dysfunctional teams, do dysfunctional things. That's
what makes it impossible to properly prognosticate. What's
going to happen when
18, franchise has reached the end of the road. And that's
typically what happens the day. After the regular season ends,
14 teams, still alive, 18 teams picking up the pieces and
thinking about the future.
And I knew,
when I laid out in a posted PFT on Saturday, all of the guys,
on the highwomen,
Hot seat, all of the potential surprises and then the ones where
maybe the coach decides to move on or the GM decides to move
on, whatever the case may be. I knew I was going to miss
somebody and I communicated with you about some of
the possibilities, just kicking some ideas around. Yeah, me hit
my Radars. It did hit Miami
and your radar, Deion's, ground Saturday, and you sent a text
kind of gauging. If I had heard anything, right? So I'm just
trying to verify what you're saying here. But yes, you had
a little pasta and meatballs here.
And I was thinking of it from the perspective of Brian
Flores, making a power play against Chris Greer, because
Flores has done extremely well in my opinion and I think
you'll agree with me with the talent that he's had.
The talent has been substandard. The talent has
been suspect, all those draft picks. They've acquired via
trades. When you scratch off the lottery ticket.
There's been no prize under it. For the most part. We were
talking about that during the season. Hey, we have a three
first-round picks for the schwa.
Well, you had three first-round, picks a couple of
years ago and look what they turned into not a bad deal. So
I thought that Flores because this has happened before coach
has.
A decent amount of success.
Coach makes a power play to try to improve the quality
of the folks who are there?
With the goal of improving, the quality of the talent on
the team.
So something was going on. The problem is, it was going on
the other way? Yes, as Brian Flores was busting his ass to turn
chicken, you know what into chicken salad and have winning
records for back-to-back years,
folks in the organization were conspiring against him. If it
will, how do you hurt her? You know, that
because floor has got fired yesterday and nobody else did.
That's the Hallmark of dysfunction.
We'll talk about that over. Course of this segment, but anytime
the coach goes in the GM stays of the GM goes the coach stays.
That's the whiff of dysfunction. That's a sign that
people aren't on the same
level of accountability. And that's a poisonous situation.
Steven Ross. Are you up? Are you listening? Can you hear me?
That's dysfunctional. Firing your coach and keeping your GM
or firing your GM and keeping your coach is dysfunctional in
and of itself.
So and and I don't know why I'm pissed about this. I don't know
Flores like you do and dolphins fans getting mad at us because
we speak truth
about to a talking about. Aloha. We speak truth about
other things. Hard truth that they don't want to hear. Hello
to, and on good morning. Glad you're with us.
You got a mess. Now,
you got a mess now because between Brian Flores into
a tonga by law, I know who I'm keeping 100 out of 100 times.
Yeah,
a thousand out of a thousand times. I know who I'm keeping
and that's the guy. Who got fired yesterday? Good morning.
Yeah, good morning. Yeah, a guy hastin
how good to see, you know, but I mean you said a lot of good
stuff either. The Shocker of yesterday
was the fact that that got,
you know, bombshell got dropped right around what a little
after 9 a.m. I mean, out of nowhere, in my opinion. I mean,
I thought a you exactly when it happened just because I was
like, man.
Floreal was onto something. I just, I couldn't believe it.
I don't understand it. I still don't understand it.
I mean really. You look at one of the, the positives of
the organization. And I think, if you ask people around
the league, as far as the Miami Dolphins are concerned, you're
going to get a lot of man. I like Brian Flores is a head
coach whether that's coaches are peaceful people in the
personnel office.
You talk about, you know, the team that cell.
I mean, come on,
you know again. What they've done where they've come from
and such a short period of time. Did anybody expect
the 2020 Dolphins to be 10 and 6? Absolutely not ten and six.
Yes, they missed the playoffs.
Okay. Yeah, they lost a buffalo and week 17 last year.
And then this year
again to deal with some issues and then right the ship after
being one in seven
and come back here at end up with a winning record for
the football season and everything. Looking on the up-and-up,
everything on the team, going in the right direction. Really.
