Phins hire Bears' OC Dowell Loggains

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article192636519.html

The club on Tuesday brought former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains to its team facility with the idea of seeing if he’s a fit to upgrade the offensive coaching staff.

Loggains spent the day with head coach Adam Gase and the two discussed Loggains taking on a significant workload in preparing the offense week to week. That work must include raising the Dolphins offense from its doldrums of the past seasons. The Dolphins averaged 17.6 points per game and finished 28th in points scored last season.

HELL YEAH, BABY!!!  We're getting an offensive coordinator from a garbage team that scored even fewer points than we did the past two seasons!  Not only that, but this is the same guy that was QB coach for future Hall of Famers Johnny Manziel and Brian Hoyer in 2014, and Dolfan favorite Jay Cutler in 2015!  He worked with Gase in that 2015 season, so you know he's good...after all, Cutler was amazing that season!!!        


YES!!!  This organization really knows how to hire top-notch coaches.  I'm going to start looking at airfare and hotel for Super Bowl 53!!!!    

(sarcasm over)


In all seriousness, Loggains has been with the Bears for three seasons - one year as QB coach and two as OC.  In that time the Bears have won a grand total of 14 games, ranking 23, 28 and 29 in points scored (the last two with him as OC).

Prior to Chicago, Loggains was in Tennessee, where he coached more crappy QBs for a couple of seasons before becoming OC in 2012-13.  While Loggains was with the Titans, here is where his team ranked in points scored:
2010: 17
2011: 21
2012: 23
2013: 19

And in 2014 as Browns QB coach, his team was ranked 27 in points scored.

So, yeah, this guy hasn't been successful anywhere in the NFL but we're supposed to believe that his guidance and input are going to make Gase's crappy offense great???  

It's so difficult to stay interested in this dumpster fire of a team.

I have no issue with the Phins bringing in someone to help on offense. But - if it's just going to be a Gase buddy that's just a figurehead OC that isn't calling plays and is just being a "yes" man - then it's a waste of time. Clyde Christensen certainly didn't help, and he's a helluva lot more experienced than Loggains. As long as Gase is calling plays and ignoring the rest of the team on gameday, it's going to fail. And why must we keep adding coaches from garbage organizations????

white1 wrote:A couple of points we haven't touched on yet:

- Ok good, we are changing SOMETHING on offense in an effort to fix what is clearly broken.  What are we going to do on defense? John Fox is available, is a great defensive mind, and if he fails to land a HC job he would be an excellent addition on that side of the ball.  Does Burke survive a disastrous season (the 2nd in a row) for our defense, with busted coverages happening all season continuing right on through week 17?

- What is this going to do for Tannehill? Another OC coming in, and yet another change for him to absorb and master.  Will the "system" and terminology remain the same? If so, then what is really expected to improve?

Nothing's going to change on defense. The coaches and players think everything is just fine as is. Fox would be an excellent hire, but there's no chance...Gase won't bring in anyone that can challenge him.

As for Tannehill, this won't impact him at all IMO. It's going to be Gase's system and he'll still call plays. I think anyone we bring in is simply going to fill the Clyde Christensen role and won't have a real impact on the scheme. Interesting that we're interviewing guys for Clyde's job while Clyde is still with the Phins...seems a bit sketchy.

Of course, we also need a legit OL coach, unless Dave DeGuglielmo gets the job.

Yep, Loggains is the new OC. Christensen may stay with the team in another capacity.

This article is great:
http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2018/01/03/adam-gase-runs-dolphins-offense-but-oc-clyde-christensen-gets-booted/

Clyde Christensen is losing his job over all the bad plays he didn’t call.

Christensen was the Dolphins’ offensive coordinator the last two seasons to help Adam Gase in his first NFL head-coaching gig. Now he’s out as Gase turns to Dowell Loggains to replace him after Miami spent another year in the bottom 10 of the league in total offense.

Who’s to blame for all the “garbage offense,” to use Gase’s term, South Florida has endured the last two years? Not Christensen.

Gase runs the offense, something 11 other head coaches do, and he’s relied on Christensen mostly as an advisor. Gase calls the plays and works directly with the quarterbacks.

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It takes a lot of faith in Gase to believe this is the move that’s going to get Miami’s offense rolling, which is something people down here have craved more than anything. It’s not just that the Dolphins are perpetually mediocre, it’s that they’re boring. They haven’t had a top-10 offense since 2001.

Since Gase took over the Dolphins, they’ve scored the ninth-fewest points, gained the sixth-fewest yards, committed the seventh-most turnovers, posted the second-worst third-down conversion rate and ranked 18th in passer rating. Something definitely needs to change, and apparently he thinks this is it.

Christensen is getting thrown under the bus for Gase's pathetic offense. And now we're getting a still-wet-behind-the years OC with a history of coaching crappy QBs and running crappy offenses....and Gase is still calling the plays. What a joke.

rightchea wrote:Shula would have been a good fit but he would probably wanted to call some plays as well. Gase doesn't like other coaches that contribute to the play calling or decision making

Yeah, Mike Shula is a playcaller. No way he works as an errand boy under Gase.

Ugh...it's scary how bad this coaching staff is.