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☠️ Banned ☠️
Yesterday Adam Gase cited the offensive players' unwillingness or inability to devote the time necessary to learn the playbook as the team's number-one problem at the present time, and noted that it's been a significant problem throughout his tenure with the team.
The disturbing thing about that information is that the problem hasn't been confined to the low end of the roster. Instead, it spans the entire roster, from "player 53" all the way to Jarvis Landry and Jay Ajayi, the two best players on offense.
That's a major issue in my opinion, principally because it suggests that even the best players on offense don't display leadership characteristics. If they did, they'd want to be examples to the other players of putting in the time and effort necessary to make this team competitive and successful.
I believe this is why this team alternates between close, come-from-behind wins, and embarrassing losses in which the team looks completely inept.
The leadership among the players is capable of inspiring only short bursts of extra effort, as in the fourth-quarter comeback.
The longer-term, bigger-picture extra effort needed to be one of the best teams in the league simply isn't there, and that's because there is no nucleus of players who exhibit that effort, and inspire the other players on the roster to do the same.
Consider New England as a comparison, and Tom Brady's routine approach to any season in the NFL. I'm sure he sends the message that his team is simply expected to compete for the Super Bowl, and he displays the attitude and the effort necessary to command and inspire his teammates to do the same. That creates a team culture of effort and accountability. Any player not falling in line with that culture will stand out like a sore thumb, and probably quickly be gone.
On this team, however, there is no such standing out like a sore thumb by any one player, because there is no positive, established team culture of leadership and accountability that would make that contrast apparent.
Consequently the team has no identity, no overarching expectation of itself and its behavior. There is no team culture that specifies just what this team is all about and what it's expected to do on a season.
This sounds to me like problem number-one for the current Miami Dolphins. I believe Adam Gase gave us a window into this yesterday.
The disturbing thing about that information is that the problem hasn't been confined to the low end of the roster. Instead, it spans the entire roster, from "player 53" all the way to Jarvis Landry and Jay Ajayi, the two best players on offense.
That's a major issue in my opinion, principally because it suggests that even the best players on offense don't display leadership characteristics. If they did, they'd want to be examples to the other players of putting in the time and effort necessary to make this team competitive and successful.
I believe this is why this team alternates between close, come-from-behind wins, and embarrassing losses in which the team looks completely inept.
The leadership among the players is capable of inspiring only short bursts of extra effort, as in the fourth-quarter comeback.
The longer-term, bigger-picture extra effort needed to be one of the best teams in the league simply isn't there, and that's because there is no nucleus of players who exhibit that effort, and inspire the other players on the roster to do the same.
Consider New England as a comparison, and Tom Brady's routine approach to any season in the NFL. I'm sure he sends the message that his team is simply expected to compete for the Super Bowl, and he displays the attitude and the effort necessary to command and inspire his teammates to do the same. That creates a team culture of effort and accountability. Any player not falling in line with that culture will stand out like a sore thumb, and probably quickly be gone.
On this team, however, there is no such standing out like a sore thumb by any one player, because there is no positive, established team culture of leadership and accountability that would make that contrast apparent.
Consequently the team has no identity, no overarching expectation of itself and its behavior. There is no team culture that specifies just what this team is all about and what it's expected to do on a season.
This sounds to me like problem number-one for the current Miami Dolphins. I believe Adam Gase gave us a window into this yesterday.
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