Chris Mortenson just said on ESPN that Hickey signed a 2 year deal

I'm glad it wasn't a 5 year deal. Now I can put the gun and noose away.

 

That makes me feel a lot better about this.

 

2 years? Really? Not many candidates would accept such a contract length. That's certainly not a sign of confidence from the owner to be honest. Would make it easier to ditch him sooner than I expected. Good news if true.

At the same time, it will be interesting to watch the press conference tomorrow. Ross can't claim that Hickey was the guy all along or that he is fully confident going forward. Still a weird hire.

 

Could be the reason other candidates declined the job. Smart move by Ross? Id say so..

 

Philbin has two years? I thought only one remaining.

 

In other news,
the ThePhins community theme song has been changed to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", sung by the late Michael Clarke Duncan.

 

That's the best news I've seen in weeks with the Dolphins.

I am not necessarily in the crowd that seems to be certain Hickey will fail, but this is good news to me because it means that Ross might be willing to blow the whole thing up sooner rather than later if they fail.

 

If Ross tries to pull that one off, and the media there tomorrow don't call him on it, shame on them.

 

Not me, It's at least a year too long, if not two...

We'll see how it goes I guess. Not like we have any other choice.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, it's actually good. It matches up with Philbin having 2 years on his deal , essentially meaning its easy to clean house if this year goes terribly bad, or not as planned. After this season, theyre both essentially "lame ducks" with one year left on their deals. So, its do or die it seems.

 

This is all likely headed toward a house cleaning.

 

Promising news.

 

Why does this matter in the least?

It doesn't.

 

Did you plan on shooting and hanging yourself both? Are you Polish by any chance?

 

It does for Ross. Makes it easier to cut ties with him and Philbin if they fail this year. He would only have one year remaining as opposed to 4 or 5.

 

2 year prove it deal, this is good news.

 

Not bad i guess. Better than a long term deal

 

He's not tied to them long term. You dont look as stupid for firing him and Philbin after this season if things go downhill with Hickey's offseason and roster, and with Philbin's coaching of this team. Going into next year, they're both in "lame duck" status. so, really its a prove it kind of deal for Hickey to make sure he's not a total prick, and failure as a GM. A deal that lines him up with Philbin in the firing squad line if things don't work out. To me, the deal says 2 years, but if I'm Ross, that 2, really means 1 unless they all prove they deserve more time. Lets face it, the odds are stacked against them both really.

 

Now just make sure to not give him an extension if we win 3 games in a row.

 

"He's our guy. We have full confidence. Gonna be great." /only offers 2 year deal

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It doesn't matter for us. It doesn't effect our football one bit.

 

Oh, well yea. But at least we know he isn't going to be tied down to him for longer than a year if it fails.

 

It speaks to how the team feels about the person they just hired to be GM.

 

Shrewd move. If things don't work out it saves Ross some money.

 

I guess. But you think if he does a terrible job and we miss the playoffs that they wouldn't clear house anyways most likely.

 

What length of contract did Licht get from the Bucs? How about all the new GMs last year? Is a 2 year deal really all that out of the ordinary?

 

Well I agree. But he still can be fired regardless of a 1 year deal or 6 year deal.

 

I was scared he would fire Philbin and keep Hickey, to be honest.

 

Media is gonna be licking their chops at this story.

The drama never ends.

 

Just looked it up. Licht got four years. Have to check the guys from last year.

 

Yea, god I would hope not. But I don't put anything past this Franchise.

 

Basically what Ross did at GM was buy high and sell low, ignoring all pertinent crap that drove down the value of the position in the process as if he thought the GM opening alone would create a stampede of top notch candidates. If he's so insistent on Philbin, Aponte, and so forth, he should've kept Ireland along with them to either wipe the disappointing slate clean next year or to hope he achieves enough stabilization next year to secure a new GM w/o having to sell low.

 

I'm starting to believe the reports that what Ross wanted to do was keep Ireland in charge of personnel but make Aponte his boss. He never intended to bring in a personnel guy over Jeff.

 

Ireland wouldn't have stayed.

 

Smh if Ross has this little confidence in his current personnel, he should have just fired Philbin and restarted the whole thing, instead of basically putting it off for 2 years.

 

If he wasn't offered a demotion he would have.

 

From an ownership standpoint a two-year deal is the equivalent of a one-year deal given to a player.

In both cases the timeline for making an evaluation is one year. It's just that you don't ever want your GM or your HC to be in the final year of their contract because you don't want them being stupid with the franchise's long term solvency in order to buy themselves a little more time in the short term.

 

Even with his raise, Hickey had to come a lot cheaper than Caserio or some of the other guys we interviewed.