Even when the Miami Herald and Adam Beasley blame Adam Gase’s playcalling in their HEADLINE for why we lost today’s game, they don’t emphasize it as much as they should.
Beasley blames the defense too, which didn’t play well but held the Colts to under 28 (for the first time in over a month), had three turnovers, blocked a punt and had a part in making Adam Vinatieri miss a field goal. Also, they sacked Andrew Luck, something no team has done in 2 months. So while the defense gave up 3 touchdowns, don’t you dare blame them. They played well enough to win. No, this loss is on Adam Gase.
Beasley ridiculously said that Gase “played not to lose.” Are you serious? We WANT Gase to play not to lose. When you’re up 7 with a few minutes left, then play not to lose. Please. When you have the Bengals beat by 17 points, then play not to lose. Please.
Instead, Arrogant Adam Gase goes for the jugular at a point in the game when it’s not necessary. With Frank Gore once again knifing through an opponent at will, Gase once again (as always) got pass happy. Before Bruce Arians and Trent Green could even finish their sentences about how the Dolphins will now “ground and pound” the Colts when we were up by 7 points with 8 minutes left, Gase called 2 straight pass plays, baffling the far more intelligent Arians.
A few weeks ago, reporters challenged Gase, who smugly brushed off criticism (as he always does) by stating reporters have no credibility to critique him. Okay, but what about successful coaches like Bruce Arians and Tony Dungy? Are they qualified to point out how awful Gase is? What about Hall of Famers like Troy Aikman and James Lofton? All these men have stated how bad Gase’s play calls are.
They only bad thing about these announcers is that they STILL seem shocked when Gase calls crsappy plays. If they did their research, they would say, “There he goes again” instead of saying, “Boy that surprises me.”
During our game day live chat, I was about 80% successful in predicting our plays. The draw plays on 2nd long could be seen a mile away. The straight dropback passes (God forbid Gase call a rollout) just set up Tannehill for disaster.
Speaking of disaster, how about our draft class this year? Minkah Fitzpatrick either got burned on every ball his way, or else he fell down. Mike Gesicki? That piece of garbage finally catches a pass, and then he fumbles it away. And previous draft busts like DeVante Parker and Charles Harris? Theyt both played and both HURT their own team. Garbage players.
Meanwhile, effective and productive pros like Leonte Carroo and Nick O’Leary get benched in favor of Parker and Gesicki? Adam Gase is the worst, and he continues to get away with awful playcalling and terrible use of personnel because owener Stephen Ross is too busy praising him.
Blowing 4th -quarter leads has become our norm this year, and there is only one man to blame. And his name is Arrogant Adam.
Can’t wait for his excuses. Injuries, referees, the wind. He’ll have them all ready. But he won’t look in the mirror.
AMEN
“Gase, who smugly brushed off criticism (as he always does) by stating reporters have no credibility to critique him”. Sounds like some Cheeto-colored asshole in DC.
Tannebust did nothing to warrant keeping him around after Dec.30 at Bills. He should have had 3 INTs including 1 Pick 6. This is a crap team,with crap coaches and a crap front office. How much worse can it get? Kidding,it could get worse-we could keep the ‘Bust AND Gase!
Hilarious to see Gase on the bench-AGAIN!!!!
If we get lucky,we MAY win 2 more games but I keep reading these moronic articles including the word “playoffs”. ho in their right mnd though this team would ever make the plaoffs,even after a 3-0 start. I surely didn’t.
Spare me the BS on what should of happened to T-hill. The kid played well and that’s all that matters. Left the team with a 10 point lead with 13 minutes to go in the game. A similar situation with Cincy up by 17. The problem with this team is coaching plan and simple. The problem is Gase and he needs to be fired now. Most of us were wrong about him. He is not head coach material. He does not know how to scheme to his players and team’s overall strength. This man is horrible. Up by 10 and you want to throw because Indy knows you want to run out the clock. So what, impose your will you run and run and run some more. With 13 minutes to go in that game the fins had amasses 122 yards on the ground with 22 attempts and this asshole with the game on the line dials up two pass plays. He gotta go. Fire him today Mr. Ross PLEASE!!!!!!!
Amen LARRY
Back from vacation had to watch on delay. You are correct this loss falls on Gase. I’m not saying run on every down but if you know they are blitzing at least call a quick slant or screen. He puts Tanny on the target spot and calls a 20 yard or more route. Demands Gesicki to block when the kid can’t! It’s too bad as the teams grinding out there and these two losses to Indy and bungals will define the season. This loss was not on Tanny as Gase didn’t even allow him to try to win in the 4th quarter…
Yes yes and yes.
LOL,played well? No, it’s not all that matters. He is a career underachiever and that is all that matters. 24 points in the NFL doesn’t win many games. If you believe he us he answer,you are as ignorant as Gase and the front office.
