to do on Saturday was cast a broadest possible net. That
people on the hot seat. The potential surprise. Is this
anything? And and and I considered Dolphins GM, Chris
Greer and I poked around a little bit to find out whether
or not Brian Flores.
The now, former coach of the Dolphins had been maybe trying
to posture things as Greer's fault because they had
really wasted some draft picks and really haven't done well
from a Personnel standpoint, and I don't think Brian Flores
was ever on. On board with, to a tongue of Isla.
Well, as it turns out,
Flores wasn't conspiring to get rid of Greer. So much as Greer
or others. In the front office were conspiring to get rid of
Flores Flores is out. I've got some strong feelings about this
miles and in my opinion it all traces back to the fact that
Steven Ross.
The owner of the Dolphins doesn't live in South Florida
doesn't work in South Florida. Isn't in the building the only
day that we see him. It's at the games
and the coach. Busy the coaches and in position to whisper to
the own or anything about all the other issues or problems.
I mean, think about during
football season, the coaches coaching the team, are there
issues, are there concerns do? I wish we'd done a better job
of signing for agents drafting players, whatever the case may
be. Yes, but I got my hands. Full coaching the team
on game day and I've heard about this four-year drives
coaches crazy because they know when things are going not well,
you got the GM team. President other members of the front
office.
They're in position to whisper in
to the owners at year
and set an agenda
for the owner. And when it's time to make changes. Those are
the folks. If they sense trouble.
Those are the folks who are in a great position
to influence the owner to do what they want. And the coach
is the guy who gets left out of the mix because he's been busy
coaching the team and I feel like, that's exactly what
happened to Brian
floors. Because, I don't,
I mean, what's he done to deserve getting fired after
three years? What what talent of they had? He's made chicken
salad out of a roster that has been overmatched. For the most
part. They had a seven-game winning streak, and I
know they weren't beating a murderer's row of teams, but
they are in FL teams and they won seven in a row. And I think
he fell victim to the fact that he didn't play the political
game. He's a Belichick disciple.
Belichick disciples. Don't play political games or about
winning football games. And if you don't win, the problem is
your personality, your approach,
your temperament all about football, not kissing asses,
that's going to get you in hot water. Water. If you have other
people who can,
who can say to an owner who is never in the building. The
coach is the problem,
right? And when you have a situation like this, especially
given the way that they were kind of playing, you know,
ring-around-the-rosie with quarterbacks. I think that that
is one of these things that can give the GM team president.
What have you
ammo to than the owner and say, like, look at the way, this
thing is mismanaged, right? You can go to the owner and say,
well, look, we're one in seven. Why are we? 7. Why did it take
us? So long to start winning games? If we can win that many
games in a row. Why weren't
we winning games at the beginning of the season? Now?
I don't know how true that is, or untrue. That is from
the standpoint of Flores mean. I think any time you start that
poorly in a season and then you rip off a seven-game winning
streak in order to
get yourself back in it and still end up finishing above
500. I think that says something about the culture
that he was building from, you know, a day to day.
Football standpoint, right? Like we are going to be able
to compete and make sure that we're going out there and
giving ourselves a chance to win. I think that there are
still plenty of questions at quarterback, but now, you know,
if it's if Chris Greer say really, really likes to
a tongue of eylau and was disappointed in the way that
Brian Flores handled tongue of
I'll over the last couple years.
Well, you know, you talked about how well the coaches got
to, you know, really believe in Justin fields in Chicago
how Guys are really going to believe into a tongue of.
I Lola. When they're coming into Miami. I don't know. I mean,
I think we've seen flashes from to a tongue of oh, but I'm not
sure
that if I'm coming in there, I'm going to feel like yes,
this is definitely my guy. This is exactly who we want to build
around and give this is a we're going to be great with him as
our franchise QB. I don't know the answer that question
and the Dolphins are already pushing the idea to reporters
that it was about relationships, that Brian
Flores didn't have the right relationship with Chris Greer.
The right relationship with To Otunga bylaw that that implies
that they are
rallying around to and to a non moving forward. I'm not ready
to buy that because it's Ross who wanted to Sean w. I mean
the problem is
Ross's preference for Watson hovered over this team. And he,
even though he doesn't show up everyday. See, he wants to have
it both ways. He wants to be able to Barnstorm and say,
I want this, I want this, I want this and then go back to New
York and go about his business
and then come back down. Hey, why didn't we get to Shaw Watson
the moment the trade deadline passed that's when
the Dolphins. Finally got it all figured out because this
DeShaun Watson thing was no longer looming over. The team.
