Players are lowballed on contracts all the time, all across the league and have been since the inception of free agency. It's just business, nothing personal. These players don't make it a habit to go on record afterwards to call out these organizations. It just doesn't happen.
The problem is that people that have had direct dealings with Ireland and Miami's front office go out of their way to make it a point to display their distaste for Jeff Ireland. I knew this guy was a prick a long time ago. A lot of people did.
I think it's fairly obvious that players and coaches avoid Miami and Jeff Ireland like the plague. Run-of-the-mill veterans like Richard Marshall and coaches looking for their first head coaching opportunity don't really count.
The issue is that Ireland has yet to be held accountable for anything. Nothing. All he gets are excuses made for him by the same people that are stuck in a perpetual state of denial, and have been throughout all the regimes.
The difference when Parcells was here was that he at least had a reputation as a coach. He was always able to get "his people", both players and coaches to follow him around to all of his reclamation projects. No matter how overrated or injured the free agents were, Miami was at least able to land the players in large part due to Parcells and his reputation as a football COACH.
Jeff Ireland has no such reputation. I have no idea what he's ever accomplished that gives him such a high opinion of himself that tends to piss off everyone he's ever encountered... but I'd be willing to sit through a snoozefest of a power point presentation just to give him the opportunity to show me what he's done. Then I'd like for him to sit through my presentation showing him precisely what all he's failed to do.
Every move he makes is a lateral move at best, most of them backwards moves. He cannot build a winning football team, nor a winning culture.
Ireland is nothing but Stephen Ross' lapdog, which is why he still has a job. That's why they traded for the headcase Brandon Marshall in the first place. When that didn't work out, he had to get rid of him 2 years later for less than he what paid for him. He has no plan. His plan is to do whatever buys him another week of job security.
I figured that out 3 years ago.
