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Poor Don Shula. This Must Be Killing Him.

LOL! Poor Don Shula? What about us? If it's not one thing, it's another.















P.S. I know where you are coming from. Not trying to be a bully. Just messing with ya. ;-)
 
Great article. Cote is right, I just want us to be a winning relevant team again.

We're relevant for all the wrong reasons right now.
 
This article is spot on man. A decade of poor decisions, ownership, coaches, players, drafts, and now this mess. Time to implode the whole thing. New ownership, coach, and stadium, and become relevant again! In my lifetime dude.
 
We're not going to become relevant without good leadership both in the front office and in the locker room. Right now we have neither. It would be a good thing if, in Incognito's absence, a couple of players of better character filled the void. It would also be a smart move if Incognito were to return that he be removed from any kind of leadership role; it was a huge mistake to have ever put him in that position.

Leadership is not as simple as who plays what position well. Leaders have to also be selected with some emphasis on strength of character. When a team assigns someone to a leadership position, the message to the other players is this is someone to emulate both on and off the field. While Incognito may have been capable on the field, he came to us with a long history of behaviors that have made him unwelcome at every stop in his career. That Philbin made the decision to put Incognito in a leadership role is, in my opinion, a serious lapse in judgment on his part. The better move would have been to encourage Incognito to emulate the behavior of a person of better character. That would have been better for the team and for Incognito. I think it's fairly easy to make the argument that by putting Incognito in a leadership role, Philbin was setting him up to fail. That just wasn't a role Incognito could navigate with any kind of consistent success. And if there was no better person on the team to take on the role assigned to Incognito, that's Ireland's failure.
 
JTC111 said:
We're not going to become relevant without good leadership both in the front office and in the locker room. Right now we have neither. It would be a good thing if, in Incognito's absence, a couple of players of better character filled the void. It would also be a smart move if Incognito were to return that he be removed from any kind of leadership role; it was a huge mistake to have ever put him in that position.

Leadership is not as simple as who plays what position well. Leaders have to also be selected with some emphasis on strength of character. When a team assigns someone to a leadership position, the message to the other players is this is someone to emulate both on and off the field. While Incognito may have been capable on the field, he came to us with a long history of behaviors that have made him unwelcome at every stop in his career. That Philbin made the decision to put Incognito in a leadership role is, in my opinion, a serious lapse in judgment on his part. The better move would have been to encourage Incognito to emulate the behavior of a person of better character. That would have been better for the team and for Incognito. I think it's fairly easy to make the argument that by putting Incognito in a leadership role, Philbin was setting him up to fail. That just wasn't a role Incognito could navigate with any kind of consistent success. And if there was no better person on the team to take on the role assigned to Incognito, that's Ireland's failure.
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We definitely need better leadership. Sounds like Jon Martin and the rest of the Team voted for the wrong guy. Sounds eerily familiar doesn't it?
 
Are you joking me? Don Shula is just hoping that none of his former players come out and sue him.

Don was a total hardass. Did you see the story on PFT this morning about Cam Cleeland almost losing his eye in a rookie hazing incident under Ditka? The things the Dolphins did to Martin are CHILD'S PLAY compared to how the old school coaches let it go.
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
Are you joking me? Don Shula is just hoping that none of his former players come out and sue him.

Don was a total hardass. Did you see the story on PFT this morning about Cam Cleeland almost losing his eye in a rookie hazing incident under Ditka? The things the Dolphins did to Martin are CHILD'S PLAY compared to how the old school coaches let it go.
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exactly what I was thinking. Shula is disgusted by Martin and media hypocrites if anything
 
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