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What do Philbin and/or Tannehill need to do to win back your support?

So making the playoffs 1 out of 3 years is slightly below average. I still think we should get a coach that makes the playoffs more than average and leave the Philbins and Sparano's to teams that want to make the playoffs less than an average amount of times.
 
Neither have lost my support. I haven't wavered one bit, I believe Tanne is the future at QB for this team.
 
Well for me playoffs aren't the barometer for either Philbin or RT.

I have been of the opinion since day 1 that RT is our guy and nothing has changed. He is a tough SOB...not even talking about last yr..he took some pops yesterday that I wasn't sure he would get up from and completed the pass. He is smart, he has the "want" to get better...and I fully expect him to do just that. In order for him to continue to be "the man", he just needs to continue developing his problem areas which basically is pocket awareness. He rarely makes a bad read in my mind and can make all the throws. (Of topic, but did we even try any deep go routes yesterday?) Anyways, as long as he doesn't start making mental mistakes and throwing balls that shouldn't be thrown he will be just fine.

Philbin....I have supported the man..he is just....hmmm...I don't know....off. From his end of halves time management, to his weird answers last week to the media. I just don't know if he translates well to his players. I would prefer more emotion, but I realize strong and steady without too many hills and valleys can also work. The other thing I tend to lean towards is cohesion. Changing front offices every other year is NOT a winning formula. Sure, neither is having the wrong guys leading the team yr after yr and I get that too. I think if he can get this team to 10-6, whether that means playoffs or not, I would give him and Hickey another yr. to see if they can get us over the hump. And even if they fall just short of that, but field a competitive team week in and week out. I mean, lots of posters here have stated what a tough schedule lies ahead, so if they are in games and we just happen to lose but have good schemes he might get another offseason, draft, and season from me to get us where we all want to be.
 
Reality is, we played 2 good quarters against the Patriots and beat a pathetic team in Oakland. That is all we have done so far in 2014. We need to follow this up by beating Green Bay in 2 weeks, beating the Bears and beating teams like the Bills later on and sweep the Jets.
 
SkapePhin said:
I've been more down on Philbin than Tannehill and yesterday's game didn't do much to move the needle for me. I still think he is in over his head and want him replaced after the season.

In order for me to change my stance, Philbin needs to lead this team to a playoff VICTORY.

Simply making the playoffs isn't enough because the AFC is weak and we've seen many subpar coaches make the playoffs only to get trounced and never really achieve much higher success. Win a playoff game and I'll support Joe going forward.

How about you?


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I would support Philbin if he resigned now lol. If he makes playoffs I give him benefit of doubt. We haven't made playoffs in 5 years that's a fair expectation to hold his job to.
 
SkapePhin said:
I've been more down on Philbin than Tannehill and yesterday's game didn't do much to move the needle for me. I still think he is in over his head and want him replaced after the season.

In order for me to change my stance, Philbin needs to lead this team to a playoff VICTORY.

Simply making the playoffs isn't enough because the AFC is weak and we've seen many subpar coaches make the playoffs only to get trounced and never really achieve much higher success. Win a playoff game and I'll support Joe going forward.

How about you?


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This was always the goal this yr and will remain the goal....Philbin and RT must lead this team to the playoffs if they don't they better be 11-5 and lose a tie breaker of something or it will be hard to bring them back......They both will have set backs as the season goes along, we can't freak out every bad game, RT is in a worse position because he can be benched if he has too many poor outings...Philbin is here at least until the end of the season barring any crazy **** that might happen thats off the charts....
 
Playoffs or bust. winning season would be a step up but that's babysteps. I would definitely never fire a coach after leading a team to playoffs for first time in 6 years. Lets not get stupid and think that firing philbin if he makes the playoffs is a good idea. Be almost as bad as San Diego when they fired Marty shottenheimer after a 14-2 season.
 
Philbin? Next to nothing. Even a playoff appearance would be like watching Wannstedt in the playoffs. You know that he isn't a good coach, does making the playoffs make him suddenly not Philbin? I know it seems I have it out for him, but I am sorry, I have seen enough from him in his tenure here to make me believe that he is not a good HC and nothing short of say a SB win would change that.

RT, consistency. I understand that every game is different as coaches plan for you and your attack, but I want to see him improve. It doesn't even matter if you win all of the time since not even MARINO won all of the time.
 
DefensiveEnd76 said:
Reality is, we played 2 good quarters against the Patriots and beat a pathetic team in Oakland. That is all we have done so far in 2014. We need to follow this up by beating Green Bay in 2 weeks, beating the Bears and beating teams like the Bills later on and sweep the Jets.
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I agree completely. Fans that look at Green Bay and Chicago and shivering and don't expect and demand wins are fans that are used to mediocrity. I fully expect a rested Dolphins team to win at home against a Team that had to play a tough Vikings team the week before. Oh but we lost to Buffalo at home after the bye last year :( . It Has nothing to do with 2014 Green Bay at home after the bye and we don't have Tyson Clabo on the OL this year. We beat the Jets in NY after the bye in 2012. I'm pretty sure 10-6 will make the playoffs so it's 8-4 or bust. Shula teams were consistantly .750 so .667 isn't too much to ask for. Right now, they are not .667, they're .500 the defination of Philbin, Tannehill and mediocraty.
 
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For Tannehill it's simple.... He just needs to win. I wish he'd show more fire and hold his receivers accountable for their mistakes but that doesn't seem to be in his character (we'd have seen it by now I think). He's a game manager and I'm not sure not sure if he'll ever be a true field general - but winning fixes a lot of things in the short-term.

For Philibin I think he's past the point of "no-return" for me. If he develops a backbone and leads this team deep into the playoffs maybe I can warm up to him but I think that he's just made too many mistakes at this point. His complete and total lack of emotion makes it difficult to connect with him as a fan - or even sympathize with him at this point. Sorry Joe but you got go! (start printing up the T-shirts)
 
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