One step at a time, Karma. Looking at Tannehill’s entire career is a topic for another day. But yesterday, he did indeed play well enough to win. I’m not going to be like Adam Gase and try to save my own ass my spreading the blame. The blame is on Gase. He watched us rush for over a hundred yards in 3 quarters, and then–with the game on the line and with us needing to kill some clock–he went back to passing it.
Bruce Arians was in the middle of a sentence about how we were going to ground and pound it, but then Gase shut him up with those ridiculous pass calls. Gase rambled about how the Colt defense was set up to stop the run, so we passed the ball and allegedly we had receivers wide open. I saw no one open, and Ryan Tannehill certainly didn’t see anyone open. It’s hard for Gase to see WRs open to, especially when he’s seated on the bench by himself designing plays.
We have an incredibly strong running game, and it’s baffling why pour playcaller doesn’t see that. And it’s frustrating when he lies about it with his excuses.
Poor coaching.
I can agree with Karma on this…… at some point if Indy puts 9 guys in the box why isn’t Tannehill audibling out of that? You may say, “Because Gase dosn’t let him” well if that is true than they should both be gone. You don’t pay a QB 20+ million if he isn’t good enough to audible and you don’t have a coach who pays a QB 20+ million and dosn’t let him audible. Those two running plays for no gain are on BOTH TANNEHILL AND GASE!
Coaches don’t pay players.
Phil….. Gase has final say on all personal on this team. So if he says give Tannehill a deal that keeps him here that’s what happens which is what we saw. No he didn’t write the contract but don’t be so obtuse.
Obtuse? Dude, know what the fuck you’re talking about before you post. Tannehill was drafted by the Dolphins in 2012 and in 2015 he received a four-year $96 million contract extension to be with the team through the year 2020. Gase became the Dolphins head coach in 2016. These football players have agents who negotiate their contract with these teams, and it’s up to the organization to pay the money. That’s why Landry is gone because the Dolphins didn’t want to pay what he was asking. It was you, Brian M, who wrote “you don’t have a coach who pays a QB 20+ million… ” Wrong wrong wrong!!! I know you think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer, but hurling insults at someone because you fucked up doesn’t make you right and won’t straighten out that BS you wrote.
Ok Phil, you are technically correct, as I believe I stated above but this isn’t some medical peer research forum man. This is a Dolphins blog so do I have to be technically correct all the time? If that is your requirements for discussion I don’t want to have one with you.
After the 2016 season, when Tannehill was injured, Gase was the Head Coach. Gase had final say on ALL PERSONNEL DECISIONS and the Dolphins who had an opportunity to renegotiate Tannehills contract or trade him but decided not to.
So Phil whose decision was that? Who do you think made that decision?
Was it Tannembum who clearly was never sold on Tannehill or Gase who has been in love with him from day one?
Just so you dont think I “Fucked Up” and am just wrighting BS heres a few articles from the end of ’16 to jog your memory of history since you clearly have a gap from 2015 to 2017!
Enjoy!
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/dolphins-positioning-to-trade-ryan-tannehill-101116
https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/2018/05/19/3-years-after-signing-qb-ryan-tannehill-to-an-extension-do-the-dolphins-regret-it/
If Tanny doesn’t listen to Gase he’d be gone so it seems like he does whether an audible is correct or not. Gase got rid of anyone that doesn’t listen to orders. They also sat Jones…
The only problem with your comment, which was a good one by the way, is that you assume that Gase wont let T-Hill audible or that T-Hill cant and Gase prevents a disastrous situation. It really does not matter which is the case because the fact is that Gase’s offense still does not audible. If Gase does not let T-Hill audible or never coached him to, then he sucks and does this team a disservice. If T-hill cant audible and Gase keeps him around, then Gase still sucks and does the team a disservice. The QB must be able to audible when the defense puts itself in a vulnerable position. This is high school level stuff guys!
That’s exactly my point either way it’s on Gase. I also find it hard to believe that Tanny isn’t smart enough to see 8-9 men in the box and not have a hot read audible in place….but is he even allowed to switch the play? I’m beginning to feel that Gase is saying run the play called it’s an ego thing for some coaches these days. We all know that brady can do this but I’m sure BB keeps the list of audible small for even brady they never give the whole playbook but you don’t need to. …
They also had 8-men box on the second to last series when we still led by 7. Gase said they HAD TO pass because Indy expected the run. On the next series Gase said they HAD TO run even though Indy expected the run. BOTH SERIES, Indy expected the run, and yet Gase handled it differently each time and didn’t think we would remember.
Gase doesn’t realize that people are allowed to scrutinize him and his errors. he lives in a world of people calling him a genius, and he is not accustomed to having to prove it.
