In yet another head-scratching move, the Dolphins have cut a player at a position where we desperately need help. It’s baffling, but not surprising, to see Adam Gase jettison another player simply because he spoke up about wanting to play more.
Okay, truthfully, we don’t know the reasons he was cut. He showed promise and was our starter. It’s no secret that he spoke up about being on the bench so often last Sunday. Here’s a guy who watched Tom Brady gut our defense, and he spoke up, wanting to get in there and make a difference.
Now the difference is that he’ll be on a different team. And fast. There’s no way that a guy with his talent will be unemployed for long.
Jordan Phillips forgot Adam Gase’s number-one rule: If you want to play more and help your team, that is considered a negative and you will be traded. Just ask Jay Ajayi. But wait until he shines his Super Bowl ring before you ask him.
Meanwhile, busts Charles Harris and DeVante Parker gets to keep their jobs.
The 2 most recent FIRST ROUND draft busts by the worst Back Office in the NFL. All the BS we heard about them and what,Harris finally gets a little playing time behind a guy who was working the night shift at Taco Bell last month and Ms.Parker,injured again when she saw her shadow.
It’s “Gase’s way or the highway!” The Dolphins have the best NFL Head Coach in the league… lol, (sorry, I can’t hold a straight face while saying that). Our team looks like a MASH unit this early in the season while this moron is kicking players to the curb and pinning his hopes on William Hayes and Andre Branch when they come off of IR while he bring in strays to fill positions. I just know Jay Ajayi is laughing at the Dolphins organization every time he looks in his trophy case at his Superbowl Ring and thinks “they got nothing for trading me.” And it looks like Ndamukong Suh is on his way to getting a Superbowl Ring with the L.A. Rams. Meanwhile, the Dolphins are becoming a laughing stock in the NFL while Gase “cuts and paste” his way to glory.
Whew.. this is going to be one long season!
I honestly think the coaches are holding players back ….they put players in positions that they never played before and expect miracles …who is doing the picking of these players …this office is so screwed up it isn’t funny and we have a coach who has never played football trying to be coach and offensive coordinator at the same time …he blows.
The Dolphins have a Head Coach who didn’t play football at any level – NFL, College, or High School but he can look at a player on the field and know if that player is not physically hustling enough or giving his all. But remember, Gase is a football genius!
Heres the thing, we do not have coaches. We have warm bodies with clipboards. These guy OBVIOUSLY CAN NOT COACH. 38-7 and the 7 was in garbage time! Embarrassing. These guys should be embarrassed! On another note Armando Salguero who usually holds the Dolphin line has a great story today in the Miami Herald about the Dolphins trading Parker for Le’Veon Bell. If the trade could be authored I thing it would be great but the point that he makes tword the end of the story is where all the bang is…. he says about Le’Veon Bell, “what other 26-year-old superstar who is maybe the league’s best player at his position do the Dolphins have on their team?”
I think I see why the Patriots destroyed us!
Well Brian, I’ll say this. Le’Veon Bell is a running back who has good hands for catching the football. The Dolphins also have a running back with good hands for catching the football in Kenyan Drake. But if your running backs have a combined total of 18 rushing attempts the entire game and the other team has 40, it’s like you said “These guys OBVIOUSLY CAN NOT COACH!”
Armando is an idiot. First off Bell already said he is coming back week 7. Second off he already said he won’t play for a team that won’t give him a huge contract extension. With all the holes Miami has spending big money on a running back is team crushing. And third off the Steelers said they won’t trade him in the conference. I have no idea why he wrote that article.
It’s not surprising really. Jordan Phillips sucks plan and simple. He takes plays off on the field, and has never been consistent. He also seems like a locker room cancer and actually asked to be released because he wasn’t getting enough playing time. Blame Gase if you want in my opinion I would rather have someone that wants to be there. If you don’t want to be there and your not good this is what happens.
It’s funny how you don’t see a pattern with Gase. If a player speaks up, he’s a “cancer in the locker room” and he gets rid of them. In 2016, his first season as the Dolphins Head Coach, Gase released three offensive linemen — Dallas Thomas, Jamil Douglas and Billy Turner after the Dolphins got beat down by Tennessee. It was because of Gase Miami threw a $10 million dollar contract at Jay Cutler, whom no other team would touch, for one year while shitting on Matt Moore. And because of that, the Dolphins were the laughing stock of the NFL.
Gase better really show something this season if I’m going to change my mind about him.
