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Greg Stoda: If Dolphins miss the playoffs, GM Jeff Ireland should be gone

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When the housecleaning happens - and it ought to if the Dolphins don't make the playoffs - Jeff Ireland should lose his job as general manager. The Dolphins probably can save Ireland by qualifying for the postseason, because winning erases, or at least masks, problems even as deep as the morass in which the franchise finds itself.
Otherwise, though, the stench from the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin imbroglio, if added to another disappointing record, should be enough to push Ireland out the door.
Joe Philbin, oddly enough, appears to be on safer ground than Ireland these miserable Miami days in that team owner Stephen Ross did everything but announce Monday night that he had the head coach's back.
That message was delivered during a news conference at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa to address the Incognito-Martin mess before the Dolphins went out and lost to the previously winless Buccaneers.
Ireland, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen, and hardly was mentioned. Instead, it was new Dolphins president and CEO Tom Garfinkel who accompanied Ross to the podium.
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If this team some how overcomes his incompetence and makes the playoffs, I still want him gone.
 
Sad part is, he'll probably go back to Dallas help turn that team around.

Jeff Ireland is fantastic at finding the complimentary pieces, your Charles Clay, Chris Clemons, Richard Matthews, Brian Hartline, Jared Odrick. Or in other words, 7-9 to 8-8 type players.

He misses badly when it comes to true difference makers, special types opposing coordinators have to spend the week game planning for. The guys that elevate you from 7-9 to 11-5.

You only really need 3-4 once you've settled on quarterback. Ireland could never find one and that might still include quarterback.
 
Way to go out on a limb Greg truly riveting journalism! I see a Pulitzer in your future buddy keep up the edgy work.
 
If Ireland is fired, so should Philbin. Why strap the next GM with a HC he does not want?
 
PALMA said:
Sad part is, he'll probably go back to Dallas help turn that team around.

Jeff Ireland is fantastic at finding the complimentary pieces, your Charles Clay, Chris Clemons, Richard Matthews, Brian Hartline, Jared Odrick. Or in other words, 7-9 to 8-8 type players.

He misses badly when it comes to true difference makers, special types opposing coordinators have to spend the week game planning for. The guys that elevate you from 7-9 to 11-5.

You only really need 3-4 once you've settled on quarterback. Ireland could never find one and that might still include quarterback.
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Ireland plugs holes rather than building a team.
 
Hayden Fox said:
If Ireland is fired, so should Philbin. Why strap the next GM with a HC he does not want?
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If Philbin stays it likely means we promote somebody from within. Not firing Ireland with Sparano has turned this whole thing into one giant cluster****, who didn't see that coming?

 
Yea, only gone because of performance on the field. This martin nonsense shouldn't be a part of it. Coaches need three years though unless they really really stink it up. Look at Rivera in Carolina. I was calling for his firing by week four. Boy how that changed
 
Failbin needs to go...

Offsetting HC and GM hires will continue to be a problem if he stays. A house divided cannot stand...

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Ruckus45 said:
Yea, only gone because of performance on the field. This martin nonsense shouldn't be a part of it. Coaches need three years though unless they really really stink it up. Look at Rivera in Carolina. I was calling for his firing by week four. Boy how that changed
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I still think Carolina is fools gold. Rivera isn't a great coach, he still should be fired.

It's like Norv Turner, he was capable of bringing teams to the playoffs, but never more, and was prone to underachieving teams. Sadly, that's the best we can hope for with Failbin.
 
PALMA said:
Sad part is, he'll probably go back to Dallas help turn that team around.

Jeff Ireland is fantastic at finding the complimentary pieces, your Charles Clay, Chris Clemons, Richard Matthews, Brian Hartline, Jared Odrick. Or in other words, 7-9 to 8-8 type players.

He misses badly when it comes to true difference makers, special types opposing coordinators have to spend the week game planning for. The guys that elevate you from 7-9 to 11-5.

You only really need 3-4 once you've settled on quarterback. Ireland could never find one and that might still include quarterback.
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That would actually be the quarterback, alone. Those other difference-makers you're talking about take you from 11-5 to 14-2.
 
shouright said:
That would actually be the quarterback, alone. Those other difference-makers you're talking about take you from 11-5 to 14-2.
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Assuming the QB has an O Line. When was the last time you have seen a Brady, Manning or Brees with protection as pathetic as Tannehill's?
 
SkapePhin said:
Assuming the QB has an O Line. When was the last time you have seen a Brady, Manning or Brees with protection as pathetic as Tannehill's?
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Tannehill isn't pressured any more often than the average NFL QB.
 
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