Alpha Dogs/Culture Change

Personally I find that pretty hollow. An alpha coach sets the tone and demands respect, he doesn't have to search it out thru players in his roster.

Suh and Jarvis were alphas but we’re also sh##y leaders..

"Carmen Cygni wrote:

Personally I find that pretty hollow. An alpha coach sets the tone and demands respect, he doesn't have to search it out thru players in his roster.

WADR, all coaches, need player leaders. Shula was an alpha, but he still player leaders to keep the locker rom and various positional rooms doing what they were supposed to.

Maybe it's just me but Gase looks like he's going crazy. Maybe he'll snap this year.

"Destroyer wrote:

Maybe it's just me but Gase looks like he's going crazy. Maybe he'll snap this year.

It's all or nothing. For the franchise it's good because he's got no excuses and we'll know after this year with a high degree of certainty whether he's our coach of the future or a flop.

Gase is an alpha play caller we will find out if he’s an alpha coach.

I don’t get the feeling he’s an alpha personnel manager

Being a Type A personality doesn’t equate to being a good leader.

Being a SELFLESS Type A personality on the other hand...

I do not take Adam Gase's press conferences with anything but with a grain of salt.

I do not think he uses them to convey a message to the fans. I think he uses them as a coaching device and for his own amusement.

"Dol-Fan Dupree wrote:

I do not take Adam Gase's press conferences with anything but with a grain of salt.

I do not think he uses them to convey a message to the fans. I think he uses them as a coaching device and for his own amusement.

Man i hear that. I've given up on every hearing anything of real value from a press conference. They all appear to be half truths and obfuscations anymore.

"Destroyer wrote:

Maybe it's just me but Gase looks like he's going crazy. Maybe he'll snap this year.

He definitely has the crazy eyes (see reference HIMYM) in this interview...

Man I never really noticed it until now but Gase has crazy man eyes WTF he looks psycothic in that interview

fake Alphas.. Jarvis landry and N Suh..

beat the pats, talk smack then the following week your team doesn't show.

"djphinfan wrote:

fake Alphas.. Jarvis landry and N Suh..

beat the pats, talk smack then the following week your team doesn't show.

Suh is definitely an alpha DT. That's silly to suggest otherwise.

Being an alpha doesn’t equal leadership. Plenty of selfish Alpha dogs in the NFL who hurt their teams.

"Carmen Cygni wrote:

Suh is definitely an alpha DT. That's silly to suggest otherwise.

Well, I remember a quote Suh made a few years back that he was the only one doing anything on defense- that nobody except for maybe one other player was preparing right and giving their full effort. You're right- only an alpha could make a statement like that. But the way he said it basically called 20+ other guys on defense a piece of garbage...that's not how you inspire and unite a team.

A leader makes people around him better and it sounds like Suh was often doing the opposite. Then you look at a guy like Harris who enters the league and says that Cam Wake and JT are working hard with him in the off-season...and these guys are replying that the kid is soaking up all the info he can get his hands on. Suh also praised Harris for his work ethic and dedication- but where's the part where Suh is mentoring this kid and helping him get better? We don't see that anywhere.

So there's a big difference between a leader and an alpha- they're not always one in the same like Wake is.

"KeyFin wrote:

A leader makes people around him better and it sounds like Suh was often doing the opposite. Then you look at a guy like Harris who enters the league and says that Cam Wake and JT are working hard with him in the off-season...and these guys are replying that the kid is soaking up all the info he can get his hands on. Suh also praised Harris for his work ethic and dedication- but where's the part where Suh is mentoring this kid and helping him get better? We don't see that anywhere.

So there's a big difference between a leader and an alpha- they're not always one in the same like Wake is.

Considering vets usually mentor players within their own positional group . . .

“I just didn’t feel a big vet like that would be as open to helping a young guy like me,” Phillips said, “but he took on the role and put me under his wing.”

Suh went to the extent of inviting Phillips to join him in Oregon for three weeks between the end of minicamp in June and the start of training camp. There, the two worked out for about two hours a day.

“He just came up to me one day and asked me if I wanted to go train with him to see how he works,” Phillips said, “and it was a good opportunity just to see all the things that he does and why he’s great.”

http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/article-1/Suh-Serving-As-A-Mentor-To-Phillips/f8567a9b-f955-4fb1-a9f6-de11bb2013fd

"Carmen Cygni wrote:

Suh is definitely an alpha DT. That's silly to suggest otherwise.

we might have different definitions..alphas should be great leaders no?

"djphinfan wrote:

we might have different definitions..alphas should be great leaders no?

Googled it and this is what they said...

What are the characteristics of an alpha male?

