Alex Trevelyan
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Joe Philbin is dead man walking. He will be fired, the only question is when. He should of been fired 2 years ago after the Richie Incognito situation gave the present ownership grounds to do so, but ownership did nothing, then last year, in an almost surreal, clownish moment Stephen Ross vouched that Philbin would return for yet another year. This occurred only moments after the Fins barely beat a pathetic Vikings team. Ross uttered the following: "But I think we're building something here, and I believe in the coach." Mr. Ross's belief, accrues to his poor judgment, which he compounded in the off-season by hiring Mike Tannenbaum to run the front-office and before that Dennis Hickey. Philbin will be terminated sooner or later, but then what? It's not necessarily a question of who will replace Philbin, or even who will decide who replaces Philbin, it's a question of who is going to be responsible for the demolition and construction work that will need to follow as soon as this season ends.
This team has drafted poorly going all the way back to the Shula regime. It has abused and been abused by the free agency system, partly on account of the fact that we've drafted so poorly and partly on account of owners hellbent on making splashy off-season moves to sell declining season ticket packages. The present ownership isn't going anywhere. Let's say for the sake of argument Ross had managed to hire Jeff Fisher instead of Philbin, we'd be in no better shape today, in fact the team would be similarly inept as is evidenced by Fisher's incompetence in St. Louis, but Ross wanted Fisher even before he wanted Philbin. The man's judgment is almost unfathomably bad and age isn't going to improve it. When he bought the team he had reason and opportunity to clean out the front office, instead he kept them around and let the situation metastasize. Then when he finally rids himself of Ireland, he hires a new GM and insists that the GM keep the HC who was already showing signs of being the wrong guy. And now we've got Tannenbaum.
Tannenbaum was terminated by Woody Johnson, an owner noted for his Ross-like ineptitude after going 57-55 as the Jets' GM. He traded away 11 draft picks while in New York even though it's been proven empirically that trading away draft picks is an ineffective strategy for getting better. Trading up in the draft doesn't work. He drafted guys like Mark Sanchez and Vernon Gholston with top 6 picks! And compounded those debacles with guys like Kyle Wilson in the first and Vlad Ducasse and Stephen Hill in the second, Ducasse is now on his 3rd team in 5-years and Hill is now out of the league after being cut by the Jets after his second season! This is the man who in all likelihood, barring an epiphany by Stephen Ross, who will select the next head coach and then go about the task of rebuilding the team. Suh's signing has Tannenbaum's fingerprints all over it and whether or not you think Suh will be a good player at some point for this franchise, his benefit will never exceed his cost.
This is the reality we find ourselves trapped in. The Dolphins are now like the Colts under Robert Irsay; the Falcons under Rankin Smith or the Bucs under Hugh Culverhouse. We are that franchise now and without a change in ownership nothing will change. It could conceivably be worse. Ross is worse than Huizenga. You realize just how important ownership is in sports.
This team has drafted poorly going all the way back to the Shula regime. It has abused and been abused by the free agency system, partly on account of the fact that we've drafted so poorly and partly on account of owners hellbent on making splashy off-season moves to sell declining season ticket packages. The present ownership isn't going anywhere. Let's say for the sake of argument Ross had managed to hire Jeff Fisher instead of Philbin, we'd be in no better shape today, in fact the team would be similarly inept as is evidenced by Fisher's incompetence in St. Louis, but Ross wanted Fisher even before he wanted Philbin. The man's judgment is almost unfathomably bad and age isn't going to improve it. When he bought the team he had reason and opportunity to clean out the front office, instead he kept them around and let the situation metastasize. Then when he finally rids himself of Ireland, he hires a new GM and insists that the GM keep the HC who was already showing signs of being the wrong guy. And now we've got Tannenbaum.
Tannenbaum was terminated by Woody Johnson, an owner noted for his Ross-like ineptitude after going 57-55 as the Jets' GM. He traded away 11 draft picks while in New York even though it's been proven empirically that trading away draft picks is an ineffective strategy for getting better. Trading up in the draft doesn't work. He drafted guys like Mark Sanchez and Vernon Gholston with top 6 picks! And compounded those debacles with guys like Kyle Wilson in the first and Vlad Ducasse and Stephen Hill in the second, Ducasse is now on his 3rd team in 5-years and Hill is now out of the league after being cut by the Jets after his second season! This is the man who in all likelihood, barring an epiphany by Stephen Ross, who will select the next head coach and then go about the task of rebuilding the team. Suh's signing has Tannenbaum's fingerprints all over it and whether or not you think Suh will be a good player at some point for this franchise, his benefit will never exceed his cost.
This is the reality we find ourselves trapped in. The Dolphins are now like the Colts under Robert Irsay; the Falcons under Rankin Smith or the Bucs under Hugh Culverhouse. We are that franchise now and without a change in ownership nothing will change. It could conceivably be worse. Ross is worse than Huizenga. You realize just how important ownership is in sports.
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