Miami Head Coaching Search Update
The Dolphins fired their head coach during the season so that it wouldn’t interfere with their head coaching search, and so far they’ve been linked with some promising names. Former Titans Coach Jeff Fisher is the largest name on the list, but there are a few other coaches the team is considering:
Sources say Fisher left South Florida with a favorable impression of Ross and the Dolphins’ organization. It wasn’t specified if an offer was made, but Fisher made it clear before Tuesday’s visit, his first, that he was interested in exploring all his options.
The Dolphins are being assisted by former Chiefs’ GM Carl Peterson, and the word is that Fisher is at the top of the Dolphins’ list, but the team isn’t waiting on him, since Fisher is deciding between Miami and St. Louis.
Peterson is involved with the coaching search, which on Wednesday turned its focus on Chicago Bears special teams coach Dave Toub.
Toub, 48, has been the Bears’ special teams coordinator under Lovie Smith for eight seasons, where his units have annually ranked as one of the best in the NFL.
There’s not a lot known nationally about Toub, but it’s almost impossible to question his results as a special teams coordinator. He’s very recently become a hot commodity, mostly because Toub is one of the best in the business and has been during his whole tenure in the NFL.
But Toub isn’t the only successful coordinator that the Dolphins are looking at … they’re also interviewing OC Joe Philbin of the Packers.
The Dolphins prefer an experienced NFL coach but have intentions of taking their search deeper, possibly talking to Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin and other candidates, but that may depend on Fisher’s status.
Philbin has certainly had the benefit of some great talent in Green Bay, but his tenure dates back to the Favre days, and he also helped the Packers win the Super Bowl without players like OL Mark Tauscher, TE Jermichael Finley, and with RB James Starks on the PUP much of the season. Philbin has been very successful in his time with the Packers, and could be a solid head coach in South Florida.
At the end of the day, the Dolphins (unfortunately) look to be on the right track when it comes to hiring their next coach. Fisher has been a very successful coach, and both Toub and Philbin have proven themselves in their work until now.
31 Responses to Miami Head Coaching Search Update
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Le' Sean Roberts says:
SARCASM, OR YOU’RE A PATRIOTS FAN, A TRASH BIN OR SOMETHING ELSE.
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Brendan says:
Overwhelming sarcasm. And let’s kill the caps lock, eh, Le’Sean? I feel like you’ve been screaming at me since yesterday.
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Sorry, just too lazy to hit the Caps Lock.
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marc says:
why does everyone keep saying Fisher is such a good coach what exactly is that based on he has never on anything and his overall record is average
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Nick says:
He’s been to a SB, which is more then any Jets coach could say in the last 40 years.
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Dawg1331 says:
One super bowl in 15 yrs of coaching which he lost.
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As opposed to zero on 40? Come on guy stop acting superior.
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shouldn’t we be playing tonite. I wonder If Rex is going through withdrawal like me.By not playing in the playoffs.
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Funny how other teams can seem to fire coaches without worrying about it looking bad to new candidates or worrying about the money.
But the Jets can’t fire Shotty? This has become the excuse of the day for not getting rid of him. More reasons why we are a laughingstock.
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john says:
The excuse for not firing Schotty is what those in the mediea dreamed up, not what the Jets are saying.
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hank/naples says:
john:
What the Jets are factually saying is that Schotty has done a “Super job, everyone in the organization is happy with him, and extended his contract!!
Now what exactly is the media saying???
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That they’re supporting him in order to have him get hired so the Jets don’t have to pay him over $3 million while he coaches elsewhere.
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Lou says:
which doesn’t make any sense in reality, unless the jets organisation has been so blind and dumb for the last 6 years. at the end of last season Holmes went public about the play calling. This year he quit on the team cause of the play calling. Since last season the jets gave shotty a 2 year extension, and a pretty good salary.
What does that say? To me it says the jets are dumb and schotty isn’t going anywhere. If there was any question about schotties abilities (and there should have based on last season and the previous 4 before that) then they should NOT have extended him, and they would have no obligation to keep him after this season.
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to add to that, we have business men making all the decisions for this team. From Woody, to the GM Tannenbaum. I’m not taking away from Tanny’s abilities to manipulate the cap room, and restructure players contracts to bring in big FA’s, ect. But so far nothing is being done right to fill in our holes, or create team chemistry.
I’ve always liked Tanny for his abilities to make things work with the cap, and going after FA’s that makes sense. But I’m starting to lose faith in his ability to make sound decisions. Holmes huge contract, going after Asomugha when that would have crippled us even more in the long run.
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Wil Fisher bring his championship rings to show the Dolphins players…oh yeah nevermind
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Chrebet80 says:
Fischer is a good coach, but a bit over rated in my opinon. He has had only 6 seasons out of 17 where he finished above .500, same goes for making the playoffs. Only made the playoffs 2 of his last 7 years as coach. He has been to a super bowl, that he lost, and that season is his only championship game apperance.