I mean, we you look at just about any position on
the football team and things are going well Brian floors.
Is doing his part.
Now, the things that aren't going that well within
the football, team are not necessarily Brian floors
issues, either. And that's where we can dive into this to
wear. Yeah. It doesn't. Look it doesn't look good. It doesn't
look right. It smells
fishy to me. There's no doubt about that. Okay.
So what's number one issue with the Miami Dolphins?
Oh, that's right. The quarterback, right? The
lightning rod subject, period, right there. That's the number
one issue. All right, most people, you talk to around
football, me included, you included.
It's a major questions about to it, whether he could be
the starter of
any franchise, let alone lead that franchise to the promised
land. There's serious questions. All right, and
I would right now sit here and go, I doubt it. I don't think
so.
So wait and now go to going back to that.
Here. We are winning record dealing with that situation
the last two years and We Know by all accounts. It's a Stephen
Ross, pick with Tula
so there's okay. So there's Brian floors, having to deal
with the biggest organ biggest. Problem in the organization and
he has nothing to do with it. Really.
He just got to manage it and make it work. Suck it up. Brian
Flores, make it work. That guy can't throw it. 20 yards down
the field but make that damn, team, win and offense work. You
have that
the offensive line issues. Again.
You talked about it, Miss draft picks. Those are the two most
glaring issues on the football team. And neither one of them
really lead back to the guy that got fired to your point.
And that's where it's absolutely amazing ridiculous.
And I mean, I just think the Miami Dolphins made it
unbelievably huge mistake. I do, you know, and I'm not, I'm
being biased. I just think the guy's a hell of a coach and
leading the
leading the organization
Out of the Woods into the right direction.
And here we go back to the like you said, I don't know what
the hell's gonna happen. Maybe they strike the jackpot and hits.
Get a good coach. I don't know,
but it certainly
semi dysfunctional to your point.
Well, I think Chris Collinsworth said this in
relation to the Vikings during the game at Lambeau Field week
17. You may get a different coach, but you're not going to
get a better Coach Vikings fans. May disagree with that
statement in that context, but
I think that statement applies 100%
to the Dolphins. You're going to get a different coach,
but you're not gonna get a better Coach,
and here's a reality.
Stephen Ross,
and I know this, anybody who follows his closely knows
what's coming next because
we've been saying this for years
and it's been true for years.
If you're going to own an NFL team
in today's environment with his competitive as it is, if you're
going to own that team, you better be all in. It's not just
some
side hobby where you live in New York City and you keep
making your billions there and you just fly down to South,
Florida. Florida for the home games or wherever the team is
playing for the road games and
also still expect to put a finger in the stew and spin it
around from time to time. Like, Stephen Ross. Does he knows?
All I have
nothing? I have nothing to do bull, crap.
Oh crap, that's so you don't get criticized for
the decisions that blow up in your face like
to a tongue of Aloha.
You make it known what you want, but you're not there every day.
There's a value in being there every single day.
We've talked about this time and again
ownership presence. Every day,
the ability to meet with Brian Flores on a regular basis, to
spend time with him to get to know who he is, what he is. And
not rely upon people who whisper into your ears.
While the coach is busting his ass trying to win games.
I've been hearing for years, how coaches go crazy
when they know what's going on up in the
on up in that luxury Suite? Of course, anything that goes
anything, that goes wrong in the game is their fault because
there they have no chance to defend. Themselves. Yeah,
here's the owner and he's got team president here.
He's got GM here. He's got somebody else here.
And it's all the fault of the guy who's not there. It's all
his fault and he's got no time
or opportunity to ever really speak his side of the story
because on Monday morning,
where's the owner?
Tuesday Morning,
Rosie owner Wednesday morning, where's the owner?
Oh, he only shows up
when the coach doesn't have an opportunity to talk to him
face-to-face.
And so what happens, what happens?
It creates, dysfunction. And when you have a standard
that isn't everyone's on the same page, we all stay, we all
succeed or we all go.
