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"The Dolphins are a nightmare"...Mando column to soon post

Hayden Fox said:
...and there are plenty of people that rant each day that things are fine and the Fins are just so close. By canning the OC and GM, they are playoff bound. That is annoying too.
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I haven't seen anybody say that. Last I checked, we still have a ****ty line, a ****ty pair of running backs, an overpaid WR, a ton of injury concerns, and one of the worst linebackers I've ever seen playing next to a mediocre one. Hardly screams playoffs next year with the schedule we have. The QBs we face would tear the current defense apart. If Philbin does manage to somehow make it...COY. The new GM has a ton of work to do. If he decides to keep Joe for a trial year, so be it. If he opts to fire him and bring in his own guy, I'm good with that too. There was no doubt in my mind that Ireland was the biggest problem.
 
I don't get how anyone thinks bringing Philbin back somehow makes the job toxic.

Don't you understand? It's a free year on the job for the GM to 'evaluate' the new coach. If he sucks, you fire him and basically get a year wiped off your resume. Easy scapegoat. If he actually does a good job coaching the team, congratulations. You just saved yourself the trouble of finding a good coach.

How is it that the Jets and Panthers, with a coach already in place, were able to find good candidates willing to take the job, despite the fact that their teams finished with worse records than Miami, had cap issues, and are both owned by notorious cheapskates?
 
None of this is surprising. In fact, this was being talked about *last week*, because it was so damn obvious what was happening.
 
Isn't the GM generally > than the coach in terms of power? If so, why wouldn't a good GM come here and make their own determination on Philbin after a year? I'm optimistic we'll get someone better than Ireland.
 
I'm a Philbin homer but this makes me like him even more. One thing that worried me was that Philbin was blind to Ireland's ineptness, or even complacent with it. If Ireland is dumb and Philbin doesn't see it then Philbin must also be dumb by proxy. Thank **** Philbin realized Ireland was the problem and risked his own scaly skin by taking a stand rather than try to make it work just to make his job safer for another season.

Thank **** he realized Sherman was a problem and if reports are correct wants to replace him with a young fresh offensive coordinator. It might be the most demanding position on a football team both mentally and physically, it maybe even more demanding than the head coaching position. I'm sure there are some 60 year olds that can still handle it but it would be a very small percentage.

If Tannehill is legit this team is set up. For as much as we hate on Ireland he did some good things the past few seasons and, ironically, one of the things that ruined him--not going all out with the salary cap this season--puts us in an even better position for the new GM (assuming he's good). So I'll say it again--IF TANNEHILL IS LEGIT THIS TEAM IS SET UP!!!
 
Casas9425 said:
Dawn Aponte seems to be a raging bitch, I wouldn't want someone like that in my organization.
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She is a "snake in the grass" as the old folks use to say. She seems to be a very toxic lady where ever she lands (didn't she have a lot of drama surrouding her at her last stop in Cleveland).
 
ha ha...ireland sitting in a suite ticked off about how his personnel were performing and trying to blame the coach...classic...news flash jeff had you not crapped the bed with the oline and lb core rebuild and draft every year this would have never happened...

your damn lucky the qb made it thru the entire season to get to 8 wins with those personnel issues...

i can buy that the aponte sell and having to deal with her if she is further empowered may be a hard sell but i really doubt the joe philbin one is...and i know the qb one is not
 
flynryan15 said:
After the owner fired the gm there was a period of time no one was running Browns so Aponte went for a power grab. Imagine what you saw on Hardknocks times 10. She almost ran Josh Cribbs out of town by strong arming him, to the point he took to the fans saying I don't want to leave but she won't negotiate. During that time Holmgrem was hired he extended Cribbs and booted Aponte. That was the higher profile of incidents. The whole time she had Mangini in her pocket.

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Even if she did us a favor she still needs to go.
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Just to set the record straight she was offering Cribbs a contract worth $1.4 million per year. That was a contract to basically a great special teams player who at that time in his career only had 59 catches, with 3 TD's, while playing for 6 years with the Browns and who had never shown anything on the offensive side of the ball.

Holmgren then fired her and resigned Cribbs to a 3 year $20 million dollar deal. In the first two years with the Browns on that contract he had a whopping 48 catches with 4 TD's. The contract was so bad and so out of line with what Cribbs production was that as soon as Holmgren was fired in 2013 the new regime released Cribbs as well.

Then last year Cribbs couldn't even make the Raiders squad after signing with them in the offseason and then signed with the Jets midseason where had a whopping 2 receptions in 6 games before getting hurt against the Fins.

When you look at what actually transpired with Cribbs and the Browns, Raider, and Jets it's pretty safe to say that Aponte was actually right in that situation where she didn't feel he deserved a bigger contract that what she was offering.
 
mnphinfan said:
Just to set the record straight she was offering Cribbs a contract worth $1.4 million per year. That was a contract to basically a great special teams player who at that time in his career only had 59 catches, with 3 TD's, while playing for 6 years with the Browns and who had never shown anything on the offensive side of the ball.

Holmgren then fired her and resigned Cribbs to a 3 year $20 million dollar deal. In the first two years with the Browns on that contract he had a whopping 48 catches with 4 TD's. The contract was so bad and so out of line with what Cribbs production was that as soon as Holmgren was fired in 2013 the new regime released Cribbs as well.

Then last year Cribbs couldn't even make the Raiders squad after signing with them in the offseason and then signed with the Jets midseason where had a whopping 2 receptions in 6 games before getting hurt against the Fins.

When you look at what actually transpired with Cribbs and the Browns, Raider, and Jets it's pretty safe to say that Aponte was actually right in that situation where she didn't feel he deserved a bigger contract that what she was offering.
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Yeah. I'm not a big fan of Aponte and I wish all of the Parcells disciples would have been cleaned out together (and didn't she screw up the Joey Porter contract? :lol:) but she was right on that one.
 
I said in another thread that Aponte is one of the few overachievers in the building. It might not be a bad thing to give her a voice. And I'm not buying Armando's(Ireland's) take on things, Ross and Philbin seem to have no problem working with her.
It's all probably academic anyway, she is likely headed to the league office
 
Talking about toxic situations scaring people away. If Reggie Mckenzie agreed to take the Raiders job then the Miami job is like a dream compared to that.

The concept that GM's candidates would be scared to come to a promotion job with...
- a super rich, patient, non meddling owner
- budding qb,
warm weather no sales tax state is just DUMB.
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
Yeah. I'm not a big fan of Aponte and I wish all of the Parcells disciples would have been cleaned out together (and didn't she screw up the Joey Porter contract? :lol:) but she was right on that one.
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Ya, she tried to release him before the end of the season. In all actuality it wasn't that big of a deal. Just something that she should have known and more of a black eye on her. It was probably just a simple mistake. I however can't really blame her. I wanted to get rid of Porter ASAP as well.

I actually like that she is a bitch to agents and players. It lets the GM and coach play the good guy while trying to get more money for the players. Our cap is in a remarkable stance right now because of her strictness of wanting to stay as far below the cap as possible. Now how nice is it that the next GM actually has some real money to spend along with draft picks.
 
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