POLL:
Please read the questions and send comments with your answers.
Who SHOULD be the next Dolphin coach?
Who do you think WILL be?
Should the new Head Coach keep Kevin Coyle?
Should the new Head Coach keep Bill Lazor?
Should Stephen Ross fire Philbin now, or wait until the season’s end?
Who will hire Joe Philbin after he is fired?
Coyle has to go now. Philbin stays. Rex ryan as coordinator. Keep lazor.
Mug, just curious why you think/want Philbin to stay?
He probably feels the same way I do and is dreading a new coach install and the possible rebuilding years. Many people are saying that even though our coach is not good enough, we cant keep changing them out every 3 years. I could have accepted this game if it were a close loss. But damn this was embarrassing.
I don’t know about Coyle because his D was outstanding many times but seemed to give it away when it mattered most. And the same worry about uncertainty if hes replaced with an unknown. Rex Ryan? Im game for that though.
Lazor should stay. I cant imagine how an improved O-Line would have taken some pressure of Tannehill with a dependable running game and protection. Hes our guy but doesn’t have the tools to make his game plans work personnel wise. And might have Philbin over ruling him too much. I just hope he stays for another season. If he resigns that will be huge insight into what its like working with Philbin. Unless hes baited away with more money.
I hear GreenBay would love to have Philbin back. At least that’s what GreenBay fans say.
I don’t think Ross should fire Philbin now. Ticket sales will probably plummet for our last 2 home games as if they aren’t already with how badly our team is playing. Finish it out even if Philbin already knows hes probably a lame duck coach going forward. Best not to give him any reason to tank the last 2 games any worse than they already will on their own. Anybody see how good the Vikes are playing Detroit? Hello 7-8!
Some good thoughts by our PhinsUp. Personally, I am not against a new coach every three years. You have to consider the alternative, which is giving Joe Philbin a year or two longer. It’s unwise to keep an inept, .500 coach who has made zero improvements in three years just because a new system it hard to learn. It may very well be hard to learn. But at least it’s a chance to win. I can’t think of any head coach in history or took 4 years to suddenly become a genius. it just doesn’t happen. All the greats showed greatness early on. Philbin shows clueless mediocrity
For over two decades I’ve wanted Marty Schottenheimer. Sure, he’s old as dirt, but all he has ever done is won games.
He’s never won the big one, but time and time again he would have a stellar winning record.
We have to start somewhere and develop a culture of winning. This is such a storied franchise but each year that passes it becomes dimmer and dimmer. We’re not the Raiders, but we’re closer to being the Raiders than we are to being the Broncos.
Truth.
Wish we could argue about your Broncos-Raiders point, but you are right. Look at our own division. We are closer to the Jets than to the Patriots.
Whoever wants Clueless Joe to stay only shows his Football IQ, including Mr. Ross.
We got humiliated to a 27- zip in the second half of the most important game of the season and the picture of it is: the inexistent conversion of LaFell (the ball was incomplete) in their first second half scoring drive. No chance of challenge it or review it because, contrary to our custom:
1. Pats had a gameplan to roll effectively at halftime.
2. They do run a no-huddle.
Whoever coaches next year should be a take-charge, no-punts type of guy.
I won’t even mind Schiano over Philbin (and look how far I can go with that in saying so, boys).
Coyle and Lazor, I don’t know.
We need better strength and conditioning though as we ended up playing with a team of replacements in the month of December. We might have set the NFL record of starters in IR list this year. We’re worryingly, physically flaky.
It’s even hard to take the measure of what could have been if we had those guys we beat the Pats with in week 1 available (Moreno, Delmas, Jenkins, Ellerbe, Albert etc.) plus Reshad Jones and Dion Jordan (and someone who knows how to use them).
Peace!
Nico
Just a thought Ive been kicking around in my head for the past few weeks. But what is up with all the injuries? Can coaching or certain types of play calls be at least partially to blame? Are our players feeling the weight of the entire game on their shoulders and playing too recklessly? Instead of playing a focused and relaxed game with the confidence their team mates will handle their jobs adequately allowing them to retain their stamina? Something in the structure is causing too many injuries whether it be fatigue from lack of substitutions or too much individual pressure to perform I suspect. It cant all be just bad luck. If this is true than as a team we may not be able to afford keeping Philbin as a coach with so much money being wasted on injured starters. Its hard enough beating any team every Sunday, but when your team is as banged up as ours, its like we have two opponents to defeat on Sunday ourselves and the other team.