Why it took this long for Gase to put in Carroo, indicates he can’t see that this player is capable of more than he’s been able to show bec. he has not been put into many games. Been screaming since he’s gotten to MIA to play this guy! Again, the entire coaching staff and dumb ass owner need to go.
Exactly, FFF. Carroo is playing his ass off for the past month while Parker can do absolutely nothing. And which guy does Gase start?
Same with playing that pig Gesicki. Why?
I know that we don’t see everything that happens but the signs seem to be pointing in one direction coaching. You can also blame the GM for a lot of this as quite a few top draft picks simply aren’t good enough although are they simply being put into the wrong positions for success?
As per Tanny we all know he’s not the best but he’s not the worst. He should be challenged by a high pick next year and let the best man win but overall he’s better than a lot of garbage out there you can use Os and Moore as recent examples. You could have paid cousins big money and the results would probably be similar is what I’m getting at…
all year I’ve been saying that the GMs did well this year in getting us Minkah.
Now i take it back. Stinkah hasn’t done shit. Gesicki even less. Jerome Baker has a TD, so he’s okay.
Stinkah got toasted too many times yesterday, in addition to falling down.
The play where he left Luck wide open probably was Burke’s fault, not Stinkah’s
Been in the Dominican Republic all week and thank god I didn’t have to watch that shit game. If gase stays around past this year I’m taking a break from NFL football. I don’t think I’ve ever hated a head coach more. Philbin was clueless, Tony S was in over his head but fuck they were likeable or you just felt bad for them. Gase is an arrogant trash head coach that costs his teams more games than he wins. His record against teams with good records is so bad it’s unreal.
I was hoping for stability at HC but I’m not even sure if he turns things over to his OC to call plays that things would get much better. Part of this problem is personnel decisions.
Stability is over-rated. The Oilers/Titans had stability with Jeff Fisher for about 145 years, but zero titles. Gase won me over with a playoff season his first year, but I relaize now that a lot of that was due to Suh, Ajayi, and Landry
Yeah its a little bit of everything and don’t get me wrong I’m not looking for 25 years of no playoffs stability just hoping that the guy could grow each year but he’s still doing the same dumb shit. Players is also a problem but not sure if that’s all on him or not…
The play calling costs us games. If we had the greatest linemen of all time and a backfield of Larry Csonka, OJ Simpson, and Barry Sanders, Gase would STILL call pass plays no matter how awesome the RBs are doing. It’s his nature
Agreed. When he did call an up field screen to beat the run blitz to Drake he took it for a first down but I’ve only seen that play once all year…. he prefers to go 25 yards when his QB has no time to throw it. I’d put him in Madden training course so he understands how fast guys will get there…
Sorry to post a link on the board,but I just read this and found it utterly mind blowing
https://sports.yahoo.com/adam-gase-everyone-looks-result-173922191.html?bcmt=1
Links are fine. Always willing to read stuff that you guys find.
Let me also say that there is way too much criticism of Gase’s final series…3 and out from our own 5 yardline. That series didn’t blow the game. it was clearly the series before.
Reporters keep questioning this joker about why he didn’t call a pass from our own 5 yard line? who cares!
Ask him (and keep on asking and asking and asking) why–when we needed to kill clock and simply get a few first downs–didn’t he hand off to either of his backs who were averaging a staggering 5.2 yards per carry.
I agree with you that the second to last series was was way more crucial but the last one illustrates further that this guy does not call plays to fit a given situation (what the defense has a low probability of defending against) but rather just seems to have a given set of plays that he randomly calls based on a faulty sense of success. Like running with 8-9 guys in the box is ever going to work or calling for a 30 yards out into double coverage when its 3rd and 1 ( and you’ve been rushing for 4 ypc)
Yeah some fans/reporters are looking at that 3&10 but the “24 seconds “drive is what did us in.
Correction..47 seconds drive
The Dolphins should go and pick up Reuben Foster.
By the way, in talking about our final drive, that began at our own 5 yard line, Gase went on and on about how he was worried about a safety.
BUT….if we give up a safety there, we are in the exact same position.
Consider this:
Tie game. Gase played it safe, and gambled on a few things: We punt it far, we make a defensive stop, we get the ball back with better field position, we march down and kick a game-winning field goal.
Now consider this…if we got caught for a safety, then we punt from our own 20, NOT from our own endzone. We then have to make a defensive stop, we get the ball back with better field position, we march down and kick a game-winning field goal.
