http://phinphanatic.com/2009/06/07/solid-stories-you-may-have-missed/ A Miami Dolphins blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:07:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://phinphanatic.com/2009/06/07/solid-stories-you-may-have-missed/comment-page-1/#comment-3002 Deof Movestofca Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:42:36 +0000 http://phinphanatic.com/?p=4117#comment-3002 <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/1085231.html" rel="nofollow">Jimmy Johnson lives the high-life!</a>: Another writer recently revealed his mancrush with helmet hair at http://views.washingtonpost.com/theleague/panelists/2009/05/jimmy-johnson-holmgren-shanahan-nfl-coach-wang.html and I wanted to add the following comment except that they seemed to have been blocked: JJ's success with the Cowboys has more to do with the stupidity of the Vikes' FO than with his own coaching\GM skill.  Although he gets some credit for suckering the Vikes and using the picks shrewdly (and trading away players he didn't want to obtain even more picks from the Vikes), the Cowboys' turnaround would have taken much longer (if it had occurred at all) without the trade.  It was his inflexibility to adapt his uber-important offensive scheme to the Dolphins' players that was the main impetus for the rift between him and Marino while his infatuation with his risk-taking wheeler-dealer persona that led to several questionable personnel decisions and ultimately doomed the Dolphins to mediocrity during his time there.  And if that wasn't bad enough, he then names the woefully inept Wanny as his successor. If I remember correctly, Tony Dungy was hired the same year by the Bucs and I can't stop wondering what the 'Phins would have been like if they had hired him instead.  Not that that was likely as Huizinga seemed more interested in getting a "big name". Jimmy Johnson lives the high-life!: Another writer recently revealed his mancrush with helmet hair at http://views.washingtonpost.com/theleague/panelists/2009/05/jimmy-johnson-holmgren-shanahan-nfl-coach-wang.html and I wanted to add the following comment except that they seemed to have been blocked:
JJ’s success with the Cowboys has more to do with the stupidity of the Vikes’ FO than with his own coaching\GM skill.  Although he gets some credit for suckering the Vikes and using the picks shrewdly (and trading away players he didn’t want to obtain even more picks from the Vikes), the Cowboys’ turnaround would have taken much longer (if it had occurred at all) without the trade.  It was his inflexibility to adapt his uber-important offensive scheme to the Dolphins’ players that was the main impetus for the rift between him and Marino while his infatuation with his risk-taking wheeler-dealer persona that led to several questionable personnel decisions and ultimately doomed the Dolphins to mediocrity during his time there.  And if that wasn’t bad enough, he then names the woefully inept Wanny as his successor.
If I remember correctly, Tony Dungy was hired the same year by the Bucs and I can’t stop wondering what the ‘Phins would have been like if they had hired him instead.  Not that that was likely as Huizinga seemed more interested in getting a “big name”.

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