Please lets not refer to these idiots as experts. All the "experts" see is that we lost RW and they base our success on that. An expert would look at the team as a whole. Look at gains and losses and then make an expert opinion on the outcome. Feeley was 4-1 in Philly and he didnt have the recievers to throw to like he does here. My fellow Dolphans I advice you dont entertain the media and what they say.inFINSible said:
Why are the experts down on Feeley?
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"Why are the experts down on Feeley?"
the experts are down on Feeley because that is the conventional wisdom among other "experts," who are generally former players, front office types and media people. they tend to jump on the same bandwagon so as not to be ostrasized by the establishment. and it has become extremely fashionable to kick Miami while they are (perceived to be) down, among these experts. sometimes that conventional wisdom proves to be right, others times, not so much.
in a semi related tangent, i suggest checking out the book "Moneyball," which explores very interestingly IMHO, the Oakland A's baseball team and how they stay competitive in the world of pro baseball (where there is no salary cap) while the A's spend literally one third of teams like the Yankees and Red Sox on players.
they do so by evaluating talent on different terms and they value traits in players other teams take for granted (on base percentage, number of pitches seen per at bat by players). would this translate well into football? possibly. a football example of this off the top of my head is the Denver Broncos zone blocking scheme. Mark Schlereth was on NFL live wednesday or thursday night breaking down how they do things on the O line in Denver (where he played). it is by no means complicated, and has proven wildly successful in Denver for about ten years now. but you dont see every other team in the NFL going to a similar system even though it works. i believe it is because there is that conventional wisdom that pervades thought among head coaches, position coaches, and GM's throughout the league, to do things the way the have always been done. i have never really heard people saw that Denver's scheme relies on certain types of lineman, or running backs, as guys from Mike Anderson to Olandis Gary to Quentin Griffin have been the beneficiaries of their system.
the part that was most interesting to me (and this relates to football conventional wisdom as well) in that book is how the "baseball experts" discount the A's methods, deny their success as nothing but a fluke year after year, and try to denigrate the teams management, when what they are doing is obviously working, all because it goes against the conventional wisdom of "experts" who are really just part of an old boys network that is threatened by anyone perceived as an outsider, or who does things differently.
i think Dave gets caught up in that conventional wisdom that he has to do X because we have always done X before. and he sees the win/loss record that gets bandied about by Fiedler supporters, and media types and buys into that fallacy... and because of that Jay garners more responsibility for those victories than he is due in the minds of some.
so let the games play out, it is only week 2 of the season. dont worry about the experts. was Miami's offseason rough? no doubt about it. will Feeley be the answer at QB? will he get more than a half to show what he can do? only time will tell. but at least with him there is an upside that is still untapped. with Jay we have a four year track record to base our opinions on. if you followed the threads here the last few days, there has been some good info posted about Jay's QB ratings in the fourth quarter, and when the team is down, etc. those numbers were compiled during the same time Jay was compiling that won/ loss record his supporters often cite. my response is: just imagine what the win/ loss record of this team might be over the same time with even marginally better QB play during the games we lost.
the experts are down on Feeley because that is the conventional wisdom among other "experts," who are generally former players, front office types and media people. they tend to jump on the same bandwagon so as not to be ostrasized by the establishment. and it has become extremely fashionable to kick Miami while they are (perceived to be) down, among these experts. sometimes that conventional wisdom proves to be right, others times, not so much.
in a semi related tangent, i suggest checking out the book "Moneyball," which explores very interestingly IMHO, the Oakland A's baseball team and how they stay competitive in the world of pro baseball (where there is no salary cap) while the A's spend literally one third of teams like the Yankees and Red Sox on players.
they do so by evaluating talent on different terms and they value traits in players other teams take for granted (on base percentage, number of pitches seen per at bat by players). would this translate well into football? possibly. a football example of this off the top of my head is the Denver Broncos zone blocking scheme. Mark Schlereth was on NFL live wednesday or thursday night breaking down how they do things on the O line in Denver (where he played). it is by no means complicated, and has proven wildly successful in Denver for about ten years now. but you dont see every other team in the NFL going to a similar system even though it works. i believe it is because there is that conventional wisdom that pervades thought among head coaches, position coaches, and GM's throughout the league, to do things the way the have always been done. i have never really heard people saw that Denver's scheme relies on certain types of lineman, or running backs, as guys from Mike Anderson to Olandis Gary to Quentin Griffin have been the beneficiaries of their system.
the part that was most interesting to me (and this relates to football conventional wisdom as well) in that book is how the "baseball experts" discount the A's methods, deny their success as nothing but a fluke year after year, and try to denigrate the teams management, when what they are doing is obviously working, all because it goes against the conventional wisdom of "experts" who are really just part of an old boys network that is threatened by anyone perceived as an outsider, or who does things differently.
i think Dave gets caught up in that conventional wisdom that he has to do X because we have always done X before. and he sees the win/loss record that gets bandied about by Fiedler supporters, and media types and buys into that fallacy... and because of that Jay garners more responsibility for those victories than he is due in the minds of some.
so let the games play out, it is only week 2 of the season. dont worry about the experts. was Miami's offseason rough? no doubt about it. will Feeley be the answer at QB? will he get more than a half to show what he can do? only time will tell. but at least with him there is an upside that is still untapped. with Jay we have a four year track record to base our opinions on. if you followed the threads here the last few days, there has been some good info posted about Jay's QB ratings in the fourth quarter, and when the team is down, etc. those numbers were compiled during the same time Jay was compiling that won/ loss record his supporters often cite. my response is: just imagine what the win/ loss record of this team might be over the same time with even marginally better QB play during the games we lost.