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Top 5 things dolphins did wrong post cam cameron era.

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by pumpdogs, Nov 19, 2010.

  1. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    1. Hiring bill parcells
    2. Parcells interviewing Ryan and hiring sparno instead.
    3.Taking jake long over matt ryan.
    4.Picking up pennington which in turn(curse in disguise) we go 11-5 and puts a second year rebuilding program at the end of the draft.
    5.Not starting henne in year one.3 years later we still do not know if he is the man or not.
     
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  2. brandon27

    brandon27 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    1. Not really. He did help put together a good core of young talent for us. I;'m undecided on this one.
    2. I think I'm going to give you this one. I don't think Ryan was the guy for the job here though.
    3. Flat out wrong. Who was going to block for Ryan? Vernon the turnstile Carey? We'd have gotten him killed by now.
    4. Maybe... but Pennington has been a huge asset for this team in developing a guy like Henne.
    5. I dont think he should have started year one. Remember, he was a second round pick. We took him earlier than he probably should have gone as well. Its not too often 2nd round picks start first year, you usually know you have to do some development, and work out some issues with them.
     
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  3. Ohio Fanatic

    Ohio Fanatic Twuaddle or bust Club Member

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    Pumpdogs, the threads you start always give me a headache. please stop.
     
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  4. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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    Wrong we were devoid of talent. Did you see the tram before that?

    Wrong Miami owners are unwilling to pay over the salary cap in a capless year for wins. Let's see how Ryan does under an actual salary cap in the future.

    Wrong I shouldn't need to explain this...

    Wrong Penny is an asset that allowed a talentless team to believe in itself. FAs finally looked at us as a legitimate destination.


    Wrong you don't throw rookies into the fire with no OL, no WR, and no defense. No one would come out of that ok.




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  5. jetssuck

    jetssuck I hear Mandich's voice...

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    Say what you want, there's a good argument for every one of those points he made...
     
  6. Darrelle Revis

    Darrelle Revis I BELIEVE!

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    So Rex Ryan is not a stupid coach anymore? This is pathetic.
     
  7. gunn34

    gunn34 I miss Don & Dan

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    We did that to Beck.
     
  8. jupiterfin

    jupiterfin Mild Irritant

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    Yes it is.
     
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  9. JimToss

    JimToss Thank You Chad Pennington

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    5 Things you shouldn't do.

    1) Start stupid threads like this.
    2) Start stupid threads like this.
    3) Start stupid threads like this.
    4) Start stupid threads like this.
    5) Start stupid threads like this.
     
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  10. CaribPhin

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    Tell Matt Stafford about bad blocking.
     
  11. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Take your blinders off!!!!!!!!!!!!
    1 Right we have so much talent we are on our way to 7-9 for the second straight year
    2 Sexy rexy in his first year made it too the afc championship,2nd year they are 7-2
    3 Matt ryans falcons are 7-2 jake longs fins are 5-5
    4 No penny equals no 11-5.That year has set us back talent wise,how can you even argue this point.
    5 Matt ryan got thrown into the fire with a suspect offensive line,1 reciever,and a average defence.
    If we were so bad talent wise how did we finish 11-5?
     
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  12. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Thats the best you got?
     
  13. Gitrdone

    Gitrdone New Member

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    What Hospital is he staying at atm?
     
  14. gilv13

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    *facepalm*
     
  15. GARDENHEAD

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    1. Parcells put this team on the right direction. Easy to criticize Parcells without saying who you'd have hired instead.
    2. Rex Ryan??? Really? I don't want that guy representing my team. He's a classless jerk. A classless jerk who had one excellent playoff run.
    3. The Ryan vs. Long argument is valid.
    4. The Penny argument is not if you're rationale is draft positioning. Only losers want their team to lose games in order to gain draft positioning. Its a defeatist attitude. Plus, the draft is a crapshoot. You're telling me you'd rather go 7-9 and have the 12th pick in the draft instead of going 11-5 and getting the 25th pick? You're nuts.
    5. Not starting Henne was the right move. He had time to learn the NFL without getting killed or having his confidence shot.
     
  16. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Do you live in some alternate reality where 7-9 is a good year?
    How can you people be happy with 7-9 2 years in a row.I don't get it please explain it to me.This team is going nowhere fast. Why teams like the bucs,jets,falcons,to name a few are building there teams without the over the hill legend who has not won a superbowl in any form in 20 years.
    Hell the freaking rams are going to be probally better than us by next year because they had no problem putting thier qb in the first year just like the falcons and the bucs.But all you people act like there know way you play a qb the first year.Look around the league tools everybody from tampa to cleveland is doing it.
     
  17. muscle979

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    I disagree with number four. Penny was a winner and a guy you definitely wanted to have on your new team. Rex Ryan is a jack*** but it's hard to argue that his team hasn't been better prepared for this season. For whatever the reason. They are not that much more talented, if at all.
     
