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Joe Philbin Was Fired Because He Didn’t Agree to ‘Assistant Changes’

If true, Ross is a moron! Philbin deserved to get fired no matter what!
 
Classic Ross.

Instead of firing the head coach who was responsible for his staff, and picked bad staff, he tried to get the coach to fire the staff, that the coach hired.

I'm officially on the 'Ross sucks' bandwagon.
 
Marra, Rooney, Kraft and Ross. Who doesn't belong? Leadership and success starts at the top and a bad owner can screw a great franchise for a long time, ask Redskins fans. Ross is a schmuck and is the core of what stinks in this organization. He needs to be fired!
 
Phailbin and Coyle are both gone. That's all that matters.
 
Definitely plausible. I had a gut feeling Ross was going to give Philbin another shot through the BYE to fix everything up.

Man, Philbin was way too comfortable with himself in this whole head coach thing, I can't think of a single hard decision he made, on-time. Just get rid of players disturbing the serenity and stay status quo until the end of the season, that'll sort things out. 8-8, true yin and yang nirvana.
 
I think Joe Philbin is a good man and I can see supporting people you hire. But holy crap... there's no sense in looking up a dead horse's ***. It does no good. He had to be replaced and the time to do it was last year after the abysmal ending of the season. Continuing to support him while getting rid of just Coyle wouldn't have done much. We could have avoided all of this mess if Ross would just have replaced Philbin and Coyle last year. The mess right now is indeed on Ross. I believe he has the Dolphins best interests at heart, but he's killing us with his incompetence.
 
phinking said:
Phailbin and Coyle are both gone. That's all that matters.
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Ya but it took Tannenbaum to do it. Ross is clueless and still the biggest problem this franchise has!
 
That last sentence in the article, maybe that's the reason the Jets took all that toilet paper with them to London, they knew who they were playing, and that they would need it. .:chuckle: Sorry could not resist.
 
I've mentioned this before, but the problem isn't that Ross is dumb. The problem is that Ross went to the University of Michigan business school back in the early 1960s. Back then, the management theory that was being taught was decentralization, which became incredibly popular after WW2 because of a famous book (Concept of the Corporation) that focused on the corporate culture of General Motors. That book was about how General Motors valued its human assets and dealt with issues like overpromotion, personality conflicts, etc. by simply compartmentalizing people into brand new sections of the corporation. Although it was a book that was interesting for a lot of reasons beyond instructional management theory, business schools all over America started teaching the GM approach to human resources management as some sort of holy grail for aspiring management students.

Steve Ross comes from this school of management theory and he has made the unbelievable ****ing mistake of applying this method of management to a football team. That is why you wind up with Ross offering to let Jeff Ireland stay with the team with a different title where he wouldn't have to interact with Joe Philbin, and then dragging his feet constantly on the firing of Joe Philbin because he'd rather try to get Joe to fire his coordinators. He thought Jeff and Joe still had value they could bring to the team, even though they were failing in their jobs. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if he offered to retain Joe Philbin on the team in some capacity while relieving him of his coaching duties. It really wouldn't.

The thing that kills me is that it's exactly this philosophy that is going to lead to Mike Tannenbaum being in a management position somewhere in this organization until the day we have new ownership.
 
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J. David Wannyheimer said:
Classic Ross.

Instead of firing the head coach who was responsible for his staff, and picked bad staff, he tried to get the coach to fire the staff, that the coach hired.

I'm officially on the 'Ross sucks' bandwagon.
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If Ross wanted to put his foot down on such an issue it should have been this past offseason when Philbin clamored for Coyle to stay on board after an abysmal defense to end '14. Not 4 games into the season. Complete fail.
 
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