mikefinfan
Die hard Fins Fan
i thought this was actually a pretty good read, and about where i stand on the whole situation...
"Lengthy read ahead... Follow me here for a few..First, regarding Daboll.. I suspected this at the time of his hiring, and I'm CONVINCED three games in that Brian Daboll is Offensive Coordinator by name only. I'm convinced and will remain convinced Tony Sparano is still calling the shots offensively until the day he's fired or the season ends (whichever comes first). You look at this year's offense, you look at last year's offense and you tell me where the differences are? Only thing I see different is the elimination of the Wildcat..
Why is Bush being misused??? Again, it all boils up to the top and my theory that Sparano is calling the shots. It doesn't take a genius to figure out Reggie Bush isn't a between the tackles HB. He's a shifty, outside the lines guy.. To make him the featured back and expect him to pound the rock between tackles is asinine at best, especially when you look at his body of work in the NFL and see how he was most successful previously.. New Orleans offense flourished when he was being used as the pass catching, home run threat who cut cut the corners and outrun people. Tell me how often you saw Sean Peyton or even PETE CARROLL use him as a straight ahead, smash mouth HB?? Tony Sparano isn't stupid by any means, but he insists on using Bush this way and we wonder why he's been ineffective so far?? You don't take a BMW into the woods to go hunting, and you don't take a beat up truck to the prom... Hopefully my analysis here makes sense and as you continue reading, it all comes together and makes sense where I'm going with this.
I refuse to call Marshall a bust.. He's not.. Problem is, he and Henne aren't on the same page. They haven't been from Day 1 and I sincerely doubt they'll EVER be.. I fault neither Henne nor Marshall for this, but it is what it is.. I WILL say this, during the Cleveland game, they were in the redzone and they had Marshall run BLOCKING SCHEMES instead of being the red zone target he SHOULD be and WAS in the past.. You call a play to have Henne put the ball in Marshall's hands inside the 10 and score a few TD and you have a repair of the torn page.. Yet, Sparano REFUSES to push this measure of simple common sense.
Here's the deal in a nutshell... What we have is the worst marriage of convenience I've ever seen..
Stephen Ross CLEARLY didn't want Sparano, but got snubbed by Jim Harbaugh..
Sparano CLEARLY didn't and doesn't want Henne, that's obvious by the fact that he BENCHED Henne last year, his open flirtation with every QB with a pulse, from Kyle Orton and Ryan Mallett to Brett f'n Favre.. Sparano has all but stopped short of groveling at Bob Griese and Dan Marino's feet to get them out of retirement.. Hell, rumors of their pursuit of Carson Palmer this week were indication enough of how much Sparano really has faith in Henne.
Here's where our problem ultimately lies.. Sparano is not a stupid man.. In fact, he's quite a smart one. I DON'T want to believe he's that hell bent on getting Henne out that he's going to call stupid plays, but do the math here.. You've got the football on a 1st and 25 due to stupid penalties.. You run it. THREE TIMES.. Really? No coach is that daft. Yet, I think Ross is insisting on keeping Henne in there, and Sparano's play calling accordingly like a little kid throwing a fit to get his way.. Is it stupidity? Absolutely.. Is it juvenile? You bet.. However, this all rolls down to a giant power struggle that Henne's a pawn in.
Oh and for the record? Know why Ricky left?? The Dolphins didn't let him go, he REFUSED TO COME BACK as long as Sparano was there.. Those two weren't on the same PLANET let alone the same page... Brown was another one who butted heads with the coaching staff and refused to come back after he got screwed out of an incentive in 2009, when the coaching staff benched his *** 19 yards short of reaching it.. I don't blame the organization for them leaving, I blame again.. Those at top.
Ultimately, we all lose here as fans because this mess of an arrangement has disaster written all over it, and likely leads to yet ANOTHER rebuilding project.. Sparano is likely gone at season's end, if not sooner. Whoever comes in is almost assuredly going to want their own guy to run the QB position and the song we've all heard for the last ten bloody years remains the same..
