10-19-2020, 12:49 PM
(10-19-2020, 12:20 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Are the other 30 coaches all in the 2nd year too?
Look, you've got two coaches who took over at the same time. One inherited a 7 win team, one inherited a 6 win team. That's about as close a comparison you're ever going to find.
And, if anything, the fact the Dolphins went into full rebuild mode should make early success more difficult for Flores.
I'm serious, please take a couple of seconds look at his current roster. Look at last year's too. This guy is winning ball games with a whole lot less to work with.
You can speak about holding on to vet deals all you'd like. The fact of the matter is, the Dolphins are building for the future not immediate success. (They have a ton of picks and cap space) Their current roster stinks. Yet they're doing quite well.
See my reply to Yojimbo above for why I think the whole comparison is a pointless exercise.
I'm not sure how else I can say it. It's like both teams are on a 2 step back, 3 step forward trajectory. But we're still on our second step back, and because they essentially started earlier (because of how management handled things, not because of the relative experience of their coach), they're on their first step forward.
I know the Dolphin's roster well enough. They're not as talentless as you say (you can't count Green/Atkins/Dunlap as talent for us if you also think we should've ditched them). But even so, the logical end point of your argument should be that 31 teams should fire their head coach at the end of the year. I mean if you can find a better coach out there yours obviously sucks, right? Believe me I'd rather have Flores, but we don't, so we take our two steps back and then start all over again? And besides, right now they've won exactly 1.5 games more than we have (including one against the Jets which barely counts) and the game last year was about as close as a game can get without ending in a tie.
Ok now in a nutshell: so Flores is a better coach, so what?
