All Ross and Grier have stated is that Miami is no longer in the business of signing high priced veteran Free Agents in desperate attempts to be a playoff team and moving forward, they’re gonna build this team “the right way” even if that means growing pains. Fans and local media have taken the “Tank” term and ran with it.
Part of building a team “the right way” is introducing a culture that doesn’t tolerate losing, let alone losing on purpose. Sure, Grier, Flores and co want to build through the draft and bargain priced, younger FA’s but I think going in to 2019 with Falk and Fales as your options at QB signals to the rest of your team that your mailing it in and that’s a very dangerous precedent to set. Not only that but Miami needs at least a competant QB if they have any hope of correctly evaluating the players on offense.
Even if Fitz has a decent year, this team will still be picking within the top 10 with suddenly a lot of 2020 draft capital. If 2020 is indeed the year Miami wants to draft a QB, thanks to all the extra picks/comp picks they’ve acquired, they’ll probably have more ammo than any other QB needy team and will be just fine when it comes to positioning themselves for a move up.
That being said, I don’t think Miami is waiting until next year. I think signing a veteran like Fitz signals that the Fins have identified 1 or 2 QB’s they think they can get this year.
