The idea just came to me while you were
explaining what transpired but as it relates to the DeShaun
Watson situation. Ultimately the deal didn't go down because
somebody within the Dolphins organization. I assume it came
from the top insisted on the 22 civil lawsuits, pending against
DeShaun Watson being resolved before, a trade, right, was
finalized, right? Why did that part it off the
table, even though
a criminal investigation? And would have continued and it
still continues as an expectation that the grand
juries work will be completed by the end of this month, but
who knows it? Moves on its own calendar. With no specific
deadline other than the statute of limitations. It
would apply to whatever charges may be filed. But that is what
at the end of the day kept it from happening. And again, who
knows what kind of conversations happen within
the building? Hey, we're going to get this guy. Let's get this
guy. Let's just get
this done. Maybe Flores was getting like, can we just
resolve this once and for all? All because this is hovering
over my team and it's keeping me from winning. I know, you
know what, when the door finally closed on
the possibility of getting DeShaun Watson during the 20 21 season,
what happened?
They went on a seven-game winning streak. Starting with
the Sunday after the trade deadline came and went it.
Hovered over the team. It was a distraction for the team.
That's the one thing
that we could glean. Clearly, 100 problem.
Brian Flores demeanor, and words. This was a distraction
and he is all about Out. No distractions from what it is
that we're trying to do to win football games. So he's got
a quarterback that he's got
to go to battle with every week. And this guy
is being twisted around and turned upside down, by
the possibility to show Watson, and you, and I both know how that
went down into a did not handle it. Well, right to say
the least, right? So Brian floors had to hold that together.
Exact had to keep two of them completely and totally melting
down during the DeShaun Watson phase. And
then once, that's finally off the table, Chris
they Start winning games.
They start, they start getting it done.
And you know, I can hear the conversations. Now,
what way for us says, well, you know, we did win seven in
a row. Well though it was it's not exactly great teams that we
were beating. I mean, come on. This isn't this isn't Knute.
Rockne stuffy. And again, I'm completely and totally
speculating, and also being facetious. But
when these conversations are happening during games, when
the coaches, otherwise busting his ass to win games, he's not
there to defend himself. He's not there to share his
perspective and he can get twisted and warped and it's
amazing to me. A guy who has made that much money in
the business world, over course of decades, could get manipulated
the way he was manipulated
by firing Brian Brian, Brian Flores. Ya know it's amazing.
But again, you know, this is a thing I hear from a lot of,
you know, coaches people in the NFL right now, to, a lot of
politicians in the league right now, who know how to sell, what
they need to sell to keep the job or keep it going. That's
where,
you know, it's, I think frustrating to the old-school
brand of Coach like a Brian Flores who. Yes, is not. Like
an old guy, I get that. He's right around, 40 years old, but
he's old school in his approach.
I mean he is, you know, he's from Brooklyn, New York. He's
all about the grind. The work. No excuses, you know, worked in
New England from the time. He got out of college. He's seen
all facets of the organization as he came up through the New
England, Patriots there.
So he really understands everything that goes into
making things successful
and that's where it just looks like. Hey, again on
the outside, looking in that there. Some sort of power play here
that there was and you know that
Chris Greer won that battle. That that's to me. What it
looks like more than anything. Yeah. Brian Flores has rough
and tough. No BS, you know, Cutthroat type attitude. I'm
sure scared people. There's no doubt about that,
you know, and then to me on the outside looking in, I do think
it looks like it's like
Greer and Ross decide to go to, uh,
Instead of Greer and Ross decide to go with Flores and
let's see. Who's the quarterback next, whether
that's Watson or somebody else. That's what it's what it feels.
Like.
That's what it feels. Like,
you know, I do think that's a major part of this conversation
here. I do which is unbelievable,
because we're in the
the issue that you're having Stephen Ross and Chris career
because you know, you you
you caved to the public pressure of drafting to of
the first time around. And now, here we are. Enough evidence to
me for my opinion, that I've seen. And I know people think,
you know, again, I
you know, Screw you too and on and all that, and it's not
personal to to it, but I've seen enough to go. I don't
really think you're going to be able to ever make a deep
playoff, run with two is
your quarterback.
