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Watching the postgame interviews with Raider players after their loss in Cincy, and pretty much every Raider interviewed went to bat for their interim HC to get the job permanently.

It made me realize that since Flo’s firing, I haven’t seen anything from any of his players about their coach getting the axe. I’m not big on social media either so I really haven’t had the chance to do any homework on this.

For those in the know, has there been any outcry from Dolphins players? I know this is speculation on my part, but if you win 8 out of 9 to finish your season and your coach gets fired, does it tell us something about Flo’s relationship with his players if they’re all staying quiet?
 
Aqua Man said:
Watching the postgame interviews with Raider players after their loss in Cincy, and pretty much every Raider interviewed went to bat for their interim HC to get the job permanently.

It made me realize that since Flo’s firing, I haven’t seen anything from any of his players about their coach getting the axe. I’m not big on social media either so I really haven’t had the chance to do any homework on this.

For those in the know, has there been any outcry from Dolphins players? I know this is speculation on my part, but if you win 8 out of 9 to finish your season and your coach gets fired, does it tell us something about Flo’s relationship with his players if they’re all staying quiet?
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Flo acted like a d-bag to players. Remember when he was antagonistic against Landry and playing music to annoy him his first year? Flores tried to play mind games like he really believed was actually belichick
 
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Excellent question. I haven't seen a lot of player outrage being shared around. Just a few talking heads suddenly clutching their pearls, aghast that Flo got fired and The Undefeated shrieking like a flight of harpies.

The player silence says a lot.
 
GrieseMarinoTua said:
It’d be very hard to say anything against the FO or Ross. Hunt I think took a tweet down.
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There were others. I think Needham, Ferguson and Byron Jones said positive stuff. No doubt many would have, minus fear of retribution.

I always prioritize the situational influence. Once a head coach or anyone in a high position is let go, it becomes open season on them. Their capability level is manipulated below actual and likewise the personality traits. It is amusing when many of the higher profile fans/analysts go along with it on social media, retweeting all the damning stuff and piling on with their own impressions. Every time that happens I always try to imagine what they would be saying if they were fans of the next team. Let's say Flores is hired next week. The same people desperately digging up negative stuff about him now would be massaging everything if they were Texans fans or Giants fans or wherever he ends up.

The most pathetic thing I saw was the guy who is a fairly new employee of the Dolphins and has had his beaming picture alongside smiling Flores atop his twitter feed. Every tweet session is coach said this, coach said that. Then as soon as Flores is gone all of a sudden those photos atop his twitter feed disappear immediately. That is exactly the reason public relations never appealed to me in the slightest. You are an absolute pawn. I had many friends major in public relations at USC. Only one of them stuck it out for a full career. And she wasn't in sports. Every one of them who went to work for the Angels or Kings or Dodgers or various colleges got so sick of it they quit and did not return.
 
Bridgeburner said:
Flo acted like a d-bag to players. Remember when he was antagonistic against Landry and playing music to annoy him his first year? Flores tried to play mind games like he really believed was actually belichick
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Jarvis Landry getting traded was actually an Adam Gase/Mike Tannenbaum decision and happened well before Brian Flores even walked into the building. It was pretty common knowledge that Gase repeatedly used to pick on Jarvis in training sessions and Jarvis hated him and was happy to go to Cleveland.

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I checked the dates because I wasn't certain.
Jarvis Landry was traded to Cleveland on March 6 2018
Adam Gase got fired from Miami on December 31 2018
Mike Tannenbaum "duties were reassigned" by Miami on December 31 2018 (ie he left but was still getting paid under the terms of his contract. (MT is actually a contract lawyer by profession)
Brian Flores was appointed Dolphins Head Coach on February 4 2019
 
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Bridgeburner said:
Flo acted like a d-bag to players. Remember when he was antagonistic against Landry and playing music to annoy him his first year? Flores tried to play mind games like he really believed was actually belichick
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Landry was long gone by the time Flores got here.
 
spiketex said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but Jarvis Landry getting traded was actually an Adam Gase/Mike Tannenbaum decision and happened well before Brian Flores even walked into the building. It was pretty common knowledge that Gase repeatedly used to pick on Jarvis in training sessions and Jarvis hated him and was happy to go to Cleveland.

**** Footnote****
I checked the dates because I wasn't certain.
Jarvis Landry was traded to Cleveland on March 6 2018
Adam Gase got fired from Miami on December 31 2018
Mike Tannenbaum duties were reassigned by Miami on December 31 2018 (ie he left but was still getting paid under the terms of his contract. (MT is actually a contract lawyer by profession)
Brian Flores was appointed Dolphins Head Coach on February 4 2019
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It was Stills Flo did that to, not Landry. The poster misspoke.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
There were others. I think Needham, Ferguson and Byron Jones said positive stuff. No doubt many would have, minus fear of retribution.

I always prioritize the situational influence. Once a head coach or anyone in a high position is let go, it becomes open season on them. Their capability level is manipulated below actual and likewise the personality traits. It is amusing when many of the higher profile fans/analysts go along with it on social media, retweeting all the damning stuff and piling on with their own impressions. Every time that happens I always try to imagine what they would be saying if they were fans of the next team. Let's say Flores is hired next week. The same people desperately digging up negative stuff about him now would be massaging everything if they were Texans fans or Giants fans or wherever he ends up.

The most pathetic thing I saw was the guy who is a fairly new employee of the Dolphins and has had his beaming picture alongside smiling Flores atop his twitter feed. Every tweet session is coach said this, coach said that. Then as soon as Flores is gone all of a sudden those photos atop his twitter feed disappear immediately. That is exactly the reason public relations never appealed to me in the slightest. You are an absolute pawn. I had many friends major in public relations at USC. Only one of them stuck it out for a full career. And she wasn't in sports. Every one of them who went to work for the Angels or Kings or Dodgers or various colleges got so sick of it they quit and did not return.
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I assume every negative tweet from our beat writers is courtesy of a leak from team Grier etc. Was there too much turnover on the offensive side of the coaching staff, and a failure to build a staff? Sure. Was he the absolute devil who was impossible to work with? I don't believe it.

Edit: I don’t follow baseball as closely as I used to but for years the Red Sox were notorious for doing this in the Boston Globe. Whenever they decided to move on from someone they would leak stories about how terrible they were and it would become a firestorm over something insignificant. Think Terry Francona and pitchers have beer and chicken wings in the clubhouse during games.
 
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mrhankey81701 said:
I assume every negative tweet from our beat writers is courtesy of a leak from team Grier etc. Was there too much turnover on the offensive side of the coaching staff, and a failure to build a staff? Sure. Was he the absolute devil who was impossible to work with? I don't believe it.
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The man quite literally stripped all the crappy coaches he hired of power, was calling the offensive and defensive plays, and never communicated ANY of this to his superiors because he was probably afraid of looking like an idiot for hiring them in the first place.

Flores is an egotistical coward and a mediocre to bad coach to begin with.

He could have success in the future but he needs to take a long look in the mirror.
 
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