Chris Perkins: Step by Step guide to fixing Fins Culture

[NBP81]

Didn't realize Perkins area of expertise was changing football teams cultures... Sad because now, we might lose him as a beat writer, for sure some team out there saw that article and are about to offer him a deal as their new culture consultant executive chief...

 

[Long suffering fan]

There's a reason Flores hasn't had another headcoaching job.
McDaniel still hasn't learned to get plays in fast to give Tua time.
Grier finally drafted players early in both lines.
Change needs to happen after this season.
I'm sick of ex players telling us how the Dolphins are soft.
The rookies need to hit the ground running.

 

[Golphindolphin]

Didn't realize Perkins area of expertise was changing football teams cultures... Sad because now, we might lose him as a beat writer, for sure some team out there saw that article and are about to offer him a deal as their new culture consultant executive chief...

In response The Herald recently moved their culture reporter to covering the Dolphins. True story. Strange days indeed for the SoFl sports media

"C. Isaiah Smalls II is a sports and culture writer who covers the Miami Dolphins. In his previous capacity at the Miami Herald, he was the race and culture reporter "

https://www.miamiherald.com/profile/231244783

 

[sn9ke.eyes]

This article has some obvious flaws.

He labels Flores as a winning culture guy? Since when?

He says they exclusively acquire nice guys. So now Tyreek Hill is a nice guy? That was the biggest acquisition Grier has made (money/trade compensation/big name).

 

[Beach Bum]

Step 1 - Fire Grier

Step 2 - Bring back the throwbacks permanently. Dress for success: Our players need a daily reminder of what greatness looks like to help them play up to the high standard set by our undefeated team.

 

[Finsup1981]

This article has some obvious flaws.

He labels Flores as a winning culture guy? Since when?

He says they exclusively acquire nice guys. So now Tyreek Hill is a nice guy? That was the biggest acquisition Grier has made (money/trade compensation/big name).

The nice guy thing I think he meant draft wise they take the guys with questionable backgrounds off their board.

And Flores created a culture of fear and distrust but he took terrible rosters and got the most out of them, mainly on the defensive end. Offensively he was a disaster with a rotating crop of OCs and almost ruined Tuas career. The guy should just stick to coaching defense he obviously knows how to do it very well, but you know with his body of work someone will give him another head coaching shot, lawsuit and all.

 

[hoops]

If we are fixing culture still 5 years in or whatever it is we got the wrong folks in charge

 

[zullo1]

Honestly, if Chris Grier just changed ONE thing, we’d probably be okay: not bet against himself and sign Tua 1yr early for no reason.

If he could change two things, it’s not getting lazy with the rebuild and adding Tyreke Hill.

Maybe the third thing would be Ramsay.

As much as I dislike CG and absolutely want him and his poor style of team building… if he tweaked just a couple things we would be in a waaaaaaaaaaaay better position.

He’s made a lot of good and bad moves and it all washes out… but the Tua extension 1 year too early was REALLY BAD. We could have kept him for half the money if he played on his 5th year and we extended him now. Tua had no leverage and didn’t give a discount and CG bet against himself because Tua sat out an OTA or two. Sack up dude.

The Ramsay extension and current situation though, feels like… I don’t know, he’s just a soft person and not a good leader? I don’t know any way else to figure it out.

The entire organization is devoid of leadership. That is fact, and the main reason our Dolphins are THE TEAM with the longest playoff win drought. The organization is an embarrassment. The longer they keep the status quo, the longer this ridiculous albatross will hang around our necks as fans. Its so bad that when I go to a sports bar, other fans no longer argue, they just feel sorry and show pity. Yes, we are the Jests South.

 

[Soca casual]

What disappoints me about this article is how much it reads like someone at the national level whose last glimpse of Miami was the KC Playoff game at the end of the '23 season.

Nothing is wrong with the take per se, but the paradigm is 1.5 years out of date and I think most of us understand that change(s) started happening as early as the '24 offseason when the window of '22 - '23 was officially over.

Here at the end of the '25 offseason there's been an entire shift which should continue through '26 and '27.

- You stopped trading away draft picks and stood firm in '24 and '25 drafting developmental BPA picks.
- You added more coaches to the offensive ranks.
- You hired a new DC and have successfully kept him in place for a 2nd year.
- You successfully replaced the Center you lost to career-ending injury.
- You drafted, groomed and are set to insert your new LT who even has some starting experience from '24.
- You've acquired and are set to insert your new LG/RG.
- You've drafted WR & RB talent through the last 2 Drafts to help replace 1st generation starters.
- You signed a QB for '24-'26 because he seemed like the best option over that 3-yr window and you're working thru that.
- You drafted multiple (R1) players along your D-front.
- You brought in new LBs who've been okay.
- You've begun what will eventually turn into a complete rebuild of the secondary.



