our head coach.

"Finatik wrote:

Blah blah blah. Can someone come with a new take? This one is tired and played out.

Wow

"Finatik wrote:

Too keep posting the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again makes for a horrible read and adds NOTHING to the discussion. Tua sucks. Yeah ok. Btw Tua sucks. Yeah you saiid that. Tua sucks. Got anything else? Tua sucks. Yeah but what else. Tua sucks. At some point it's been said and we can move on more interesting things.

Why is it that you focus only on Tua? I don't really think of Tua being involved in those end zone celebrations they're talking about.

"Finatik wrote:

True on your 1st part.

As for being engaged, I don't think its engaging to have that repeated stuff. So it's a slippery slope either way. But hey I just thought I'd throw it out there and try and move it in a different direction. Fins Up.

BTW you don't think my Cheerleader of the Week posts are interesting? LoL.

Actually, no, I don't find the cheerleader posts interesting.

I don't come here for cheerleaders.

"resnor wrote:

Actually, no, I don't find the cheerleader posts interesting.

I don't come here for cheerleaders.

Cheerleaders are part of the game and they're part of the team.

BTW that was posted in jest.

"mlb1399 wrote:

If you don’t want people to voice opinions on the Dolphins, just shut down the site. Or simply dont post if you have nothing to add.

Right can you ignore a mod this dudes the rudest poster on the site lately.

"Finatik wrote:

Cheerleaders are part of the game and they're part of the team.

BTW that was posted in jest.

You apparently didn't get the the hidden meaning in my post.

Not surprised.

"Finatik wrote:

Too keep posting the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again makes for a horrible read and adds NOTHING to the discussion. Tua sucks. Yeah ok. Btw Tua sucks. Yeah you saiid that. Tua sucks. Got anything else? Tua sucks. Yeah but what else. Tua sucks. At some point it's been said and we can move on more interesting things.

It’s called trolling and spamming.

"Finatik wrote:

Too keep posting the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again makes for a horrible read and adds NOTHING to the discussion. Tua sucks. Yeah ok. Btw Tua sucks. Yeah you saiid that. Tua sucks. Got anything else? Tua sucks. Yeah but what else. Tua sucks. At some point it's been said and we can move on more interesting things.

This is crossing the line as a mod which is something you have been doing a lot lately:
He is not someone who just goes around saying Tua sucks. That’s not right. What interesting things do you have you say? I’m not seeing anything.

"Fishhead wrote:

The “fake slide” is really irritating. The defender is forced to hold up (from full speed) and not hit a qb in his slide, but he somehow has to kick it back into gear if the guy starts running again? Pretty much impossible and patently unfair for the defense.

It should either be a 15 yard unsportsman like penalty on the QB or the NFL starts treating running QB's like a RB.

It's ridiculous at this stage, it makes my blood boil watching Mahomes tip toe along the sideline waiting on a defender coming to hit him, he then steps out of bounds and claims for a roughing the passer call.

"TheHighExhaulted wrote:

You old guys really have to get over the celebration aspect of the game today. Every team does this. It's encouraged, they even have little celebration cameras in the end zone.

What they showed on Hard Knocks was at the end of practice, while walking to the locker room, a couple of the guys would spend two minutes coming up with a touchdown celebration. Their was no elaborate choreographed broadway plays.

It wasn't so much the choreographed celebration that annoyed me, it was more the timing of it in the Titans game. The offence had sucked donkey balls all night, the defence gives them a really short field and they finally punch it in for a TD to take a 14 point lead. The whole offence runs to do their celebration as if the game if over and it seemed to spread to the defence who totally forgot to play for the last 4 minutes.

"Springveldt wrote:

It wasn't so much the choreographed celebration that annoyed me, it was more the timing of it in the Titans game. The offence had sucked donkey balls all night, the defence gives them a really short field and they finally punch it in for a TD to take a 14 point lead. The whole offence runs to do their celebration as if the game if over and it seemed to spread to the defence who totally forgot to play for the last 4 minutes.

This was posted the day after that game and hit the nail squarely on the head in my opinion:

"Crash Jensen wrote:

That's called being serious. What McDaniel is not.

Belicheck dresses like a homeless guy. Opposite of serious.

"Dol-Fan Dupree wrote:

Belicheck dresses like a homeless guy. Opposite of serious.

“A team takes on the personality of its coach,” not the wardrobe of its coach.

"Crash Jensen wrote:

“A team takes on the personality of its coach,” not the wardrobe of its coach.

