Miami Dolphins Coach Joe Philbin - Thoughts from Packers Fans

Wouldnt mind Bowles as DC. Clements will most likely be the OC over in GB so who else are we looking at here?

but I’m not gonna write anything negative about our HC.
he has my support.

Not gonna lie I’m not as excited as u claim I should be.

On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED TOPIC
If someone told you we were going to hire a 50 year old former oline/te coach who has never called plays to bring us into the modern explosive era of football, would you be excited?

Personally, I am thinking it’s most likely Bowles returns as DC and we keep the 3-4.

this was announced it just feels right…..very psyched!
Thinking about it…we are not far from being contenders….with Philbin we can be contenders now…..with McCoy it may have taken longer…..time will tell but I am backing Philbin 110%!!
I am also for signing Flynn because he has a good chance of success under Philbin + the cost of moving up for RGIII may be too high, sign Flynn, beef up our Offensive line though the draft, draft a good TE + better our D…look out!!

I wasn’t high on the sign Matt Flynn. I still prefer RG3, but I am at least less concerned if we do sign Flynn because Philbin is familiar with him. I think Philbin will at least know how to design an offense around him. In fact, I’m more comfortable going forward with Matt Moore as well, though that is far from my top choice.

Now he can bring on some Packers offensive players and Coaches with him without dismantling our defense, this could be a quick turnaround.

In one of the previous threads it said Ireland was leaning toward McCoy and Ross was leaning toward Philbin. I also wonder how much involement in the process Carl Peterson had if any.I would really rather have football people making these decisions.

I heard Armando say on NFL net work that Ross loved Philbin’s “calm demeanor”. Kind of the opposite I want in a coach but it works for some people … .Tony Dungy, Tom Landry……. who were some other sucessful lower key guys?

I will get behind Philbin no doubt about it. I wish the man all the best.

If they don’t pursue Flynn then that might show the rest of the league that Flynn might not be thought of to highly by the coaches in GB.

McCoy and am glad we got Phinbin. We either need to keep Bowles as DC or bring in a good mind, because I want our D to keep improving. I’m quite comfortable about the possibility of our offense getting better.

because of Sparano, but Phinbin was much more integral to the Packers’ offensive success than Sparano was of the Cowboys’ offensive success. I’ll take Flynn over moving up in the draft and having to give either Long or future draft picks up. Flynn vs. Moore for starter in ’12. If Flynn fails, we, of course, are back on the QB hunting horse again.

The #Packers’ best-kept secret is no more. Joe Philbin is out the gate. Apprenticed under Kirk Ferentz and Mike McCarthy. More than ready.

- Packers beat writer

Now take all the time you need to care for youself and your family.
Football can come later.

Congrats on hiring Philbin. He’s a well respected coach around the league. He may not have called the plays on a regular basis, but he has done it a few games here and a few games there, in which the offense didn’t skip a beat. His success isn’t from calling plays though, it’s from being a detail oriented coach and working closely with his players. Having a relationship with his players is very important to him, so he will work his offense around his players’ strengths.

I can see some speculation in signing or trading for Matt Flynn. Personally, I would do it. I don’t see Luck and RGIII falling past the Redskins in the draft. Therefore, you can get an immediate starting QB for maybe a 2nd Round Pick. No, Flynn doesn’t have a strong arm. However, he is a very smart QB that can change the plays at the line. He makes a lot of smart decisions and always knows where to go with the ball. Above all else, he knows the Packers Offense and has a relationship with Philbin. The Packers maybe could’ve got a 2nd Round Pick for him last year had they not declared they wouldn’t trade him. That was all after his solid performance against New England. Then he comes back this year and puts up twice as good of a performance against another playoff team! Not only that, but he broke the Green Bay Franchise Record with 6 TD’s. Some of you may be weary of signing Flynn because of the Matt Cassel and Kevin Kolb deals in recent years, but I can assure you Flynn will do just fine if he’s put in the right situation. Him pairing up with Philbin sounds like a good situation and a good offense for Miami.

Good luck moving forward Dolphin fans, and congrats on getting yourselves Coach Philbin!

I’m looking forward to see what he brings to the franchise. I still want RGIII though haha

His 20 year old son just died no more than a week ago.
This is bad from all angles:
Normal human-social behavior:
-He can`t go on with the interviewing process, even if he decides to, he flunks because he is falling apart.
- If for some reason he does get the job, he can’t focus and be successful in a job that requires an inordinate amount of passion. 99% of people in this situation can’t hold their shit together in a 9 tp 5 job, let alone this one that actually demands of you to be happy and excited.
Abnormal behavior (time frame wise):
- He goes on with the interviewing process the same week of the death.
- He Aces the interview
- He’s all excited and whatnot.
- Doesn’t take a reasonable amount of time to even ponder if he should take a season off, or stay as an assistant coach in order to spend more time with his family after such a tragedy. No, he just takes a supposedly extremely time consuming job which will also obviously require moving the rest of the family from a rural low key area to south beach. So the support system of community and friends for the grieving process is gone for the rest of the family, especially the teenagers.

What could happen?
Well, you either have a sociopath (clinically speaking) that won’t miss a beat – as he already proved. Or you’ll be stuck with a ticking time bomb of repressed emotion combined with a ridiculously stressful job.

I’m really not criticizing him or really give a crap about calling out the moral and ethics of this guy. I’m just trying to see this from the point of view of the organization. Because it just seems ridiculous that this same guy’s state of mind and mental health would have been questioned if he was seen at a swingers bar or were into anime porn, but his son dies days ago and nobody is even mentioning it? Again, not for the human, ¨character¨ or ethics part of it, but the just for the mental health part of it, from the ¨is it possible this guy’s head is fucked up?
Football wise, great move. With Sparano this team was playing ridiculously simple football. They needed a sophisticated and modern mind badly.