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1. Fire Mike Mularkey - 3 choices for replacement: Bagget, Garrett, Saban.
2. Replace James - he's been playing injured for 7 weeks. 3 choices: Berger, Pape, Jacox
3. Teach McMichael how to block. He's allowed several sacks this year. Peele is not a good replacement. McMichael has to improve.
4. Run more. 25th in rushing attempts is too low. Ronnie Brown is too talented to be doing so little.
5. Run better. Darian Barnes is barely on the field. Why? Maybe he can block more.
6. Run Different. Running up the center behind Hadnot is ranked 30th in the league at 3.3 YPC. Pick a different hole. Running right behind Carey is 5.3 YPC... #1 in the league.
7. Get Chambers the ball. Find ways to get him involved.
8. Throw long. Teams are expecting the dink-and-dunk... and moving their safeties up. Surprise them.
9. Send Receivers in motion.
10. Run Gadget plays on first and second down... not 3rd and 4th with the game on the line. These are low-percentage plays.
11. I prefer Culpepper. Harrington's 4 sacks against Green Bay proves that mobility was not Culpepper's problem.
12. If you keep Harrington in, who is interception-prone, 20-30 passes is enough. 60 passes is Dan Marino territory. He is not Dan Marino, he is an adequate backup.
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13. On Defense: Hill and Tillman can't play. Replace them with Bell and Allen.
 
Yes to 1, 3,4,5,6, 10 & 12. On 7 he has to stop dropping the pass or it won't work, on 8 Joey can't seem to be accurate long so this is not going to work. On 11 we can't play Daunte till he's 100% and that won't be for a while yet.
 
To me #13 is the most important one!!!!! Hill and Tillman are terrible!!! Saban said it best when he said that the players are in position to make plays but with no playmakers in certain areas...it doesn't matter. I think Allen and Bell are the best fit for that position on our team.
 
I agree with almost all of these. For #3 you might as well include to him how to catch again. #7 they do try to get him involved more by running the reverse with him, which by the way has worked great but we are going to the well to much with it, so they need to find other ways to get him involved. #8 We need a burner to throw the ball deep to. #10 We run to many gadget plays as it is. We need to worry more about getting the offense on track before we worry about tricks plays, but yes stop doing them on third down and on two point conversions. #12 Lets be honest Harrington is not Marino, but most of his interceptions this year have come from dropped balls. If our WR's step up to make the catch the INT's will go down. #13 we need to get rid of more then those two in the secondary.
 
1. Simplify the offense. Set up basic run and pass plays and run them. NO TRICK PLAYS.
2. Shake up the receivers. Demote or bench Chambers to wake him up.
3. Bench veterans that will be cut in the off season and start youth that will play next year.
4. Start Jason Allen, Will Allen, Bell, Daniel. Have young back ups.
5. Keep Joey in there to work it all out. Keel Cleo. DC is in rehab - nobody knows.
 
I'm only going to comment about number 13. I agree that Tillman needs to be replaced, because he is just underperfoming to a huge degree, but Hill has been a very sold DB week in and week out. Him along with Goodman have been huge surprises IMO. I just expected Hill to play like 4 weeks, before Allen got his feet wet, but Hill is playing really good right now.
 
Rich said:
1. Fire Mike Mularkey - 3 choices for replacement: Bagget, Garrett, Saban.
2. Replace James - he's been playing injured for 7 weeks. 3 choices: Berger, Pape, Jacox
3. Teach McMichael how to block. He's allowed several sacks this year. Peele is not a good replacement. McMichael has to improve.
4. Run more. 25th in rushing attempts is too low. Ronnie Brown is too talented to be doing so little.
5. Run better. Darian Barnes is barely on the field. Why? Maybe he can block more.
6. Run Different. Running up the center behind Hadnot is ranked 30th in the league at 3.3 YPC. Pick a different hole. Running right behind Carey is 5.3 YPC... #1 in the league.
7. Get Chambers the ball. Find ways to get him involved.
8. Throw long. Teams are expecting the dink-and-dunk... and moving their safeties up. Surprise them.
9. Send Receivers in motion.
10. Run Gadget plays on first and second down... not 3rd and 4th with the game on the line. These are low-percentage plays.
11. I prefer Culpepper. Harrington's 4 sacks against Green Bay proves that mobility was not Culpepper's problem.
12. If you keep Harrington in, who is interception-prone, 20-30 passes is enough. 60 passes is Dan Marino territory. He is not Dan Marino, he is an adequate backup.
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13. On Defense: Hill and Tillman can't play. Replace them with Bell and Allen.
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we need a left tackle and center. we have people coming back next year from injury to shore up the rest of the line. hadnot is not getting it done at center. we can move him back to guard. Left tackle ...need i say more. this will resolve alot of problems with the offense. On defense we need some db's and linebackers via the draft and we will be fine. were playing bad but were not that bad of a team. next year we will be playing alot better if these area's of concern are resolved.
 
