It’s not enough to screw our team over for years by retiring on us in your prime. We gave up two 1st rounders for you and if you give that for nothing it hurts! Can’t believe he thinks he can just say whatever he wants now that the seasons over. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Ricky Williams has been one of my favorite football players since he was at Texas. I was elated when Miami traded for him, devastated when he abruptly retired, and ecstatic when he finally came back. Because I agree with almost everything he’s said here and realize he probably will finish his career elsewhere, it sucks as a mutual fan of the team and the player.

….the Pats will cut Fred Taylor loose and sign Ricky in the offseason.

Go Dolphins.

Painful as it may be, someone should say it.

it’s time for Sparano to go. give us a coach who demands respect. who has earned respect. and one who will finally turn the corner on this decade of dolphins recline…..BILL COWHER.

sorry about that

to go. Ricky was not the problem w/this team. Love how he says he didn’t need to take any Advil this season. Henning/Sparano/Henne must all go!

Let’s see…where do I start. I agree with most of what he said, but these are the points of contention that jump out at me.

1. The entire “winning tradition” tangent is bull. Sparano being too nitpicky is one thing, but he emphasized scoring in the red zone and not turning over the ball because the Dolphins FAIL to do those things. You can’t believe in a winning tradition and have confidence in your players if those same players aren’t demonstrating improvement. The burden is on the locker room to implement what Sparano ideas. You get the pat on the back afterwards, not before. Guys like Welker and Ninkovich don’t have good games because they suddenly buy into some abstract idea of confidence. Belichik just uses them well. His valuation of players is better than Sparano’s…and probably our entire front office. Sad but true.

2. Using Nick Saban, or at least the Dolphins version of Nick Saban, does not help Ricky’s case. We all know why.

Everything else seems okay. The description of Brandon Marshall is accurate, if the past is any indication.

I also agree with the fact that Sparano has lost the locker room to some degree. Benching your starting QB twice is a big deal. The boys probably hung their heads after each time. Henne will probably get one more year because the office will look to draft an RB in the first round, but this will never be his team.

And speaking of the RB situation, that’s probably the most interesting saga going on. If Ricky is giving hate speeches, it means he’s planning on leaving barring a coaching overhaul. If he’s leaving, then the front office is forced to keep Ronnie if they want to draft a 1st round RB (Mark Ingram). Someone’s gotta be there to teach him, right? I always thought it would have been Ricky seeing as he’s the healthier of the two.

Sparano may or may not be gone, I guess it depends on what he sold Ross. But I think Henne’s days as a Dolphin may be over. If the guys around you don’t trust you and don’t believe in you, you are destined to fail. He said it all when he said NE has a QB.

ITs not a surprise he is frustrated, the running game was never used as regularly as it should have been and the splitting between Ronnie and Ricky became a mistake. Ricky was the better back, I am not sure how much better the run game would have been but I think it certainly would have had more impact if Ricky had been primary back.

Sparano also hurt himself by continuing to put Henne out there, he deserved the benching the first time and he was ok. He was awful the last few games and you keep him in there?

I support and agree with Ricky….hopefully this REALLY opens some eyes now.

I think Ricky did a great job providing his opinion. As a veteran who has seen multiple coaches for a single team, he’s had his share of ups and downs. For him to be so vocal about the current regime says a great deal.
It’s obvious by his comments that there is much more going on behind the scenes than we as fans will ever know. He made some good points…

1. After a while, the repetition gets old, and it falls on deaf ears, especially when you aren’t winning. (but, maybe Sporano harps on the fundamentals because we weren’t executing properly)

2. The whole world knows that we need a quarterback, enough said. (Andrew Luck looked pretty good tonight!)

3. I wonder what the rest of the locker room would be saying if they had the guaranteed money of B-Marsh? (and to anyone who points out that Dansby wasn’t saying anything, remember what side of the ball he plays on)

my own opinion…

Black Monday was surprisingly quiet on the OC front. Has anyone heard anything about Henning?

or he’s easy to get on with for everybody – he’s a love him or hate him guy, a dreamer. He’s never gonna like a disciplinarian coach with limited charisma or ‘big ideas’ which is what Sparano is. Other players may not agree with Ricky on Sparano. But maybe they do, and Ricky’s speaking his mind for everybody because he’s not coming back. If this stuff is true, Sparano has to go or it’ll be the same shit next year. You can see they all agree on Henne by the body language in the huddle and sideline vs NE.

Ricky’s obviously hurt by losing, and he’s feeling like the team would have been better off in his hands than Henne’s or Ronnie’s. And this season he was right.

He’ll be a good second back for someone next year. Maybe NE or the Jets. God damn it…

Commencing kissing Ronnie Browns ass in 3…2…1…

if I fell 16yds short of a 500k bonus because of a structurally flawed Offense.

disgusting. Absolutly disgusting. Hes a free agent. We move on. Dispose of him.

I love Ricky and am glad he got all that off his chest. Sounds like the new gospel for dolphins fans, pretty much sums up how most of us feel. Good luck with whatever you do Ricky.

but if Ross hears this, it might make him pause a lil longer. Very interesting stuff. Now I hope they let Sparano go more than ever before.

