GM Candidates Still Confused About Power Structure
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Probably the same people who are supporting you with your current whining. And that is really not saying much.
I think you hold yourself too high up for that little front page gig you have (not sure how you even got that gig). Personally I stopped reading that garbage after your 2nd or 3rd "assessment". Most people also tend to not use that "thumbs down" button to often but I am sure there is plenty of people who are not as fond of that gig as the "ton" () of positive feed back.
When you start comprehending how an NFL franchise operates then you might get the respect you seek not with stating the obvious in what you call "assessment".
But if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy keep going.
I am sorry you did not appreciate my write ups. I take painstaking measures to do the best job I can with those. They take me a long time, much to my wife's chagrin. However, I really enjoy the feedback and debate they bring about.
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Me too man. At the very least they should trust, but verify to quote Ronald Reagan.
ac_lanham
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Bingo! Only the Dolphins would have the cap specialist NOT working under the GM. And then only the downtrodden fan base coming up with excuses such as "MANY other teams have this same structure"
#SoDolphins
ac_lanham
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Wondering the exact same thing... This is amateur hour in South Florida
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Aponte is more akin to the CFO. If you have never seen a job interview that a CFO sat in on, then you have never interviewed for a high level management position in a billion dollar corporation. Don't feel bad -- most people haven't.
Dawn Aponte is a great contract negotiator... I mean, just look at what a steal we got Wheeler, Ellerbe, Wallace, and Reshad Jones for in just this last off-season!
Wait...
Wait...
Yet despite that we have one of the better cap situations in the NFL. Think before posting.
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What top flight candidate would subject themselves to this process? You can say there are only 32 GM jobs in the NFL, but the GM position, like the HC position is on spin cycle, there are always openings and those openings are not created equally. If you have a promising career, if you are a truly competent individual, perhaps even a brilliant individual, you're not even considering this opportunity if only for the opaque nature of the job and the likelihood of failure. The power structure is muddled at best. Ross can promise GM X that he'll get to pick his own players, but he has no control over the coaching staff apparently, so he's limited in the kind of players he can bring in by the system the coaches are running, even if the GM is convinced the system or methodology being used by the incumbent coaching staff is flawed or destined to fail. Any top-flight candidate would be taking this job knowing there was a good chance they could fail, fail not because of their own limitations, but rather because of limitations imposed on them by the situation itself.
What then becomes of a GM that was considered to be a future star if he fails here? He doesn't get another job. The league doesn't recycle failed GMs like they recycle failed coaches. Ross is suspect to anyone that comes here, the way he's managed this team has been an unmitigated disaster and he's got a reputation in the league now, like it or not. Now he's conceived some 3-headed monster of a GM, Aponte and Philbin, none reporting to the other, all reporting to Ross with their own agendas, trying to accumulate more power for themselves, trying to undermine the others before they can be undermined. Not necessarily working symbiotically. What happens if you've got the GM and Philbin at odds and it ends up in the owner's lap? The owner isn't competent to decide what the end game should be. I'm astounded how some of you haven't recognized this train wreck even as it barrels down the tracks at you. Considering the record of dysfunction with this franchise, going way back to the mid-eighties, this organization is worthy of no benefit of the doubt. None.
What then becomes of a GM that was considered to be a future star if he fails here? He doesn't get another job. The league doesn't recycle failed GMs like they recycle failed coaches. Ross is suspect to anyone that comes here, the way he's managed this team has been an unmitigated disaster and he's got a reputation in the league now, like it or not. Now he's conceived some 3-headed monster of a GM, Aponte and Philbin, none reporting to the other, all reporting to Ross with their own agendas, trying to accumulate more power for themselves, trying to undermine the others before they can be undermined. Not necessarily working symbiotically. What happens if you've got the GM and Philbin at odds and it ends up in the owner's lap? The owner isn't competent to decide what the end game should be. I'm astounded how some of you haven't recognized this train wreck even as it barrels down the tracks at you. Considering the record of dysfunction with this franchise, going way back to the mid-eighties, this organization is worthy of no benefit of the doubt. None.
Because we have a good cap situation, it's okay to miss badly on most of our FA contracts from last year? Is that really your argument? The irony.
Further more, if we didn't miss so badly (like giving Reshad Jones a ridiculous extension after 1 good season) on some of those contracts, we could lock up sure-fire players like Starks and Soliai for at least another couple years. Instead, we are forced to pick one or the other. Guess we're not in such GREAT shape, after all.
Okay, lets circle back around to my first post - the content of the contracts given to Wheeler, Ellerbe, Wallace, and Reshad Jones were good? We're talking about Ellerbe who got a huge contract out of NOWHERE, Wheeler a guy who was playing on a 1 year deal the year before, and Reshad Jones, who had one good year - she really managed to be a tough negotiator with those guys, right?
Think before you post.
Think before you post.
Yet we don't seem to be in cap hell. In fact the Cap situation is one of the best in the league.
There is probably only so much room a capologist can bid someone down if you are directed from above to sign someone.
Did she select those players? Was she the one that decided Reshad needed a raise. Or, did she work the contracts she was given to fit our salary cap?