I don't believe Ross has learned that a partial cleaning of the house, often means its also partially messy. Sometimes you just have to strip it bare, and start anew. That does not mean the franchise has to set the reset button on the players, but it should have set the reset on the front office and the coaching staff. Most signs point to Philbin coming up short as a head coach. Ireland was a train wreck. Aponte, despite being a tattle-tale (on Ireland to Philbin), she's probably the sole front office person I'd retain, and I could be talked out of it.
The way I see it is that an OC and a better GM (which we are nearly guaranteed of) will help, but I don't see an elite club with Philbin as HC and especially with Ross as the owner. Personally, I don't envision an elite Dolphins team so long as Ross is the owner, but I'd chop off my pinky-finger to be wrong on that. Football is a side gig for the man, and his interests are elsewhere. He does a halfass job as a result, and it creates a power vacuum below him that is hard to resist. Can it work out? Sure. Luck is a crazy thing. However, the way the team is structured and the coaches currently in place seem to me to be working against us.