Week 6 Coaching Tree: Dolphins’ Adam Gase

Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gase speaks to the media after the team's mini-camp practice at Doctors Hospital Training Facility at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla., on Thursday, June 16, 2016. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS)When the Pittsburgh Steelers take the field tomorrow they will play against Adam Gase’s Miami Dolphins team. Gase has had a long winding road to becoming a head coach and right now it looks like his 1-4 team is struggling to find its identity.

Gase broke into the NFL as a coach in 2005 with the Detroit Lions who were coached at the time by Steve Mariucci. This puts him under the expansive Bill Walsh coaching tree, who’s most prominent branch was spawned by Mike…