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Most of the discussion I see on here is centered around how our talent doesn't measure up. How our starters are not good enough at this position or that. Some positions all agree on like OG are our weakest. Some we disagree on like QB. Some of us were very optimistic going into this season based on the talent level on this team including virtually every NFL analyst in the world. Now we all lament we just don't have the talent.
Going into this season, the Patriots had no OL, and lost 3 more of what they had. No starting RB and lost the best they had. No real WR just a slot guy and lost him. No starting CB. And yet, they are undefeated with a roster less talented than the Dolphins before they lost all their starters!
In my opinion we don't have a lack of talent compared to any other NFL team. We have some positions that are weaker than others, so does everyone else. We have no coaching, from play design, schemes, teaching and understanding how to allow players to make plays using their talents and covering their weaknesses.
Everyone agreed that Parker is an extraordinarily talented WR. Yet for 7 weeks he was healthy and we couldn't get him involved in the game plan. We kept saying, he missed too much time in the preseason. You have to be kidding me. This guy is a football player. Are you telling me he couldn't learn 7 of the Dolphins passing routes in 7 weeks? This raises the question of whether every player that comes to Miami doesn't understand how to play their own position? Or is Miami over complicating things taking players natural abilities away from them? It is obvious with such a glaring example like Parker, but the same thing is also true with every other player on the team. This is why when Pro Bowl players come here, they can't contribute and when our cast offs go somewhere else like NE, they become Pro Bowlers.
In virtually every town in America there are high school football powerhouses. Every year, year in and year out they are contenders and often champions. Those players are 14 to 18 years old. Many having never played football at all before and they turn over their entire roster every 2 to 3 years. Yet somehow, like the Patriots, they are always contenders. The same thing is true in college football and the NFL. Then there are some teams, like the Dolphins, that are never contenders, they turn over the players every couple of years, with no improvement.
We need professional winners on the coaching staff that are not just placeholders. They need freedom from management to create the proper systems to take advantage of the roster they have. They need a game plan each week to exploit the opponent's weaknesses and play to our roster's strengths. Like our opponents are doing to us now. I like Campbell, but I am tired of the Dolphins being the minor leagues of coaching. Bringing in guys you give their first chance at running a team to see if they may be something some day. We need a guy like Cowher or Gruden or Shanahan that have built successful teams in the NFL and know how to do it.
Until that happens, the Patriots will always have the edge on us. We will draft and draft, and buy high priced free agents and still stay mediocre, year after year. We have been in this mode for 20+ years. That isn't the players, none of them have been on this roster for 20 years. Most of them hadn't started school yet 20 years ago. It isn't the players folks, it's the organization!
Going into this season, the Patriots had no OL, and lost 3 more of what they had. No starting RB and lost the best they had. No real WR just a slot guy and lost him. No starting CB. And yet, they are undefeated with a roster less talented than the Dolphins before they lost all their starters!
In my opinion we don't have a lack of talent compared to any other NFL team. We have some positions that are weaker than others, so does everyone else. We have no coaching, from play design, schemes, teaching and understanding how to allow players to make plays using their talents and covering their weaknesses.
Everyone agreed that Parker is an extraordinarily talented WR. Yet for 7 weeks he was healthy and we couldn't get him involved in the game plan. We kept saying, he missed too much time in the preseason. You have to be kidding me. This guy is a football player. Are you telling me he couldn't learn 7 of the Dolphins passing routes in 7 weeks? This raises the question of whether every player that comes to Miami doesn't understand how to play their own position? Or is Miami over complicating things taking players natural abilities away from them? It is obvious with such a glaring example like Parker, but the same thing is also true with every other player on the team. This is why when Pro Bowl players come here, they can't contribute and when our cast offs go somewhere else like NE, they become Pro Bowlers.
In virtually every town in America there are high school football powerhouses. Every year, year in and year out they are contenders and often champions. Those players are 14 to 18 years old. Many having never played football at all before and they turn over their entire roster every 2 to 3 years. Yet somehow, like the Patriots, they are always contenders. The same thing is true in college football and the NFL. Then there are some teams, like the Dolphins, that are never contenders, they turn over the players every couple of years, with no improvement.
We need professional winners on the coaching staff that are not just placeholders. They need freedom from management to create the proper systems to take advantage of the roster they have. They need a game plan each week to exploit the opponent's weaknesses and play to our roster's strengths. Like our opponents are doing to us now. I like Campbell, but I am tired of the Dolphins being the minor leagues of coaching. Bringing in guys you give their first chance at running a team to see if they may be something some day. We need a guy like Cowher or Gruden or Shanahan that have built successful teams in the NFL and know how to do it.
Until that happens, the Patriots will always have the edge on us. We will draft and draft, and buy high priced free agents and still stay mediocre, year after year. We have been in this mode for 20+ years. That isn't the players, none of them have been on this roster for 20 years. Most of them hadn't started school yet 20 years ago. It isn't the players folks, it's the organization!
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