A Cleveland perspective on new Dolphins offensive coordinator Brian Daboll

Henceforth, he shall be known as “Brian Q-Ball”

let’s go Dolphins, we love Brian Daboll, rah rah reh!! now we’re sure to win the superbowl with the best players and now the best coaches – the miami dolphins are the best.

yippee.

hopefully with better talent, he’ll open up the game plan. Hopefully we can get more talent during FA and the draft to support this effort.

The fact that he realized neither QB was working in 2009 and just said “F*** it, we’re going wildcat” leaves me with some hope. I’m not expecting great things, just hoping for a decent offense.

Only next season tell us for sure. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. And the Advil close by.

We’ll see

Different team, different players, coaches, schemes etc. I mean it’s all about the players, Dick LeBeau had the worst D in the league at one point in Cincinnati (1991) and was run outta town, Gary Stevens got run outta town, Mike Mularky couldn’t win a game coordinating for us and now had Atlanta in the playoffs. Dom Capers was the reason our D sucked in 07 and now has GB playing lights out. So, if we get the players, I think this guy will succeed.

After reading Chris’ comments how about this? We get Daboll and Henning to take DNA tests to prove they aren’t related!

when you have Derek Anderson or Brady Quinn under center." Is that the same Derek Anderson that went to the Pro Bowl when Chudzinski was OC? [sorry, I don’t know how to work the ‘blue box’ thing]

Hopefully Ireland and Sporano will give him some players to work with. Good players make coaches a lot smarter! So i sit with my fingers crossed hoping we are not slowly devolving into the Chicago Cubs of the NFL.

he isn’t Josh McDaniels but anything over Henning is fine by me. all you so called fans who base your lives off the Dolphins every move really need to find some help bcuz you might kill yourselves. but if we get Sproles, draft my boy Pouncey out my favorite college Florida( GO GATORS)

but i will give him a chance and i wait to see a sample of his plays here in Miami b4 i judge him.

…is how I look at Daboll. He didnt generate a whole bunch of interest from other OC-seeking teams… Another ‘shrewd gambit’ by Ross and Ireland.. ..This tells me they just looked for some guy that Tony could handle. Tony, I believe, was cowed by Henning to some degree and deferred to his play calling..

Ireland’s introductory press conference lauding Daboll was just trying to put a positive spin on a dismal season.

Here’s to another year of mediocrity ! Cheers !

if you give Henning the weapons that Daboll had last season, he would have been lucky to score 7 ppg. Give the guy a chance. We have much better offensive players than the Browns. He had no personal to utilize well so I don’t understand that critique. Let he and the FO hand pick a QB and see what happens. We are not that far away from contending, we just need to fill a few holes. Everybody needs to relax

Was the 9:42 video the only available? Sorry I know I asked this in another post but I’d just really like to watch the whole thing. It seemed that 9:42 version was clipped

Add me to the “This Sounds Distressingly Like Dan Henning” chorus. I mean . . . well . . . yikes.

Can somebody tell me how much input Daboll had on signing Jake Delhomme to the Browns? If he was pushing for that, I question the guy’s ability to evaluate QBs.

at fans who are upset over this pick because of W/L and ignorance. However, am I sensing a shift change? Seriously….lets look at the resume’.
I am asking you…do you really believe Daboll is a better choice than Chudzinski?
Chudzinski… an unbelievable “OC” at UM! Only in the position for 2 years….first year, undefeated. Second year breaks the record for passing yards gained…rushing yards…rushing TD’s…etc.
He also had so many players, that were coached perfectly, winning top awards.
Chud has coached key positions in the NFL, INCLUDING OC [where the QB went to the PRO Bowl. But you know this]….so how do you endorse Daboll over Chud?

What are his credentials that superceeds Chuds….or are there personal issues that weren’t made public?
Just wondering!

What happened next cost Daboll dearly: teams began loading the box and run blitzing Hillis right off the line. No adjustments were made. The playcalls would run Hillis right up the gut even if the entire defense was there. If we weren’t going to run it, we would line our quarterback up in Shotgun, making it too predictable that we weren’t going to run. On top of that, there was a stretch where the routes on a 3rd-and-5 were always designed to go between 1-3 yards. The Browns would not take many shots down the field until they were behind by two possessions late in the game.

Bold sentences 1 & 2-Shows the same problem that helped turn the wildcat into the mildcat this past season. Also the biggest issue with the coaching staff we had in 2010: No asdjustments were made.
As for the shotgun thing, Henning didn’t try to make it obvious when we were passing, but he thought it made sense to call a playaction pass while trailing and looking at 3rd and 10+. I think I’d rather have an OC that says here’s what we are going to do see if you can stop us as opposed to one who says you won’t believe how dumb we can be.

Daboll’s strength is that he seemed very good at scripting the first offensive series or two of the game. His weakness is that he didn’t utilize the team’s personnel very well, and after the first two possessions, particularly in the second half of games, there seemed to be ‘no method to his madness’ in terms of playcalling.

Does use personnel very well? You mean like continuing to alternate RBs even though one is averaging 4+yds per carry and a TD while the other is struggling at less than 2 yds per carry?
Like I said, I won’t call this another absurd hiring but Da-bum is gonna have to deliver or he will never see employment again at anything above a position coach (Just like Sparano and Ireland). This hiring is so questionable that if Daboll and Sparano don’t get the job done in 2011, it’s gonna make Al Davis look good.

Bear in mind…your new OC has a soul patch.