http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/26/3069411/on-field-teaching-paying-dividends.html "Rookie right tackle Jonathan Martin and third-year right guard John Jerry also have improved steadily under offensive line coach Jim Turner, who — like Sherman and Taylor — coached at Texas A&M last season. Turner had 20 years coaching experience, but none in the NFL. Turner has taught Martin “tons of things to help my transition to the right side go smoother,” Martin said. Mike Pouncey, who has become one of the NFL’s top centers in his second season, likes that this staff runs practice plays until they’re done correctly. “This staff is hard on everybody; doesn’t matter who you are,” Pouncey said. “They won’t sugarcoat.” And Pouncey said players were bound to improve more this past offseason than in 2011, when offseason practices were wiped out by the lockout. But Sherman is still demanding more from himself, especially with tight end Charles Clay, whose production has fallen off in his second year. Part of that “is on me,” Sherman said. The Dolphins also want more development from rookies Michael Egnew and Lamar Miller, and second-year back Daniel Thomas, among others. On defense, several players in their first four seasons have clearly improved, including cornerbacks Sean Smith and Carroll, safeties Reshad Jones and Chris Clemons and linebacker Koa Misi. What has helped, Smith said, is that the coaches have fostered a “positive environment” and “preach staying disciplined in fundamentals throughout the game.” There is a little video of the players practicing in the bubble...Look at John Jerry pull in the first minute...he looks to be about 345 there..and quick. If Martin and Jerry wind up having solid years, from where they were in the beginning, he's a freakin gold mine as a coach..his boys at Texas am are real good..
I had always wondered why the previous Staff and this Staff showed such little faith in John Jerry, imo when he filled in for Big Jake at LT he did a fine job.
Forgot what the hell that felt like. Jesus, this franchise has been in the toilet practically my entire adult life.
As opposed to Morano, who never criticized anyone. Hell we all saw on Hard Knocks how Sherman simply didnt give a **** and called out our TEs for being ****ty.
I don't think there was a bigger Philbin flunky than me. The reason I was so gung ho for this guy is the from day one his goal as a coach was to teach. You could see that demeanor in his interviews and PCs.
I would agree that development is at least among one of the most important factors in the NFL. And my belief that Philbin would create a culture to foster development (particularly at QB) was one of the reasons he was my first choice. I've been complaining up until last year, that our coaches did not put our QBs in situations with high win probabilities. Far too often they would throw the players out and just tell them to perform, but they didn't do enough teaching and the play selection did not give them a high probability of success. That's not what I see now. Generally, I would say that for most teams the coaching is close enough that it's a non-factor, but I believe that with this staff we actually have an advantage. I believe that advantage is two fold. On game day I expect that we'll be prepared and that we'll make reasonable adjustments. They won't always be right, but they'll at least be logical and right a large percentage of the time. This part is less important (fans and media pay far too much attention to things like clock management. These are relatively minor things), but at least I feel we'll never be out-coached. But the big deal is how they're developing our players for the long-term. IMO Ireland has a very good eye for talent, but it's been largely wasted as a result of coaching turnover and lack of player development. I think that going forward (I'm thinking over the next 5 years) we'll see Miami thought of as a very talented team as our players will develop and we'll have more wins. You need the wins for the talent to be recognized. (Media and fans don't generally understand enough to look beyond a W/L record).
I think its because he reminded me of my favorite teacher growing up. The cadence of speech, the calm demeanor, the constant thinking ahead you could see going on in his head are all very similar to this teacher I had. Its funny too, because every talked about how this teacher's class was boring the first month of school. But slowly, you bonded with him and started to buy into what he was preaching. By the end of the year, you legitimately depressed you weren't going to have him as teacher next year. All that kind of matches up with how fans have perceived Philbin.
I had a teacher exactly like that when I was a sophmore/junior in H.S. He was my favorite teacher and taught me things that I still use in my daily life. I never made the conection from his teaching style to Philbin coaching style until I read your post.
I only made the connection because they both are named Joe and when Philbin made an effort to explain he was a teacher, it just clicked.
