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Would Don Shula have been successful with the current Dolphins Depth Chart?

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Legendary Don Shula coached the Miami Dolphins to five Super Bowls, winning two, and finished his 33-year career with the National Football League's winningest record of 347-173-6. Shula, who was unanimously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997, coached the 1972 Dolphins to a perfect 17-0 season.

With those impressive accomplishments Would Shula have been successful with the Dolphins current roster?
 
I think Shula would have been successful even with the 2007 Dolphins. Not win the division successful, but 6 or 7 wins. I see some similarities to how Shula was "back in the day" with today's coaching philosophy. Give him this year's team and he'd do fine. His '72 and '73 team had some very good (okay, Hall of Fame) players but were they Hall of Fame players because they were individually great or were they great because they were a Shula-coached Dolphin? I like to think it was a little of both.
 
Hard to compare really. One thing with Schula...He could adapt. I think that was a very underestimated quality he had. His failing was his loyalty though. He, IMO, is one of the paragons of downward loyalty in the NFL. He kept coaches that really hurt him.
 
Don Shula's reputation with his players alone would have gotten him 6-7 wins with that 2007 team. They respected him and almost feared him, unlike with that coward Cam Cameron. That team lost many close games in 2007 because they were so poorly coached, that obviously would not have been the case had Shula helmed them, and they certainly wouldn't have quit on him after like 5 games.
 
GoonBoss said:
Hard to compare really. One thing with Schula...He could adapt. I think that was a very underestimated quality he had. His failing was his loyalty though. He, IMO, is one of the paragons of downward loyalty in the NFL. He kept coaches that really hurt him.
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Like...............Tom Olivadatti??
 
Shula always had his players prepared to play. Especially his Qb's. And he pretty much always had decent offensive lines. If he had a decent defensive coordinator. He would have been competitive.
 
As Bum Phillips once said about Shula...."He could take his'n and beat yours and he could take yours and beat his'n."

So yea....I feel like Shula could win with about any roster that isnt the Lions or as long as he didnt have John Beck or Daunte Culpepper at QB. Id have to agree with Bum.
 
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