absoluteLance
For Head Coach
I am fortunate enough to live in Colorado and be able to mooch off friends and family for Sunday ticket access.
I have been a fan of the dolphins since '92 at a wee age living afar.
I live and breathe Dolphins football no matter what, and my wife will complain to you to back that up.
I have not missed watching a game from start to finish for at least the last 12 seasons.
And fans, like you, I have seen hell.
And it not the easiest pill to swallow by any means.
Jokingly, I used to use a tag line under my name "For head coach" roughly around the Saban era on these forums. Ironically it's still relevant.
I have a few thoughts about this team that has come to be, a patchwork of players committed to by a patch work of front office and coaching staffs.
This team is still incomplete in its truest form. Boy, when we can get the game on our side and start off with a lead, when the defense is making the other team earn the yards and earn every point, to make them satisfied with a field goal on their drive. When that is the case, we seem unstoppable. When we are trailing at any point? It's the opposite. That is a hurdle this team, season after season, continues to struggle with.
I am not defending any one player or coach. But I have seen garbage behind center in the likes of fielder, feeley... No **** it, you know.
Henne was my last hope as a Michigan man (for the owner, with that cannon arm). He was ****. Did not pan out.
I will stand to say Tannehill feels like our best chance to succeed with the age/ability/toughness factor. And I can't stress that last point enough: Toughness.
This kid has straight up got his ass kicked in some games, I've literally stood by and said "ah **** he's toast now." Only for Ryan to get back up and run the next play.
I can't stand here and say that he has single handedly put the game on his back and completely taken it over. And I haven't seen more than 5 quarterbacks do that on a regular basis. And I am okay with that. I have seen this kid get 1st downs when there wasn't one, and I have seen this kid throw in pockets I didn't think he could. And he's played behind a garbage offensive line.
Close your eyes and imagine Tannehill picked up by Dallas after Dallas has been catering to their offensive line for draft after draft. You would be calling Ryan elite, and he would have elite performance to show with receivers like dez Bryant fighting for the ball... Not the likes of Richard Mathews and Brian hartline... Brandon ****ing Marshall. Get out of here.
This front office needs to commit to building the line and not on the chance that free agent playmakers (on either side of the ball) will turn the game around.
I want to see Ryan have the opportunity behind a quality line to take the game on his shoulders without spending the second half of every game scrambling when the pocket is blown up in less than 2 seconds in. And 4 years in I still don't see that opportunity given.
I do believe Tannehill and possibly Campbell can be the aggressive new-face Dolphins we long to see. My boat has sailed on what could have been with every previous coach. And the same run-of-the-mill hoping for the Harbaughs, Paytons, Cowhers, and Grudens that I feel like, as fans, we live through to hope happens. Forget that. I am ready to embrace a new, younger, more aggressive Dan Campbell and versatile Miami Dolphins this team can be. But the focus needs to shift to having the best offensive line in football and letting the quarterback and talented running backs can build from.
Suh is a great addition, on the fence about the cost still pending how it pans out with him. In addition to building the OFFENSIVE line I'd love to see Miami pursue the direction Arizona is on: build defense around secondary (get the best corners and safeties) and cater to the strengths of LB and DL.
Looking forward to seeing some of you Dec 14 in Miami for the home game against the Giants. Bringing myself and my diehard giants fan dad down to watch the game. First pro game ever. We are pumped. Go fins!
I have been a fan of the dolphins since '92 at a wee age living afar.
I live and breathe Dolphins football no matter what, and my wife will complain to you to back that up.
I have not missed watching a game from start to finish for at least the last 12 seasons.
And fans, like you, I have seen hell.
And it not the easiest pill to swallow by any means.
Jokingly, I used to use a tag line under my name "For head coach" roughly around the Saban era on these forums. Ironically it's still relevant.
I have a few thoughts about this team that has come to be, a patchwork of players committed to by a patch work of front office and coaching staffs.
This team is still incomplete in its truest form. Boy, when we can get the game on our side and start off with a lead, when the defense is making the other team earn the yards and earn every point, to make them satisfied with a field goal on their drive. When that is the case, we seem unstoppable. When we are trailing at any point? It's the opposite. That is a hurdle this team, season after season, continues to struggle with.
I am not defending any one player or coach. But I have seen garbage behind center in the likes of fielder, feeley... No **** it, you know.
Henne was my last hope as a Michigan man (for the owner, with that cannon arm). He was ****. Did not pan out.
I will stand to say Tannehill feels like our best chance to succeed with the age/ability/toughness factor. And I can't stress that last point enough: Toughness.
This kid has straight up got his ass kicked in some games, I've literally stood by and said "ah **** he's toast now." Only for Ryan to get back up and run the next play.
I can't stand here and say that he has single handedly put the game on his back and completely taken it over. And I haven't seen more than 5 quarterbacks do that on a regular basis. And I am okay with that. I have seen this kid get 1st downs when there wasn't one, and I have seen this kid throw in pockets I didn't think he could. And he's played behind a garbage offensive line.
Close your eyes and imagine Tannehill picked up by Dallas after Dallas has been catering to their offensive line for draft after draft. You would be calling Ryan elite, and he would have elite performance to show with receivers like dez Bryant fighting for the ball... Not the likes of Richard Mathews and Brian hartline... Brandon ****ing Marshall. Get out of here.
This front office needs to commit to building the line and not on the chance that free agent playmakers (on either side of the ball) will turn the game around.
I want to see Ryan have the opportunity behind a quality line to take the game on his shoulders without spending the second half of every game scrambling when the pocket is blown up in less than 2 seconds in. And 4 years in I still don't see that opportunity given.
I do believe Tannehill and possibly Campbell can be the aggressive new-face Dolphins we long to see. My boat has sailed on what could have been with every previous coach. And the same run-of-the-mill hoping for the Harbaughs, Paytons, Cowhers, and Grudens that I feel like, as fans, we live through to hope happens. Forget that. I am ready to embrace a new, younger, more aggressive Dan Campbell and versatile Miami Dolphins this team can be. But the focus needs to shift to having the best offensive line in football and letting the quarterback and talented running backs can build from.
Suh is a great addition, on the fence about the cost still pending how it pans out with him. In addition to building the OFFENSIVE line I'd love to see Miami pursue the direction Arizona is on: build defense around secondary (get the best corners and safeties) and cater to the strengths of LB and DL.
Looking forward to seeing some of you Dec 14 in Miami for the home game against the Giants. Bringing myself and my diehard giants fan dad down to watch the game. First pro game ever. We are pumped. Go fins!