Matt Moore started the game against the Ravens Miami lost 40-0 on national tv. Watched it with a bunch of friends and never have been so embarrassed, we gotta stop acting like Matt Moore was ever good. He also embarrassed us in the playoffs against Pittsburgh by fumbling not once but twice in the red zone when Miami was only down 7 and 13. Also everyone Gase has let go other than Ajayi (who honestly hasn’t been very good just is on a great team) hasn’t done much for another team. Suh doesn’t count because he was making so much and we have so many holes to fill he had to be let go. Gase isn’t perfect and sometimes isn’t even good but he made the playoffs in his first season and we are 3-1 right now.
$10,000,000 to Jay Cutler and the Dolphins probably would’ve gotten the same results last year with Matt Moore – No Playoff Appearance. The Dolphins gave Cutler a retirement gift and for what? Cutler got booted out of Denver after three years and didn’t take the Bears anywhere except for maybe one playoff appearance in eight years. No other team would touch Cutler after the Bears cut him but the Dolphins threw a contract at him for one year and that money could’ve been used on the offensive line. And that made the Dolphins look like idiots for doing it. As for Jay Ajayi, if it wasn’t for his over 200 yards rushing in two straight games in Gase’s first year as head coach, the Dolphins don’t go to the playoffs. And Gase’s appreciation for that, he got rid of Ajayi the following season for peanuts. Ndamukong Suh, as far as I know was never on the IR list while playing for the Dolphins, and I don’t remember Phillips ever being on it either. Now, after kicking Suh and Phillips to the curb, the Dolphins have BIG holes to fill.
Like I said, “Gase better really show something this season if I’m going to change my mind about him.”
In Shulas day, a guy mouthed off, Shula made him run laps till he puked, and the guy came out the following Sunday and played great. With Adam Gase, a player mouths off and Gase doesn’t know what to do except give him away to a better team. Unwise
This team has been carrying the stink of loserdom that can only be rectified with a complete culture change that starts with the sale of the team. I’m guessing Ross will not want to sit through another regime change, so he’ll probably either sell if the Dolphins miss the playoffs, or do the rope a dope by keeping some personnel while jettisoning others (which will lead to the same state of mediocrity). Let’s hope it’s the former.
As far as Gase, I don’t doubt he knows a lot about offense in the NFL, but I think he is having a hell of a time balancing the management of an entire team and designing/calling the plays. He has so much invested in Tannehill that he gives up on the run during the game and the rest of the units get overlooked.
All the penalties are another sign that his attention is too much on the offense. You also never see him pumping up his players on the sideline, and I’ve never seen him even give a postgame speech. He’s totally focused on Tannehill and his clipboard of 3 plays. There was once footage last year of the defense making a goal line stand and he was sitting on the bench with Cutler diagnosing something. That’s why I think it’s easier for him to cut folks than to buck those young broncos.
My humble guess is that he won’t be an HC for long. It’s not his bag. He just wants to be involved in a high tempo passing game that he doesn’t have the personnel for. Typical stubborn NFL coach who’d rather be fired than adjust. I hope he proves me wrong one day but time is short, I think.
As far as Gase, he spent his entire career listening to people call him a genius, and guess what? Now he believes it. But calling plays for Peyton Manning is a lot easier than managing an entire team.
Mr. Gase…Congratulations on saving money by cutting Suh. We used that money to go out and sign Kilgore and Sutton, and we saw how long they both lasted…
It’s a point of pride with the Dolphins to have a subpar oline. It doesn’t matter if you have the All Century Team everywhere else, if you oline is bad, the rest of your team is junk. A perennially bad oline is the ultimate sign of a lousy organization.
I agree that the o-line sucks and this is one of the main causes for all the problems but I still think the main problem is that Gase does not know when to call certain plays and how to attack certain defenses. I think he has a generic idea of what he is going to run and does not change, at least until halftime. He can adjust but this, as we saw with New England, does not work with good teams. By the time the adjustment comes, your down 3 scores. Just my opinion
I don’t get his offensive scheme at all other than he really doesn’t like to run the ball. In my mind this is a big contributor to their awful 3rd down conversion rate and will ultimately be Gase’s downfall. This is a guy that with Drake and Gore on his roster predictably calls for a pass from the shotgun on 3rd and 1 and it always fails (watch the tape of the last few games). In New England 14 out of the 15 first downs Tannehill threw from were passes. That’s just plain stupid against a defensive mastermind like Bill Bellichik. Gase doesn’t seem to get that running the ball, even when it’s not obviously working, is a tool to set up 3rd and manageable, set up other plays, control the clock, and wear down the defense I think he believes his team and his scheme are above needing to do that, that’s why I don’t see a lot of hope for him guiding this team to any mountain tops. He wants a Mike Martz’s Rams sooooooooo bad, but he doesn’t get that he just doesn’t have the personnel to pull that off starting with the QB. Stubbornness gets you to the top of the NFL ranks more than any other attribute it seems, but it does nothing to keep you there. If you can’t adjust schemes midstream, you’re done.
