Exactly! I used to blame the fans for not showing up, but I really can't blame them. It like this team goes out of their way to make their way to make the same mistake over and over! The names may change but they're a carbon copy of who they replaced!
Philbin is a brutal head coach.
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Exactly! I used to blame the fans for not showing up, but I really can't blame them. It like this team goes out of their way to make their way to make the same mistake over and over! The names may change but they're a carbon copy of who they replaced!
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I've defended the guy in the past, I've praised him even, I was essentially of the mind that Ireland was responsible for the hot garbage that we see week in and week out, but if you're intellectually honest, Philbin has to take a lot of the blame here. When you lose to a less-talented team, that's on the coach. When you lose to a more talented team, that's generally on the GM for not putting more talent on the team. Sometimes it's on both of them and this game was one of them. You have to look at a coach in his totality. His coordinators and assistants are his responsibility. You can't praise a few games where he did well and ignore many where he didn't. This regime is ruining Ryan Tannehill. They've put him in a position to fail by not giving him protection and by running what is essentially a college offense. They've not utilized Wallace correctly. The team plays undisciplined. They make too many rudimentary mistakes.
The offensive line is putrid, but the protection schemes are almost non-existent. Guys miss their assignments left and right, that's not so much a case of being physically outmatched as it is a mental or coaching breakdown. The defense isn't anywhere near as good as it should be. That unit should be dominant. Where is Jordan? We traded up to get this guy and blew a high pick on him and he's nowhere to be found. I questioned the pick to begin with, knowing our grave deficiencies at tackle, but it's alarming that a guy picked that high isn't considered good enough to get on the field. I doubt Philbin is so inept as to endanger his own job by not playing the guy for petty reasons, it's probably a case where the coaching staff feels his liabilities outweigh his potential contributions at this time and if that's so, Ireland had no business taking the guy with a pick that high. He should be playing like Von Miller did as a rookie to justify where he was taken. Unacceptable.
I had hope at the beginning of the season, but now it looks more and more like the Sparano era when you expect to lose. At this point, like during the Sparano years, I expect them to collapse, even if they're dominating the game. I've watched this team since I was a small child, and I can't remember the last time we put an embarrassing ass-whipping on a good team. I just can't. I've got to go back to the early Marino-era. It's depressing and some on here dared chastise the fans, many with limited economic means, from not coming to the games. I said then and I reiterate now, this organization will need to WIN a Super Bowl to get the fans back. WIN. Not just get there. WIN it. It's been too many decades, not years, decades of this type of inept organizational performance, from the ownership to the management to the coaching to the players.
The offensive line is putrid, but the protection schemes are almost non-existent. Guys miss their assignments left and right, that's not so much a case of being physically outmatched as it is a mental or coaching breakdown. The defense isn't anywhere near as good as it should be. That unit should be dominant. Where is Jordan? We traded up to get this guy and blew a high pick on him and he's nowhere to be found. I questioned the pick to begin with, knowing our grave deficiencies at tackle, but it's alarming that a guy picked that high isn't considered good enough to get on the field. I doubt Philbin is so inept as to endanger his own job by not playing the guy for petty reasons, it's probably a case where the coaching staff feels his liabilities outweigh his potential contributions at this time and if that's so, Ireland had no business taking the guy with a pick that high. He should be playing like Von Miller did as a rookie to justify where he was taken. Unacceptable.
I had hope at the beginning of the season, but now it looks more and more like the Sparano era when you expect to lose. At this point, like during the Sparano years, I expect them to collapse, even if they're dominating the game. I've watched this team since I was a small child, and I can't remember the last time we put an embarrassing ass-whipping on a good team. I just can't. I've got to go back to the early Marino-era. It's depressing and some on here dared chastise the fans, many with limited economic means, from not coming to the games. I said then and I reiterate now, this organization will need to WIN a Super Bowl to get the fans back. WIN. Not just get there. WIN it. It's been too many decades, not years, decades of this type of inept organizational performance, from the ownership to the management to the coaching to the players.
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It's comical.
Unfortunately he has to look at his losses if he sells now. He will try to turn it first.
This game exposed our coaching staff completely. I didn't like the hire. It didn't make sense to me that a lifetime grinder who's been this long in the league and never distinguished himself would somehow make a successful HC when there's so much competition among coaches who are genuinely innovative minds and leaders. But all the damn noise from the majority here clamoring about how good he'd be and anyone who criticized the hire was just some negative non-fan actually made me second guess myself. When I should have just realized that the majority can be ****ing idiots and I shouldn't hold on to blind hope.
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So does the guy that drafted him to be a franchise qb when he really was a project. Wait, let me guess, man tits was in his ear about this one too and should take the blame?
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I don't see Ross giving up on Philbin so quickly, remember Ross was the one who wanted the guy to lead the team. Now if Ross sees Gruden as a better option I won't disagree with him this time like I did on Philbin.
