BahamaFinFan78
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Imagine Tannenbaum is fired and you are given the head job. What is your plan of action? Let's see what our armchair GM's come up with.
You're The New Boss
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OK. I'll play.
Gase is gone. Personally, I'm not bug on retread HCs, so I find a Division I coach with some NFL background, or possibility a guy who has been a successful OC/DC for at least a handful of years.
I probably keep RT one more year, realizing it's going to get worse before it gets better, and there isn't any real cap relief by cutting him.
I cut overpaid guys, such as Hayes, but there isn't much else you can do in light of the dead money fiasco the team is in.
In essence, I'm waiting til 2020 to get a QB, while rebuilding the lines via high picks in the draft, using low picks to draft a few corners, until I find one that can play.
We have too many holes to plug with FA acquisitions.
Gase is gone. Personally, I'm not bug on retread HCs, so I find a Division I coach with some NFL background, or possibility a guy who has been a successful OC/DC for at least a handful of years.
I probably keep RT one more year, realizing it's going to get worse before it gets better, and there isn't any real cap relief by cutting him.
I cut overpaid guys, such as Hayes, but there isn't much else you can do in light of the dead money fiasco the team is in.
In essence, I'm waiting til 2020 to get a QB, while rebuilding the lines via high picks in the draft, using low picks to draft a few corners, until I find one that can play.
We have too many holes to plug with FA acquisitions.
ChrisEAS
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Gase gone.
Burke gone
Tannehill stays.
Quinn, Parker gone. Maybe James and Amendola too.
Nobody on team deserves big payday.
OL and DE are top priority in offseason.
Burke gone
Tannehill stays.
Quinn, Parker gone. Maybe James and Amendola too.
Nobody on team deserves big payday.
OL and DE are top priority in offseason.
miamiron
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I'D FIRE MYSELF because I have no idea where to start with this train wreck
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I’ll take a retread as my offensive line coach. But I want somebody that is way overqualified for that position. One of the most important coaches on your team. I am old school and big bodies can be had cheap, you just have to coach them up. I think we have had some pretty good lines that were very poorly coached. The coaching seems to be a problem here. We saw the penalties and lack of discipline. We went through that phase of drafting team captains and high character guys. I’m more into the coaches being able to lead men like Incognito and having men like him on my line. I’m looking for a Tom Coughlin type guy to be my executive. We sort of had that in Parcells, I don’t know where the wheels came off in that organization, but that failure led to looking to go younger and that was our downfall. We need a proven guy and a long term plan. In defense of Gase, he’s a young new coach in year three. He looked really bad on the sideline during a game, I hate to throw the towel in on him over that. I am all for a real football guru having the last word on keeping Gase or not. He may have been absolutely fluent in Tannehills shortcomings and what you saw was a reflection of that, not a shortcoming on the part of the coach. Tanny might go somewhere else and be such a bust that Gase gets his quarterback guru cred back. Going to be a long off season guys, hang in there!
Right there with you.
James is a tough call. He isn't a pro bowl guy, but he isn't terrible, and letting him walk creates another hole where you could do worse. We have too many of those already.
On the fence with that one.
Don't forget the WR position is going to need some attention as well. DA, I think has to go, as does parker. That leaves you with some very fast, but very small guys who get manhandled at the LOS against better D's.
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First, the entire Coaching Staff goes. (With the possible lone exception of Rizzi, but that decision would be made by the new HC.) Second, find a grizzled, old-school (but not too old) defensive-minded veteran Head Coach who has had some success and is hungry for more. (But, no ex-Super Bowl winner. Why gamble against the odds? I don't think anyone has won as HC with 2 different teams.) Turn Miami back into a tough, physical team on both sides of the ball; the complete opposite of the Philbin and Gase regimes.
As for the o-line, the only guy I'd keep is Tunsil... temporarily. Trade James for whatever you can get, and cut everyone else. 2019 would be a complete rebuilding year, so building a new o-line is a higher priority than winning. Tunsil might be a high draft pick, but he doesn't appear to be old-school tough and nasty. I'd trade him away before having to extend his contract and pay him more. Toughness is needed (on both lines), not finesse. Because it would be cost-prohibitive to cut Tannehill for 2019, I'd keep him and look to draft a young QB in 2020. Besides, I truly believe that a decent GM and Coaching Staff would have little trouble replacing Gase's o-line with an adequate and competent physical o-line quickly, simply by moving away from a finesse style of offense and blocking schemes and bringing in an old-school toughness. Give Tanny a physically dominating line with a strong running game, and he'll be good enough until his replacement is ready.
Offense: Tough line, ability to run when the opponent knows you're going to run, and a passing game that covers the entire field. (Power running game paired with a Marino-esque passing game.)
Defense: Tough line, LBs that are tackling machines, and DBs to go with Howard (and Fitz if he pans out). NO WIDE 9! When needed hit WRs at the line to disrupt timing, and make receivers afraid to go across the middle! Make Brady wish he retired!
