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"The Dolphins do not release Ross' schedule publicly." Now this is the same Dolphins and Ross that said this http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2012/11/09/Franchises/Dolphins.aspx
Why would a guy who could get a real GM job take Miami's? This structure all but ensures that you get only candidates at the bottom of the barrel.
Doesnt seem like much of a value. I suspect that you could draft him in the 4th round or later of a 12-16 team league after the season he just put up, with all of the uncertainty in Miami. Especially with all of the highly touted rookie RBs entering the league next year. Sherman didnt use Miller well, but Miller also was not impressive enough to keep the Fins from trying to replace him next year. He cant break a tackle, and there were several times when he chose the cut in the wrong direction when there appeared to be daylight elsewhere. There were a lot of these instances, but one stood out in Cincinnati when he broke off a long run into the secondary. Cut outside was a walk-in TD. Inside was a strip-fumble. Guess which way he went.
In Detroit they are talking like Xanders is a done deal being gone to Miami, he helped them have a good draft for a change last year.
Evidently Miami heard he was offered by TB and tried to get him to wait for their final round of interviews this weekend once Ross is back. What a joke.
And now all they can do is promote a do boy within the organization who understands this bizarre mess.The dumpster fire is definitely ablaze.
From Rotoworld...
Browns assistant GM Ray Farmer has removed himself from consideration for the Dolphins' general-manager vacancy.
We have now been rejected by someone from within the Cleveland Browns…the Browns!!!
Maybe you could be the next GM of the Dolphins. The Dolphins have now swung and missed on their top two candidates to replace Jeff Ireland.
Jason Licht took the same job with the Bucs, while Farmer has decided he'd rather work for a team with an owner under federal investigation.
A chance to get away from this mess in the tropical lush confines of South Florida and miles of beaches…nope.
Candidates clearly aren't liking the power "structure" they're encountering in Miami.
Owner Stephen Ross has made a hot mess of things by refusing to let his candidates have final say on the head coach, and making it unclear who indeed has final say on anything.
Internal candidate Brian Gaine is now the Dolphins' only legitimate option. Maybe they'll re-hire Ireland.
List of things we will be looking for should we venture away from the orange n blue(I root for the Bucs and have since I lived in Tampa Bay from 1992-2000. I would say I have a 2nd team and could slide that way but they haven't exactly been functional lately. The SB in 2002 was bittersweet, I was more happy for the good folks in TB more than being part of a team(fan base) that won a SB. I have justified it because they are in the NFC.
Wish this were possible for me. I really do. How do you root for team as a die-hard fan for 40 years, and then all of a sudden switch allegiances completely? How disingenuous would it be for me to tell my friends and family that I am now a Seattle Seahawks fan, because I want to root for a functional team? It would appear to be exactly what it is...a bandwagon jump.
I am venting.......I will never leave. I am just so frustrated.
I wanted to when Dungy was coaching there as I was a fan of his in Tampa when I was living there and rooting for the Bucs. I had season tickets and even enjoyed the locals take on the then new stadium in the late 90s…C.I.T.S. or the Community Investment Tax Stadium, refused to call it Raymond James.
Miami offered him the job after a second interview, he declined.Mike63 said:
Man, the Dolphins are a joke.Miami offered him the job after a second interview, he declined.Mike63 said:
Adam Schefter reported that the job was offered it to Lake Dawson and got turned down, Salguiero reports that the Dolphins have hired Hickey ... the guy from TB who couldn't even get an interview for their open position after being with the organization for almost 2 decades.
The franchise has turned into a laughing stock because it repeatedly uses poorly thought out processes (in fact, they look not-at-all thought out, reactionary even a lot of the time). This isn't the first time, or the second or the third ... every time Ross is involved in a decision for this franchise, it's poorly though out half measure response made from a position of weakness because he finds himself painted into a corner by previous poor choices. There's a reputation that's being developed here and it's 100% earned. That reputation (and even worse, dysfunction that we can't see from the outside) is why 4 people turned down an offer to interview at all, 1 person turned down the opportunity for a second interview and 2 people turned down the actual job. This process was not successful, maybe Hickey is great talent but if he is, it won't be because Ross has a nose for talent (he was, at the very least, the third choice), it'll be because he backed into a good situation despite handling it so poorly. When you're in a position of hoping that luck will bail you out of a history of bad decisions this time, there's plenty of reason for concern about the future. As a Dolphins fan, I'm very concerned about the future and have very little hope that Ross will be a part of a successful future (I hope I'm wrong).
So do several of the fans. This gets worse by the day. I see 3-13 in our 2014 future. Gonna be tough to retain our own free agents, nonetheless signing others to come kill their careers in this mess. Dark days ahead. Maybe even darker than the dark days behind.
Don't know much about Hickey, but everything I hear is that he won't have permission to fire Philbin either this or next year, and Philbin is getting final say on player personnel. Why not just give the job to Philbin and make Hickey asst GM?
