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Posted at Buffalobills.com.Unbelievable. You have an 0-12 team and for some reason think that it's a good idea to allow your players to stay up late to watch a fight the night before a 1pm game. Brilliant! I know he was trying to do something nice for his players, but do nice things for them on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Earlier in the season they had some fight in them - 6 L's by 3 points.Lately, especially against the Jets & Bills, this team has given up - mailed it in.
Nothing wrong with this... I know after I see a good fight (Boxing, UFC, etc) I'm pumped up for a couple of days. At this pt... whats there to lose.
Agreed. These are professionals.And does anyone think all the players are in bed by 9 p.m. or something? On the road?Hmmm, well, they were in Buffalo, so yeah, they probably would have been, but nonetheless, I am fine with this move by Cameron.That fight was over by midnight anyways, wasn't it? This is not a big deal.
When your professional performance is dictated by your physical abilities, staying out late on a night before your weekly performance (one of only 16 the entire year) seems like a poor decision and is definitely another indication why they Dolphins are so sorry this year.
I think the problem we are running into is people's definition of "staying out late."
There's a reason why NFL teams have established an 11 o'clock curfew. It allows for peak physical performance.This stuff is studied - not made up out of thin air.
Sure, and I am sure the Fins playes might have been better off in bed at 11:00, than 12:30 or whatever.But I also know that NFL players, when on the road, don't have dinner at 6:00, say their prayers at 8:30, and lie in bed in their pajamas with the little booties at 9:30, dreaming about touchdowns. Dolphins, Patriots, Jets, Giants, whoever.I am not applying the above statement to you, Andy, I am just pointing out that this would be a big deal if the Fins were gathering at a local bar, throwing back JaegerBombs till 4 in the morning. An organized team gathering to watch a boxing match? I see no problem with this at all.
Aren't guys fined and/or benched (even if for a series or two) if they break curfew?
I am sure it varies team to team, but Yes, I am sure all teams have punishments for breaking curfew. I am as sure of this as I am sure that all teams' players are not abiding by the curfew.And my point is that, of all the things contribuing to the Fins failure, I find it hard to find any significance in this item. I am not a Cam Cameron supporter, but I am fine with this move. Trying to hold a team together during a horrible season is more important than making sure all the players are locked in their rooms, 13 hours before a game.
I am not sure how you would study this. Allow players different curfew times over multiple years to come up with 11 p.m. My guess is teams came up with what they thought was a reasonable time to turn in.Amen.
Based on????? Maybe the fact that WRs drafted in the 2nd & 3rd round are outperforming him? Myabe on the fact that he has done nothing to support Cam's plan of some sort of Hester part 2? The only dumb thing is thinking that this guy should have been drafted in the top 10.
Actually the fight didn't even start until about midnight.
Gotcha. My mistake.
Andy, really.. On a team with holes all over the place, they let Welker go and then draft a guy that they pray may be as good with their top overall pick.... Best case sceario, Ginn is Santana Moss, and I was PISSED when the Jets drafed a Kick returner, hopeful decent WR at 19.
:( Wanstedt started this team into a downward spiral. Saban didn't improve anything and Camerons been there a year. You don't get this bad overnight. They've worked hard to get to this level. As for Ginn replacing Welker, he may. Ginn's is not talentless, and Cameron saw the team was building for the future. I dont' love the Ginn pick and Willis would have been a far better pick, both short and long term. But, Beck in the 2nd? I liked it. Time will tell if it was right, but theis team is at least 2-3 draftsf rom even 9-10 wins. Can these players contribute? Maybe. Can setting an atmosphere of team comraderie, led by the coach help? Probably more than any single draft.
Maybe I'm just reading it more of a criticism of Ginn than of the Dolphins. I can agree, I guess, that the Dolphins would have been better served going in a different direction.I won't argue that letting Welker go was their first mistake. But really, Ginn is showing flashes of being a game breaker. They wouldn't take Willis with Zach Thomas still on the roster.If anything, they should have taken Darrelle Revis.
Why? You don't think the Dolphins would like to have that pick back?
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I think Ginn was worth being a top 10 pick. Probably not to the Dolphins though.There. Now we can all be friends again.
That's fine. I have nothing against Ted Ginn. It's just that as a Bills fan, I still can't believe they didn't take Brady Quinn. Between the Miami Dolphins and Notre Dame, 2007 has been one of my favorite football seasons of all time.
I'd agree. Ginn looks like a rookie, and he was slow to come on. But, I see a guy with some play making ability. Quinn on the other hand. He's busy on Sunday, but doing what, I don't know. Maybe he's taping games for Cleveland? The Quinn pick to me wasn't the no brainer many make it out to be.
He's busy doing what Carson Palmer did his first year - learning.
Ouch.
Yep.That + Wannstadt are the biggest reasons this team is in a death spiral right now.And when they go 0-16 this year we'll get another coach next year which will make it 5 new coaches in 5 years.Absolutely brutal.
Come on. It was a joke. He made the commercial, not me. He's doing what almost all rookie QB's should do. I get that. I still don't think he was a no brainer pick though. do I love the Ginn pick? No. But, I'm not in the camp that feels it was a historically bad pick either.
From the result it would appear that the Fins' players were benched for at least a few series'. Maybe they were just told to not try for those ones instead of officially benching them.
Sorry, I didn't get it.
I think we agree on both Ginn and Quinn. Hey, is there any chance the Dolphins got confused on draft day and took the wrong guy since their names sound so similar. "Ginn!? NO! I said Quinn!! Well, I guess I'll go explain the pick..."
