Batting 1.000 --
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by Orod412
originally found on TheBigOz.com--
Getting a hit every single at bat.
Dolphins coach Cam Cameron has done just that.
Only he’s not hitting baseballs, he’s hitting bad decisions.
Every last one of them.
Cameron and his goons drafted Ted Ginn 9th overall, released Daunte Culpepper without giving him a chance to compete, traded Wes Welker to a division rival, traded for an ancient and concussed Trent Green, considered a platoon situation between 2nd overall pick Ronnie Brown (who, heading into Week 6, led the league in rushing yards from scrimmage) and Jesse Chatman, signed Joey Porter to a 5 year, $32 million dollar contract ($20 million guaranteed), are considering realeasing Ricky Williams, and started Cleo Lemon at Quarterback instead of starting 2nd round pick John Beck…
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2007 Miami Dolphins!
They can’t defend against the run, can’t cover receivers, can’t blitz, and can’t correct needless penalties.
And that’s just on defense.
A poor season was expected.
Poor decisions from coaching and management however…well, unfortunately, those were expected too.
In today’s sports landscape, coach worship is completely unfounded and all too prevalent. Way too much emphasis is placed on what a coach does and what his overall impact is.
When a team is winning and perseveres, the coach is a brilliant, masterful being who’s decisions are commended for being gutsy and on the money.
When a team struggles, the coach is usually the first to blame, the result of ‘losing’ his team, his ability, his prowess, his all.
The truth of the actual importance of a coach might lie somewhere in the middle.
Great coaches such as Jim Leyland and Joe Torre in baseball, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson in basketball, and even Bill Parcels and Don Shula in football, have gone on record at one point or another to acknowledged that their direct calls make a difference of 1% or less on the outcome of a particular game.
The latest example of course being the Yankees’ Joe Torre, who after 12 seasons of making the playoffs, four world championships, and successfully melding the egos of baseball’s highest paid franchise, is on the verge of losing his job.
The implication being that he just lost “it”, or that the Yankees don’t listen or follow his lead, or that he forgot to manage.
Surely this isn’t the case.
At the end of the day, the players on the field are responsible for the outcome of the game. It is their talent and execution that rise above play calls, salaries and politics.
With that said, management and coaches are counted on to make the best possible decisions in order to give their talent a chance.
Throughout this young, disastrous season, Cam Cameron and the front office have displayed nothing short of incompetence.
Nobody expects them to be right all of the time.
An off-season and six games in, we’re still waiting for them to get it right just once.
