IMO: Joe Philbin | One Big Reason This Team is Playing Well

Good thing the OWNER a lot of people dislike............PICKED Philbin...........huh?

 

This should be talked about more.

I think people have heard the words but I don't think they understand how significant it is for a team lead by a rookie HC and rookie QB to lose 2 straight overtime games, then turn around and win 3 in a row. Now we hear 30 players showed up to work out on their day off after destroying their hated division rival.........

It is so very much a new era in Miami.

 

I agree. I was happy that we went with Philbin over McCoy.

And all the criticisms about picking up a wrapper or being soft from Hard Knocks never really made sense to me.

This is certainly good to hear about the players showing up on their off day. I would, however, like to know how this compares to other teams' player turnouts on off days. Or even compared to the turnout during the Sparano era.

 

I don't remember the buying into the program quotes from players under the previous coaching staffs. So that is true and a good sign.

But I do remember a lot of "the players love playing for Sparano" talk.

I think those two are different, and the former being much more important which has led to much more team success. In any job that has 11 people trying to accomplish 1 common goal, the best way to accomplish that goal is to have all 11 people, not only working in unison, but believing that what they're doing individually is making a positive impact in accomplishing that goal. That's buying in.

It's nice in practice to hear "That's a good job Chad, K....Nice throw, K.......keep it up, and we'll be tough to beat this week, K." That will get players to appreciate you and love playing for you. But I don't think that unison was ever achieved amongst the whole team or amongst the units on the team. I don't think all the players had that belief that if I do my job and execute my simple task, then it will effectively help our offense succeed, whereas if I fail in executing I could bring the whole job to failure.

It's why Philbin is always going around saying that football is simple and if you can count to 4 you can play football. I think he's basically saying "Do your job. Execute your task, and everything else will come together"

 

Its really the difference between having a parent that wants to be your best friend and a parent that actually parents.