Miami Dolphins Coaching Candidates Down To Two

78% are in favor of Philbin. We’ll call that the silent majority.

Wishful thinking. Either way I’m behind our next coach.

Mike McCarthy had the 32nd ranked offense as OC for the 4-12 49ers before taking over Green Bay.

How about this snippet, GB was 22nd in points scored in 2005 (298) and 2006 (301). the OC in GB was Tom Rossley in 05 and Jagodzinski in 06. So McCarthy added a field goal without Philbin. After Philbin showed up, the offense went from 22nd to 4th (435 points) in 07 to 5th (419 points) in 08, to 3rd (461 points) in 09. The average points scored in a season by Green Bay since Philbin arrived (2007-2012) is 452.6 points. GB’s best year under Philbin (2011) saw them score nearly as many points in 16 games as they had in 32 games the 2 years prior to Philbin becoming OC (560 in 2011 vs 599 in 2005-2006).
Check out this excerpt from my fanpost from back in September (Available in full Here)
If you want to question just how much of that success is due to Philbin, just examine the year before he arrived (Mike McCarthy arrived in 2006 and had Jeff Jagodzinski as his OC) and his first season on the job.

-In 2006 GB scored 301 pts (22nd) tallied 5458 yds (9th) for a 5.0 yds/ply average (T-19th) and picked up 301 1st downs (13th). GB passed for 350 completion on 630 attempts for a comp % of 55.6 () with 18 TDs (T-20th), 18INTs (T-19th) and a net yrdge of 5.8 yds/att (T-17th) while picking up 185 1st downs through the air (10th).GB rushed for 1663 yds on 431 attempts for 9 TDs (T-23rd) and 3.9 Yds/Att (T-18th) while collecting 93 1st downs on the ground (22nd)

-In 2007 GB scored 435 pts (4th), gained 5,931 yds (2nd) for a 6.0 yds/ply average (T-2nd) and picked up 307 1st downs (T-12th). GB passed for 383 completion on 578 attempts for a comp % of 66.3 () with 30 TDs (T-6th), 15INTs (T-11th) and a net yrdge of 7.3 yds/att (3rd) while picking up 210 1st downs through the air (7th). GB rushed for 1597 yds on 388 attempts for 13 TDs (T-13th) and 4.1 Yds/Att (T-11th) while collecting 69 1st downs on the ground (29th)

Despite few personnel changes beyond Philbin, (Not one draft choice that year becae a starter and no free agents were signed from other teams) the Packers beat their previous year’s offensive output in every category except for rushing first downs. But Mike McCarthy was calling plays so it;s irrelevent right? Who do the McCoy supporters think designed the playbook McCarthy was calling plays from?!?!?

You do have to take note that Brett Favre was the QB for BOTH of those seasons so there wasn’t any great change under center. Also of note is how Aaron Rodgers has flourished under Philbin. In garbage time Rodgers went from a comp % of 40.0 in 2006 to 71.4 in 2007 and saw his QB rating jump from 48.2 to 106.0. Seeing as we are about to draft a new QB (In all likeliness) I want Philbin shepherding his career. Green Bay’s offense has stayed in the top 10 in yds/game every season that Philbin has been there (2nd-2007, 8th-2008, 6th-2009, 9th-2010, 8th-2011). Hire Philbin as Head Coach and let him call the offense or hire a head coach that will accept Philbin as his OC.

Soak all of that in for a minute. Especially take note of the last paragraph. Look at how Philbin’s presence impacted Aaron Rogers performance. People are talking about McCoy because he adjusted the offense to suit Tim Tebow. He ran a freaking college option-based offense with the most successful option QB in history and people are acting like the man is a genius. further consider how many times Tebow was caught behind the line of scrimmage and through pure athleticism broke free and generated positive yardage. Was that brilliant play calling? No, that was heart you can’t measure from Tebow.

The prognosticators are giving McCoy credit for making Tebow look good but the reality is a virtual 180 twist from that. Tebow’s completion % sucked. Partly due to Tebow’s accuracy no question there, but how many of those incompletions were throwaways to avoid a negative play? He only had like 8 to 10 of those against New England this past Sunday. Why did Tebow have to throw the ball away so much? Answer: no one was open down field and the O-line was getting shredded. Despite the mad bull pressure that NE was sending, McCoy kept calling hand offs and long routes that were getting blown up left and right. Where were the short slants designed to net 5 yards a completion? How about a swing pass to Demarius Thomas? How about that it took Denver 4 quarters of play before they finally ran a play action pass against Pittsburgh? Adaptation my ass!

McCoy is no great offensive savant. He rode a surge to stardom where all he did was call an option offense that generated 19.3 points per game. In McCoy’s 3 years at Denver the Broncos have finished 20th, 19th and 25th in points scored but this is the man with the solution for being competitve against the AFC East?!?!? His supporters immediatly credit him for the #1 rushing offense in the NFL but try to sweep that 21st ranked pass attack under the rug by blaming Tebow. Who the hell do they think did the running?!?!? Denver had 2630 rush yards this past season (16 Games, 164.38 yards per game). Tebow had 660 rush yards (11 games, 60 yards per game). In other words, Tebow was around 36% of the run game no small portion of which came on busted pass plays. If you count the whole season, Tebow accounted for 25% of the running game in Denver despite spotting everyone else 5 games. Denver was actually 6th in rush yards per carry. The Entire Broncos team sans Tebow averaged 4.65 yards per carry while Tebow averaged 5.4. Hell, Reggie Bush averaged 5 yards per carry under Daboll in a conventional scheme. Still, Tebow was made better by McCoy not the other way around right? I mean it’s not like Tebow was the one breaking the tackles and running the football. Oh, Wait.