Granted, the Fins are having a God awful season but to place the blame on Cameron is rediculous. He took over a team that didn't have a chance because of past coaches Saban and Wanny and GM Mueller. All anyone has to do is look over the Fins past drafts going back to 2000. That simply explains it all. 2000 Todd Wade - no longer with team Ben Kelly - no longer with team Deon Dyer - no longer with team Arturo Freeman - no longer with team Ernest Grant - no longer with team Jim Drunkonmiller (trade for a draft pick) - no longer with team Jeff Harris - no longer with team Note: no 1st round pick due to a JJ trade up the year before (to get Surtain, who is no longer with the team) 2001 Jamar Fletcher - no longer with team Chris Chambers - no longer with the team Travis Minor - no longer with team Morlon Greenwood - no longer with team Shawn Draper - no longer with team Brandon Whiney - no longer with team Josh Heupel - no longer with team Otis Levrette - no longer with team Rick Crowell - no longer with team Alonzo Mayes (trade for a draft pick) - no longer with team Matt Turk (trade for a draft pick) - no longer with team 2002 Seth McKinney - no longer with team Randy McMichael - no longer with team Omare Lowe - no longer with team Sam Simmons - no longer with team Cade McNown (trade for a draft pick) - no longer with team Jeff Ogden (trade for a draft pick) - no longer with team Leonard Henry - no longer with team Note: no 1st round pick due to the Ricky Williams trade Note: no 2nd round pick due to a trade up in 2001 2003 Eddie Moore - no longer with team Wade Smith - no longer with team Taylor Whitley - no longer with team Donald Lee - no longer with team JR Tolver - no longer with team Corey Jenkins - no longer with team Tim Provost - no longer with team Yeremiah Bell - on injured reserve Sage Rosenfels (trade for draft pick) no longer with team Davern Williams - no longer with team Note: no 1st round pick due to the Ricky Williams trade 2004 vernon Carey - starting left tackle Will Poole - no longer with team Tony Bua - no longer with team Rex Hadnot - starting guard Tony Pape - no longer with team Derrick Pope - decent reserve 2005 Ronnie Brown - solid starter AJ Feeley (trade) - no longer with team Matt Roth - solid starter Lamar Gordon (trade) - no longer with team Channing Crowder - solid starter Travis Daniels - decent reserve Anthony Alabi - decent reserve David Boston (trade)- no longer with team Kevin Vickerson - no longer with team 2006 Jason Allen - might just as well not be here for as invisible as he is Daunte Culpepper (trade) - no longer with team Derek Hagan - decent reserve Joe Toledo - on injured reserve Manny Wright - no longer with team Fred Evans - no longer with team Rodrique Wright - solid reserve Devin Aromoshodu - no longer with team ** There are no players from drafts 2000-2003 any longer on the team! *Keep in mind they also gave away a draft pick to get rid of AJ Feeley! Good Teams build through the draft but Miami has lived on Free Agents for the past number of years. No matter who the coach is, a year like this should have been eventually expected. Also, unless they move down in the next draft and gain a number of extra picks I don't see a light @ the end of the tunnel anytime soon. Good luck Fins - - You're going to need it!
there is a difference between whose fault it is and doing a job worthy of being the coach of the future you need to separate the two don't we want a coach to evince abilities to rise above troubles and have his team overperform? look at Jauron, he is in a 3 or 4 win situation and he has 7(almost 8!!) its not Jauron's fault that they aren't 9-4, but they have outperformed
I'll agree with your logic something that just does not go well with fans but Roth a solid starter? serviceable is more like it. Hagan decent reserve? ugh but yeah the drafts have been horrendous
Wrong. This isnt ENTIRELY Camerons Fault. He is AT Fault though. Those other coaches arent COACHING THIS TEAM. He is, its HIS job to get them motivated to play, which he isnt doing.
