Eh I don’t have a problem with that. He wasn’t derogatory in his criticism. He said kilos generally good for 55 plays a game but the 5 he’s missing has hurt the team, and he’s right. He cited it being about player development and being the next step in their career. Public criticism comes with the territory and spotlight of being a pro athlete and likely these are things that have been or should have been said to the payer directly anyway.

However turnabout is fair play. The wide 9 sucks. It’s not a scheme I’ve ever been a fan of and I don’t believe it can work unless you run a 4-2-5 base d with two LBs that can play at the level of a Keuchly (i.e. instinctual players who have solid athletic ability and technically sound). He’s done a crappy job running it and getting payers in to position in many instances particularly with regards to Alonso so some of those failures are on Burke himself.

 

Kiko Alonso hasn't been a good player in years, which is why the decision to fast-track a new deal for him was baffling.

 

And when Vic Fangio becomes available in the offseason hopefully Gase kicks Burke to the curb

 

During the preseason and prior to Tannehill's injury I often said the success of this team for the year was going to rest on the shoulders of Matt Burke. Our defense last year was so atrocious I was elated with Vance Joseph was lured away to the Broncos. I didn't think he had what it took to be a good defensive coordinator. I also called for Wade Phillips to be our new DC following Joseph's departure.

Unlike many here, I'm a firm believer players don't truly "suck"...they are a product of their coaching and with that being said, I'm not sure the problem is with the players....Alonso, Wake, Suh, Jones or any other of our defensive players. I believe it's the defensive scheme itself. Matt Burke's defense has shown flashes of brilliance occasionally throughout the season, most notably against New England on MNF but as equally brilliant as his defense has been, it has been that horrible as well.

Coaching my friends makes all the difference in the world. I just don't truly believe that Burke was ready for this level just yet. We'll have to wait and see what happens next season. Does he stay or is he replaced?

 

Burke is completely right in his criticism. To see Tyrod shake off Wake and complete a pass was insane. That should have been a sack. Wake is better than that.

 

Not only coaching but the scheme itself. For instance, if a quick RB splits out wide and your answer is to have a linebacker follow him (like we did multiple times to opponents in recent weeks with Drake), it's pretty darn hard to fault the linebacker.

Some folks here have said Kiko is weak in coverage, for example...then why are we asking him to cover people in the first place? If we sent the punter out there to cover Gronk and he fails, is it really the punter's fault? It's common sense that the scheme and the coaching are bug factors on how we execute.

 

I also heard that Kiko always goes to the wrong room for linebacker meetings. He can't ever find the right door.

 

he goes to the one with the blue triangle that says "men"?

 

So Burke is right about Kiko because the OP has a hate hard-on for Kiko, but he's wrong about Wake because the OP has a love hard-on for Wake.

And overpaying?

This thread delivers...


Boik saved the thread with some rational thoughts and critical thinking.

Thank you, Boik.

The facts are, Kiko, as Boik alluded to, has had too much put on his plate. Kiko doesn't "suck". Wake doesn't suck. etc. All players at some time deserve criticism.

 

Burke was a mistake to hire, the worse position coach in the league and we made him DC

VJ was the worse DC in the league but Elway wanted a yes man to coach his team, now look at the Donks.

Both TD's against NE were on Kiko, the first Jills drive was 80% Kiko, they picked him a part. Kiko just hits gaps, mostly the wrong gaps and then makes tackles 8-10 yards down the field.

Wake, now he's one dimensional player, couldn't play the run if his life depended on it, and has whiffed more this season getting to the QB than in the past. We need multi dimensional players, not specialist, this team isn't one player away and if we keep bringing in guys that can only do part of their job correctly then we'll need to have 104 players on the sideline....

 

Absolutely right, most of Kikos' plays are mistakes, he has maybe 5 out of 60 that are good....

This team doesn't have a great LB on the field, so running a wide 9 is wrong, but tell that to Burke....Because he doesn't get it.

 

So true, that gave me a good chuckle.

 

We don't have the players that can run the wide 9.

 

This. The debate over whether the wide 9 is a viable D depends on having the right 9. Just like the 4-3 or the 3-4 or the knick knack paddywack give a dog a bone!

Key to success seems to be whether coach can take his n and beat your n and then take your n and beat his n.

If we aint got the peeps for da wide 9, why run it?

 

What is our base defense? I don't think you can run the wide 9 throughout a game.

 

I don't kiko could cover my old ***.Zero football instincts.

 

While Alonso is a trash LB (was also horrible at Mike last year), Burke should also be calling himself out.

The wide 9 isn't a defensive scheme. Never has been, never will be. The fact that we try to make it so is embarrassing and an indictment as to how incompetent our coaching staff is.

 

Well even Burke says Kiko sucks..

Yet the Dolphins decided they must sign this guy to an idiotic contract. Ever wonder why we haven't seen a SB in decades???

http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...ko-alonso-vs-tes-do-you-have-a-better-option/

 

“My stats on Kiko are probably different than a lot of people’s,” Burke said Thursday. “I don’t know. Do you have a better option you want to…?”

Enough said, do you have a better option..lol, yea I do, sign someone that can play the position.

 

In no way did that article mean that Burke thinks Kiko sucks.

 

Yes, I've been saying this for quite sometime. This is the problem when you hire people that have no idea what they're doing.

Burke, a position coach that was the worse in the league last year gets promoted to DC, and guilty as we've all seen of producing a D that can't play the Wide 9, yet instead of playing a D that our players can play, rams a scheme that they can't play and fails.

 

Remember Burke was under one of the worse DC's last year, VJ, who as we all have seen this year has failed over and over again as HC.