  18. CaribPhin

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    He and his right shoulder are at separate ones.
     
  19. unluckyluciano

    unluckyluciano For My Hero JetsSuck

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    Really? Sounds to me like he's suggesting we should have thrown a season to get an earlier pick.........
     
  20. RunRickyRun

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    1 We played the pats twice, steelers, chargers- theres 4 losses right there, with your second string qb.
    2 Rex has LT, Edwards, Holmes, JT, Scott. Name 1 guy who is a contributor who was not bought. Revis excluded because of injury.
    3 Matt Ryan has White and Turner. The phins got robbed in the steelers game and are on their 3rd string because of injuries at Qb
    4 Talent wise? We still have to hit on the draft pick. Not to mention, exactly who did we miss out on that year? Exactly.
    5 MATT RYAN HAS MICHAEL TURNER AND RODDY WHITE TO KEEP DEFENSES HONEST.
     
  21. Killerphins

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    Against the grain here but Cameron pushed Ronnie Brown and made him a good back.
     
  22. texanphinatic

    texanphinatic Senior Member

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    I hate the people saying Matt Ryan was doomed to fail here. Please.

    The line in Atlanta was nothing special either but the guy is still alive and thriving. We easily could have drafted Ryan/Sam Baker (as the Falcons did) instead of Long/Henne. They had Turner, we had Brown. And coincidentally, the year White actually took off and became a bigtime WR was the same year Matt Ryan arrived. Gasp, maybe Ryan was actually doing just as much to make THEM better as they were helping him?

    I love long, and Henne may still prove to a be a good choice, but anyone saying we made the right choice is drinking the coolaid. We have passed on franchise QBs since the Marino years and it's biting us in the *** repeatedly.
     
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  23. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Holy crap, there is somebody with some common sense on this site.
     
  24. frozenfin

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    No regrets about 2008.

    Parcells, Sparano, Pennington, and the 2008 Miami Dolphins reached deep into my chest and pulled out my love for Miami Dolphins football that I thought had died on the day the greatest football player of all time Dan Marino retired and the team was passed into the hands of complete incompetents.

    So the Dolphins were 7-9 only two years after being 1-15. That is hell of an improvement.

    Two years after being 3-13 in 2007, the Rams were 2-14 and 1-15 the following years.

    The Raiders went 7 years between 2003 and 2009 without winning more than 5 games.

    Only once in the last 11 years have the Buffalo Bills won more than 8 games.

    The Lions have not had a winning season since 2000 or been to the playoffs since 1999, or won a playoff game since 1991.

    The Redskins have won only 2 playoff games since 1992.

    The 49ers have not had a winning season since 2002.

    The Texans have never been to the playoffs in their 9 year history.

    The Titans have won only 2 playoff games since they were a yard away from winning the Super Bowl in 1999.

    The Cardinals have been to the playoffs only 6 times in the last 60 years and have not won a championship since 1947.

    The problems I have with the team are the direction we are going in 2010, not what happened in 2008 to pull this franchise out of the crapper. I do not regret the 2008 draft, not in getting Pennington, not in getting Parcells or Ireland or Sparano.

    It's easy to look at the Jets and the Falcons and see the improvements those franchises have made since 2007, and believe me it sucks really bad that my Miami Dolphins have seen all these other teams have their year in the sun when we haven't been the conference championship since 1992, but there are several franchises out there who envy our position.

    By the way, as of today Matt Ryan and Chad Henne have won the same number of playoff games... ZERO!

    Whenever you are upset about Bill Parcells coming in, go find a Lions fan to talk to.
     
  25. HeelsnPhins

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    OP, your posts in this thread are full of contradiction.

    You say you can't understand how people are satisfied with 7-9 seasons. Yet you suggest not playing Pennington would have been better for us in the long run because, gasp, we'd have ended up around 7-9 potentially. Bigger picture applies here too, man.

    You also suggest throwing Henne into the fire earlier than year 2 (and cite other teams that have done it, taking some lumps to spur the QB's development). I'm not going to say one way is better than the other, but the patience you'd show a QB in that situation is what's being denied to Henne in effectively his first year starting this year. Should he be better than rook with no bench time? Yep, and I believe he is.

    Not going to comment on Jake Long vs Ryan, as others have already laid it out.

    Would Ryan have posted a better record to this point than Sparano? Maybe, but I sure don't want him as our coach. I'd be embarrassed after every single press conference, regardless of a win/loss.
     