The only thing you can point the blame to Cameron is him not solidifing the QB position. He should have planned better knowing his primary starter could have been easily injured (which obviously was) with a good veteran backup.
i agree that none of this is Cams fault its not like he the one running the defense and hes not playing for the offense
The Fact is Cam CAmeron is the head coach of the Miami Dolphins,so yes its his fault the NFL record book says so. Now is this completly his team built player by player no, however these are his coaching decissions= trade for Trent Green, try ronnine brown out as a KO returner, waite 12 games into the season to use Lorenzo Booker as the player they drafted him to be a 3rd down back,all of his game calls are his and so on, this all ads up to 0 wins, so he must take some if not all the blame. One thought in all honesty just the team fielded to day forget drafts and how players got here simply the team as is now. how many wins would this team have if it was coached by a Cowher,Dungy or Belichick? my guess atleast 3-4 wins and thats ok considering the talent.
Nice post. What many simply choose to ignore in these posts is that many have posted over and over and over that they are basing their concern about Cameron by decisions and choices he has made in personell and game management. Yes, this roster is devoid of top talent because of past drafts. No argument there. What the coaching staff is doing or is failing to do with what we have now is a completely different discussion.
Cameron gets a lot of the blame. Cameron is not to blame for the horrid personnel decisions that have proceeded his tenure. Randy Mueller isn't either. But Cameron has had enough talent on this roster at some point in the season to win 2, or 3 games. They lost 6 games by 3 points, or less. A good coach is going to win a few of those, Cameron has not. He's made inexplicable game decisions that cannot be defended--play calls, timeouts, clock management, player substitution. The team is getting worse, not better. A team making progress improves over the course of a season, it doesn't regress. The Dolphins went from playing tight games against good teams, to getting embarrassed by awful teams. Now we hear that Cameron has lost the players. How can you bring a coach back that has no credibility with his players? How can you bring back a coach that goes 0-16? That would be an all-time record for NFL futility. Every expansion team since the Bucs has been more successful. Don't underestimate the historic nature of this debacle. The irony is that in the free agency era, when parity is supposed to be the natural order of things, teams are not supposed to go winless, or undefeated, and both are likely to happen this season.
bravo! well-said. i've been one who's been calling for patience with cameron...NO MORE. enough is enough. a litany of personnel mistakes; dammit, just look at lo booker and tell me he was held out of games, inactive on gamedays, with justification. bullcrap. just think how far along the kid would be now if he'd had more work with the first team all season - more work on the field. keeping ginn on st exclusively and not allowing him to start becoming accustomed to game speed from day one was another colossal blunder. a top-ten pick PLAYS, no if's and's or but's about it. carey at left tackle...yeah, what a stroke of genius that was! the kid was felling it at rt for the first time when these idiot coaches moved him, and now he has to take a road map with him to the bathroom. believing that lj shelton could play effectively ANYWHERE along this ol...self-explanatory. shelton is a black hole of football talent - not only does he suck, but he sucks so hard not even the talent of those around him can escape his gravity. releasing gado...what, 2, 3 times? when the kid can play like he did for us tonight? what, was he hiding some prodigy we don't know about somewhere? idiot. oh, and the play-calling...do you think that maybe if he called a pass on first down once in a while while beck WAS in the game, that the kid might connect? instead of having 9 in the box every first down, since even unborn children know that cameron will run on first down - then pass on third? yeah, some freaking offensive "genius" we got here. he's dave wannstedt - with worse players than wannstedt had. cameron needs to go. even mueller has to endure a long, hard look at this point.
I was ok with Carey at LT since he was ok. But Cameron's made one blunder after another and has shown why he should be an offensive coordinator and not head coach.
Cam is in charge. He picked 60 players. The Phins suck. Who else can be blamed except the guy in charge?
Yes, it is Cam Cameron's fault: (and it's already been pointed out by everyone in this thread) - You want to blame the lack of talent on the team: Who picked the players for this team? - You want to blame play calling: Who's been calling the plays for this team? (until recently it seems. funny how other people seem to have been calling the plays when things REALLY started to go down hill) - You wanna blame bad clock management: Hell, that's been Cam's undoing all season. Anyway you slice it, the HC is responsible for the ENTIRE team. Not just the offense, or the quarterbacks, or the special teams. Everything, from top to bottom. Cam needs to go, like now. Let Dom take over for the rest of the team then start from scratch. And for those of you worried about starting all over, tell me. What do we have to build on here? There's nothing to save or to build on for next season. Either way, we're still going to be starting all over again next season anyway. How bout we get someone in here who actually knows what they are doing. Do we really want a rookie HC rebuilding our franchise?