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Seriously consider this!

That team does very little to get me excited
 
I will say that our personnel was better suited to running a 3-4 defense than a 4-3 defense. I think that change has been a setback and our defense has not yet recovered.
 
normaniii said:
With no rookies or Free Agent signings our depth chart after losing Sparano and going into 2012 season looked liked this :-

QB - Matt Moore
RB - Reggie Bush
FB - Charles Clay
WR - Brandon Marshall, Brian Hartline, Devone Bess
TE - Anthony Fasano
OL - Jake Long, Richie Incognito, Mike Pouncey, John Jerry, Nate Garner

DL - Starks, Soliai, Odrick, McDaniel
OLB - Cameron Wake, Koa Misi
MLB - Karlos Dansby, Kevin Burnett
CB - Sean Smith, Vernon Davis, Nolan Carroll, Jimmy Wilson
S - Chris Clemons, Reshad Jones

When you consider again this depth chart is without any offseason additions. We had a power running offensive line and a press 3-4 D in place. Rumour has it there was a disagreement between owner Stephen Ross who wanted Joe Philbin to become HC and GM Jeff Ireland who wanted Mike McCoy.

This is where I feel we made a massive error which has put us back years.

Mike McCoy worked wonders in Denver, creating a run heavy attack even with Tim Tebow at QB. After becoming HC in San Diego, they have one of the heaviest O'lines in NFL and Ryan Matthews has rushed for the most yards in his career. They drafted a WR in Keenan Allen who is more comparable to Brandon Marshall than Mike Wallace.

He has a 3-4 DC in John Pagano, who has similar traits to his brother Chuck where Vontae Davis has finally started to flourish.

We hired Joe Philbin, who wanted a WCO, with a ZBS and hired Kevin Coyle a 4-3 DC who prefers zone, off man coverage. This created square pegs in round holes and an inevitable roster turnover.

Just consider if we had hired Mike McCoy. Again the above roster is without any and I repeat not one FA signing or draft pick. When you consider that San Diego chargers recently drafted DJ Fluker, Manti Teo & Keenan Allen, all players who would have fitted with what we had.

I was surprised how loaded this roster was. I was one of those wanting Jeff Ireland out, but if rumour has it and he had hired his own man, we would IMO have been far more successful than we currently are.
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I'm sure sad we lost Vernon Davis. Our two TE sets would be amazing right now.
 
How can anyone say this roster is not loaded?? Imagine our current roster without any offseason addition!

In the upcoming draft we would go on to select Ryan Tannehill, Olivier Vernon and Lamar Miller. It's shocking to think of how we have overhauled this roster to accommodate such a drastic change of philosophy.
 
normaniii said:
How can anyone say this roster is not loaded??
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Pretty easily. Still looks like a lackluster Oline considering Long was trending down and left anyways. Sean F***ing Smith? Sure there are pieces that if you combine the current team with that, we'd look a lot better (lb's among others) I really prefer the 34 but oh well. but that is not a stacked team, that's an average team.
 
No question we'd have been better not playing the WCO and keeping the 3-4. We'd arguably be better playing the 3-4 with the personnel we have today. The WCO is football for people with OCD.
 
Spiff said:
That loaded roster started the 2011 season 0-7.
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We did have Chad Henne at QB and Sparano as HC.

If you look at that depth chart with Ryan Tannehill and another RT, it is definately loaded. Also just look how young that D was. Keeping the secondary and front 3 together would she been outstanding in right system. Together with Olivier Vernon, not including Ny other draftees or FA pickups, we would def have hit playoffs this year
 
Dolphins beat Chargers last year. That means that Philbin out coached McCoy.
 
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