Frustrated Jason Taylor was addressing unnamed teammates following the latest Dolphins debacle when he said, “If you don’t want to be on this train, get off it.”
It has gotten this bad for Miami: The bye week is a six-point favorite.
Put out the Help Wanted sign, owner Stephen Ross.
Matters little if it goes out soon or after the season, only that it goes up and that you do better on the job-hunt than you did with Jim Harbaugh.
Here is a little two-item shopping list to get you started, Mr. Owner:
1. Jon Gruden, get out of the Monday night booth and back onto the sideline where you belong. Bring your maniacally passionate “Chucky” persona and your championship ring. Your jewelry is nine years old. That’s OK. Ours rings are so old we have forgotten what they look like. Had diamonds even been invented back then?
2. Where have you gone, Bill Cowher? A southern Florida city turns its lonely eyes to you. Here is another proven champ with a reputation for intensity, a coach tanned and rested. You say he would demand full control? Sorry, Ireland. You out.
Want a fallback option? Available Jeff Fisher is solid, proven, a winner. Dave Wannstedt had a luxurious mustache. Fisher has a luxurious mustache, but his is attached to a coach with a track record.
No guarantees with any coaching change, of course.
Jimmy Johnson arrived with a championship pedigree, too, in 1996 but left after four years of mixed and ultimately disappointing results.
Nick Saban came in looking like a great hire in 2005, like Miami had found, in this college champ, the next great Sunday coach. That was before Nick scurried back to the safe haven of Saturdays.
