On Dawn Aponte: "She is the Dolphins, she runs the show"

And the hits just keep on comin' here on WROS, boys and girls!

 

This isn't anything new?

 

And this is why we had no chance at any legit GM candidates.

 

So he texted someone who is familiar with dealings.

And they said 100000000%...Jesus

Lazy *** reporter

 

Ah yes another league source.....

Dont talk about a murderer or a guy who beats his wife focus on rumors about Miami and being mean!

Priorities folks!

 

She is the capologist and financial advisor thus she is involved in any transaction involving money and that includes severance pay for fired employees .What is so unusual about that.?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/super-bowl-prostitution_n_4724522.html

Dont talk about this talk about Miami and the drama!

 

I don't get it. She's hired to handle the financial side for the players and teams. Why would she not be deferred to 10000000% in contract negotiations. What am I missing?

 

Uh, Adam Beasley covers the Dolphins, thus asks his sources about the Dolphins.

Beasley has nothing to add on Hernandez or Ray Rice.

Read the Boston and Baltimore papers if you want that info.

In short, there is nothing sinister about a Dolphins beat writer covering the Dolphins

 

And Beasely is the only one reporting on this? My comment was league wide coverage. The NFL and the media in general would rather dig up or try to dig up more dirt on Miami then discuss murder or assault.

 

When asked how much Hickey has deferred to Aponte in contract negotiations, the source responded: “1000000000000000%” in a text message.
Given Hickey’s inexperience as a general manager and Aponte’s status within the organization, it shouldn’t be surprising that he looks to her for guidance.
And it’s a sign that the organization’s internal chemistry has improved since Jeff Ireland’s ouster last month.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/21/3952128/miami-dolphins-gm-dennis-hickey.html#storylink=cpy​

 

Beasley is the only one reporting on FA

There has been plenty of reporting on those other stories

 

So is the capologist taking the lead on contract negotiations outside of her swimlane?

 

It sounds like no matter what she does or doesnt do she is going to take crap. Its a feeding frenzy at this point. This can all be fixed by winning games. Nice and simple. People look the other way when you are winning.

 

This is only a story because Steve Ross refuses to be honest and say Dawn Aponte is in charge of football operations. Frankly, I like the idea of someone being in charge. But FFS just say that.

 

It's only a story because she's a woman.

 

Boy, the desire to blow everything Dolphins related out of proportion is nothing short of comical.

 

She bleeds once a month, get her!!!

 

League sources tell me that when it comes to who will get Gatorade on gameday during timeouts, the head trainer will differ to the guys with drink bottles.

 

Grimes has been franchised, he's not going anywhere and will probabaly work out a new deal by the deadline, the rest of the players I don't trust or want so, lets see what kind offer they can get, if they want to be Miami dolphins and play here then lets talk once we have some offers on the table.

 

Not yet, officially, has he?

 

i doubt a single contract conversation takes place without her. Its kind of her job.

 

Not true.

You really think a bunch of GM candidates turned down the job because they didn't want to work with a woman? It was because they didn't want to answer to her and have her make financial decisions. Most people around the league in her positions just do as the GM wants, they make the contracts work and find creative ways to stay under the cap. While I'll admit we are sitting pretty cap wise (and have for a few years) and she has done a decent job it is apparent who wears the pants and it ain't Hickey. If you think anything otherwise than take the veil that Stephen Ross and the Dolphins PR cast off your head.

 

Keep digging losers.

 

Please prove the things in bold.

 

Typical Dolphins reaction throughout the course of a month regarding Aponte and Hickey that is quite comical:

Stage 1: overreact (State the person should be fired/is qualified [Aponte and Hickey] or will lead us to the promise land [Parcells and company])
Stage 2: Apathy (Well it can't get worse than it has can it?)
Stage 3: Turn on media (They are only taking heat because of our bastard media coverage)

Stage 4: repeat

 

How can I prove that without being insides the Dolphins organization with direct knowledge of the situation and dialogue between the two? Additionally, how can you disprove what I said without the same?

I am a rational man and when there is smoke there is fire. I can read the tea leaves and you should be able to as well given the knowledge that is out there. We are in a good financial situation, have a young up and coming QB, overall a young team with a decent amount of talent and yet potential GM candidates turned down our job in record numbers. That hell-hole Jacksonville was able to get one of their top GM (and coaching) candidates, while we sat in a much better position and routinely got turned down until we settled on someone that was likely going to be fired by his current organization... Keep on believing what Ross and the PR says though.

 

And yet the only thing that matters is next year's record.

How well Hickey, Philbin and Aponte work together is much more important than who's in charge. I'm more interested in how many draft picks will actually be healthy enough to participate in OTAs.

 

I thought so Unofficially..

 

Grimes franchised?? Doesn't sound like it happened or will happen. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap20...i-dolphins-unlikely-to-franchise-brent-grimes

Dawn Aponte is not the football czar of the Dolphins. She handles contracts and legal matters, and that job on an NFL team is enormous. If she were the all powerful decision maker some you delusionally imagine, the Dolphins would have to hire someone else to do what she is now doing because it would obviously be too much for one person to do.

The whole premise is absurd.

 

Aponte is an accountant by day and a snitch by night. Although snitches usually get stitches, Ross isn't caught up on the whole inmate culture yet in Miami so he promoted her instead.

 

So the person whose job it is to handle the financial side of the team is in charge of handling contracts? WOOOOAHHHHH, usual sexist journo BS trying to make a story that isnt there.

 

You can't. That's my point.

I didn't make any statements of fact without knowledge like you did.

You are not a rational man, if you think a rational man jumps to the conclusions that you have.

 

Mr. Clean…that sig…

 

Believe what you want man... It's comical that you and other people think the ONLY reason GM candidates avoided our job like the plague was because we have a women in that position.

It has a lot more to do with the structure of our organization and who answers to who. No GM wanted to play second fiddle.