What’a you talking about DANIEL?.. on 2nd and 20, you run the ball… every coach in the NFL knows that!
– Adam Gase
Lolzzz
Daniel…all good points.
The scary thing about Ross selling the team is that he is contractually bound to sell it to one of his business partners. The next Dolphins owner is already established, and it’s another one of Ross’s NY City business buddies. So even if he chooses to sell the team, we get stuck with another NY City Jets fan as our owner. It’s a guy named Bruce Beal.
Thanks for the update on that! Ross held this team back with the circus sideshow that was the Sparano extension/firing, and the insistence that any new GM/prez would have to work with Philbin and the stupid reporting hierarchy that followed. This is why we have Tanenbaum who has helped wreck the last few drafts with forcing GM to take folks like Phillips and Caroo and giving away players for pennies on the dollar. Now Ross is an absentee owner letting Tanenbaum run this team right into the ground. The only bright spot about this Beal guy is that he’s younger, otherwise I expect more of the same ineptitude as usually comes with absentee ownership.
It’s also very telling how many players very strongly express how happy they are to get out of miami. “Free at last” is just today’s most recent example. Whether its Landry, Suh – (who very likely will be this years Ajayi, getting his SB ring, as soon as he leaves miami) – all of the other players in the league see this and take note of it – and good luck fins trying to sign any quality FA’s in the future – the poison culture becomes more and more obvious for all to see.
Admin, one thing I can give Ross credit for is he did admit he knew nothing about football when he purchased the Dolphins. It’s the group of Dolphins managers that appears to be inept. I don’t think it was Ross who thought Philbin would be a great hire and gave him his first head coaching job, only to fire him and then give Gase his first head coaching job. I really don’t know of any other NFL team doing that. Gase comes to town and talks as if he’s the new head coach some college team. These players are professionals and they must be treated as such. Gase thinks he’s smart enough to wear two hats – head coach and offensive coordinator. This dude has never been a head coach at any level of organized football. Gase’s arrogance is now becoming taxing to us fans. Gase’s play calling in the game against the Patriots was atrocious. Tannehill’s performance in that game was pitiful. And the Dolphins defense suffered for it by spending 20 minutes in the first half alone on the field.
I don’t blame Phillips… “you want me to respect a guy like you who never played a lick of football because you don’t like it that I’m pissed off about this pathetic outing against the patriots?.. GTFOH!!!!
I disagree on Ross, he has held the organization back in some huge ways. First, he was the one who tried to hire Harbaugh while Sparano was on the staff. Then we he got rejected, he crawled back to Sparano and gave him an extension. After that Ireland and Sparano’s relationship was forever damaged (and probably made coaches everyhwere wary of signing with the Phins). Then he hired Philbin but decided to hold on to Ireland. When that the Phins started to flounder, he fired Ireland but insisted that any incoming GM work with Philbin who by then everyone knew he wasn’t a real coach. Furthermore, Ross made it clear that Philbin and the new GM would report to him but that the GM could fire the head coach (making GMs everywhere wary of interviewing with the Phins). So this made it so that only the desperate Hickey would sign on only to get dumped soon after. But since only Ross could fire Philbin, instead of dumping him at the end of 2014 like he should have, he stuck with him for 4 games into the 2015 season after the year was pretty much lost. So, in short, Ross is a stupid, myopic owner that has had a huge hand in making this team a laughingstock.
Correction, Ross made it that the GM COULD NOT fire the head coach.
Phil and Daniel are both right. Gase’s arrogant ignorance definitely hurts us. But you have to lay some blame on the man who hired the arrogant, inexperienced genius.
Don’t hand your car keys to a toddler and then blame the kid when he crashes your car.
Ross seems to be a brilliant businessman, but he listens to the wrong people when it comes to football. He willingly chose to play “home” games in Europe. Home games are so precious in the NFL, and we only get 8 per year. But for the purpose of goodwill, Ross thinks that 7 is better. I can give you dozens of examples of this, and I have over the years.
I don’t think Phil is defending Ross fully, but merely stating that Gase is just as inept.
