Why can't I quit you?
To Everyone who says "It's not that bad"....It isn't. It never is. You can always find hope in football. Young defense with playmakers, young team overall with solid QB in Henne who could fulfill his promise, injury riddled game, no O-line, etc. etc.
My point is that this regime has wanted to fill this team with tough guys that are injury resistant...Fail
They wanted to make a dominant O-line...Fail
They wanted to be able to run the ball at will...Fail
They wanted to develop Chad Henne...Fail
They wanted to tinker with the O-line to find the right mix...Fail
They wanted to blah, blah, blah...
To be honest, if the Dolphins were to fire Henning and keep Sparano next year, they would end up looking like the Bears. Not too inspiring.
OK, take it a step further and say you want to fire Sparano as well. Then you risk losing Mike Nolan and possibly making a lot of your players expendable depending on the style the new head coach wants to play. You're still looking at 1-2-3 years minimum.
The funny part is, even if you wanted to completely implode in order to get your Franchise QB via the draft, well, you're screwed there as well. why? because we're just successful enough to take that out of the equation.
The good news is no team is without hope from one season to the next and any team is capable of making the playoffs any given year. Even this fact is a cruel double edged sword that makes it difficult to quit being an NFL fan.
I'm at the Keyshawn Johnson moment with this team when Vinny Testaverde went down for the Jets and Keyshawn had nothing to say, he just hit the podium with his fists in frustration because he knew that his shot at the superbowl was finished.
I'm the Captain Ahab of fans (and I'm not the only one) forever seeking the white whale that is the Super Bowl before I stop watching altogether. Only now it seems as though I'm more akin to the Old Man and the Sea. In that, even if I stay alive long enough to see the Dolphins win a superbowl, the aggressive sharklike tendencies that have built up in the chase will rip apart that great prize of emotional satisfaction before I get it back to shore.
*a copy of this transcript can be had at "Lamentations-R-Us" or online at "NFL_Fan_Soliloquies.com":lol:
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So the Phins would be 7-3 right now? I'd go for that :shifty:
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the offensive line is the real culprit of this year's team. i would really like to hear the rationalization for dismantling it and replacing it with the players we chose. And I want to know why they were unable to run block consistently prior to the injuries
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here's all I would do...
keep Sparano, fire Henning, score points, win games, win the superbowl, have sex with hot beautiful womenPandarilla likes this. -
It's hard to question the players they got rid of. They played well when they first got here, but Justin Smiley's shoulder is shot and he's on the bench, Jake Grove fell off hard enough he's likely got his own permanent injury issues and is out of the league.Stitches likes this.
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this is what i suspect also but i wonder why we replaced them with pass blockers instead of run blockers. i really think this is the key to why we've been so up and down this year. is it poor evaluation? is it the offensive line coach? was this a conscious decison to go with pass blockers?