Team Records final 9 games of the season...

[JRYCRL]

Saints 9-0
Packers 8-1
Patriots 8-1
49'ers 7-2
Ravens 7-2
Steelers 7-2
Dolphins 6-3
Texans 6-3
Falcons 6-3
Lions 5-4

Mix in the fact that they should have won at Cleveland, at home vs. Denver, at NY Giants (lost by 3), led by 21 at NE in week 15, etc...

This team doesn't suck. I would have had no problem keeping Bowles, Daboll, and Nolan and trading back in the draft and getting a few more OL's and a pass-rusher.

I didn't see the need for mass changes. I will be surprised if re-cycled Mike Sherman and company do any better than 6-10 next season. I hope so but you look at the direction you're headed, not just the final recored.

 

[Spesh]

Sadly, the season started during week 1, not week 9.

 

[traptses]

Saints 9-0
Packers 8-1
Patriots 8-1
49'ers 7-2
Ravens 7-2
Steelers 7-2
Dolphins 6-3
Texans 6-3
Falcons 6-3
Lions 5-4

Mix in the fact that they should have won at Cleveland, at home vs. Denver, at NY Giants (lost by 3), led by 21 at NE in week 15, etc...

This team doesn't suck. I would have had no problem keeping Bowles, Daboll, and Nolan and trading back in the draft and getting a few more OL's and a pass-rusher.

I didn't see the need for mass changes. I will be surprised if re-cycled Mike Sherman and company do any better than 6-10 next season. I hope so but you look at the direction you're headed, not just the final recored.

But we DIDN'T win at Cleveland. Nor did we stop Tebow against Denver. And the Giants DID beat us by 3. And we DID let the Patriots come back from a 21 point lead.

And that has been the story every season. We are good, but never good enough.

 

[miamiron]

We beat no team that ended with a winning record...ZERO

Two of our 6 wins came against Buffalo for God's sake

As far as I'm concerened the three coaches you namned could't
have left fast enough

 

[gardena19]

 

[JRYCRL]

Sadly, the season started during week 1, not week 9.

I agree. I'm just saying we were close. I'll hear all you guys ripping the new staff the same way when we're below .500 again next year. I am hoping against hope but I fear signing Flynn and adding Sherman adds zilch.

Of course I'll keep pulling for the aqua and orange but I've seen this movie before.

 

[Phinatic8u]

Spesh, I think it's time to change your sig.



Zimmer has gotten zero job offers, I doubt it was just Miami who thought that way.

 

[MiZFiT]

The difference is Philbin. If he had been coach, that is easily a playoff team. He would have let Moore compete in training camp. He wouldn't have let players (like Dansby) come in overweight. And he wouldnt have been conservative on offense or defense.

 

[Geforce]

Saints 9-0
Packers 8-1
Patriots 8-1
49'ers 7-2
Ravens 7-2
Steelers 7-2
Dolphins 6-3
Texans 6-3
Falcons 6-3
Lions 5-4

Mix in the fact that they should have won at Cleveland, at home vs. Denver, at NY Giants (lost by 3), led by 21 at NE in week 15, etc...

This team doesn't suck. I would have had no problem keeping Bowles, Daboll, and Nolan and trading back in the draft and getting a few more OL's and a pass-rusher.

I didn't see the need for mass changes. I will be surprised if re-cycled Mike Sherman and company do any better than 6-10 next season. I hope so but you look at the direction you're headed, not just the final recored.

Shoulda, coulda woulda. If the games were only 55 minutes long we would have beaten Cleveland, Denver, NY Giants and Dallas but they are not. The Dolphins have had trouble holding onto 4th quarter leads for several years and this year was no different. The only year the Dolphins did manage to close out games was 2008.

Bowles, Daboll and Nolan was a part of the problem with the Dolphins inability to close out games in 2011.

 

[JRYCRL]

The difference is Philbin. If he had been coach, that is easily a playoff team. He would have let Moore compete in training camp. He wouldn't have let players (like Dansby) come in overweight. And he wouldnt have been conservative on offense or defense.

And you know this how?

What I can predict is the WCO is crap. Easy to defend. Dink and dunk passing. Whatever you think of Daboll, he called plays that passed the ball more than 3-yard outs that Henning called. He also trusted Reggie to carry the load. He proved he can do that. Not saying Daboll was great, but a LOT better than I though he'd be. I have a feelilng I won't be liking Sherman much.

 

[JRYCRL]

Shoulda, coulda woulda. If the games were only 55 minutes long we would have beaten Cleveland, Denver, NY Giants and Dallas but they are not. The Dolphins have had trouble holding onto 4th quarter leads for several years and this year was no different. The only year the Dolphins did manage to close out games was 2008.

Bowles, Daboll and Nolan was a part of the problem with the Dolphins inability to close out games in 2011.

The team played significantly better once they got rid of the field-goal-clapping-fanatic Sparano. He was a disaster. Only good thing is he'll be the OC for the Jets which should help us immensly.

 

[MiZFiT]

And you know this how?

What I can predict is the WCO is crap. Easy to defend. Dink and dunk passing. Whatever you think of Daboll, he called plays that passed the ball more than 3-yard outs that Henning called. He also trusted Reggie to carry the load. He proved he can do that. Not saying Daboll was great, but a LOT better than I though he'd be. I have a feelilng I won't be liking Sherman much.

WCO is easy to defend?

Henning was a good playcaller. He had to work with Henne and no Marshall. Thats hard to do. So he ran the ball. The strength of that offense was the running game and he used it.

 

[MiZFiT]

The team played significantly better once they got rid of the field-goal-clapping-fanatic Sparano. He was a disaster. Only good thing is he'll be the OC for the Jets which should help us immensly.

Moore was the difference, not Sparano.

 

[Geforce]

The difference is Philbin. If he had been coach, that is easily a playoff team. He would have let Moore compete in training camp. He wouldn't have let players (like Dansby) come in overweight. And he wouldnt have been conservative on offense or defense.

Philbin could not have prevented that even if he wanted to. Because of the lockout, the coaches could not have any formal contact with the players and therefore couldn't monitor what they were doing during the offseason.

Moore competing in training camp would not have changed anything because he didn't know the playbook as well as Henne and therefore wasn't ready to be the starting QB heading into the first game against NE.

 

[JRYCRL]

Moore was the difference, not Sparano.

That's kind of laughable. I really like Moore but I can't be happier that goggles is gone. Football is a game where coaches make the biggest difference versus every other sport.