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What storylines do you think will be featured on Hard Knocks?

Geforce said:
If NFL Films and HBO did that, they might as well cancel the series now. They had a difficult time getting a team to agree to appear on the show and if they intentionally made a team look bad, it will be almost impossible for them to get another team to do Hard Knocks.

If NFL Films can make a team look good in the NFL Yearbook show, I'm sure they can and will make the Dolphins look like a competent organization despite some of the public perception brought on by some questionable off-season activities.
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I think the Dolphins now are a competent organisation (jury still out a little, but we're definitely getting there) and perhaps that's the problem. Joe Philbin is not Rex Ryan, Jeff Ireland is on the hotseat and is known mainly for the Dez Bryant interview, we have no Cromartie or Holmes since Marshall left, our biggest superstar is a left tackle.... we're kinda boring. I like it that we're boring, from a team rebuilding point of view, but NFL Films are going to have to work a lot harder than they did up with the Jets to get some excitement, scandal, buzz etc going in the show (ie ratings). I can only see the editorial slant being an effort to find the bizarre in the ordinary, the scandalous in the mildly unconventional, the inept in the challenging. Otherwise, it might even put Fin fans to sleep.

Look, I hope I'm wrong, but a really honest portrayal of a once-mighty franchise fighting to get back on top is a noble story but not a newsworthy one.
 
I think at least one segment of one show will be dedicated to Philbin's son who past away. That has to be something really hard to deal with. Losing a son in such a terrible way, always asking yourself "is there something I could have done", then leaving that very year to reach out and achieve the pinnacle of your career, a NFL head coaching job, has to be a whirlwind.
 
KTOWNFINFAN said:
I think at least one segment of one show will be dedicated to Philbin's son who past away. That has to be something really hard to deal with. Losing a son in such a terrible way, always asking yourself "is there something I could have done", then leaving that very year to reach out and achieve the pinnacle of your career, a NFL head coaching job, has to be a whirlwind.
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I doubt they go there. Too personal for Philbin, imo.
 
Fin Thirteen said:
I think the Dolphins now are a competent organisation (jury still out a little, but we're definitely getting there) and perhaps that's the problem. Joe Philbin is not Rex Ryan, Jeff Ireland is on the hotseat and is known mainly for the Dez Bryant interview, we have no Cromartie or Holmes since Marshall left, our biggest superstar is a left tackle.... we're kinda boring. I like it that we're boring, from a team rebuilding point of view, but NFL Films are going to have to work a lot harder than they did up with the Jets to get some excitement, scandal, buzz etc going in the show (ie ratings). I can only see the editorial slant being an effort to find the bizarre in the ordinary, the scandalous in the mildly unconventional, the inept in the challenging. Otherwise, it might even put Fin fans to sleep.

Look, I hope I'm wrong, but a really honest portrayal of a once-mighty franchise fighting to get back on top is a noble story but not a newsworthy one.
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Yeah, I don't see this one as a ratings success story.
It will, however, be the best training camp ever for all of us here. No more relying on a view from 60 yards away as the only source of daily news. Forming an opinion on a coach won't be based solely on a press conference. We will actually get familiar with assistant coaches and how they coach rather than reading one interview per season. For sure, we will watch the storylines, but the close-up view of training camp is the gift to fans.
 
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