It’s about Miami’s vision of itself, not keeping up with the Patriots
Gase is his own man and not into keeping up with Belichick
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is an idiom about someone fixating their mind on a neighbor’s material acquisitions and accomplishments as the benchmark of happiness and success.
In the NFL this phrase should be more slightly tweaked to “Keeping up with the Brady’s or Belichick’s”, because every team in the league would like to have perennial dominance like the Patriots–the problem comes when that admiration turns to fixation.
There are plenty of things to emulate about the Patriots, but if a team goes too far, loses perspective and starts trying to be them, they lose their identity, and pretenders always end up exposed and unhappy.
So Miami Dolphins don’t let the Joneses… the Brady’s get you down!
BUT… there’s one aspect that every successful team has, and in this way, keeping up with the Brady’s would be fantastic:
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are first-ballot Hall of Famers and will be argued by many as the best QB and Coach of all time. Being together since 2000 as Head Coach and Quarterback, both have had the luxury of continuity. Check these pay per head review sites for more info.
Keeping a regime for an extended period of time is a crucial element to winning
Seventeen years of playing and coaching in the same offensive and defensive philosophies and generally the same schemes mean every season the playbook is expertly understood.
Sure Belichick puts in a few new wrinkles each year and designs a new game plan for each opponent the Patriots face, but the overall philosophy and techniques that are taught and applied are the same, year in and year out.
The Dolphins’ last era of success came under Don Shula’s leadership that lasted 25 years… and that type of continuity and success hasn’t been seen since.
Each year, the players on the Patriots for the most part are just perfecting everything they learned and practiced from the year before. Unlike teams like Miami (who have had 9 different coaches since the year 2000, with Dave Wannstedt having 4 and a half years, and Tony Sparano and Joe Philbin tied for second with 3 years each as HC), the Patriots are refining and not rebuilding.
This is the second year of keeping this team together
Since Dan Marino retired in 2000, the Dolphins have had 16 different starting Quarterbacks, with Tannehill by far the longest-tenured QB entering his 6th season.
An aqua merry go round of Coaches and players hasn’t been a successful way to build a winning franchise, which is evident from Miami’s dismal 21st century.
However, things appear to be changing for the better with Coach Gase beating the odds of the best sports betting software providers and leading Miami to a 10-6 record and playoff berth last season.
Yet, everyone outside the organization–Vegas, ESPN, and football analysts–think Miami was lucky more than good in winning 8 of 10 games that were decided by one score last season. And most are saying there’s no way for Miami repeats the success of last season. But they are forgetting a key aspect…
One thing that isn’t being appreciated is the continuity that’s being built. Gase and his staff are now in their second season together and with most of the players from last season. And while this continuity isn’t close to that of the Patriots or the Shula era, it does have value… and this continuity could make all the difference to Miami winning big in this difficult 2017 season.
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