Cutthroat
Scout Team
First, my optimism is not gone. We now have a new coach and will be installing a new offense and I believe that will set the team back some, but I have not lost hope.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of people on this board who buy off on everything the talking heads say, accepting everything as absolute truth. Everyone needs to remember that those guys are paid to CREATE news and create excitement, even if it is negative in nature... it sells! These "reporters" have to keep the wires alive, or they are deemed a failure and fall to the bottom of the pile. The more controversy they stir up, the more "successful" they are. However, it is extremely rare for anyone to actually hold them accountable for what they predicted or reported. Further, they know when they quote "anonymous players" nobody ever can.
Take a look at the reports from the Manning courting process. There were proclamations, guarantees and later, there was backtracking and even self contradiction. Any one of us could have sat in a room and tweeted the latest "news" as we heard it and we would have been just as accurate. Why do people blindly accept what these guys say as meaningful????
Salguero, who I normally find annoying, wrote a great piece today. I don't agree across the board with what he says, but he evaluates the situation from a common sense perspective and I think he is generally right. The Dolphins missed on Manning because he wanted to go elsewhere, I believe that. However, I know they could have signed Flynn, but were not willing to spend that kind of money on a risky player. Flynn chose financial security over playing for the Dolphins. Who could blame him. Whether anyone here wants to believe it or not, he was a risk, just like Kevin Kolb, just like AJ Feeley, just like Scott Mitchell (for those who remember). Nobody knew him, or his real value more than Coach Philbin and the organization made a decision.
I am not overjoyed with the results of free agency so far, but I know great teams are not built there. I am glad the Dolphins don't have a Daniel Snyder type making the decisions.
I am pissed that the media jackasses have managed to stir up a wave of controversy around the Dolphins and now will do all they can to keep it alive as long as possible simply for their own benefit. To hell with honest reporting or accountability.
Does Ireland have an unpleasant personality? It is possible. Is he the only GM like that? I really doubt it. What I am confident of is that the truly good teams in the NFL have stability. I don't think firing Ireland is the answer; not at this point. I definitely know that firing him one month prior to the draft is fool hearty unless they have a sure fire GM candidate ON STAFF ready to take his place.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of people on this board who buy off on everything the talking heads say, accepting everything as absolute truth. Everyone needs to remember that those guys are paid to CREATE news and create excitement, even if it is negative in nature... it sells! These "reporters" have to keep the wires alive, or they are deemed a failure and fall to the bottom of the pile. The more controversy they stir up, the more "successful" they are. However, it is extremely rare for anyone to actually hold them accountable for what they predicted or reported. Further, they know when they quote "anonymous players" nobody ever can.
Take a look at the reports from the Manning courting process. There were proclamations, guarantees and later, there was backtracking and even self contradiction. Any one of us could have sat in a room and tweeted the latest "news" as we heard it and we would have been just as accurate. Why do people blindly accept what these guys say as meaningful????
Salguero, who I normally find annoying, wrote a great piece today. I don't agree across the board with what he says, but he evaluates the situation from a common sense perspective and I think he is generally right. The Dolphins missed on Manning because he wanted to go elsewhere, I believe that. However, I know they could have signed Flynn, but were not willing to spend that kind of money on a risky player. Flynn chose financial security over playing for the Dolphins. Who could blame him. Whether anyone here wants to believe it or not, he was a risk, just like Kevin Kolb, just like AJ Feeley, just like Scott Mitchell (for those who remember). Nobody knew him, or his real value more than Coach Philbin and the organization made a decision.
I am not overjoyed with the results of free agency so far, but I know great teams are not built there. I am glad the Dolphins don't have a Daniel Snyder type making the decisions.
I am pissed that the media jackasses have managed to stir up a wave of controversy around the Dolphins and now will do all they can to keep it alive as long as possible simply for their own benefit. To hell with honest reporting or accountability.
Does Ireland have an unpleasant personality? It is possible. Is he the only GM like that? I really doubt it. What I am confident of is that the truly good teams in the NFL have stability. I don't think firing Ireland is the answer; not at this point. I definitely know that firing him one month prior to the draft is fool hearty unless they have a sure fire GM candidate ON STAFF ready to take his place.
