Didn’t know Ross hired Wanny and demanded he pass on Drew Brees.
Either that or just don't watch the Dolphins anymore. Just find another team with an owner to your liking.
This constant whining and crying is pathetic. It is like going to a restaurant where you hate the food and you complain and you keep going to the restaurant and order the same ****ty food and keep complaining over and over again yet you keep on going.
I said it before the season but its mindboggling how Dolphin fans are unable to predict how Dolphin fans will react to losing. In your analogy wouldn't this forum be the restaurant for you?
Anyway, getting Grier and Flores out of here after the season is mission critical. For one thing they probably aren't very bright. Two, Ross gets to save a bit of face: 'just to prove I wasn't on board with a tank I fired those bozos.' That might save us from punishment or Tua refusing to come here. And three it has to be both and it has to be now (after the season), another half measure firing just Grier would be a disaster.
So bitching, blowing up, wearing paper bags, not going to games or whatever should all be encouraged. Because the only way to rejuvenate the fanbase and the team is a total reset from the ground up.
I don't think the NFL will punish Miami for tanking -- seems very unlikely -- but it's an interesting discussion.
It's not a criminal court, so the burden of proof is essentially whether or not the commissioner 'saw enough' proof to conclude that Miami was tanking. But on the other hand, with Ross's public statement and the team's personnel management, you could definitely make the case that it should be investigated. And then all you have to do is find one text message, one email, one overheard conversation within the front office, and bam, suddenly you have a disciplinary problem that the NFL would love to have. Because the NFL would love to find an excuse to implement a draft lottery.
And if there is any team on this Earth that I fully believe is stupid enough to send text messages back and forth about tanking, or leave discussion of it on team email servers, it's the Miami Dolphins.
If at the end of the season, we are in a position to draft Tua, have another first rounder in the top 20, and a plan to build an offensive line with the draft picks and cap space, Grier obviously stays since that’s the plan he sold Ross on.
Flores is a different story.
I defend anyone working for the fins because I want success for the team. Why is that so hard to understand?
I for one had no issue with cleanly house and basically starting from scratch. My issue was with Ross not also cleaning out the people who were going to be making the decisions about the players going forward. Instead of going out and spending his money to try and bring in a football man with a proven track record of building a decent team, Ross decided to stick with a GM who has been part of the problem for the past nearly 2 decades.Half this site was all aboard the suck for luck train, and half were advocating for tank for tua before the offseason really began. We lose one game and now most of you want to bail on the plan? Gtfo.
I didn't even think you were talking to me lol.
I thought it was ambiguous, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt.I know, but you know somebody would if I didn't put the disclaimer.
I thought it was ambiguous, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
I appreciate your post in its entirety, but I wanted to nitpick on this part: Brian Daboll became the offensive coordinator in 2011. The Dolphins were an appreciably better scoring offense (20ppg vs 17ppg) over the 2010 team. I don't think Brian Daboll did a bad job at all. In fact, you may remember that after the offense started to gel with that romp against KC (the team's first win), they scored 30+ points four times and put up a very respectable number of points, despite JP Losman taking a significant number of snaps when Matt Moore couldn't go.
Daboll really didn't do a bad job. That entire 2011 season was mostly the result of bad personnel management and drafting (Ireland/Grier), and the insane Harbaugh situation that turned Tony Sparano into a dead coach walking. I don't think the coordinators were a big part of the problem.