Look back at all the things everyone ignored as long as Flores and Miami were winning. You don't even need to look at things being leaked after the firing.
- Angry at Barry Jackson for putting in an article that a backup O-lineman might play against the Cardinals when the starter was on the injury report and was clearly not 100%.
- Defensive minded head coach not even consulting his OC Gailey before deciding to start Tua.
- Chris Grier is known to be easy to work with, and historically defers to coaches even though he has final say on trades/draft picks. No matter what you think of Grier if that's his reputation and you can't get along with him...it might not be Grier that's the problem.
- Billy Turner and Ereck Flowers were trash on our O-line in 2020; Turner gets traded to GB and turns into a stud. Flowers goes to WFT and becomes serviceable.
- Flores had full control of coaching and personnel and it only got worse from year to year.
- A couple of coaches actually made lateral moves to get away from the team. I believe it was Al Golden who is the LB coach for the Bengals is one of them. He was the LB coach for Miami for one year and dipped out to Cincinatti for the same job. Coaches don't tend to leave teams for the same job; only for promotions.
- Post game of the second Buffalo Bills game this year the defense played much better. Xavien Howard was asked why and he basically said they went back to what worked last season (So basically the coaching staff waited to lose 6 games, including winnable games against LV, Jacksonville, and Atlanta before going back to what worked last year with the same personnel? Yikes.)
- Post game of the Titans game this year. The Press asked Mike Gesicki if there was a second offensive game plan in place for the weather (freezing rain). He said there was no alternate gameplan for the weather (Another big coaching yikes).
- Coaching staff got worse every year and nobody with experience came here.
- Everything to do with players from Kenny Stills, Kyle Van Noy, Fitzpatrick, etc. It doesn't matter if Flores is right or wrong, the way they were all handled was bad at worst, strange at the least.
In the end nobody cared because we put some wins together and all this stuff was swept mentally under the rug. But now that he's gone you can look back at it and think, "Huh, yeah maybe it wasn't as good as I thought it was."