When other teams get hurt, their 3rd and 4th stringers come in and usually kill us. It’s like we let up as soon as the starters get hurt, and we can’t have that. Again, I think that comes from part of the Dolphins culture. An effective game plan that is set up to beat the other team’s starters will also work against their scrubs. And if the plan is weak against the starters, it will be weak against the scrubs. Remember these unknown bums who beat us this year? Some 4th string RB in Kansas City. A third-string RB caught the final pass vs. Detroit. Why are their j.v. players so much better than ours? Attitude.
Let Philbin finish what he started. His time is inevitably up. Fire the hell out of Coyle (especially for double teaming gronk inside the 5 or 6 on that vereen run, gronk is NO randy moss) his play calling throughout the season has been baffling. Can’t blame Lazor for working with what was left of the fIreland situation. His background is solid and has coached within impressive systems. They FINALLY threw deep, although drops is what ultimately became our achilles heal.
Solutions:
Fire Philbin.
Fire Coyle.
Get rid of some bum players (dallas thomas, jimmy wilson etc,, any player that ireland recruited and is still “developing”).
Get Rex Ryan to coach this D to where we all know it should be.
Advocate a huge sign on I-95 (just like the manning move) and start convincing Jim Harbaugh that Miami is better than anywhere in Cali.
And give more power to that man Dennis Hickey. It’s evident he knows what it takes to put a championship team out there. (may I remind y’all, he did it a couple miles up north…)
The Harbuagh saga is only beginning. The intriguing thing to me is that we will need to trade for him.
I’m for plucking some new blood from the college ranks. Mark Helfrich from Oregon would be my choice if we were to start the coaching search. Helfrich is the other half of that dynamic offense that Chip Kelly used at Oregon and has successfully installed in the pros. He’s also a very good developer of young signal callers. Beyond that I’m sure that Jim Harbaugh could bring his signature brand of toughness to the Dolphins as well as his offensive expertise. This teams needs an identity and a culture change. We will get neither by keeping Joe Philbin.
Many of my regular readers know who I support to be our new head coach. I said it three years ago and I say it more emphatically now. I’ll write another column about him this week. But for now, keep your comments coming. I love to see all your takes on this.
For starters- this was the first game I didn’t watch in 10 years and couldn’t have picked a better week. With so much to do before Christmas I couldn’t justify spending 4 hours and $50 a a sports bar to watch them. Should have tried this years ago…..
There will be plenty of good coaches available. I would go after:
1) Jack Del Rio
2) Mike Smith
3) Hell, why not Tom Coughlin? He’s been able to turn teams around and NYG is through with him
4) You could do worse than Gary Kubiak HC and Rex Ryan DC.
5) Whatever happens, there will be some very g D Coordinators available- Rex, Ron Rivera, Rob Ryan, etc that are worth a long look.
None of this matters if candidates are scared off with the Dawn Aponte thing. And for those that like Hickey- what has he really done except hit on his first and second round picks? 3-7 couldn’t get on the field, and we were very needy at times.
He swung and missed, Ireland style on Delmas and Moreno- two good players with injury histories. As they say, you can’t outrun fate……
Ah, hard to call Delmas a miss when he lasted 13 games and has a touchdown to his credit.
ONe great point you mentioned is Aponte. I think (hope?) that if Mr. Ross is smart enough to know that he made a mistake on Philbin, he might be smart enough to realize that virtually all his other decisions have been wrong too. A CPA for $40 grand a year can help you balance salary cap issues. You don’t need a lady like her at such a high level.
Big J…your man Mike Smith is now available. Too bad that Ross stuck us with Clueless Joe.
Every single under-performing team NFL fired its head coach today.
EXCEPT FOR ONE.
By the way, if anyone still has the game taped and wants some comedy, watch Phillip Wheeler on that play when Brady ran for 18 yards. Brady hasn’t ran the ball in about 9 years, but he smoked Philly Wheeler 3 different times on the same play. It’s toward the end of the Pats first drive after halftime.
It was THIRD and ELEVEN. If Wheeler didn’t get burned 3 times on the same play, and if Wheeler didn’t fall on his face, he could have tackled Brady and the Pats kick a field goal.
Terrible effort, yet Joe Philbin allows terrible effort. But don’t worry, Philbin will tell us that he needs to get better.
TEAM CULTURE & TOUGHNESS to be rebuilt even before we get to talk about the individual players performances.
