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Dan Le Batard: Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross guilty of being human

phins_4_ever said:
Emotions are emotions. Business is business. The Dolphins fans in south Florida are now emotionless and let business speak for itself. No product, crappy product = no fans in the stands.

Oh yeah, Mr Ross. Loyalty and nepotism does not only exists in the ranks of NFL football employees but also among fans: I convinced 5 of my friends to dump their tickets too. You just lost approximately 30 season tickets in the Prime 400 sections and lower level. It may not be much but it is a start.
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My loyalty lies with the Miami Dolphins not with the ever revolving door of players and staff. My friends and I thank you as I continue to accrue excellent seats.
 
It's a column, not an article. LeBetard hasn't written articles in decades. These days after his hiatus from the Herald the columns are infrequent and long winded, as if he's relaying great wisdom from afar.

I don't pay much attention to his opinions because he's more of an entertainer than a sports analyst. I can't listen to his radio show because very low percentage is actually devoted to sports talk, as opposed to gutter humor or wandering ramblings. When he does take a stand invariably it's wrong, like when he insisted moving to Sun Life wouldn't hurt the Canes while Cote was adamant that you couldn't afford to get rid of the Orange Bowl with its surreal home field advantage and significance to the history of the community.

Two games shouldn't matter, in either direction. Ross should have a big picture overview and plan. If all you do is react to the most recent result, you might define it as being human but it's exactly the same thing I've witnessed among sportsbook losing bettors for decades, yapping and scurrying around without any focus other than the last thing they saw. A franchise owner should be better than that.

IMO, Ross should realize that the margins in this league are so narrow that you need ultra special people at the key positions to even have a chance of reaching the ultimate prize. Jeff Ireland has provided more than enough evidence that he's not elite.
 
roy_miami said:
Disagree. I believe Philbin's philosophy is the QB is what wins or loses in this league and he's building a team that culminates around that core principle. He's building a team that will stay as even keel as possible, maybe not winning games on their own but certainly not losing games either. If the QB plays well we will win. If the QB plays like **** we will lose. If the QB takes a step up next year, and thats a big if, we can win a lot of games with this philosophy.

Here's an exercise I went through to try to quantify what I'm talking about (its not complete by any stretch and the sample size is relatively tiny but its interesting none the less), win% when the QB has a passer rating of 90 or higher:

Jim Harbaugh: 93%
Joe Philbin: 92%
Bill Belichick: 91%
Marvin Lewis: 90%
John Harbaugh: 81%
Jim Schwartz: 76%
Phillip Rivers coaches: 69%
Tony Romo coaches: 56%
Tony Sparano: 56%
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That is true, the "philosophy" itself is not necessarily flawed.
What I meant by changing it is, I think our team is under-prepared for this style. If Philbin wants to prove that he can get this system working, then he needs to make sweeping changes to the way this offense rolls. It's struggling far too much just trying to stay afloat. He said it himself in his opening presser when he came to Miami "[paraphrasing] We're not trying to implant what we did at Green Bay into Miami directly. This is a different set of players with different strengths, and we're going to have to do it our own way." I don't get that vibe when I watch the games. Tannehill's weaknesses were more apparent than ever this year, and a lot of times I don't think it was his fault. I think he was being forced to make awkward plays in extremely tough situations, falling into defensive traps, relying on weak units, confined to the pocket, and not getting a healthy running-game attack to help him.

For Tannehill to get that 90 passer rating or above, he's going to need a lot of help from his supporting cast and coaches. I'd like to think it's as easy as "Just get rid of Sherman, and it should be fine, right?" but the more I think about it, how much of the problem was really Sherman, and how much was it Philbin sticking to his guns?
 
The vast majority of the people on this site were ready to hang Ireland if he chose an offensive line man during the draft. Now it turns out that was the biggest need for the team, so much for the experts on this site.

Having said that, if it wasn't for the fact that Philbin would be probably be out if Ireland gets sacked, I would say fire Ireland. I want Philbin to have one more year to see what he can do. After year 3, if they don't make the play offs, clean them all out.
 
Steven Ross can't be human. He's a billionaire real estate developer. Everyone know those guys have no heart. :)
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Two games shouldn't matter, in either direction. Ross should have a big picture overview and plan. If all you do is react to the most recent result, you might define it as being human but it's exactly the same thing I've witnessed among sportsbook losing bettors for decades, yapping and scurrying around without any focus other than the last thing they saw. A franchise owner should be better than that.

IMO, Ross should realize that the margins in this league are so narrow that you need ultra special people at the key positions to even have a chance of reaching the ultimate prize. Jeff Ireland has provided more than enough evidence that he's not elite.
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As a gambler myself, I can say this is profound.
 
Oh gosh Ross is human....Oh goody. Guess what we ALL are. Fire them f$#@%ing all.
 
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