As for the o-line, the only guy I'd keep is Tunsil... temporarily. Trade James for whatever you can get, and cut everyone else. 2019 would be a complete rebuilding year, so building a new o-line is a higher priority than winning. Tunsil might be a high draft pick, but he doesn't appear to be old-school tough and nasty. I'd trade him away before having to extend his contract and pay him more. Toughness is needed (on both lines), not finesse. Because it would be cost-prohibitive to cut Tannehill for 2019, I'd keep him and look to draft a young QB in 2020. Besides, I truly believe that a decent GM and Coaching Staff would have little trouble replacing Gase's o-line with an adequate and competent physical o-line quickly, simply by moving away from a finesse style of offense and blocking schemes and bringing in an old-school toughness. Give Tanny a physically dominating line with a strong running game, and he'll be good enough until his replacement is ready.
Offense: Tough line, ability to run when the opponent knows you're going to run, and a passing game that covers the entire field. (Power running game paired with a Marino-esque passing game.)
Defense: Tough line, LBs that are tackling machines, and DBs to go with Howard (and Fitz if he pans out). NO WIDE 9! When needed hit WRs at the line to disrupt timing, and make receivers afraid to go across the middle! Make Brady wish he retired!
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I'm by no means no expert but I would seriously consider this:
Fire-Gase, Burke and the OC (can't even remember his name :) )
Keep Grier for one season
Hire Campbell for HC
McCarthy for OC
Rex Ryan for DC
Let them decide about the rest of the staff.
Have the coaching staff and Grier work together on player acquisition.
Fire-Gase, Burke and the OC (can't even remember his name :) )
Keep Grier for one season
Hire Campbell for HC
McCarthy for OC
Rex Ryan for DC
Let them decide about the rest of the staff.
Have the coaching staff and Grier work together on player acquisition.
Tannebaum fired and I get a head job. Great day baby!
Fire the front office
Fire the entire coaching staff
Cut/trade Tannehill
Cut Amendola
Cut TJ McDonald
Cut Hayes
Cut Branch
Give myself a raise
Hire Jimmy Johnson as a draft consultant
Give Ozzie Newsome a blank check to work for 5 years and pick successor
Give Wade Phillips a blank check and total control of the defense
Give myself a bonus
Focus entire draft on OL/DL and trade down to accumulate picks
Sign Jimmy Clausen to be my starter
get the #1 pick for 2020 and select Trevor Lawrence
Give myself another bonus and a generous severance package and quit
Fire the entire coaching staff
Cut/trade Tannehill
Cut Amendola
Cut TJ McDonald
Cut Hayes
Cut Branch
Give myself a raise
Hire Jimmy Johnson as a draft consultant
Give Ozzie Newsome a blank check to work for 5 years and pick successor
Give Wade Phillips a blank check and total control of the defense
Give myself a bonus
Focus entire draft on OL/DL and trade down to accumulate picks
Sign Jimmy Clausen to be my starter
get the #1 pick for 2020 and select Trevor Lawrence
Give myself another bonus and a generous severance package and quit
DKphin
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What are you talking about? We save 13 mil. against the cap by getting rid of him. If we cut him he cost 13m and if we keep him he cost 26m.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/cap/2019/
First things guys.....Hayes is a free agent so you don't need to cut him
Get rid of T-baum and Grier and let the new GM bring a new HC.
That HC would set up his coaching staff and that could include one or two of the guys here now.
A new HC along with that GM would draft a QB. Maybe not in the first round but at some point, probably 2nd round.
Get only 3 or 4 free agents and all of them under 30. No more guys that have been injured and on the wrong side of 30.
I'd try to get a corner plus a guard and or RT in free agency
Maybe a big WR and on to the draft.
DE, QB are big priorities and other positions depends on what we do in free agency.
That'd be my way to start.
Get rid of T-baum and Grier and let the new GM bring a new HC.
That HC would set up his coaching staff and that could include one or two of the guys here now.
A new HC along with that GM would draft a QB. Maybe not in the first round but at some point, probably 2nd round.
Get only 3 or 4 free agents and all of them under 30. No more guys that have been injured and on the wrong side of 30.
I'd try to get a corner plus a guard and or RT in free agency
Maybe a big WR and on to the draft.
DE, QB are big priorities and other positions depends on what we do in free agency.
That'd be my way to start.
I believe the cap hit/dead money is only 5mill if cut post June
Yes, but you have the cost of replacing him. You are not going to find anyone better for the 13 mil you save.
Having said that, I'm not opposed to letting Falk, or Fales have the job for a year. There aren't many GMs that would do that though, and that was the premise of the OP.
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Keep Gase, find a d coordinator. Tank the season if we don’t get get a qb we like this year. Reevaluate Gase next year