I liked the comment above about the scrubs of other teams killing us. It’s true.
And today we could all partially blame Damian Williams for the drop, while knowing well deep inside that you give that same player to Belichick and next year he’s the very guy that presses the knife in you flesh and kills your last flame of playoffs hopes by scoring the sealing TD in a game meaning not much for them and everything to us.
Jonas Gray’s (Welker before etc) lesson.
Say what you want about Hickey’s free agents all getting hurt. They were all solid pick-ups. And were would we be this season without Landry or Juwaan James? Probably 6-10 or worse. Plus the later round players in the draft are usually for depth. Not as day one starters. That’s what the first two rounds are for. You can’t afford to miss on those early picks and Hickey knocked them out the park in his first season. You can’t blame him for this crap. It was always going to take him more than one season to upgrade this roster after it suffering from years of Ireland’s incompetence. Hopefully Ross retains him. Time to shop a few commodity players(Wake, Pouncey) to get a few extra second round picks, restructure some guys(Wallace, Hartline), and cut other guys(Starks, Ellerbe,Gibson, Wheeler)to create capspace for the makeover.
I was a Miami fan for 30 years. When Oakland hired Jim Harbaugh, I left the Dolphin tent.
How does Hickey get a free pass? Sure, Knowshon played well for one game (1 game) and Delmas was solid until his career ending knee injury late in the season. If I told you we could sign a FA, but he wouldn’t even make through the season, would you sill think it was such a great signing? These are the exact reasons their original teams (DEN, DET) let them walk.
You could even say the same about Branden Albert- great player, if/when he’s healthy….
Also, our O-Line play has been awful. Hickey signed a few lineman (Smith, Fox), but apparently none are good enough to unseat Dallas Thomas.
And as I’ve said before, who outside of Landry and James has had any rookie impact? I could see that happening on a healthy, veteran team, but we’ve had injuries at positions of need, and the rookies (Turner, Tripp, Aikens) haven’t played hardly at all. Kelvin Sheppard and some dude off the street saw the field before Tripp and Aikens.
There is a reason Tampa didn’t so much as interview Hickey for their open GM job- the same reason he was our only choice:
He’s aggressively mediocre……
Yesterday was liberating- after watching them give up against the Ravens, I saw what was coming in Foxboro and wasn’t about to go along for the ride. This team has given up on the season, the same way it did last year.
Sure, they will probably play tougher at home and might even win them both, but everyone knows the season is over and we are only playing to worsen our draft position.
In the moment of truth, whether in a game or in a season, Philbin’s teams quit on him. It’s that simple…
Next year, bring in some guys that have playoff experience. This way, when week 12/13 rolls around, they will have a 2 more months mentality, not a 3 more weeks mentality…..
I don’t know why it hasn’t been mentioned, but I’ve always dreamed of Marino as HC someday. I think him and Lazor would be a great team.
If you think hitting on your 1st and 2nd round picks in your first season as a GM should get you fired that’s comical. Juwaan James and Landry are future potential perenial all-pros and you wanna fire they guy that drafted them? Classic Dolphin fan. And how were Albert, Moreno, and Delmas playing before they were injured and how much did it cost to sign them. That’s how you evaluate the signings. Not by how many freak injuries they incur. It’s football and players get hurt and placed on the IR. It’s just a part of the game. Is it Hickey’s fault that Ellerbe, Michael Thomas, and Mike Gillislee are on IR? Because i’m pretty sure Hickey didn’t sign them. And it’s also not Hickey’s fault that Fox or Turner couldn’t supplant Dallas Thomas. That’s Joe Philbin ‘s call. He sticks with ineffective players. Phillip Wheeler is also god awful but continues to get significant playing time. None of that is on the GM because the coach in Miami answers to only Ross. Not Hickey.
I wasn’t about to make this personal, but it’s pretty obvious you’ve never owned a pair of cleats since your mommy thought football was too rough.
We hired an unemployed Dennis Hickey, remember? All that talent he helped acquire in Tampa, you know- that wildly successful 2-12 team?? The same team that thought so highly of him they didn’t bother interviewing him for their own GM job? How low have the Dolphins sunk that we are lucky to get Tampa Bay cast offs?
A retarded squirrel could hit on his picks in the first 2 rounds. Only Jeff Ireland managed to f*ck that up year after year. The point is, if a new HC wanted his own GM, I would not hesitate to thank Mr. Hickey for his one year of service, and all he’s done to put Division II football on the map.