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That’s good and everyone is calling for Rex’s head.
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nyjwtf says:
Yeah its the truth, there is no doubt they are trying to build him up in an effort to not have to publicly bring him down.
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mike francesser says:
Schotty is an excellent football coach. That’s the kind of winner they need in Florida; not some mullet-headed hack.
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Yeah, an excellent coach at your home backyard or something. Bury your business back there buddy.
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Who the hell wants to be Mike Francessca? You wish you were the heir to his jock-strap hammy downs.
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Jets seriously chasing Sparano? I wouldn’t have an issue replacing Callahan’s O-line/Asst. Head Coach spot with Sparano.
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Antwan says:
O coordinator for Callahan??
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NFL Countdown.
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vurtualife says:
I’d like to suggest the below article to be posted by Bent or Bassett. As much as I dislike the Giants, the article touches on some key points Re: leadership, team unity, and team mgmt. Frankly, it paints quite a contrast between the Giants and Jets respective locker rooms. Of course, it’s easy to pile on this year with the way the Jets’ season ended, and the fact that the Giants are now in the playoffs, but their description of how they choose their captains [as opposed to the poorly-conceived "appointment" of captains employed by Rex this year] highlights what I view as a lack of overall ‘awareness’ by a coach that may have been a very good D coordinator but is clearly still finding his way as a head coach…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Not many Giants watched the boiling point moment in the Jets’ season-ending defeat last weekend, when an in-the-huddle fracas banished wide receiver Santonio Holmes to the sideline and a solitary seat on the bench. But the Giants knew what had happened or had seen televised video of it.
Focused on Sunday’s playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons and with the Jets in their rearview mirrors, the Giants this week were not eager to make comparisons, but when asked, several said it was a situation they could not envision in one of their games.
“Everyone knows their place in our huddle and everyone knows who the leader is,” tackle Kareem McKenzie said. “Eli talks and we listen. He’s in control, he has the information we need to move down the field. I personally have never seen anything like that.”
The backup quarterback David Carr dresses near Eli Manning in the locker room, practices daily at his side and is connected to every Manning deliberation during games, via the sideline communication system. “I could not conceive of chaos breaking out in Eli’s huddle,” Carr said after Giants practice Thursday. “It’s not in the makeup of the team or the leaders we pick. In our locker room, we value people who don’t call attention to themselves. So people find leadership in Eli’s understated manner. It’s real and earned.”
Mathias Kiwanuka, the sixth-year linebacker, in fact insisted that unity was a franchise core value purposefully developed.
“When things are going bad — and we’ve had plenty of those moments — we have had no bickering this year,” Kiwanuka said. “People might express some things, but it’s face to face and meant to help the entire team. It’s a code of behavior passed down from ownership to the coach to the team captains and then to the rest of us.”
Captains?
In a week when Jets Coach Rex Ryan announced he would not have captains next season — regretful after anointing Holmes a captain this year — the Giants were heartily rallying behind the importance of team captains.
“You can’t have a football team at any level without captains,” the defensive tackle Dave Tollefson said. “In the ultimate team game, where one player often has to sacrifice his body for a teammate’s gain, you need leaders who show the way. They don’t talk about it, they do it.”
By paper ballot, the three Giants captains are voted on at the end of training camp in August. “That’s important, too,” Tollefson said. “The players write down names and the cream rises to the top.”
This season and last, Manning is the offensive captain, Justin Tuck is the defensive captain and the long snapper and two-time Pro Bowler Zak DeOssie is the special-teams captain. “It’s not a role anyone takes lightly,” DeOssie said. “The captains get together periodically to compare notes to be sure we’re on the same page about what we might be doing. With another five or six players, as a leadership council, we meet with Coach Coughlin.”
DeOssie described other duties: getting the rookies together at training camp for extra film preparation and counseling players after bad and good games.
“People think being a captain is yelling at halftime,” he said. “And there is a time for that. But it’s not as important as little steps behind the scenes — patting somebody on the back for a good block not many people saw or getting on somebody for not paying attention.”
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Yet, the Giants were only 3-5 the second half of the season. Winning what was rather a bad season in the NFC East saved Caughlin’s job. If the Giants are in any of the other NFC Divisions, he would’ve been cleaning out his office last Monday.
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juunit says:
Sweet. Hopefully Miami can hire this moron and then he can go another 17 years without winning.
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frustratedjetfan says:
W/r/t team captains Rex overreacted because he screwed up by naming Tone a captain to try and get him to be a leader & a team guy. Then, not to hurt Tone’s feelings he banished the title on his team.
All Rex really had to do is say he made a mistake because players should vote for their team captains. They should decide who to follow. It must come voluntarily from the players themselves and not come top-down from management.
This team needs leadership & having the players force one of them to step up is not a bad idea at all. In this leadership lacking locker room, Rex may have turned one mistake into two. He should correct it by saying he will leave it up to the players.
I sure hope they don’t take Schottenheimer. I would hate to lose that guy.