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Unpopular Opinion: I wouldn't hate it if Mike McDaniel wasn't fired and got another season under a new GM.

MonstBlitz said:
This is true. If team played hard for McDaniel down the stretch of this season maybe he hasn't lost the team as much as we think. Maybe he plugs in Ewers or Wilson and has some success and earns the respect of the team back. Probably not, and yours is a valid point for sure.
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I saw some all 22 film from offensive plays Thursday that made me think they have to make a QB change soon. He’s locked onto a receiver while others are running free way too often. That isn’t scheme. That’s the QB deciding presnap what he wants to do with the ball.
 
Maybe, if the new GM insists that he give up playcalling and focus on coaching. Then, hopefully, he can overcome his weekly burning of timeouts and manage the clock better.

But if we grab Alexander from the Chargers, with his Raven ties, you may even see him promote the DC. Who knows?
 
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MonstBlitz said:
He had Tua playing at a high level for a couple of seasons worth of football, despite Tua's not obvious limitations. He has shown innovative offenses and got the team to the playoffs his first 2 seasons. Let's not forget this is the same guy that engineered an offense that put up 78 points on the Broncos with Tua at QB. I think he could be a successful NFL head coach with a better QB.
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70 and I wish we got a trophy for that, was the rebuild’s crowning achievement.
 
Third Eye said:
Unbelievable original post. Unbelievable thread. Why do we keep seeing garbage posts like this? Have people lost their minds? THE PARTIAL SOLUTION process

Does. Not. Work.

Miami has done this numerous times.

Flush the entire bowl of turds. Use a plunger as needed because each log is thick and massive. Force them down the drain if you must, but force you will use. Do it without regret, then burn the plunger. Replace the toilet. Light some large candles and replace your ceiling fan with a 3x size fan with extreme centrifugal force direct to the sky.
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danmarino7051 said:
lol… Tua had 3 elite, albeit injury filled, seasons under McD’s first three seasons. You’re talking out of your ass.
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So elite. Can’t get enough.
 
Blake the great said:
Tua was a highly touted QB coming out of college and we literally "Tanked for Tua".

Tua isn't perfect but he is viable QB in the NFL.

Everyone else under center in replace of Tua has looked like dog crap, like really bad. Like they dont even belong in the NFL. And we have seen guys like Tyler Huntely be successful as a back up for other teams.

So its not McDaniel making EVERY any ANY QB look good. Its just been Tua but Tua is supposed to be good, thats why we drafted him.

All McDaniel did was give Tua some weapons and gave him confidence and belief in him. I will not over praise McDaniel for that because that is something so basic. Same with building a offense around Tuas strength, again that is very elementary.

McDaniel has shown he can design some nice plays but his feel for the game and knowing when to call these plays has been very poor. I dont think hes even a good OC. He is a good play designer. There's a difference.

I think the ATL game last week confirmed all of this. He proved the Dolphins were capable of being a running team and can use the run to set up the pass. He just hasnt done that enough but clearly we were capable of operating the offense that way. Its only been 4.5 years. It shouldn't take that long to make these realizations and adjustments. Weaver has been quicker to make changes and adjustments.
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Wait a minute, are you saying Tua’s not perfect? Crazy talk, his viability and eliteness are off the charts! The league is so jealous! I hear people talking about it all the time😳
 
Dolphin North said:
Maybe, if the new GM insists that he give up playcalling and focus on coaching. Then, hopefully, he can overcome his weekly burning of timeouts and manage the clock better.
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The new GM has nothing to do with coaching. He is not a coach or in the coaching department. He is in the Player Personnel department, in responsible charge of roster building.
And why would McDaniel give up the play calling? He was hired for the offensive play calling and the system. He has an assistant in coordinator in Frank Smith.
 
danmarino7051 said:
Yes, I’m being serious.

You didn’t answer any of the questions I asked. I mean, you don’t have to, but it would be nice to get some sort of evidence or approximation of numbers for all of these wasted timeouts. Give me an example of just ONE wasted TO and why it was wasted. Can you do that?

I’d also like to hear about all of these horrible play calls. Can you tell the difference between a poor play call and poor execution?

I hear “pounding the run” around here a lot. What if your offense is getting 1 yard per “pound”? Should a HC just keep doing it? What if the defense gives up eleventy billion points in the first quarter? Is “pounding the run” the way to catch up?

Also, this post isn’t really directed at just you. It’s just that I get kind of tired of all the repetitive parroting done around here with not a shred of evidence or examples or proof for the claims. “Wasted timeouts”, “bad play calls”, “McD doesn’t command respect”… then add on list of media driven narratives being parroted around here over and over and over and over and it just gets old.
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Hmm, the great what if. Can you tell the difference between winning and losing, a lot? Can you explain the lot of losing, besides OL and injuries which I’ve repetitively heard parroted around here as the forever boogeyman? Talk about getting old, every year for 20 years.
 
danmarino7051 said:
What are the odds? What has been the success rate?

Humans tend to remember the negative. It’s a survival strategy. I don’t think McD has called an abnormally high rate of fades nor do I think the Dolphins have had an abnormally high rate of failure on those plays. I’m going by memory here’s so I could be wrong, but I watch a lot of All22 so I feel confident I’m closer to the truth. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not claiming anything as fact. Feel free to show me the numbers though. I’ll change my mind if the numbers show differently.
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I’m fairly confident the Dolphins fail at an abnormally high rate. Damn OL. And injuries.
 
McDaniel dont get fired this yr. He will get fired next yr. This team is in rebuild mode.
 
danmarino7051 said:
You can definitely cherry pick stats, but it’s hard to ignore stats when multiple stats are compiled over a good amount of time.

Like Tua will have an objectively great game, with a 115PR, but the Dolphins lose and people will use that loss as a reason they think Tua sucks.

It’s very rare for a QB to post a PR of over 100 for three straight seasons. We can say it’s an outlier to do it once, maybe twice, but not three times in a row.

Tua’s problems in 2022-2024 were his injuries… granted most self caused. That’s a legit criticism and one that I’ve not shied away from. But just screaming Tua sucks because you (not you, just in general) think he has a weak arm, for example, is just lazy. Tua has, or had, an NFL arm. He could make all the throws required by an NFL QB and he did it really well. Throwing the ball 70 yards isn’t an NFL throw. Throwing a football 60MPH is not common and that doesn’t mean a person has an NFL arm. A person can go on YouTube and watch guys throwing absolute darts 80+ yards…. Put them in an NFL game and they’d turn into hard throwing mess.
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Tua is OK but he aint going win anything in Miami. His best chance is too get traded to new team. That best way to scribe the situation.
 
LargoFin said:
The new GM has nothing to do with coaching. He is not a coach or in the coaching department. He is in the Player Personnel department, in responsible charge of roster building.
And why would McDaniel give up the play calling? He was hired for the offensive play calling and the system. He has an assistant in coordinator in Frank Smith.
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Just need to verify something. Are you saying a GM does not lead the coaching search and hiring and firing of the coach in most cases?

Are you of the belief that MacD would have nothing to do with the offensive system if he were not his own OC? You know he would almost certainly bring in another Shanahan desciple to run the Shanahan system and call the plays, right? You know the HC is present at game planning meetings along with much of the offensive staff, and has as much input as he wants since he's the OC's boss, right?

I'm seriously asking, I'm not trying to belittle your view.👍
 
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