Frisches13283 said:
I'm only going to comment about number 13. I agree that Tillman needs to be replaced, because he is just underperfoming to a huge degree, but Hill has been a very sold DB week in and week out. Him along with Goodman have been huge surprises IMO. I just expected Hill to play like 4 weeks, before Allen got his feet wet, but Hill is playing really good right now.
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Agreed, Allen also did pretty good in the limited time he did play.
 
saban needs to give up football personell power to a real GM.

he has sucked with personel. and plus having both doesn't work in this league anymore.
 
Most of these ideas are pretty good ideas.

However, on these....

Rich said:
2. Replace James - he's been playing injured for 7 weeks. 3 choices: Berger, Pape, Jacox
7. Get Chambers the ball. Find ways to get him involved.
10. Run Gadget plays on first and second down... not 3rd and 4th with the game on the line. These are low-percentage plays.
11. I prefer Culpepper. Harrington's 4 sacks against Green Bay proves that mobility was not Culpepper's problem.
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Definitely NO on 10. We can't run the ball more while running gadget plays. Enough of Mularky's HB options.

I'm not sure if James is really the problem.

Chambers drops enough already. Throw long more...ok. Chambers is not good enough, IMO, to merit running special plays for.

Mobility IS Cpep's issue, IMO. He knee is injured. Harrington had 4 sacks, but he did throw >60 times. I prefer Cpep when he is healthy and playing well. Hasn't done it with the Fins, though. Joey throws too many picks, BUT he has moved the offense much better than Cpep did.
 
I agree with most of your points except for the gadget plays. I would toss them all together, maybe one per game. RB needs to be fed the ball over and over the way we used RW. Considering we are mathmatically out of any playoff scenario it may be wise to save RB till next year. No wait, I want to see what this guy is really made of.
Simplify the offense, call high percentage plays, go deep more, run RB more. Put Jason Allen in the game and blitz him so we can see if he is a playmaker, a safety blitz shouldn't be too complicated for him to grasp, unless he's a ******. Fine recievers for dropped balls, or sit them for a series when they do it. Punish the recievers some way for drops. Get Mularky on the sideline the way he got Linehan on the sideline, our O turned around after that.
 
1. Fire Mike Mularkey - 3 choices for replacement: Bagget, Garrett, Saban.
Or even the "Ask Madden" option in the game.

2. Replace James - he's been playing injured for 7 weeks. 3 choices: Berger, Pape, Jacox
Need alot more replacements then just James.

3. Teach McMichael how to block. He's allowed several sacks this year. Peele is not a good replacement. McMichael has to improve.
I'm more worried with him catching balls. If we had an offensive line we wouldn't need McMichael to block as much.

4. Run more. 25th in rushing attempts is too low. Ronnie Brown is too talented to be doing so little.
Comes with Mularkey leaving. Mularkey has no composition. He gets down in a game and decides it is panic mode time and starts throwing every play.

5. Run better. Darian Barnes is barely on the field. Why? Maybe he can block more.
Offensive line problems. Barnes isn't going to teach the front 5 how to block.

6. Run Different. Running up the center behind Hadnot is ranked 30th in the league at 3.3 YPC. Pick a different hole. Running right behind Carey is 5.3 YPC... #1 in the league.
Those numbers are luck. If you in the B gap strong side and the defensive end weak side blows up his man you still arn't going anywhere. It is an all around problem.

7. Get Chambers the ball. Find ways to get him involved.
He is getting covered more. That is why you are seeing Welker, Hagans and Booker getting more balls their way. Until we get a stronger running threat things will stay the same.

