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My first reaction, "Who is that?"

Initially, I said that Daboll did okay in Cleveland, but I went back to look over the numbers.  Not so good, in fact, pretty much at or near the bottom in most offensive categories. 

We replace our OC with one of the few (the very few) coordinators in the league with a worse offense than our own.

This is like if Minnesota fired Brad Childress and then hired Mike Singletary to replace him.

We replace our OC with one of the few (the very few) coordinators in the league with a worse offense than our own.

This is like if Minnesota fired Brad Childress and then hired Mike Singletary to replace him.

What did you expect when they decided to retain Tony Sparano?  Did anyone really expect us to bring in someone who was gonna turn the offense into a scoring machine?  Tony doesn't want that.  He wants the offense to be safe and mistake free.

Don't forget that Cleveland was only 1 of 2 teams to beat New England this year. 

What did you expect when they decided to retain Tony Sparano?  Did anyone really expect us to bring in someone who was gonna turn the offense into a scoring machine?  Tony doesn't want that.  He wants the offense to be safe and mistake free.

Cleveland was also only 1 of 2 teams to have 3 TO on defense.   If the Dolphins want the coordinator responsible for that game it is Rob Ryan not Brian Daboll.

I was under the impression that Ross retained Sparano with the understanding that they would try to incorporate a more consumer friendly offense, i.e. - scoring machine...................... ....

Within reason.  We can't have our offensive coordinator getting all crazy and stuff and trying to throw down field.  That would be risky! LOL

A Cleveland perspective on new Dolphins offensive coordinator Brian Daboll

The hot topic in Miami right now concerning the Dolphins is obviously the hiring of former Browns offensive coordinator Brian Daboll for the same position with the Dolphins. I do think that yesterday's post sparked some good debate amongst us Dolphins fans regarding the team's new offensive coordinator. But I felt it was important to also get some thoughts from a different perspective - from the point of view of a Cleveland Browns fan.

Daboll spent two seasons in Cleveland as their offensive coordinator. So I figured I'd be crazy not to get some thoughts on the move from Chris Pokorny, the main man at Dawgs By Nature - SBN's Browns blog.

Below is what Chris had to say about his team's former offensive coordinator:

Brian Daboll was the Browns' offensive coordinator for two seasons, each of which were slightly different. In the first year, Daboll seemed lost, although who wouldn't when you have Derek Anderson or Brady Quinn under center. Neither quarterback could complete a pass, so then for the final four games of the season, Daboll deployed a new strategy: basically forget the passing game, and do nothing but run the football and use Joshua Cribbs in the Wildcat. Cleveland won their final four games of 2009 after a 1-11 start.

In 2010, even though the thought of Jake Delhomme doesn't exactly spell"upgrade at quarterback," that is what Daboll treated him as. It was clear the Browns did not have the receivers to support an aerial attack though, and to begin the season, Cleveland failed to run the football very much, costing the team several games. Mid-way through the season, the commitment to the run under Peyton Hillis became a little bit better and fans were warming up to Daboll a little bit.

What happened next cost Daboll dearly: teams began loading the box and run blitzing Hillis right off the line. No adjustments were made. The playcalls would run Hillis right up the gut even if the entire defense was there. If we weren't going to run it, we would line our quarterback up in Shotgun, making it too predictable that we weren't going to run. On top of that, there was a stretch where the routes on a 3rd-and-5 were always designed to go between 1-3 yards. The Browns would not take many shots down the field until they were behind by two possessions late in the game.

Daboll's strength is that he seemed very good at scripting the first offensive series or two of the game. His weakness is that he didn't utilize the team's personnel very well, and after the first two possessions, particularly in the second half of games, there seemed to be 'no method to his madness' in terms of playcalling.

I was surprised to see him get another offensive coordinator job right away. He might have been at a disadvantage in Cleveland though, where he had to work with five different quarterbacks over two seasons and some of the worst starting receivers in the league. Best of luck to the Dolphins - hopefully you don't end up as frustrated as we did with Daboll.

That doesn't explain how Hillis had 184 rushing yards or that Colt McCoy threw for 174 yards. That's over 350 yards of offense between those 2 players.  They only punted 3 times the whole day and scored 34 points.  3 TO's doesn't completely explain it.

Now I'm not expecting that he's gonna come to Miami and do that nor do I think that if Cleveland played New England again next week that would happen again, but you can't deny they did put up some big numbers on the Patriots that day.

Browns had a 404 yards of total offense and while in a vacuum that may sound impressive.  That was in fact not close to the worst for NE on the season.  Five teams had more yards of offense against NE and all of those 5 teams lost, including such powerhouses as the Lions (406 yards) Bengals (428 yards) and the Vikings (410 yards).  In NE blowout against Miami of 41-14, the Dolphins put up almost as much offense at 400 yards.  Putting up yards against NE was not a key to victory over NE.  The only way to beat NE this year was to win the turnover battle.  Browns did that.  Jets did that twice. 

The Browns would not take many shots down the field until they were behind by two possessions late in the game.

This alone I hope changes. I want to see the Phins take more chances downfield and not when they are getting beat like a screened door in a hurricane. I want to see them try and catch teams off guard by doing it early or in situations that would not necessarily call for it. We really need to open up the offense, I mean really what have you got lose!!!!

We replace our OC with one of the few (the very few) coordinators in the league with a worse offense than our own.

I'm a little late to the party but this is why I didn't like the fact that Sparano was retained.  He doesn't get it.  He had several qualified candidates to choose from and he hired the guy whose offense scored fewer points than the Dolphins.