A disgrace of a Day...from the Front Office...Reporters..Tweets..Sources

I am already seeing posts from fans bashing Ross and the Dolphins for how they treated Sparano. What a bunch of crap. Ross and the Dolphins never made any statements about what was going on. The media is what made a mockery of the situation. Everybody wants to be the first to report what is happening, taking a best guess and making crap up and reporting it like it is a fact. Then when it comes out the media was clueless all along, some people want to blame Ross and the Dolphins like they something to do with the rumors that were running wild the past several days. What a joke.

God I can't stand twitter.

Ha.

I guess if you think about it the Dolphins may have not even offered a contract to Harbaugh. You still have to wonder if this is the medias fault or the Dolphins. After all, Ross did fly out there last night on a private jet just to meet with Harbaugh. What happened, he met with him then suddenly decided he didn't like him? Obviously scheduling a meeting with him is going to get the media talking.

If it's Harbaugh that didn't have much interest in the Dolphins, then the media isn't fully to blame, Dolphins are more to blame for botching everything. Whatever, they all suck. This is the first time I'm going to be excited when the Super Bowl is over and the NFL is done with until September. Go Atlanta, New Orleans, Green Bay, Seattle(yeah right) or Kansas City.

"Dolphins1Beatles wrote:

I guess if you think about it the Dolphins may have not even offered a contract to Harbaugh. You still have to wonder if this is the medias fault or the Dolphins. After all, Ross did fly out there last night on a private jet just to meet with Harbaugh. What happened, he met with him then suddenly decided he didn't like him? Obviously scheduling a meeting with him is going to get the media talking.

If it's Harbaugh that didn't have much interest in the Dolphins, then the media isn't fully to blame, Dolphins are more to blame for botching everything.

I still say the media blew this up to be more than what everyone is feeling with their twisted panties. What really happened today will come out in time.

"Dolphins1Beatles wrote:

I guess if you think about it the Dolphins may have not even offered a contract to Harbaugh. You still have to wonder if this is the medias fault or the Dolphins. After all, Ross did fly out there last night on a private jet just to meet with Harbaugh. What happened, he met with him then suddenly decided he didn't like him? Obviously scheduling a meeting with him is going to get the media talking.

If it's Harbaugh that didn't have much interest in the Dolphins, then the media isn't fully to blame, Dolphins are more to blame for botching everything. Whatever, they all suck.

How is this any different than when a FO and coach go after a free agent and he decides he wants to play elsewhere? Ross has EVERY right to try and upgrade the coaching position. If you were the owner and the coach has put a team on the field that for the past two years was 7-6 and lost the last 3 games of the year, including 2 at home each season to have back-to-back losing seasons wouldn't you try to upgrade the coaching position? I sure as hell would. Especially after the team went 1-7 at home losing to teams like Detroit and Cleveland.

I don't recall the Dolphins ever releasing a statement saying, "We are flying out to SF and trying to sign Harbaugh." This is just the way the media operates. Everyone is in competition to be the first to report it...ESPN, local press, everyone who wants to be someone with a twitter account, etc...so they all speculate and make crap up in an attempt to be the first to report it.

The most pathetic part was that Mortensen tweets that Ross in in California talking to the family wanting them to get on a plane back to Miami. Ten mins later he is tweeting its done and Sparano stays. Not a clue all day from anyone.

I feel violated.

This whole situation is like when your girlfriend promises you sex, and talks about it all day, and when you get home she says she is too tired.

Then some one kicks you in the nuts.

Bottom line: don't believe everything you read.... especially on the internet!!!!!!!!!!

the media was just speculating!!!

"NFL2102 wrote:

This whole situation is like when your girlfriend promises you sex, and talks about it all day, and when you get home she says she is too tired.

Then some one kicks you in the nuts.

LMAO it does feel like that too

Glazer literally JUST REPORTED that Harbaugh eithe rmet with SF officials today, or hasn't spoken to them all day. I am not kidding.

Can someone just call Harbaugh and ****ing aks him already?

"NFL2102 wrote:

This whole situation is like when your girlfriend promises you sex, and talks about it all day, and when you get home she says she is too tired.

Then some one kicks you in the nuts.

No this whole situation is like someone else promising your girl will have sex with you. You buy into it, knowing full well, its speculation from the other person. But you don't care, sex with your girl sounds good and want it, so you believe it.

"Samphin wrote:

Glazer literally JUST REPORTED that Harbaugh eithe rmet with SF officials today, or hasn't spoken to them all day. I am not kidding.