He can't play in whether
that's the one thing I know for sure. Now, after two years,
we saw it again in Tennessee, two weeks ago, a little cold
and little rainy. Ball goes everywhere. You don't know what
the hell's going to happen. You know,
we're getting is so
there's, there's
has issues there
and like God forbid. I don't know if it did go down this
way. We're Flores like he's not on that side. I mean, he's only
seen Tom Brady for 20 years. So what would he know about
the quarterback position to what you need to win and the AFC
East
but just all signs point towards that was the issue. And
then here we go. Looks like, Ross and Greer have caved to
the still, the public pressure in Miami,
and A2, A2 A2 into it, and we're going to go that route over the
bright shiny star head coach. We have that everybody looks at
and goes. Damn. He's a Football coach. You guys are lucky down
there
and they're going to fire him instead and now he's on
the street and we'll see where it goes with the dolphins into it.
Here's my idea. Yeah, and what made me think of this was your
comment from a few minutes. Back about Stephen Ross, having
a reputation for being a little loose-lipped death? And yeah,
I can't, I can't
divulge the full facts and circumstances. If I did,
you would understand and agree that what I'm about to say is
100% truthful and accurate.
I now wonder,
Did the Flores Ross relationship, go south, not
2021,
not 2020,
but 2019 because I firmly believe
that. Stephen Ross entered. The 2019 season first year with
Brian Flores is coach
with the intent of losing as many games as possible
strategically in an effort to secure,
the first overall pick in the draft.
Now, at the time,
it was tank for R2. However,
what it became, yeah, because they did get to it with
the fifth overall pick. Yeah, but remember, remember those first
couple of games, it was a disaster. It was awful, Minka
Fitzpatrick, talked his way out of town, get me out of here.
I can't do this in Flores eventually said,
screw this. We're going to try to win football games. I can't
go into that locker room and
and be
respectful to the job, to the players to the staff to anyone
with
His plan that we're going to lose as many games as we can on
purpose, so we can have the first pick in the draft. So all
of a sudden it flipped and they ended up winning five games
after they blew the first. I can't remember how many they
lost in a row to start the season, but the tank was
working until Flora said, I've had enough of this crap.
So why don't Ali happens what normally happens?
The Bengals end up being the worst team in the league that
year, right? They secure the rights to jobber. Oh Stephen
Ross, had a bug
up, his butt about getting joe burrow and could not get
the Bengals under any set of circumstances to agree to to
trade down from the top spot. So the Dolphins could go get
Joe burrow. And now,
now, unfortunately, for Brian Flores
Ross was proven, right grand scheme of things. We should
have lost every game that we could in 2019. We should have
gotten Joe burrow. Where would we be right now? If we had just
gotten jobber? Oh, if they had just listened to me,
who cares about 2019,
two years later. Nobody's thinking about whether we were
good or bad in 2019. They don't remember our record without
looking it up five and eleven, two, and 14.
10:15 Owen, 16, who the hell cares? We would have had
jobber. Oh,
so you juxtapose what? Joe burrow is doing in Cincinnati
with what to is doing in Miami
and that when Ross is making his final decision. And again,
it's the Billionaire's prerogative and after never
have to come out and make the order you just make sure that
people understand where you stand
from the get-go. Brian Flores
didn't understand what the owner wanted Brian Flores
defied with the owner wanted even though the owner never
said, yeah.
As far as we know, maybe he did, maybe he did based on some
of the things I heard you only say, maybe did
I doubt it too close to revealing, my, I'm getting
a little too close to revealing how I know what I'm saying.
But,
yeah, look, when it's time to make that call
and for all we know, this was either a rash decision that was
made by Stephen. Ross. What was a complete total failure of PR
by the Dolphins? Because there was no idea, this was coming.
Hey, PR professionals out there if you're working for an NFL
team or any sports team. If your boss is getting ready to
make a move like this, probably a good idea to get the word out
there, just a little bit. So it doesn't shock. People
the way that the Brian Flores thing,
shocked, everyone,
not that. Not that people would have been okay with it, but at
least they would have known it was coming. Whatever moved some
of the holy crap. What's wrong with Stephen Ross? Speak more
than attack to date. I that's where it to me. It speaks more
to that
the the exactly right. My that's where I did just seems
like it was like a it's a Greer ownership.
Hey, we've let's see.
Wink, wink, shake, shake. We're going to we got this going
down. We're not going to tell anybody in the organization or
right coming. Let's keep it quiet. Let's keep it quiet
actually. So, so there won't be a pro Flores backlash. Exactly.
Keeps us from doing right. We don't want to hear about what
are they crazy?
They might fire Brian Flores.
