was three seasons.
No, playoff appearance is button. I thought they were
making progress. Apparently, Stephen Ross did not
the dolphins. Making the move today and let me just make the big
picture observation.
Because we process this in real time earlier, Mi Simmons join
me. While we were just kind of waiting through the weeds of
what happened out of my general position
as it relates to coach and general manager,
either fire both
like the Vikings and bears did today
or you keep both like
pretty much every other team did today,
getting rid of one
and keeping the other
is a recipe for dysfunction
and or evidence of dysfunction because
what That message sends and this isn't all that difficult
to figure out. The fact that I figured it out is proof that
it's not all that difficult to figure out for some of
the billionaires and oligarchs. They don't NFL teams. It is
difficult to figure out and when you're an absentee owner,
like Stephen, Ross becomes
impossible to figure out
when you have the possibility
for the GM to stay and the coach to go or vice versa.
You're letting everyone know moving forward that
when the crap hits the fan and inevitably will
there is benefit.
It to playing the game behind the scenes, to put the blame on
this guy before, he can put the blame on, you and pit, one
against the other. And the owner sides, with one in
the other one is gone.
That is poisonous. That is toxic Stephen Ross.
You probably don't pay attention to what we have to
say. I know you're aware of the website. I don't know. If you
pay attention to the videos this show or whatever. Let me
tell you something, you're screwing this thing up, when
you get rid of one and keep the other get rid of both
or keep both, because the coach and the GM always need to be
at every Retain under the impression that they both
succeed.
Are they both fail? They both stay.
Or they both go. And if there's a path for one to stay in one
to go, when you hit rough spots. That's when one
is going to try to throw the other one out of the bus and
vice versa. And that's what happened today. That's what
happened. I don't need to hear people putting. Oh, there's
a power struggle. Of course. There was a power struggle.
If the coach is out in the GM, stays something not right is
going on. And yet again, in Miami something, not right is
going on. So
that's that's All I'm going to say about it.
Well, I'm not sure Mike, what Chris Greer has done to keep
his job, seventh to keep go a seventh season. He's 47 and 51
postseason appearance. And that was his first
year that he was there. He's hard, Adam gase and
and Brian forres, and fire Dumbo's. So,
what has he done to tell you that? He has the organization
going, the right direction. I mean, they've had winning
records each of the last two seasons. So I I don't know. And
I'm with you. I think you pair the
two together. Either
you have a GM and you have a coach, you do it like
the 49ers. Did you hire both and you commit to them? And you
think the right people and you put them in place and you let
them go for however, long they need to go
to get it done in the Dolphins. Just haven't been able to do
that. I mean they've just changed coaches too much. They
haven't gotten the quarterback position, right? Which almost
every one of these higher firings that we're going to
talk about today. That's the one
ingredient. That's been the same for all of them. They
cannot get the quarterback position, right?
The 49ers in my view are a little bit different because
Kyle Shanahan runs this show there. John Lynch works for
him. So if they hadn't made the playoffs this year, for
example, I was wondering would Kyle Shanahan throw John Lynch
under the bus and hire
a new GM. The chances of Shanahan being fired
and Lynch staying
very, very slim. I just think this is a good old-fashioned
internal
tug of war where and this is what drives coaches crazy.
I know this. One of the things I've learned over the last 20
years. They hate the
idea that they're
They're busting their ass on the sidelines
and there are people in the luxury Suite, whispering to
the owner and criticizing everything the coach does. And
you develop factions and you develop alliances and you
develop fiefdoms and you develop agendas
and God forbid Brian Flores acted like a coach acts.
Sometimes he's focused on winning. He didn't go to
finishing school in 15 years with Bill Belichick, when
you're with Belichick all that long and start to pick up the
ways. That he projects and he's
prickly and no-nonsense and not big on
relationships. It's not about relationships. When I saw that
they were leaking that stuff to guys, like Jeff Darlington from
ESPN. I almost puked. Pardon my language. Not that, that's
anything all that bad. It's just a little graphic. It
dinner time on a Monday,
but it's not about relationships. What the hell?
It's about winning football games. It's about having
the right atmosphere in place to win football games. And when
the owner doesn't work there and the owner is hearing
everything secondhand and the owner is in a position to
Evaluate the coach every day and the coach is busy busting
his ass. I know I said a couple of minutes ago. It's all I'm
going to say about it while I got more to say and the coach
is busting his ass and he's not a position, go kiss the owners
ass or play the games that take you
away. From what you need to do, which is focused on putting
the best product on the field
creates a situation.
Where people in the front office, who are threatened by
Brian floors. Don't like, the way acts don't, like the way
talk to me, don't like what he said, whatever whatever
they gang up on. Him
and they poison the owner against him
and because the owner
born storms in four games and then goes back to New York.
He never knows the difference
and it's sad. I mean Stephen Ross has got to be in his 80s. Now.