Without Brady that personality hasn't done sh!t.

In the last 13 years, the Steelers and "serious Tomlin" have made the playoffs 7 times. 4 of those times went 1 and done. Made the AFCCG once, and lost. In 13 years they've won 4 playoff games. In the past 6 years they've done what the Dolphins have done. Made the playoffs 2 times and lost both times in the WC round.

I love Acho, but he has not one idea of what happens in that locker room. McD's personality in front of the media doesn't necessarily reflect his private convo's with his players.

McD's personality doesn't cause injuries. And injuries are why this team didn't win the division and have a home playoff game.

"danmarino wrote:

Without Brady that personality hasn't done sh!t.

In the last 13 years, the Steelers and "serious Tomlin" have made the playoffs 7 times. 4 of those times went 1 and done. Made the AFCCG once, and lost. In 13 years they've won 4 playoff games. In the past 6 years they've done what the Dolphins have done. Made the playoffs 2 times and lost both times in the WC round.

I love Acho, but he has not one idea of what happens in that locker room. McD's personality in front of the media doesn't necessarily reflect his private convo's with his players.

McD's personality doesn't cause injuries. And injuries are why this team didn't win the division and have a home playoff game.

Coaches’ effective personalities are necessary but not sufficient for winning.

"Crash Jensen wrote:

Coaches’ effective personalities are necessary but not sufficient for winning.

There are basically two types of personalities:

A "Player's Coach"
A disciplinarian

Both types have had great success in the NFL

"danmarino wrote:

There are basically two types of personalities:

A "Player's Coach"
A disciplinarian

Both types have had great success in the NFL

Dan Campbell is a players’ coach, but he is serious and driven and not goofy. You won’t find a historical exemplar of McDaniel’s goofy, non-serious personality that won big in the NFL.

In other words, your putting coaches into those two simple categories does not distinguish among them in a nuanced enough manner.

"Crash Jensen wrote:

Dan Campbell is a players’ coach, but he is serious and driven and not goofy. You won’t find a historical exemplar of McDaniel’s goofy, non-serious personality that won big in the NFL.

In other words, your putting coaches into those two simple categories does not distinguish among them in a nuanced enough manner.

You keep calling McDaniel "non serious", "not driven" and it couldn't be further from the truth. Just because he doesn't yell and scream and cry like a baboon like Campbell doesn't mean he doesn't take it serious.

McDaniel was out of the NFL for a couple of years because he had a serious drinking problem. He is not taking things for granted and not taking things "non serious".

"TheHighExhaulted wrote:

You keep calling McDaniel "non serious", "not driven" and it couldn't be further from the truth. Just because he doesn't yell and scream and cry like a baboon like Campbell doesn't mean he doesn't take it serious.

McDaniel was out of the NFL for a couple of years because he had a serious drinking problem. He is not taking things for granted and not taking things "non serious".

How McDaniel feels on the inside and how he relates to his players can be two totally different things.

A team takes on the personality of its coach —> coach relates to his players in a goofy, non-serious manner —> team has difficulty becoming serious when the need arises.

Not sure why anything other than that would be expected. It’s a pretty simple process.

"Crash Jensen wrote:

A takes on the personality of its coach —> coach relates to his players in a goofy, non-serious manner —> team has difficulty becoming serious when the need arises.

Not sure why anything other than that would be expected. It’s a pretty simple process.

Are you in the building?

"Crash Jensen wrote:

Dan Campbell is a players’ coach, but he is serious and driven and not goofy. You won’t find a historical exemplar of McDaniel’s goofy, non-serious personality that won big in the NFL.

In other words, your putting coaches into those two simple categories does not distinguish among them in a nuanced enough manner.

Yes Mcdaniels methods are quite unprecedented.

We’ll see next year

"Crash Jensen wrote:

Dan Campbell is a players’ coach, but he is serious and driven and not goofy. You won’t find a historical exemplar of McDaniel’s goofy, non-serious personality that won big in the NFL.

In other words, your putting coaches into those two simple categories does not distinguish among them in a nuanced enough manner.

None of us knows how he deals with players off camera, at a personal level. To say it’s the same as how he deals with the media is speculation, plain and simple.

I'm not necessarily agaist McDaniel's style, per se, but I do feel like the team wasn't mentally strong. Like they just didn't seem to have that heart or fire in those late season games. McDaniel has got to find a way to change that.

Maybe he needs some real hard ass assistants to balance him. I dunno.

“our head coach”

…Isn’t Dan Campbell anymore.