I understand, Chris Grier is the greatest roster building GM that has never won a single playoff game. As I said in another thread, if he has that unbelievably high hit rate, why doesn’t it amount to anything after being the GM for how long now?
Gm’s don’t play games, they provide the talent, that’s it.
Miami’s had a top 5 talented roster.
Why they didn’t perform comes down a bunch of things between scheme/coaching/injuries.
Qb-Tua has been top 5 in every passing category last two years
Rb Mostert one of the most efficient of not the most efficient runners in the league then added achane who looks like an elite talent.
Wideout-tyreek and waddle best duo in the league
Oline- they weren’t good due to injuries. Want to take a guess the one game they played together? Give you a hint, offense put up one of the highest totals in nfl history. This unit wasn’t talent void, armstead elite when he plays, Wynn was very good until injury, Williams first ranked C, hunt just got paid 20 million a year and Jackson is a very solid RT. The issue was the backups getting injured. Lamm was a nice fill in for Armstead and Robert Jones looked fantastic a few games at RG, which I expect him to start this year and surprise most of you. The wheels really fell off when you had Lamm,Jones and Eich sometimes even their backups at time all get forced to play together. You have to have some stability. Asking a guy to play between armstead and Williams is fine they can help out the less skilled player but when you have games like Tennessee where there’s no Armstead, no Williams and no even Hunt you now how 4 guys in a row that are backups and Jackson can only help so much. It’s rare teams have 5 good linemen asking a team to be 9 linemen deep and expecting 6 through 9 to all play at the same time is bound to fail.
Dline- I think we all are aware of what Wilkins got paid and the nfl viewed him as an elite talent then you had Sieler right next to him who I think is just as good.
Edge-Philips and Chubb and maybe the best third rusher in van ginkel hard to find a trio better than that. All got hurt with two of them at times when they shouldn’t of been in the game.
Lb- was a little weak. Long was a gem FA signing and unit crumbled after baker went down. We’ve fixed this unit with a major upgrade over baker this year in brooks but really only weak point going into the year on the team.
Secondary- Howard/Ramsey/Holland/Elliot again tough to find a better secondary and even with depth you had Needham, drafted Smith who who knows about then had Kader who was coming off a great rookie season
There’s absolutely no reason that team should have finished 22 and 24th in the last two years. That’s bottom 10. That D is way too talented for bottom 10. Was clear coaching/scheme had been awful then the injuries made it worse.
You’d be hard pressed to find a 5 more talented rosters the last two years.