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Brian Flores 'wouldn't disrespect the game' by tanking

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Flores' sentiments are spot on. While he says it is disheartening I say fans who think the Dolphins are tanking are pathetic. Accusing a first time HC of an immoral feat such as willingly tanking is ridiculous.
A rebuild is always tough but with the rebuild always comes with the desire to win. The earlier you instill the drive to win and the feeling of winning the better your young players will develop. Confidence in your own abilities, your teammates abilities and your coaches abilities are of utmost importance in the development of a young team. Tanking is for those who have no clue how the game of football works. It is a single-minded and very simplistic approach trying to build a winning franchise now and in the future.

Brian Flores 'wouldn't disrespect the game' by tanking
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Maybe the Dolphins know things no one else does. Or maybe the term tanking just rubs first-year coach Brian Flores the wrong way.

The Miami coach, offering what has become the company line despite parting ways with most of its veteran talent this offseason, reiterated Sunday that the team isn't actively looking to lose in 2019.

"This game means a lot to me," he said, per Adam H. Beasley of the Miami Herald. "I wouldn't disrespect the game with that. Again, no, we're not. We're going to try to win every game. I think that's disrespectful to even to say that. ... It's disheartening to hear people talk about it, to even say that. For a guy who respects the game as much as the game has done for me, when people say that, it's extremely sad."
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...flores-wouldnt-disrespect-the-game-by-tanking
 
In our situation, the front office and the coaching staff are on the same page, but have two different mindsets two different tasks of operation..

Front office cleans the cap, accumulates assets and goes young doing so, aka proper rebuild, that is where the word tanking comes from, not from the coaching staff, this staff will coach them hard and to win..

Front office and Staff..completely connected vision for the future, two different strategies to execute..
 
Flores is the coach. He'll be doing his best to coach to win games. Instilling a culture of winning is what he'll be doing. He won't be coaching to lose games or tank. He may only get 2 to 3 wins but, the team will come to play each and every week. Those who think FLORES is tanking are just dumb.
This is the first complete rebuild I have ever been through with the Dolphins. We usually go for the patch it up, sign the big free agent model and still finish in the 7 to 9 win a season range.
This feels different. If we get 7 to 9 wins this season, it means we have our coach and probably our QB of the future.
 
The best part was when Mando and the rest of the beat writers got upset cause Flores denied the tanking accusations. :lol: Don't know what they were expecting.

I'm really interested in seeing what our coaching staff can do this year. That's going to be my main focus this season. I want to see our young players get better each and every week. I want to see if we'll be fundamentally sound and a more physical team. I want to see if we'll stop committing so many dumb penalties like we did in the Gase era.

Building a solid roster is key. Finding your franchise QB is key. But so is having a coaching staff that can maximize the talent in your building and implement effective schemes on both sides of the ball. I hope we finally have that with Flores and co.
 
People don’t seem to understand that only one person is involved in a tank. The GM.

If Flores is able to win 7-9 games with this roster, then Grier didn’t execute the tank very well.

When the GM decimates the O-line and removes veteran leadership all under the guise of getting younger or cleaning cap, he’s ensuring losses in a way that doesn’t require anything from any coach or player. Flores may WANT to win, but he can only cook with the groceries that were bought for him.

Think Grier will be pleased if the Phins reel off a few moral victories and he has to use his Tunsil haul to trade up 10 spots for Tua instead of just selecting him #1?
 
oasis said:
People don’t seem to understand that only one person is involved in a tank. The GM.

If Flores is able to win 7-9 games with this roster, then Grier didn’t execute the tank very well.

When the GM decimates the O-line and removes veteran leadership all under the guise of getting younger or cleaning cap, he’s ensuring losses in a way that doesn’t require anything from any coach or player. Flores may WANT to win, but he can only cook with the groceries that were bought for him.

Think Grier will be pleased if the Phins reel off a few moral victories and he has to use his Tunsil haul to trade up 10 spots for Tua instead of just selecting him #1?
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If the Dolphins have to trade up to grab a QB with the Tunsil haul then they don't need a QB, they already have one. This team will be lucky to win 3 games.
 
oasis said:
People don’t seem to understand that only one person is involved in a tank. The GM.

If Flores is able to win 7-9 games with this roster, then Grier didn’t execute the tank very well.

When the GM decimates the O-line and removes veteran leadership all under the guise of getting younger or cleaning cap, he’s ensuring losses in a way that doesn’t require anything from any coach or player. Flores may WANT to win, but he can only cook with the groceries that were bought for him.

Think Grier will be pleased if the Phins reel off a few moral victories and he has to use his Tunsil haul to trade up 10 spots for Tua instead of just selecting him #1?
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A lot of speculation which is countering anything and everything being said and made public. Grier is not a one-man show. He does not trade players by himself.
Flores acknowledged he was involved in trading Tunsil, and he defended the deal by citing the massive haul the Texans sent the Dolphins' way.
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The other assumption is that the Dolphins are targeting Tua (or any QB for that matter) in the 2020 draft. Nobody has any clue what the Dolphins are planning. The only knowledge we have (based on their action) is that they want to work with Rosen to see if he could become the next franchise QB. It may not to the liking of those simplistic tank minds, it may even be the 'wrong' way in their tunnel vision but that's what it is right now.
 
phins_4_ever said:
A lot of speculation which is countering anything and everything being said and made public. Grier is not a one-man show. He does not trade players by himself.


The other assumption is that the Dolphins are targeting Tua (or any QB for that matter) in the 2020 draft. Nobody has any clue what the Dolphins are planning. The only knowledge we have (based on their action) is that they want to work with Rosen to see if he could become the next franchise QB. It may not to the liking of those simplistic tank minds, it may even be the 'wrong' way in their tunnel vision but that's what it is right now.
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The coaching staff just took over this team, how can they absolutely know what they want without having played a single RS game? They probably want BPA as the roster is so thin.
 
I want them to be bad but I also want them to play hard each week.
 
Jonathan Michael Zadora said:
Dude getting rid of your best players is a form of tanking, his comments are a excuse, he's going into a season with joe's on his team, it's a joke
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It's not like they sold their best player for pennies on the dollar, they acquired massive draft capital. That's not tanking, that's a solid football move. I'm thinking many of the fringe vets were the guys having the hardest time buying in. I like what the team is doing, and I think we already might have our QB.
 
So let me get this straight, we’re not tanking? Riiiiiiiight.

This is semantics. Call it whatever you want. Bottom line is that this team is not doing anything remotely geared towards winning in 2019.
 
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