Characteristics of a Real Man. The Alpha Male, the real man, a man's man, a warrior, a stand-up guy. It doesn't matter what you call him, he's a leader, the guy others look to for motivation, inspiration, and often with a hint of jealousy. He's the man women want, without inention the center of attention.Nov 1, 2012

Now that I know what I am NOT. I will go hide in my hole now. ;-)

"Galant wrote:

Dolphins coach Adam Gase says staff using “brutal honesty” in offseason evaluations https://t.co/aA6BOsDExB

— PB Post Sports (@pbpsports) April 4, 2018

That's one thing I've always liked about Gase- he's one of the few that will come out and admit he messed up. I think it's crucial to have that honesty because you can't move on and get better without it.

If you notice though, almost every time Gase is interviewed and someone mentions 6-10, he brings up having his starting QB on the field again. We're a completely different team with Tannehill on the field and I can't wait to see him return.

He literally doesn't blink.

"Carmen Cygni wrote:

Personally I find that pretty hollow. An alpha coach sets the tone and demands respect, he doesn't have to search it out thru players in his roster.

Respectfully, I think this is a very hollow assessment of leadership.

I’m at the point in my Dolphin fandom that it’s prove it and I take everything with a grain of salt. We’ve been hearing crap like this for over a decade with no major progress. Their words are meaningless until they prove it on the field.

"Adam Gase appeared on WQAM-560’s Joe Rose Show Thursday morning, and covered a lot of important ground.

So let’s get to it:

▪ The Dolphins lost a lot of star power this offseason (Ndamukong Suh, Jarvis Landry and Mike Pouncey, to name a few) but believe they got better. Here’s why.

1. The way the Dolphins finished the season (three straight losses when three straight wins would have put them in the playoffs) told Gase a lot about who he wanted on his team in 2018.

“When we look back at it, just the fact that we were right there in the mix at the end,” Gase said. “We end up winning against New England and we have a great shot to go into Buffalo and really make a move and take a rough season and turn that thing around real fast. We didn't get it done. It was not the team we wanted to be.

“When you hear the word ‘frontrunner’ used by people to describe us, that's something that's not going to be accepted here,” Gase continued. “We're going to make changes and we're going to make sure we get the right people that are going to do things the way we want them. The end of the year told myself a lot, as far as who was in and who was out.”

2. Cutting Suh’s was the biggest (and most controversial) move of the past few weeks, but beyond chemistry and culture concerns, it appears simply did not fit into the sort of defense the Dolphins want to run with Chrisi Kocurek running the D-line. Suh would have counted more than $50 million against the cap the next two years — too much to have him on the bench. His snap count in 2017 reflected that. He was on field for 84 percent of the Dolphins’ defensive plays. The Dolphins want to go rotational in 2018.

“We talked about this, how we want to play this thing. The way that Chris Kocurek is going to coach these guys, and the expectation level of how they're going play. He wants these guys to pursue the ball. An eight-man rotation is kind of what Philly did this year, to where, not just defensive ends but I'm talking about defensive tackles too. These guys are going to be pursuing the ball down the field. They're not going to be able to play 80 snaps a game, because that's how much effort they're going to be giving. If that means we need eight guys up every game and we're going to give the kind of effort that I've seen Chris Kocurek's guys have given over the years as defensive line coach, I'm all for it. I want to see the passion and the effort that I've seen out of his guys in the past. I want to see our guys doing that.”

▪ Two ACL injuries in eight months ruined Ryan Tannehill’s 2017 season, and by extension, the Dolphins’ 2017 season.

But Gase said Tannehill, since his surgery some seven months ago, “has given you everything he has. He's gone above and beyond in his rehab. He is really pushing hard to make sure that he's better than he's ever been, especially healthy-wise.”

Gase expects Tannehill to work with the team this spring, but will “be smart with what we do in practice. See how everything goes. But if I try to restrict him in any way, that's going not go over real well with him. He's such a competitor. He knows his body. He knows how he's feeling.”

▪ A series of injuries have stunted DeVante Parker’s growth as a pro, but the Dolphins still have hopes that their former first-round pick can be an elite player.

“He wants to be one of those guys that people are talking about at the top,” Gase said. “He wants that. He's done so much to try to put himself in a position to where he can stay healthy. When he gets on the field, he knows exactly what the quarterback is looking for and when he gets the opportunity to make plays, he makes plays. It hasn't gone perfect for him, where he's had injuries.”

Parker dealt with a high-ankle sprain for most of last season, but still caught a career-high 57 balls for 670 yards and a touchdown.

▪ Jarvis Landry was ejected on his final snap as a Dolphin. He got kicked out of the Bills game for starting an ugly fight, and that behavior seems to have contributed to the Dolphins’ decision to trade him to Cleveland.

“After that last game, that was hard,” Gase said. “With him and Drake getting ejected, it was such a rough way for that last game to end and our season to end that way. He had a great season. I wish we would have won more games. It was good to get him touchdowns to make sure that wasn't a topic of converastion. I know that something going into the season we wanted to make sure did a good in the red zone and make sure we gave him opportunities to get into the end zone. That worked out. Overall as a team, it just didin't work out the way we wanted to. That what happens when a guy has a lot of production. He gets into that last year of his contract. It's tough to go through those business decisions and those contract negotiations. Those things can get pretty intense sometimes.”"