DOLPHINS: more Jets comments

Tue Nov 3 00:46:04 GMT 2009

I am beginning to think players like Sparano because he's a down to earth kind of guy.  He's also stand-up and not afraid to take risks or stick up for his players.  You get the feeling he earns respect for being a grinder, a guy who has risen through hard work and passion.  But let's face it...at the end of the day he's the type of guy (as relayed by Sean Peyton last week) who won't sit down in an Italian restaurant unless they let him "sample the gravy."  It's worth noting that Peyton really wanted Sparano to come to New Orleans and Sparano admitting he was devastated when Parcells would not let him leave.  I don't think he's the most cerebral guy in the room.  I think, that as long as he's the HC, he will have his WTF moments.  But I'm hoping that's balanced out by his ability to keep his team even keel and keep pushing the guys to just grind through the bad times.  I think we saw a great ability to do that last year.  We'll see if he can keep it up now.

Patrick, getting down verbally...

> From: richiewohlers at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:52:57 -0800
> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: more Jets comments
> 
> So far this season he has begun making me feel less than confident that we
> have a long-term answer at the head coaching position.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, <dolfanbg at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Actually, I've been wondering if anyone else has noticed that about
> > Sparano. He seems to get lost in his own words sometimes. It's like his
> > thoughts come out verbally, without a filter and he ends up taking a tagent
> > from what he's trying say.
> >
> > Case in point, he starts out talking about how being ahead by 11 is a good
> > time to go for two, but then goes into a side discussion of 12 being better
> > than 11 and 13 being better than 12. By they time he gets back to his first
> > thought, you're left wondering if he ever answered the question.
> >
> > I've seen a number of his quotes and transcripts of post-game comments
> > where I end up just blinking and saying... "huh?"
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kristoffer Shields" <kms223 at hotmail.com>
> > To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> > Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 2:08:34 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> > Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: more Jets comments
> >
> >
> >
> > Love this quote from Sparano's press conference today:
> >
> > "One thing we didn't do very well, you got to give credit to the Jets --
> > I'm not afraid to do that -- they did a good job up front,'
> >
> > Nice little dig there. He also addressed the 2-point conversion, but I
> > couldn't understand the point he was trying to make. He seemed at first to
> > suggest that 11 is enough because they have to do 3 things to tie (TD, 2
> > point, FG). But he kept making it seem like the reason 11 is as good as 12
> > is because it's so hard to convert a 2 point conversion....but if it's so
> > hard, why would you go for one hehe. Then later, it sounded like he was
> > worried about making it so that a TD and 2 FGs wouldn't beat the Fins. It
> > didn't make much sense to me. My concern is that he didn't seem to know why
> > he did it or whether it was the right call---which doesn't make me hopeful
> > that that decision-making is going to improve much in the future.
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:13 -0500
> > > From: cheesefrog at usa.net
> > > To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> > > Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: more Jets comments
> > >
> > > ------ Original Message ------
> > > From: Kristoffer Shields <kms223 at hotmail.com>
> > >
> > > > On going for the two-point conversion in the third quarter...
> > > > I don't know. I always think that we can stop them. I just thought that
> > > we'll just start going for two. We had discussed it and we felt good
> > about it.
> > > At the end, you can make that statement. You might want to look at why
> > they
> > > went for two, but we felt good about it at that time.
> > >
> > > Wow, "I don't know, go aske them why they did it" was really his answer?
> > >
> > > > But I sure wouldn't feel comfortable right now if he were head coach of
> > the
> > > Fins.
> > >
> > > When he said that he'd rather be in his locker room going forward, I
> > couldn't
> > > help but wonder if his team would rather have a different coach in that
> > locker
> > > room. If they don't yet, they will soon enough.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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