  26. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    First of all starting pennington did two things.It slowed down the progress of chad henne.Nobody knows after 2 years of starting if he is the answer or not including you and me.
    2nd I don't know how can I explain this any more simple for you to understand but players that rank in the top 10 of every round are usually better players than the second half of the draft where we picked.I would trade that 11-5 season in a second if we could compete for a superbowl title in 2010.We were a 11-5 team that was nowhere near as good as the record indicated.Three thing made this record possible,pennington not turning the ball over,the easy schedule,and it took a while for teams to fiqure out how to stop the wildcat.
    To make a long story short we had a lot of holes to fill and needed to be in the top 10 of every round to find some stars.This is one of the main reasons why this team is mediocre at best.
    I said this when we went 11-5 that is going to comeback and haunt us.
     
  27. RevRick

    RevRick Long Haired Leaping Gnome Club Member

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    Is there a green button, or a black X or something so I can put this joker on IGNORE!!!! EGAD... Which one of those teams mentioned came from a 1-15 record??????????????
    Bloody know-it-all Klutz.....
     
  28. mroz

    mroz Fix the OL Club Member

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    Nope he is still an idiot.... always will be as long as he is part of the Jets organization. Nuff said...
     
  29. anlgp

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    Rams, Falcons, and Bucs spent first rounders (two of them very high) on their QB. We got ours with a 2nd and a top LT to boot. Henne may not be the guy, but he's far from a horrid quarterback.

    We have yet to finish the season so I don't see how "two straight years with 7-9" comes into the argument.

    I'm far from thinking this season is a success, especially at this point, but I don't think we're as bad off as you're making it seem.
     
  30. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    First one of my points is we should have taken a qb in the first rd.
    He may not be horrid but you can't tell me with a straight face he is a franchise qb either.The bottom line is right now he isn't and we have no guarntte he is ever going to be.Matt ryan is on track to be a franchise qb.
    As for the 7-9 statement you are right the season is not over but I think this team will be 8-8 or 6-10 thats why I came up with 7-9.
     
  31. PS17

    PS17 NYJ 2010!!!

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    Right.

    :001_rolleyes:
     
  32. frozenfin

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    I can't tell you with a straight face that Matt Ryan is a franchise quarterback.

    At times he has looked as inaccurate as Henne does on his occassions.

    Matt Ryan is a popular name right now because the Falcons have the best record in the NFC, and last week Ryan and the Falcon offense did have an epic comeback against the Ravens. However... the Falcons have had a LOT of balls bounce their way to reach 7 wins. Their defense is playing well and forcing a lot of turnovers, at least 1 in every game this year. There are a lot more factors to the Falcons' success than drafting Matt Ryan. By the way the win vs Baltimore was the first game this year Ryan threw for 300 yards.

    He is solid, and has had more success than Henne, but for crying out loud it's not like we picked Ryan Leaf instead of Peyton Manning.
     
  33. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Here are some stats that prove you are a homer like almost everybody on this site.
    Tds and ints from the first 3 years as starters of the best qbs in the league the last 10 years this is the most important stats from the qb postion.
    Tds ints
    Peyton manning 85 58
    Drew brees 55 38
    Tom brady 69 38
    Matt ryan 54 30

    Now here is our guy in 2 years 20 24
    The only guy on the list with more ints than tds.The ratio is not even close.
    Plus matt ryan has still got 6 games to go to add to his td int ratio.
    How can you tell me his numbers don't compare to everyone except mannings?
    Wake the **** up.I am really sick of people posting with no facts!!!!!!!!
     
  34. Jaj

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    He's torched enough top defenses for me to think he could be the team's QB of the future. He's playing far too afraid right now and that comes heavily from Sparano.
     
  35. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Don't get me wrong I hope your right because above all things I want to see a superbowl before I die.But from what I have seen he looks like an average qb to me.You said he is playing afraid that means he is missing the moxy to be a franchise qb.Do you think marino,manning,brees,brady are afraid?
     
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    I don't think they are. They take their shots, but it's also possible that these over-anal coaches ****ed him up royally in off-season. Henne last year without Marshall was much more aggressive. The performance was no worse than this version. Against Tenn he got picked off, big deal. It was a 45 yard punt.

    The worst thing they did was never finding a consistent OL constantly mutilating the damn line, allowing it to heal, then mutilating it again. Here's an idea. Sign Ryan Kalil, move Carey to guard, draft Carimi and that's it. Anytime Sparano tries to make a change ***** slap him or electrocute him. Well what if we put McQuistan here... AGGGHHHH **** that hurt. No Sparano... No...

    Leave it alone, ****ing over-anal, no stability fool.
     
  37. Killerphins

    Killerphins The Finger

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    Brees didn't have that moxy you speak of either in his first three seasons with the Chargers...... 29 TD's 31 INT's
     
  38. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    This is incorrect in his first 3 years as starter he had 55 tds 38 ints.
     
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    There's nothing incorrect about what he posted. He said first three seasons. Henne has had three seasons, not three years starting.
     
  40. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Brees first season he played 1 game 15 for 27 1 td 1 int.
    3 season started 55 tds 38 ints.
    Maybe he can do what brees did in his 4th season,I hope so.
     

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