How much did our FA signings make? For starters, Branden Albert got 5 years $47. He’s one of the highest paid LT’s in the game. KC knew what we just found out the hard way- he’s great when he’s healthy….. (echo- when he’s healthy).
So, I guess in your half witted, “I’ve never actually played football” mind that’s a good ROI- paying $9M+ for a very good half season of work. I like Albert a lot as a player, but everyone in KC whispered, “We told you so” as soon as he went down.
Same with Delmas- no one said he couldn’t play- only that he couldn’t stay healthy. DET wisely let him walk. I think he played very well for us, but so did Dustin Keller in training camp 2 years ago.
Same with Moreno- DEN didn’t buy his one hit wonder season and let him walk too. Same MO- plays great when healthy….
None of these were “freak” injuries- they were expected. They only freak thing is that it didn’t happen sooner.
And Philbin is purposely keeping Shelley Smith and Jason Fox behind Dallas Thomas out of spite? Most teams don’t let young, talented O-lineman just walk away, but I guess Hickey thought he had pulled a fast one.
The most hilarious part is how Ju’wuan and Jarvis will be perennial All Pro’s! I am a huge fan of both and would almost bet my left testicle that neither one will ever be an All Pro. Maybe they might sneak in as a pro bowl alternate, or have one solid contract year like Vernon Carey, but no way All Pros.
Don’t give up your day job- it’s clear you don’t nearly as much about football as you think you do.
Best check yo-self- don’t come talking that weak *ss game in my direction.
BIG J slays all half-steppers……
One thing to always be leery of in this type of conversation is that we do not know what goes on in a war room. In our experience, it’s always a strong collaborative effort between the GM and the Head Coach when it comes to personnel decisions.
For example, in 2007, there is no way that GM Randy Mueller just walked up to Scam Cameron and said, “We are drafting Ted Ginn. Period. You have no say.” It simply does not work that way. A few years later, there is no way that Jeff Ireland walked up to Philbin and said “I’m getting rid of Reggie Bush and Jake Long. Deal with it.”
Good decisions or bad decisions, the HC and the GM are equally on the hook. Except for rare occasions when it’s made public that one or the other made the choice.
Dolphins Truth is not in the habit of defending Jeff Ireland, but we do point out that other Dolphins staff people were involved in all of Ireland’s iffy moves. He never once had autonomy to make any personnel choice on his own.
@BigJ your right about the injury concerns you mentioned I also read many articles about Moreno,Albert, and most importantly and obviously Delmas. But allow me to half step in your direction politely and with respect ask who would you have drafted instead? And for the sake of accuracy please name only who was actually available for FA signing or Draft at the same time we went with other options. I guess you could cheat a bit and choose FA’s and Draft picks of the same positions whom are doing well. But I trust your honesty here and look forward to your response.
PU- Thanks for the question. I don’t think Hickey has done a terrible job. I just don’t think we should anoint him as a great talent selector. Also, I don’t mind the contracts to Delmas and Moreno- they were clearly “show me” contracts and I think we got what everyone expected- solid play and until they go hurt.
DEN knew Moreno was an injury concern so they drafted players to replace him. Same thing for KC- why take a LT first overall if you have a Pro Bowl LT already? Because you know your current pro bowl LT is an injury concern and is going to want big money (this comment is directed at a half stepper on this page, reading this from his mom’s basement).
To answer your question- if I were drafting what would I do? I would have shored up the o-line, like Hickey did in the first round. I don’t mind the James pick at all. He was very solid and many teams put their best pass rusher up against a team’s RT (we do with Cameron Wake). There isn’t as big of a difference in LT and RT as there once was.
The biggest thing I would have done was get some LB help. It was painfully obvious that this was the weakest link of the team. Ireland swung and missed big time on Wheeler and Ellerbe. While it didn’t make sense to cut them in year 2 (it does at the end of this year), I would have gone out and drafted a true MLB.
I like Koa Misi- he’s a great athlete, but God d*mmit, he is no middle linebacker. He’s a converted DE, to Strong side LB, now to MLB. Even he was apprehensive before the season started and didn’t really want to play this position.
MLB and LB in general is all about instincts. Jelani Jenkins has good instincts. Zach Thomas was short, not super fast, but totally bad *ss because of his instincts.
When we can’t stop the run late in games, look no further than our poor LB play. When we get burned over the middle on short routes, look no further than our poor LB play. There is no way I would have gone into the season with Misi as my starting MLB and Trusnik as his backup.