All great points, man. Really. I just want it to be understood that good organizations, in any profession, start with good ownership. You don’t have to be a brilliant businessman to hire the right folks, and neither does Ross. But you have to care, ask questions, be plugged in…100%. If you have competing interests, just as with anything in life, something is going to suffer and clearly here it’s the Dolphins, not his real estate. These are all assumptions on my part as I’m not a fly on the wall when Ross meets with the team, nor am I a successful businessman or NFL team owner (lol). I can only go by what I see in games, drafts, and what the media gives me, which can be tainted heavily. But with all that info, I’m pretty convinced that Ross is not going to luck into any long team success with this team, he will need to sell for us to see the light of day. Apparently it will be to a younger version of himself ;P
“If you have competing interests, just as with anything in life, something is going to suffer and clearly here it’s the Dolphins”
Yep, we have realized that for years. Ross’s main interests are 1. Real Estate; 2. The U of Michigan; 3. The NY Jets, his favorite team; 4. Wasting time on recruiting soccer games into Hard Rock stadium; 5-10, A bunch of other stuff. The Dolphins rank about 12th on his list of priorities.
You wanna know Jerry Jones or Robert Kraft’s priorities? Their teams
Phiilps, Ajayi, Suh, and Landry all learned a valuable lesson. If you want out of Miami, then simply ask for some more playing time.
Ha!.. you’re funny but right FLORIDAN.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Phillips get picked up by the Rams.
He signed with the bills. So hopefully Miami gets to run over him 2 times this year. Remember he asked to be cut Gase didn’t go to him and say your cut.
Mike Tannubum. You may remember how this loser destroyed the entire Jets organization? We dont hear much about this loser bit do you remember where he ended up after he left NY?
Kris Kocurek. Does anyone know this complete loser? You shouldn’t he has had no success anywhere in his college, nfl playing or coaching stints. This loser is our defensive line coach who we “Stole” away from the mighty Detroit Lions! Actually when Matt Patricia was hired this year their was no way this loser was going to be kept on the staff so he called his old buddy, another loser of a coach Matt Burke who we also “Stole” away from a loser Detroit organization.
Why do I mention Kris Kocurek? Well it was this loser coach who couldn’t help Jorden Phillips get any better and decided to bench him. It was this loser to whom our loser head coach yesterday said he would defer to for how to manage the defensive line after this losers line got destroyed by NE Sunday.
If your getting confused about which loser coach is who that might be a huge problem because all our coaches are complete losers.
How many loser coaches do you think Bill Belechick defers to?
I say we do a write up of all our coaches on this team and see how many all stars we have. I have shared my thoughts about this coaching staff with you guys for years and I believe that the coaches are a much bigger problem than the players. If you took our players and gave them to New England’s coaching staff we would be in the playoffs, somehow, every year.
This is totally obvious. Miami cant move the ball at all against Oakland in the first half but when they stretch the field and therefore the run opens up, they cant be stopped. Gase wastes so many drives. If your the opponent and Miami’s first down play fails (nets no yards). How many of Dolphins Truth can guess what the very next play will be? Yes, you got it, a Run right up the middle. This forces 3rd and long. I mean Miami is in 3rd and long almost all game.
Westcoast….. you are absolutely wrong! Fake News! I don’t ONLY call a run up the gut on second and ten, sometimes i mix it up and throw a no gain pass to the flat to allow a receiver to get compleatly blown up that way the defense is always kept guessing……
A. Gase
Good point. Imagine our WR corps being led by Sean Payton in New Orleans.
No way in the world does he run draw plays on 2nd and 25.
Man I’m glad that they aren’t 1-3 haha! Guys relax a little it was a horrible game no doubt but let’s see how they rebound. I’m not expecting a win on Sunday but if they pull it off they’ll be 4-1. Not too shabby…
I’m curious how we handle the Bengals. I’m not convinced they are as elite as some say. AC Green is a nightmare, but put X on him and cheat Jones his way, and that forces Ginger-D to throw to someone else. And then the fun begins!
Meanwhile on offense, we can only hope that Gase goes back to keeping the opponent guessing. It worked well in the 3 games before NE
The Dolphins vs Patriots was a horribly coached game. Alright, we’ll swallow that. But after that, we then read that one of our defensive linemen was cut after all the injuries this team is already suffering from is baffling and somewhat disheartening. How can anyone think about relaxing after getting news like that?
I’m not here to cast doom and gloom, but, the future are as far as us Dolfans are concerned is, we might be looking at the same-ole same-ole of the past non playoff years.
