I'm often mocked for my love of CFL football
However, it tracks the "modern" NFL in the sense that it is a pass happy league, and they have little hesitation in canning underperformers
Here today, gone tommorrow so to say
Jacque Chapdeline won a Grey Cup in 2011, he was fired this yr
Wally B is sort of the Don Shula of the CFL, his standard was if one has the talent, and it does not perform, that is on them, if one has the talent and you fail to make adjustments to adapt your guys, then you are fired
Based on that, my chopping block after this end of year debacle:
Kevin Coyle
Jim Turner
Jeff Ireland
Here is why:
Coyle is consistently to much of an idiot to coach my Defense, when we were up on the Panthers he called utterly moronic coverage based on what Cam Newton had done in College..in college mind you, it cost us the game
Jim Turner, your OLmen gave up the most sacks in Dolphins history, I'd drive to your house and hand you a pink slip myself
Jeffy: it's been a long tough road for you, as I watched John Jerry whiff on a short ydg block, and consider that the franchise could have had Jimmy Graham, and see your FA's consistently underperform, I'd fire you over a nice prime rib/w arrugala dinner and a couple of gin and tonics
Darren Rizzi, watch your ***, your unit consistently under performed
Mike Sherman, uhm, yeah, call screens when you, I, everyone knows they cannot cross a grocery store aisle let alone get out on the edge to block on a flanker screen
The talent was there, you guys blew it, Wally B would fire you, and so would I
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10-11 win season wasted. My advice is invest in Lithium as a good part of this fan base will be on it in the offseason.
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1. Ireland.
2. New GM fires all coaches.
3. New coaches fire Tannehill.
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I'm happy with THill's development and could live with another yr of Sherman/Tannehill.
The other guys though..wow..they MUST go..how in the hell our offensive line is this bad boggles my mind, I'd go straight up Executive Orders and chop anyone who had anything to do with them and it.
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I'm fine with Tannehill and really excited he is our Qb, but what I'm seeing is a systemic failure of the running game and a misidentification of Lb's and Offensive Linemen who can, you know, make plays or even do their jobsDucken likes this. -
Ireland should be a goner. Philbin will be kept on unless the new GM demands otherwise.
Coyle really shat the bed today. Defenses playing at home in week 17 for a chance at the playoffs should be dominating a team like the Jets. We had almost no pressure vs a mediocre Oline and a turnover prone QB with crappy WRs. Coyle has shown nothing more than average coaching ability. -
My take on Philbin is he is a good football mind he is allowing past relationships dictate his staff to heavily.
Put it this way, Ryan Tannehill has been the most successful Qb we've had since #13, that does not happen via accident, with no running game
Sherman can call whatever he wants, with an offensive line this bad, most of it won't work
Which left Tannehill's **** swinging in the wind, it all fell on him to cover that gap, add in his knee issue, which no one spoke of but I believe is a part of it, and Sherm and THill are mostly blameless -
Joe Philbin is an offensive coordinator. He's not a head coach.
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Wally B would NEVER accept missing the playoffs for 5 yrs, NEVER, heads would roll as soon as the locker room was cleaned out.
If I were Ross, I'd invite him out for a weekend and pick his brains a bit, Buono comes from a exxperienced pov w/no agenda one way or another, he'd just spit it the way it is -
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No more let's give ______ another year to see.... f*ck that. We have done that dance before.BlameItOnTheHenne and padre31 like this. -
Appreciate you popping in D22, said all along, this is the Wally Buono Standard
Wally would suffer 1 yr w/a young Qb, two yrs?
Maybe, no way that goes on for 3 yrs.
Granted, smaller league, to me that standard makes a lot of sense just add another year
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Pads, Coyle but not Sherman ? And Philbin gets a pass ? It's not easy to turn a streaking hot team into a total dud when it counts.
