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The report found Philbin faultless because it found he was not aware of the bullying or harassment as it was happening. Being unaware generally is a pretty fair rationale for not taking action, except that in this case the roiling mob cries, “But he should have known!”

Here is what’s funny to me.

When Miami was 8-6 and seemed certain to make the playoffs, the national and local narrative was what a great job Philbin had done navigating his team with a calm hand through its months-long crisis. But two losses to end the season and blow a playoff spot changed that narrative, retroactively recasting Bullygate as corrosive and sending fans and media mad-scrambling to lay blame and identify heads that should roll.

Plenty have.

The collateral damage of Bullygate, a minor matter run amok, has been great.

General manager Jeff Ireland lost his job at least partly because of it.

Offensive coordinator Mike Sherman was fired — against Philbin’s strong wishes — mostly because the offense underperformed, but surely the embarrassment of Bullygate and resulting cry for change played a role.

Offensive line coach Jim Turner and head athletic trainer Kevin O’Neill were fired Wednesday night, directly because of Bullygate.

Incognito and Martin both will be ex-Dolphins because of this; so, almost certainly, will John Jerry. Mike Pouncey likely will survive to remain on the team but faces a probable league suspension.

Enough! Enough, enough, enough.

Can we please stop making this thing even more wildly overblown than it has already gotten? Can we stop trying to add to the casualties by scapegoating Philbin?

Can we move on from this stench for God’s sake!

You’d think not, to hear the line of questioning pounding Philbin on Thursday.

Admirably the coach was as patient and politically correct as possible.
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Those criticizing Philbin need to leave the naïve fantasy world where the NFL head coach knows everything about everything. They need to re-enter the real world, where coaches do not eavesdrop on players’ personal text messages, do not spy on guys at strip clubs, do not have mental telepathy and do not periodically ask during team meetings, “Any of you guys in here being bullied? Show of hands, please?”

More reality: A head coach, let alone one in his first season, is overburdened as is and does not have time to monitor and babysit the way his grownup players interrelate. Team chemistry and locker room policing are self-regulated phenomena and, sorry, but the head coach is not Dr. Phil.
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What he knew or when or why not — those things are all moot points and pointless. Why are we even still talking about that? Done with it. Past it.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/20/3949500/greg-cote-joe-philbin-not-faultless.html#storylink=cpy
 
No kidding......this will burn out in a couple of days and hopefully we can start focusing on free agency and the draft.
 
I fault Joe more because of his inability to motivate the team for critical games and indecisiveness in making coaching changes.. The bully gate BS i thought he handled pretty well.
Let's give him another year but it's put up or shut up time for the coach. All the excuses are gone.(as in fired)
 
Philbin is basically last man standing at this point so he will continue to take the criticism some of it may be justified and some just plain piling on IMO. Can't wait till we can start talking about which OL to draft and the like again.
 
fishfanmiami said:
I fault Joe more because of his inability to motivate the team for critical games and indecisiveness in making coaching changes.. The bully gate BS i thought he handled pretty well.
Let's give him another year but it's put up or shut up time for the coach. All the excuses are gone.(as in fired)
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Bingo! You are a gentleman and a scholar...but we already knew that.

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The reason I dislike Philbin has very little to do with the Wells report, I don't like him because he sucks as a coach.
 
Albert Romano said:
Philbin is basically last man standing at this point so he will continue to take the criticism some of it may be justified and some just plain piling on IMO. Can't wait till we can start talking about which OL to draft and the like again.
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Agreed. I'm surprised the media hasn't run with events re: Darren Sharper or Ray Rice.
 
What great points that are absolutely TRUE. I remember seeing where Philbin could be up for coach of the year after the NE win & now everyone is ripping him. I mean what else do you want an unbiased investigator found him not at fault & that he made efforts to try & provide a quality work environment when apparently 4 individuals crossed the line big time. I'm not saying he is the best coach ever but I'm not sure he deserves all the criticism either.
 
Typical in the NFL that a guy like Sharper is drugging and raping women all over the USA and choir boy Ray Rice is mugging his one and only in an elevator...but who takes heat at the combine? Your Miami Dolphins.
 
Like everyone I watch ESPN and the NFL Network, and I seem to remember the players they have on their air ways constantly say in the past that the locker room, the players essentially police themselves. Certain players on those same networks now seem to have amnesia and are more than willing to forget what they have peddled in the past as the truth to stand on a new found soap box.

I listened to a portion of what Marvez had to say on 560 WQAM today, around 5 PM. He essentially makes fun of the Dolphins referring Martin to a therapist that was almost 60-years older than him and places blame on Philbin for not following up on how things were going with Martin with that therapist. Apparently Martin stopped going to the therapist. As far as I know Philbin cannot asks questions like that from one of his players. That is essentially off limits because that is a personal issue that is covered by the players union and FED laws. My point is this, Marvez is a smart guy, yet he seems to come off as a total freaking moron just so he can bash Philbin and in turn the Miami Dolphins. There is ZERO chance that someone that has been a football journalist as long as he has would not know NFL players have rights, and it would be a conflict of interest if NFL franchises could ask personal questions like that of their players.

From the little media I've listened or watched concerning this issue most of the so called media are playing this very same game.

To me the whole thing is an absolute joke. Because of the PC police, a very simple question is rarely ever asked by the so called media. How can a grown man get bullied in today's work place? There are so many FED laws protecting workers in their work place. Especially when we are talking about an individual that went to Standford and has two upper crust lawyers as parents.
 
utahphinsfan said:
Agreed. I'm surprised the media hasn't run with events re: Darren Sharper or Ray Rice.
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Let's be honest....the media hasn't run with it because it didn't have to do with a meathead white bully picking on a closet homosexual black teammate.
 
What's funny is I've heard guys who have won Super Bowls say that they never knew everything that went on, but relied heavily on the trainers and equipment managers to keep them informed because that's who the players will talk to the most
 
Whatever happened to the story that one ESPN reporter said that a player was going broke because of all money he was spending for the veterans players? I saw nothing in the report on that nor did I see a reporter said that they made a mistake. I say that to say once the media settles on a story, it pretty much is a done deal on how the narrative will be told. True or not.
 
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