Stop Blaming Sparano For The Time Out

[morrism35]

Sparano did what any coach would have did make sure he had the right personel on the field or what is commonly done ice the kicker. Any coach or defense would a championship mental
lity would have welcomed the opportunity to stop them on the goal line and have them come away with nothing. I think Ray Lewis wouldn't have had his coach take the blame. He would have expected his team to stop them. Sparano taking the blame publicaly is not holding his defense to a championshio mentality. That is playing scared.

 

[fatkirstyalley]

Ice the kicker on a 21 yard attempt...sorry that doesnt fly. Sparano out thought himself on that one. 24-6 is a lot better than 24-10. And it turns out those 4 points were huge. We dont have a championship calibur defense.....Sparano should know his personel and coach accordingly. That timeout was bad

 

[zicofirol]

he admitted he made a mistake on that play... so it was his fault..

 

[thekidd]

Sparano did what any coach would have did make sure he had the right personel on the field or what is commonly done ice the kicker. Any coach or defense would a championship mental
lity would have welcomed the opportunity to stop them on the goal line and have them come away with nothing. I think Ray Lewis wouldn't have had his coach take the blame. He would have expected his team to stop them. Sparano taking the blame publicaly is not holding his defense to a championshio mentality. That is playing scared.

You have no idea what your talking about. I already posted this before but when sparano decided to call that timeout when the saints already had their kicker on the field, I yelled **** you at the t.v. bc i knew what was coming.

Regardless of his reasoning for the timeout, whether it was freezing the kicker, (which is probably one of the dumber things i've ever heard of considering it was a 21 yard fg) or he didn't have the right personnel on the field, it was a horrendous call on his part. He cost us 4 points on that decision alone and gave them a whole lot of momentum going into halftime.

Every non dolphins fan that saw this was like wtf was your coach thinking. I had nothing to say.

 

[morrism35]

Any coach or defense with any confidence or pride would love for an offense to go for it on 4th and short. Not saying we are a champiovship defense but qe know to at least think like it. Defense is about heart and pride that attitude is just playing scared. We need a ray lewis mentality on this team that demands greatness.

 

[3rdandinches]

Where are you people getting this freeze the kicker bs anyways, if that were the case you call the timeout when he's about to kick. There's no excuse for the T.O. he had the whole review period to be ready, the starting defense should have stayed and willingly give up the 3 points and say thank god it was overturned.

The T.O. had nothing to do with the outcome of the game, Ginns lack of skill at his job and the OC thinking we can pass all the time fuelled the 2nd half calapse.

 

[morrism35]

Championship def is built on stopping 4th and goal your thinking like a fan I'm thinking like a coach and def with confidence and pride. A real def tells that opposing offense take the three or nothing. Maybe our fans have no confidence in our d.

 

[morrism35]

Of course Sparano is going to take the blame. He is not going to blast his team. Look doesn't even through ginn under the bus.

 

[PogiRo]

Championship def is built on stopping 4th and goal your thinking like a fan I'm thinking like a coach and def with confidence and pride. A real def tells that opposing offense take the three or nothing. Maybe our fans have no confidence in our d.

Well, the Dolphins aren't a championship team. You can rattle all this stuff about pride in the defense, balls to the wall mentality crap, but when you are going up against the most versatile and explosive offense in the NFL, and you were fortunate enough that they didn't already score a TD on the previous play with the replay overturning a TD, you count your blessings and take 3 giving them only 6 points in the first half. It's the right thing to do. I have confidence in the D, I don't have confidence in the D to stop the best offense in the NFL from the 1 yard line.

 

[thekidd]

Well, the Dolphins aren't a championship team. You can rattle all this stuff about pride in the defense, balls to the wall mentality crap, but when you are going up against the most versatile and explosive offense in the NFL, and you were fortunate enough that they didn't already score a TD on the previous play with the replay overturning a TD, you count your blessings and take 3 giving them only 9 points in the first half. It's the right thing to do. I have confidence in the D, I don't have confidence in the D to stop the best offense in the NFL from the 1 yard line.

Couldn't of said it better. The OP is acting like we have Ray Lewis and 2000 ravens defense or something. Our defense had played great up to this point and with a 24-3 lead you should gladly let them take a fg. This was not the time to get into a pissing match with the best offense in the league like your suggesting. Either way it didn't work.

 

[Drubatuba]

It's not about having faith in your defense its about making smart desicions. I would have been more than happy with the Saints getting a feild goal than giving the chance at 6. Sparano admits he made a bad call and thats that.

 

[McGaniel]

The thing that sucks is that we got hurt because if the call was right on the field in the first place time would have run out in the half. There is know whay thaye could have ran down to the one and gotten a play off. I still dont know why the refs didn't take the remaining seconds off the clock when he was ruled down at the one and end the half.

 

[72champagne]

Sparano did what any coach would have did make sure he had the right personel on the field or what is commonly done ice the kicker. Any coach or defense would a championship mental
lity would have welcomed the opportunity to stop them on the goal line and have them come away with nothing. I think Ray Lewis wouldn't have had his coach take the blame. He would have expected his team to stop them. Sparano taking the blame publicaly is not holding his defense to a championshio mentality. That is playing scared.

yo soccer mom: no one tries to ice the kicker on a chip shot up 24-3 right before the half.
:rolleyes2:

 

[Fish-Head]

Sparano did what any coach would have did make sure he had the right personel on the field or what is commonly done ice the kicker. Any coach or defense would a championship mental
lity would have welcomed the opportunity to stop them on the goal line and have them come away with nothing. I think Ray Lewis wouldn't have had his coach take the blame. He would have expected his team to stop them. Sparano taking the blame publicaly is not holding his defense to a championshio mentality. That is playing scared.

While I like what you are saying in theory...

The real question is why they even lined up for the field goal in the first place... I'm sure Sparano expected them to go for it, I know I did... which is why we had a personnel issue to begin with... and also why he should have been happy escaping with only 3.

It was a bad call.

 

[thekidd]

The thing that sucks is that we got hurt because if the call was right on the field in the first place time would have run out in the half. There is know whay thaye could have ran down to the one and gotten a play off. I still dont know why the refs didn't take the remaining seconds off the clock when he was ruled down at the one and end the half.

Yea i'm not sure what the rule is but it should be changed. With the amount of shady calls by that crook John Parry, I wouldn't be surprised if he debacled that rule as well.