Brian Daboll in @ OC for the Dolphins.

[TheBestPlayersPlay]

It'll be interesting to see how he does. I think he's a good young OC that had a terrible lack of talent on the offensive side of the ball. I know most of you disagree.

[DirtyDawg]

I can see the Daboll haters now...

Brandon Marshall catches a long touchdown... "why didn't Daboll have Chansi Stuckey doing that !!!???"

[Masters]

Apparently Spags doesn't want to keep the job in MIA, which MIA tried to give away to Harbaugh.

[DaBrowns41]

Are we sure this isn't the PeeWee Dolphins from the Miniature Football league?

[Crow]

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[Riffer X]

Some of you guys are going to shit your pants if Dabs turns Miami's offense into a nice one. Don't forget who you are.

[Vegasdogg]

Where were all these Daboll fans when he was here? I know TBPP started a thread after BAL, other than that I've never seen such high praise for a guy who coached a team ranked at the very bottom the league for two years. Brian may be good he may suck. Who knows I guess. Using BD as a threat of future nose rubbing???

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[DaBrowns41]

Originally Posted by Riffer X

Some of you guys are going to shit your pants if Dabs turns Miami's offense into a nice one. Don't forget who you are.

He's not going to do that with Ronnie Brown and the wildcat that's for sure.

Not with Chad Henne either. But they have a nice WR corps in Marshall, Bess, and Hartline. Fasano can catch a little bit too.

Hell, if we just had Bess and Hartline that'd be an improvement over what crap we have.

[TheBestPlayersPlay]

Dabolls offense needs a #1 deep threat to thrive. Henne may not fit the bill, but we shall see. Maybe they draft a QB. I thinks Dabs is going to be a good one. I like his offense a hell of lot better than a pure WCO ...it looked ugly here, but that's more than understandable.

[Legacy Fan]

I'll be the 1st to shit my pants if the Fins make the playoffs. Remember who I am.


It was clear (Pats game) that Dabs had "the playbook" to win football games by beating the opposing team. It was also absurdly clear that he would consistently forget he had "the playbook."
Definitely a lack of talent/experience issue, but I'm not sure it's 100% a player problem.

[Flugel]

Originally Posted by Masters

Apparently Spags doesn't want to keep the job in MIA, which MIA tried to give away to Harbaugh.

Spags is in St Louis. You must be thinking of Sparano. Miami went after the most sought after candidate but Harbaugh chose to stay in CA. When Miami realized there weren't any obvious upgrades available - they didn't fire someone just to fire someone. Seems kind of sensible considering HOW MANY people are now talking themselves into Coordinator candidates like: Jim Mora Jr, Dick Jauron and Dave Wannestedt. These are all the people that have conditioned themselves over the years to think all we gotta do is fire the coach and anything has to be an upgrade. If that were so, I think we'd have more than 1 playoff win in the last 2 decades. I'm sorry, this starts the 3rd decade of in search of... From where I sit, the law of averages doesn't reward blinders.

Miami's biggest problem is QB; but I think they still won about 8 games or so considering. We've all seen BB's compiled winning percentages PRE-Tom Brady. Nobody was caling him a genius Head Coach until after Drew Bledsoe got injured.

The first thing Savage did was make Trent Doofus the face of the Cleveland Browns. Nothing tells a defense we're petrified quite like that. Pittsburgh LOVED Savage running our franchise. We had the same chances of beating them in that 4 year span that we had in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Everybody assumed RAC didn't know how to coach. The more I think about it - he went 10-6 with a defense in the bottom 10 and relacing Charlie Frye with Dumb Ass. Today? He works where Scott Pioli gets him PLAYERS (plural) and is part of 10-6. I get it. Meanwhile, the SAME Ken Whisenhunt that was SB material with Kurt Warner - was left picking the lesser of evils at starting QB this year. And how did he do with that? Wanna bet people wanted his OC getting walking papers? We ALL assumed RAC couldn't coach when we couldn't have our way toward seeing Brady Quinn holding onto the football too long as if it was NEVER once seen in practice. RAC got chased out of town for the convenient excuse of brady Quinn in hindsight 20/20. He never ONCE offered up the excuse that Savage put the rope around his neck with the out of scheme dlinemen he was trading away picks for or overpaying via free agency. The battign lineup of QB was Trent Dilfer leading off, Charlie's Fryes on deck, Dumb Ass in the hole and Brady's Quinn batting cleanup. You win with that group and you should be out finding cures for serious diseases.

Masters, you excuse Mike Holmgren for 4-12 football because you couldn't wait to tell me injuries caused him to start 3 different QBs. Changing criteria because you dislike Mangini - the Browns using 3 different QBs in 2010 wasn't worthy of excuse. And why? Holmgren won before with healthy QBs right? How did Mangini go 10-6 in NY? Winning via healthy starting QBs. And at 1 time, Favre was something like 9-3 prior to his arm tendon rupturing. Seems about the same winning percentage Holmgren used to get from Favre on average.

Are there really only about 4 or 5 fans here tired of this musical coaches thing? Why not give a 3 year plan 3 years when there's been some degree of commitment to upgrading personnel for whatever plans they have via scheme. The Titanic hit the ice berg /injury volume threshold when we were 5-7 and pressing the NY Jets into OT. People that would quickly excuse Mike Holmgren under these circumstances - assumed we just needed a Mike Holmgren at Head Coach that is so easy to get for a fraanchise in this condition. Look how fast Gruden accepted this challenge. Even faster than Bill Cowher did a couple years ago.

Has anyone ever thought those guys won't throw away their resumes on the inherited personnel Mangini and Rac just did? The Super heroes aren't interested. They know WHY as we gather up every defense mechanism and coping skill imaginable to pretend we hardly understand their thinking. When Cowher got to Pitt, there were enough legit starters to go 12-4 in his first season there. Front office. The ONLY coach they ever hired to transcend bad football into good football was a Russ Grimm type named Chuck Noll. Whoever did his drafting - was nailing picks from top to bottom for about 5 straight years. Nothing is more conducive to continuity and building the team toward upside.

[Flugel]

Originally Posted by Legacy Fan

I'll be the 1st to shit my pants if the Fins make the playoffs. Remember who I am.


It was clear (Pats game) that Dabs had "the playbook" to win football games by beating the opposing team. It was also absurdly clear that he would consistently forget he had "the playbook."
Definitely a lack of talent/experience issue, but I'm not sure it's 100% a player problem.

Fair enough - what WR here was causing the opposing DC to yank 1 of 8 or 9 bodies out of the box at the end of the year? Buffalo was able to put 9 men in the box when they saw Delhomme's mechanics and cold weather panics. That's how warm and fuzzy it got when McCoy wasn't healthy enough to start.

There's a reality here that isn't rocket science. When you KNOW all you have to do is stop Peyton Hillis - Delhomme isn't gonna beat you nor is anything we had employed playing the WR position. Does anyone REALLY think Cleveland is capable of beating NE, New Orlean and taking the Jets into OT with Delhomme or Wallace? This is what happens when your BEST QB can't play due to an injury. It's also the reality of why this team was soooo easy to adjust to. Load the box, put a DE in front of Watson to slow his release off the line of scrimmage; and please let your buddy Flugel understand where favorable matchup #1 was. If you can answer that within 15-20 seconds - playcalling is really as simple as I heard it should have been all along. That's about the time our OC had to get plays called into his QB so all his pawns could get lined up for the next manpower shortage. I'm pretty confident I knew what I was looking at.