The words from Tony Sparano's mouth

wait, was was the litte thing between sparano and smith?

"djphinfan wrote:

wait, was was the litte thing between sparano and smith?

Apparently he violated some team rule. I thought I heard it was a twitter thing but not sure.

(On what most concerned him after watching film) – “Efficiency.”

Drink

(On how so and if he could elaborate on the previous question)– “I have this thing that I believe in called hidden yardage that happens in the game. I think it’s a way that you win and lose, okay. My team is educated on how you win and lose in this league. There educated on how many close games we’ve been in over the last couple of years and how many that we’ve won. In this game we committed 19 minus plays. Now that’s not just offense. That has to do with penalties, that has to do with minus runs, that has to do with sacks, that has to do with any of those things. Now you have a chance to get some back on the other side of the ball by forcing them to commit some of those. We didn’t do that—they only committed six. So, we forced defensively six minus plays and we had either offensively or defensively we had some defensive penalties we had a special teams penalty—19 of them that totaled about137 yards. They had 27 yards worth of minus plays. In my book, that’s about 110 yards and that’s about 8 or 9 points that we gave up during the game. Plus we threw a red zone interception which goes against all the rules. So, from an efficiency standpoint, we eliminate some of the minus plays during the course of the game and take care of the ball in the red zone—we won a turnover battle and lost the game. That doesn’t happen too many times in this league, okay. So, that’s what I mean when I say efficient. We can get a lot better at that.

drink two more... (did he say standpoint too?)

(On creating turnovers in contrast with the lack of efficiency) – “Well the efficiency part of things is just—you put 11 guys out there on a play okay and one guy—(you know) we talked a little bit about it in here today after practice. But it could be one guy that does the most minor thing—but that minor thing can cause a minus play. And on defense sometimes you can cover it up. Eventually it’ll get back and bit ya, but you can cover it up a little bit by effort. Sometimes effort covers up a bad play over there. On offense you’ll get exposed fast that you won’t be able to cover it up. And I think that that’s the part that we just need to clean up. (I’m sure—I can’t say every team, but there’s a lot of teams in the league right now I’m sure they’re going through the same thing—I really don’t care about that, really (only) worried my own group—but that’s where we have to get better at. So, we need to improve in that area.”

and...drink another...

Hell, he even threw in a STANDPOINT!

Mr.'' efficient'' His favorite word.....

'pretty this'' and ''pretty that'' is what drives me up the wall.

Seems to me Parcells has taught Tony the fine art of talking a lot without really saying anything that can be considered useful.

"PhinsRock wrote:

Seems to me Parcells has taught Tony the fine art of talking a lot without really saying anything that can be considered useful.

They have quite gag order on the team. Between Camarillo being traded out of no where, injuries to key people that remain "undisclosed", and the future of PW going publicly unaddressed they certainly know how to contain the spin. I have always been very proud of that.