EITHER WAY….whether tied or down 2 points, we needed to make a stop and then go kick a winning FG
Wow, your playing to avoid a safety, really? Is there any more evidence as to this guys stupidity? If a guy misses a block, a safety occurs, but you work on the fundamentals to avoid this situation. You dont call a game based on the fact that a safety may occur (may be if you are on the 1 inch line). You analyze what the defense is going to do and you counter it. Like instead of the bubble screen, that nets zero yards 90 % of the time, try sending your WR deep to draw the CB and safety downfield, send the slot receive in motion away from that side to draw the LBs toward them, then run a counter run or pass to the open side. This gives your speed guy Drake a 1-1 match up. 1 first down is all they needed to secure overtime. That should be your line of thinking not O my God there might be a safety. @#ck!!!!
Tell me if I’m off here…every time Tannekill breaks the huddle and goes to the line, it’s as though he is not totally sure of what he sees out there…watch Brady, Wentz, Rodgers, Wilson, Newton, and any other QB playing-they look at the defense and it’s like they “get it”—Tannehill does not give me that confidence. Maybe because I’ve never thought he was that good a QB-he’s sufficient, but we don’t need sufficient! We haven’t had a solid winning QB since Marino, how much longer will this go on? I said it when Tannehill started he doesn’t have it and never will. He gives some good throws but not enough to lead this team. Gase is keeping his Tanny experiment in the lab when it clearly isn’t going to work. Gase is at fault for that and for his defensive attitude where he can never be wrong. If Dan Campbell were available again, it might be a good thought to bring him back as HC-those players liked his attitude! Heck, I’ll welcome Rex! He’s got that junk yard dog attitude, something this team could muster up. Just tired of watching other players on teams playing for each other as a team, mano y mano.
For all his faults, I was truly impressed with the way Brock Osweiler DID know what was going on. I don’t think his physical tools are as sound as Tannehill’s, but he is superior in recognizing things.
To me, it comes from being a QB your whole life, and opposed to Tannehill learning the position 8 years ago only.
It’s crazy how long Miami has wasted on Ryan Tannehill. This is now 8 straight games that Tannehill has started where Miami hasn’t scored 30 points. He has yet to throw for 300 yards in 16 straight starts. That’s a full season of not throwing for 300 yards in game. This man was better under Joe Philbin than he has been under the genuis Adam Gase. I honestly don’t know what hurt this franchise more drafting Tannehill or hiring Adam Gase. I lean toward Gase cause under Bill Lazor Tannehill was actually an average NFL QB. Under Gase he has a QBR that is good for 30th in the NFL.
It’s Gase’s playcalling. NO ONE gets in a rhythm. Gore goes for for 5 yards at a pop, and Gase decides to fool the opponent by throwing passes instead of giving them more Gore. Amendola gets 3 or 4 targets a game, instead of 3 or 4 targets PER SERIES. Gase is a pig of a play caller, and only now are other reporters noticing. I’ve said it from the get go.
No doubt he is the worst playcaller I’ve seen in a long time. He throws on 3rd and 4th and short but runs draws or bubble screens on 3rd and long. Incredible how bad he is. Drake has 7 TDs this year, no one else on the offense has more than 4 yet Drake almost never gets 20 touches a game like he should. Just look how the Panthers use Christian Mcaffery, Drake should be used the same way but Gase is freaking clueless. Miami with Drake and Gore should have a top 5 running game.
Not only is he a bad playcaller he has no creativity at all in drawing up plays. It is few and far between that you see a play and go, “Wow that was a well designed play to get so and so open” When you watch good teams you hear the HOF announcers say that from time to time but never about our offense. Here’s a great example. Every team now uses pick plays to spring players open and most do it really successfully against us but do we ever run a play like that. NOPE! We run wide receivers screens two yards behind the line that usually get blown up.
This is exactly why it’s hard to grade Tanny either Gase is fucking every call up or his oline is shit. When Gase actually calls a good game and the oline is healthy they magically do well on offence. Not saying Tanny is the saviour we know his limitations but he’s not the sole problem here. You can draft QB’s every year but if those problems aren’t resolved they’ll be ruined or have no chance unless you hit a diamond which we all know is a complete crapshoot…
He hasn’t throw for 300 yards in 16 games man. You can’t excuse that, freaking CJ Bethard and Brock Oswelier and Sam Darnold and Case Keenum and Blake Bortles have had 300 yard games in their last 16 starts. It’s inexcusable. I’ll say he doesn’t make the horrible mistakes some QBs do all the time or straight miss wide open receivers like Oswelier but man he just never has a great game.
I would really like to know how much Ross pays attention to the Dolphins organization on a daily basis? How much authority he is giving to the GM, who pretty much runs the show, coach selection(s), player selection(s)? And how much does owning the Dolphins really mean to Ross? Because no matter how much anyone can not like Jerry Jones, that man lives and dies for his team! That’s NOT happening with this owner. I feel our problems are from the top down….starting with Ross who pretty much knows nothing about football and cares more about his NY real estate deals–does the dude even show up at games? Need a new owner Fin fans that will change the pedigree of this team and organization.