Do Miami Dolphins fans raise fair questions

The Miami Dolphins are 3-1 but the fans raise some interesting questions about the team

As I’m sitting back reading all the hate mail/tweets/posts from Dolphins fans regarding their feeling for Ryan Tannehill, Adam Gase, Matt Burke and who ever else was potentially responsible for the crushing loss last Sunday in Foxborough, I can’t help but wonder about two things.

My first thought is exactly what do the Miami Dolphin fans expect from their Miami Dolphins team. Do they really think that the Dolphins need to win every game and go undefeated every year, that   would be awesome, but because that has only happened once and most likely will never be repeated, it is a very unrealistic goal and should immediately be shelved. Do the fans expect to only lose by 3 or less in the final seconds of any game. Again, a very unrealistic scenario, and that should also be scrapped. Big losses can happen any given Sunday, unfortunately, and are going to happen on occasion, that’s a sad reality of any professional sport.

Do the fans think if you fire your head coach four games into a season while you’re sitting at 3-1 will magically solve all problems. I’m pretty sure if there is a coordinator on the team that has seen a major problem that would  lead to obvious losses and knew how to immediately remedy that, he most likely and most definitely would tell the head coach all about it. I seriously doubt that the Miami Dolphins coordinators are withholding information from coach Adam Gase in order to have his job. So what exactly do you gain with replacing your head coach with a coordinator so early in a winning season, nothing.

I understand frustrations with a coach, coordinator or a quarterback, but, the Miami Dolphins are sitting at 3-1 not 0-4. One loss does not take away all the accomplishments from the team. The team is not going to forget how to play, win, redeem itself or fight. The coaching staff has said they have reviewed the film, practiced on making corrections and the players themselves have said they realized what the problems were and have worked on their own issues this week as well.

Injuries are also another unfortunate circumstance of professional sports. Do fans realize these athletes are all human beings and all play a very physical and violent game. Bodies were not designed to play a sport like this and not suffer damage while doing it. You only have eleven starters on both sides of the ball, after that you have a lesser player available to come in and replace him. In small doses this is should be addressed with the next man up, the back up. But when multiple losses to one position stack up, that can not be covered so easily, is this the head coaches fault? Not likely. I see it all the time, great teams have injuries and go on to be successful, take the Eagles last year for example. Do the fans expect the Miami Dolphins to be able to cover their plethora of injuries with back ups or free agents and not miss a beat, that is going to be tough to do, especially with the teams lack of depth.

Now, having said all that, my second thought was how long of a leash do you give a coaching staff that runs a team into mediocrity. If the Dolphins come out stale this Sunday and get walloped by the Bengals and then go home and lose to the Bears and the Lions (which could happen), what do you do then?

Should Adam Gase, Mike Tannenbaum and Chris Grier be shown the door. Nobody ever wants to do a clean slate redo, but this regime has been given unlimited funds by the ownership to get winning personnel on the field and get the right coaching staff to not only coach these players, but also and more importantly in my opinion, develop the younger players, so that depth at all positions is on the team to be able to bounce back from injuries.

The two things i see that coach Adam Gase and owner Stephen Ross have in common is loyalty, and maybe to a fault sometimes. The Miami Dolphins have been in the middle of the pack for a very long time now with this regime. They have gone to the playoffs once, but have done nothing there to make you believe that you can get back there the following year. Adam Gase should not get a Mulligan for last year just because the organization was idiotic enough to hire Jay Cutler, who as we all know, stunk up the joint.

How come I can look at a NFL team and notice that all winning franchises have one thing in common. They have a QB that has a strong desire to win and ability to do it, meaning if need be, you can lay the game on his shoulders and he can go and get the win for you. There have been too many QB’s that are now taking their teams to the playoffs and some to the Super Bowl that the current Miami Dolphins regime have passed on and it seems to happen every year.

So the leash should be tightened on the football side of operations, and watch thoroughly this season. If the team can produce wins and hold their lead on the division and not only make the playoffs but win while they’re there, maybe the Dolphins are on to something. But if this team  continues to fly in the mediocrity of average, its time to move on and unfortunately try again, and that means starting over with everyone, not just the QB and head coach.