Dolphins' biggest issue?

[DKphin]

The Miami Dolphins haven’t had a winning season for five consecutive years. They haven’t played in a Super Bowl in 29 years or won a Super Bowl in 40 years.

With this kind of lengthy ineptitude, it’s easy to see why so many Dolphins fans are disappointed in South Florida. The Dolphins were once a proud franchise. But the Dolphins have lately become an NFL punchline after a year that included a late-season collapse, a bullying scandal and in-fighting among the head coach and former general manager.

This week’s “Poll Friday” question is simple: What is the Dolphins’ biggest issue that needs to be fixed? Miami is hoping to get back on the right track in 2014.


What is the Dolphins' biggest issue?

• 
  23%
  Internal drama, team structure
• 
  32%
  Ownership
• 
  15%
  Lack of talent
• 
  
  20%
  Poor coaching
• 
  10%
  Other

(Total votes: 2,811)

http://espn.go.com/blog/miami-dolphins/post/_/id/5144/poll-friday-dolphins-biggest-issue

 

[Canadianfishfan]

Blah blah..

More piling of **** about Steve Ross.


What about ****ing coaches they inspire players, game plan properly, make in game adjustments. Create a "culture of winning" that they clearly lack, and teams like San Fran and Seattle exude.

How our players who don't make excuses. Show up for big games and ****ing execute.

Easy to pile on the owner. But there are a whole bunch of other people who ****ing totally **** the bed that deserve to be flamed before the owner.

 

[FSU Truth]

I think trying to pigeon hole the problem to one specific area is impossible...it is a combination of everything...coaching, poor decision making, player development, player attitude, roster....all contribute in some way. The issue is no one area is strong enough to mask in inefficiencies in other areas.

 

[Hayden Fox]

Joe

 

[Dmarino110]

the owner picked the coach that cant inspire his players...
the owner tried to get a coach while he still had another on the books...
the owner kept a GM that has never shown an ability to draft for 3 years...
the owner allows this organization to look like a joke every off season with at least one player/coach/gm using him to get more money from the place they really want to be at...
the owner allowed the GM process to turn into a joke because he wouldnt publicly defend himself from the a$$hats at ESPN and everywhere else that trashed the front office...
the owner limited our possible GM selections because he wouldnt allow a GM to pick his own coach...GMs who know more than our owner want nothing to do with this organization, because of the owner...

we have lots of problems and they all start from the owner...

 

[Zounds]

After replacing the GM and OC, or biggest issue becomes the players, specifically OL and RB imo.

All of the other options on that list - internal drama, structure, owner - don't directly effect the product on the field.

 

[Chubby]

Owner

 

[NRA]

O-LINE and DB.

i dont think i have to explain the o-line and its miseries, but db, thats a different thing.

see the hawks last night? they had decent pressure on manning but i'm not sure they had a sack. what they did have is TRUE hard hitting ball hawking db's who dont need 10 sacks a game from the guys up front to be productive. we have GRIMES who is one injury away from possible retirement. no other cb besides him even worth mentioning. yeah, i know, the draft pics last year. do you see ANY of those two guys being in the leauge with seattles? they probably wouldnt make the team. but, thanks to jeff ireland taking a cb who was already injured and thoughts were he may not play the season ay all [they were right], we wont know for a couple years.

chris clemmons? more hero worship of an absolute nobody. he is in the leauge with ROB KONRAD who everyone in miami just raved about, he was the toughest rb in the nfl and a punishing runner, etc... .

but no one else in the nfl even knew his name. i remember brian cox being asked when he ws with the jets before a jets fins game if he wa ready fr the matchup between he and rob konrad. he kind of went blank and said, "who is rob konrad? never heard of him". and clemmons is the same kind of guy. a nobody who should be off the starting lineup. he is one of he WORST coverage safety's i have ever seen, but, the fans are acting like we are set at safety with a guy who cant cover and guy who "flashes" about four times a year.

we get pressure. we get sacks. and our secondary gives it up 85% of the time. the kind of db's who are on the seahawks and were on the ravens for so long, those types bring it and make plays, shut people down even when the front line doesnt get there, doesnt get the sack. and that is what REAL db's do. and even though apperson has a injury bug going, he was playing at a pro bowl level before he went down, was VERY aggressive plus getting picks. he and grimes would be a nice pair. but the rest of them? garbage can. if i never hear the names NOLAN CARROLL and JIMMY WILSON again it will be to soon.

O-LINE and DB are out two biggest needs that ABSOLUTELY have to be remedied this off season. we cant have 1.5 db's.

second is getting someone to replace wheeler. an lb that can bring it AND cover. so, we have free agency and the draft. we should be able to fix most of this.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

The stadium is easily the biggest issue. It's also the greatest reference point because we'll know we finally have someone sharp in charge once he announces plans to get out of the stadium.

Until that point, it's mostly irrelevant decisions within a narrow range of flawed thinking and futility.

 

[TheWalrus]

The stadium is easily the biggest issue. It's also the greatest reference point because we'll know we finally have someone sharp in charge once he announces plans to get out of the stadium.

Until that point, it's mostly irrelevant decisions within a narrow range of flawed thinking and futility.

That's why ownership is the biggest issue, because among his other brilliant schemes the owner is trying to double down on the stadium.

 

[datruth55]

Snakes in the locker room.

 

[SkapePhin]

Blah blah..

More piling of **** about Steve Ross.


What about ****ing coaches they inspire players, game plan properly, make in game adjustments. Create a "culture of winning" that they clearly lack, and teams like San Fran and Seattle exude.

How our players who don't make excuses. Show up for big games and ****ing execute.

Easy to pile on the owner. But there are a whole bunch of other people who ****ing totally **** the bed that deserve to be flamed before the owner.

The owner is the reason we are stuck with a lackluster coach.