BGtoKNfor6
Where is the reset button?
we get a few leaders in the locker room. Having talent is one thing but you have to get it out of each player. The patriots have been masterful at evaluating a player and then putting each of their players in a position to leverage their strengths and collectively hide their weaknesses.
Scanning our roster, I don't see one guy that can be the one that has that ambiance about him the drives his teammates to play up and beyond their talent level. If you ever played team sports, you know what I am talking about. The chris carters, Ed Reeds, Troy Polamalu's, ect of the nfl.
Marino was the last guy on this team that could get his players to do what he wanted because simply it appeared they were afraid of him on the field. Pennington, while a great student of the game, was about as close to a guy that many of the players looked up to and fed off of. Simply stated, we don't have that guy and what I see are guys out there just making a paycheck. I see no fire or determination or at least since the buffalo game.
The NFL is all about desire and momentum. The willingness to get better through hardwork and determination. Can you honestly look at our team and see a guy on there that fits that mold? Ironically, the only guy that I see right now that appears to want to be "that" guy is Vontae Davis. He plays with some severe emotion and that sometimes hampers his game BUT the dude flat out gives it his all. Maybe he will come out and be that presence in the locker room that we need.
The rest of our team just plays and goes home. It is sad. I don't see it in JT and never have. Sure JT wants to win, I don't question that, however he doesn't appear to be the guy that brings out the best in his teammates. I don't see it in JP either. Crowder wants to be the guy, as he spouts off any chance he can get, but I highly doubt ANY of our linebackers want to fashion their game using his pathetic excuse of playing. A great example of a team lacking a "leader" was during the wanny tenure. Man we had one heck of a defense with surtain, madison, marion, knight, thomas, taylor, etc, yet none of them was a pure leader. Combine that with wanny being a huge reason we are where we are now, talent wise, and you get exactly what we saw. A fun team to watch but inevitably never was able to turn the page and be a great team.
Once we get a few of those guys that "know" how to win, the dolphins will be a good franchise and should be able to turn the page to the next level. Until we do though, they are just going to be collecting paychecks. I don't what more to say about it. This team has no identity and with with the "wildcat" gone because of brown's injury, that was the only indentifier that we could cling on to and consequently the line play has eroded since.
The future looks very bright on PAPER for the dolphins. This upcoming draft and offeason is going to be the most important we have had in a VERY long time. It is a make or break offseason in the typical rebuilding phase. Year 3. The right choices by our F.O. this offseason combined with guys like Henne and our wideouts putting the time in to build more of a rapport are going to be extremely instrumental in the difference between another "we are a decent up and coming 8-8" team next season and the "we have turned the page and are going to be a contender for awhile 12-4/11-5 team".
Scanning our roster, I don't see one guy that can be the one that has that ambiance about him the drives his teammates to play up and beyond their talent level. If you ever played team sports, you know what I am talking about. The chris carters, Ed Reeds, Troy Polamalu's, ect of the nfl.
Marino was the last guy on this team that could get his players to do what he wanted because simply it appeared they were afraid of him on the field. Pennington, while a great student of the game, was about as close to a guy that many of the players looked up to and fed off of. Simply stated, we don't have that guy and what I see are guys out there just making a paycheck. I see no fire or determination or at least since the buffalo game.
The NFL is all about desire and momentum. The willingness to get better through hardwork and determination. Can you honestly look at our team and see a guy on there that fits that mold? Ironically, the only guy that I see right now that appears to want to be "that" guy is Vontae Davis. He plays with some severe emotion and that sometimes hampers his game BUT the dude flat out gives it his all. Maybe he will come out and be that presence in the locker room that we need.
The rest of our team just plays and goes home. It is sad. I don't see it in JT and never have. Sure JT wants to win, I don't question that, however he doesn't appear to be the guy that brings out the best in his teammates. I don't see it in JP either. Crowder wants to be the guy, as he spouts off any chance he can get, but I highly doubt ANY of our linebackers want to fashion their game using his pathetic excuse of playing. A great example of a team lacking a "leader" was during the wanny tenure. Man we had one heck of a defense with surtain, madison, marion, knight, thomas, taylor, etc, yet none of them was a pure leader. Combine that with wanny being a huge reason we are where we are now, talent wise, and you get exactly what we saw. A fun team to watch but inevitably never was able to turn the page and be a great team.
Once we get a few of those guys that "know" how to win, the dolphins will be a good franchise and should be able to turn the page to the next level. Until we do though, they are just going to be collecting paychecks. I don't what more to say about it. This team has no identity and with with the "wildcat" gone because of brown's injury, that was the only indentifier that we could cling on to and consequently the line play has eroded since.
The future looks very bright on PAPER for the dolphins. This upcoming draft and offeason is going to be the most important we have had in a VERY long time. It is a make or break offseason in the typical rebuilding phase. Year 3. The right choices by our F.O. this offseason combined with guys like Henne and our wideouts putting the time in to build more of a rapport are going to be extremely instrumental in the difference between another "we are a decent up and coming 8-8" team next season and the "we have turned the page and are going to be a contender for awhile 12-4/11-5 team".
