I don't think Sparano is the problem

[BigDaddyFin]

Disagree with one thing Doc said. 

Stupid penalties.  That's on the coaching staff.  I saw "mental errors" somewhere in an earlier post.  What made Shula and Belicheck great coaches is that they eliminate them.  Penalties are mental errors. 

But you are correct, Doc.  There's a lot of shit going wrong with this team that Tony Sparano has nothing to do with. 

Someone turned the stadium into a cocktail party and a sideshow.  That's not the head coach's fault.  Someone gave away one of our biggest homefield advantages in terms of September heat.  Not the coach's fault.  Someone thought it'd be a great idea to throw a ton of money at a guy known for fumbling the ball and maybe once a year returning kicks for touchdowns.  Someone thought it would be a hot idea to stick a nightclub inside the stadium. 

[dolfan13]

i don't see the "gameday experience" having anything to do with the football teams performance.

it's pretty simple, this team is bad because it has bad players.

[el diablo]

Blaming sparano is the easy way out. This organization needs a change from top to bottom. It's just amazing how the mindset of scoring few points & hope the defense holds is a consistent philosophy. Ever since Fielder was the QB. This team does have talent. Just not enough to play this way. Sparano is only part of the problem.

[BigDaddyFin]

i don't see the "gameday experience" having anything to do with the football teams performance.

Because the gameday experience being created has absolutely nothing to do with football.  It has to do with being trendy.  Being trendy creates a bunch of fairweather fans and a team that can't win at home. 

A small dose of celebrity ownership is probably good for publicity.  There's nothing wrong with the occaisonal shot of random celebrity owner or fan in the stands/press box.   

Putting in a nightclub, the whole orange carpet thing,  fruitifying the stadium with that Jimmy Buffett bullshit and creating an atmosphere more suitable for a cocktail party is counterproductive.  You wind up with exactly what we have and what I warned everybody about when this all started: a team that can't win at home and a displaced or at this point completely lost fan base.

We now have actual fans paying a lot of money to go to a cocktail party and hoping that a football game might actually break out. 

[MikeO]

the "gameday experience" is nice to poke fun at but it has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING.

[BigDaddyFin]

the "gameday experience" is nice to poke fun at but it has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING.

It does if you lose your fan base, which this team has managed to do.

[tepop84]

It does if you lose your fan base, which this team has managed to do.

LOL, the fact that they are 1-11 at home in there last 12 is why they are losing their fan base.  To blame it on anything else would be retarded.

[MikeO]

It does if you lose your fan base, which this team has managed to do.

ha ha ha ha ha, the "gameday experience" isn't what lost the fan base. LOSING SEASONS did and not winning home games did!

Seriously people, come on!!!!

[fyo]

It feels weird when MikeO and tepop are on different sides of an argument.

[Sunstroke]

I think Sparano is a pretty big part of the problem, but I think the GM who's been supplying him with subpar talent to work with has to shoulder a big part of the blame as well.

It feels weird when MikeO and tepop are on different sides of an argument.

Kinda like watching an underground boxing match to the death between a Nazi and an al Qaeda terrorist...you just cross your fingers that both of them throw the death blow at exactly the same time.

[MikeO]

It feels weird when MikeO and tepop are on different sides of an argument.

uh, if you are actually reading the posts we are on the same side of the argument. But why let facts get in the way. Keep playing in that imaginary world in your head

[fyo]

uh, if you are actually reading the posts we are on the same side of the argument. But why let facts get in the way.

I was mistaken... and the world is set right again.

Keep playing in that imaginary world in your head

Personal attacks. Sigh...

[MikeO]

you complaining about personal attacks is very funny!

Pot meet Mr. Kettle!

[Spider-Dan]

What does "homefield advantage" consist of?

Does it consist of being able to sleep in your own beds at night?
Is it the comfort of being in your own locker room?
Perhaps it is the short, familiar drive to the stadium?

Of course not.  IT'S THE FANS.

When THE FANS don't care about the game, you don't have a homefield advantage!

[MikeO]

^^^ yep and when you lose the fans stop caring.

It has nothing to do with orange carpets, cocktail party's and water parks