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If Ross has ANY read on the fanbase (HIS CUSTOMERS) he will have NO CHOICE but to nuke the operation and oust both Ireland and Philbin... What has happened this year isn't just the result of poor talent, it is also a glaring deficiency in coaching!
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How in ****.....When you're running the ball well on the 31st ranked rushing defense....... And your offensive line has given up the most sacks in the league..... With a 2nd and 2 deep in Patriots territory...... Do you go EMPTY BACKFIELD and try to throw??? Why?? If nothing else is an indictment of this coaching staff..... That is. I mean at least make them THINK run. Terrible coaching job today.
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A retread coach isn't going to get the job done. Retreads are not a solution in this league. The numbers bear it out. Coaches who have won a Super Bowl with one team don't do it with another. It's never happened. It's the law of diminishing returns in action. Gruden would be a disaster in my estimation. As would a Cowher, as Fisher would have been. It would be another star****er hire, something this organization has done time and time again to the detriment of the organization. People like to point at Andy Reid as an example of what sort of direction the team should go in, but that's a mistake. Reid picked his spot correctly. That Chiefs team was loaded before Reid got there, it was just egregiously coached and didn't have a quarterback. The Chiefs had All-Pro and Pro Bowl talent littered all over that roster with a #1 pick waiting for the new regime. No retread the Dolphins hire is likely to be as good as Reid.
For every Tom Coughlin, Belichick, Fox or Andy Reid, you've got a Payton, McCarthy, Tomlin, Harbaugh 1 or 2, Pagano, etc on the other side of the ledger, guys that didn't have previous head coaching experience. In fact for every Coughlin, et al, guys who have been a head coach somewhere else before succeeding wildly on their second job, you've had retreads with creds like Shanahan and Fisher whose teams are no better than Philbin's. The differences in the success or failure of such coaches is the quarterback. If a retread coach like a Gruden think that Tannehill can be a franchise guy, it could work. If he's not really a franchise player, it'll be a disaster.
In any case, too much of Ross's credibility is tied into the Philbin hire. He made the hire. He wanted Philbin. He may have pressed that choice on Ireland. I doubt he gets the ax unless the team goes completely in the tank. Ross kept Ireland around, a guy he had plenty of reasons to send packing. Ireland wasn't his guy. Ireland was unpopular. Ireland had a dubious record. So long as someone like Carl Peterson has Ross's ear, we're in trouble. Let's face it, these rich dudes who buy these teams know nothing. To say to them "go hire the best GM and let him get the best coach and best players" isn't that easy. Where does a man who knows nothing about the NFL look for the best GM available? How would he even know the best GM available if he were sitting in front of him? If I went out and bought a biotech company where would I look for a CEO? I really have no idea!
For every Tom Coughlin, Belichick, Fox or Andy Reid, you've got a Payton, McCarthy, Tomlin, Harbaugh 1 or 2, Pagano, etc on the other side of the ledger, guys that didn't have previous head coaching experience. In fact for every Coughlin, et al, guys who have been a head coach somewhere else before succeeding wildly on their second job, you've had retreads with creds like Shanahan and Fisher whose teams are no better than Philbin's. The differences in the success or failure of such coaches is the quarterback. If a retread coach like a Gruden think that Tannehill can be a franchise guy, it could work. If he's not really a franchise player, it'll be a disaster.
In any case, too much of Ross's credibility is tied into the Philbin hire. He made the hire. He wanted Philbin. He may have pressed that choice on Ireland. I doubt he gets the ax unless the team goes completely in the tank. Ross kept Ireland around, a guy he had plenty of reasons to send packing. Ireland wasn't his guy. Ireland was unpopular. Ireland had a dubious record. So long as someone like Carl Peterson has Ross's ear, we're in trouble. Let's face it, these rich dudes who buy these teams know nothing. To say to them "go hire the best GM and let him get the best coach and best players" isn't that easy. Where does a man who knows nothing about the NFL look for the best GM available? How would he even know the best GM available if he were sitting in front of him? If I went out and bought a biotech company where would I look for a CEO? I really have no idea!
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Ross put himself in a spot with the whole Harbaugh/Sparano disaster, IMO. If you were a coach who could wait for a good job, why would you want to come to a Ross-owned team? Ross would have to break the bank to get a big name.
And, to be fair, I don't know that a big name is necessary. The good coaches all start somewhere and work their way up the ranks. I just don't have faith that Ross knows how to find the right guy.
And, to be fair, I don't know that a big name is necessary. The good coaches all start somewhere and work their way up the ranks. I just don't have faith that Ross knows how to find the right guy.
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Wait!!!! It gets worse. After the Patriots lost their starting right tackle...... How do you not attack that side of their offense? The rest of the game we blitzed from Brady's right ONCE after that? Really? Philbin has to go. Plain and simple.
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You know, I'm not a big Mark Cuban guy, but I would love to see him or someone like him buy the Dolphins. The guy stands by his team and his fans and seems sensible but also daring. He's young and he's proven he knows how to run a pro sports team.