When there's an opportunity
for different standards to apply to different people in
the organization. Anytime adversity strikes,
one. Camp is going to blame it on the other camp and that camp
is going to blame it on the other cap. And the problem is
Brian floor is all about football.
Ball mean your response to my question. Hey, you think floor
isn't making move on Grand. I haven't heard that at all. No,
because Florida is
focusing on coaching, exactly. He's worried about
the Patriots, the Belichick, right? Yeah. So, he loses the game,
right? The political game that got played out. And at the end
of the day, Steven Ross is the one who got played by people
who owe
what I saw, the Tweet yesterday from Jeff Darlington VSP, and
I'm not blaming Jeff for this. He's just reporting what I told
that Flora is ultimately failed because of relationships,
the hell out of here.
Completion cheese. This isn't relationship is about winning
football games. You think Bill Belichick has great
relationships in the organization. No, but he wins.
See that's a problem and any piece of fruit that falls off
the Belichick tree. If you don't win right away, there's
going to
be people in the organization to don't like you and they
going to conspire against you because you don't go in there
and kiss everyone's ass and play the game and that's not
the way to have a functional successful football team. Get
out of here with those
Petty fiefdoms and turf battles. There's no place for
that in football except in. A me. Yeah. Well no. No the that
to me it might use that a lot there and I agree with you. It
does seem like it was a coup d'etat like that. Yeah, Chris
Greer,
right. Stephen Ross. Yeah. Conspired you said it right,
you know so many times the coaches down there. He's
working and grinding but the GM's out, you know, having
brunch with the owner. Getting the tell him all about. Hey my
picture, great.
And any other problem like you said,
I don't know why he's not coaching him better. I don't
know why that's where it looks like that from the outside
looking in. Right now. It does 100%.
And then like you bring
The point about yeah,
I don't like the way it looks right. Now.
I mean, to me added on top of the shock. The, the shocking
factor of Brian floor is being fired. Where you go, what one
of the better young head coaches in football.
And now, we're going to talk about relationships in the building
relationships. What first off, let me just say this, you said
it already. I know, Brian floors. I've known him for
a long time. I mean,
like, there's not a, there's not a disrespectful, mean bone
in his body.
D as far as having relationships with people
is their Hardline like, hey, we got to do this, to be better.
We got to do this to be a better football organization.
Hey, defense,
we got to get better in this department. I don't want to
hear it. No Nonsense. No excuses, of course. Yeah, but
like, what do we think we're dealing with here. This ain't
the Boy, Scouts is, a band camp.
You think Nick Saban's like holding the
hands of every college coach. He's ever had. I mean
it's relationships are built on.
Like you're talking about the work done in the building.
The perfect, the profession is self,
you. No respect for others. Not whether like we're best buddies
and we can go hang out and watch a game together.
That's not the head coach's job. We can go through a lot of
coaches in football and get into discussions ago. I don't
know how many great relationships he has in
the building. He's got people who respect them
because they know he's good at his job
that has crap to do with anything and that's my other
thing. I don't like here. There's a little bit of a smear
campaign. I'm
playing into the story of like, hey, this is a tough hard line
guy and also playing into the fact of the matter of like, oh,
he's from New England, will be able to pin this on them
because
we've got a lot of other coaches like this as well.
Out of New England who have, you know,
not the ability to have relationships. What a bunch of BS
really? Like, I can't even you talk about low blow, Central
from Miami.
Yeah. That's what it is. That's a low blow coup d'etat went on
and the guy that got fired. It is the guy that's,
I mean, mainly responsible for the success of the positive
nature in which the organization is running,
absolutely debacle
like stupid. And I just, I don't understand that at all,
Mike. But I think you said a lot of good things and I hope
I added to it there.
No, absolutely. And look.
This has its roots in one thing.
And
we talk about this all the time as well. Yeah, it's it's not
all the time that a living, breathing example of it lands
unexpectedly
in our laps like it did yesterday. Yeah.