I’m not happy about Phillips but if he’s not performing not putting in the effort and causing a scene maybe they had no choice. Some of the younger players earned the playing time. Lets see how it works out before losing our minds. Perhaps Gase should be more patient with these young players but we’re not in the room everyday seeing what’s happening. He obviously doesn’t want drama or distractions and I have to agree with him can’t stand that shit in my workplace. I had to weed out a bunch of that as it’s cancerous… things are a lot smoother now and people can be the best that they can be instead of a negative scene. We’ll see how it works out.
If you’ve never played organized football at any level, what can you possibly know about effort on the field? I’ve read people commenting about Tannehill’s lack of outburst on the sideline. Wouldn’t that be making a scene? If Phillips is boisterous on the sideline, don’t you think he’s doing it because of his passionate desire to be on the field to try and make a difference? Football is a game of organized chaos. When kids join teams in the Pee Wee league they’re taught to reek chaos and disrupt the other team. They’re taught to try and deliver negative consequences to whatever the other team is trying to do. Football is not a game about some coach’s hurt feelings. Like BRIAN said, the Dolphins organization dragged in crap from the Detroit Lions. Yeah, that’s really some recipe for success, lol……
I’ll take a player like Phillips who has and shows passion and desire any day.
Obviously Gase is getting information from his D coordinators. I’ve played with guys who always wanted to play but some of these loudmouths simply weren’t as good as some others. They think they’re all world and kick and scream so because of that should they get their way? They then say well I’m leaving I tell them don’t let the door hit you on the way out. We don’t know if this happened but from the comments I’m guessing that it did. Some of the other DT’S have been better and I can’t argue with that especially if Phillips couldn’t bring himself to do better and earn it. That’s the culture change we hear about and see all of the time in NE. They had no WR’s and still cut guys…
When it’s a dramatic 7-7 tie late in the 4th quarter, you stick with the men who have held the opponent to only 7 points. But when it’s 38-0? Isn’t THAT a time to give Phillips a break and put him in?
I bet my life on this: If the Dolphins won 38-0 and Phillips didn’t play a lot, then he’d have a hurt ego but would not have griped so voraciously. The reason he complained and lost his cool is that tempers flare during a blowout. it happens.
He was pissed about losing (I think it was 24-0 when he ranted on the sidelines), and pissed about not being allowed to play…to try and go out there and do something about it.
I hate to say this, but being pissed in those situations is a GOOD quality.
–“passionate desire to be on the field to try and make a difference”
Absolutely agree.
Phillips is know for taking plays off on the field. Your idea of the player he is the opposite of who he actually is. He was the starter to start and year and lost his job because he wasn’t playing well.
Bingo. So because he kicks and screams the coach should put him in and take time away from guys who’ve played better? I’d rather a culture of players who play better play more than a bunch of underachieving whiners. Whether Gase is right or wrong he’s still the coach and players have to listen and do their job.
The guys who were playing gave up 38 points. THEY (not Phillips) were under-achieving.
Please don’t act like Phillips wanted All-Pros to get less playing time. He saw a bunch of scrubs getting wasted for 24 points and knew he could stop the bleeding. Let him try at least! If he stops the bleeding, then he proved his point. If he sucks and the score becomes 70-0, then we learned something about him and can ship him off to Buffalo.
Phillips was still out there during the annihilation it wasn’t just the other guys. During his time out there the DC determined that he wasn’t helping the problem but only making it worse. His plays were cut then he had a hissy fit. That’s what I’m reading here. It was too late for Phillips to want to try to play harder now….he should have been doing this from day 1. It’s too bad as he had potential but couldn’t keep the drive going. This is why he didn’t go in the first round that’s always been the book on him they tried and cut their losses. I feel badly too as I wished that it went differently was hoping for the guy but in the end it’s on him.
Can’t argue that he was ineffective. He played worse than what was expected. Took some plays off. All of that was true.
But in the end, it’s on Gase.
DeVante Parker takes entire games off, not just plays,.
Underperforming on the Dolphins does not equal getting cut. It’s only when you speak up to gase.
Remember when Jarred Odrick bitched at Philbin on national TV? He didn’t get cut.
Hey Admin… do you know which Dolphins player had the most prolific day against the Patriots?.. our kicker Matt Haack – punted 7 times for 293 yards.
Oh, and Brady connected 23 of 35 passes for 274 yard and 3 touchdowns, while Tannehill connected 11 of 20 passes for 100 yards and no touchdowns.
But let’s worry about what Jordan Phillips is doing in the game.