BLITZKRIEG said:
This off-season has been the most criticised.
Right, which was my original point. There has been a TON of poorly based criticism flung at the Phins by the media, and fans who are easily swayed by a mouth on the radio have bought into it. Let's examine each of these.
BLITZKRIEG said:
Instead of hiring who? Mike Mularkey? Tom Coughlin?
BLITZKRIEG said:
2. Missing the boat on a qualified GM and settling for Rick.
Such as who? Rick was already familiar with our personnell, the staff, and quite frankly, has done a damned fine job keeping our cap under control and bringing in people who contribute, all within cap restraints.
BLITZKRIEG said:
Ron Wolf was retired man. He took a "consulting job" for about 6 weeks with Cleveland then quit. Would you have wanted this guy as GM when his heart was in retirement? I wouldn't.
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4. Losing Norv and promoting an unqualified Collier.
Norv Turner was DONE man. His play calling was predictable as hell - running RW on 1st downs more than 65% of the time. He may have been limited by what we had available, but his loss is nothing to be upset with.
BLITZKRIEG said:
Well, maybe that is Wayne's fault. He shouldn't have assumed that Danny boy would have any clue about the type of work required. I guess Wayne's blame in this is trusting that Danny had an idea of what he was getting into before he accepted.
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6. The pre-mature QB issue, and how we jumped too soon..
Meaning ... What? So we could have had burned out Warner? Kerry Collins lifetime QB rating is no better than Fiedler's, but even if you're a Collins fan, there is NO way Miami could have known that the Giants would draft Manning and cut Collins. They definitely weren't going to be able to draft a QB, so they went with what looked to be the best available option to them.
BLITZKRIEG said:
He was not worth a 10Mil bonus. Period. Wade has been resting on his laurels since his second season.
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8. Miss firing on J. Tait / D. Woody / ect ect
Cherry picking Blitz. They threw beauxcoup $ @ Tait but they simply did not like the South Florida environment. Nothing can be done about that. Woody never made it down here, but they were ready to throw the house at him as well. Now, instead of one big name OL, we've got a line full of roadgrading, young, relatively CHEAP OL who are only going to get better. Misssing out on Tait / Woody was a BLESSING.
BLITZKRIEG said:
9. Adding OT D. McIntosh out of desperation {will he even play in 2004??}
This one, I'll grant you. In retrospect, it really put us in a bind for the draft because of the uncertainty. However, he is signed long term, cheap, and can be cut without a cap hit. Having a tough road grader who can play RT, LT or RG is not a bad luxury to have.
BLITZKRIEG said:
10. Now Collier stepping down, and being replaced by another highly unqualified person.
Collier becoming ill such that he can't take the stress of an OC position is Wayne or Wanny's fault, how? And what makes you so certain that Foerester is "highly unqualified"? Every OC has to come from somewhere. This guy has had experience with BALANCED teams, rather than solely pass happy or run happy teams. Give the guy a chance.
BLITZKRIEG said:
I could probably go on, but why bother. That's enough turmoil in one off-season for two franchises!!
How's that for an off-season???...I'm not sure what you call it, but I call it ridiculously embarassing. :shakeno:
PHINZ RULE!!! :cry:
With the exception of hiring Marino (which was weird to begin with), and the signing of McIntosh (which puts us in an enviable position with the OL), the rest of your embarassing incidents are simply things that can not be blamed upon the Phins front office and your perception results from, as I said initially, "selective ommission of relevant facts" and 20-20 hindsight.
