Of course Ireland has final say but his job is to take into account what his football people are telling him. TO blame every decision on Ireland is completely ignorant.
Ireland is not only responsible for overseeing and coordinating the college and pro personnel departments, but also helps manage the team’s salary cap and player contracts. You're supposedly a smart college educated guy. You should know what an overseer is. Overseer is a person who directs and manages an organization. It is another word for boss. That he has final say in personnel moves is only ambiguous to you. That he works with Philbin in implementing a personnel plan means that he gets input from Philbin, not that there is a 50/50 relationship. That idea is nullified by the part about Ireland being the overseer. Not the co-overseer.
So, you're saying SB is posting stoned? Maybe a tab of acid involved from time to time? Perhaps SB is the Timothy Leary of thephins.com? At least Leary talked about more interesting things like orgasms on acid.
It depends on what your belief is. You believe the talent is bad. I believe it to be equal to most teams. I also believe good coaches can take mediocre talent and get above average results. Haven't seen that here (15-16). As another poster pointed out Joe Philbin was our 4th or 5th choice for head coach. Then someone, weather Ireland or Philbin, has hired most of the assistant coaches who have little to no experience. So we have what we have. A mediocre team. As long as everyone is on board with these years being learning years for everyone, then I guess in 3 or 4 we should be good. I am not ready to place ALL the blame at Irelands feet. Everyone has blame - Coaches, GM, Owner, players.
Really? when did I say that? Jeff Ireland is NOT responsible for all the blame for 2 seasons producing 15-16 record. PERIOD!!!!!! I never said he was not accountable. You guys are the ones who want to lay it all at Ireland's feet and it's totally ridiculous.
Did anyone ever consider: Ireland was told " The new coach is going to be................................" Philbin was told " The GM is going to be....................................." just asking?
I don't at all. I think it's ridiculous. I disagree with Stringer on a lot of things, but to call him a troll is absurd.
LOL. "Ham-handed cave recluse". I hope to God Jeff's having VistaPrint make him up a batch of business cards with that on it.
Well in order to bolster a weak argue meant sometimes you have to throw some made up ish in there. Bad moves are now all on Ireland, good moves are on Philbin. Got it?
I'm sure you'd have a field day with his handling of the OL and the defense if you weren't so busy ripping Ireland.
Do you really want to try and paint Jeff Ireland as Ted Thompson's equal? Do you really want to go down that road?
Ireland must go, from there I defer to whomever the new GM is. If he wants Philbin or any other or ALL the coaching staff fired that's fine with me. But it MUST start with a new GM, period. Not going to stop blaming Ireland till he's long gone.
Exactly what I was saying in another thread. If a player pans out it's coaching, if not it was a bad move by Ireland... Here is a good articele on the "bad decision" by Ireland to replace Dansby and Burnett with Wheeler and Ellerbe: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...y-reasons-miami-dolphins-run-d-struggles.html
Look at the author of that blog post. He's Jeff Ireland's mouthpiece. That article is nothing more than Jeff feeding him information and trying to deflect blame from him to the coaching staff.
You might be right. But the fact that Wheeler and Ellerbe were pretty good last year and are declining here and Burnett and Dansby were mediocre here and having good to great years now elsewhere is not on Ireland. Don't get me wrong, with all the circumstances I think it's time for Ireland to go. I'm just not ready to blame anything on him when stuff like that is more on coaching imo. I'm just not sold about a lot of things our coaches do in using players or scheme-wise and I think we have to look at specific circumstances to issue the blame. Not everything is on Ireland just like not everything is on the coaches...
What is the evidence supporting this theory? Are you saying he's a mouthpiece simply because of the content of what he writes???
Really? Do you think the staff is under salary or on some commission-based system? In fact, when does the staff ever drive content in the forums? It's pretty rare. The staff rarely even starts threads
Common sense. It's well known that Ireland is Armando's leak in the building which is why he always blames the coaches and never the GM.
We don't need to defend ourselves. Our records speak for themselves. We know a lot of posters come here to take their shot at me. I don't do this for money, this is what I live for. Maynard remember when I posted for 72 hours straight with a bad knee? People were forming alliances to try and take me down, but I prevailed.
What is the evidence supporting this theory? Are you saying he's a mouthpiece simply because of the content of what he writes??? Well known how? How did this come to be accepted fact???
The fact that you haven't been banned or otherwise banished to Finheaven is a much more stark example of any sort of institutional tolerance than anything you can come up with. Stringer Bell could just post bestiality pictures all day every day for a week and you still wouldn't be on even footing.
At first I also thought that Stringer Bell was just posting troll bait, but I think that he actually really respects this front office, I'm not sure why, but I think he does.
I have no opinion of individual employees of the front office. What I do respect is that this organization finally has a system in place that prevents a single person from mortgaging the team's future. The organization has done a complete 180 from the Huizenga days. The situation at hand is pretty instructive. If Stephen Ross were to fire Jeff Ireland or Dawn Aponte or Joe Philbin, there would be no long-term damage that needs to be undone. There would be no seasons devoted to rebuilding. That is a testament to the structure in place.
Maybe so, but the fact remains that Wheeler and Ellerbe do suck, and I doubt that the decision to jettison Dansby and Barnett and bring Wheeler and Ellerbe in was made by the coaching staff.
I think the decision to jettison Barnett was made by coaching staff and the decision to jettison Dansby was made by management based on information from coaching staff. The decision to bring in Wheeler and Ellerbe was made by management based on wishes of coaching staff.