1) Advil line is telling – The running game was nowhere this year and not being utilized has got to be part of the explanation as to why. The interior OL not playing very well is part of it and also a lack of a good lead blocker (I feel polite got worse) as well, but I wonder if that goes to use of practice? I am not an athlete so this is just guess work, but I assume practicing should also lead to some need for advil too.
2) My first thought was about Marshall was where the difference was, but it seems to be the fact that he waited to vent the monday after week 17.
3) I am almost certainly reading too much into it, but Ricky criticizing QB play is very damning considering the best QB he played for was Pennington (the best game managing QB in history but not a game changer at all). If, based on his standards, we don’t “have a QB”, that is bad
4) Now when I see Ricky I will be thinking “Shomer F-ing Shabbos” :)
5) If he ends up on the Jets I will be physically ill. This is not a rational response, but a personal confession. Still, Sanchez may not be a QB either (though he has been relatively more sound in the 4th than ours has been – the Jets fans hate their OC though too)
6) Either way we needed new blood at RB. I will always be a Ricky fan. He made some bad mistakes and certainly much of the reason he won’t be a HOF is his fault, but he is also emblematic of the coaching/GM problems we have had for a long time. He could have been more if he was put in a better situation.

I agree with everything except for the Jets comment.

Say bye bye to Tony.

it’s obvious that’s sporano’s mantra. it’s what they have beat into henne’s head.

Ricky has been my favourite player for years, and I will miss him. He is likely going to end up on the Pats, and that hurts a lot too.

One funny quote from this article though is when Ricky said Sparano focuses too much on little things like not turning it over. Based on his fumbalitis the past 3 years, clearly Ricky wasn’t listening hard enough!

Think he’s right about a lot of things.

OTOH, one of those “little things” he probably got tired of Sparano harping on might have been “maintaining possession of the football.”

i’m just sick,after another disappointing season, to hear that ricky might be gone just sucks. yeah ronnie is younger but this was a contract year for him and he just did’nt look like he cared. mr happy feet at the line, now thats the lines fault a little too. between marshalls comment’s and ricky’s, henne is history, at least as starter, hopefully as trade bait. I really don’t think there’s a team out there that want’s him though.sparano’s situation is coming to light a little more with these comment’s too, but not sure ross is going to drop the axe. he had 3 hours to do it and we have’nt heard shit.tony’s philosiphy to not lose sucks, maybe he got an attitude adjustment in that meeting but don’t bet on it. I just hope the ‘11 season is’nt another trip into mediocracy.

But Marshall said he wasn’t upset with Williams’ comments about him, Williams said Marshall "makes it difficult to like him and support him" when he takes his gripes public, which he did in the last couple of weeks about Henne.

"It’s not necessarily what he says, it’s when he says it and the way he says it," Williams said.

"I agree," Marshall said. "That’s where I need to grow and what I need to work on this offseason. … Just picking the right time to say things and how to say it."

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/thedailydolphin/2011/01/04/dolphins-wrs-brandon-marshall-brian-hartline-explain-their-issues-with-chad-henne-and-david-lee/

nor do i like the fact that he will not be on our team next year.

however, ricky’s right, and if i were him, i would also leave and play for an offense that would utilize me correctly

I agree that the stuff Ricky said certainly seems to be accurate. The thing is, nobody who was paying any attention needed Ricky to say it. We already knew it.

It was obvious Henne lost his teammates.

It was obvious the offense was under-prepared for games down the stretch.

It was obvious players were unhappy with where things were going.

It was obvious we had largely given up on the running game.

It was obvious the New England franchise is doing something right that we’re not.

It was — and always has been — obvious that Coach Sparano likes to get down in there and coach the details, and that he preaches from the Gospel of Parcells that the keys to winning are not turning it over, converting third downs, and scoring when you get in the red zone. (There’s nothing wrong with any of those things, of course. Except that they aren’t enough. Doing those 3 things does not equal wins, contra the coach. You have to do those things and a lot of others to win in the NFL. For example, it really helps a lot if you score touchdowns when you get in the red zone, which is what makes the field goal fist pump so grating.)

I don’t disagree with Ricky about any of that stuff. He’s completely, 100% correct about all of it.

But here’s the thing: since all of it was already incredibly obvious, what does he accomplish by him saying it to the media? It seems to me, as a Miami Dolphins fan, that all this does is make it harder for my team to get better next year. And that pisses me off. If you don’t like it here, take your ball and go somewhere else. No hard feelings. Really. You’ve earned it. But don’t torpedo my team on your way out the door.

Then there are the things I think Ricky just got flat wrong. Who in the world thinks all you have to do is create a positive attitude, and execution will take care of itself? I’ll answer my own question: no successful coach or player in the history of sports, that’s who.

And the glory days he remembers as a kid in San Diego were year after year of playoff futility. Sometimes it was fun to watch; I mean really fun. But it was still futility. If Ricky wants to be on a team that’s almost good enough to make the playoffs every year, or almost good enough to win one game when it does get there, all he has to do is look in the rearview mirror; he played on several of them in Miami.

If Ricky wants to go back there, godspeed to him but I certainly hope it’s not with the Miami Dolphins. That’s not where we want to go. That’s where we’ve already been.