One of the prerogatives of being a multi-billionaire is,
you don't have to give
direct orders to people. You can be subtle.
You can be nuanced. You can make your point without ever having
to reduce yourself
to making directors. There's something unseemly about having
to tell people. Hey,
remember, I'm the boss.
I run the show, I decide who stays and goes. I don't want to
have to say that they shouldn't have to say it, but they get,
what they
They want and it is undeniable folks undeniable. I don't care
what's coming out now. They're trying to paint a different
narrative now, and it's BS. Stephen Ross. Wanted to show on
Watson,
Steven Ross, didn't get the Sean Watson
and to the extent, the bride Flores resisted,
the DeShaun Watson
love affair that Stephen Ross, had he paid for it with his job
and
and and look that may have been the root of
The conversations
think about it. They were one
and seven
beat the Patriots, start the season lost seven in a row
adversity. Dysfunction.
What's going on? Why don't we have to Sean? I said, I wanted
to Sean not and again, he doesn't have to say it that
clearly, but
we know he wanted to Shawn
all on. He wanted to Sean in August. I didn't have the shot.
We wouldn't be one in seven if we had to Shawn. Where's to
Shawn? Why don't we have the Sean? Why don't have the Sean.
Well,
Brian Flores isn't there?
R to say nobody in this building wants to Sean. Nobody
wants to Sean. Stephen.
Not me. Not Chris Greer. Not Tom, garfinkel. Not anyone.
Nobody wants to Sean. You're the one who wants to Sean. No,
they're all up there, sand wobbly. I'm going to tell about
Coach coach, coach doesn't real Coach keep saying, well
with small coached coaches and sure.
And so he gets blamed for being the one who doesn't want
the shot. So he's the one who's out the door. That's the Nugget.
Yeah, comes
the virus that Heads and allows them
to make their run because ultimately
Ross wanted to Sean
and Ross didn't get the Sean and that
that laid the foundation.
I think for what ultimately happened, yesterday. Well,
I definitely think it has something to do with that
subject. I do. There's no doubt about that. Now, that's where
I don't know. And again, that's where I know. I've talked to
people
around the trade deadline
heard a lot of rumors, then, you know, from people that, you
know, of course, you're in the know that I trust, you know,
we've heard plenty of things in the past where
We know it came from Stephen Ross and his mouth where he's
a little bit of a you know, he's a little bit of a blabber we
know that. I mean we've had things that we've been able to
we could have reported or things. We knew
that were true that came out or haven't come out that we know
have kind of come from that direction. I think we both have
had sources there to to verify that that it's a little
loose-lipped from ownership there in Miami.
That's kind of the mo
there's no doubt and that's where I do. I think the
The thing is, the lightning rod for this situation
to a degree. There's no doubt. Now, what I don't understand.
I don't know if it's like what you're saying or if it's
the other way around
too, you know, I do think there was a wanting from everybody
including Stephen Ross or Deshaun Watson,
but I was led to believe by people that I trust that it like
at some point it turned
and the public pressure and everything and it got into back to
its Thule. We're going to make it work with Chua and
that's where II just don't know, and I'm trying to connect
the dots and I hope to get some answers and things like that.
But that's where I think ultimately
the relationship became dysfunctional at least, from
where I've been led to believe from people, like, around
the situation. And you know, who know people in the NFL that,
yes, Greer Ross
and Flores were not on the same page about the quarterback
situation and whether it was 20 or Watson. Now, I was led to
believe that Greer
Greer and raw.
Ultimately led to, let's just go back to 2 and make it work
and they chickened out on the DeShaun Watson thing, but
I don't know that 100%.
I can't verify it. Maybe I will be able to tomorrow,
but that's what I was led to believe in the situation
and that that Flores was a little bit left out in the dark
on that conversation there. And that's where I went wrong. Like
I said, I don't know that for sure. But either way, I do know
because I had too many people. I know that
I've talked to that, to a certainly in that conversation
was about
A big basis for what? We saw yesterday at firing of Brian
Flores out of left field.