Get your, "Good things come to those who wait" type cliches ready because Nolan will be a Dolphin.
Okay. Deep breath. This off-season has not exactly gone well. The zombie horde that is the NY jets is playing in the AFC Championship game. We have to listen to more Brett Favre bullshit than should be legal. The Dolphins fired their defensive coordinator and have been dissed by two different coaches. Al Groh wanted to be a college defensive coordinator. The Steelers linebacker coach, Keith Butler seemed to rather stay a linebackers coach than the Dolphins DC.
Not exactly the feeling of being "the team to join" like last year. The reality is that the Dolphins are a 7-9 team with aging OLBs, a problem at free safety and in the possession of two of the lowest rated interior linebackers in the NFL.
Then this happened. The madman that is Josh McDaniels decided to allow (or asked him to leave) Mike Nolan to give up the reigns as Denver's defensive coordinator.
That is the same Mike Nolan who took the 29th ranked defense (2008) and in a single year had them ranked 7th. That's with some Dolphins castoffs and some talented retreads (Brian Dawkins).
Nolan's exodus is most likely tied to the former DC in New England, Dean Pees, who resigned following the Patriots loss to Baltimore.
So Josh McDaniels gets his shitty but loyal guy and the Dolphins are now aggressively seeking Nolan, who should be in South Florida to interview by Wednesday.
Nolan even has some experience with Parcells, as he was the DC for the jets in 2000 when Bill Parcells was team president.
What is incredible about this is that Nolan is both young and fiery. He is a guy who players are loyal to and who runs one of the more aggressive, blitz oriented 3-4 schemes.
Mike Nolan is, in short, the cure for what ails the Dolphins defense. Does Patrick Willis mean anything to you? Well, Nolan drafted and worked with Willis.
Rolondo McClain anyone?
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