http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Fipp David Fipp, per Darlington per a West Coast Writer, is going to join the staff.
Heck of a risk, we are on the verge of having a very young Staff married to a very young roster. Fipp sounds qualified, but with Steve Crosby hanging out after being fired by the Chargers, I maybe would have preferred we had 2 of 3 units ran by Experienced Coordinators.
He's probably coming in to work with Rizzi. Although, I'm not sure what Rizzi has done to show that he's worthy of keeping his job.
I seem to remember reading here that the coverage units were actually worse under Rizzi than Bonamego.
Based on the fact that Sparano is on a tight leash with the owner and either has to turn the team around next year or be fired. Young coaches are the only coaches probably interested in coming to the Dolphins. The more experienced and proven assistant coaches want nothing to do with coming to a job which will probably be for one year only. Campbell and Daboll are young and really have nothing to lose, because they will get other coaching opportunities, no matter how bad the Dolphins are next year.
They gave up 4 returns for TD's, in fact we were almost as likely to surrender a return TD as to score a TD by running the ball.
He joined San Francisco in 2008 as an assistant special teams coach that year San Francisco had the third best special teams according to Football Outsiders In 2009 San Francisco dropped from 3rd best to 19th best special teams according to Football Outsiders In 2010 San Francisco dropped again from 19th best to 23rd best in the NFL Fipp inherited a special teams group that was 4th in the NFL in 2007 2008 went to 3rd 2009 went to 19th 2010 went to 23rd http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamst
Fascinating thing about that 2009 unit, their punt returner averaged 3.4 ypa...fairly sure their kick returns were subpar as well and that is why they added Ginn. Another thing to keep an eye on, Scott McKillop was a ST Ace in SF with 31 tackles but hurt his knee this yr, if he is healthy he is the sort of player we could used on ST if Dobbins and Spitler or Resetilli are deemed not suitable.
I would be inclined to agree with you, except that I think after last season, i think I am willing to take the gamble. Having experienced coordinators was not paying dividends. I think Sparano, who knows his own job is at risk in 2011, deserves credit for taking this gamble.
Well, it worked fine for the Defense, every Coach had plenty of experience. Offense and ST..not so much, Bonamego was very experienced, so was Henning, Lee and Rizzi were not experienced, neither was fmr Te coach Deleone. Hopefully Fipp can do some work here as imho Rizzi is in way over his head.
Why would you want anyone from San Diego's staff to help us on Special Teams? They might actually have bene worse than us last year.
Even the best Unit coaches in the NFL have off yrs Sammie, it happens. Crosby lost annual All Pro Kasim Osgood, and Tim Dobbins who was a key piece, Sproiles had a down yr and he lost his long snapper in the first game of the yr.
And they sucked ***. Rizzi isn't the answer but he was better than Bonamengo. I don't see much of an upgrade from anyone out of San diego. They haven't stood out on special teams in quite awhile. Either way, we need to fix that unit. Whether it was talent, coaching or both, we haven't been good since Westhoff.
Nah, Crosby's unit was consistently top 12, and he put the AFC ST pro bowler into the game for 4 of the last 5 yrs. Doesn't matter now as Rizzi and Fipp are on the job.. That is something of a myth Sammie, Keith Armstrong's units were good in Miami, until the 07 preseason when the core of the unit left via FA and they replaced them with no one, that unit was terrible, Armstrong was fired, hired by the Falcons and they broke an old Bills ST record for fewest return yards allowed in 2008, since he signed on they have been decent: 08: #7 09 #22 10: #2 In Miami he was also really good most yrs. Crosby: 06: #5 07: #3 08: #12 09:#16 10:#32
