There’s nothing like a long winning streak to change the feeling around a team and that’s certainly the case for the 2016 Miami Dolphins.
A 1-4 start to the season seemed to promise more of the same for a team that has been to the playoffs only once since the start of the 2002 season, but things turned around in Week Six. The Dolphins thumped the Steelers at home that Sunday and they haven’t looked back.
Sunday’s win over the 49ers leaves them at 7-4 and in possession of a Wild Card spot in the AFC as we move into December. The final five weeks will bring further tests for Adam Gase’s club, starting with next Sunday’s trip to Baltimore for a game that could have tiebreaker implications in that Wild Card race, but the last six weeks have provided plenty of reason to think the Dolphins can navigate them.
I remember earlier in the year many were saying Gase was a nonfactor with the Dolphins. When we both had the same record but after having a 6 game win streak do you guys believe we made a huge mistake keeping Fox here and letting Gase go?
Post by brasilbear on Nov 30, 2016 16:26:38 GMT -6
Some of us didn't want Fox and preferred Gase as HC, others claimed that to be against Fox meant you wanted Trestman back. Fun times the old board was.
Meh. It's in the past. The Bears aren't the Dolphins and pretending that Gase would have equal success with the youthful Bears compared to the veteran Dolphins is assuming a lot.
again more proof that we need to slow down on the ideas of making quick rash decisions on anything, coaches, players etc.
So going by Fox's old record with the Panthers and how bad his offense was, do you still consider him the HC of the future?
In the end does it matter what I think? I didn't want him hired. He's a middling coach, always has been.
I've said for awhile I won't care if he stays or if he's fired. But we, WE, shouldn't be so quick to decide what and why, b/c we mostly don't know. Just like PFF, we're just flying blind and throwing shit at the wall.
That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion, but to have a concrete judgement on a player or coach to quickly.
So going by Fox's old record with the Panthers and how bad his offense was, do you still consider him the HC of the future?
In the end does it matter what I think? I didn't want him hired. He's a middling coach, always has been.
I've said for awhile I won't care if he stays or if he's fired. But we, WE, shouldn't be so quick to decide what and why, b/c we mostly don't know. Just like PFF, we're just flying blind and throwing shit at the wall.
That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion, but to have a concrete judgement on a player or coach to quickly.
His best offense ever without Manning was 7th in the NFL. But mostly, with Carolina, they hovered in the bottom half in the NFL including: 26th in 2007, 27th in 2006, 30th in 2002, and 32 (worst) in 2011.
This was something I posted a while back talking about our lack luster offense.
Fox is a HC who loves a great defense but hasn't had a great offense.
The offense has been killing us this year. If we scored 24 points a game we would be in the race for a wildcard spot.