This is King Theoden and Grima Wormtongue syndrome (poisoning the well and King). I’ve never seen anything quite like it in all of professional sports: you continually fail (Chris Grier), but then get promoted from within, and become a mainstay with the organization for over 20 years.
Conspiracy theories and damning Polaroid pictures aside, let’s look at things rationally and from an organizational optics standpoint:
Diversity checkmark, we have a black General Manager that has never won a playoff game under his stewardship and blueprint. From an optics standpoint that looks all fine and dandy from the outside for the organization, but doesn’t there come a point in time wherein Chris Grier MUST have to actually produce RESULTS?! Apparently not with King Theoden (Ross), so long as you still make money with your team and the optics are right with the NFL.
I don’t care about the color of a person’s skin, gender, sexual orientation (what have you), but if you continually fail to deliver results and are consistent with crippling bad decisions with your job: you SHOULD BE removed from said job unceremoniously. Instead, we (the fan base) are left stuck in a cyclical web of mediocrity (and another year without a playoff win).
And let’s talk about lead balloon of just making the playoffs. I don’t care what the weather was, if we’re traveling on the road, what the injuries were, or who they’re playing: we got absolutely EMBARRASSED in that football game.
It wasn’t competitive, and it looked like a JV team playing a college team. It was an unmitigated disaster in every way, shape, and form.
Mahomes missed his first two passes to start the game, and from that point onward they never slowed down and Dolphins continually sputtered, floundered, and just absolutely **** the bed. The only, and mean scraping the bottom of the barrel here, was the fact that the defense held them to field goals instead of touchdowns. Otherwise, that would have been even more lopsided than the drubbing it was.
At the end of the day, it’s simply unacceptable! Chris Grier was given a king’s ransom of draft picks and money, and he has NOTHING TO SHOW for the work he has done. We deserve better.
Hopefully, some day the fog will lift from Ross (Theoden) and Grier (Wormtongue) will be tossed out on his ass and the doors close on him.
A substandard track record and zero tangible results (playoff wins) should have drastic consequence.
Hey L, as you know, in any business, people who say "yes" and toe the company line, always survive, because it is hard to fire someone like that why? Human emotion, also ego plays a part, hearing an employee saying "yes sir yes sir nine bags full" really appeals to managers and owners. Remember how Gase got fired, he blew up on Ross, if that would not have happened, he would have been around longer, thus prolonging the fans agony. Flores was kind of obvious, he saw Tua for Tua, and did not want to continue with him, but of course "Grier". I have no doubt there were some very vocal discussions about this, and poof Flores gone.
My big concern, throwing the minutiae out, Oct 1 '23 48-20 loss against the Bills, Oct 22 '23 31-17 loss against eagles, Nov 5 '23 21-14 against the Chiefs, on a neutral field. Dec 11 '23 28-27 Home loss Titans. With all of the "talent" this team has, blow outs should never happen, and close game against near peers at home and at neutral sites should not be losses.
This team shows a huge amount if inconsistency and lack of depth to sustain injuries. I think we will see Grier and Mikey for at least two more years, maybe three. Sputtered, Floundered, Foundered on a sea of mistakes and miscues, all of these are true.
Frankly, Tua, Armstead, Williams (out of position player), T Hill, Fangio, Wilkins leaving, all are on Griers doorstep, but, there still is a "possibility" that it works, notice I say "possibility" and not probability. In Football, a lot of things are possible, look at Joe Flacco.
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