Talking about the need to do things is fine, but 1.5 years into the evolutionary process, I think the focus should be on the new information we have about where Ross, Grier, McDaniel and Weaver are taking things. We've seen a lot over the last 1.5 years and this is a very new team as a result!

There's plenty to discuss. I don't think legacy media (or Chris Perkins) really want to get into it. Instead, these type of people / outlets lean on the same old tired cliche talking points we heard at the end of '23...McDaniel is too soft, Tua is a stat queen, there's too much DC/scheme turnover, etc.

That national / legacy media guys just get stuck arguing about where things used to be. They don't cover the small things, thus they don't really cover the team at all. They won't have anything to say until long after all these moves have solidified and it's already plain to see what worked and didn't.

They. Are. Reactionary.

Careful now, balanced take… hopefully it catches on

 

[Dogbone34]

fire the person who hired everyone

that's a start...

 

[Soca casual]

This is a typical Perkins article for me, devoid of any valuable analysis.

The front office values stats over wins? No, they banked on the stats leading to more wins. Probably in line with a lot of analytics. They haven't been able to to put up those stats consistently or when it matters. You could write a very nuanced and compelling article analyzing why... but he didn't.

He prefers Flores' style to McDaniel's? Cool, I can respect that, but neither of them won anything of note. And outside of the amoeba business on D being easy to cheer for, Flores had us begging for any semblance of competence on the other side of the ball. For all McDaniel's faults, he got the offense going while bringing in Fangio and Weaver.

You can't write an article about this teams failures without talking about allocating stupid money to the wrong positions, trading multiple picks for expensive veterans, free agency fool's gold, settling at backup QB, or not addressing the trenches early and often. No, that can't be it. The solution must be to question the toughness of giants who make a living throwing their bodies at other giants.

Exactly this, it’s lazy, journalism by numbers and par for the course with this writer. He’s itching to get on the nationals and nfl network, he’s hoping spouting lazy narratives like this will punch his ticket.

 

[sn9ke.eyes]

The nice guy thing I think he meant draft wise they take the guys with questionable backgrounds off their board.

And Flores created a culture of fear and distrust but he took terrible rosters and got the most out of them, mainly on the defensive end. Offensively he was a disaster with a rotating crop of OCs and almost ruined Tuas career. The guy should just stick to coaching defense he obviously knows how to do it very well, but you know with his body of work someone will give him another head coaching shot, lawsuit and all.

He could have said draft, but he said acquire.

I'm just trying to figure out what Flores won to use him as evidence of a winning culture?

 

[Golphindolphin]

Exactly this, it’s lazy, journalism by numbers and par for the course with this writer. He’s itching to get on the nationals and nfl network, he’s hoping spouting lazy narratives like this will punch his ticket.

He has a face made for radio and a voice made for the newspaper...... ain't nobody looking for him

 

[Finsup1981]

He could have said draft, but he said acquire.

I'm just trying to figure out what Flores won to use him as evidence of a winning culture?

The only thing I can think of is he did more with less, meaning he had winning records with teams that were inferior talent wise to the ones McDs had the last 3 years. He still never made the playoffs and his record wa a facade, we faded against the good teams and built the wining streak off the back of some the worst starting QBs I can remember in a long time that we played in a row.

 

[zechs]

Lots of revisionist history for Flores here. First year here they won a few games late when they were "tanking". Another time they started off 1-8 and won some games late.

also i wanna add to his view, we lose alot of games in dec/ jan that are more important??? no.. no there not more important in the regular season.. a wins a win regardless of the month.
the only wins late in the year that are more important are playoff wins, and flores didn't have any of them did he. no

people need to stop with this notion that a win in dec means more then one in sept.. there are the exact same weighting in the win loss bracket .
does it matter if say the ravens next year dont win a single game xmas or later if they go on to win it all.. no, and infact in that situation the sept wins were worth more cause thats what gets them into the playoffs.

in short all wins are equal, the month that you got the wins means dick. all that matters is theres enough of those wins to get you to the post season.. it has no extra meaning on when you got those wins, all that matter sis you friccin did