It's not like he's gonna have some Epiphany
at this point. He just doesn't get it
and congratulations. He's made billions in real estate. That's
great.
But with his football team,
it's been a disaster. One of the reasons. It's a disaster,
is he doesn't live there. He doesn't work there and he
allows himself to be played by people. In the organization who
have a And is and who act out on them and I believe that's
exactly what happened
in Miami.
Well, and if you're going to make those decisions Mike and
let people influence, you need to be in the building every
day. You need to be a Jerry Jones type owner. When you show
up every day, when you sit in those meetings, and I know
Jerry
has the general manager tag in Dallas, but at least he's there
and aware of what's going on internally every single day.
You can't just show up every once in a
while and know what's going on because somebody does get your
ear and somebody does influence you. I mean, this sword Nation
that hasn't had a coach for four full seasons. This day.
Once that they change coaches all or six coaches, since day
one,
stat that they've had and that's not counting all
the interim coaches that they've had. So you've got to find
a head coach that's going to work with your general manager and
and you're going to win with and it's going to be
a long-term relationship. And
again, you got to get the quarterback position, right?
Who knows if they have that or not. But Brian for is, is going
to find a job somewhere else. He's been
to me, I really A good head coach in Miami. They've had
back-to-back winning seasons. Got unlucky at the end of
the season. I know they got blown out by Tennessee.
They played hard yesterday me, the Patriots were playing to
win that game, four and two against New England in his
career. So they were doing a lot of things, right? And look
like they were on the right track and maybe they hire
somebody who can get them over the hump. Who knows? But
I think Brian fours is
a very good coach.
Yeah. And look, the question for Brian Flores now is to
assess and select. And choose carefully
because you get one more shot as a practical matter. I think
the days of nor Turner and Wade, Phillips are over where
you get three shots. I think you get to. So you better wait,
even if it's a year or two, maybe three
find a spot where you can go be successful. Re-establish
yourself. Go back to New England. If you need to, and
wait for the right opportunity where you can go and have
a better outcome where you can go and work for an owner where you
know that everything is
going to work out and you're going to have time
and the owner is going to be there every single day. The
owner is Vested, you know, for the fans for the people in
the organization.
The team is the most important thing
for a lot of fans. It's all they think about. It's all they
follow. And when the owner doesn't behave the same way. It
just sends a bad message. And I also think that when the owner
relies upon the people
who are telling him things during games, when the coaches,
otherwise coaching the team, it's not fair to the coach and,
and, and Stephen Ross has to live with it. He's the one
that's got to go forward. Now, with a new head coach and we'll
see what they do. Will see what
They do with the quarterback. I've heard mixed things on
whether or not Brian Flores did, or didn't want to Sean
Watson. Now, you've got Stephen Ross saying he doesn't want to
show Watson. He's the guy who wanted to Sean Watson. He
wanted to Sean Watson.
He wanted to atong of eylau and I can't imagine that
they've come to the conclusion in firing. Brian Flores that to
is the answer because that team had a winning record this year.
Do much more to the efforts and skills and abilities of Brian
Flores
than it did do the effort skills
and abilities of their
starting quarterback, and anyone who doesn't see that
I don't know what to tell you.
You're just wrong. If you don't see it that way.
And
sharina's, we say dysfunctional, teams, do
dysfunctional things
and welcome to the dysfunction. If you're a fan of Miami
Dolphins, because here it is. It's not a new development.
It's just another bit of evidence to further prove
that your favorite team
is a stew of dysfunction.
Five consecutive years without a playoff berth, Mike and
I just don't get it. Because who wouldn't want to live in floor?
In South? Florida, weather is terrific. There's no state
income tax
now. Next year. They're going to have over 70 million in cap
space estimated, but that'll be first in the NFL to go spin.
They have three first-round picks over the next two years
and I don't believe Stephen Ross for a second when he says
they no longer have interest in DeShaun Watson.
I would almost guarantee you they want to Sean Watson and
they will make a play for In the offseason, I'll be very
surprised if that doesn't happen. Mike.
Well, you know, because they've seen what happens when you
create expectations and you don't deliver what a problem.
It is, and frankly, once the trade deadline came and went
and the DeShaun Watson talk ended and Stephen Ross, forgot
about it. And it no longer hovered
over the team, what happened to start winning football games.
So,
I don't know. I don't know, maybe he's learned
that taking DeShaun Watson off the table helps the football
team, although embracing to a ton of eylau as the long-term
answer isn't,
To help the team either, sorry to an on, but
the dump, and it's funny because fans
fans of teams
who don't like it, when people who aren't among them point
out, the things they're concerned about, they get
resentful. We're trying to make your team better. We're trying
to point out the things that need to be done to help
the team and you should be very pissed off. Today that Brian
Flores is no longer the head coach. And you should
be resigned to the fact that until Stephen Ross sells the team.
It's going to be
same thing. It's the instructions on the shampoo bottle, lather,
rinse. Repeat.