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If you were Ross and owned the team, how do you fix this mess? And don't say fire yourself. Ross doesn't make football decisions. He just doesn't hire the right people to make football decisions.
 
DisturbedShifty said:
Isn't hiring everyone under him a football decision though?
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Yes, it is. And it's as important a football decision as any other. Deciding to keep Sparano after 2010, and Philbin after 2015, led to two utterly wasted seasons. And it's certainly arguable that hiring Philbin in the first place wasted several seasons all together.
 
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Tannenbum has to go Priority One. My faith and gase lessons after every game. The slow or no starts is something I haven't seen in years with an NFL team. He seems to be in over his head at this point but I'm sure he'll get a three-year extension and a raise soon because he's won a lot of games since mid 16. The team has regressed tremendously and I think we're ready to implode internally
 
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There are no quick fixes to what plagues Miami but at a minimum, two new coaches are needed - the best OL coach money can buy and a better strength and conditioning coach.

It would also be prudent to insist Gase gets a true OC as he, like most that have tried before, is failing at HC/OC. It just isn't working.

But first, I would fire Tannenbaum and peer closely at Grier next..
 
Im convinced that without major changes from the heart of the NFL some teams will perpetually be losers and some win every season. Its up for grabs as to the cause of this...bad coaching? A wide difference in the talent level? Poor ownership? Its anyone guess as to why teams go down and stay down but facts are facts ....You have the winners and the losers in the NFL and to escape the cellar is all but impossible under the current environment.
 
Jimi said:
Same thing we should have done every year for the last 10. Keep getting new o lineman until we can produce a competent group
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Like from the olinemen tree? :) Can you be more specific? If drafting, which round. If free agency, how much you planning on spending on each per year. For instance, we did what you said this year and none of them are contributing in a meaningful way. Last year, we invested our #1 pick in one and signed Bushrod. Seems like we're doing as you suggested to a reasonable degree.
 
I'm wiping out the entire front office and hiring Peyton Manning as GM. I'm trading guys like Branch, Kiko, Pouncey and Tannehill for whatever picks I can get for them...I'd cut Julius Thomas. I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'm keeping Juwan James at his $9.3 million salary next year.

Draft Lamar Jackson.
 
Snoop said:
I'm wiping out the entire front office and hiring Peyton Manning as GM. I'm trading guys like Branch, Kiko, Pouncey and Tannehill for whatever picks I can get for them...I'd cut Julius Thomas. I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'm keeping Juwan James at his $9.3 million salary next year.

Draft Lamar Jackson.
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What do you do about landry?
 
BahamaFinFan78 said:
If you were Ross and owned the team, how do you fix this mess? And don't say fire yourself. Ross doesn't make football decisions. He just doesn't hire the right people to make football decisions.
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You hit the nail on the head. That's the biggest problem right there. Ross doesn't hire the right people to run this organization and hasn't since he took over as the owner. It's a trickle down effect that leads to a bad front office, to bad free agency and drafting, to hiring the wrong coaches. It starts at the top and Ross has kept making the wrong decisions when is comes to who to hire.
 
I agree it's partially a league wide problem. Conditioning and unprepared players at the beginning of the season. Have you noticed the first few weeks of every season (all teams) start sloppy, missing tackles, dropping balls, penalties, bad lineups, players getting hurt? Then (some) teams start to figure it out and turn around the ship later in the season? I believe this is due to soft pad-free practice, not enough prep time preseason. I think it continues for unprepared teams, like the Miami Dolphins. These players are elite athletes, they are just unprepared, un-planned and poorly conditioned. Period.
 
I'd find the best offensive line coach and make him an offer he can't refuse. I'd then give him a budget and a few draft picks a year and tell him to build an offensive line. If this guy is the best, he should be a pretty darn good evaluator of talent.
 
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