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Peter King MMQB: Dan Campbell- “We’re about to wake the sleeping giant.”

well.... this is the week to feed that giant!!! we shall see!!!
 
gafin said:
Another Dan Campbell article, sounds like he must be one tough guy, but maybe not the smartest in the world.:


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ampbells-toughness-reflects-parcells-pedigree
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Enough with Parcells, please!

After a week of interviews and magical quotes, other than being a former player, I still don't see a difference between Campbell and Sparano. Even the "Parcells pedigree" and endorsement is there.

I can't be the only one that wants Parcells and his minions as far away from the Dolphins as possible.
 
Fin Thirteen said:
There are tens of thousands of football teams in the US. Tens of thousands of coaches. The NFL is the very pinnacle where we have 32 slots available to those other thousands of guys, all fighting to be the best coach in the game.

There are even more offensive and defensive coordinators out there. In the NFL, there are 64 of them.

One of the slots at the very apex of the sport is being held by a TE coach who has never been the head of anything in his life. Never even been a coordinator. Never recruited, never playcalled, never coordinated team logistics, never supervised training, never implemented a gameplan for his team or for an opponent. No Highschool or college coaching pedigree. Just an ex-tight end in the right place at the right time.

If this works out, it will go to prove that being a Head Coach in the NFL is something most decent football coaches in the US could do. There are hundreds of those guys. It'll mean that the guys on here who think they could do a better job than Joe Philbin did are probably right. It's the underdog story, it's the American dream, it's the rags to riches fable.

What could possibly go wrong? I mean, he's got the rah rah rah down pat, but he's about to face 13 opposing head coaches with probably 200 years collective head coaching experience among them and double that in their coordinators. We've got 1 year between the three guys and Lazor's first year wasn't perfect by any means. The start of his second has been quite poor.

It's not realistic to have hope, because otherwise experience and career progression count for nothing. But it should be fun for a while at least. I think all the "hope" on here is actually the realignment of expectations back to a level where Miami fans are far more comfortable - not quite "doomed" but certainly "blindly optimistic".

Go Dan!!!!
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experience is a good predicator of future results, and certainly experience has been that no midseason coaching change has ever changed the course of a season, and rarely the course of a franchise. However, it's also quite possible that when you're mired with experience and you have a rigid "we've always done it this way and we always will" mantra, that you need someone with fresh outlooks, and motivation to shake things up. Don't tell people like steve jobs and bill gates that they should've done things the way they always were done. Or shula. the great things can come outta nowhere.
 
Can the Giant play guard?
 
Fin Thirteen said:
There are tens of thousands of football teams in the US. Tens of thousands of coaches. The NFL is the very pinnacle where we have 32 slots available to those other thousands of guys, all fighting to be the best coach in the game.
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I've felt for a very long time that the way coaches are selected in the NFL is downright ludicrous. See: Caldwell, Jim.

I think the odds are stacked against Dan, and that he's unlikely to keep the job, but sometimes you just get lucky and find a guy who was born with the right leadership qualities. Campbell seems to have one great quality, which is will. Dan Campbell has the WILL to compete and win. I'm not discounting that. I'm not underestimating that.

We'll see.
 
I kind of like that he's not very polished and following the advise he said he got from other coaches to just be himself. It's refreshing. Very little coach speak.
 
I like Campbell but I'm tired of all the talk. Produce on field. END OF STORY!!
 
Hope his lack of experience doesn't overwhelm him on game day
 
Wildbill3 said:
experience is a good predicator of future results, and certainly experience has been that no midseason coaching change has ever changed the course of a season, and rarely the course of a franchise. However, it's also quite possible that when you're mired with experience and you have a rigid "we've always done it this way and we always will" mantra, that you need someone with fresh outlooks, and motivation to shake things up. Don't tell people like steve jobs and bill gates that they should've done things the way they always were done. Or shula. the great things can come outta nowhere.
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Yeah, I hear ya, but for every Post-it Note, iPod or whatever that gets invented, there are a hundred thousand duds.

I'll say this for Campbell - he has put his finger on the problem. Competing. Our team has refused to compete for the past three years. We don't take opponents on, we try to confuse and misdirect them while we tippytoe down the field. Once you get figured out (see Bill Lazor 2015), there is no confusion and misdirection. Just a bunch of guys opposite you who aren't even trying to beat you.

We need a gameplan that mixes disguise with winning your one-on-ones. At least Dan has figured that bit out.
 
Fin Thirteen said:
There are tens of thousands of football teams in the US. Tens of thousands of coaches. The NFL is the very pinnacle where we have 32 slots available to those other thousands of guys, all fighting to be the best coach in the game.

There are even more offensive and defensive coordinators out there. In the NFL, there are 64 of them.

One of the slots at the very apex of the sport is being held by a TE coach who has never been the head of anything in his life. Never even been a coordinator. Never recruited, never playcalled, never coordinated team logistics, never supervised training, never implemented a gameplan for his team or for an opponent. No Highschool or college coaching pedigree. Just an ex-tight end in the right place at the right time.

If this works out, it will go to prove that being a Head Coach in the NFL is something most decent football coaches in the US could do. There are hundreds of those guys. It'll mean that the guys on here who think they could do a better job than Joe Philbin did are probably right. It's the underdog story, it's the American dream, it's the rags to riches fable.

What could possibly go wrong? I mean, he's got the rah rah rah down pat, but he's about to face 13 opposing head coaches with probably 200 years collective head coaching experience among them and double that in their coordinators. We've got 1 year between the three guys and Lazor's first year wasn't perfect by any means. The start of his second has been quite poor.

It's not realistic to have hope, because otherwise experience and career progression count for nothing. But it should be fun for a while at least. I think all the "hope" on here is actually the realignment of expectations back to a level where Miami fans are far more comfortable - not quite "doomed" but certainly "blindly optimistic".

Go Dan!!!!
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say Campbell does a good job but doesn't get the HC position. Does he go back to being the TE coach?
I know the head coach can not be demoted... not sure about an "interim" head coach...
 
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