Can someone just call Harbaugh and ****ing aks him already?

I just don't understand these guys...what the heck are you reporting? just anything? what someone else reported? just type words for the sake of typing words and having no idea if any of it is true?

The media is going to take a hit for this.

But I do not doubt for one second that this deal was essentially done. Too many people whose info is always good had it. And I heard it from multiple angles/fronts.

Whether he changed his mind, Dolphins walked away, whatever....something happened.

"Muck wrote:

The media is going to take a hit for this.

But I do not doubt for one second that this deal was essentially done. Too many people whose info is always good had it. And I heard it from multiple angles/fronts.

Whether he changed his mind, Dolphins walked away, whatever....something happened.

You deal with the Media alot more than I ever would....have you ever seen such a mess and such total misconceptions like you saw today?..it bordered on libel

You don't ignore the frenzy surrounding your head coach, then jet off to talk with the hot shot college coach the day after his last game if your intentions are anything other than finding another head coach. This could all have been put to rest by the owner or GM saying, Tony is our guy. They never did it, and let the world to speculate. Thems the facts, if Tony was the guy all along then the person to blame is the owner. The rest of the stuff is just the circus that comes with acting like an organization of clowns.

"NyPhinfan wrote:

You deal with the Media alot more than I ever would....have you ever seen such a mess and such total misconceptions like you saw today?..it bordered on libel

There were so many conflicting reports, it's been a mess. I think the local media actually did a pretty good job overall showing restraint. It was the national guys that was all over the place.

Part of it was Ross' creation. And part of it is the information age we live in. The internet, twitter, etc. make everything instantaneous. So it's all out there and when things unexpectedly change and dust settles, the picture becomes more convoluted.

But again, I heard stuff from different sides of the equation. And it all pointed to the same thing.

Just a crazy, awful 36 hours.

Well, Let Brandon play in the NBA and see if Bosh and James want to play te or wr.

The part that bothers me the most...is that nothing is going to be learned by the mess of today. Nothing. Get the information out fast...worry later if it is right...just get it out fast and by all means get it our FIRST. I have never seen so many different varying declaritive points all over the map today.

"NyPhinfan wrote:

The part that bothers me the most...is that nothing is going to be learned by the mess of today. Nothing. Get the information out fast...worry later if it is right...just get it out fast and by all means get it our FIRST. I have never seen so many different varying declaritive points all over the map today.

Welcome to the new information age.

The rules and/or the medium changes every 5 years it seems.

The thing about Twitter is, I suspect the whole "two sources" thing isn't always obeyed by the media. It certainly isn't going to be a concern for the non-media and wannabes.

And such is the drawback of everyone having a 'voice'. An instant voice.

"Muck wrote:

Welcome to the new information age.

The rules and/or the medium changes every 5 years it seems.

The thing about Twitter is, I suspect the whole "two sources" thing isn't always obeyed by the media. It certainly isn't going to be a concern for the non-media and wannabes.

And such is the drawback of everyone having a 'voice'. An instant voice.

my biggest gripe is name your source. i know some want to stay confidential. well then shut your mouth all together if you arent willing to put your name beside info or comments. if its so damn reliable, whats the prob? I realize probably not realistic as players etc will stop coughing up info to media, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. especially for the wannabes.

As I said in another post, bet your bottom dollar the ENTIRE FA market was following all the broo ha ha going closely too. Now, what do they think of how the team is run ? Regardless if the reports were true or not. Perception is reality these days the the perception is the Owner of the Miami Dolphins went out on a limb offereing 3 high profile coaches contracts while his current coach was sitting in Davie ? Evidently, Ross knows very little about PR or needs a new PR firm. OR, his current PR firm just sent the notice in they are going in a different direction. LOL

I've said this before plenty of times, but I always felt basketball has had the worst reporting of all sports. You can find millions of rumors about basketball per offseason, almost anyone is a reporter when it comes to basketball and everyone has sources. I always felt happy we never had to deal with such bad journalism and reporting when it came to football, football guys were always spot on, everyone reported the same news and usually one never contradicted the other. But my god, the past week has been just an embarrassment, not only for Miami, but for the NFL as a whole. I'm ashamed to have followed this, I never thought that these imbeciles would do this just for the sake of having followers on their twitters. Please end your twitter accounts and get back to reporting real news. Do not turn football into what basketball has become the past 10 years.