8. Throw long. Teams are expecting the dink-and-dunk... and moving their safeties up. Surprise them.
Harrington can't throw the long ball. He is a smart, decisive QB. He doesn't have a strong arm.

9. Send Receivers in motion.
Why? Harrington is having no problems reading the defense.

10. Run Gadget plays on first and second down... not 3rd and 4th with the game on the line. These are low-percentage plays.
Gadget plays? Did I miss something the past few games? Only gadget play I remember is the RB to MB pass.

11. I prefer Culpepper. Harrington's 4 sacks against Green Bay proves that mobility was not Culpepper's problem.
Indecisiveness was Peps problem. However, he has always been indecisive. His mobility got him out of trouble that was caused by his indecisiveness. Without his mobility he is worse then Bledsoe.

12. If you keep Harrington in, who is interception-prone, 20-30 passes is enough. 60 passes is Dan Marino territory. He is not Dan Marino, he is an adequate backup.
A couple things:
1. Harrington is not interception prone. 4 dropped passes that went for pics are not the QBs fault. He has thrown 3 pics that were his fault. For an NFL quarterback that is pretty good, for a backup that we got for a 6th round pick that is amazing.
2. 60 passes is on Mularkey's shoulders. Like I said earlier, Mularkey sees we are down by 3 points and panics and decides we need to throw every play.

13. On Defense: Hill and Tillman can't play. Replace them with Bell and Allen.
Yeremiah Bell yes, Jared Allen maybe. I say we go 1-15 next year and pick up Kenny Phillips, that will solve alot of DB problems.
 
#1 is the most glaring. You've got Ronnie Brown, a franchise type Running Back, and your running him 15 times in a game he's averaging over 4 yards? Boo you, Mularkey.

I'd be for a "gadget" play on a second down sometime, but something clever, and that either works, or doesn't result in a TO or lost yards.
 
Rich said:
1. Fire Mike Mularkey - 3 choices for replacement: Bagget, Garrett, Saban.

4. Run more. 25th in rushing attempts is too low. Ronnie Brown is too talented to be doing so little.

5. Run better. Darian Barnes is barely on the field. Why? Maybe he can block more.

11. I prefer Culpepper. Harrington's 4 sacks against Green Bay proves that mobility was not Culpepper's problem.

12. If you keep Harrington in, who is interception-prone, 20-30 passes is enough. 60 passes is Dan Marino territory. He is not Dan Marino, he is an adequate backup.

13. On Defense: Hill and Tillman can't play. Replace them with Bell and Allen.
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#1 - Mularkey should not have been hired in the first place! At the very least, he should've been fired last week! It frustrates me that Saban is going to keep him around...hey Saban, we are 1-6, shake things up a bit and start by firing this horrible OC!

#4 - Yes, Ronnie Brown is our most talented offensive weapon, and he is extremely under-used. Get the ball in his hands...if it's not via a handoff, then throw the ball to him, he's one of the best receiving backs in the league! This has a lot to do with problem #1 - FIRE MULARKEY!

#5 - I still have no idea why we cut Pro-Bowler Fred Beasley and kept Barnes! From the very first game against Pittsburgh, Barnes has missed blocking assignment after blocking assignment. And Barnes can't catch either...Beasley was trying to teach him how to catch in training camp. Why didn't we cut Barnes and keep Beasley?!?!?!

#11 - Strongly disagree - Harrington's 4 sacks in the Green Bay game only proves that we threw the ball an amazing 62 times (actually 61, because one of those was clock-stopping spike). That equates out to 1 sack per 15 pass attempts, pretty normal NFL average. There's no doubt that lack of mobility was one of Culpepper's problems (along with indecisiveness).

#12 - Harrington is not interception prone! Most of his interceptions have come from tips or drops from our wide receivers, not to mention he has had more pass attempts than any other NFL QB since he took over the starting job. And no, 60 pass attempts is not Dan Marino territory...60 pass attempts is a pass-happy Canadian football team's territory!

#13 - Yes, I strongly agree. Bell should have been starting since Week 1. And now that our season is all but done, Jason Allen should be getting as much game-time action as possible!
 
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