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Dolphins players appreciate Philbin's major changes (SPORTS BUZZ 9/9/14)

I'm as big of Philbin critic as there is. But I have to give him* credit for having the selflessness to adapt and change his ways. He doesn't have the "my way or the highway" ego. Still, playoffs or go be an Offensive Line coach somewhere.
 
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Joe Philbin was absolutely forced to fire Mike Sherman. And I think that's the best thing that ever happened to Joe Philbin, because Mike Sherman was not doing a good job.

However, Joe Philbin absolutely deserves every ounce of credit for some REALLY good assistant coaching hires this offseason. Benton and Duffner are overlooked because of Bill Lazor, but I think those were both 'out of the park' position coach pickups. As I've said before, I'm really impressed with how Philbin quietly went about finding quality assistant coaches through all the turmoil this offseason.


BTW, I'm just going to throw this out there: I think Steve Ross isn't as dumb as a lot of people here think he is. He has generally let the football people run the football team, but in the two instances we've heard of that Ross has stepped in and issued directives, they were to nix the Kyle Orton trade and to force out Mike Sherman.

You're also forgetting possibly the biggest offseason of them all. Ross finally broke free from a particular ginger nuisance.........

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Regardless he screwed up the picks anyway...well the jury is still out on Will Davis but Egnew was a horrible pick.

Getting more picks with Ireland in charge proved to be pointless.

It wasn't like most of finheaven wasn't saying this during the 2013 offseason.
 
As DaTruth has said in the past, trading Marshall was not the issue. Not having a plan to replace him was (and while we ended up with Brendan Gibson and Mike Wallace a year later you cannot tell me that Ireland had that foresight in mind). Ireland's response after trading Marshall was to bring in Chad Johnson and Legadu Naanee while drafting BJ Cunningham and Rishard Matthews late.

As for the whole being forced to fire Mike Sherman thing, as more information on everything came out, it is my opinion that the only reason Philbin was stubborn about it was because he didn't want to give in to an Ireland power play. Again, I have no proof of that, but based on what we've heard about their relationship towards the end it wouldn't surprise me.
 
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