10 Reasons Why the Dolphins Ended Up 1-15

by dab415217 on Apr 1, 2008 1:12 PM EDT Comment 15 comments

So, I got to thinking what were the main reasons why the Dolphins ended the season 1-15. I know the reasons why I think it happened, but I was wondering what other people thought. Maybe after seeing enough answers I'll throw a poll up that will give us actual numbers.

---Keep it to 3 answers. be specific as possible.

---Keep the answers short.

My 3 main reasons why we were bad:

Cam Cameron's lack of game management and leadership. (I guess this could be reduced to just Cam Cameron, but I wanted to be more specific.)
The gutting of the Special Teams, by letting go of a few of the core members of the ST.
Injuries.

I really struggled with adding injuries to this list. Yeremiah Bell went out early and that really hurt the defense. The team was winless when Trent Green went down. The team was still winless when Ronnie Brown went down. So i don't think the injury of 1 player was the downfall. What I believe is that the accumulation of injuries just made it so that personnel were continually shifted around, ending up with a team that had players in a lot of positions that were never comfortable.

What's your list?

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I'll compile the 10 reasons total...

...after the list gets going.

by dab415217 on Apr 1, 2008 1:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My 4 cents

One dimensional Offense - predictable

Conservative play-calling - predictable

No run stuffers

No blind side stud...go J Long!

by JC on Apr 1, 2008 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

List...

1 - Cam Cam (and I could create a 10 item list on just him alone!)

2 - Bad personnel moves. I'm looking at this collectively, and if you consider the impact of say...a )giving away a draft pick & entrusting the team to 37-year old Trent Green coming off his worst season in years b) giving Joey Porter a huge contract, c) not upgrading the defensive front 7 despite the fact it was the oldest unit in the entire league.

3 - As a corollary to #2, the dolphins had virtually no depth at a number of key positions. Instead of an experienced veteran, they had Cleo Lemon as a #2. Injuries to starters at other positions also resulted in marginal players taking over.

by Natalya on Apr 1, 2008 1:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Cam.

Cam/Mueller - Poor FA/Draft

Cam - Poor TC/Conditioning

Cam - Poor Coaching/Game planning/Play calling

by LeftCoastFinFan on Apr 1, 2008 1:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It all points to one

Cam for being who he is.

Wayne/Randy for offering the job to Cam.

Cam for taking the job.

Cam for doing (trying too at least) the job.

Cam for staying on the job.

Wayne/Randy for not firing Cam.

Cam for not resigning.

Cam for staying in good enough health to be availabe for every game.

Cam for not taking a vacation during the season.

Cam for coaching.

Cam for cutting players.

Cam for signing players.

Cam's 2007 draft managment.

Cam for talking.

Cam for listening (I think).

Cam for not learning on the job.

Cam for eating.

Cam for drinking.

Cam for breathing.

CAM CAM CAM!!

You Savvy?

by Neo on Apr 1, 2008 1:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So, if I understand correctly...

you are saying that you think Cam Cameron was the reason?

by LeftCoastFinFan on Apr 1, 2008 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

3 Reasons

Injuries
Rookie Head Coach/Old Team/No Experience at the QB pos. after Green went down.
Bad Luck! 6 losses by 3 points or less!

Matt

by Matt27 on Apr 1, 2008 2:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

3 Reasons

Cam CamMORON...nuff said.

QBDolphins13

by QBDolphins13 on Apr 1, 2008 4:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

More 3 Reasons

1.No experienced Leadership/Game management (Cam Cameron) We could never close-out a game..6 losses by 3..should have gotten at least 3 of those.
2.No e(everyone)in "team" alot of "I's"..hard to finish close games when people aren't united.
3.No depth so Injuries were magnified.

Good teams find ways to win in the end..they create their own "Luck".
Beafea

by beafea on Apr 1, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

We sucked cause...

coaching staff (play calling, no special teams, unable to get along with vetrans JT and crew, Trent Green's hiring, ect, ect)
injuries (worst luck in the NFL, QB, FS, SS, MLB!! on and on and on)

3.Lack of a secondary and D-line oh yeah O-Line sucked too.
although the draft was one of our better in recent years

What happend to the Killer BEEs

by FinfanT on Apr 1, 2008 4:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is this going to be like Letterman's Top Ten?

Purging the roster of mediocre veterans and not having suitable replacements. Example: releasing Randy McMichael and signing David Martin.
Cam. For thinking that Trent Green would be anything other than, well, Trent Green. For game management and for poor player conditioning that lead to too many injuries.
Wasting the 9th pick on Ted Gin Jr. (and his family). Seriously, people on this site can debate on whether or not John Beck will make it, but Ted Ginn at #9 is ridiculous. He'll never be worth it. If they had drafted Amobi Okoye instead, teams wouldn't have had such an easy time running staring through the D-line.

by Daren on Apr 1, 2008 5:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My 3 reasons.

Offense

Defense

Special Teams

by ratenxs on Apr 2, 2008 1:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Also...

We can't blame everything on injuries.

You can't tell me that if we were actually in the playoff race, the team wouldn't of found a way to get Zach Thomas back on the field, concussions or not.

Injuries pile up more on losing teams because:

#1 Players will complain about smaller injuries because there's less incentive to play.
#2 Players don't play with their instincts and trust their own skills, thus leading to mistakes that create injuries.
#3 Again, with less incentive to play, there's less incentive to practice, conditioning falls off, and more people get hurt.
#4 Coaches will "protect" their star players more on a losing team because there isn't any incentive to playing them when their hurt, anyways.

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." ~Vince Lombardi

Losing breeds injuries. Not the other way around.

by ratenxs on Apr 2, 2008 1:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I Miss Kevin Carter & Zach Thomas

1. Randy Mueller created a lot of cap space for 2008.

He did so by releasing special teams players and the entire defensive line. Vonnie Holliday and Matt Roth were over powered and had no relief while Keith Traylor had played one season too many. Mueller did right by the team, from a 2008 standpoint. He really underestimated the effect of releasing Jeff Zgonina, David Bowens and Kevin Carter. Especially with Big Daddy retiring.

2. Poor quarterback play and a coach that took too long to realize Ronnie Brown is special.

Then again, many Dolphins fans accused him a year ago this time of having "poor vision" and "no fire in his belly" let alone "not being tough." How many times did we see good drives rely on running and short passes only to end in a three and out of incompletions and or an interception (T. Green).

3. Zach Thomas.

The Dolphins better bring in a good middle linebacker. When Zach went down we got a good and humiliating look at what a post-Zach world could look like. I miss #54 already.

Please draft Curtis Lofton. Please!

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by The Phinisher on Apr 3, 2008 8:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs