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Yes, I am going to criticize Stephen Ross again. But at least this time I am giving it a thread of its own.
I've read people who say he's a good owner because he wants to win, he'll do what he takes. I don't know that, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. My thing is I don't think he knows what to do when it comes to running a sports franchise.
I think he follows the New York model to building a team. He just thinks you throw money at a problem and make splash moves and everything is solved, like George Steinbrenner would do. Got a defense that's a sieve? Sign Ndamakong Suh. Great signing, except it's the equivalent of putting some fancy new wheel covers on a car doesn't run because there's a hamster on a wheel instead of an engine under the hood. Oh, and let's draft a WR who we don't need enough to even try to use in the first three games. There's some unrest about our coach? OK, I'll try to make a splash and get a big-name college coach, even though we still have a current coach still in charge ... oh, wait, the college coach doesn't want the job, word gets out that Ross was wooing Harbaugh and then he ends up extending Sparano -- that's a comedy of errors worthy of the team we saw embarrassed in its newly-refurbished home stadium today. BTW, I think that fiasco still hurts the Dolphins' credibility when it comes to hiring a good coach, because, if you are good enough to have a choice of jobs, why would you take one from the guy who might try to hire your replacement behind your back?
Mike Wallace was a similar kind of move. Flash without substance. No plan. Just all show.
It's the NFL. You can't build this team like Steinbrenner build the Yankees. You have a salary cap, you have to draft wisely and you can't just keep trading for good players from teams that can't afford them.
I don't think Ross gets it. He grew up a Jets fan and that's historically been a mis-run franchise. Yet it seems to be the template for his Dolphins.
I've read people who say he's a good owner because he wants to win, he'll do what he takes. I don't know that, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. My thing is I don't think he knows what to do when it comes to running a sports franchise.
I think he follows the New York model to building a team. He just thinks you throw money at a problem and make splash moves and everything is solved, like George Steinbrenner would do. Got a defense that's a sieve? Sign Ndamakong Suh. Great signing, except it's the equivalent of putting some fancy new wheel covers on a car doesn't run because there's a hamster on a wheel instead of an engine under the hood. Oh, and let's draft a WR who we don't need enough to even try to use in the first three games. There's some unrest about our coach? OK, I'll try to make a splash and get a big-name college coach, even though we still have a current coach still in charge ... oh, wait, the college coach doesn't want the job, word gets out that Ross was wooing Harbaugh and then he ends up extending Sparano -- that's a comedy of errors worthy of the team we saw embarrassed in its newly-refurbished home stadium today. BTW, I think that fiasco still hurts the Dolphins' credibility when it comes to hiring a good coach, because, if you are good enough to have a choice of jobs, why would you take one from the guy who might try to hire your replacement behind your back?
Mike Wallace was a similar kind of move. Flash without substance. No plan. Just all show.
It's the NFL. You can't build this team like Steinbrenner build the Yankees. You have a salary cap, you have to draft wisely and you can't just keep trading for good players from teams that can't afford them.
I don't think Ross gets it. He grew up a Jets fan and that's historically been a mis-run franchise. Yet it seems to be the template for his Dolphins.
