Watching our team develop

[PhinFan0202]

It's good to take a step back for a minute and a look how far our team has developed within the past year. This off season has been one of the best in years and i'm looking forward to what our team will look like not only next year but the year after that. If you take a look at the NFC East teams you see they all at one time or another were at the bottom of the NFL. When you look at them now they are all playoff calibur teams. I look at where the phins were two years ago and i'm amazed how far they have come. Madd props to Saban.

 

[retired opfinistic]

It's good to take a step back for a minute and a look how far our team has developed within the past year. This off season has been one of the best in years and i'm looking forward to what our team will look like not only next year but the year after that. If you take a look at the NFC East teams you see they all at one time or another were at the bottom of the NFL. When you look at them now they are all playoff calibur teams. I look at where the phins were two years ago and i'm amazed how far they have come. Madd props to Saban.

In my years as a fan this era has been the most exciting.

 

[finfan32]

im very impressed and happy to have saban as our head coach, that being said, there is room for improvement.

1) offensive line
2) develop youth (which were doing)
3) get depth at all positions

we have a great core of players, and the future looks promising

 

[Nublar7]

It's good to take a step back for a minute and a look how far our team has developed within the past year. This off season has been one of the best in years and i'm looking forward to what our team will look like not only next year but the year after that. If you take a look at the NFC East teams you see they all at one time or another were at the bottom of the NFL. When you look at them now they are all playoff calibur teams. I look at where the phins were two years ago and i'm amazed how far they have come. Madd props to Saban.

It is amazing. Usually when a team goes bad, they go bad for years. Just look at teams like San Francisco and Buffalo. They were good years ago, but have been two of the league's worst teams for years. Dolphins were good, dropped as far as most teams can go in 2004, but are right back in the playoff hunt.

Like you mentioned, the main reason for the turnaround is Saban. Always has been, and always will be. Look at what our offense was able to do with Gus Frerotte last season. Saban has put together arguably the best coaching staff in the league and has Pro Bowl players begging to come here. Every time a big name hits the market, Miami is usually one of the main team's in the running.

Two years ago, the best QB we could find was AJ Feeley, now we have two former 1st round picks(one a Pro Bowler) begging their respective team's to trade them here. We already got one of those two, and will add the second one in June.

Every aspect of the team is better. We all like the current coaches, and the draft is once again a great thing to watch. We no longer have to cringe at the thought of who our coach will pick. Saban and Mueller spend probably the most time out of any team leaders evaluating the drafts talent, and as we saw last year it pays off.

It is great to be a Dolfan. :D :dolphins: :dolphins: :dolphins:

 

[Tenacious D/O]

im very impressed and happy to have saban as our head coach, that being said, there is room for improvement.

1) offensive line
2) develop youth (which were doing)
3) get depth at all positions

we have a great core of players, and the future looks promising

i disagree with the offensive line being a weakness or a developmental area. we have addressed this offensive line moreso than its ever been addressed in recent memory. we really can't do much more to the line to improve it given our financial situation. clearly, we have the best offensive line coach in the nfl and last year we showed massive improvements. next year the line will continue to gel together and hopefully they'll become a strength of this team by the end of the year. we have loads of youth on the line and hopefully they'll work together for a long time.

 

[PhinFan0202]

In my years as a fan this era has been the most exciting.

Cheers to that!

 

[Strangeworld]

Saban was rescued us from the depths. ONE more year of DUMBstedt and I'd have slit my wrists! It was really tough to into five straight seasons with Fiedler, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle DUMBer at the helm...

 

[PhinFan0202]

Saban was rescued us from the depths. ONE more year of DUMBstedt and I'd have slit my wrists! It was really tough to into five straight seasons with Fiedler, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle DUMBer at the helm...

The main problem with Wanny is that he just too damn conservative. The system was built around one player and not a whole team.

 

[jd13]

i think saban has put this team in the position to be very successful...i like our chances to win it all in the next few years...

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Everything makes sense with this regime. But with equal talent pools and 32 teams in the league, I've learned not to get too excited. We need to get our yards per pass attempt significantly above 7 before I think too much about playoff success.

 

[DearbornDolfan]

Err, why? A wide reciever is doing good to average 14 yards per catch, don't you think it's asking a bit much to get 7 yards per attempt when QBs usually don't complete half their passes?

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Err, why? A wide reciever is doing good to average 14 yards per catch, don't you think it's asking a bit much to get 7 yards per attempt when QBs usually don't complete half their passes?

Well, it's true Frerotte barely completed half his passes last year. If we're in that depressed level I concede 7+ YPPA is not likely. Culpepper has all the talent and downfield intentions to do it. In the final four last year, I think Plummer at maybe 7.3 was the lowest of the four. Roethlisberger had a surreal 8.9 for the second straight season, by far the best two year start in NFL history.