It’s one of the cruel ironies of this depressing decade that the Dolphins and Hurricanes keep failing in areas that were the supposed expertise of their head coaches. Under veteran play-caller Mark Richt, UM’s offense slipped this season to 93rd among 130 FBS teams. Under previous NFL offensive line coach Joe Philbin, the Dolphins’ offensive line was an abomination.
And now under Adam Gase — who did great work with superb offensive talent around him as Denver’s play-caller — the Dolphins have ranked in the bottom quarter of the league in yards per game in each of his three seasons and bottom half in points each of those years, too.