Thanks for reading."
overall enjoyable read....comments?
"Lengthy read ahead... Follow me here for a few..First, regarding Daboll.. I suspected this at the time of his hiring, and I'm CONVINCED three games in that Brian Daboll is Offensive Coordinator by name only. I'm convinced and will remain convinced Tony Sparano is still calling the shots offensively until the day he's fired or the season ends (whichever comes first). You look at this year's offense, you look at last year's offense and you tell me where the differences are? Only thing I see different is the elimination of the Wildcat..
Why is Bush being misused??? Again, it all boils up to the top and my theory that Sparano is calling the shots. It doesn't take a genius to figure out Reggie Bush isn't a between the tackles HB. He's a shifty, outside the lines guy.. To make him the featured back and expect him to pound the rock between tackles is asinine at best, especially when you look at his body of work in the NFL and see how he was most successful previously.. New Orleans offense flourished when he was being used as the pass catching, home run threat who cut cut the corners and outrun people. Tell me how often you saw Sean Peyton or even PETE CARROLL use him as a straight ahead, smash mouth HB?? Tony Sparano isn't stupid by any means, but he insists on using Bush this way and we wonder why he's been ineffective so far?? You don't take a BMW into the woods to go hunting, and you don't take a beat up truck to the prom... Hopefully my analysis here makes sense and as you continue reading, it all comes together and makes sense where I'm going with this.
I refuse to call Marshall a bust.. He's not.. Problem is, he and Henne aren't on the same page. They haven't been from Day 1 and I sincerely doubt they'll EVER be.. I fault neither Henne nor Marshall for this, but it is what it is.. I WILL say this, during the Cleveland game, they were in the redzone and they had Marshall run BLOCKING SCHEMES instead of being the red zone target he SHOULD be and WAS in the past.. You call a play to have Henne put the ball in Marshall's hands inside the 10 and score a few TD and you have a repair of the torn page.. Yet, Sparano REFUSES to push this measure of simple common sense.
Here's the deal in a nutshell... What we have is the worst marriage of convenience I've ever seen..
Stephen Ross CLEARLY didn't want Sparano, but got snubbed by Jim Harbaugh..
Sparano CLEARLY didn't and doesn't want Henne, that's obvious by the fact that he BENCHED Henne last year, his open flirtation with every QB with a pulse, from Kyle Orton and Ryan Mallett to Brett f'n Favre.. Sparano has all but stopped short of groveling at Bob Griese and Dan Marino's feet to get them out of retirement.. Hell, rumors of their pursuit of Carson Palmer this week were indication enough of how much Sparano really has faith in Henne.
Here's where our problem ultimately lies.. Sparano is not a stupid man.. In fact, he's quite a smart one. I DON'T want to believe he's that hell bent on getting Henne out that he's going to call stupid plays, but do the math here.. You've got the football on a 1st and 25 due to stupid penalties.. You run it. THREE TIMES.. Really? No coach is that daft. Yet, I think Ross is insisting on keeping Henne in there, and Sparano's play calling accordingly like a little kid throwing a fit to get his way.. Is it stupidity? Absolutely.. Is it juvenile? You bet.. However, this all rolls down to a giant power struggle that Henne's a pawn in.
Oh and for the record? Know why Ricky left?? The Dolphins didn't let him go, he REFUSED TO COME BACK as long as Sparano was there.. Those two weren't on the same PLANET let alone the same page... Brown was another one who butted heads with the coaching staff and refused to come back after he got screwed out of an incentive in 2009, when the coaching staff benched his *** 19 yards short of reaching it.. I don't blame the organization for them leaving, I blame again.. Those at top.
Ultimately, we all lose here as fans because this mess of an arrangement has disaster written all over it, and likely leads to yet ANOTHER rebuilding project.. Sparano is likely gone at season's end, if not sooner. Whoever comes in is almost assuredly going to want their own guy to run the QB position and the song we've all heard for the last ten bloody years remains the same..
Thanks for reading."
overall enjoyable read....comments?
