In puzzling news, the Dolphins hire Butch Barry as their next o-line coach

If you had the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, and Chris Grier hiring Butch Barry as their next offensive line coach you are some kind of sorcerer.

I realize that the absolute majority of us don’t have a Rolodex(pat yourself on the back if you know what that is just don’t do it too hard or you’ll be sore tomorrow) of offensive line coaches and where they’ve coached before. I can probably rattle off like 7 maybe 8 names at most. But Butch Barry isn’t even a name I can be like “oh yeah I’ve heard that name before” not unless I’m trying to lie.

If you’re like me, you were hoping that somehow Vic Fangio’s 570 tag team partner, Mike Munchak, would get hired to coach up the Miami Dolphins once again underwhelming offensive line. Or, you would have thought that Mike McDaniel, a guy that you would think would attract a lot of innovative and hungry coaches, would have had someone whose most recent stop wasn’t being in charge of one of the worst offensive lines in the league in the Denver Broncos.

None of that happened and now the guy who will be in charge of breaking the curse that is the Dolphin’s porous offensive line is a guy named Butch Barry. Gotta say, I don’t think I ever saw the old two first names as the full name thing with any of them being Butch but here we are.

The biggest reason Butch Barry was hired was that he worked with McDaniel back in San Francisco so I guess you can tell yourself that at least he knows the system that is being run here. You can also start convincing yourself that most of the sacks that happened in Denver were a result of Russell Wilson not doing anything he was coached to do. I know I’ll be telling myself that.

As you can imagine, the internet is taking the Butch Barry hiring as well as Coach Klein did when coach Red Beaulieu took his playbook.

Not great Bob.

It isn’t all bad perhaps?

So it’s entirely possible that Mike McDaniel knows exactly what he’s doing. But I also will add that he did hire Matt Applebaum for the same position last year and look where we are now.

Oh well, I guess we really won’t know how this move will pan out until we actually see it on the field. Can’t wait for the training camp reports in August saying that the Dolphin’s offensive line looks dreadful and that it looks like it’s really gelling all in the same day. Good times await.

By the Way- I think this tweet is the one that will stick with me the most.

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