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The problem is...most of this will never happen. There will not be wholesale changes. Sherman will be asked if he wants to retire or come back for another season. Coyle will be back. So will the same cast of under achieving characters. How many years can we keep the John Jerrys of the world? The same guys who when the game is on the line...fail to even stay on their feet...none the less make a play? We have short yardage problems but don't even care to carry a FB on the roster? 16 weeks of the same problems and just keep on keeping on.. Nothing will change. As much as we hope it does...nothing will change
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Yeah, Joe gets a pass, up until he does not realize there is a problem, he's football mind is fine, I suspect his assistants have let him down, he needs to deal with that one -
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IF a new GM comes in and wants Philbin with major decisions made to the other coaches , I MAY be ok with that , but would not prefer it to be sure. If your HC can't get more effort and want and passion in your last 2 games against division rivals when you have a realistic chance to make the playoffs for the first time in what is 5 , 6 years? Holy crap that is telling at least to me . Like I said last week , it was HOW we lost ... happened again.
Can't accept that personally , can't see anyone doing that.
Last 2 weeks were a disaster. Plain and simple and for all the football world to see.LI phinfan and shula_guy like this. -
I've never said that before, just think Philbin's Vulcan mind would handle it well add in his preference for delegation and I think it would work much much better then this disjointed crap we are seeing now.
How are you going to use power running game OL's in a zone scheme?
As for Tannehill, keep in mind if the D had not **** the bed as often as it did his slide would not have mattered, the D punked up, that falls on Coyle -
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I'd drop kick Jeff Ireland out of Miami so fast his head would spin, hopefully Jim Turner would then rear end him creating a sort of black hole of incompetence somewhere -
Wasn't Jerry drafted under Planet-Theory Parcells lordship? That would explain why he was here, but why he stayed here is entirely on Ireland. He's about as useless as another udder on a boar at drafting/evaluating linemen, and that is the single worst problem on the team.
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I remain a bit cloudy on the chain of responsibility.
Clearly it ultimately rests on Irelands shoulders, but given that Jerry's tenure extends through this regime's, was it not imperative for Turner, Sherman, and Philbin to do their own evaluation, and make it clearly known that in their opinion Jerry was inadaquate or useless?
Once they stated their opinion on the record, would it not be up to Ireland to comply?
The fact he didn't address the issue, leads me to believe there was at most, a nominal demand made to replace him.
I find it unlikely Ireland would totally ignore the Oline, if the coaching staff was rattling chains to upgrade it.
Otoh, if no noise was made to upgrade, what incentive would Ireland have necessarily to dive in and start jerking with any potential chemistry, if Turner and his superiors remained hush? Its no secret judging the potential of Oline chemistry is a detailed specialty often difficult for even the most seasoned Line coaches to master. -
I don't understand how Philbin gets a pass.
Sherman and Coyle have been anything from inconsistent to awful all year, depending on your point of view. The team laid back to back eggs with the playoffs in the line.
That's all Philbins responsibility. I'd fire him tomorrow.
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Despite the attention that point has drawn, I'm at a loss as I never read the detailed facts surrounding that.
Does it completely excuse the coaching staff from making their opinions known regarding any other lineman? This, to at least have built a case for Ross to now consider, if there indeed was a case to build. -
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I am seeing a systematic/systemic failure of the coaching across the board. Highlighted by players that are not motivated to win.
Schemes:
There are coaches that know a scheme because that is what they learned.
then there are coaches that understand the working 's of the scheme and how to tweak it to get desired results.
Joe Philbin has a scheme from Greenbay. Based on several games this year and last, and especially the last two, the approach is all wrong. The approach is a$$end backwards
Philbin and staff are trying to get players to fit the scheme. Not fitting the scheme to the players. It is why we have had the large drop-off at linebacker. It's why there are zero adjustments. it is a$$end backwards. If we continue down this path we are doomed. Better to cut our losses and move on. We are not going to find players for a system when the Head coach and his staff has no idea how to modify it in game to get desired results. I for one are not interested in allowing Philbin 5 more years to maybe figure it out.