I'll be honest...so far NO candidate excites me. I really am not wild about giving the "keys to the store" to one guy. The Dolphins failures going all the way back to my beloved Shula, has been the DRAFT. JJ was the best coach we had on "draft day" but even he had huge misses (John Avery). I'm of the opinion we need a strong GM who calls the shots on personel. This has not been my opinion until the Saban fiasco this year. We need a GM who sees the importance AND uncertainty of our QB position and DRAFT one for God's sake! What say you?
Its hard to argue with your opinion, Shula, JJ, Wannstedt and Saban all failed to draft well.
But, by the same token so did Spielman in the one year we had a GM that wasn't the head coach.
The big thing is, that we need a good scouting department that evaluates players well, and a head personnel guy and head coach that are on the same page, something similar to New England's way, which is clearly the class of the league.
I believe that in Carroll, you would also get his close confidant Pat Kirwan that would be working with him and on the same page.