Seeing some similarities with Bucs

[Mike13]

I know this is all just wishful thinking, and we'd all love nothing more than to think of something that points to us winning the Super Bowl, but I do see some things that eerily remind me of the Bucs' situation when they dumped Dungy and got Gruden.

Gruden was able to take Dungy's players and coach them into champions. Since then, Gruden's personnel decisions IMO have begun the team's slow spiral down the tubes, but still the way the Dolphins situation is shaping up I see some similarities.

Think of it...we're getting David Boston back, and probably Ricky Williams. We've added a few playmakers (Kevin Carter, Matt Roth, Ronnie Brown, Channing Crowder) and we've lost a few playmakers (Morlon Greenwood, Patrick Surtain). Everything went wrong last year and the coaching was terrible....there was no recovering. There was no offensive consistency in coaching, no focus on that side of the ball, the David Boston experiment got aborted before it began, the Ricky Williams disaster took away our offensive centerpiece, we lost some beef on the interior of the DL and we couldn't stop the run. Saban will be taking basically the same cast or at least a similar one, we get Ricky back, we get David Boston back, what I'm saying is we have a chance to succeed. We don't just have a chance to succeed, I think we have a chance to be very good because we still basically have all the same working parts that we did when we were consistently a 10-6 team.

I guess I'm just saying there's going to be a very good opportunity here in Miami for Saban to prove the same thing Gruden did...the players were there, we just needed the coaches and the circumstance.

If he's a playmaker than O J is really innocent

 

[djfresh47]

Good one CK. And all you have to do to support your point further is look at our record from LAST year after DW was dumped. That was a different team out there, and there was no Ricky or Boston involved either.

What people, "experts" included, don't understand is that we aren't trying to improve from 4-12 -- we're trying to improve from 3-4 (Bates's record), with the four losses coming by a combined total of 27 points, which is about 7 points a game. Imagine what Saban's going to do with THAT team.

I'd be willing to bet the Phins would have beat Cleveland and SF if Dave still was the coach for those games. Comparing this team to the Bucs team that won the SB is ridiculous IMO. This is a totally different team, and whose to say Boston will even be healthy to play? Perhaps he'll have another roid rage at an airport, and why do people even bring up Ricky? I'm a dolfan, and think this team still is going to struggle, Saban is not gonna just comeback to the pro game and automatically get it, he's gonna have to adjust to the game regardless of how good of a coach he is. Ronnie Brown will help, but having average at best QB's on the roster is not, teams are gonna load up the box and just stop the run and make Feeley beat them, which I don't think he'll be able to. The defense may not be as good as last years, the biggest concern for me going into the offseason on defense was the defensive tackle position, and still nothing has been done about it, Keith Traylor may be brought in and he'll help but this team is alot closer to the 4-12 team of last year than it is to being a legitimate contender for the SB, which Tampa Bay was under Dungy.