dargonking999 said:
ok is this a quate fomr soembody or is this you? if its' a qoute where's the link?
It's on ESPN insider: Here's the link.
http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/magazine/magBlog?id=2040361
Here's the whole story.
Shula Rips J.J.
Shula Speaks:
Well, we know one thing: Doesn't take much to get Don Shula off on Jimmy Johnson. In a conference call with Miami reporters, in a gab session designed to get folks excited about Dan Marino's Hall of Fame induction in a few weeks, Shula was asked if the man with the quickest release in history benefited from having only two coaches in his 17-year career.
"You mean he had one coach," Shula said. "Look at the numbers. They speak for themselves." The coach with the most wins in NFL history is certainly referring to Marino's decline under his four years with Johnson, a period in which Marino seemed so broken down that he could barely lift his foot to step into his throws.
Under Shula, Marino had a plus-152 touchdown-to-interception ratio over 13 years. Under Johnson, that number was plus-16. Marino called it a career before his body could crumble any more -- and after a horrible 62-7 loss to the Jaguars in the 1999 playoffs. Johnson certainly didn't seem mind.
But I'm a little stunned that Shula is still bent to this day about being pushed out of his job. Late in Shula's career, he tried everything, signing almost every free player around, and nothing could get Miami to the Super Bowl. His best shot was in 1992, when he hosted the Bills for the AFC Championship game, only to be blown out. I know Shula had two Super Bowls in the early 70s and the perfect 14-0 season. And averaging 10 wins a season for an entire career is amazing.
But if I'm Shula, I still don't go after Johnson, a coach who in my mind is up there with Bill Walsh,
Joe Gibbs (the old-school Gibbs, not the quarterback guzzling shadow, who on Sundays looks less like a Hall of Famer and more like Uncle Leo when he was busted for shoplifting: "I'm an old man! I was confused!") and Bill Belichick as the best of the best coaches of the past 25 years. (No Tuna, sorry.) Johnson took a Dallas franchise that was as bad as a team could be and turned it into a machine that was so dominant that it won a Super Bowl with Barry "So What If Troy Doesn't Talk to Me?" Switzer. And he did it in four years.
If Shula talks to the press about Marino in Canton, Ohio, hopefully he'll focus more on his quarterback's 1984 season and Nintendo-numbered career than Jimmy Johnson. It's a fight he'll never win because of what they have in common: They both couldn't get Marino back to the Super Bowl. No way for either to argue out of that.
I hope this makes you happy.
