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Interesting interview with La Canfora on wqam

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by LBsFinest, Jan 17, 2014.

  1. Da 'Fins

    Da 'Fins Season Ticket Holder Staff Member Club Member

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    Stop with the ad hominem attacks on someone you don't agree with and perhaps offer some constructive observations.

    LaCanfora is not a bad reporter. He reports what he hears. If that's what he is hearing, then that's what he is hearing from the GMs. He may not be good at analyzing stuff but in that report he's just saying what others are telling him.

    And, his reports are not out of the realm of reason given what we know.
     
  2. Da 'Fins

    Da 'Fins Season Ticket Holder Staff Member Club Member

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    This is exactly right. Some fans won't like this because of blind trust in the organization and not liking any negativity.

    But, the reality is, with Ross trying to be hands off - who exactly is running the ship?

    You need one person in charge of the football team. Otherwise it becomes a problem. Is it Aponte? Is it the GM? Is it the coach? If all three have their own realm then what? Ross? He has proven himself to have little to no knowledge of football or even the NFL. But, more than that, he's not even full time in SoFlo!

    If the GM is in charge of the 53 man roster - then, can he sign a guy during the regular season and cut another - what will happen with Philbin then? It's a tricky situation and the reality that they keep looking for other candidates is indicative, it seems to me.
     
  3. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    I noticed you didn't answer the part about what you do like about the team.
     
  4. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    The answer to this, and to every question like this, is yes.

    New gm wants to trade tannehill? He can do it. Cut ellerbe and eat 8 mill? He can do it. Wants to trade next years 1st to trade up, he can do it. He will answer to no one in regards to the roster. Period. This is not that hard to understand.
     
  5. Itsdahumidity

    Itsdahumidity X gonna take it from ya

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    [video=youtube;TcxpbhM0DaA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxpbhM0DaA[/video]
     
  6. Da 'Fins

    Da 'Fins Season Ticket Holder Staff Member Club Member

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    Yeah, no one misunderstands that.

    The point is, if the GM and coaching staff are at cross purposes personnel wise it is a fail (what if Ireland thought we should have started our #1 pick last year?). Alternatively, the point is it works better when the GM either hires his guy as coach, or is fully engaged in hiring the coach, and they are on the same page organizationally (say, like Baltimore, Seattle, etc.) - unless you have a coach you decide to give organizational power to and then he better be a great one.

    In the Dolphins case, it is an organizational disaster - and we can only hope that we luck out and get a good GM who works well with the staff and knows his scouting - and that the coach really improves. Given Ross' track record it's not very likely.
     
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  7. LBsFinest

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    Looks like La Canfora was right...these candidates are still confused.

    http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/thed...s-reportedly-hire-gm-fins-last-team-standing/

     
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  8. ASOT

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  10. Alex44

    Alex44 Boshosaurus Rex

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    Yes i thought Job description and responsiblities was kinda important during an interview but perhaps football is different?
     
  12. Alex44

    Alex44 Boshosaurus Rex

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    I mean yes maybe Ross can communicate it better. However I'm sure if they ask Ross isn't going to fake sneeze and mumble something :lol:

    If its true it seems kind of "bleh" on both ends right?
     
  13. MrClean

    MrClean Inglourious Basterd Club Member

  14. MrClean

    MrClean Inglourious Basterd Club Member

    I'll bet not.
     
  15. Silverphin

    Silverphin Well-Known Member

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    Ross also said we will have the Marino years back in Miami and also said we will do anything it takes to make the playoffs yet he didn't deliver on either.

    He had to fire Ireland last year if not 2 years ago to accomplish the goals and he hadn't.
    He is attached to Philly boy because he's a nice guy which is blinding him to the fact he sucks as a HC.

    So yes, I do believe every negative thing that comes out of Miami because NOTHING positive has come out of that organization in years.
     
