Miami Dolphins’ Joe Philbin Lacks Fire After Win
One of the best things I love about the Miami Dolphins victory is the post-game locker room speech that the NFL shares on their website. It allows you to see Joe Philbin’s speech to the Miami Dolphins players. One key thing that I have noticed is the lack of fire or energy from the coach, basically the message is lacking any enthusiasm.
Don`t get me wrong, yesterday victory over the Chicago Bears was huge! Great win for our entire team in all phases of the game. The players showed up and more importantly we left Chicago with the win. This was an important victory for the Miami Dolphins as it erased that ugly feeling we saw from last weeks 4th quarter collapse against the Green Bay Packers. Watching the video of Philbin, I was hoping for a passionate, aggressive and enthusiastic speech to his players. A speech, that would show his players how important this victory was.
Now, the video was edited so us the fans did not have the opportunity to see the entire speech, however, what was shown lacked any fire. There was no liveliness with Philbin speech, rather a laid back approach tailored around thanking the organization from the top to the bottom. Philbin speech talked about having the right personnel that led to this victory. This wasn’t the message that I was hoping to hear. I wanted him to show some sort of emotions, signalling out players that made this victory possible.
Ryan Tannehill best game of his career
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Cortland Finnegan redemption
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Cameron Wake dominance on the line of scrimmage.
What was seen from the short video was a grade 3 science project applause from the players. After a redemption game like this, the coach needs to have the ability to fire up his players and them fight for him. Fight for that extra yard or catch or break. I am not sure how this speech would motivate his players for next week battle against Jacksonville.
Football is a high energy sport. As a coach you need to encourage and influence your players so that they can believe in you. A coach is responsible for maintaining confidence in their players, based on the speech that we saw on Sunday afternoon, I wouldn`t want to move a chair out of his way.
I understand that Philbin might not be the motivational speaker nor a coach that shows the type of fire Pete Carroll demonstrates every week, but he needs to understand sometimes players need to see that type of passion from their coach as it get the players and his team fired up…After all they are the ones that are fighting for him.
Here is the link for the speech: