The Miami Dolphins showcase their organizational incompetence once again

This team is an absolute embarrassment, every week they find a new way to make us disappointed. We still have 3 months to go in the season before we get any clear answer as to what’s going to happen to this team, and 10 more games to suffer through.

It was a sad read though. Harbaugh using the Dolphins as leverage made sense. I mean, what premier coaching candidate would want to be associated with such an inept organization? I don’t think money is going to matter when we look for Tony’s replacement. The Sparano fiasco and subsequent free rein of Ireland, the questionable hiring of Daboll, Dorrell and the rest has labelled this owner as naive at the least, duplicitous at worst. Maybe Ross had an agenda when he set Tony up for failure, who knows.

I suppose the reason behind Ross keeping Tony around as long as he has is because he wants to project the appearance of some sort of loyalty rather than dump him in midseason.

So. someone Ross knows asked someone that Cowher knows if he thought he might be interested in coaching next year? Aside from a problem with a leak, I fail to see the big deal here. And if firing Sparano after a THIRD sub-par (bordering on disastrous) season shows a lack of loyalty, then I must be the least loyal guy on th eplanet, casue I would have fired him last year…

An owner has the right to find out what coaching talents are available any freaking time he wants. As a fan I am glad he is being proactive about contacting who ever the he’ll is out there, Those are called “Options” . If Sparano had done a good a good enough job this season, then Ross wouldn’t be exploring this field of options.

I think yall need to get the fuck over it, and allow the owner to try to sell some tickets…

At least he is not calling plays from the owners suite like some owners do. ( Sorry Al and Jerry, but I had to go there!)…..

GO DOLPHINS!

If there are rules that have been broken by what Ross has been accused of, then i say lay the wood to him. if not, i would find out who might be interested by any means not against
NFL policy. As for JP, hes a bargain basement guy, Ross has informed Ireland that no contracts will be extended, no deals/trades made with any current contracted players until the end of the season. then is all under review by the new guys who ever that is.

It’s not that I feel Tony Sparano should not be fired. He absolutely should be. The problem is how Ross is going about this situation….again.

All eyes are on this organization to see how they go about their business. And they continually come off looking totally incompetent. I mean – this organization can’t even execute a proper gag order. It’s unreal.

He was too late last year asking Jim if he wanted the job. Does anyone still think Ross was wrong to go after Jim after the amazing job tony is doing??? Ross hasn’t done anything wrong. He’s stepped out of the way and opened up his wallet to let the “Brains of this regime do there job” and that’s all we can ask for from an owner. Now he has to start looking for TS replacement. What’s wrong with getting a head start? Might as well get the word out now and not wait until its too late like last time. Everyone knows our incompetent coach is going to get the pink slip.

If luck doesn’t want to play for Miami oh well. We draft him and trade him away. That way we can acquire more draft picks.

Once again this is being handled wrong. Just because Sparano’s job is for sure gone, but that does not mean the search for his replacement should be a top story on Espn.

There are such things as MANNERS, CLASS, and RESPECT. Ross is clearly lacking in those.

but for different reasons than the head coaching situation!!

I don’t like him because he is hesitant and spends his time worrying about minority owners and flashy flashiness that flashes rather than worrying about football. He hasn’t proven to me that he deserves the title “accomplished business-man.” He looks a little bit more like an idiot that just happened to be a the right place at the right time and happened into a situation where a shit-ton of money was made (and then he decided, “man, what should I do with all of this money? hey, I’m gonna buy a football team….that will pass the time!”

And where is Mike Dee in all of this? Isn’t he supposed to be the “genius” that resurrected the Boston Redsox? Shouldn’t he have some knowledge about how to “run” or “manage” a professional sports franchise? Why is Ross the only one under the microscope? He might be the victim of bad advice from “expert advisers!”