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  17. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Cote:

    Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/random_evid...ray-farmer-of-white-plains.html#storylink=cpy

    Florio:



    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...s-hasnt-interviewed-for-dolphins-job/#respond



    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...to-stay-in-miami-to-work-with-coaching-staff/
     
  18. padre31

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    Hard work pays!

    Real problem I see is the massive amount of FA starters and the Draft to prepare for and the roster to analyze, if Gaine is locked in as Head Scout, the new GM is in a bad spot, his name on the draft/FA class, but not his scouting.

    Last time I recall that happening in Miami, Mr "Fail Forward Fast" and Mueller where in the driver seat.

    May be better just to promote Gaine.
     
  19. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    uh huh. Now ask yourself..what prospective GM who just interviewed ...is gonna risk not getting the job and talking to the media. One who knows a decision has been made and hes not getting it. You think he would risk lossing his chance otherwise?

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  20. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    Just want to know one thing...al these Ross is horrible..we suck..blah blah posters...if you end up wrong...you got any issue eating crow? Cuz if we are as bad as you make us out to be...I have no issues saying I was wrong.

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  21. ASOT

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    It's being report from several sources, including last evening on the Finsider's show with Jesse Agler and this morning on Joe Rose's show (which he has inside info to the team as well), that Philbin had ALL his staff stay home. So now you going to call Agler, the official mouthpiece of the franchise, a liar ?
     
  22. ASOT

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    Maybe, maybe not - you never know who Ross will install. And given the track record of Brian Gaine and his staff do you feel comfortable with his evaluations ? I mean they are the ones that said Martin was a good pick, that Taylor was a good pick, that Shawn Murphy was a good pick, that Tyson Clabo was worth signing, that Ellerbe & Wheeler were better than Dansby & Burnett....etc. Need I go on ?
     
  23. Claymore95

    Claymore95 Working on it... Club Member

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    He's pointing out the link says we're the only AFCE team with no coaches there, but that it doesn't say we're the only NFL team with no coaches at the Senior Bowl. MrClean's wasn't calling Agler a liar or saying we do have coaches there.

    I think we should have coach representation there, but that's my opinion, I'm not going to say it's right or wrong to have coaches present as I don't know enough. Armando could have checked (you know, journalism and all that) and then made it clear to his readers if Miami was the only team doing this, but then that wouldn't have fit his agenda. The fact he didn't say suggests to me there actually are other teams doing the same, but he doesn't want to tell us that.

    I'm actually interested in what other teams don't have coaches there, but of course no local writers have bothered to find that out yet and have instead just run with the dysfunctional Miami angle...
     
  24. ASOT

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    I have confidence I'll never have to eat crow, but I have no problem doing that. I think what you don't understand is that I don't wish to be here posting about this kind of crap. I wish I was here talking about preparing to either play Super Bowl Sunday, or why we lost last week, and what one or two players we need to put us in the big game.
     
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  25. Silverphin

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    Do we know Gaine's track record? Because last time I checked, it was Ireland was making those decisions, not Gaine.
     
  26. ASOT

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    If you'd care to listen to Joe Rose's show HE HAS REPORTED that we are in fact the only organization with ZERO members of the coaching staff there, and Orlando Alzugarry reported the same thing yesterday.
     
  27. Claymore95

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    Can't listen to that in Scotland, so have to take your word for it.
     
  28. jim1

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    What basis do you have for saying that Aponte has no say in terms of the length of player contracts? She has to make sure that current and future years have contracts that are cap friendly- I'm thinking that she may be in a position to ok a 4 -year deal or push for a five year deal, figure out contract lengths for FA's- I'm not sure about this by any means, but again- what makes you so sure that she doesn't have a say on the length of time that a player stays on the team? Concrete examples, please.
     
  29. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    I may be wrong, but I think he meant she doesn't have say in cutting or extending the player, those decisions are ultimately the GM's call.
     
  30. MrClean

    MrClean Inglourious Basterd Club Member

    I didn't question whether or not the Dolphins sent their coaches. I said, your link didn't say anything about them being the only team to not do so.
     

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