Don Shula Offers Dolphins Coach Cam Cameron Some Free Advice

One thing former Dolphins head coach Don Shula isn't offering current Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron is a vote of confidence. But luckily, the Hall of Famer is willing to dispense some free advice on how Cameron can turn things around in Miami: let somebody else call the offensive plays.

Cameron came to Miami after successfully serving at the Chargers offensive coordinator, and he retains that job with the Dolphins. Apparently, tight ends coach Mike Mularkey took over the chore during last Sunday's loss to the Jets, so that either means that a) Shula's advice is worthless, or b) Mularkey's play-calling is.

Shula has a couple of Super Bowl rings, and Mularkey bombed as the Bills' head coach a few seasons ago. I'll go with the latter.

Despite Marty Schottenheimer calling Cameron a "great offensive coach and great play-caller," Shula makes a good point about why it's smart to delegate that job to somebody else on the coaching staff (not named Mularkey):

"In your preparation, if you're a play-caller, you have to be thinking all offense to get ready for what's going to happen. If you're the head coach, you have to be the head coach of the entire team -- not just head coach of the offense. I hope he goes in that direction to entrust some of the play-calling to whoever he believes it should be.''

Somebody should show these comments to Brian Billick.