That to me again.
There's just too many signs that point to this right now,
at least in my opinion
and your mic. I mean if that's the way it went down again that
goes to that's failure on Stephen Ross. Communicate
exactly what he wants. And that's where maybe, you know,
you got to be in the building board instead of hanging out in
Manhattan and New York City
and doing that. You know, again, not that the owner has
to be
Jerry Jones. We get that. But your point about the owner,
being in the building or having a presence, at least that's
very connected to him
in the building on a daily basis
is a real thing.
You know. Hey, if the owner is not there, then the owners
right-hand man. Does there all the time, there's got to be
Some aspect of that,
you know. Again, I'll speak to
the ownership of
I was in Tampa. The glaciers. There was always a presence
around from the glacier family. All right. So you knew you had
to be on your p's and q's to a degree. It was never going to
be like,
nobody's around.
It's just free for all for the
the coaches and though there was always
one of the brothers,
you know, somebody was there
at that time, of course New England. My time, they're being
there. I mean,
again, mr. Kraft, the Kraft family had just
The Right Touch in my opinion.
You knew he was there. He was upstairs, use a floor above
the coaches. He's going to walk around and say hi to everybody.
Make sure things were going good every day.
If he wasn't there,
Jonathan Craft, his son was there
and they were going to make sure you knew they were there.
Going to see him in the lunch line, but there was like, oh
what wait, coach
the owners here and then matter what you were. I mean, I can
been in my workout clothes and been like, I'm nobody in
the organization. I'll do the owners here and there. Oh my
gosh, okay.
Let me straighten up.
I mean, there's something to that.
There's something
To that. And that that aspect seems to be lost there in Miami,
and that's where there's a lot of issues. There's no, there's
no question about it.
Hide my weed. The coach is here
the onus here, excuse me, but it doesn't mean look,
you mentioned Jerry Jones. You could be doing a lot worse than
Jerry. Jones is exactly that. So, that's one of the division
have a pretty damn good football team act, but I look
at it this way.
I'd much rather have
an owner who's all in.
Then an owner who treats this like
just a toy. Yeah, it's a toy. That's what it is. Like some
diversion. Yeah, right, right.
What dolphins fan should want today is Stephen Ross to wake
up and say I've had enough of this crap. I've had enough of
these bozos on peacock, criticizing me. I'm going to
sell the team. That's the best-case scenario, right now.
If you're a dolphins fan,
if you're somebody that's been
following that franchise for years and years and years through
Joe Robby and Wayne High.
Xanga. Now, Steven Ross, you are wishing and hoping and
praying for the day. That Stephen Ross, no longer owns
the team and hoping that whoever owns the team. Next is
more like Jerry Jones, Robert, Kraft and less like, Stephen
Ross,
because I look at it this way.
I look at it this way.
And I remember this coming up after the passing of John
Madden that that in a roundabout way,
the way that John Madden made football seem so easy,
poison, some of these
oligarchs into thinking that. Hey, it is easy and I'm smart.
I made a lot of money elsewhere, I can figure out
football.
If you're all in, if you're all in
and you've made billions in some other line of work, and
I'm fine with that because if you're truly all in, you're
going to figure it out. You're going to, you're going to
figure if you're all in
and you're willing to humble yourself and know what you
don't know, and learn it and grind the same way you learned
and grind and whatever area of business. You made your
fortune.
Then the team will be okay.
But in a minimum just be there, Robert Kraft's are working on
other stuff. He's not he's not right elbow to Elbow with Bill,
Belichick buddies their move.
Okay. Free advice to anybody who's thinking about buying
an NFL franchise, Jeff Bezos, or anyone else move your base of
operations to the headquarters of your NFL team. If you wanted
to be successful
because you need to be present, you need to be there
and you need to be in a position where you don't get
bamboozled by those in the organization who are trying to
pull off a coup and get rid of a coach that isn't nice to me
that, that isn't all warm and fuzzy
that is focused during football season on winning football.
Football games and not anything else.
Because if you're not there every day,
you don't realize that someone else is pulling the wool over
your eyes when it's time to make a big decision. And that's
exactly what happened. I believe
firmly in completely
to Stephen. Ross
and Brian Flores. They were the victims. They were
the bystanders in all this forces in the organization that saw
the opportunity to run off Brian Flores and convince
Stephen Ross. It was the right thing to do or the ones who did
this
and they're the ones who are going to have to live with it.