Why the Season was a Failure

[WestLondonDolphin]

If you had to distill it down to something understandable by everybody, McDaniel has to become a leader of men instead of what looks like an immature high school nerd tinkering with a science project, or he has to have leaders among the players who do that for him.

Meh … you just sound like a bitter old man

 

[andyahs]

Would Don Shula EVER stand for these rehearsed clown like celebrations? Not in a million years. That doesn't make Coach Shula a dinosaur but rather the winner that he was!!!

Times have changed since Shula. It's a me first league. McDaniel himself can't change that.

 

[rent this space]

Would Don Shula EVER stand for these rehearsed clown like celebrations? Not in a million years. That doesn't make Coach Shula a dinosaur but rather the winner that he was!!!

None of the coaches from the 70s and 80s would, but that was 50 years ago, it’s a different world

 

[andyahs]

None of the coaches from the 70s and 80s would, but that was 50 years ago, it’s a different world

Yea kinda ridiculous post by him.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

None of the coaches from the 70s and 80s would, but that was 50 years ago, it’s a different world

It might be a different world, but that doesn't mean that what wins in the NFL in terms of team culture is different. It's a different world, but 98.6 remains a normal human body temperature for example. Some things change, and some things stay the same.

 

[Trade Viper]

**** i need to be more cultured. I googled to figure out how les claypool was

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was like **** the bum from semi-pro played guitar?

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Then i realized i do know who that is, they sang a song for South Park and then another about John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

One of the greatest Bass players of our time

The Ever Lovin Winona VIPER

 

[dolpns13]

I think injuries played a bigger role than the team culture in derailing the season. Don’t get me wrong, the team does need to “grow up” in some areas. But mass injuries to the OL, WRs, LBs and DBs didn’t help.

I was going to say it was mostly the injuries, although the team is soft.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

I didn't see any evidence yesterday that the team has devoted practice time to rehearsing elaborate end zone celebrations with upwards of a half-dozen players. The Tyreek Hill "arrest" gesture after his touchdown had to have been planned just before the game, not in practice, and that's not the kind of elaborate multi-player celebration the team performed last year anyway. Hopefully they've moved on from all that, and hopefully that's a sign that the team culture is moving toward greater seriousness and toughness as well. McDaniel struck me yesterday as having a more serious comportment as well.

 

[laxcoach]

I didn't see any evidence yesterday that the team has devoted practice time to rehearsing elaborate end zone celebrations with upwards of a half-dozen players. The Tyreek Hill "arrest" gesture after his touchdown had to have been planned just before the game, not in practice, and that's not the kind of elaborate multi-player celebration the team performed last year anyway. Hopefully they've moved on from all that, and hopefully that's a sign that the team culture is moving toward greater seriousness and toughness as well. McDaniel struck me yesterday as having a more serious comportment as well.

Tyreek said after the game that they had something else planned.

I’ve gone away from my old man, old school instincts as a fan and a coach. I’ve gone from “act like you’ve been there before” to “keep it clean and don’t humiliate the opponent.”

HS kids have a short attention span compared to even 15 years ago. College and pros can’t be much different.

Let them have their tik tok moments if it keeps them engaged and motivated.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

Tyreek said after the game that they had something else planned.

I’ve gone away from my old man, old school instincts as a fan and a coach. I’ve gone from “act like you’ve been there before” to “keep it clean and don’t humiliate the opponent.”

HS kids have a short attention span compared to even 15 years ago. College and pros can’t be much different.

Let them have their tik tok moments if it keeps them engaged and motivated.

As long as they have the ability to shift gears from that to being serious and tough and kicking ass, I have no problem with it at all. It’s only when you’re locked in “fun and games” mode and you can’t rise to the occasion that it’s a problem.

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

McDaniel ignores ex-player calling Dolphins 'soft'

Mike McDaniel said he's not concerned with former Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott calling last year's team "soft," adding "I just worry about this year's team."

www.espn.com

On an appearance on the "Punch Line Podcast," Pittsburgh Steelers safety DeShon Elliott said he was looking forward to playing the Baltimore Ravens this week because the team he played on last year -- the Dolphins -- was "soft as f---."

Elliott was part of a Miami team that went 11-6 last season, but the Dolphins lost 56-20 to the Ravens late in the season in a game that would have sealed an AFC East title if they'd won.

Speaking on the podcast, which is hosted by Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey, Elliott called out the "majority" of last year's Dolphins team.

"There were some guys who were tough, but the majority of the [Dolphins] were not mentally tough individuals," Elliott said. "So to be on a [Steelers] team with a full team of mentally tough guys going against a mentally tough team ... this is going to be fun."

 

[Fan Since the 70s]

More evidence of a team culture that just isn't compatible with winning in professional football:

'Soft': Dolphins LB says weather affected team

Miami Dolphins LB Jordyn Brooks said the team was "soft" playing in the cold weather and he believed the team allowed the cold temperatures to dictate its performance in Thursday's 30-17 loss to the Green Bay Packers.

www.espn.com

 

[PhinFan1968]

As they say "a team takes on the personality of its coach." Mike McDaniel's non-serious personality permits a "fun and games" team culture exemplified by a circus-like atmosphere and rehearsed end zone celebrations. Add to that the in-season Hard Knocks production and you have a team revolving far too much around "entertaining" and not enough around driven seriousness. When such a team encounters teams serious and determined to make the playoffs late in the season, it'll simply find it too difficult to switch gears on the fly all the way from "fun and games" to "all business," and it'll be beaten by such teams.

This is why the team's late-season second-half performance was so staggeringly poor in comparison to its late-season first-half performance, and more generally the reason for the downfall of the season overall.

Still accurate.