Originally posted by finfan54
Because Dan decided he didnt want the job? How are we any worse off than before? The media is full of crap as always. You think spielman is sitting there and worrying about Dan realizing he doesnt want the job? No way, he is just going to go ahead with his plan. If anyone thought this was a figurehead job, then doesnt it make sense to OK this move by Dan? You cant have it both ways.
Bottom line is Dan quitting is not going to put this team into a tailspin at all. I think we have coaches in place to make it happen. Dan wouldnt have been invovled with anything right now anyways. What is the big hairy canary? Ill tell ya what it is, it gives people like Rome to talk smack about something. big deal. It wont mean anything when spielman starts making moves.
Good point but it all hinges on just how we may actually "want" to define" disarray. Dysfunctional may be a better word perhaps? But just to avoid an argument, I'll say that it would mean that the Dolphins are way out on a limb that is cracking at the tree trunk. You know, in a very precarious situation but not in a taotl downfall as yet. With that said, I don't think the marino iussue [should] affect the team one bit in itself. The team itself put it's own self there, not Marino. They were aleady there b4 he even came into the picture. At this point, I am of the opinion that Marino was actually brought in to be just "that" figurehead" to boost ticket sales. I don't see for any other immediate reason since he held a title in which Wann/speil answers directly to him but had no real authority over either. But as more "facts" become available, i'm sure my thinking will change with it.
Anyway, back to the out on a limb thing. We put ourselves there, where we are. The players by obviously playing with all the intensity and desire that they should. That could be perhaps mostly the mental makeup of the players or may be Wannstedt's inability to motivate them. In either case, he is responsible more for that than anyone else SINCE he had total control of personell matters which also translates to the severe lack of talent on O. Again, Wannstedt's fault and we can't blame the lack of talent on the player's we needed to be here but Wanny didn't get. But i won't go much deeper into this right now other than some folks say it's not Wanny who missed the plays, etc. This is true but then again, it was Wanny's sole responsibilty to get those players which he failed to do.
So really, the ONLY change we have done thus far is simply swapping Wann/spiel in the personell control dept. Alot of ppl seem to think Spiel will do a better job this off season. I would expect him to also but hell, you or i could as well. It doesn't take a PHD to figure out what this team needs. So let's review how all this crap got started. Wayne hires JJ as HC. He quits after 3 yrs only to come back after Wayne agrees to let him hire and ***'t. Soooo, he brings in his good old buddy Dave, gets embarrasssed by jax the next yr and Dave gets the hC job by default. Then dave hires Spiel since he's got all the control now................so you see where this is going yet? So now, This team basically has Dave's stamp on it now, save for a few of JJs boys and after the first couple of yrs in which he did ok with JJs boys has it slding backwards with more of his own. Thus sliding farther out on that limb. now Spiel gets to make all the "no-brainer" personell decisions and we won't really get a good grip on what's going on with him likely til '06 or later even. but what will make us slip further out on that limb will be Wannstedt. Even IF Spiel gets us the ppl we need, Wannstedt will still be coaching them and he has not shown me where he can do it. I'm very tired of just simply being a good team. I'm ready for us to move up to bigger and better things which Wanny will not allow. He has shown he can not deal with the whole team aspect. As a DC he could deal with that part but not the team as a whole. I don't know what it will take for alot of ppl to realize that.
So you see, IMO, marino had nothing to do with our current situation by whichever means/way you want to describe it. It starts at the very top first and just rolls downhill from there. The snowball has been rolling along and getting bigger each year.
