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Most teams took advantage of the break in the lockout to get new playbooks to there players. Of course We did not.
http://phinphanatic.com/2011/05/03/dolphins-fail-to-hand-out-playbooks/

I keep wanting to give Sparano the benefit of the doubt, but it is like I heard an old coach say once, "Every time I pat him on the ass, he shits in my hand."

He has been in over his head since Day 1. And he does NOTHING to change that perception. It's on the job training with him and this franchise will continue to fail with him as head coach

Have to admit, this is a major gaffe by Sparano and staff...

Does he need to hand out playbooks?  The defense's isn't going to change at all really.  And the offense, well shit it's not like they can play much worse.

DAMNIT!

Yes, of course the team needed to hand out playbooks. If there is NO DIFFERENCE from last year, we are in serious shit.

We have a new OC, so there's almost certainly a brand new playbook. Sparano is ultimately responsible, but Brian Dabol deserves some flack as well.

sorry I guess I should have stuck the tongue in cheek face on there.

;)

I was so riled up, I completed failed to note the (obvious) sarcasm.

There's one thing I think some of you are forgetting and that is that Chad Henne has already been given a playbook and he's running training camp for the offense right now. There's no reason that he couldn't have handed out a playbook to the entire offense well before now. Now it's possible that Dabol has made a few changes to the playbook since then, but it's not like he's missing the entire playbook.

Everyone gave them plenty of crap about breaking the rules and giving Henne a playbook not that long ago, now you're giving them crap about not giving Henne a playbook? In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the reason they didn't give them a playbook was because they knew Henne had already given everyone one, but of course they aren't going to admit that to the media. I seriously doubt this would just "slip their mind". Where they screwed up was not making it official and giving everyone an "official" playbook when they had the chance to cover their tracks so to speak.

Maybe I'm giving Henne and Dabol too much credit, but Sparano is too much of a detail oriented guy for him to just forget to do this. What he didn't think about was what he was gonna say when asked if they handed one out during the time they were allowed to do it. "Um, no we didn't hand one out then" while thinking to himself "...because they already have one...CRAP!"

^^^ If that's the case, then I'll take back the nasty things I thought about Sparano. ;)

I had completely forgotten about Henne and Daboll already meeting.

It's cool don't worry.

I don't think handing out or not handing out playbooks is all that of a big deal.  What is a big deal is if the players are working out or not on their own. 

Teams whose players arrive in decent physical shape will be substantially ahead of teams whose players need to get into shape first. 

When you have a new offensive coordinator, I think the playbooks are pretty significant. There's no telling how long this labor issue will persist, so it's something that needs to be considered.

Something tells me they didn't change the offensive playbook that much.  Dan Henning's playbook has everything in it an NFL team needs.  The problem was the order in which the plays were called and some of the formations I'd like to see them get rid of.

There's always minor changes in the playbook year to year.