This team has been marred in mediocrity or worse for over a decade. I understand this is not news to anyone and part of it is the makeup of the organization. The owner will not change and we can do little about it, but this team needs a football mind in charge to turn this organization around.
I applaud the work the “business” side of the organization with Garfinkle and everything he and his group have accomplished. The stadium looks great, the constant nods to the past, the throwback jerseys…all of it is pure class.
What lacks though is the on the field product…this team has continued to do things “half measured” since Ross became owner. These partial organizational shake-ups have done little except prevent us from luring top candidates in coaching as well as front office personnel. We fire the coach, but keep the GM and vice versa. If they are not willing to do a full on “blow this **** up” then we will continue to be mediocre or worse.
At the center of this is our, whatever his title is, Mike Tannenbaum. I’m not saying he’s awful, but what has he accomplished? Yes, he landed some big name free agents, sign some players long term, but he also did very little to fill some pretty major holes on this team. Now I will concede Hickey is to blame for this as well, but I’m already going to assume that if Philbin goes so does Hickey. What is going to be left behind is Mike T. That means we will be limited in our GM search…again, limited in our coach search….again and we will continue to wallow in this purgatory that is Dolphin football.
If we hope to actually do things right this time around then we need to drop Mike T as well, because we have the money, the facilities, and core group of player in place to recruit an excellent head coach and GM, but if left with Tannenbaum we will get second rate everything….again.
I applaud the work the “business” side of the organization with Garfinkle and everything he and his group have accomplished. The stadium looks great, the constant nods to the past, the throwback jerseys…all of it is pure class.
What lacks though is the on the field product…this team has continued to do things “half measured” since Ross became owner. These partial organizational shake-ups have done little except prevent us from luring top candidates in coaching as well as front office personnel. We fire the coach, but keep the GM and vice versa. If they are not willing to do a full on “blow this **** up” then we will continue to be mediocre or worse.
At the center of this is our, whatever his title is, Mike Tannenbaum. I’m not saying he’s awful, but what has he accomplished? Yes, he landed some big name free agents, sign some players long term, but he also did very little to fill some pretty major holes on this team. Now I will concede Hickey is to blame for this as well, but I’m already going to assume that if Philbin goes so does Hickey. What is going to be left behind is Mike T. That means we will be limited in our GM search…again, limited in our coach search….again and we will continue to wallow in this purgatory that is Dolphin football.
If we hope to actually do things right this time around then we need to drop Mike T as well, because we have the money, the facilities, and core group of player in place to recruit an excellent head coach and GM, but if left with Tannenbaum we will get second rate everything….again.
