Dolphins’ Adam Gase is “pissed” but should look in mirror first
By Brian Miller
Playbook
Not to be confused with play calling. It’s been widely noted that Gase has scaled back his playbook due to personnel issues or players not understanding the plays themselves. It is also no secret that Gase has an intriquite playbook by design. Players need to be smart and understand not only their assignments but the assignments of the other players as well. Then they need to understand the defenses reactions and adjust during the plays. This is no different from any other NFL, college, or high-school expectation.
For the Dolphins and Adam Gase, it has been reported that Gase has “dumbed-down” the playbook but that now means that he is working with only a handful of plays during a game. It means that his players are only practicing a handful of plays during the week. It means that when Gase sees something exposed on defense he may not have the plays at his disposal to fully exploit that weakness.
This, this is on Adam Gase.
It’s understandable to scale down an offense as players learn a system but this is the 2nd season in this offense and for the most part, each of the offensive players have been here for two seasons now. There should be no questions about what Gase is expecting or running or asking the players to run. Which comes full circle back to why Gase is so “pissed” off. Because the players are not putting in the effort to learn the play book and they are not executing the plays the way they are designed as a result of it.
There are no more excuses. Not for the Dolphins players and not for Adam Gase. It’s time for Gase to step in and install his playbook and it’s up to the players to put in the work and execute them. But Gase also needs to get himself together as well. These problems, this season’s horrible messes, are not all on the players and before Gase starts pointing fingers, he needs to point at the man looking back at himself in the mirror.
Gase needs to get this stuff figured out and if the players can’t get on board with what he is trying to do, then Gase needs to get the players on the team that will and can.