Miami Dolphins working to become the Miami Patriots it seems
By Brian Miller
The Miami Dolphins, apparently tired of being the also-ran to the New England Patriots, look to take away from their rivals.
South Florida’s Miami Dolphins could look a lot different in 2019 and beyond. The team is tired of playing bridesmaid to the Patriots so they are hoping that by taking away from their division rivals they can become more like them.
Brian Flores is calling the defensive plays in the Super Bowl for the Patriots and has spent his entire 14 year career in the NFL with Bill Belichick. Chad O’Shea is looking more and more likely to take over as the Dolphins offensive coordinator. He has spent the last ten years with the Patriots as an offensive assistant/wide-receivers coach. Defensive coordinator prospect Patrick Graham spent seven seasons with the Patriots as a defensive coach.
Miami Patriots anyone?
The top three positions on the Dolphins coaching staff is going to belong to long time Patriot assistants. Is that good or is that bad? Former coaches who have left New England for head coaching jobs have not fared that well but in some ways this seems different.
None of the three coaches have experience running the units or the team that they will be taking over. NFL fans know that Bill Belichick keeps things close to his own vest and only a chosen few are privy to how he really runs the team. Do these three have any of that inside knowledge or were they left on the outside?
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It will be hard for any coach to come in and change the culture that has been spinning in mediocrity for the last decade or more but that will be the task of those three if in fact they are all hired as rumored. The “Patriot way” won’t be brought to Miami but perhaps the winning attitude and the attention to detail will be.
The most important thing that any of them can bring and all three should bring is discipline. Miami lacks discipline on both sides of the ball and if there is anything more important it is accountability.
The Dolphins new coaching staff must hold the players accountable for what they do on the field. That is what will decide the success and failures of Brian Flores’ coaching staff and his own tenure. If he can turn that around the “culture” that so many preach about, that word that Adam Gase said needed changed but couldn’t change, will come a lot easier and the turn around to a winning franchise will come quicker.
Three coaches with hard ties to the Patriots are likely coming to Miami. What they can do with that experience as Patriots’ will go a long way in solving the Dolphins problems. Or they won’t.