Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
It's the 50th Anniversary of the Miami Dolphins this season. Stadium was renovated, we spent the most of any team for one player in off season free agency, DLine was billed as possibly one of the best in the NFL, the offense was supposed to be able to score 20-30 points a game with a 4th year QB set to enter his prime soon.
And things did not go as planned. Most die hard Dolphin fans knew that Joe Philbin should have been shown the door 2 years ago during bullygate, somehow he survived with Soupy Sales owning the team. Things have not gone right and it starts with the owner.
Enter the Man. I laughed at the press conference as you can pull most asst coaches in the NFL in the TE/OL/DL/LB asst coaches and you will find a lot of heavy testosterone. Campbell is not unique in his old school manly approach about how to kick butt. Here were some highlights of his pre-game and halftime speeches including gargling ox blood, wrestling a bear and headbutting an alligator. Some of his halftime adjustments included shaving his stubble with a flaming ax then draws up plays with blood from Rambo knife to his chest. (I stole all that)
Many Phinsfans are running to scream "Sign this Man" and I say hold your horses. I loved what I saw yesterday and I love that they are running Oklahoma drills as they deserved them for this awful 1-3 start and zero intensity. It's amazing what a change in coaching can do. I don't know if Campbell can really coach or not. He had a lot of help yesterday and still made some critical errors but he is learning on the job and wins like this will allow him a lot of leeway in the next few weeks. He's 1 for 1 on challenges so there's that.
It was awesome to see Cameron Wake rack 4 sacks in 1 half. I know Suh helps free him up and Suh was very active. Vernon had a cheap hit on Mariota and I felt bad about that even though he says he didn't mean to. I would not want that kind of hit on THill. Miami kind of crippled the Titans as MM is their offense, when he isn't right they are toast.
I wonder how long high energy can carry a football team. I assumed that most teams had that type of energy every week but then I look around the NFL at teams like Balt and NO who are down with SB winning coaches who might need to get out of the way for NEW BLOOD. And that's what Man Campbell is right now, he's new blood. But in a division with 3 other teams that are pretty good. Buffalo has no offense right now with injuries but NE and NY look for real. Buffalo will get it together, Miami rounds out one of the toughest divisions to buy a win in the NFL right now. I know it was the Titans but they lost to Jax, almost to Wash, and got blown out by Buff and NY, we get to play the Bills and Jets again, looking forward to those contests.
If Miami can beat Houston next week and get back to .500, would go a long way with the schedule ahead. Miami says Campbell has a legit audition to become the head coach, my question is what do you do at the end of the season should he get this team playing well? What if they finish 9-7, just miss the playoffs and the team is playing hard...do you really extend this guy 3 seasons when there will surely be big names ready to be interviewed this off season? Only in maimi do these things happen. We whiffed on Harbaugh, we whiffed on Fisher, we whiffed on Todd Bowles(2-1 record here), we whiffed on Rex Ryan who just wanted another AFC East team to coach and continue to be a PIA to BB and the rest of the AFC East, Phins are always playing catch up where NE is a trend setter and out in front of everyone.
I hope this is the beginning of something special, it felt right, the players have a lot of respect for Man C, it's obvious. But I am reminded of all the failings for the better part of the last 15-20 years so excuse me if I am skeptical or at least suffer from shell shock. Many Miami fans are in shell shock this morning but it's the good kind.
-Cheers
And things did not go as planned. Most die hard Dolphin fans knew that Joe Philbin should have been shown the door 2 years ago during bullygate, somehow he survived with Soupy Sales owning the team. Things have not gone right and it starts with the owner.
Enter the Man. I laughed at the press conference as you can pull most asst coaches in the NFL in the TE/OL/DL/LB asst coaches and you will find a lot of heavy testosterone. Campbell is not unique in his old school manly approach about how to kick butt. Here were some highlights of his pre-game and halftime speeches including gargling ox blood, wrestling a bear and headbutting an alligator. Some of his halftime adjustments included shaving his stubble with a flaming ax then draws up plays with blood from Rambo knife to his chest. (I stole all that)
Many Phinsfans are running to scream "Sign this Man" and I say hold your horses. I loved what I saw yesterday and I love that they are running Oklahoma drills as they deserved them for this awful 1-3 start and zero intensity. It's amazing what a change in coaching can do. I don't know if Campbell can really coach or not. He had a lot of help yesterday and still made some critical errors but he is learning on the job and wins like this will allow him a lot of leeway in the next few weeks. He's 1 for 1 on challenges so there's that.
It was awesome to see Cameron Wake rack 4 sacks in 1 half. I know Suh helps free him up and Suh was very active. Vernon had a cheap hit on Mariota and I felt bad about that even though he says he didn't mean to. I would not want that kind of hit on THill. Miami kind of crippled the Titans as MM is their offense, when he isn't right they are toast.
I wonder how long high energy can carry a football team. I assumed that most teams had that type of energy every week but then I look around the NFL at teams like Balt and NO who are down with SB winning coaches who might need to get out of the way for NEW BLOOD. And that's what Man Campbell is right now, he's new blood. But in a division with 3 other teams that are pretty good. Buffalo has no offense right now with injuries but NE and NY look for real. Buffalo will get it together, Miami rounds out one of the toughest divisions to buy a win in the NFL right now. I know it was the Titans but they lost to Jax, almost to Wash, and got blown out by Buff and NY, we get to play the Bills and Jets again, looking forward to those contests.
If Miami can beat Houston next week and get back to .500, would go a long way with the schedule ahead. Miami says Campbell has a legit audition to become the head coach, my question is what do you do at the end of the season should he get this team playing well? What if they finish 9-7, just miss the playoffs and the team is playing hard...do you really extend this guy 3 seasons when there will surely be big names ready to be interviewed this off season? Only in maimi do these things happen. We whiffed on Harbaugh, we whiffed on Fisher, we whiffed on Todd Bowles(2-1 record here), we whiffed on Rex Ryan who just wanted another AFC East team to coach and continue to be a PIA to BB and the rest of the AFC East, Phins are always playing catch up where NE is a trend setter and out in front of everyone.
I hope this is the beginning of something special, it felt right, the players have a lot of respect for Man C, it's obvious. But I am reminded of all the failings for the better part of the last 15-20 years so excuse me if I am skeptical or at least suffer from shell shock. Many Miami fans are in shell shock this morning but it's the good kind.
-Cheers
