http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s...ort-miami-might-spend-a-mid-or-lower-r/nT7YK/ You may now overreact..... Seeing as though there has been a season in the books with Philbin/Sherman, what does everyone think of the O? Is it WCO on tap.....a little bit of this a little of that.....thoughts on the comment and the O in general?
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Vanilla is my favorite flavor. I think it's pointless to make judgements about his style of O, especially based after his first season here with this roster. You play to your strengths. You change. You acclimate to your given weapons. All coaches and coordinators mix things up now depending on what team or formations they face.
I had no issues with the offensive playcalling this year. And I'd hardly describe the Packers offense during his tenure as "vanilla".
Because of our current group of players, Philbin had to change his offense. Our O-line does not look like a zone blocking team yet. Need guards that can get to the 2nd level. Our WR's do not stretch the field or get seperation and our TE's can not threaten the seams of the field. I thought Philbin did a great job last year, not trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Some how we ended up with 7 wins, despite our personel not fitting the scheme.
My pulse rate isn't spiking over something said 10+ years ago. Also, how relevant is this comment, really? The Packers kept Mike Sherman's offense but variated it somewhat, and Mike McCarthy called plays. The Dolphins are now running Sherman's playbook. How much of Joe Philbin's philosophy is involved here? How much of his offense have we really seen over his last two jobs? It doesn't seem like an awful lot.
Vanilla is fine. The Colts were vanilla for years with Peyton Manning. As long as you can execute then you will be good. I do like some of the stuff that the 49ers have been doing though. They do a lot with different formations and movements before snapping the ball.
I think its too early to make a decision on the offense until all of the pieces are in place. The only thing I have any doubts about is Philbin's statement that Miami didn't need a #1 wide receiver, because that is pretty obvious to be false.
If you execute, it doesn't matter what flavor it is, and frankly who would care. If you're successful, people won't care if you throw, run, punt or whatever.
I find the whole concept of offenses being labeled "vanilla" problematic. "Vanilla" is just a term used for an offense that isn't elite basically. It's the same kind of thing that has play-calling criticized due to lack of offensive production, when the reality is there are complex, innovative offenses that don't perform and relatively simplistic ones that do.
Can only run vanilla when you've just put in your offense and don't have the talent to run more exotic flavors. Patience, Grasshopper. The 1972 Dolphins offense was vanilla. Everyone knew what was coming.
If Philbin's offense is Vanilla.....what flavor was Sparano/Hennings.....please don't answer that.....
Well it's not really Philbin's offense. It's Mike Sherman's offense. Considering it's virtually the same one he ran at Texas A&M.
Why...offenses of course. For ice cream, I like Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia or Cookie Dough. Compared to Ben & Jerry's all other ice creams are just blaaaa.
Sometimes, Jim Langer would tell the defense what they were going to run, then dare them to stop it. Or so that was one of the folk legends attached to the early 70s Dolphins anyway.
Well, despite the fact that Joe Philbin says that if you can count to four, you can learn his offense, his offense is relatively complex. It's complex enough that Lamar Miller, who may have been our best running back this year, did not play much because he could not learn the offense. The same goes for Michael Egnew, and it also goes for Charles Clay. It took the Dolphins a while to get him assimilated into the game plan, and once they started getting him involved, he gets injured.
Crap. There. I answered it. It was crap-flavored. Ive never tried that but Id imagine it wouldnt taste very good, just like those offenses werent very good.
I think with Miller the bigger issue was simply blitz pick up and thats something most rookie RB's struggle some with. With Egnew I think it was a little bit of playbook issues and needing to get stronger/become a better blocker.
Rihanna is my favorite flavor.. The only reason ill be watching the halftime show is for that Beyonce flavor, surely won't be for her music, even though I know your favorite song is " put a ring on it"..... Seriously if she sings that freakin song I'm gonna replace her in my top 5 out of shear stupidity. Really love Jennifer Lawrence right now, she's creamy vanilla..
Get better players than the other team, execute what they do the best, win championships..Gm needs to step up.
What about Haagen Das (sp?)? That's pretty damn good too. And anyone near the Cincinnati are will back me up when I say Greaters (also sp?) ice cream is amazing. Probably the best ice cream I've ever had is their black raspberry with dark chocolate chunk. Now if we want to venture into Soft serve discussion, then Byrne Dairy in Upstate New York is my favorite. Here in DC a place called Del Ray Dreamery serves up an amazing custard too. I'm a fat kid...