Other than that, I would have kept Billy Turner as a LT, and maybe sacrificed leadership for production (Hickey drafted almost all team captains).
The point is, while I think he is an improvement over Ireland, I wouldn’t miss him in a second if a new coach wanted his own guy.
Same goes for Lazor. Sure, he’s better than Sherman (most people on this page are better than Sherman except DolphinsGang). Our offense has gotten better, but if we look at it on its own merits and not in comparison to Sherman, it’s mediocre, maybe even slightly below.
We have no big play ability even with Mike Wallace and Lamar Miller, and can’t put up points. We are still predictable, and can’t make plays when we need them. Chip Kelly was the brains in PHI, and go back and look at the stats from UVA when Lazor was the OC- they are unimpressive.
There is no one on this staff worth keeping if we had to let them go. I would let Philbin go 100%, Coyle 99%, and Lazor 50%, if it meant getting a quality head coach.
None of this really matter unless Ross can accept that he needs to blow up his entire organization’s mgmt structure, and I am not sure he is humble enough to admit it isn’t working and will never work.
In the words of Manny Fernandez,”The Dolphins have no soul”well they have to much soul and no rednecks to beat some azzs out there on the playing field like the Patriots have it don’t matter what coach a team has if the players are garbage as many on the Miami Dolphins are with no soul to win.
Tannehill tweeted,”It’s just a game and I play to win.”Really! Hum!well most of the times I see his receivers wide open that he fails to throw to especially deep down field and I guess that is because he over throws or under throws them most of the time but all in all Tannehill is one damn good quarterback if he can ever get on track with his receivers.
And when he does hit those long passes on rare occasions, they are a thing of beauty. He just has to get it done consistently.
Mr. Ross is concerned with making money, and nothing wrong with that. But in the NFL, championships matter, not just making a few bucks. That is why Ross sees the value in Aponte, because she gets players signed under budget. I mean, let’s face it… the Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game in over a decade, there are thousands of empty seats every single week, we are barely an 8-8 team each season, the stadium is older and got turned down for a Super Bowl, and our head coach is an inept old man. DESPITE ALL THAT, the Dolphins make money. Thanks in part to Dawn Aponte’s shrewd business sense.
Think about this from Ross’s frame of mind: would you fire a woman who makes you money? That is the bottom line. Ross sees no need to fire her or change any power structure because her methods make money for him.
Big J, too bad your football knowledge pales in comparison to your ability to insult. Denver didn’t resign Moreno because they have drafted wisely and had talented players in the wings that they could pay less. All you need to do to research that is look at what their 3rd stringer did to our defense. Secondly, this offensive line was performing at a high level until Albert got hurt. But according to you K.C. didn’t resign him because he was injury prone. So i guess the other two offensive lineman they lost in free agency didn’t get resigned by them because they were injury prone too? Uhh, how about they didn’t resign them because they didn’t have the money? Because you know, there’s this thing that us guys who may have never laced up a pair of cleats still know a little about. It’s called the salary cap. Maybe you dumb jock types should look into it sometime. And yes Delmas and Moreno were injury prone. But when you need to immediately upgrade certain positions you have to go with the players that are available at the time. And considering that all these guys were proven veterans, Albert is a former Pro Bowler, these were indeed solid signings at the time. And if you look at the contracts, only Albert was given big money and a long-term contract. Moreno was given a show me deal for one year and Delmas was given a two-year deal. So it’s not like the deals shackled the team financially. And if a guy that has laced up cleats before doesn’t think that Jarvis Landry or James are perenial all pros in the making then he obviously was lacing up his cleats for baseball or soccer because he’s obviously clueless about the gridiron.
I never owned a pair of soccer cleats.
Also, I would have to agree that the only thing that rivals my football knowledge is my ability to insult.
Yuck, soccer.
I know- that’s a worse insult that saying I don’t know anything about football. He hit me where it hurts….
It’s always always in good fun. Never personal with me. Hopefully Ross actually gets a clue and we can get a good coach this time. The way his power structure is set up with Aponte at the top will undoubtedly scare away a lot of prime candidates. Hopefully he has learned something from hanging out with guys like Carl Peterson and Dan Marino.
I still remember Ray Farmer dissing the Dolphins to stay in Cleveland. Who would choose Cleveland over Miami??
He said something to the effect of- Miami may say they are looking for a GM, but that’s not a GM position.
