Common guys, this sounds to me more like a witch hunt than resonable, knowledgeable football fans sharing points of view. Why is it that Wannstedt stayed here for what? 4 years? While the other 2 coaches we have had since Shula where sacrificed, burnt and their blood used to satisfy the thirst of the media and fans? Ill tell you why, Wins-Losses. Why is it that people are driven by W-L rather than by the understanding of football fundamentals and weather these are being addressed or not? So yes people GET over it, the Shula-Marino era is over, we cant go by winning season past winning season every year anymore. When you start building a house, by its grounding, its gonna take time until its ready to be habitated, but if you go out and decide you rather stay on a mobile home for the rest of your lives rather than wait until the house is ready, you are making a mistake. Yes we where spoiled having a winning franchise, or like in the analogy says a mansion for 25 years or so, well its over, a mudslide called time ran over our mansion into debris. Its time to build us a new one. We started off great with JJ, he brought this team to the playoffs on his second year while renewing almost every spot on the roster, rejuvinating it, bringing it into to the new salary cap era, stockpiling talent from the draft. But he had to renew the QB spot too. Our 35+ yo QB wasnt gonna hold up long enough to see this flourish. When the rumors of him trying to push Marino onto retirement started to leak, it spelled the begging of the end for him in Miami. Then when it was known to everyone Marino was retiring, we made it to the playoffs again, the hope of a SB ring for a our legend grew on every Phins fan, then the Jags tore that hope apart. The fans and media where running wild, Marino was leaving! And his fingers wore no testament of his greatness! JJ was the ran out of town by the fans and media, and while Wayne never fired him, and probably still longs for his promised come back, the fans thirst for blood was satisfied. Our mansion had taken shape once again, but we where pretty much left with an unfinished first floor, rather than our 3 storie 5,000 sq meter palace. And on came Wannstedt, he kept patching and gluing and taping together that first floor, and never went on and built anything else. We where left hanging onto JJs players while not aquiring much new talent for other positions and sinking into the salary cap abyss resigning over and over again the only good players we had. Then the Ricky Williams incident came up, coupled with losing our starting DTs to injury, Wanstedts puppet theater fell down. The two basic principles of JJs and DWs philosophy where lost, stop the run and run the ball well. We couldnt do Jack on offense and on defense teams just had to run the ball down out throats in their way to easy TDs. Im glad that happened though, no matter how horrible his personnel management was, as long as the record was respectable we would kept him there, running the team to the ground. Then the "Sabanator" the "Nicktator" Nick Saban came up. The dude took us to a VERY respectable 9-7 record along with a very productive 2005 draft which netted 3 starters the next year plus another 1 down the road. But during the first ten games of the year people didnt realize any of that, they where calling for his head as he sported a 3-7 losing record, some people actually said that year was even more ambarrasing than the previous at some point during the season. Some people where pissed that he was dismantling that first floor we where holding on to. Some people wanted to keep the Pat Surtains, Sam Madisons here for ever. Then he got himself HIS QB, one that was not ready to play by any means on his first year, and people ran them both out of town, claiming he should have drafted one instead, Yeah right like the rookie could have started on his first year. Nick Saban didnt quit on the Miami Dolphins the media and the fans did. The man had a bad combination on his character, he was a perfectionist and had a very high image of himself, but at the same time had a psyche that was a fragile as china paper. But damn was he a good coach and talent evaluator. You may deny this if you wish, but try and remember when was the last time 2 consecutive first rounders we drafted where hits? Ronnie and Jason sure look like hits to me. Now we are doing the same to Cam. I dont know how many 7-9s and 8-8s I could endure with a coack like Wanny, but I sure can take a 1-15 or 0-16 once in a while in exchange for being above .500 for another 25 years.
