would be my pick at #1 because of that. Barkley just seems like Rick Mirer, it seems like he has no heart. Landry Jones throws too many INTs. If we were at #6 or #7 or so, I'd take Burfict. He's the guy that will be a leader/fiery guy in the locker room. This year's QB class looks pretty good, so I'm sure we can pick up a guy in the 2nd or even middle rounds. This thing isn't going to be an overnight building job, it's going to take a few years. Our problem is that we've just hired cut rate contractors who would rather cut corners rather than build a shiny, sturdy product, and as a result, we get ****.

So if we don't get the #1 pick and Luck evades us, don't panic and take a QB out of desperation, scout out some other fall-back options, and even next year's class too. Derek Carr or Brock Osweiler wouldn't be bad guys to draft, and I'm sure there are others.

 

[endorPHINS72]

My feelings as well. We waited throughout the lockout for this pile of horse ****??? Now we have to wait until 2012 to see if Ross screws up hiring a new coach/GM or not. This team gives me ulcers.

 

[dlockz]

This kind of reminds me of 2004 all over again. I had some optimism early in the year, then Ricky retired and David Boston blew his knee out, then we fumbled a few picks/players for some mediocre/terrible players (Booker and Lamar Gordon) as a patch, and went into the year pretty miserable.

That year, I just lost a ton of interest. I still would watch every Sunday, at least I'd try to, but the passion just wasn't there. That's kind of how it is this year. We find a way to creatively lose each game, just like we did that year. (Feeley and Fiedler's pick 6's in the Titans game, the moved up games due to hurricanes) The only bright spot that year was the game against the Patriots (One of the best games I've ever watched).

I was pretty psyched for the season to start this year, especially opening on MNF, but we ended up getting skull****ed pretty hard by Brady and the Pats. After that, I had some interest (and hope) up until the Browns game. We're playing the Browns, without their best player, a game we probably should win, right? Nope, our offense decides that they want to collect FGs like Pac Man collects cherries. We can't even get 20 ****ing yards in 48 seconds with an offense that includes Reggie Bush, Brandon Marshall, Davone Bess, Daniel Thomas, and Anthony Fasano. It's pathetic.

Let's just face it, we miss opportunities like Octomom misses her period.

I said from the beginning when we missed on Harbaugh that this season had the feel of 2004 but so many people were convinved our defense was just too good. They forgot hopw good the defense was prior to that season

 

[hightempo]

I said from the beginning when we missed on Harbaugh that this season had the feel of 2004 but so many people were convinved our defense was just too good. They forgot hopw good the defense was prior to that season

well im pretty sure the one thing that the one thing so many in this forum fail to remember is football is a TEAM SPORT. its 53 players, and several coaches that contribute to winning and losing. and more important than one or two pieces, is how ALL the pieces move together as a whole.

when u have poor leadership, you are doomed to fail. that is why some of the ignorance baffles me with some of the head coaching hopefuls running around here. its one thing to cook the fries at mcdonalds. its something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to manage the whole store. just because you are great at cooking the fries doesnt mean u can run the store. some of the thoughts and suggestions are straight outta madden. this aint a video game folks. this is the real deal. and its different.

there are some guys out there that HAVE PROVEN THEY CAN RUN THE STORE VERY WELL. wtf would u hire a line cook????

the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. the defense is only going to be as strong as the weakest link, and unfortunately we have some weak links. thats how it goes in the NFL. u can go from 5th to 30th just like that - when u have weak pieces. thats whats happened.

but it can turn around overnight just as easily as long as u dont try to patch the damn with band-aids. youve got to address the problem FIRST. the problem is leadership, and team unity. this team needs 53 parts to move in unison. THEN the weaknesses can be identified and addressed. it cant be done without strong leadership

 

[ckparrothead]

Tony Sparano should not have survived the Week 17 debacle in 2010. He should have been fired immediately. What the team showed in that game was downright dangerous. They were in a situation of playing for pride, playing for their coach, playing for their system, playing for each other...and they did the OPPOSITE. The Patriots were in the exact same position, they had nothing to play for in that game, with their playoff position locked up. But they played for their coach, they played for their system, they played for each other, and they showed that they've bought in. The Dolphins played so poorly that it should have been a huge WAKE UP CALL that nobody believes. They didn't believe in their coach, their system, their franchise, or each other.

For Tony Sparano to survive through that...well, that's why we're 0-4 and looking at taking Andrew Luck. Jeff Ireland is doing his best to help us reach that end with his constant roster negligence and truly baffling, misguided moves and non-moves...but the better part of the damage that caused this heart trauma happened BEFORE the off season.

 

[CedarPhin]

I said from the beginning when we missed on Harbaugh that this season had the feel of 2004 but so many people were convinved our defense was just too good. They forgot hopw good the defense was prior to that season

Yeah, Taylor was DPOY in 2006.

 

[Predaphin]

Our team lacks more than a good quarterback, our team lacks heart. It lacks a soul. Watch a team with that element; they have a passion and energy in the game that nothing else can bring. You know you'll be in every game and you won't get embarrassed because those guys take the game seriously. They actually care. We need a Ray Lewis type on the Defense. We need someone to bring energy and passion to the locker room. Get the guys fired up. Take back the mental aspect of the game. It's beyond talent here. We need winners. We need people with a killer instinct. We don't need guys that raise cans of food for the needy, we need assassins out there. Guys that will win the game. Mental assassins. Soul assassins.

Once we get that, we can start to bring back our edge. A winning culture. Just gut the whole thing. These guys play like a bunch of losers. Give the whole franchise an enema and begin anew because that's the only thing that will get us back to our winning ways. Mediocrity in business should never be tolerated. After all, this isn't really about sportsmanship; they get paid to be out there. This is about winning championships and taking no prisoners.

Agreed. Like watching the Ravens out there vs. the Jets. I kept asking myself, why can't our defense be this good? At least this aggressive. They get a CB named Ladarius Webb to take one to the house and we can't get Sean "soft" Smith make 1 freakin play.

 

[gofins60]

Even long-time poor teams make big plays here and there, and actually win on occasion. This year's team reminds me of watching Marino's last game; everyone played like zombies. The offense was pathetic and the defense let the opponent score at will. That game was a one-time embarrassment, but this team has managed to do it every week this season. Sure, they make the occasional TD/FG/tackle/sack and even force a few three-and-outs, but when the clock runs down to zero you can count on another loss. Whether the cause is poor coaching, lack of talented players, or whatever, this team needs a good housecleaning in order to start winning again.