Playing Down to Inferior Opponents

It's called bad coaching.

there are 3 quarters left to play can you stay behind your team or gtfo

Damn it is just frustrating..the coaching staff on Defense and for along time I have wanted 2 Beasts DT's to shut down the run and get pressure up the middle

Can tell it has got your goat already young fella.

Besides the Bills, Dolphins have blown out all their inferior opponents. Stop it.

it's tannehill's fault.

Well our coach is Joe Failbin

Cant label any team inferior when we are on their level.

They knew this was coming and couldn't do anything about it. Both the offensive and defensive coaching has been totally inept.

There is no excuse for this defensive performance against the worst offense in the league and Tannehill's performance against one of the worst secondaries in the league isn't much better.

It's called not executing the gameplan

It's called the Miami Dolphins every year in the last 25.

Period.

Way to go Coyle.

I cannot imagine any owner (other than Ross) not looking at this game at this point in the season and not thinking, "This head coach is done."

I would lobby for the OC to stay - with whomever the new HC is - but there is no way you retain Philbin if we lose this game. We will have 6 losses and no way we win the next 4. It's also a Division game. Against a 2-9 team.

Such a poor game plan for a big game with extra days to prep

Wondering how many Dolphins Jets games the OP has watched. Better get used to it.

This season we've done well in a couple of games against inferior opponent but when you factor in last year too I think you see something that goes beyond any possible lack of talent etc. There's a mentality issue.

"Da 'Fins wrote:

I cannot imagine any owner (other than Ross) not looking at this game at this point in the season and not thinking, "This head coach is done."

I would lobby for the OC to stay - with whomever the new HC is - but there is no way you retain Philbin if we lose this game. We will have 6 losses and no way we win the next 4. It's also a Division game. Against a 2-9 team.

Problem is you can't bring in a new HC and force him to accept an OC (and I'd argue GM). It might happen that the new guy wants to keep the OC but not likely. The only way, now, to ditch Philbin and keep Lazor and Hickey is to promote Lazor. Not sold on that being a great idea though.

This is another downside of all those half-hearted changes and no cleaning house.

Actually this is similar to us using the wildcat the first time we rolled it out. The jets gameplan was true 1930s football. No shame being caught be surprise by the Jets gameplan.

seriously Geno Smith only had 8 pass attempts before their last drive, and we all saw what happened the one time the Jets had to pass the ball.
Meanwhile running the ball so extensively after they had a lead forced the phins into throwing more than they would like because of the clock, allowing the Jets to tee off in pass defence mode.

Ryan's wacky game plan deserves some credit. OK I'd like for our coaches to have responded quicker but the players stayed in the game and didn't give up like they would have last year.

We won. We played like crap but the Jets came to play. Give them credit. I don't care. We are 7-5 and in the driver's seat.

The Jets came to play. They had an innovative gameplan that was stalled in the second half. They dropped a lot into coverage that limited our intermediate game.

T-Hill had a gritty performance. He wasn't helped by either Wallace or Miller but he gutted it out with a (potentially) season defining strike to Sims.

Sometimes you just have to grind it out, get the W and forget about it.

Seriously? There are people describing the Jets game plan as "innovating" and a surprise?

They took the Broncos gameplan, and added some wide receiver run elements. Which even then isn't a ****ing surprise considering they've been doing it for several weeks now. Kevin Coyle knew goddamned well what was coming and still managed to get caught with his pants down for most of the game.

Meanwhile, you've got a reversion to the at this point fairly classic Joe Philbin tactic of retreating into your shell and playing small ball after any sort of mistake or adversity in a close, slow-paced game. That is of course until you've managed to whittle your time and effort down into that last single drive which has now become do or do.

They did a **** job coaching and escaped largely by virtue of playing a team made of it themselves.

I understand the frustration, but rivalry games are a different beast. The Jets did seem to have a game plan straight out of 1973, with a few twists. Happy with the victory.

"Nappy Roots wrote:

Besides the Bills, Dolphins have blown out all their inferior opponents. Stop it.

This. THIS! THIS! THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!