Ross is so much of the problem there and he'll never admit it
and he can't be fired. He won't
be fired. All the dolphins fans. Can hope for is he
eventually bores of it and and sells the team and there'd been
some Rumblings maybe a couple of years ago. One of his one of
his
Partners would end up taking over but
you need somebody who's going to be there every day. This is
a problem with the Kings and I see from their statement today,
the wolf's are going to be heavily involved in the next
search. It would be even better if they would just move to
Minnesota.
If you truly want to have a high level organization.
You need to be there every day.
Not not there every day, actually. Doing football work,
just be there, be present. You've got other business
interests. This is your base of operations. You're in
a position. We can talk to people, you can get to know
people who can understand the Dynamics, and the nuances in
the relationships.
And you can understand what Brian Flores is all about,
instead of hearing it from those who may have bias.
Against him because they don't like dealing with a guy
who acts a lot like Bill Belichick.
Shocker. The Belichick personality type is not
pleasing to most people,
but it's effective
as a football coach and we see it time and again
from these guys who leave belcheck. They think they're
different. They think they're not the same by osmosis. You
become just like him. If you don't win quickly, it's going
to fall apart. And if Brian Flores is guilty of anything.
It's
focusing on being a coach and not focusing on the irrelevant
stuff
that
that may preserve your job. If you aren't winning enough
games, and that's really what it came down to, he didn't win
enough games to overcome, the fact that
you got yourself a Bill, Belichick disciple and
everything that goes along with that. Well, like of all
the coaches that have gotten fired in this cycle or let's call it
resign, because a, Jon Gruden. I mean, do
you think that Brian Flores is the most likely to get a new
job either right away or in the next coach? Cycle.
I never quite know what's going to get a guy. A job right away.
Eric Mangini. Got a job right away. Adam gase For Crying Out
Loud. Got a job right away. So it all depends upon what
an owner wants to do,
but you could do a hell of a lot worse
than Brian Flores,
you know, people are already suggesting, maybe the Texans.
There's a thought that the David collie was a one-year
hand-picked set up because they didn't want to bring Josh
McDaniels into an environment where we're going to go 4 and
13. You don't want that on Josh McDaniels.
Minute record. So you get a palate cleanser of a coach for
one year and then go after McDaniels. Do they think about
Brian Flores again?
If Flores is too much like Bill Belichick.
That's potentially going to be a problem because you're gonna
have others in the organization that don't want that Belichick
mindset that Belichick personality. Does he go back to
New England and spend some time there and maybe
reposition himself
to be a head coach. Again. I just think that when you
consider the quality of the players on that, Team, he has
done enough that he definitely should get another opportunity.
Possibly immediately depends upon what
jobs are open, and here's the challenge.
And I think Eric Mangini and Adam gase are perfect examples
of why? It makes sense to wait.
There are
many reasons to not rush into your next job, just because
it's there,
you know, you're feeling like your egos bruised. Hey, I lost
my job and I got rejected. They don't want me and oh, oh,
somebody else does all. That makes me feel better. That may
not be the best place for you. It didn't work for Mangini.
After he left the Jets on with the Cleveland. It didn't work
for gays after he left the Dolphins and went to the Jets.
I think there's value in picking your next spot
strategically and deliberately. A
and staying in the game. If you can I don't like the idea of
saying, you know, it didn't really work for a Lovely Smith
to sit back and study for a year and take it all in and
pick your next job. It didn't it hasn't really worked great
for Mike McCarthy, either. Frankly.
I'd say get back on the horse
as an assistant somewhere
and trust that that your ship will come in but be very
selective not to accept. We're like Josh McDaniels is taking
a decade
to find his next destination if he ever does.
Does. But but I think for your second
NFL, head coaching job,
you need to be extremely selective because I think we've
migrated past the Wade Phillips in North Turner's where you're
going to get three shots. I think you get two shots as
a head coach. If that many
so Brian Flores better, be sure that. His next move
is the best move. He can make
well, right? I think, you know, to sort of counter that you've
got two guys, now, in Ron Rivera and also an Andy Reid.
Who I think the biggest difference is that they were in
their spots for a very long time
before they went to their next head coaching job and they did
it immediately and they had some immediate success. And
I mean, Andy Reid is now
one have what six divisions in a row, you know, and if
even more I think in his
entire time, they're
in Kansas City. He's one of the best coaches of all time in
the NFL. So like that's one thing I need we can't necessarily say
the same thing about Brian Flores at this point, right
Veitch. Took teams to a Super Bowl and they'd been there.
For a long time and it just so happened that it fell together
that they had a great opportunity to walk into. Now.
I don't know how great an opportunity it was for Ron
Rivera in Washington because of right forces there, but but
I think for Flores it makes sense.
To maybe, go back to New England for a year
and see what's there. Unless he's a hundred percent
confident that a perfect opportunity opens up for him
right now, but
I think there's there's plenty of
reason to take a step back and be prudent because that next
chance may be your last chance.