Ireland is responsible for producing a winner. He hasnt done that. Its time to move on. Everybody, unless your Mueller, gets a certain amount of time.
Agreed out of 5 years he's has yet to significantly improved the talent on the team. He has missed on over 90% of his 2nd and 3rd round draft picks and while he has found a few gems in later rounds it is not nearly enough to offset the blatant misses in the "money rounds".
But Ireland had an excellent offseason. No one can deny that and playing hindsight 20-20 is garbage.
Really...he over paid for a WR who doesn't fit the offensive system implemented by Philbin and Sherman the year before, he allowed one of the best play making RB's to walk (a guy who wanted to stay in Miami) and failed up address the offsive line which is proving to be the Achilles heel of the offense.
Keller injury hurt hus. Gibson was a great pickup. injured.
Don't disagree I liked Keller a lot and thought Gibson was playing well until his injury...but it doesn't make up for the Wallace signing.
he got Grimes and patterson. Anyone want to bitch about this? ok injuries to patterson, but Ireland cannot control that once again.
Grimes is fantastic and was a much better fit for the system, but Patterson has done well, but the guy has a history of injuries, so him beng out should not have been a surprised and you would expect some of the rookie CB's to fill that void, but they were drafted in the second and third round and we know how those picks work out.
He brought younger LB's here for actually cheaper than Dansby/Bennett over the long haul. Wheeler sucks at tackling so hindsight 20-20 again.
Wheeler was second rounf pick who has never played to his ability, why would we expect him to start now and watching some film on him from his previous stints shows he's never had any instincts. Ellerbe was another odd move as he was ILB in a 3-4 and the Dolphins run a 4-3...that's two players he's acquired that don't fit the teams established systems.
He jumped up to get Dion Jordan. I still think this is a great move. He was not sold on the Oklahoma Tackle. anyone else? All the rookies on this team are kept at bay by the coaches. Its their philosophy.
Really, Jordan is again a 3-4 OLB and the Dolphins run a 4-3 (that's now 3 players acquired that don't fit the system) he was injured and delayed coming into camp. THe biggest issue is the move up for him and using the second rounder that should have helped the Phins bring in B. Albert....there is no hindsight here the LT position was an issue and needed to be addressed. So what if he wasn't sold on the T from Oklahoma, he could have had a better, established OT for a second rounder and used his 1st on another player that could have had an impact instead on an injured top five pick that playing out of position.
We have Wilson and Matthews who are key players now who were late round picks. Carroll and Jones were 5th round picks. Pretty good value there.
As I said above, he's found a few gems late in the draft, but doesn't excuse his horrible drafting in the second and third rounds?
Odrick is proving his draft status minus first year injury.
Great, he hit on a 1st rounder....most people on this forum can get drafting a 1st rounder correct.
Pouncey was worth the 15th pick in the draft. RT is a good QB over time. He needs a good OL in order to succeed as well as Lamar Miller.
Again, he can draft contributors in the 1st round....so does most GMs in the NFL...
Ireland has some bad moves too. Daniel Thomas was not worth what we gave up but at least he learned his lesson with gettin lamar in 4th round. Egnew is 3rd rounder, he is coming along but it will be too late or not worth in the end by the time his contract is up.
Some...bad moves....a lot of bad moves....almost very second and third rounder can be seen as poor to really bad moves.
Jeff Ireland is hated mostly becuase of "momma a prosititute?". Now Jonathan Martin is a very large stain on this franchise and he used a 2nd round pick on him. He set us back in many ways. This is why he should be gone in the end here. He was not a Philbin guy to begin with and went along with owners wishes. I think its just time for him to move on. Quite frankly, I dont see anyone else coming in here and doing better unless they get lucky with some star player falling to us. There is alot of luck involved too.
That quote is one of the only things I liked about him....
Plenty of GM do much better jobs at drafting and I could easily see this team vastly improving with a good off-season, but I don't trust Ireland to handle it (based on his track record). I hate when people say drafting is "luck"....teams have whole departments who are dedicated to evaluating college and pro talent and how they fit on the team...Ireland is payed millions to evaluate players and make decisions based on those evaluations...it is not luck, it is suppose to be based off experience and knowledge.
at anyone still defending Jeff Ireland at this point.