I HOPE that Ross is learning from his mistakes! Maybe Matty is right and this is another blunder. Or, maybe this is just how this works. I am sure that there have been plenty of instances in the history of the NFL in which owners have looked for coaching candidates while having a coach under contract. It just seems unrealistic to assume otherwise.

Me thinks this “don’t look for a coach while you have one under contract” business is just an over-blown, media-driven criticism designed to create controversy where there is none.

What is more, I do not feel sorry for a guy (like TS) that just spent the last four years doing what he loves (albeit, badly) and getting paid millions of dollars in the process. He is going to be fired and it makes sense to start looking for new candidates regardless of whether Ross has fired TS or not.

I do agree with you though Matty (even if I think you come dangerously close to basically warning coaches and players not to come here) and I hope that Ross doesn’t screw this up as well.

for Cowher that would be the “right situation”. Just don’t give him one of those BS “Parcells”-escape clauses. This will be a non-story for a while and then making a huge comeback in January.

who would want to come to Miami to play or coach,when they can see what its gonna be like?..IMO, we are going to end up with another prospect coach with litle coaching experience..and the top drafts, and FA are going to want to play anywher but Miami…The trick is how to allure people back to Miami?…free ice cream cones at the end of the game?

I don’t like this news because I do believe it hurts our chances of getting Cowher. He has said before he will not speak with teams who currently employ a Head Coach and he has tremendous respect for NFL coaches so this can easily piss him off.

Now, for everyone else not wanting to come to Miam, I just don’t buy it. The big one would be Andrew Luck, who people fear could pull an Eli Manning/John Elway douche move and decide he doesn’t want to play for Miami. I don’t think Miami is necessarily on the “black list.” Miami is still a good market team and is not in the small class of Buffalo or Jacksonville. They’re a bit dysfunctional, but their level doesn’t compare yet to those of Oakland, Cincy, or Washington. Yes, you could say he doesn’t want to go to a crap team, but what other situation would he be in where he’s surrounded by superior players? Indy? They have little talent other than Peyton and it shows. STL? They have Sam Bradford thank you very much and they are a more unsettled franchise than Miami. Minnesota? Franchise in question with no lease beyond this year and we’ll see about Ponder. Are they getting a new stadium or is Wilf interested in selling the team to an LA-based owner? Arizona? They’re known to be perhaps the cheapest NFL franchise out there.

So go ahead and think there aren’t worse locations for a player to go to, but when you put Miami’s flaws under too large of a microscope, you tend to forget all the flaws the rest of the NFL teams have that will be in the “Suck for Luck” sweepstakes. We have our problems, but we’re not at the bottom of the NFL in terms of dysfunction… yet. Could Luck do an Eli/Elway move? Yes. But I think the chances are even slimmer that he’d do such a move to get out of Miami. With Cowher, I see no chance Luck refuses to go to Miami. Without Cowher, I still think the chance is over 50% Luck goes to Miami if they have the pick and that would especially be the case if they have another high profile coach or at least an offensive minded coach.

An employees of the restaurant who wanted to remain nameless, confirmed the 2 were there and had dinner…. Looks like Miami might have some competition!

terrible news. Thanks for the appearance in such dismal times, Matty.

BRING ON THE CHIN!!!

Just hire me. I’ll clean this mess up. LOL. When your in a hole quit digging people. SMH. I’m not as down on Ross as most people. He has been given people for the most part he did not hire. Look. Other than OFF4L, Ross is living the dream. I think he wants to show up hand out checks and watch his team win. An he doesn’t care how much those checks are as long as they are earned. He is going to have to get his hands dirty here sooner or later. So he better choose wisely on the next hires for this team.

If the Dolphins screw up with the coaching and screw up with Andrew Luck? Well, might as well move into the Marlins New Stadium, because they won’t even be able to sell 40,000 tickets.

I’ve said it on Twitter and on my site, but it’s worth mentioning again. This team is so dysfunctional, they make Family Guy seem not-so-far-fetched. The embarrassment continues and we can only guess as to what might happen next.

nice write up