Breaking: Dolphins hire Dennis Hickey as GM

Thick as a brick, lol. Sorry about that!

 

I still can't believe we hired this guy smh

 

I think theres enough evidence to at best...not be excited about Hickey's hire. But..hes the GM of my team..so I will support him. Im going to give him time to prove people wrong. Im sure he is well aware of the doubters...maybe he puts a chip on his shoulder and becomes an amazing GM. We can hope. But..all the past evidence..isnt gonna change the fact hes leading our draft this season. So...we shall see.

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Hickey is going to freakin' rock!!

 

We would have been in the playoffs last year if the freaking coaching staff didn't lay an egg the last 2 games

 

There's nowhere to go but up. Gotta trust the draft grades that networks dole out because they're usually right. We were also picked to finish 3rd in the division last year with a 7-9 record, so I'm eager to see how our draft grades out and what the rags have to say about our 2014 team.

 

Just read on ESPN's NFL home page:

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#Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said the GM must be joined at the hip closely with the head coach. That's one thing he looked for.

 

(Joe Philbin quietly leaves the room with Dawn Aponte at first opportunity)

 

You're just trying to argue for the sake it. Hickey isn't a rookie entering the league for the first time who just needs some coaching up. He's been in the NFL for 18 years, and while the rest of the NFL was busy poaching the talented executives off the Bucs staff, the guy the league kept passing over was Dennis Hickey.... that is, until our idiot of an owner got himself persuaded by our nepotistic head coach after everyone worth a damn had already snubbed us.

There's substantial reason for the way CK, myself, and others feel, and to ignore it as if we're living in a bubble like you're doing is disingenuous. Nobody is "wishing" Hickey to fail. He's widely viewed as a poor hire at the moment, so if he ends up living up to that billing as expected, we hope Ross will make the correct choice and fire him rather than keep him around another year at the expense of the organization's best interest like Ross seems to have a habit of doing.

If you wanna be optimistic about getting snubbed by every GM candidate worth a damn and subsequently slumming it with a 3rd rate guy, then by all means, feel free.... but don't go telling others that we need to ignore the stark gloomy reality of this hiring just b/c he's not a Miami Dolphin.

 

more like 6 inches to the left.

yeah, so he can fire both of them together.

 

I guess you could spin it, that it was Hickey's day and Philbin didn't want to cause a distraction or have people trying to get him to answer questions. Same with Aponte.

I wonder if Aponte knows or is prepared for what she's in for with her new, more public role with the team. In this business, people most of the time won't like you and are more than happy to tell you that you suck. Hope she can take it

 

Some might say, that between Aponte and the other public figures of the team, she's the only one that was made to take it.

 

Not from you, but some of the comments I've read on this website in the past few days sure sounded like that was the wish, IMO.

 

Harry Gamble, who coached the Philadelphia Eagles as well as Lafayette, Penn and New Jersey high school teams before retiring as the Eagles' president, died Tuesday, the team said in a statement. He was 83.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/gamble-former-eagles-gm-and-president-dies-at-831-012814

 

and she is the one to suck.

 

Maybe he can find us a star HB at the least. Carnell Williams was a GREAT pick until he shredded his knee.

 

I haven't read anything like that. Most of us hate the hire but have stated we will wait and see.

 

That seems to be one the one thing they're harping on, that they want a HC and GM who work well together. The implication of course being that Ireland and Philbin didn't see eye to eye. Obviously Ross sided with Philbin, and doubled down on him in the GM search. I think it can work but if it doesn't then the lynch mob will be out in force and they're not gonna wait two or three years either.

 

People who wanted Ireland fired maybe are not seeing that Ross understood that the GM and head coach were on two different pages, it seems very important to him for all pieces to work in unison and genuinely support each other,a synergy of sorts is what he's looking for,it obviously wasn't there with a head coach he believes in so he went with a guy that seems to wanna work with Aponte and Philbin and support them both, and collaborate with both on decisions..

He is right in the sense that you can't have people in the heirarchy on different wavelengths..this guy isn't the guy that everyone wanted but the fit might be right which might in turn make decisions come easier and more identifiable..

I saw Ireland go to battle with the head coach on Clyde gates..Les "as uge"...and Jon Martin..three players that were not the kind of physical tough players that one would want on their team..

This town needs tough players over anything else..

 

I never told anyone to feel one way or another I just didn't understand wishing failure (as Chris did) in order to progress some agenda. I also didn't express my excitement or even satisfied with the hire, but why not want the guy to succeed? Hoping for the best in the face of this particular situation is I can personally do at this point. Do I see it as a poor hire, yes, just as I viewed a majority of the moves by the Dolphins over the last 30 years and as poor at this point all I have is hope that something good will come out of it.

All I know at this point is this guy has spent 0 years as a GM in the NFL....same as Farmer, Dawson, Caserio, or any of the other candidates and his track record is no different then the others with the exception of those trying find anything to continue to make this look as bad as possible....if one did the same for the others I'm sure the results would be similar.

I'm not going to apologize for being...optimistic, football is something I enjoy and refuse to allow it be source of stress or a target for my angst.