Dolphins coach Adam Gase is in his first preseason as an NFL head coach, but he already realizes just how short a leash he’s on, at least with some fans and members of the media.
Gase said after the Dolphins’ first-string offense looked disappointing in Friday night’s preseason opener that everyone should relax.
“I know everybody is itching to fire everybody and bench everybody,” Gase said, via the Miami Herald. “And I understand some people are concerned about every single little thing. When certain people have history, guys who have been here in the past, I know you form opinions. But I said this right from the start: Everybody has a fresh start with this crew. Our job is to evaluate what we see. Anything that happened in the past, it doesn’t matter to me. It doesn’t matter. So everybody is going to get a true evaluation. We’ll make our final decision the first game of the season. That’s what we’re going to do. This is a process that we go to go through.”
The first game of the preseason doesn’t tell us much about what kind of team the Dolphins will be. Gase will get a lot more than one preseason game to prove himself. But he does need his offense to look good by the time the regular season starts. When you’re an NFL head coach, it doesn’t take long for your seat to start getting hot.
