One thing former Dolphins head coach Don Shula isn't offering current Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron is a vote of confidence. But luckily, the Hall of Famer is willing to dispense some free advice on how Cameron can turn things around in Miami: let somebody else call the offensive plays. Cameron came to Miami after successfully serving at the Chargers offensive coordinator, and he retains that job with the Dolphins. Apparently, tight ends coach Mike Mularkey took over the chore during last Sunday's loss to the Jets, so that either means that a) Shula's advice is worthless, or b) Mularkey's play-calling is.
Shula has a couple of Super Bowl rings, and Mularkey bombed as the Bills' head coach a few seasons ago. I'll go with the latter.
Despite Marty Schottenheimer calling Cameron a "great offensive coach and great play-caller," Shula makes a good point about why it's smart to delegate that job to somebody else on the coaching staff (not named Mularkey):
"In your preparation, if you're a play-caller, you have to be thinking all offense to get ready for what's going to happen. If you're the head coach, you have to be the head coach of the entire team -- not just head coach of the offense. I hope he goes in that direction to entrust some of the play-calling to whoever he believes it should be.''Somebody should show these comments to Brian Billick.
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12-06-2007 @ 1:38AM
George B Vieto said...
Anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows you can't think two thoughts at once. Cam cameron should have someone call the offensive plays while he does the job of coaching the team. Calling plays and coaching at the same time is a recipe for disaster.
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12-06-2007 @ 2:31AM
Dave said...
While I'm not a huge advocate of the head coach running the offense himself, the fact of the matter is that several coaches have done so very succesfully over the years. You guys aren't wholly off base on this one, but the reality is that if you want to blame a team's problems on something the coach calling the plays is never going to be the one and only problem a bad team has. My point is especially true in this instance as no NFL team gets as deep in the mud as 0-12 without possessing a myriad of problems and I wouldn't waste time debating that with Shula, Cameron, Huizenga, bloggers or anyone else.
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12-06-2007 @ 4:52AM
Ron said...
Dolphins head coach Don Shula can't offer current Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron anything but a free ticker outta here. The 0-8 record speaks volumes about top executive leadership of the Dolphins in choosing this mediocre coach as head coach in the first place. If the fans even counted a 95% vote of No-confidence should be enough. (Same for the Hurricanes leadership).
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