Look, there is only one other team, Tampa Bay, currently looking for a GM. Have we had like 7 - 8 candidates in for initial interviews. This will probably be compressed to 2 or 3 for final interviews. This represents a promotion for every one of these candidates. And unless Tampa picks one, (but it sounds like they are interviewing different prospects), then the candidates are forced to wait - ie nobody is going anywhere. So if we just take a bit longer to make the final decision to have a bit more confidence in the person selected, what is the problem? We just spent a few more days.
I know that Hayden will be hyperventilating for the next 3 days and then start frothing at the mouth with convulsions from whoever is appointed. It will be the death of the Dolphins and he will turn his attention to sticking Dawn Aponte, Joe Philbin, Jonathan Martin, Stephen Ross and the new GM voodoo dolls with pins. Well perhaps I exaggerate (a little), J-Mart is more of an anaconda.
The reality is that we know relatively little about each of these candidates. We can surmise certain things but we don't know their football IQ, their aptitude for problem solving, their ability to work well with the other key leaders on the team, their negotiating skills, their blind spots, their leadership attributes, their fiscal responsibility and how well each can work with Stephen Ross, who just happens to have put up the $1.1 Billion to buy the team.
Just be patient folks.