He had concerns and couldn’t get a straight answer as to whether or not he would have to report to Dawn Aponte. Seriously??!!?
This chick must be able to suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, or she wasn’t worth losing every decent GM (and head coach) candidate in the league….
@BigJ
The way you described the dynamic between Ross and Aponte makes me cringe. Flashbacks in my head keep coming up of Donald Sterling and V Stiviano. Please for the love of god say it isn’t so! Please prove my sick and twisted mind wrong. No please nooooo! 🙂
I went back and re-read some articles about the Farmer interview and GM search process in general. At least 4 candidates declined interviews, and Farmer wouldn’t come back for a second interview, saying he was uncomfortable with Aponte’s control and the fact that no one would tell him who reports to whom.
Unless this changes, it’s going to be Groundhog’s Day all over…..
Yes the power structure between Ross, the GM, the coach, and Aponte is baffling. But maybe guys like Marino, Tannenbaum, Mangini, and Peterson will educate Ross as to how a football front office is supposed to work and we’ll attract good coaching hires this time. Tannenbaum is an agent for several coaches i believe. One being Dan Quinn from the Seahawks. Ross needs to give Hickey the power to hire/fire his own headcoaching candidate.
For what it’s worth, Dennis Hickey got two great players in the first two rounds of the draft, in Landry and James. I think that is an excellent first draft for a new GM. More important, it shows me that Hickey has a good knowledge of our needs and of scouting. So I am confident when I state that Hickey knows what he’s doing, based on his success in his first draft.
Compare to Joe Philbin…has Philbin done anything in the past three years to win your confidence? Even if Hickey got lucky, I’ll take it! It’s still more than Philbin has ever done for us. Results matter in this business, and Hickey has two great results under his belt, while Philbin still has zero in three years,
Those are good points. I bet we would all think this draft was even better if Philbin would actually let some young guys play.
Look at how good Jelani Jenkins is!! Dude would never have gotten a chance if it weren’t for 2 starters ahead of him getting hurt. Kid plays like a monster and has a really good nose for the ball.
Did you guys here we cut Gator Hoskins?? WTF!??!?! Dude was like Charles Clay Jr- just needed some more time. We let Egnew stick around for 3 years (if you include training camp) and couldn’t give Hoskins a full season?? Turns out we signed some 220lb TE instead. Is there even such a thing as a 220lb TE?? I bet the Pats will sign Hoskins and he’ll come back to burn us like so many other former players.
We need to get rid of Dawn Aponte- she’s a Parcells holdover that nobody trusts and is keeping talented people away from our organization. Any remnants of Parcells’ stank old *ss need to be exorcised from the bldg.
I would bring in Del Rio (HC), Kubiak (OC) and Mike Smith (DC). Smith reminds me a lot of John Fox when he was in CAR. ATL will regret getting rid of him.
I like all you said. I do not find that Hickey is lucky though. If anything he is unlucky. Two of his free agent signings which were amazing (Brandon Albert, Knoshawn Moreno) went down with injury. The injuries are not his fault. They were perfect fits. I look forward to Hickey drafts and signings now. Unlike holding my breath when Ireland made them.
Dear Stephen Ross. After 40 years plus of watching this storied franchise with its ups and downs, I want out. I cannot in good faith watch another year of Philbin as coach. He does not inspire me in the least in his mannerisms in speeches in wins or losses. He does not seem to be able to even manage a clock in the NFL. Yet you want us to believe this is the person to lead the team I love. Please open your eyes. This person needs to have a fire in his belly, a brain, football smarts, a winning pedigree. He has none of it. I feel bad for what I am saying, it is very obvious I am saying bad things about an extremely likable person. Unfortunately a head coach, a boss, a leader, a person who does hiring and firing…none of these people are ever likable people. Show me one and I will show you a losing team, a company poorly run a country in trouble.
Please wake up Mr. Ross and hire someone else. He does not need to be a NFL veteran, he just needs to be the things I listed. He can surround himself with the smart football people as coordinators. He needs to be a passionate motivator !
Well said, Michael. We get about 6,000 readers per week on our site here, so we’re not really well known. But if we could just get Stephen Ross to read our blog and the comments just once…maybe he will finally see the light.
It’s not like we’re a bunch of crybaby fans with no football knowledge. Instead of just calling Philbin names, we specifically point out his mistakes, week after week after week. It’s a mysterious why Ross doesn’t see this same mistakes.