Ireland wants a coach in here who's going to adhere to the ground and pound roster he's tried to build through the draft by taking offensive lineman and backs like Daniel Thomas. He wants a coach who gives him the best chance to make his draft picks work out, with the mindset that they can win with game manager type quarterback. Along with somebody he can throw under the bus and save his own job when it doesn't work out.
Ross seems like he's more in line with what I think Miami should be doing. He doesn't just want a coach, he wants to bring in a proven system via coaching staff. A system and a structure that likely has the quarterback position as it's focal point, and places the proper value on the position itself.
Peterson is irrelevant in all this to me. It's no skin off his back one way or the other.
The problem I have is that we're approaching another situation that can't be pinned on Jeff Ireland if it blows up in Miami's face again in 3 years. Another situation where Ireland's involvement is "fuzzy" at best, allowing his fingerprints on another potential disaster to be whiped clean with no clear cut definition of exactly what he's responsible for.
If Ross felt like keeping Jeff Ireland as his GM was as asset, then he needs to let him do his job, and defer to Ireland and let him hire his coach. At least that way there's no more squirming out of the guillotine.
I trust Ross' instinct and evaluation of the coaching and quarterback situation a helluva lot more than I do Jeff Ireland's. However, both Ross and the Ireland fanboys finally need to be able to know they can hold him accountable for something.
